ANURA. 
52. (1). buto lentiginosus americanus, Leconte. 
American toad. 
Bufo americanus, Leconte, Holbrook, Dumeril and Bibron, 
Hallowell, Girard. 
Bufo copei, Yarrow and Henshaw. 
Length 34 inches. General color above grayish or brown, 
with darker spots on dorsum and sides and a light colored mid- 
dorsal line. Beneath yellowish or dirty white. Skin rough 
and warty. 
Terrestrial, except during the breeding season, when they 
go to the ditches and ponds. 
Very common. R. W. P. Coll., five specimens. 
53. (2). Scaphiopus hoibrooki, Harlan. 
Spade-footed toad. 
Rana holbrookiu, Harlan. 
Scaphiopus solitarius, Holbrook, Tschudi, Dumeril and Bibron, 
Leconte, Gunther, Boulenger. 
Scaphiopus holbrooku, Baird, Cope. 
Length 3 inches. General color above grayish or brown, 
dark-brownish or reddish tubercles on flanks. On each side, a 
yellowish line extends from eye posteriorly, these lines diverg- 
ing, then converging to unite on the rump. Color beneath 
grayish white, a black, horny process at base of inner toe. 
Subterrestrial. Barrington, R. I. 
R. W. P. Coll., one specimen. 
54. (3). Acris gryllus crepitans, Baird. 
Cricket frog. 
Acris gryilus, Dumeril and Bibron, Gunther. 
Hylodes gryllus, DeKay. 
Acris crepitans, Baird, Leconte. 
Length 14 inches. Color above brownish, a mid-dorsal 
stripe of reen, a blackish triangular spot between the eyes, 
three blackish bars on lip; generally three blackish spots, with 
light colored edges, on each side of dorsal line; blackish cross- 
bars on surface of femur. Underparts whitish; throat, in 
spring, yellow. 
Edges of streams and ponds. 
Recorded in Conn. 
Recorded from Rhode Island by Prof. Barlow of Kingston. 
