98 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
nearer each other than to nares. Tympanum rather small, 3 
in eye. Upper surfaces granulated or rugose. Limbs rather 
stout, tibia measuring half distance from vent to middle and 
anterior border of orbit. Heel extends to orbit. Toes fringed 
or margined. A single inner tarsal tubercle. Five longitudinal 
bands dorsally, median broad, unites with interocular triangle, 
and continued part way to end of:muzzle, giving a cruciform 
figure, and lateral bands nearly straight, commencing some dis- 
tance above and within tympanum. Lateral stripe complete 
from end of muzzle to groim. Ground-color fawn, below pale 
and immaculate. Posterior limbs with half cross-bands. 
Found abundant on sides of pools and ponds in the neighbor- 
hood of Gloucester, in the spring and early part of the summer. 
It delights in those small and often temporary pieces of water 
Swamp Tree Toad. Pseudacris triscriatus (Wied). 
which are enclosed in the densest thickets of spiny Smilax and 
Rubus, with scrub oaks, and surrounded by the water-loving 
Cephalanthus, where no shade interrupts the full glow of sun- 
light. Here they may be heard in the hottest part of the day, 
accompanied with a few scattering Acres, or rarely a Hyla pick- 
eringu. ‘Their retreats are not sought by Rane. As they scarcely 
swim, when surprised they seek refuge in the edge of the water, 
with so little movement as to render their capture no easy matter. 
They commence their season early. ‘They were heard in the 
swamps of the barrens and thickets of the southwestern part of 
the state as early as March 2oth, when a skim of ice covered part 
of the water. In other level parts of the state they were heard 
later in the season. Their note resembles that of Acris in being 
