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commonest frogs on the coast and on the table-lands, and, as far as 

 my experience goes, is strictly terrestrial in its hal)its. The most 

 southerly record for it known to me is the Mt. Kosciusko Plateau, 

 whence I have a single specimen which is as strikingly blotched 

 and streaked as some of those from Lucknow; and yet these much- 

 spotted specimens are not altogether devoid of a trace of web on 

 the fingers. It luay be noted, however, that both the localities 

 mentioned are west of the Dividing Range. 



On a previous occasion I recorded a Victorian specimen which 

 in life had a good deal of bright green about the upper surface. 

 If other specimens like it can be found, this might very well be 

 treated as another colour-variety. The green soon faded in spirit, 

 and the specimen now looks very like some of the ordinary light 

 coloured specimens. New South Wales specimens var}^ from light 

 silvery grey to dark brown, the back and front of the thighs 

 3'ellow in the breeding season; Ijut I ha^•e ne^er seen a living 

 specimen with any indication whatever of a green tint on any 

 part of the body. 



The list of Australian frogs is still undesirably cumbered with 

 species known only from single specimens, which need rediscovering 

 or the correct determination of their alliances. Mr. Boulenger has 

 endeavoured to deal with some of them; but there is still a con- 

 siderable balance, of which doubtless some will be rediscovered 

 in time, but others, I cannot help thinking, have been founded 

 only on variable, imperfectly preserved, or abnormal individuals. 



H. calliscelis, Peters, and //. krefftii being provided for, some 

 consideration may be devoted to the claims of //. verreauxii, A. 

 Dum., and II . imrvidens, Peters. The first of these was described 

 from New Holland by A. Dumeril in 1853, in the belief that 

 while it was allied to //. etvingii, and agreed with it in having 

 the fingers free, it was yet specifically different by its smooth 

 back, and its system of colouration. The first of these characters 

 is of no importance. As to the second, if H. verreauxii is entitled 

 to any consideration at all, it is at the most only as a colour- 

 variety of //. ewingii in which there is absent " une bande noire 

 etendue de la narine a I'epaule, et bordee, en dessous, par une 



