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HY LODES .—Fuzinger, non Dumeril ct Bibron. 
Genus Hytoprs.—Cuaracrers. Mouth large, and furnished with a large sub- 
cordiform tongue, free and movable in its posterior half; teeth in the superior 
maxillary and palate bones, the latter in two groups between the posterior nares; 
tympanum visible; extremities slender, tips of fingers and toes terminating in 
slightly developed tubercles. 
HYLODES GRYLLUS.— Leconte. 
Plate XXXII. 
Cuaractrers. Head elongated, pointed, a triangular dusky spot between the 
orbits; body above cinereous, with a green, or sometimes red, vertebral line, and 
three oblong black spots, margined with white on the sides. Length, 18 lines. 
Synonymes. Savannah Cricket, Bartram, Trav., &c., p. 278. 
Rana gryllus, Leconte, Ann. Lyc., Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. i. p. 282. 
Rana gryllus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 104. 
Rana dorsalis, Harlan, loc. cit., p. 105. 
Acris gryllus, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. vii. p. 507. 
Descrivtion. The head is elongated and rather pointed at the snout, greenish 
above, with a black triangular spot between the orbits of the eyes, with its apex 
backwards. ‘The mouth is large, and the palate is armed with two thick groups 
of minute teeth, situated on a line with the posterior border of the posterior nares, 
and widely separated, 
