426 ' [December. 



TELMATOBIUS Wiegmann. 



T. lentiginosds. Bufo lentiginosus, Shaw's Zool. iii. p. 173 pi. 3. Catesbj 

 ii pi. 69. 



Above more or less granulate with small scattered warts, cinereous or dark 

 slate color, speckled all over with whitish or pale brownish grey, and with 

 brown or dusky ; beneath whitish, spotted and varied with dusky, particularly 

 on the throat and under side of the legs. Head small, vertex plane ; irids gold- 

 en ; tympanum small, scarcely visible from its color. Arms of the color of 

 of the body, spotted more especially behind, fingers slightly webbed, the first 

 much shorter than the second. Legs obscurely barred with darker, feet fully 

 palmate. 



Length 2-25, width of head -7, length of the same arm 1-5, leg 3-44, thigh -9, 

 tibia 1-04, foot 1-5. 



Inhabits Georgia. 



This animal, with considerable resemblance to a toad, is nevertheless a perfect 

 frog. It wants the vomerine teeth which are always found in the genus Rana. 

 Whether the fact of its wanting the small and imperfect vomerine teeth should 

 make us consider the Telmatobius as distinct from Rana, is a Question 1 shall 

 not take upon me here to decide ; it is enough to say, that the present eagerness 

 for the erection of new genera is fast degrading Natural Science into a system 

 of empirical uncertainty. Of its mode of life I know nothing; it was found on a 

 road bordered on each side by a deep ditch. Mr. Cate^by, who has an excellent 

 figure of it, calls it the land frog. 



ACRIS Dumeril. 



A. gryllus. A. gryllus L. C. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. p. 282. Dumeril & Bibron 

 1. c. p. 507 pi. 33. 



Body above more or less papillous, some of the papillae joined together so as 

 to form narrow oblong abbreviated lines. Chin and throat smooth, abdomen 

 and inner and hind part of the thighs, cancellately reticulate. The color above 

 is dark brown, brownish dusky, reddish brown, cinereous or dull green with 

 sometimes some very indistict spots of darker or of dusky. The triangular spot 

 on the vertex is often evanescent as is likewise the vertebral line of paler, or 

 green or reddish. The white line bounding the black spot from the orbits is 

 frequently wanting as is also the spot itself, as well as the one from the arm 

 along the side. Upper lip with sometimes three white perpendicular bars. 

 Throat and breast often varied with dusky. Tympanum rather indistinct. In 

 one specimen the color was brown with a golden gloss. 



Length 1-4, head "45, arm J 8, leg 2'8 in., thigh *75, tibia -85, foot 1*2 in. 



Found in immense numbers in every piece of water in the Southern States, 

 and teas a few years ago commonly known by the name of Savannah Cricket. 



A. crepitans. A, crepitans Baird Proc. Acad. N. S. vol. vii. p. 59. Hylodes 

 gryllus Holbrook 1. c. plate 33, and Dekay N. H. N. Y. p. 22 No. 51. 



Body above with small warts of different forms and irregular disposition, 

 which are frequently of a yellowish brown color. Color above obscure green or 

 olivaceous, dotted all over with extremely minute points of black, a short oblong 

 and oblique dark brown or black spot, often with a white line below it, proceeds 

 from the orbit to the insertion of the arm, another of the same oblong form and 

 oblique direction formed from the juxtaposition of very small specks of black, 

 runs from near the axilla half way down the side, and a third one farther behind 

 reaches almost to the groin, all these however vary in form, and the third one is 

 frequently evanescent. Lips generally whitish spotted with black, chin and 

 throat granulate sometimes yellow, most frequently white and often speckled with 

 dusky, top of the nose with transverse wrinkles, tympanum small and indistinct, 

 of the color of the body. Body beneath white, with a fold on the breast betv< een 

 the arms. Abdomen rugoso-granulate, punctate. Legs beneath grey, thighs 

 on the under and hinder parts granulate with white, one of the granules on each 

 side of the anus larger and very conspicuous, above these is an angular darker 



