THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 



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Dimensions: Tip of snout to vent, 88 mm.; tip of snout to posterior 

 border of ear, 28 mm. ; greatest width of head, 30 mm. ; hindleg from 

 vent, 140 mm.; foreleg, 51 mm.; tibia, 47 mm. 



Variations. — In life the color pattern changes to a great extent in 

 this species, not only in groups of individuals but in the same in- 



Figure 3. — Hyla dominicensis: a, Dorsal view; b, inside of mouth; c, side of head; d, under- 

 side of forefoot; e, underside of hindfoot. U.S.N. M. No. 66670, from Laguna, Dominican 

 Republic. Natural size. 



dividual at different times. In alcoholic specimens, the coarse retic- 

 ulation on the back may usually be made out, although some frogs 

 are of a lichen-gray color with very little evidence of pattern. The 

 leg bands are often much more definite and regular than in the figured 

 specimen, while occasionally the under parts of the legs have 

 numerous round dark spots. 



