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HYLA SQUIREI.LA Bosc. 



Hyla squirella (Bosc.) iu Soauiue & Latreille, Hist. Nat. Eeptil., ii (1802), 181 

 (Charleston, S. C); (Bosc.) Daud., Hist. Nat. Eeptil., viii (1803), 34, xciii, 2; 

 Lo Conte, Aun. N. Y. Lye, i (1825), 279; Harlan, Joarn. Ac. Nat. Sci. PLila., V 

 (1827), 343, and Med. & Phys. Res. (1835), 107 ; Holbrook, N. Anier. Herp., 1st ed., 

 1 (183C), 105, XVIII, and 2d ed., iv (1842), 123, xxx; Storer, Kept. Mass. (1839), 

 242 (copied from Holbrook); Dum. & Bibr., Erp. G6n., vm (1841), 587 ; ? De Kay, 

 N. Y. Zool., Ill, Reptil. (1842), 72, xxi, 53; ? Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vt. (1842), 

 122; Le Coute, Proceed. Ac. Phila., 1855, p. 429; Giiuther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. 

 Mus., 1868, p. 11 ; Boulenger, 2d ed. Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1832, p. 398. 



La Baine squirelle Bosc, Nouv. Diet, d'hist. nat., xxviii (1817), 543. 



Hi/la squirella Graveuhorst, DeliceajMus. Vratislav. (1829), 28; VI, 1, does not belong 

 to this species. 



Calamita sqidrrella Merrem, Tentamen, p. 171. 



Auletris squirella Wagler, Syst. Ampb., p. 201. 



Above smooth. Hind foot less than arm from elbow. Tibia about 

 half the length of the body. Light brown above (green in life ?), with 

 small, rather subcircular blotches of darker. Legs rather indistinctly 

 barred. Anterior and posterior faces of thighs without light spots of 

 dark vermiculations. A dark line from snout to eye; a dark vitta from 

 eye to arm through tympanum; edge of upper jaw mottled white, gen- 

 erally showing distinctly as a light line, which frequently extends to 

 the middle of the side. 



Body more slender than in H. versicolor. Limbs moderately devel- 

 oped. Eyes prominent. Snout rather acute. Tympanum small, half 

 the diameter of the eye. Tongue rather small, nearly orbicj:^ilar, hardly 

 notched behind. Vomerine teeth in two small patches between th'C 

 inner nares and nearly in line with their centers. Tibia not quite half 

 the length of the body. No web at the base of the fingers. 



Length of head a little more than three times* in length. Heel of 

 extended hind limb marking a point between orbit and end of muzzle. 



The body above is smooth, beneath granulated on the abdomen and 

 thighs. The toes are not webbed beyond the penultimate articulation 

 of the third and fifth and the antepenultimate of the fourth toes. 



Above green, sometimes with irregularly arranged darker small 

 blotches. Beneath white. There is a V-ui^rk connecting the eyes 

 above, although this is not very distinct. A small number of subcir- 

 cular blotches about the size of the tympanum, or larger, are sometimes 

 scattered over the back, and may be of elongate form. There is a 

 dark line from the nostril to the eye and a vitta from the eye through 

 the tympanum to a point above the insertion of the arm. A narrow 

 white line, rather indistinct, passes along the head very near to the 

 edge of the upper jaw and below the tymj)anic vitta; this line rarely 

 passes the arm; sometimes extends on the side, where it is generally 

 very much confused. The upper faces of the leg are barred transversely, 

 though generally not very distinctly, except across the tibia, where the 

 bars are usually decided. The exterior edges of the feet are mottled 

 finely with brown and gray. The anterior and posterior faces of the 



