Anderson's Hyla 



ANDERSON'S HYLA 

 Hyla andersonii Baird 



Identification Characteristics 



Colour: Unspotted pea-green over all upper parts, except 

 hands and feet. The green is edged with white everywhere, 

 except on the posterior and anterior borders of the femur and 

 on the anterior margin of the tibia. The edge of white is 

 everywhere set off by a line of black below it. A purplish brown 

 band extends from the nostril, through the eye, to the shoulder, 

 including the ear. Iris dark or bright bronze. The lower sides 

 are violet -grey, spotted posteriorly with yellow or orange. The 

 exposed surfaces (when the frog is in sitting position) of hands 

 and feet are purplish grey; the concealed parts of these and of the 

 legs are yellow spotted with orange; i. e. the yellow is found on 

 the first finger and along the inner side of the arm, under the arm 

 at its attachment, on the inner two toes and the inner half of 

 the tarsus, and on parts of the body, femur, and tibia, where 

 they touch one another when the leg is folded. The green of the 

 upper arm extends in a scallop on the breast. The green of the 

 face extends across the jaw to form a broad scallop on the side 

 of the throat. (For colouration, see Colour Plate VII.) 



Measurements: Size small, i.e. if inches or under. Head 

 broad, obtuse in front. Length of head enters total length three 

 and a quarter times. Femur and tibia equal in length, and to- 

 gether slightly shorter than length of head and body. 



Structure: Skin smooth. A fold across breast. Eye large. 

 Ear about one-third size of eye. Inner sole tubercle distinct; 

 outer tubercle not present. The disks on fingers and toes are me- 

 dium in size. The webs of the toes are short. 



Range: As far as discovered, only from Lakehurst, New 

 Jersey, sou.th to Anderson, South Carolina. 



Only six times has this very distinctive Hyla come under 

 observation. The first specimen is the type specimen found at 

 Anderson. South Carolina, by Baird in 1854, and named and de- 

 scribed by him. The second specimen was found in 1863 by Dr. 



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