PAINTED TUETLE. 663 



maikings npou the she!) are nsaally mora intsnse; head biownish, with longitadlnal 

 lines and lateral blotches of yellow, one of these blotches in front and another behind 

 the ear, a third between the eye and the angle of the mouth ; costal and verteljral plates 

 alternating ; first neural pentagonal, last almost triangular, the remaining vertebral 

 hexagonal ; plastron elliptical, broadly emarginate behind ; gular triangular, the remain- 

 ing sternal shields quadrilateral ; carapaz higher than in the preceding species, more 

 strongly carinated. Length of carapax, 5^ inches. 



Habitat, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. 



This species, which seems to have a range of the whole Mississippi 

 Valley from the Sault St. Marie on the north to Louisiana on the south, 

 is occasionally, though rarely, found in the State. It is usually known 

 under the specific name of psiudogeographica, but Gray's name, lesumrii, 

 is older, and hence entitled to precedence. 



Genus CHRYSEMYS. Gray. 



Head moderate; upper jaw curved laterally, and notched at the apex; mandibles nar- 

 row ; legs and tail scaly ; toes five in front and f jur behind ; hind feet broadly palmate; 

 «arapax depressed ; plastron elliptical, shields immovable, soldered together and to the 

 carapax. 



* Costal and vertebral shields in transverse lines of three each C. picta. 



" Costal and vertebral shields alternating C. majrginata. 



Chrysemys PICT Herm. 



Painted Turtle. 



Testudo picta, HiRM, Schnbidek, Gmklist, ScHffiPFF, Shaw, Daudin. 



Te^indo dnerea, Schneider, Shaw, Schcepff. 



Emyapicta, Schwbiggkr, Merrbm, Say, Fitzixgbr, Gravenhorst, LeContb, Haklak, 



Gray, Dumeril and Bibbon, Holbrook, Kirtland, Storer, DbKay. 

 Hmys dnerea, Schweigger, Merrbm. 

 Chrysemys picta Agassiz, Allen, Cope, Jordan. 

 Chryiemya dorsalis, Agas&iz. 



Color of carapax olive to brown, with irregular yellow lines margined with black ; 

 vertebral line narrow, yellow ; plastron orange or yellow, often black in places ; head 

 brown, with yellow spots ; neck, feet, and tail dark brown, with bright yellow and scar- 

 let spots or bands ; gular region brownish, with red and yellow stripes ; eyes moderate ; 

 pupils black ; irides golden, with a dark line passing through their center ; costal and 

 vertebral plates in transverse rows three in <»ach, never alternating ; first neural 

 auadrilateral, last heptagonal ; middle vertebral shield quadrangular ; second and fourth 

 hexagonal ; marginal plates twenty-five, with a bright red blotch in their center and 

 two red lines above it ; a broad yellow band margined with black along the anterior 

 margin of each row of costal and vertebral plates ; gular and anal plates triangular, the 

 remaining sternal shields quadrilateral ; pectoral much the largest. Length of carapax, 

 6 inches ; height of carapax, 2J inches ; tail to anus, IJ inches. 



Habitat, New Brunswick, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, to Lake Superior, and Eastern Ohio. 



