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The Chorophilus occUlentalis rauges trom Georgia to tbe Wichita 

 Elver, in north central Texas. Specimens were sent me from the latter 

 locality by that excellent naturalist, Jacob Boll, of Dallas. Dr. A. K. 

 Fisher has found it near Jacksonville, Florida. It does not occur in 

 California as supposed when Urst described. 





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liocality. 



Wlieu 

 collected. 



From whom receiveil. 



Ooorgiii Ma.j. J. L<i Coiito 



UicoborouKli, (in --I <lo 



(1(1 j do 



LiliiTtv Count v.Oa | do 



Allapiilia, (lii j W. .J. Taylor 



Natniu of spec- 

 inien. 



Alcoholic. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



CIIOROPIIILUS NIGRITUS Lc t'oiitc 



liivia nigrita Lo Conto, Ant.. Lye. N. Y., i, \>. ii^^J; Ilailaii, Med. «fcPhys. Res., p. 105; 



iiiid Joiirii. Ac. I'liilii., V, p. Ull. 

 Jerih )ii(jfilti Dmii. iV IJilif., p. .W.t. 



CilKlifluiilhiin iiinrlliin IIolli. , N. .Viiicr. IIiT)).. IV, p. 107, PI. "20, 

 rueiitlaciis iiifirild, pars, Oiliilli. Cat., ]». '.(7. 

 Chorophihin iiii/nluH Haird, Piim;. Ac. Pliila., vii, p. (iO; Le Contc, cof?. loc, p. Vi7 ', 



Bouleiiger, Cut IJatr. Sal., p, '.iX\. 



The length of the head to the posterior margin of the membranum 

 tyiiii)ani enters the total length to the vent three and one sixth times. 

 Tlie head it.self is narrow and acuminate, tiie muz/.lo projecting acutely 

 beyond the labial margin. Theexternal nares niiuk two-tifths the di.s 

 tanee from the end of tlie muzzle to tiie orbital border. The mem- 

 branum tympani is only one fourth the diameter of the orbit. The 

 eanthus rost rails is disi iiiet , but obtusely rounded. The vomerine fascic- 

 uli are api)roxiinated, and near the line of the posterior border of the 

 mires, which are larger than the minute ostia pharyngea. The tongue 

 is large and wide behind, and faintly emai'ginate. 



The heel of the extended hind leg extends to between the orbit and 

 nostril; the femur is short, while the tarsus is long, a little exceeding 

 half the length of the tibia, and etinaling thi' length of the remaimler 

 of the foot, minus the longest toe. The skin of the gular and .sternal 

 region is smooth, of the abdomen areolate. That of the dorsal region 

 is tubercular, smootli warts of large and small size being irregularly 

 crowded over its entire surface, and not at all resembling the areolate 

 surface of the belly. 



Cohu' above leaden, with three longitudinal rows of darker, light- 

 edged spots, extending one on each side, and one on the median line, 

 These spots may be uniteil into a l)and on one (u- on both sides tn* on the 

 middle line. Thigh with thre(H*j(»ss bands, nnieolor behind; tibia with 

 from three to five (!ross-l)ars. I'pper lip daik plumbeous, with a narrow 

 white lino above a darker border, which extends a little beyond below 

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