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CONTRIBUTIONS TO A MORE EXACT KNOWLEDGE 



OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF 



AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA. No. I. 



By J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. 



On turning to the British Museum " Catalogue of Batrachia 

 Salientia" (Second Edition by G. A. Boulenger, 1882) together 

 with the " First and Second Reports on Additions to the B. M. 

 Collection" (P.Z.S. 1886, p. 411; 1890, p. 323), it will be found 

 that about fifty-tvvo species are distributed among the different 

 colonies approximately as follows — allowance being made for certain 

 additional species, as noted below, of which in the B. M. Collection 

 there do not happen to be specimens from every colony in which 

 they are known to occur : — * 



Queensland 31 + 11 — 32 



New South Wales 30 + 41 = 34 



Victoria 7 + 2§= 9 



South Australia 211 



West Australia 14 



Tasmania 8 



* Some general observations on geographical distribution will be found in 

 two papers by the late G. Krefft in Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 

 18(J5, p. 16, and Industr. Prog. N.S. W., 1871, p. 741, both, however, now 

 somewhat out of date. 



t Mixophyes fasciolatus. 



X Lhnnodynaste^ dorsalis, Hyla aurea, H. rubella, Phanerotis (antea, 

 p. 593) ; excluding Crinia georglana as doubtful for reasons previously 

 recorded. 



§ Limn,odynastes dorsalis (vide McCoy's Prodromus, Dec. V. pi. 42, fig. 2) 

 and L. peronii of which I sent a specimen from Warragul to the British 

 Museum, along with the type of Crinia victoriana, Blgr. (both collected by 

 Mr. R. T. Baker). 



^ From the Abstx-act in Archiv filr Xaturgesch. Jahrg. xxx., Bd. ii., 

 p. 208, it appears that Peters ( Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 228) described or 

 recorded six species [including Helioporus ( N eohatrachus ) j>zc^ its] from S. 

 Australia ; but I am unable to refer to this paper. 



