AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES. F265 
along posterior edge. Tail short, extending but slightly beyond 
carapace, and with a rather broad median cutaneous ridge on 
outer % of its length. Color of dry specimen dull blackish. 
Length about 6 feet. Delaware Bay. E.- D. Cope. 
This, among the largest of all marine turtles, is said to reach 
8 feet in length, and is occasionally found along our coast. Mr. 
Wm. J. Fox reports a large turtle, evidently this species, cap- 
tured in the pounds and exhibited in 1903 at Wildwood, Cape 
May County. It was said to have weighed 1,200 pounds. Capt. 
Ludlam reports one from near Stone Harbor washed ashore 
about the same time. I have also examined the carapace of a 
Leather Turtle. Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli). (Shell below.) 
large example obtained at Asbury Park some years ago by Mr. 
David McCadden. 
Sphargis coriacea Holbrook, N. Am. Herp., Ed. 2, II, 1842, 
p. 45, Pl. 6—Agassiz, Contrib. Nat. Hist. U. S., I, 1857, p. 373. 
—Ford, Am. Nat., XIII, 1879, p. 633. 
Testudo coriacea Gerard, Am. Nat., XIV, 1880, p. 1209. 
Dermochelys coriacea F.. Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 
1898-99, No. 11, p. 12.—C. H. Townsend, Bull. N. Y. Zool. 
Soc., April 1904, p. 143.—Stone, Am. Nat., XL, 1906, p. 168. 
