jYeio Species of Hyla and Rami, V1Q 



these I shall add two new species. Before proceeding to the 

 description of them, it will be well to make some remarks 

 upon those already known ; as the descriptions are in some 

 degree faulty, not having been made from living specimens. 

 I shall adhere to the same order that M. Daudin has ob- 

 served. 



1. Hyla lateralis. The description of this animal should 

 be corrected, by saying, that the lateral line, from which its 

 name is derived, is most commonly silvery, in some few instan- 

 ces yellow. Inhabits in great numbers in Carolina and 

 Georgia, particularly on water plants, such as the Pontederia 

 cordata, the Nymjyhcea, and others, that generally grow in 

 ditches, and on the margin of rice fields. They are very 

 noisy, particularly at night, their voice somewhat resembles- 

 the sound of a bell. 



2. H. squirella. Generally of a brown or cinereous colour 

 above ; in some irregularly varied or speckled with paler 

 or darker : a black, or dusky, or bark brown band ex- 

 tends from the nostrils to the eyes, and a narrow white 

 stripe from near the nostrils, along the upper lip reaches 

 almost to the insertion of the fore legs : beneath whitish, 

 granulate on the abdomen and under side of the thighs : 

 H tad rather obtuse; iris golden : thighs longer than the 

 shanks, yellow on the exterior part : legs more or less 

 distinctly barred with darker ; hind toes semi-palmate. 

 Length one inch and a quarter. 



Inhabits under logs, and the bark of decaying trees ; I 

 have never seen it in, or near the water. 



The figure of this species in Daudin is very different from 

 any specimen that I have ever seen, both in colour and in marks ; 

 1 do not deny but that it may have been found of a green colour, 

 as he represents it, and marked in the same manner ; but the 

 same error occurring in his delineation of the next species, I 

 am inclined to think that it has been coloured from report 

 and description, rather than from the animal itself; indeed, 



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