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HYLA FEMORALIS.— Z)«»(Z/«. 



Plate XXXI. 



Characters. Head small, somewhat obtuse; body cinereous, marked with 

 darker spots or blotches; a triangular blotch between the eyes; abdomen whitish, 

 granulated; thighs dusky on their posterior part, and marked with seven or eight 

 bright yellow spots, nearly in a line. 



Synonymes. Hyla femoralis, Duudin, Hist. Nat. des Rain., &c., p. 19, pi. iii. fig. 1. 

 Hyla femoralis, Dandin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. viii. p. 32. 

 Hyla femoralis, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. i. p. 280. 

 Hyla femoralis, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 107. 



Description. The head is rather small, and somewhat obtuse at the snout, 

 cinereous, with a large triangular dusky spot between the orbits; its apex behind 

 and truncated. The mouth is moderate, and the palate is armed with two groups 

 of minute teeth, placed between the posterior nares. The nostrils are lateral, and 

 nearer the snout than the orbit. The eyes are large and prominent, with a black 

 pupil and a golden iris, finely reticulated with brown. The tympanum is of 

 moderate size, and olive-brown in colour. The body is rather slender, cinereous 

 above, and marked with large dusky blotches, without any constant and determi- 

 nate form. The abdomen is pale white, and granulated at its posterior part. 



The anterior extremities are short, cinereous, with dusky spots above and dirty 

 white below; there are four toes, distinct, each terminating in a bulb. 



The posterior extremities are well developed, cinereous above, with dusky 

 transverse bars more or less distinct, and milky-white below. The under surface 

 of the thighs is granulated; the posterior is dusky, and marked with six or eight 



