New Species of Batracian Repiiles. 59 
commencing anterior to the eye, involves two-thirds of the iris 
and the whole of the tympanum; lips with dark borders ; 
iower parts of the body white, the flanks light green; upper 
parts of the body drab colour, with the exception of a few 
scattered spots posteriorly ; and the hind legs with broad, ob- 
solete, transverse, blackish bands. 
Habit. A great leaper; travelling far from the water in 
search of insects, &c.; is difficult of access, leaping with great 
facility and hiding beneath the dead leaves, which the colour 
of the upper parts of the body closely resembles; more fre- 
quently found in the woods than in the fields; this beautiful 
species 1s not very common. 
Inhabit Pennsylvania and New-Jersey. 
Sp. 3. Rana scapularis. (Nobis.) 
Char. essent. General colour above dark olive brown; 
snout green; beneath the throat yellow; abdomen white; a 
golden coloured line above the scapule. 4 
Dimensions. Length of the body three inches; of the hind 
legs four inches. 
Description. {(Male.) Dark olive brown, white beneath ; 
throat, anterior part of the thorax, and interior of the fore legs, 
of a bright yellow colour; the outer surfaces of the fore legs 
and thighs the same colour as the back; leg, tarsus, and foot 
dark ash colour; sides tuberculous and mottled with black ; 
membrane of the tympanum very large, with a greenish pro- 
tuberance at its centre; an elevated golden coloured line 
passes from its inferior border across the scapula. Eyes very 
prominent, nearly approximate; snout contracted, and with 
the upper lip of a dark sea-green colour; legs obsoletely and 
sparsely banded with black. 
This species resembles the R. clamata, but differs in the 
colour of its throat, in the form, colour, and length of the 
snout, in the size and proximity of its eyes, in the colour and 
size of its tympanum, (which is double the size of the same 
part in the clamata,) in the proportion of its limbs, and last:y 
in the golden line across the scapule. 
Habit. As far as observed, resembling that of the clamata, 
though less noisy and timid. 
Inhabit Pennsylvania. 
Sp. 4. Rana palustris. (Le Conte, Ann. of the Lyc. of Nat. 
Hist. N. York, vol. 1. no. ix.) This species I had 
described under the name R. pardalis. leopard 
frog. 
