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H Y L A. — Laiirenti. 



Genus Hyla. — Characters. Body in general elongated; upper jaw and palate 

 furnished with teeth; tympanum apparent; no post-tympanal glands; fingers long, 

 and with the toes, terminating in rounded viscous pellets. 



HYLA VERSICOLOR.— Lecow^e. 



Plate XVII. 



Characters. Resembling the Toad in form, but more flattened; body short, 

 and warty above: colour varying at times from the palest ash to dark brown, 

 marked with several large irregular blotches of brown and frequently tinged with 

 green; white and granulated beneath: abdomen yellow near the thigh: leg shorter 

 than the thigh. 



Synonymes. Hyla versicolor, Leconte, Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. i. p. 281. 

 Hyla versicolor, Harlan, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. v. p. 343. 

 Tree Toad, Vulgo. 



Description. This is a beautiful species of Hyla; its colours seeming to vary 

 at the will of the animal. The head is short, broad and obtuse, with a dark brown 

 spot on each orbit: the upper jaw is brown, marked with white spots; the lower, 

 entirely white: the nostrils are in front and near together: the eyes are large and 

 brilliant; the pupil black, the iris of a bright golden-yellow: the tympanum is brown. 



