2 74 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swainp 



Most of the specimens have the transverse bars of the fore and hind Umbs 

 rather indistinct. Some have the whole throat to the white breast fold dotted, 

 others have just the chin dotted or only its sides. In the males the whole 

 throat area is much darker and the chin much the lighter. The posterior edge 

 of the thigh has the dorsal body color with three to ten distinct circular or 

 elliptical yellowish or yellowish white spots unlike the thigh reticulations in 

 Hijla versicolor. Sometimes in the larger forms the spots are fewer and ir- 

 regular, cordate or comma-shaped due to the fusion of spots. 



STRUCTURAL CHARACTERS (WRITTEN IN 1912) 



Upper surface more or less smooth, occasionally with scattered granula- 

 tions; belly, under surface of thigh and breast strongly areolate, the throat 

 granulate (smooth in one), the pectoral or breast fold smooth or slightly 

 granulate, rarely strongly granulate. Third finger longest; fourth finger 

 sUghtly longer than the second; fourth toe longest and with two phalanges 

 free; the web does extend as a margin to the disc of the longest toe hut is not so 

 wide as in Hyla versicolor; tympanic fold present, rarely almost absent; 

 vomerine teeth between the posterior nares; tongue usually slightly notched 

 as Cope figures ('89, Fig. 94, 4) but 5 specimens have no notch, two being 

 rounded and three truncate; two of the notched specimens had the right lobe 

 much smaller; nostrils nearer tip of the snout than the eye. 



MEASUREMENTS 

 (Recent Material) 



Head to angle of mouth 1.14 (20 mm.)-i.25 (28 mm.cf)-i.i (28 mm. 9 )- 

 1.2 (36 mm.cf)-i.3i (36 mm.9)-i.47 (40 mm. 9) in width of head; head to 

 rear of tympanum i. 06-1. o-i.o-i. 09-1. 09-1. 11 in width of head; head to 

 angle of mouth 2.85-3.5-3.1-3.6-3.8-3.7 in length of body; head to rear of 

 tympanum 2.6-2.8-2.8-3.27-3.13-3.0 in length of body; snout .625-.88-.80- 

 .70-.66-.91 in first finger; snout . 875-1. lo-i.i-i.i-i. 0-1.08 in fourth finger; 

 snout .625-.66-.70-.80-.66-.83 in first toe; eye i. 33-1. 5-1. 66-1. 25-1. 5-1. 33 

 in snout; eye .66-.66-.83-.71-.62-.55 in tympanum; eye .83-1.33-1.33-.875- 

 1.3 3- 1. 2 1 in first finger; tympanum 3.5-4.5-3.4-4,0-4.4-4.8 in intertympanic 

 width; tympanum 2.0-2.25-2.0-1.6-2.4-2.4 in snout; internasal width i.o- 

 1.0-1.0-.83-1.16-1.2 in upper eyelid width; interorbital width .8-.66-.71- 

 .57-.75-.625 in internasal width; interorbital width 2.8-3.0-2.4-2.8-2.75-3.0 

 in intertympanic width. 



Forelimb: forelimb 1.66-2. 0-1.86-2. 1-2. i-i. 81 in length of body; forelimb 

 2. 5-3. 2-2. 73-3. 1-3. 18-2. 7 in hind limb; first finger i. 6-1. 62-1. 5-2.0-1. 87-1. 36 

 in third finger; second finger i. 33-1. 44-1. 2-1. 4-1. 5-1. 25 in third finger; 

 second finger .63-.88-.80-.70-.80-.91 in first finger; third finger .75-.77-.66- 

 .85-.80-.93 in second toe; fourth finger 1.14-1. 3-1. i-i. 27-1. 25-1. 15 in third 

 finger; fourth finger .71-.60-.63-.72-.66-.77 in first toe; internasal width 

 1. 25-2.0-1. 6-1. 16-1. 33-2. 2 in first finger, internasal width 1.5-2.25-2.0- 

 1. 66-1. 66-2. 4 in second finger; internasal width 2.0-3.25-2.4-2.33-2.5-3.0 

 in third finger; internasal width 1.75-2. 5-2. 2-1. 83-2.0-2. 6 in fourth finger. 



