64 New Species of Batracian Reptiles. 
Char, essent. In form and size resembling the “ pipiens.”’ 
Body above brownish or greenish, with irregular deeper co- 
loured spots; a small cuticular fold extends from the eye to 
above the flank; body beneath whitish, granulated under the 
belly and thighs; round brownish spots, surrounded with a 
clear teint, upon the flanks, buttocks, and thighs; fingers and 
toes furnished with small callosities beneath each articulation 
of the phalanges. 
Inhabits Florida and Mexico. 
Sp. 10. Rana melanota. (Rafinesque, Annals of Nature, 
first annual number, 1820.) 
Char. essent. Back olivaceous-black; a yellow streak on 
the sides of the head; chin, throat, and inside of the legs, 
whitish with black spots; belly white without spots; eyes 
large, iris gilt-violet; anterior feet four free toes; hind feet 
five palmated toes, 
Dimensions. Total length two and a half inches. 
Inhabit Lake Champlain and Lake George: vulgar name 
Black-frog. 
Rana grunniens. (Daudin.) “Rana fusca, aut subrubra, 
luteo post oculos maculata.” This species, which Daudix 
erroneously refers to the grunting-frog of Bartram, | believe to 
be the R. oculata ; it is most probably not a native of North 
America. 
Jl New Species of Hylu. 
Hyta crucialis.—Char. essent. Above dark green or slaty, 
beneath yellowish; head broad and flat; eyes prominent; a 
ol crucial groove on the back of the neck; hind legs very 
ong. 
eons, Length of the body three and a half inches; 
of the hind legs, five and a half inches; breadth of the head 
one-inch four tenths. 
Description. General colour above slaty, beneath yellow- 
ish; head very broad and flat; mouth large; top of the head 
scabrous ; a curved, scabrous, cuticular fold, extending back- 
wards the whole breadth of the occiput from ear to ear; a 
similar fold extending from each eye to the nasal apertures; 
the latter are projecting; a scabrous eminence above each 
tympanum: a deep sulcus extends across the back of the 
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