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The specimens I have seen average smaller than Raleigh 

 specimens of T. Carolina and the carapace is usually smooth- 

 er and less flaring behind. 



The zygomatic arch is incomplete in all specimens exam- 

 ined, but the quadratojugal is variable, in six specimens ex- 

 amined it is absent in three, small and triangular in one and 

 in two others long and slender nearly completing the zygoma- 

 tic arch; one of these last two has the head and shell mark- 

 ings nearly as in bauri, the other is an average triungis. 



Hind feet narrower than in Carolina usually not at all web- 

 bed. A small specimen from Hancock Co., Miss., has the 

 hind feet unwebbed with three claws and notch; quadrato- 

 jugal small triangular; markings much as in the average of 

 Georgia specimens. 



Two specimens just hatched, from Mimsville, Ga., are indis- 

 tinguishable from Carolina of the same age from Raleigh. 



Terrapene bauri. This species was originally described in 

 1895 by Taylor from a single three-clawed specimen with zyg- 

 matic arch present and may be identical with major ox a local 

 race of that species, however, as Florida specimens seem tol- 

 erably constant in characters and as the few specimens of un- 

 doubted major that I have seen, do not agree exactly with 

 them, I think it best to treat it provisionally as distinct. 

 Nearly all Florida specimens I have seen have constant head 

 markings. These are a yellow line from lower edge of orbit 

 crossing the corner of the mouth, a yellow line from posterior 

 corner of orbit backward down neck, a yellow line commenc- 

 ing just behind nostril and proceeding just above orbits, end- 

 ing just behind orbits, a yellow line down neck in line with 

 foregoing. 



The carapace is usually darker brown than in the other 

 species, marked with narrow yellow radiating lines; some- 

 times these lines are broken into spots and sometimes the 

 spots are irregular and not in rows. This latter variation 

 seems to be due in some specimens to the animal having been 

 "burnt over" and the shell scarred, in which case the pattern 



