or a bar alone. 



Structure: Original description. "A specimen of nearly the size 

 and form of Hy/a femora/is was taken in west Pennsylvania, near the 

 Kiskiminitas River. In proportions it does not differ from the Feriarum, 

 but the toes are fringed, the dilations larger and the coloration differ- 

 ent. Above blackish-ash, abruptly defined on the sides. Lateral band 

 not extending beyond tympanum. No median dorsal band, but two 

 black dorso-laterals of double ordinary width converge from each 

 tympanum and extend to end of urostyle inclosing with the inter- 

 orbital triangle a narrow, anteriorly bifurcate dorsal band of ground 

 color." (E. D. Cope, 1889, p. 341). 



Voice: "The note of this species is quite different from that of the 

 C. triseriatus, not being continuous, but in sets of crepitations re- 

 peated in time and at intervals." (E. D. Cope, 1889, p. 341). When 

 P. n. triseriata and P. brachyphona are calling they are different, the 

 latter has a faster, higher note yet its call belongs distinctly in 

 quality and form with the P. nigrita group. 



Breeding: They breed from March to May and possibly into 

 June. Mr. C. P. Walker (1932) records eggs March 14 to April 16, and 

 says they are in masses, attached to vegetation or trash in water. The 

 tadpole has not been described. Of transformation we have no data. 



Notes: July 18, 1931, Beckley fair ground woods, W. Va. The 

 botanists found a queer Pseudacris near a sawdust pile. 



July 19, 1 93 1, Beckley. Tonight after a heavy rain, in a puddle 

 beside the grandstand and in pools beside the track we heard several 

 Hy/a versicolor and in the distance several Hy/a crucifer, but this note 

 which drew us to the spot was new. Surely a Pseudacris in character 

 of voice, neither a Hy/a crucifer nor an Acris. It is different from P. n. 

 triseriata and P. n. feriarum. . . . When we first caught it, its long 

 legs reminded us of Acris and we looked for the rear femoral stripes. 

 They were not present. It seems a Pseudacris, but has too large disks. 

 Must look up Cope's P.f. brachyphona. 



July 21, 1 93 1. Prof. P. C. Bibbee of State College, Athens, W. Va., 

 brought us . . . swamp cricket frogs. They have such queer colora- 

 tion. . . . They take them in the early spring. The frog has a vittal 

 stripe. The hind limbs and tibia are long. 



In general color they range from the sorghum brown or deep 

 brownish drab or mars brown of Hy/a femora/is , to some of the grays 

 found in Acris or Hy/a femora/is or the blackish and olive of Pseudacris 

 n. triseriata. 



Compared to P. ornata, P. n. feriarum, P. n. triseriata it has a 

 wider head, longer hind limb, tibia, and foot with tarsus. In more 

 ways it falls into the Pseudacris ornata group; in some respects with 

 the Pseudacris nigrita group. 



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