302 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



MATING 



Male {From life, June 5, 1921). Lettuce green on hind legs and forelegs, 

 oil green or cerro green on the back. The encircled spots of the back have a 

 ring of mars brown or bone brown or other browns with green ground color 

 within. There are occasional spots as big as pin heads or twice of bright green 

 yellow or greenish yellow or green yellow. This color is on the groin to just 

 back of arm insertion back of which for one half of an inch is a clear whitish 

 area. The greenish yellow from groin forward demarcates side color from 

 pink white or creamy belly color. From tip of snout along upper jaw under 

 tympanum and along side to within i inch to 1/2 inch of leg insertion is a 

 pinkish white stripe. Below it is a line of mars violet or taupe brown (a 

 purplish brown class of color) which expands behind the angle of the mouth 

 into a large area on the side. Same color back of pinkish white or white 

 area back of brachium and antebrachium onto the last finger. Same white 

 line around vent with mars violet below white line. Same combination on 

 the knee. Two or three white patches on foot behind with mars violet 

 between and behind them. Back of femur or thigh dull Indian purple. No 

 spots. Below the expanded mars violet area of the side is a small whitish 

 line 1/2-1 inch long, then comes greenish yellow and finally the belly color. 

 Just back of chin is grayish white speckled with taupe brown. Then comes 

 lettuce green or oil green from angle of mouth around across to angle of 

 mouth, the band 1/2 inch wide when not inflated. Then comes wrinkled part 

 with light orange yellow or deep chrome. This color more or less back to 

 pectoral fold of skin from forearm to forearm. 



Iris spotted purplish black and bronzy or some kind of vinaceous. 



Male {From life, July 17, 1921). The Hyla gratiosa males in botany drum. 

 Upon opening the can one was all green with a few yellowish spots but not the 

 regular circles, the stripe along the jaw and on the side reminding one of the 

 same in Hyla cinerea. Hardly any white or purplish shows anywhere. An- 

 other was a vinaceous gray with the rings. Another dark green and the others 

 still different. 



Female {From life, July 17, 1921). Belly and under side of legs white, a 

 few picric yellow spots on side below band, also rear end of white line on side 

 becomes picric yellow in the groin. Picric yellow in the axilla of forelegs and 

 on either side of light central throat and chin region which is white or sulphur 

 yellow with a few spots. Pectoral region sulphur yellow. Stripe around snout 

 along upper jaw to groin white except for rear and not interrupted as in the 

 male. Spots on back really black encircled. Color of side and chin, spots, 

 rim of jaw, bands on arms hays maroon, chocolate or warm sepia or bone 

 brown. Upper parts calliste green or casse green or apple green. 



Structural differences. The color difference of the venter is the most 

 striking difference. One female (68 mm.) long has no hays maroon on the chin 

 as in the color description of the female (July 17, 192 1). In the mated pair 

 described the female has the granulations a little less pronounced on the 

 ventral parts, thighs and dorsum than its mate, but the large female above 

 has granulations on venter the least pronounced of the 19 adults we have. 



