OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 137 



reddish brown, spotted with, yellow. The under surface is a 

 yellowish red, much mottled on the throat, chest, and inside of 

 the thighs, with reddish brown. The colours probably before 

 immersion in spirits were much more lively, 



Length of body, 16 lines ; width 5 ; arms 9, and legs 24 lines. 



One specimen from Katow. 



3. — Hylarana nebulosa. 



Snout, roundly pointed ; nostrils nearer the snout than the 

 eyes. Vomerine teeth in two oblique series, converging behind, 

 tongue very deeply bilobed behind. Fingers and toes with small 

 discs and large tubercles beneath. Upper surface of a bluish 

 lead colour, on each side a broad blackish band extends from the 

 snout almost to the thigh, with a yellow line above and below it, 

 the upper line is most conspicuous between the eye and the 

 snout, along the rest of its course it seems to be marked by a 

 longitudinal skinny fold — the lower line commences at the lower 

 lip, is a little wider than the other, very interrupted, and cannot 

 be traced beyond the shoulder. The lower eyelid is white. The 

 under surface is yellow, very much clouded on the throat, chest, 

 and upper part of the abdomen, with bluish grey. 



Length of body, 16 ; width 4 ; length of legs 24 lines. 



One specimen was captured at Cape York. Another species 

 of this genus, Hylarana erythraea, described by Schlegel, from 

 Java, is said by Dr. Grunther to have been found also at Cape 

 York. 



4. — LlTORIA GUTTATA. 



Head broad and flat between the eyes. Nostrils on the side of 

 the snout. Vomerine teeth in two very small clumps. Fingers 

 broad and partially webbed. Upper surface green, with some 

 small round yellow spots on the back ; under surface reddish, 

 beneath the legs of a brighter red. 



Length of body 13, of legs, 24 lines. 



One specimen from Katow. 



