2. CHOROl'HILtJS. '■''■'<■'> 



6. Chorophilus triseriatus. 



Ilvla triseriata, Wied, Seise N. Amer. i. p. 249, and Nova Acta Leop. 



( 'anil, xxxii. p. 118. 

 Heloccetes triseriatus, Baird, Proc. Ac. Philad. vii. 1854, p. fiO. 

 elarkii, Baird, I. c, and U.S. Mij-. Hound. Sure., Kept. p. 28, 



pi. 87. f. 4-9. 

 Chorophilus triseriatus, Cope, Check-list N.-Amer. Itept. p. 30. 



Vomerine teeth between the choanae. Head longer than broad. 

 Limbs as in C. nigritus. Three or live longitudinal dark bands or 

 series of spots. 



United States — Central, Eastern, and Southern regions. 



7. Chorophilus verrucosus. 



Chorophilus verrucosus, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xvii. 1877, 

 P . 87. 



Tongue large and wide behind, faintly emarginate. Vomerine 

 teeth in two groups near the line of the posterior border of the 

 choana?. Head narrow and acuminate ; snout projecting acutely 

 beyond the labial margin ; canthus rostralis distinct, but obtusely 

 rounded ; tympanum one fourth the diameter of the orbit. The 

 hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal 

 articulation reaches between the eye and the nostril. Skin of dorsal 

 region tubercular, smooth warts of large and small size being irre- 

 gularly crowded over its entire surface ; belly granulate. Colour 

 above leaden, with three longitudinal rows of darker, light-edged 

 6pots, extending one on each side and one on the median line ; 

 they arc each composed of a series of spots joined end to end ; femur 

 and tibia cross-barred ; upper lip dark plumbeous, with a scries of 

 five white spots ; a similar spot below the tympanum ; inferior sur- 

 faces yellowish. 



Florida. 



8. Chorophilus septentrionalis. (Plate XXIII. fig. 1.) 

 Pseudaeris nigrita, part., Giinth. Cat. p. t»7. 



Tongue oval, slightly nicked. Vomerine teeth in two small 

 groups behind the level of the choanae. Head lunger than broad ; 

 moul subacuminate, prominent, twice as long as the diameter of the 

 eye; latter very small; canthus rostralis rather indistinct; inter- 

 orbital space a little broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum 

 nearly as large as the eye. Fingers and toes moderately slimier. 

 latter witli a slighl rudiment of web; first finger shorter than 

 Second; an indistinct outer metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb 

 being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaches 1 1 ; 1 1 * 1 In the tympanum. Skiii granulate above and beneath, 

 yellowish olive above, with five longitudinal dark bands — the 

 median bifurcating on the sacral region, the outetmost extending 



