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The ChoropMlus occidentalis rauges from Georgia to the Wichita 

 Eiver, 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 first described. 



RESERVE SERIES. 



Catalogue 

 number. 



3590 

 5905 

 5906 

 3584 



No. of 



spec. 



Locality. 



Georgia 



Riceborough, Ga . . . 



, do 



Liberty County, Ga. 

 Allapaha, Ga 



When 

 collected, 



Erom whom received. 



Maj. J. Le Conte 



do 



do 



do 



W.J.Taylor 



Nature of spec, 

 imen. 



Alcoholic. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



CHOROPHILUS NIGRITUS Le Conte. 



Bana nigrita Le Conte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., i, p. 282; Harlan, Med. «&Phys. Res., p. 105; 



and Journ. Ac. Phila., v, p. 341. 

 Acris nigrita Dum. & Bibr., p. 509. 



Cystignathus nigritus Holb., N. Amer. Herp., iv, p. 107, PI. 26. 

 Pseudacris nigrita, pars, Giintli. Cat., p. 97. 

 Clioropliilus nigritus Baird, Proc. Ac. Phila., vii, p. 60; Le Conte, eod loc, p. 4'i7; 



Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 333. 



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

 tympani enters the total length to the vent three and ouesixth times. 

 The head itself is narrow and acuminate, the muzzle projecting acutely 

 beyond the labial margin. The external uares mark two-fifths the dis- 

 tance fro;n the end of the muzzle to the orbital border. The mem- 

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

 cauthus rostralis is distinct, but obtusely rounded. The vomerine fascic- 

 uli are approximated, and near the line of the posterior border of the 

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

 is large and wide behind, and faintly emargiuate. 



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 equaling the length of the remainder 

 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, smooth warts of large and small size being irregularly 

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

 surface of the belly. 



Color 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 nnited into a band on one or on both sides or on the 

 middle line. Thigh with three cross-bands, unicolor behind ; tibia with 

 from three to five cross-bars. Upper lip dark plumbeous, with a narrow 

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

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