18. TESTUDINIDJE 



from where they run out in a single stripe on the lower end 

 of the tail to its tip. On each side of the upper side of the 

 tail are also two of these stripes, which join and run out to 

 the end of this member." 



Length of carapace 



Length of plastron 



Width of carapace 



Width of plastron 



Length of tail 



Distribution. — Boulenger records specimens of this turtle 

 as having been collected in British Columbia and Walla 

 Walla, "British Columbia" [=Washington?]. Harlan's 

 "Emys Oregoniensis" was secured in ponds near the Colum- 

 bia River. This turtle has twice been found in the San Fran- 

 cisco markets. In each instance the market-men told me that 

 the turtle had been sent in with fish from San Joaquin River 

 near Stockton, California, but, when questioned, could not 

 state positively that the lot had not come from Oregon, 

 Washington, or elsewhere. Yarrow (1875) records this 

 turtle as taken in Rock Creek Canyon, south of Camp 

 Apache, Arizona. 



Dr. Blanchard recently collected three of these turtles in 

 Sheep Creek, at Springdale, Stevens County, Washington, 

 and Dice has recorded it from Walla Walla or Columbia 

 counties. 



Genus 52. Terrapene 



Tetrafene Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amphib., 1820, p. 27 (type, clausa^ 



Carolina) . 

 Cistudo Fleming, Philos. Zool., 1882, p. 270. 



The shell is high, very convex, and rounded in lateral 

 outline. The plastron is large, rounded both before and be- 

 hind, is divided by a hinge between the pectoral and abdom- 



