230 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



COLORATION OF SPIRIT SPECIMENS 



Fowler (1908, p. iii) in describing Viereck's specimen writes "After hav- 

 ing been in alcohol several years it has changed to a plumbeous or slate-gray 

 color above with paler or whitish borders to brownish of sides and dark 

 lateral stripes. The limbs through plumbeous above are only so to carpus 

 and tarsus, which are a pale brownish like entire under surfaces of limbs. 

 Throat, breast and belly pale or whitish." Leidy's specimen in alcohol faded 

 to "dull brownish above and whitish below." (Fowler, p. no). The author 

 quotes at above length because a Hijla eviitata or Hyla squirella might be 

 confused with an old specimen of Hyla andersonii. In one collection a group 

 of Hyla squirella was confused with Hyla andersonii, but the light upper lip 

 of Hyla squirella finally separated them. So also alcohohc specimens without 

 vitta and Une revealed are hard to separate from Hyla cinerea eviitata. One 

 specimen twenty years in alcohol has a light line hke Hyla cinerea but not a 

 straight line as in Hyla cinerea. Usually some indication of the vitta before 

 .and behind eye is revealed. One specimen preserved in 1906 is vinaceous 

 drab or purple, drab or livid brown on upper parts and throat region. Another 

 of same year is greenish glaucous blue or Niagara green. 



STRUCTURAL CHARACTERS 

 This phase has had much attention and needs no repetition here. 



MEASUREMENTS 



(Recent Material) 



We have no 20 and 28 mm. specimens. Our measurements of one male 

 36 mm., and two females 36 and 44 mm. respectively give Uttle idea of the 

 range of relative measurements. 



Head to angle of mouth 1.16 (36 mm. cf) -1.2 (44 mm. 9) in width of 

 head; head to rear of tympanum 1.07 (36 mm. cf ) -1.2 (44 mm. 9 ) in width 

 of head; head to angle of mouth 3.0-3.5 in length of body; head to rear of 

 tympanum 2.77-3.3 in length of body; snout .92-.94 in first finger; eye .92- 

 i.o in first toe; eye 144-1.33 in snout; eye .8-.66 in tympanum; eye i. 3-1. 44 

 in first finger; tympanum 3.3-5.2 in intertympanic width; tympanum 18.6- 

 2.6 in snout; internasal width 1.0-1.125 in upper eyelid width; interorbital 

 width .80-.88 in upper eyelid width; interorbital width .80-.9 in internasal 

 width; interorbital width 2.4-2.9 in intertympanic width. 



Forelimh. Forelimb 1.8-2.0 in length of body; forelimb 2.7-2.0 n hind 

 limb; first finger 1.5-2.76 in third finger; second finger 1.3- 1.2 5 in third finger; 

 second finger .85-7.5 in first finger; third finger .7 7-. 85 in second toe; fourth 

 finger 1.1-1.25 in third finger; fourth finger .7 5-. 7 5 in first finger; internasal 

 width 1. 5- 1. 5 in first finger; internasal width 1.75-2.0 in second finger; inter- 

 nasal width 2.25-2.5 in third finger; internasal width 2.0-1. 41 in fourth finger. 



Hindlimh. Length i. 5-1. 41 in hindlimb; tibia 2.0 (44 mm.) in length; 

 tibia 3.0 in hindhmb; tibia i.i in forelimb; tibia .90 in hind foot; first toe 

 1.16-1.7 in second toe; first toe 1.66-2.6 in third toe; first toe 2.16-3.5 in 



