HYLODES PICKERINGI.— Holbrook. 
Plate XXXIV. 
Cuaracters. Head rather short; body yellowish-brown, with small, dusky, 
rhomboidal spots, and lines of same colour, sometimes arranged in form of a 
cross; abdomen pale flesh-colour; throat tinged with yellow. Length, 112 lines. 
Description. The head is short, yellowish-brown above, with the snout rather 
pointed. The tongue is large, long, and slightly notched posteriorly. The palate 
is armed with two groups of exceedingly minute teeth in a range with the 
posterior nares. 
The nostrils are lateral, and nearer the snout than the orbit, with an indistinct 
dusky line extending from each to the eye. The eyes are large and prominent; 
the pupil is black, and the iris brilliant gold colour, with a tinge of green. The 
snout is pale yellow; the body is short and delicately formed, fawn colour, 
marked with small rhomboidal dusky spots and lines of the same colour, which 
latter are sometimes arranged in a cruciform manner; one line is at times very 
distinct, and extends from the back of the orbit to the flanks; the abdomen is 
pale flesh-colour. 
The anterior extremities are coloured like the back, and marked with transverse 
dusky bars, and terminate in four distinct fingers; these, as well as the bulbs at 
the tips, are proportionally less developed than in the genus Hyla; the posterior 
extremities are long, with five toes, palmated, and terminating like the fingers in 
small bulbs. 
