128 HYLA FEMORALIS. 
sub-triangular spots of brightest yellow, arranged without order, but nearly in a 
line. ‘There are five toes, semi-palmate, and each terminating in a disk, like the 
fingers. 
Dimensions. ‘Total length, 1 inch 6 lines. 
Hasirs. This little animal lives in the deep forests of Carolina and Georgia; 
it chooses trees for its residence, and is sometimes found even thirty feet from the 
eround, feeding on such insects as choose the same localities. 
GeocrapHicaL Disrrisution. I have never heard of the existence of the Hyla 
femoralis out of Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, though doubtless it may exist 
along the northern borders of the Gulf of Mexico. 
Genera Remarks. Bosc was the first naturalist that observed this little 
animal, and he sent a very good description of it to Latreille, under the specific 
name femoralis, from the bright yellow spots along the thighs. Daudin next gave 
a good description but a sorry plate of it in his “Histoire des Rainettes,” and 
Leconte finally gave a more detailed account in the New York Lyceum of Natural 
History. 
Dumeril and Bibron consider this animal as identical with the Hyla squirella, 
from which it is, however, perfectly distinct: 
1. It is about two-thirds the size. 
2. Its general colour and markings are different; there is no white line along 
the upper lip, and the yellow spots on the thigh always exist there, and never in 
the Hyla femoralis. 
3. It differs in habits—for it is never found near out-houses, or about fences and 
in old fields. 
