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lower portion of the back of the thighs ; concealed and lower 

 surfaces of the legs much marbled or spotted with black. Usually 

 there are indications of a dark streak on each side of the liead, 

 commencing on the snout, most conspicuous im'mediately behind 

 the eye. Light or whitish spots — one or several — sometimes 

 occur in a casual manner on the upper surface of the l^ody or 

 limbs. 



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7. PSEUDOPHRYNB BIBRONII, Gthr.; ca)'. SEMIMARMORATA, Lucas. 



— Hah.: Ulverstone (MissLodder); Launceston (Mr. A. Simson). 

 Three specimens, intermediate in character between ordinary 

 examples of P. hibronii and the extreme form of the Victorian 

 variety which Mr. Lucas has described as P. sem/'marmorafa. The 

 three Tasmanian specimens are very like some Victorian examples 

 I have seen, portion of a number kindly given to me by Mr. Lucas, 

 and have the throat, or all but a little patch near the symphysis, 

 marbled like the ventral surface. From the presence of these and 

 other intermediate forms I am constrained to regard P. semimanno- 

 rata as not entitled to more than varietal rank. I have not seen 

 any specimens partially marbled on the lower surface except from 

 Victoria and Tasmania; and it was probably to specimens like 

 mine that Mr. Krefft's remark, already quoted, applied. 



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8. Hyla peronii, D. el: B. — The only specimen known from 

 Tasmania is one pi'esented to the British Museum Collection many 

 years ago by Sir A. Smith. 



9. H. EwiNGii, D. ife B.^-IInb. : Ulverstone (Miss Lodder) ; 

 Launceston (Mr. A. Simson \ This is a very interesting species, 

 with several well-established varieties. The older naturalists 

 were not in a position to appreciate the real state of the case, for 

 their observations were based on the examination of single 

 specimens, or of too scanty series from only a portion of the area 

 over which the species is now known to range. Under such 

 circumstances it is hardly surprising that probably no less than 



