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HYLA SQUIRELLA.— 5osc. 



Plate XVIII. 



Characters. Body olive-green above, marked with dark brown blotches irre- 

 gularly disposed; a transverse dusky band between the orbits; whitish beneath and 

 granulated: head short, with a white line extending along the upper lip to the 

 shoulder. 



Stnonymes. Hyla squirella, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xxix. p. 543. 



Hyla squirella, Daudin, Rainettes, p. 18, t. 3, f. 1 — Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. viii. p. 35. 

 Calamita squirella, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amph., p. l7l. 

 Hyla squirella, Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vol. i. p. 279. 

 Hyla squirella, Harlan, Jour. Aead. Nat. Seien., vol. v. p. 342. 

 Auletris squirella, Wagler, Naturliehes Syst. der Amph., p. 201. 



Description. The head is short, with a dark band between the orbits, the line 

 from each orbit being directed backwards so as to meet at an angle: the snout is 

 obtuse, with an indistinct dark band extending from the nostrils to the eyes, below 

 which is a white line along the margin of the upper lip, reaching to the shoulder; 

 the lower jaw is almost white: the nostrils are placed near the extremity of the 

 snout: the eyes are prominent; the pupil black, the iris golden: the tympanum is 

 bronzed and surrounded by an indistinct circle of dark brown. The skin is smooth: 

 the body short and depressed while living; the back is olive-green, with irregular 

 blotches of darker olive; the flanks are gray. The inferior surface of the body is 

 granulated, greenish-white in front, with a few dark spots at the throat; the pos- 

 terior part of the abdomen is darker. The anterior extremities are olive-green 

 above with occasional spots of brown, and flesh-coloured beneath; the fingers are 

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