Hyla smithi Oct 3 #101 - from Nayarit, Mexico This specimen is capable of considerable light-dark color change. The drawing chips on the first descript are near the lightest the animal can get. The were drawn with the animal sitting on a white lid. After the chipr were completed the animal was transferred to a black lid. The colors dar headed considerably, as below. dorsal ground color. color below lateral light stripe. In the light phase the dark pigment is great constricted and consists of widely scattered dots, pewaps with smaller dots between these. in the dark phase the large dots expand to large astoich-shaped dots, with many smaller dots (= to largest dots in light phase) between these. In the dark phase, the color of the iris matches then dorsal grounded color. If an dark animal were to be preserved in the light phase, it would key to Hyla affracate-areacolor, Staufferi where it is distinguished by ?