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of the flanks, where mine is delicate green, and the 

 prevalence of purple, are all strongly marked differ- 

 ences in coloration. I would therefore distinguish 

 this as the Green-backed Tree-toad ( Trachycephalus 

 anochloros). 



All that Robinson has recorded of its manners is 

 contained in the following brief note : " It was given 

 me by Dr. Anderson, of Hanover parish, who in- 

 formed me that he held it in his hand almost half an 

 hour, after which, having occasion to rub his eyes 

 with the fingers of that hand, which was besmeared 

 with a mucus left by the animal, he was seized with 

 a violent pain and smarting that lasted nearly half 

 an hour, but subsided on washing his hands {(luery, 

 eyes?] in a little spring water." The learned Doctor 

 compares this quality to the stinging of the Nettle- 

 fish, by which he probably means the Physalia ; but 

 it seems to me much more analogous to the acrid 

 secretion which exists in the cutaneous follicles of 

 the true Toads; if so, it justifies the application of 

 the term Tree-toads to these animals, by which they 

 are provincially distinguished, rather than Tree-frogs. 



A very little species of the same family, which the 

 minuteness of the pallettes requires to be assigned 

 to the genus Litoria of MM. Dum. and Bibr., is 

 known to me by a single specimen which was taken 

 in a tub of water, at Content, in February, Of its 

 peculiar habits I can give no information.* 



* Litoria Juteola, mihi. The Little Yellow Tree-frog. Length 

 1 inch ; fore limb fg ; hind limb l^i. Pallettes of all the feet very 

 small. Hind toes very unequal, the fourth being extremely long ; 

 palmation scarcely perceptible. Head somewhat pointed : vomerine 



