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of carapace beyond its margin, and wrinkled skin forming a -fold 
over it when retracted. Legs, feet and tail all more or less scaly, 
and those on anterior faces of former largest. Scales on palms 
and soles moderate, and those on bases of fingers and toes above 
large, though not so large as some others. ‘Tail well scaled, 2 
rows below. Fore limbs rather short and compressed. Fingers 
5, and each with a rather curved slender claw. Hind limbs 
rounded above, and tarsus flattened. Toes 5, though only each 
of inner 4 with a long slender claw, longer than those on fingers. 
Tail short, slender, tapering and rather quadrangular towards 
Painted Terrapin. Chrysemys picta (Schneider). (Young.) 
base. Color in alcohol with carapace blackish-brown. Along 
or within each of sutures of plates dull olivaceous to brownish 
streaks, broadest and most pronounced at suture of first and 
second lateral, and latter and third lateral, and suture of first 
and second vertebral plates. Middle of carapace with a narrow 
line of dull brownish, entirely dividing shell. Each of mar- 
ginal plates with yellowish of below extending over edges in a 
median marginal blotch soon fading into brownish, which is 
continued across plate as a transverse line. Usually 1 or more 
