Dear Casque-headed Genera,

That doesn't sound bad at all! But I'm still afraid of a
Hyla. Not the actual frog, though one did surprise me in a swimming pool one evening, causing me to scream my head
off*, but the image that the word Hyla evokes.
Yup, Geoff, I'm weird, all right!

*to my immense embarrassment, once I realized the harmlessness of the little thing. But darn it, it's startling to realize that something you thought was a toy being pulled on a string was actually a live creature, and not only that, was making deliberate attempts to come at me!
I heard the lifeguard quit the next day--it was his first evening on the job, too...