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line; beneath granulate whitish; sides golden; legs barred with whitish, hind 

 part of the thighs brown; hind legs very long." If, for example, a specimen 

 be faded out one of the outstanding characters will be the last one of long legs 

 in LeConte's preliminary "indication" or description. 



Thirty years later (1855, p. 427) this author describes it at length — 

 "Chorophilus nigrita .... Body elongated rather narrow, above with 

 numerous small warts. . . . Tympanum distinct, black or of the color of the 

 body. . . . Beneath . . . (in dead specimens appearing granulate) . . . ; 

 thighs and tibiae granulated, more or less covered with small warts. A 

 very slightly perceptible web between the second and third and between the 

 third and fourth toes, the fourth and fifth are closely united at the base. 

 Fingers and toes with small dilations at their tips. . . ." 



In 1 84 1 (p. 509) Dumeril at Bibron gives it "Caracteres. Deux groupes de 

 dents vomeriennes affectant une forme en chevron. Tympan assez distinct. 

 Une tres-courte membrane a la racine des orteils." 



In 1862 Holbrook (Vol. IV, p. 107) gives "The head is elongated, . . . 

 the snout rather pointed. The nostrils are lateral, and nearer the snout than 

 the orbits. The eyes are large and prominent .... The mouth is rather 

 large, and the palate is armed with two thick groups of minute teeth, placed 

 between the posterior nares and disposed a little 'en chevron'. . . . The 

 body is slender .... The anterior extremities are slender . . . ; there are 

 four long and delicate fingers. The posterior extremities are very long . . . ; 

 there are five toes, not palmated." 



DeKay (1842, Part III, p. 65) in his Extra-limital forms of New York 

 gives "Cystignathus nigritus (Id. Holbrook Vol. 3, pi. 19; and Vol. 4, pi. 26, 

 2nd Ed.) small, olive brown; an interrupted black vertebral line, with black- 

 ish blotches along the sides; legs barred; upper lip white. Length i3^ inches. 

 Carolina, Georgia." 



In 1858 A. Gunther (p. 97) gives its color as "Blackish ash, with three or 

 five darker, sometimes interrupted longitudinal bands; a black streak passing 

 through the eye above the tympanum; upper lip with a whitish streak, a. 

 Adult. Georgia. From Mr. Cumming's Collection, b. Adult. Great Bear 

 Lake. Presented by Sir J. Richardson." Of course, this last refers to P. 

 septentrionalis. 



A. L. Pickens (1927, p. 109) records that "Specimens from A. L. Pickens, 

 Greenville (S.C.) are indefinably intergraded with some other forms. To 

 me some appear to have inclination toward P. triseriata, others, perhaps 

 toward P. feriarum. The more typical form seems to appear in the lower 

 Piedmont." 



COLORATION OF SPIRIT SPECIMENS 



LeConte's first extended description of its color comes in 1885 (p. 427): — 

 Color above dark slate with more or less of oblong or oval or round, some- 

 times very numerous black spots, which often form stripes. Upper lip white- 

 which color often extends to the insertion to the arm. I rids golden .... A 

 broad black band extends from the nose through the eyes and along the sides 



