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chestnut. The upper jaw is margined with white. There are three longitud- 

 inal dark brown dorsal bands, one from tip of the snout to above the vent, 

 usually bifurcate posteriorly, and one on each side of this, starting behind the 

 eye. Underneath, it is pale yellow. The males throat is dark brown, and can 

 be distended to the size of a large pea. The arms and legs are distinctly cross- 

 banded." Deckert thus is one of the first to describe the male and adds yellow 

 to the general color. 



Weber (Noble 1923, p. 4) finds them green in life. Noble (1923, p. 5) 

 finds the lighter phase of more frequent occurrence and without mid-dorsal 

 fine of dark brown while the less frequent type "dark phase has three longi- 

 tudinal stripes of dark brown on the back, very similar in form to P. triser- 

 iata.'^ 



Color has been too strongly emphasized in this group. From just chestnut 

 or bronze in Holbrook we have had silver grey, yellow and finally green added 

 to general descriptions of its color. Cope emphasized the chestnut as dis- 

 tinctive. All the above colors may be recorded, though the author has seen 

 fewer green specimens than of any other phase. The Florida collectors (see 

 Deckert, Noble) often mention the mid-dorsal stripe but we have very few 

 with it. Yet a recent collection from Florida made by Mr. Gerritt S. Miller 

 have the general type without dorsal stripes and only the lateral stripes as in 

 Holbrook's figure, but examples appear with mid-dorsal stripe or supplemental 

 ones on either side of it. 



Some rough notes we made on this collection of 8 males made by G. S. 

 Miller Jr. and C. R. Aschemeier are: "The vocal sac of the male, even when 

 collapsed, sometimes appears to cover almost half of venter of body, the rear 

 of it may reach caudad to the pectoral region (fine connecting one arm in- 

 sertion with the other). 



U.S.N.M. No. 71038. Has no dorsal stripe but has dark dots on back and 

 tibia sometimes assembhng in somewhat larger ill-defined spots. The 

 entire vertical parts with dots like those of the back, but much wider 

 spaced. Sometimes this dark punctate arrangement becomes very pro- 

 nounced. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71036. No dorsal stripes. 



U.S.N.M. No. 71039. No dorsal stripe. If anything, these males from 

 Gainesville seem to be more tuberculate on the venter than do those of the 

 Okefinokee. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71040. Has the venter from somewhat caudad of pectoral line 

 more tuberculate than almost any other hyhd in the U.S.A., but not on 

 hind legs. Hind legs big proportionally. Color fawn brown on back. No 

 dorsal stripes. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71041. No dorsal stripes. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71034. No dorsal stripes. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71035. Darker back. No dorsal stripes. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71037. Has suggestion of indistinct stripe down mid dorsum 

 and on either side of it is a dorsolateral stripe toward the rear. The eye 

 vittae go just back of axillae. There is a prominent dark stripe on the front 



