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H Y L O D E S .—Fitzinger. 



Genus Hylodes. — Characters. Mouth furnished with a tongue, teeth in the 

 superior maxillary and palate bones; tympanum visible; extremities slender, tips 

 of fingers and toes terminating in slightly developed tubercles. 



HYLODES GRYLLUS.— Lecon/e. 



Plate XIII. 



Characters. Head elongated, pointed, a triangular dusky spot between the 

 orbits; body above cinereous, with a green, or sometimes red, vertebral line, and 

 three oblong black spots, margined with white, on the sides. Length, I5 inches. 



Synontmes. Savannah cricket, Bartr., Trav., &c., p. 278. 



Rana gryllus, Leconte, Ann. Lye, Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. i. p. 282. 

 Rana gryllus, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 104. 

 Rana dorsalis, Harl., Loc. Cit., p. 105. 



Description. The head is elongated and rather pointed at the snout, greenish 

 above, with a black triangular spot between the orbits of the eyes, with its apex 

 backwards. The nostrils are lateral, and nearly midway between the orbits and 

 the snout. The eyes are large and prominent, the pupil black; the upper half of 

 the iris brightest golden, the lower black. The upper jaw is dusky, with a 

 yellowish-white line from the posterior and inferior border of the orbit to the 



