Turtles of the Genus Pseudemys. 
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ing a live individual from Orlando, Florida, which meas- 
ured 267 mm. over curve of shell, 245 in straight line, 167 in 
greatest breadth, 110 in greatest height. Shell strongly 
arched. Carapace black with red markings, marginal plates 
with much red below, plastron yellowish brown, but reddish in 
front and behind, legs with red stripes. The head markings 
I couldn’t see, as he would not put his head out. Lower jaw 
very strongly serrated, with a serrated cusp at tip; upper jaw 
slightly serrated, with a median notch and a strong cusp on 
each side of it. Date, Meirch 16, 1902. 
Alabamensis, according to Baur,* has the shell more arched 
than in rubiventris , and the plastron is yellow with brown 
markings, instead of red as in rubiventris. 
Of the third species of Group I, P. texana , I have seen 
only two undoubted specimens, one a living specimen from 
Colmesneil, Texas, measuring 284 over curve of shell, and 
265 in straight line; greatest width 215. Shell smooth, not 
wrinkled, and without traces of a keel. Color slaty brown 
with yellowish markings, the markings on the costal plates 
transverse to the longitudinal axis of the shell. Marginals each 
with a vertical yellow bar down the center. Plastron yellow 
without markings. Both jaws serrated, the lower much the 
most so; upper jaw notched in front but without cusps. Date, 
July 7, 1902. 
The second specimen, which was from Shell Bank, La., 
was much the same color, and had the upper jaw notched in 
front, with a slight cusp on each side of the notch. Other 
characters, as in the first specimen. Length in straight line 
225, width 150. Date, July 27, 1903. 
Group II includes five nominal species, P. concinna LeConte, 
P.mobiliensis Holbr,f P. jloridana LeConte, P. hieroglyphica , 
* “Notes on the classification and taxonomy of the Testudinata, part 
IV, The species of the genus Pseudemys” by G. Baur. (Proc. American 
Philos., Soc. XXXI, May 5, 1893). 
t According to Dr. Baur ( loco cito ), P. mobiliensis Agassiz is not the 
same as P. mobiliensis Holbr. , the former being a composite species equal- 
ing P. alabamensis Baur plus P. texana Baur. 
