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Chrysemys picta (Schneider). County Home, 

 Lanark. 



Clemmys muhleribergii (Schoepfr"). Emaus, 

 Macungie. 



Clemmys insculpta (Le Conte). Mountainville, 

 Macungie, Lehigh Gap. 



Clemmys guttata (Schneider). Allentown, 

 Lanark, Hosensack, Lehigh Gap, New Tripoli. 



Terrapene Carolina (Linnaeus). Mountainville, 

 Shimerville, New Tripoli. 



E. S. and W. I. Mattern, 



Allentown, Pa. 



STRAY NOTES ON TERRAPENE 

 CAROLINA. 



Dr. F. A. Lucas of the American Museum of 

 Natural History has called the writer's attention to 

 an account by Edmund G. Koch, Williamsport, Pa., 

 in Forest and Stream for August 3, 1907, p. 170, of 

 a Box Turtle marked in 1866, 76, 90 and still living 

 in 1907, proving for that individual a length of life 

 over 41 years. Probably, this is exceptional longev- 

 ity for the species in its natural state. Last summer 

 (1916), an old turtle came under the writer's obser- 

 vation at Mastic, Long Island, which had been ini- 

 tialed and dated 84, 96 and 99. This would give 

 the turtle an age of over 32 years. It was obviously 

 much older than the ordinary run of full grown tur- 

 tles, its shell being smooth, the growth-rings on the 

 scales which are generally noticeable, practically ob- 

 literated by wear. It was small for an adult, the 

 plastron 4> 5 A inches long. Excellent photographs of 

 this specimen are on file in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York. The writer has seen 

 another old Box Turtle of moderate size (plastron 

 5 l A inches), taken at Mastic, 1914, marked W. F. 

 92, which would give it an age of at least 22 years. 

 Mr. William Flowd of Mastic whose initials also ac- 



