250 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
towards tips. Skin between scales of limbs dirty yellowish- 
brown. Scales on anterior portions of limbs rather brighter 
than those behind, which are somewhat brownish or dirty orange. 
Tail similar, only darker. Eyelids brownish. Iris carmine. 
Length 53 inches, measured across carapace. Cold Spring near | 
Cape May, in Cape May County. October 7th, 1906. T. D. 
Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
About Dennisville, in Cape May County, this species was re- 
ported to be abundant in dry places, though never more than 
several are met with during a single tramp. Dr. Abbott tells 
me of an example which was dated and found 58 years later near 
Trenton, in which locality the species is common about the up- 
lands, though variable. About Palermo in Cape May County, 
G. Z. Hartman and T. D. Keim found it close to the edge of 
the salt-marsh in April of 1906. This example had bright carmine 
eyes. I have found these animals copulating and the sexes prob- 
ably remain together some time. 
The generic name Didicla Rafinesque, Atlant. Journ. Fr. 
Knowl., 1832, p. 64, type Testudo clausa Gmelin (==Testudo 
carolina Linneus) intended and first species, is the oldest avail- 
able for the box tortoise. Cistuda Fleming, Philos. Zool., II, 
1822, p. 270, cannot be used as the only species mentioned is the 
“box tortoise’ though his work is evidently based on Cuvier, 
Régne Animal, II, 1817, p. 11, where the first species mentioned, 
and thus consequently its type, is Testudo subnigra Daudin. 
Cistuda would then supersede Sternotherus Bell, Zool. Journ., I, 
1825, p. 305, with its type by first species Sternotherus trifasciatus 
Bell, from China. 
Cistuda carolina Holbrook, N. Am. Herp., III, 1835, p. 9, PI. 
1 (ref. infers).—Holbrook, |. c., Ed. 2, I, 1842, p. 31, Pl. 2. 
Cistudo carolina Davis, Am. Nat., XXI, 1887, p. 88. 
Terrapene carolina Fowler, Am. Nat., XL, 1906, p. 596. 
Cistudo virginea Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 800. 
Cistudo clausa Say, Journ.. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philia., IV, pt. 2, 
1825, p. 205 (ref. infers).—Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
VI, pt. 1, 1829, p. 23 (ref. infers) —Harlan, Med. Phys. Res., 
1835, p. 149 (copied). 
