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Mikado brown, buffy brown or chestnut drab or black, some- 

 times to such an extent on the chin and throat that the Hghter 

 ground color is reduced to a median line and a transverse line 

 in the pectoral region, and in these specimens the lighter color 

 on the posterior part of the abdomen may be dusky dull violet 

 blue, pale lilac or deep lavender. In our series the females 

 tend to be duller colored than the males, but many of the form- 

 er had the red ventral colors described above while some of 

 the males did not. It is only in the male specimens, however, 

 that the dorsal band is wide and of a constrasting color. 



Hyla maxima (Laurenti). — A large specimen taken in a 

 cocoanut tree at Dunoon on September 5. 



Hyla taurina (Fitzinger). — Apparently common in the for- 

 est along the river ; most frequently observed in the mocca 

 moccas ; a single specimen taken in a bromelia in a thicket on 

 a mourie (Plates II and III). The color pattern is var- 

 iable as the darker markings may occur as stripes, spots, 

 or reticulations and be more or less distinct, but in most of 

 the specimens -they take the form of more or less definite 

 stripes from the eyes, and an interocular band is present. 

 The colors of one specimen were as follows : Above dark 

 greenish olive, light spots clove brown, ground color of head 

 ecru olive, light spots 'above ear and a few on the sides 

 old gold; femur Saccardo umber wnth bister bands, hind 

 limbs otherwise buft'y olive with brownish olive bands ; 

 fore limbs olive with faint dusky bands ; belly and under sur- 

 face of legs immaculate white, chin sea foam yellow with sepia 

 spots ; iris strontian yellow. Another specimen was snuff 

 brown above except on the head behind the eyes, where it was 

 avellaneous brown ; the thighs were Roods brown, the tibia and 

 feet drab; under surface white; iris cream buff. A third was 



