ni) New Species of Bairucian Repiiles. 
Char. essent. General colour dark cineritious above, white 
beneath, lighter on the snout, flanks, and extremities ; interior 
surface of the limbs yellowish; a row of dark green spots on 
each side of the spine extending the whole length of the back ; 
two other longitudin al rows on the flanks ; ; posterior extremi- 
ties striped with broad, transverse, greenish lines or bands. 
Dimensions. Len th of the body three inches; of the pos- 
terior ee four inches pripiadanr’: breadth of the 
ace onigcles a 
dark green spot on the inner and. upper surface of the orbits, 
they ‘k coloured line on each 
side of the snout, extending fain the nostrils to the eyes; a 
silver coloured line, or cuticular fold, extending from the orbit 
on each side along the back to the thighs, inclosing the dorsal 
spots ; thigh, leg, and tarsus striped with broad, transverse, 
nish bands; a row of spots on the sides of the 
nding from the henge to the thighs ; another irregular row 
r spots beneath; anterior extremities spotted ;- hind 
feet ¢ completely webbed all the toes with tubercles on the 
inner surfaces of the joints ; body smooth, or, when viewed 
with a glass, embossed with fine tubercles ; snout rather 
pointed ; tympanum small, rather circular. 
Habit. Very active, timid, leaping to great distances, leav- 
ing the water in search of insects, always found in or near to 
ponds, &c.; diffusing a rank odour; the slime which covers 
the skin is more excoriating se that of other frogs ; appear 
early in April; are not very noisy. 
Inhabit ponds, ditches, im of the middle states; common 
in the vicinity of Philadelphia.* 
Sp. 5. Rawa utricularius. -) 
Char. essent. Colour dark oliyaceous-green above, white 
beneath ; with suboval blackish spots scattered over the back ; 
2 vocal vesicle on each side of the neck; legs and at thighs with 
a few blackish bands. 
_ *if the i zebra, aphortg described in Nicholson’s Encyclopedia, 
isi * 
to represent es, the name is pre-occupied. Vide 
Shaw, Gen. . vol, 3. pt. aie 
