One of the immature softshells (KU 51979, plastral length, 9.7 cm.) of the series from Lajitas is considered to be a female. It combines characteristics of both sexes. It resembles a male in having a carapace gritty to the touch, in having prominent white dots posteriorly and in not having a faint mottled and blotched pattern as do females of the same size. The postocular and postlabial markings are mostly yellow (female), but a small patch of the postocular stripe near the junction with the pale ventral coloration laterally is tinted with orange (male); the morphological characters and secondary sexual difference in coloration of this series of softshells has been mentioned on page 512. The tail is short and pyramidal resembling that of a female. Internally, there are a pair of ovaries and oviducts; KU 51979 is functionally a female. An over-production of androgens probably is responsible for the external masculine characteristics (orange color, gritty carapace and absence of mottling on carapace). _Deposition of Eggs_ Concerning _T. ferox_, Wright and Funkhouser (1915:122-23) wrote that deposition of eggs occurred in June and July in the Okefinokee Swamp on the sandy parts of the islands or in sandy fields in places exposed to the direct rays of the sun. The same authors recorded a gravid female taken on June 22 (_op. cit._:120), and a nest with eggs on June 26. Harper (1926:415) reported egg-laying in June in the Okefinokee Swamp. Goff and Goff (1935:156) found a female in search of a nesting site crawling toward a cleared area within a hammock at 11 a. m. on May 19, about 25 yards from the western shore of Lake Griffin, Florida. Carr (1940:107) stated that eggs in Florida "are laid from March to July 10. One individual laid her eggs on a block of ice which we had buried in the sand." Hamilton (1947:209) observed deposition of eggs near Fort Myers, Florida, in "a sandy roadbed slightly above the cypress swamp and ditch levels on either side of the road." ... either in ... "the ruts formed by cars or the slope of the roadbed"; dates of deposition of eggs recorded are March 30 at 11 a. m. in bright sun, and March 31 (from context, the date given as March 21 is considered an error) at 5 p. m. following a heavy rain. The daily temperatures at the time of Hamilton's observations "averaged 85° F., the first really warm spell of the season."