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markings upon the she)! are usually more intense; head brownish, with longitudinal 
lines and lateral blotches of yellow, ono of these bletches in front and another behind 
the ear, a third between the eye and the angle of the mouth; costal and vertebral plates 
alternating ; first neural pentagonal, last almost triangular, the remaining vertebral 
hexagonal; plastron elliptical, breadly emarginate behind ; gular triangular, the remain- 
ing sternal shields quadrilateral; carapax higher than in the preseding species, more 
strongly carinated. Length of carapax, 54 inches. 
Habitat, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, lowa, 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 inthe State. It is usually known 
under the specific name of pssudogeographica, but Gray’s name, lesueurit, 
is older, and hence entitled to precedence. 
GENUS CHRYSEMYS. Gray. 
Head moderate; upperjaw curved laterally, and notched at the apex; mandibles nar- 
row; legs and tail scaly ; toes five in front and four behind; hind feet broadly palmate; 
carapax depressed ; plastron elliptical, shields immovable, soldered together and to the 
carapax. 
* Costal and vertebral shields in transverse lines ofthreeeach. .. . . GC. PICTA. 
* Costal and vertebral shields alternating, : 6 : 3 . CC. MARGINATA. 
CHRYSEMYsS Plot Herm. 
Painted furtle. 
Testudo picta, HERM, SCHNEIDER, GMELIN, SCH@PEF, SHAW, DAUDIN. 
Testudo cinerea, SCHNEIDER, SHAW, SCHCPEF. 
Emmys picta, SCHWEIGGER, MERREM, SAy, FITZINGER, GRAVENHORST, LECONTE, HARLAN, 
Gray, DUMERIL and BiBRON, HOLBROOK, KIRTLAND, STORER, DEKAY. 
Emys cinerea, SCHWEIGGER, MERREM. 
Chrysemys picta AGASSIZ, ALLEN, CoPz, JORDAN. 
Chrysemys dorsalis, AGASSIZ. | 
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 yellew 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 each, never alternating; firat neural 
quadrilateral, last heptagonal; middle vertebral shield quadrangular ; second and fourth 
hexagonal; marginal plates twenty-five, with a bright red bletch 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 ths largest. Length of carapax, 
6 inches; height of carapax, 24 inches; tail to anus, 14 inches. 
Habitat, New Brunswick, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisians, to Lake Superior, and Hastern Ohio. 
