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H. crucifer Wied {H. pickeringi Storer). Spring peeper (Fig. 91). 

 Body small and delicate and varying in color from deep brown to yellow, 

 reddish, green or gray, with an oblique cross-shaped mark on the back 

 and usually a V-shaped mark between the eyes; length 28 mm.; hind 

 leg 45 mm. : eastern and central America; northward to New Brunswick; 

 westward to Manitoba; southward to South CaroHna and Louisiana; 

 the earliest frog to make its appearance in the spring; usually found on 

 or near the ground. 



H. evittata Miller. Body brown, yellow, green or bluish in color, 

 without any markings; length 50 mm.: New Jersey to Virginia, in low 

 bushes near the water; rare. 



H. squirella Latreille. Body small, green or brown in color with 

 or without spots; a dark line runs from the nostril to the eye and 

 a light line along the jaw and under the eye to the shoulder; length 

 30 mm.: Virginia to Florida; westward to Texas and northward 

 to Indiana. 



H. andersoni Baird. Body small, unspotted 

 bright green in color edged on the sides of the body 

 by a band of white; gray beneath; length 40 mm.: 

 New Jersey to South Carolina; rare. 



B. cinerea (Schneider). Body slender, dark 

 brownish green, bright green or greenish yellow in ,,„,-^J; ^(};~ parl 



color, with a conspicuous white or yellowish Museum Bulletin). 



band along each side; length 45 mm.; legs very long: 



Virginia to Florida; the Gulf States and up the valley of the Mississippi 



to IllinoLs; common. 



H. gratiosa LeC. Body very large; skin of back granulated or 

 glandular; color green or brown, entire back generally covered with 

 large spots; length 60 mm.: South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



H. baudini Dumeril & Bibron. Body large, very dark brown, 

 green or gray in color, without spots when the shade is hght or dark, 

 but otherwise with a broad mark extending from between the eyes to 

 the middle of the back; length 55 mm. : southwestern Texas. 



H. femoralis Lat. Body small, and brown or gray in color, with a 

 triangular spot between the eyes and a large irregular blotch on the back 

 and also a dark Une on each side 'of the body; length 35 mm.: North 

 Carolina to Florida; the Gulf States; in pine trees. 



U. arenicolor Cope. Body robust, gray in color with or without two 

 or three rows of round brown spots on the back; length 42 mm.; skin 

 rough; fingers not webbed: southwestern States from Texas and Utah 

 into southern California. 



