NORTH AMERICAN BATRACIIIA AND REPJILIA. 
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tipper lip white, sometimes varied with green or dusky; in some 
specimens a line extends from jaw along sides, in others, the 
sides are variegated with rounded spots of darker, and the 
line is absent ; beneath whitish, more or less inclining to yellow 
or orange; chin marked with dusky or green; limbs barred; 
yellowish or reddish beneath; skin coarsely granulate above; 
L. two and live-tenths inches; femur one and two-tenths inches; 
tibia one and iifteen-hundredths; foot one and six-tenths. 
Florida; lower Georgia. 
Family CY STIGNATHID JL 
Genus Lithodytes, Cope. 
Prefrontals in contact, and usually with the fully ossified 
fronto-parietals ; ear fully developed; xipliisternutn broad, with- 
out style; external metatarsi bound together; digits nearly or 
quite free; terminal phalanges with a distal transverse limb, 
supporting a viscous disk; abdomen smooth. 
6F Z. ricordi , D. et B. Southern Florida. 
Family SCAPHIOPJD^E. 
Genus Scaphiopus, Holb. 
Tympanum, cavity of tympani, parotid glands, and vomerine 
teeth present; derm involved in cephalic ossification, which is 
complete; cuneiform bone furnished with a spade-like process 
which is covered with a corneous sheath; xiphisternum cartila- 
ginous; toes more or less webbed. 
65. S. holbrooki , Harl. Above brownish; a yellowish or 
pale ashy band on each side, sometimes indistinct; a vertical 
light line on end of muzzle, and two longitudinal streaks some- 
times present; occasionally a pale interorbital crossband and 
light markings on sides; head large; maxillary rounded; eyes 
prominent; tympanum distinct; tongue large, emarginate; 
vomerine teeth opposite posterior border of internal nares; 
parotids small, prominent; a gland on each side of thorax, near 
axillae; skin of back minutely tuberculous; of sides, more 
coarsely; below nearly smooth; cuneiform process very long; 
size moderate. Eastern United States. 
