Hijla versicolor 333 



AUTUMNAL DISAPPEARANCE 



Our latest record at Ithaca, N. Y., is October 24, 1905. The latest record 

 we have for the Okefinokee country is Aug. 12, 1922. It must continue to be 

 abroad until November at least. Harlan (1835, p. 109) relates how "A 

 specimen was dug up from the root of an apple tree in Bartram's Botanic 

 Garden, in the winter of 1828, several feet beneath the surface." 



AFFINITIES 



In 1825 (1825, p. 282), LeConte writes: "It is surprising that this species, 

 so common in the part of America that has been most visited by foreign 

 naturalists, has as yet been noticed by no one. It may have been confounded 

 with the H. viridis of Europe, which, however, it but little resembles." 



In 1842 Holbrook (1842, Vol. IV, p. 117) alludes to the same oversight. 

 "It is remarkable that an animal so common and so very noisy should so 

 long have escaped the attention of naturalists. The first mention made of it 

 is in Kalm's 'Travels in North America' ; he, however, only describes its habits, 

 and refers to Rana arborea of Linnaeus, to which it bears but a slight resem- 

 blance " 



LeConte (1855, p. 428) writes that "This animal is the analogue of the 

 Hyla arborea of Europe." 



On method of egg deposition it lays packets on the surface like Hyla 

 femorahs. On egg characters it seems to fall with Hyla femoralis and Hyla 

 arenicolor, but the latter lays single eggs. On coloration of tadpole tail Hyla 

 versicolor is more like Hyla arenicolor than Hyla femoralis, yet all three may 

 have scarlet or vermilion in the tail. On tadpole mouth characters it falls 

 into the group with long lower third row of labial teeth. The adult reminds 

 one more of Hyla femoralis or Hyla arenicolor than other Hylas of the LTnited 

 States. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



1889 Cope, E. D. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. No. 34, p. 375. 



1842 DeKay, James E. Zool. of N. Y.. Part III, p. 71. 



1925 Force, Edith R. Copeia, April 30, 1925, No. 141, p. 25. 



1906 Fowler, H. W. N. J. S. Report 1906, p. 114. 



1827 Harlan, R. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences Phila., Vol. V, Part III, 1827, p. 343. 



1835 . Medical and Physical Researches Phila., 183^, p. 109. 



1842 Holbrook, E. N. A. Herpetology Vol. IV, p. 117. 



1924 Holt, E. G. Copeia, Nov. 18, 1924, No. 135, p. 95. 



1825 LeConte, John. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., Vol. I, Part II, 1825, p. 282. 



1855 . Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. Proc, 1855, p. 428. 



1914 Overton, F. Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sciences, Science Bull. Vol. II, No. 3, 



pp. 32, 33. Nov. 3, 1914. 



1919 Pope, P. H. Copeia, Dec. 31, 1919, No. 76, p. 95. 



1914 Wright, A. H. Carnegie Publication No. 197, Sept. 8, 1914, pp. 48, 49. 



