676 AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA, 



at least an incomplete vertebral stripe, and an unspotted variety 

 without a dorsal stripe. In Victoria the differentiation seems to 

 be equally well established. In Western Australia there seems 

 to be only the spotted variety, but in this the pattern has become 

 more definite and accentuated, and the vertebral stripe more 

 striking. In New South Wales we get commonl}^ an unspotted 

 variety, and more rarely a variegated but not satisfactorily spotted 

 variety. 



2. LiMNODYNASTES ORNATUS, Gray. — Hah. : Junction of Fitzroy 

 River and Margaret Creek (Calvert Expedition: two specimens). 



3. Crinia CxEORGIANA, Bibr. — Hah. : [King George's Sound]; 

 Mt. Barker, and Bridgetown (Mr. A. M. Lea; two specimens); 

 Pipe Clay Creek, near Jarrahdale (Mr. E. P. Richards; tw^o 

 specimens). Of the four specimens two are adult, and two 

 less than half-grown. One adult has vomerine teeth ; in 

 the other they are present on one side only. Of the juveniles 

 one has vomerine teeth ; in the other they are altogether 

 missing. No two of the specimens are exactly alike in colour 

 and pattern. In the tM'o adults and in one young one (with- 

 out vomerine teeth) the concealed sui'faces for the most part 

 have the usual carmine suffusion. The young one with vomerine 

 teeth has the chest and throat dark-spotted in an unusual manner- 

 and is entirely without the carmine suffusion, yet it is not a 

 smaller specimen than the other which has it. One adult {^) has 

 the throat dusk3^ One adult and one young one have a light 

 transverse line with a pinkish tinge on the back of the thighs, 

 and a fine light vertebral line ending at the vent. No perfectly 

 satisfactory account of this interesting species can be given without 

 a good series of specimens. 



4. Crinia signifera, Gir. — Hah. : [Abrolhos, and West Aus- 

 tralia]; Mt. Barker, Donny brook ( = Preston), Bunbury, Newcastle, 

 Perth, and Jarrahdale (Mr. A. M. Lea; twenty-seven specimens). 

 Not less variable than, and with analogous variations to, the 

 eastern form, including a smooth-backed variety, which seems 

 liitherto to have escaped record. 



