680 AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA, 



buted to West Australia, then, among Australian Batrachia, it 

 offers jDerhaps the most remarkable case of discontinuous distri- 

 bution. In Eastern Australia its distribution is somewhat 

 restricted, so that it might be called rather a local species. I 

 have taken specimens as far north as Gosford, as far west as 

 Mount Victoria, and as far south as Illawarra, all within a radius 

 of about 70 miles from Sydney, and in intermediate localities; 

 but outside the area mentioned there is no evidence at present of 

 the occurrence of the species in New South Wales, or in any 

 other of the colonies save West Australia (for Mr. Wright's 

 specimen in the B.M. Collection; and for two specimens collected 

 by the Elder Expedition at the Eraser Ranges, but which I cannot 

 help thinking were recorded by mistake for P. guentlieri [possibly 

 without specimens for comparison]). 



12. PsEUDOPHRYNE GUENTHERi, Blgr. — Hah. : [Swan River, 

 and N.W. Australia]; Mt. Barker, Newcastle, Perth (Mr. A. M. 

 Lea ; seventeen specimens) ; King George's Sound (Macleay 

 Museum). The two well-developed metatarsal tul^ercles on each 

 foot are very characteristic, and call to mind those of Myobatra- 

 chus, and inland (N.S.W.) specimens of Hyperolia. They are 

 probably of effective use in burrowing. 



13. Myobatrachus gouldii, Gray. — Hah. : [W. Australia, 

 Houtman's Abrolhos, and Swan River] ; Perth (Mr. A. M. 

 Lea). Five young specimens (about 17 mm. from snout to 

 vent) about the same size, but very much smaller than that 

 figured by Gray. In the B.M. Catalogue (2nd ed.) Myobatrachus 

 is said to have the pupil erect. In my specimens I should call 

 the pupil horizontal. Mr. Lea kindly informs me that he found 

 the specimens at the side of a Termite nest, while rooting about 

 in search of Termite parasities and messmates. He says : " The 

 termitarium looked like a tree-nest which had fallen and become 

 imbedded iri the ground. The outer portions of the nest were 

 disused and rotten; and living in, or close at hand, and apparently 

 subsisting upon, the decaying matter, were numbers of the larva; 

 of a common fly. Several hundred larvae and pupa^ were obtained, 

 and among them at intervals, and at a depth of 2-5 inches from 



