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with yellow ami brown, even eoveiing tlio whole inuer face of the tibia, 

 and the light interspaces more or less angular, while in the Smilisca 

 hauiUnil and the southern and western specimens of II, vcnicolor the 

 amount of marbling is less, and the interspaces are often reduced to small 

 circular spots. I have, however, been unable to characterize them as 

 more than a variety, to which I Imve given the name ot II. v. chryso- 

 sccJis.* 



A single specimen of a strongly marked variety of this species was 

 sent to the National ^Inseum from Mount Carmel, 111., by Lucieii M. Tur- 

 ner (Xo. 12074). It is smaller, having the average dimensions of IF./em- 

 (iralis. The color is a darlc brown, with three rows of large approximated 

 darlicr brown spots. The groin and concealed faces of the thigh are 

 yt'llowish-brown, with a very scanty speckling of darker brown, very 

 (lill'erent from the usual coarse netted pattern. At first sight one sus- 

 jjccts this to be a specimen of //»//a /ewjorrtZ/s, but it possesses all the 

 essential characters of the integunuMit and feet of the I[. versicolor, as 

 pointed out in tiie analyticil table of the genus, including also the light 

 spot under the eye. It may be called J[. v. ph(vocrypta. 



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Kid. ll.'i. Iliild rer/>icnliir. No. 1 l.".l. Itorlipslrr. ^f. V. 



Mtaniirtiiunln of Xo. 'M't'M't. jjf. 



l,"i)};11i of lioiid iiiul liddy O'M 



l.i'ii^tli of lii'ikil, iii('lii(Uii<; tyiDpiUiii OIG 



Width of licjid, iiu'liidiii^ tyiiiiiaiiii 021;? 



l,t'ii;;tli <if foro Ictr I'll nil iiNillii 034 



liC'iij^lli of liiiid Icj; from prroiii 0,sl3 



r<ciij;lli of til)iii 02() 



1. I'll Mill ol'tiirsu.s 0155 



I,i'iii;tli of ri'st of liiiid foot. 0215 



Tiie Ifi/ln rrrsimlor is " the tree frog," par excellence, of the eastern 

 and northern I'nited States. It is common, and in some places abun- 

 dant. l(s voice is a loud, coarse, resonant trill, uttered with a uiiii'orm 

 pitcii, and continued for two or tliree seconds. It is heard about bodies 

 of water in the. spring, when the sexes are depositing and fertilizing 

 the eggs. Later in tlie Si son it i»n)ceeds from fences, hedgerows, and 

 orchards, as well as IVoni the forest, often at no great elevation above 

 tlie ground. They are especially noisy towards <'vening after a rain; 

 but tliey may be lieard at any tinu^ during dark and drizzly days. Tlioy 

 are susceptible of some doinesti(!ation. JMr. Jacob Geismar tells me 



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