Hymeneal

A song or ode composed in celebra tion of a marriage. IMG:content-0667.png:[graphic] Fig . 1348. - THE TREE-TOAD, (H. versicolor.) under surface is mainly white, granulated. It is very noisy towards evening and in cloudy weather, or before a rain. In the latter part of spring or early summer, it resorts to the pools to lay its eggs. The genus Hy lodes comprises the Cricket-frogs. The Savannah cricket, H. gryllus , of the Atlantic and Gulf coast, is one and a half inches long, cinereous above, vertebral line green or red, and the sides with three oblong black spots, edged with white; under parts silver-white. It is found on the leaves of aquatic plants, is very agile, and makes long leaps to secure insects, which constitute its food. It is constantly chirping like a cricket, is easily domesticated, and sings merrily even in confinement. Pick ering's Hylodes, H. Pick ering i i , of New England and the Middle States, is le than one inch long, body yellowish-brown, with small, dusky, rhomboidal spots, and lines of the same color, sometimes arranged in the form IMG:content-0668.jpg:[blocks in formation] HYLOIST, q. v.