NOTOTREMA.—AGALYCHNIS. 289 
Back greenish-olive, with a few small, irregularly scattered, black specks. Throat 
and abdomen black, with a loop-like green band on each side of the chest. A black 
vertical stripe on each side of the extremity of the snout, continued as a black band 
along the canthus; widening behind the orbit it covers the temporal region and extends 
to behind the humerus; sides of the body green, with a large black spot about the 
middle and another in the groin. Forearms nearly unspotted above, but black-banded 
below, one band running round the wrist. Femur black-banded, rather irregularly ; 
lower leg with black bands, which are broad below, but stretch as mere lines across its 
upper face. ‘Tarsus and toes with similar cross-bands. All these markings have a 
more or less distinct, very narrow, white edge. 
AGALYCHNIS. 
Agalychnis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1865, p. 194. 
Agalychnis and Phyllomedusa sp., Bouleng. Batr. Sal. pp. 422, 424. 
Pupil erect. Tongue slightly notched behind. Vomerine teeth generally present. 
Fingers and toes dilated into terminal disks; the latter webbed. Outer metatarsals 
united. Females without dorsal pouch. 
1. Agalychnis moreletii. 
Hyla moreletii, A. Dum. Ann. Sc. Nat. xix. p. 169 (1853); Keferstein, Gotting. Nachr. 1867, 
p- 856; Arch. f. Naturg. 1868, p. 297; Brocchi, Miss. Sc. Mex., Batr. p. 31, t. 18. 
fig. 1. 
Agalychnis moreletii, Cope, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. viii. p. 107 (1877) ; Bouleng. Batr. Sal. 
p- 422; Werner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1496, p. 351. : 
Hyla holochlora, Salvin, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 460, t. 32. fig. 2. 
Hab. GuatemMaLa, Vera Paz (Morelet, Salvin); Nicaragua, Matagalpa (Rothschuh) ; 
Costa Rica, Cartago and Irazu (Mus. Brit.), Escazu (Underwood), San José (van 
Patten ; Mus. Nac. de Costa Rica). 
Head broad, snout rather longer than the eye, with sloping sides and obtuse canthus. 
Size of tympanum variable, two-thirds or one-half the length of the eye, rarely less. 
Fingers broadly, at least one-half webbed, a web between the first and second being 
constantly present; disks very large. Toes two-thirds or three-fourths webbed. 
When carried forward, the heel reaches the nostril or the end of the snout. Green 
above, very rarely with some round yellow spots; concealed parts of the limbs and 
hands and feet yellowish, with the exception of the outer finger and toe, which are 
coloured like the back ; a white line along the outer edge of the forearm, lower hind 
limb, and tarsus. 
