1870.] 261 [Allen. 



a living specimen was received at the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy from Wareham. The specimen from the vicinity of New Bed- 

 ford, which was exhibited at the last meeting of the Society (March 

 second), was sent by Mr. Ingraham as a donation to the Society's 

 Museum. Mr. Ingraham writes that the specimen was taken " by Mr. 

 Richard Durfey, in the Acushnet River, New Bedford, above the 

 bridge." 



Celuta amcena B. & G. (Ground Snake.) 



Mr. Ingraham also informs me of the capture of this rare snake in 

 New Bedford, a single specimen of which was taken in a garden on 

 Eighth Street, near the centre of the city; the only specimen, Mr. 

 Ingraham observes, that he has ever seen. 



Hyla " squirella." 



A small green tree frog is recorded under this name in my recent 

 Catalogue of the Batrachians of the State. 1 Professor Cope having 

 since examined my specimens, regards them as the young of Hyla 

 versicolor, the adult of which, however, they are exceedingly unlike. 

 Professor Cope furthermore informs me he doubts the occurrence of 

 the true Hyla, squirella so far north as the New England States. This 

 being true, the single dried specimen of a small tree frog, referred by 

 Dr. Storer to the H. squirella, 2 was in all probability also a young H. 

 versicolor ; to which also is doubtless to be referred the H. squirella of 

 Jones, announced by him as having been recently discovered in 

 Nova Scotia. 3 The H. Richardi, instead of being a synonym of H, 

 squirella, should hence be referred to the H. versicolor. 4 



The following annotated list of the Reptiles and Batrachians of the 

 vicinity of New Bedford has been kindly placed at my disposal by 

 Mr. R. C. Ingraham of that place. While not regarded by Mr. In- 

 graham as a complete list, it embraces many facts of interest, and 

 clearly indicates the decidedly southern character of the reptilian 

 fauna of the southern coast of the State, as compared with that of 

 the other portions. The great difference in the marine fauna of the 

 coast north and south of Cape Cod lias long been noticed, and an 

 adequate cause for it recognized in the relatively near approach of 

 the Gulf Stream to this portion of the New England coast. The 



i Proceedings of this Society, Vol. xri, Dec, 1863, p. 189. 



2 Report on the Fishes and Reptiles of Massachusetts, p. 242. 



3 T. Matthew Jones, Transact. Nova Scotian Inst. Nat. Sci., Vol. II, pt. ii, p. 

 102, 1869. 



4 See on this point these Proceedings, Vol. xu, p. 189. 



