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Length 3 to 5 inches. Color of carapace black with ir- 
regularly placed round, yellow spots; plastron yellow, with 
more or less dusky brown or biack; marginal plates yellowish 
beneath; head and neck dark brown with irregular red spots ; 
feet dark colored, reddish within. Carapace ovate, higher be- 
hind than in front. Plastron broadly notched behind. Head 
moderate. Legs scaly. Tail pyramidal, pointed, slightly dorsal 
prominence. 
Ponds and sluggish streams. 
Occurs generally about the state; comnion in Pawtuxet 
River. 
R. W. P. Coll., four specimens. 
6. Clemmys inscu!pta. Leconte. 
Wood turtle ; Sculptured tortoise. 
Testudo insculptus, Leconte, Harlan. 
Emys scabra, Say. 
Emys insculptus, Leconte, Holbrook, DeKavy, Storer. 
Emys pulchella, Dumeril and Bibron. 
Emys speciosa, Gray. 
Glypiemys insculpius, Agassiz, | errill, Allen. 
Chelopus insculptus, Cope, Jordait. 
Length 8 to 10 inches. Color of carapace brown tinged 
with reddish, each plate with radiating and concentric lines; 
plastron yellow, each plate with a black blotch near its outer, 
posterior margin; under surface of neck, legs and tail, red, 
with a sprinkling of black; often a yellow line on each side of 
neck. Carapace oval in contour, carinate; plastron with a deep 
notch between the two anal plates. Head of moderate size, 
flattened above, Jower jaw hooked. Legs stout, scaly. Tail 
short, scaly, tapering to acute tip. 
Dry fields and woods, often at some distance from water. 
Rare in R. I. 
R. W. P. Coll., two specimens. 
7. Emys blandingi, Holbrook. 
Blandings tortoise; Speckled turtle. 
Testudo meleagris, Shaw. 
Lutremys meleagris, Gray, Leconte. 
Cistudo blandingti, Holbrook, DeKay, Storer. 
Emys meleagris, Agassiz, Cope, Jordan. 
Length 7 to 9 inches. Color of carapace black with num- 
erous oblong and round yellow spots; plastron yellow with a 
large dark blotch at the outer posterior angle of each plate, 
often almost entirely black; head black with yellow spots; legs 
dark colored, yellowish beneath; tail black above with two 
