64. - New Species of Batracian Reptiles. 
Char, essent. In form and size resembling the “ pipiens.” 
Body above brownish or greenish, with irregular deeper co- 
loured spots; a small cuticular fold extends from the eye to 
above the flank; body beneath whitish, granulated under the 
belly and thighs; round brownish spots, surrounded with a 
clear teint, upon the flanks, buttocks, and thighs; fingers and 
toes furnished with small callosities beneath each articulation. 
of the phalanges. ; 
Inhabits Florida and Mexico. 
Sp. 10. Rana melanota. (Rafinesque, Annals of Nature. 
first annual number, 1820. 
Char. essent. Back olivaceous-black; a yellow streak on 
the sides of the head; chin, throat, and inside of the legs, 
whitish with black spots; belly white without spots; eyes 
large, iris gilt-violet; anterior feet four free toes; hind feet 
five palmated toes. . 
mensions. Total length two and a half inches. 
Inhabit Lake Champlain and Lake George: vulgar name 
Black-frog. 
ANA grunniens, (Daudin.) ‘Rana fusea, aut subrubra, 
luteo post oculos maculata.’? This species, which Daudin - 
erroneously refers to the ete Bartram, J believe to 
be the R. oculata ; it is most probably not a native of North 
merica, 
A New Species of Hyla. 
Hyia erucialis.—Char. essent. Above dark green or slaty, 
beneath yellowish; head broad and flat; eyes prominent; a 
ae crucial groove on the back of the neck; hind legs very 
ong. . : 
umensions. Length of the body three and a half inches; 
of the hind legs, five and a half inches; breadth of the head 
one inch four tenths. ~ 
Description. General colour above slaty, beneath yellow- 
ish; head very broad and flat; mouth large; top of the head 
scabrous ; a curved, scabrous, cuticular fold, extending back- 
wards the whole breadth of the occiput from ear to ear; a 
similar fold extending from each eye to the nasal apertures: 
the latter are projecting; a scabrous eminence above each 
ympanum; a deep sulcus extends across the back of the 
