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of the flanks, where mine is delicate green, and the 
prevalence of purple, are all strongly marked differ- 
ences in coloration. I would therefore distinguish 
this as the Green-hacked Tree-toad {TracJiycephalus 
anochloros). 
All that Robinson has recorded of its manners is 
contained in the following brief note : It was given 
me by Dr. Anderson, of Hanover parish, who in- 
formed me that he held it in his hand almost half an 
hour, after which, having occasion to rub his eyes 
with the fingers of that hand, which was besmeared 
with a mucus left by the animal, he was seized with 
a violent pain and smarting that lasted nearly half 
an hour, but subsided on washing his hands 
eyes?] in a little spring water.” The learned Doctor 
compares this quality to the stinging of the Nettle- 
fish, by which he probably means the Physalia ; but 
it seems to me much more analog^ous to the acrid 
secretion which exists in the cutaneous follicles of 
the true Toads; if so, it justifies the application of 
the term Tiee-toads to these animals, by which they 
are provincially distinguished, rather than Tree-frogs. 
A very little species of the same family, which the 
minuteness of the pallettes requires to be assigned 
to the genus Litoria of MM. Dum. and Bibr., is 
known to me by a single specimen which was taken 
in a tub of water, at Content, in February, Of its 
peculiar habits I can give no information.* 
* Litoria luteola, mihi. The Little Yellow Tree-frog. Length 
1 inch ; fore limb ; hind limb 1 A Pallettes of all the feet very 
small. Hind toes very unequal, the fourth being extremely long ; 
palmation scarcely perceptible. Head somewhat pointed ; vomerine 
