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lux of hind ones largest. Scales on palms and soles all small. 
Scales not especially enlarged at bases of fingers and toes above. 
Tail well scaled above. Limbs moderate, strong, and hind pair 
a little larger. Claws 5 on each front pair of limbs, and 4 on 
each hind pair. Those on fore limbs with median long and 
slender, graduated down from third, which is longest. Hind 
claws much shorter, though slender. Tail rather short, robust, 
conic, and ending in a slender tip. Color when fresh in alcohol 
with carapace deep blackish-brown, with very obscure slightly 
paler brown shades. Lateral plates below, and bridge, dull to 
somewhat pale dusky mottled with dusky-crimson to lighter 
shades, and deeper shades of crimson and dilute yellowish. Plas- 
tron more or less dilute brownish around margin, and both ante- 
riorly and behind mottled with more or less crimson to slightly 
yellowish and dusky tints. Median portion of carapace more 
or less pale. Head, legs, feet and tail black, with streaks of 
yellowish-white on under surface of head, tail and hind limbs. 
Iris greenish with dusky. Claws blackish. Length about 11 
inches. Described from an example taken near Dennisville in 
Cape May County. 
About Dennisville this is abundant in the fresh-water ponds or 
marshes, and is valued as food. T. D. Keim, H. W. Hand and 
myself observed it there in September of 1906, when the above 
described example was taken. A much smaller example differed 
in having the plastron and lower edge of the carapace more deeply 
or brightly marked than the one described, besides appearing 
with more blackish sprinkled about. They are rather shy as a 
rule when handled, and retract entirely within the shell. The 
only noise I have heard them make has been a slight hiss, and this 
only when disturbed or frightened. About Trenton, according 
to Dr. Abbott, it is abundant, and next to the snapper, the largest 
species. It reaches a length of 18 inches, though is usually 
smaller, about 13 inches being most frequent. In this locality 
they occur in mill-ponds and creeks, though may also occur in 
the river. ‘They are used as food. They were reported from 
Mantua Creek, near Mantua, in April of 1906, and Mr. G., Z. 
Hartman says they occur in fresh-water near Palermo. Near 
Medford, on one occasion I saw a large example in the Rancocas 
