HYLA ANDERSONII AND RANA VIRGATIPES 

 AT LAKEHURST, NEW JERSEY. 



WILLIAM T. DAVIS. 



Ox the 5th of last September while looking for insects near 

 a swamp at Lakehurst in the pine barrens of New Jersey, the 

 writer was fortunate in finding a specimen of the rare tree frog 

 Hyla andersonii Baird. The frog was in a small oak tree 

 standing but a few feet from the swamp. At the time Cope's 

 work on " The Batrachia of North America " was published in 

 1889, but three specimens had been recorded, namely the type 

 from Anderson, South Carolina ; the one collected at Jackson, 

 Camden Co., New Jersey, in 1863 by Leidy, and the third exam- 

 ple found by Dr. John E. Peters at May's Landing, Atlantic Co., 

 New Jersey on June first, 1888. A record of this last is to be 

 found in \.hQ American Naturalist for January, 1889. In the 

 American Naturalist iox December, 1894, J. P. Moore gives an 

 account of two of these tree frogs collected in June, 1889, at 

 Pleasant Mills, New Jersey, and of the many others heard at 

 the time. The frogs, however, disappeared shortly and no 

 others could be found on subsequent visits to the locality. 

 Lakehurst is considerably farther North than the three New 

 Jersey stations mentioned above. It may be well to mention 

 at this time that Rana virgatipes Cope, is also to be found at 

 Lakehurst. The species was originally described from Cape 

 May County, New Jersey. 



According to Cope, in Hyla andersonii, " The green of the 

 back and extremities is everywhere margined with pure white, 

 except posteriorly on the femur and tibia, and anteriorly on the 

 former where saffron takes its place." My living specimen, 

 however, differs from this description and the colored figure, by 

 having the band of pure white extend along the end of the 

 body and a short distance on the posterior margin of each 

 femur. 



New Brighton, Statkn Isi.A.vn, N. Y. 



893 



