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commencing anterior to the eye, involves two-thirds of the iris 
and the whole of the tympanum; lips with dark borders; 
lower parts of the body white, the flanks light green; upper 
parts of the body drab colour, with the.exception of a few 
scattered spots posteriorly ; and the hind legs with broad, ob- 
solete, transverse, blackish bands. 
abit. A great leaper; travelling far from the water in 
search of insects, &c. ; is difficult of access, leaping with great 
facility and hiding beneath the dead leaves, which the colour 
of the upper parts of the body closely resembles ; more fre- 
quently found in the fetes than in the fields; this beautiful 
Species is not very co 
Inhabit Penbiyleania: ad AenicTecieey 
Sp. 3. Rawa scapularis. (Nobis.) 
‘Char. essent. General colour above shea olive brown; 
snout green; beneath the throat yellow; abdomen white ; a 
golden coloured line above the scapule. 
Dimensions. Length of the body t three inches ; “a the hind 
legs four inches. 
“Description. (Male.) Dark olive brown, white beneath ; 
throat, anterior part of the thorax, and interior of the fore legs, 
of a bright yellow colour; the outer surfaces of the fore ~— 
and thighs the same colour as the back; Jeg, tarsus, and foo 
dark a colour; sides tuberculous and mottled with hone 
membrane of the tympanum very large, with a greenish pro- 
tuberance at its centre; dn sien, golden coloured line 
passes from its inferior wlio: across the scapula. Eyes very 
prominent, nearly approximate; snout contracted, and wit 
the ss te lip of a dark. sea-green colour; legs obsoletely and 
Bening banded with black. 
This. species atone the R. clamata, but differs in the 
colour of its throat, in the form, colour, and length of the 
snout, in the size and proximity of its eyes, in the colour and 
size of its tympanum, (which is double the size of the same 
part in the clamata,) in the proportion of its limbs, and last.y 
in the golden line across the scapulze 
Habit. As far as Peat resembling that of the clamata, 
me h less noisy and timi 
nhabit Pennsylvania. 
ar, 4. Saige ee (Le Conte, Ann. of the Lyc. ‘ad Nat. 
Hist. N. York, vol. 1. no. ix.) This species I had 
ee under the name ae pasdalis: Leopard 
frog. 
