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4th fingers appears to be most pronounced, and then the 3rd 

 disit is more or Ijetter frins^ed on that side than on the other. 

 In two specimens the fingers are not so well fringed nor is the rudi- 

 ment of web so much developed as in the others; they appear to 

 be only examples of the typical form of //. eimnyii with the 

 finders and toes less fringed and webbed than usual. The seven- 

 teen specimens are separable into two groups : one of twelve 

 specimens to which the description of the colour-pattern given in 

 the B.M. Catalogue (2nd ed.) applies very well; and a group of 

 five specimens in which, irrespective of sex, the groin, loins, backs 

 of the thighs, or sides of the body, or some of these, show some 

 dark spots or streaks not provided for in the description. But 

 the members of the second group have not the fingers and toes 

 any less webbed than those of average specimens of the first. 

 Accordingl}' I should call the individuals of the first group typical 

 examples of H. evnngii; some of the others I should call a trivial 

 colour variety, of no great importance by itself; but at least three 

 of them, in which the spots are not merely brown like the ground 

 colour of the back, but blackish or bluish-black, are quite entitled 

 to be called var. callisceliii. One of these last shows a dark streak 

 on each side of the body (interrupted on one side) anteriorly 

 joining the dark streak on the temporal region, and posteriorly 

 bending round to join the dark dorsal band. In some New South 

 Wales specimens a row of spots is seen in a similar position. In 

 the specimen referred to, as in other Tasmanian examples, the 

 region of the dark dorsal band is not merely a good deal speckled 

 with blackish, but it is decidedly edged with it laterally and 

 anteriorly. 



In a series of thirty Victorian specimens from one locality, 

 more uniform in colour than the Tasmanian specimens, the fingers 

 have a noticeable rudiment of web as in most of the Tasmanian 

 examples; twenty are unspotted; five have one or several small 

 dark (ground-colour; spots on a yellow back ground on the backs 

 of the thighs, and one has a few dark spots on one side about the 

 flanks. Of a second series of seven specimens from another 

 locality, three are unspotted and the rest are slightly spotted on 



