Strecker — A New Spadcfoot and Other Herpetologiccd Notes. 117 



tuhert'les very imil'orni in size and (ILstribution. Many tubercles on sides, 

 buttocks and posterior portion of the abdomen. ^lany pustules on upper 

 surface 111" tibia. Glands on thorax present, conspicuous. Enlargements 

 re -emi)lino; glands on inferior surface of femur (present in both speci- 

 mens). Spade-like process of foot narrowly margined with black. 

 Palmar tubercles rather small. Fingers slender. Tibia about equal to 

 that of S. huthrookii but femur and foot much shorter. 



Color above, pale grei'nish, with a pale yellowish line from each orbit; 

 these converge again on tlie coccyx. Upjx^r surface of head and area 

 t)etween the light lines, dark plumbeous. Parotoids olive. Sides of head 

 and under surfaces yellowish-white. 



The Pefugio specimen is slightly smaller. (Length (jo mm.) Colora- 

 tion in life darker. Greenish above, light lines inconspicuous. In form 

 and other important characteristics resembling the type. 



Engy stoma areolata Strecker.* 



Plate II, figure 1. 



The specimen illustrateil is a catype (Baylor University Collection Xo. 

 4080) from A'ictoria County, Texas. The figure, which is from a worked 

 over photograph, gives a very fair idea of the general appearance of this 

 rough-skinned, brightly marked little toad. 



Hyla versicolor chrysoscelis Cope. 



Hylafrmoralis chri/so^iveU.^ Cope, P.ull. U. S. Nat'l Mus., No. 17, 1880, 

 p. 20. 



Cope's brief description of this variety is as follows: " Hyla femoralis 

 Daudin. A specimen larger than the largest individuals I have previously 

 seen; differs also in the greater extent of the palmation of the fingers, 

 and in the coloration of the concealed surface of the femur. In eastern 

 specimens the |)osterior surface of the feniur is brown, with rather small 

 yellow spots; in this form it is yellow, with a blackish cc^rse reticulation, 

 which only extends to the lower surface on the proximal half of the 

 thigh. The sides have a double row of small black spots, which enclose 

 a yellow band. This is probably a subspecies and may be distinguished 

 by the name of c7i/-//-s'o.sc('//'.s. Gne siiecimen as large as a large Hyla versi- 

 color was taken by Mr. Boll near Dallas." 



A number of tree-frogs obtained by Combs at Hot Springs, Arkansas, 

 were identified as HijUi chrysuxceUs by Dr. Stejneger. In the latter's 

 letter to Mr. C. S. Brindey, who sent him the specimens, attention was 

 called to the fact that clirysoscclis is related to versicolor and not to 

 femorali's. Several Hi/las collected at Waco, Texas, a year or two later 

 agreed in all important characters with those from Hot Springs. Miss 

 Dickerson, in her " Frog Book," ignores this subspecies but records Hyla 

 femoralis from Texas on the authority of Cope! 



It seems strange to me that Cope should refer this form to feiiwrolis, 

 even as a variety. It clearly indicates to my mind that the type must 

 have been a sninoth-skinnetl animal, in this respect resembling Daudin's 

 species. 



* Proc. Biol, Soc, Wash., 1909, XXII : 118. 



