128 HYLA FEMORALIS. 



sub-triangular spots of brightest yellow, arranged Avithout 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. 



Habits. 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 

 ground, feeding on such insects as choose the same localities. 



Geographical Distribution. 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. 



General 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. 



