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two (juv.) without. The tirst of these is a breeding male in fair 

 condition. In this species, as in the eastern frog described by me 

 AS Philocryphus (but which, if the generic definition of Heleio- 

 porus be amended in respect of the tympanum, I am now prepared 

 to merge in the latter), the most striking secondary sexual (^) 

 character is the presence of black horny conical tubercles on the 

 upper surface of one or more of the fingers of each hand, much 

 the largest of which is the proximal one on the first finger. This, 

 unlike the small ones, has a l)Ony core. Under some circum- 

 stances, possibly after the breeding season is over, the black horny 

 capping of this tubercle, and the small coreless tubercles altogether, 

 are shed. The only male in the B.M. Collection — the type 

 figured by Gray — is in this condition, the description reading, 

 " male with a conical tubercle on the inner side of the first finger." 

 //. pieties differs from both H. aibopuiictatus and H. Jlavo- 

 guttatus, and resembles the species of Limnodynastes, in having 

 only blackish rugosities on the first and second fingers of both 

 hands. In //. Jlavoguttatus there may be from seven to ten or 

 fewer (the number is not constant) black tubercles on the first, 

 second, and third fingers of each hand. A fine male which I 

 kept in captivity for some months was well provided with tubercles 

 when I caught him; but on examining him after death I found 

 that all the small tubercles, and the black capping of the tMO 

 large ones, had disappeared, leading only the bony core of each 

 of the latter. In my single male specimen of //. albopunctatits, 

 the first finger of the left hand has only the large tubercle; the 

 first finger of the right hand has three, the large proximal one, 

 and two small ones: these are all there are, but under favourable 

 circumstances probably more may be present. 



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11. PsEUDOPHRYXE AUSTRALIS, Gray. — llub. : [8wan River 

 one specimen only (the type)]. The only specimen known from 

 West Australia was presented to the British Museum by Mr. J. 

 Wright in 1835. Confirmation of the occurrence of the species 

 in West Australia is therefore very desirable. If correctly attri- 



