684 AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA. 



less than three species of Chiroleptes, and by the presence of five 

 other species which also extend to Eastern or Central Australia. 

 In the fauna of the Northern Territory as known to us, there 

 is only a single endemic species {C. dahlii); but the increase in the 

 number of species of Hyla is very noticeable. As a whole the 

 fauna is allied on the one hand to that of South-western Australia; 

 and on the other, more closely perhaps to that of Queensland and 

 of New South Wales. As far as present knowledge goes Port 

 Essington appears to be the eastern limit of Crinia georgiana, 

 Heleioporns a'bopunctatus, and Hyla adelaidensis, and the western 

 limit of Hyla fregcin<ti, //. nasuta, //. ajfinis, and Ilylella bicolor. 

 But these and cognate matters can be more satisfactorily discussed 

 when the Batrachia of Queensland come under review. 



