Lesueur also described _Trionyx ocellatus_ (_op. cit._:261-263) as a variety of _T. spiniferus_ having ocelli, or parts thereof, on the carapace and mentioned three specimens. The total number of specimens that were available to Lesueur is unknown. One young alcoholic specimen having ocelli is in the British Museum (Natural History) (Gray, 1855:69). The same letter from Dr. Guibé stated that a specimen in the Museum of Natural History, Paris, No. 6957, having a carapace 17 centimeters in length, conforms to the characters of _ocellatus_ as mentioned by Lesueur, and was obtained from the Wabash River by Lesueur. Two of the specimens mentioned by Lesueur (_loc. cit._) are stated to be females. No. 6957 is an adult male and clearly shows the juvenal pattern; it is regarded as the lectotype of _T. ocellatus_ Lesueur, a name-combination, which is a synonym, based on a secondary sexual difference in pattern. Rafinesque (1832:64) described a soft-shelled turtle from "the River Hudson between the falls of Hadley, Glen and Baker, and further up to the source" as _Apalone hudsonica_. The most outstanding characteristic was the presence of five claws on the digits of each limb. Rafinesque's recording of this characteristic was perhaps influenced by the illustration of a softshell in Bartram's _Travels_ that showed each limb with five, clawed digits. Perhaps this was the basis for Boulenger (1889:245, footnote) regarding _Apalone_ as "mythical." The large, yellowish, black-bordered spots, one behind and one in front of the eye presumably represent segments of the postocular stripe and the stripe on the snout; Rafinesque described the carapace as "entire ... the margin is yellowish unspotted, then comes a circular black line ..." and having "many round spots occulated and clouded by having a brown margin, with grey dots within." Except for five claws, the description is applicable to a softshell and referable to _T. s. spinifer_. To my knowledge, the only other records of the occurrence of soft-shelled turtles in the Hudson river drainage are those of Eights (_in_ Bishop, 1923:120, Mohawk River at Cohoes), and DeKay (1842:7, Mohawk River and Hudson River near Albany); presumably these records are the basis for the comments of Holbrook (_in_ Bishop, _loc. cit._), and symbolized as an isolated locality by Conant (1958:318, map 35). The type locality of _Apalone hudsonica_ is herein restricted to the Hudson River, near Baker's Falls, Saratoga County, New York.