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more extensivel}' marbled with an intenser black, the rosy or 

 carmine suffusion brighter (even in specimens which have been in 

 spirit for six years); with more pronounced indications of a broad, 

 dark dorsal band commencing between the eyes, and of the dark 

 stripe on each side of the head. As in the Tasmanian examples, 

 vomei'ine teeth are but seldom missing. 



Of Crinia victoriana, Blgr., (also originally described from a 

 single specimen) I have now a good series, for which I am indebted 

 to the kindness of ^Ir. Hugh Copeland, Junr., late of Warragul. 

 This is another smooth-bellied form, without fringed toes, with 

 indistinct subarticular and metatarsal tubercles, and with vomerine 

 teeth. It is readily distinguishable to the eye, but it is very 

 difficult to foi'mulate any satisfactory distinctive differences other 

 than those of colour and pattern. In details the specimens differ 

 among themselves in both these respects, and yet there is usually 

 no difficulty in distinguishing them from examples of G. Icevis, var. 

 frogijattl. The suffusion on portion of the concealed surfaces is 

 more restricted, and is of a different tint, coppery or coppery-red; 

 and a very characteristic arrangement is some modification of a 

 single subcircular coppery spot with a lighter central portion on 

 each loin; occasionally the back and front of the thighs, or even 

 the ventral surface, may show a wash of it. Some specimens 

 exhibit a fairly complete broad dark (brown or black) dorsal band 

 commencing between the eyes; more often the anterior transverse 

 [the " black transverse band between the eyes " of Mr. 

 Boulenger's description] and the lateral margins are indicated, 

 but with much of the central portion missing, or the whole band 

 is represented only by blotches and streaks, the general effects 

 produced being grey or brown variegated with black. Lower 

 surface dark-spotted on a light ground (sometimes with a bluish 

 tinge) which is itself minutely dark-spotted, sometimes very much 

 so, especially on the throat; sometimes the large dots are wholly 

 wanting or nearly so, particularly on the throat; or sometimes 

 sparsely light-spotted or with patches of copper}-, the flanks often 

 much dotted; " vent in a large triangular [often light-edged] black 

 spot," fi'equently continued on each side as a dark band on the 



