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broader than their interspaces, and are margined by yellow lines. The 

 lower parts are yellowish-white, unspotted, including the interior and 

 inferior surfaces of the limbs. A few scattered blotches are seen along 

 the posterior half of the lower jaw and on the breast in front of the 

 arms. The buttocks are yellowish-white, with some marbling of brown. 

 The center of the tympanum is white. (Cope.) 



Size. — Length of head and body 98 mm.; from tip of snout to axilla 

 38 mm. Femur 44 mm.; tibia 48 mm.; tarsus to end of longest to© 

 ^8 mm. 



Habitat. — This frog so far has been reported from 

 Texas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Missouri 

 localities: — Montgomery and Johnson Counties. (B. M. 

 Stigall.) 



Habits. — In the year 1906 my friend, Mr. Edgar M. 

 Parker, a young naturalist, sent me a frog, which I rec- 

 ognized at once as this species. June 6th, 1908, 1 went to 

 Montgomery City to learn more of this frog. My friend 

 and I went out early in the morning to the place where he 

 had captured the first specimen in a marshy corner of a 

 small pasture just outside of the town. Here we found 

 the holes in which the frogs live and hide. The holes 

 seemed to be abandoned crayfish holes, very likely widen- 

 ed by the present owners. Although these holes were 

 very numerous, by diligent search we discovered only 

 three which were occupied. The inhabited holes are easily 

 recognized as the entrance as well as a little platform in 

 front of it is worn smooth. Here the frog watches for its 

 prey. As soon as it hears an unusual noise or sees some- 

 one it creeps back in the hole. It can then only be secured 

 by digging for it. All the frogs that we secured that day 

 were not deeper down than we could reach with our hands 

 — about 18 inches. Curiously enough they made no at- 

 tempt to recede farther when we reached for them. Had 

 they dropped to the bottom we never could have captured 

 them, as some of the holes were three or four feet deep 

 with water at the bottom. My friend had heard of an- 

 other haunt of these frogs in an embankment on the side 

 of the road. I should never have looked for frogs in such 



