Zoology.-] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. \_Reptiles. 



mens in spirit taking this hue. It has not been figured of its 

 natural colors before. 



Explanation of Figuhes. 



Plate 42. — Fig. 1, side Tiew, one-fourth larger than nature. Fig. la, back view of ditto. 

 Fig. 16, underside of ditto. Fig. \c, profile of ditto. Fig. U/, mouth, showing openings of the 

 two nostril-s and two Eustacliian tubes, and the transverse band of palatine teeth, with the heart- 

 shaped tongue with an almost imperceptible notch on hinder edge, enlarged. Fig. le, under- 

 side of hind foot, enlarged. Fig. If, underside of anterior foot, enlarged. 



Plate 42, Fig. 2. 



LYMNODYNASTES DORSALIS (Gray). 



The Common Sand-Frog. 



Description. — Heitd rather larg-e, broad, semi-elliptical ; snout thick, only 

 moderately elong-ate, bluntly rounded ; eyes moderately laro;e ; a larg-e, oval, .swollen 

 gland on the calf of each leo- ; tong'ue rounded, very slightly notched behind ; 

 straight transverse band of palatine teeth, interrupted in the middle; metacarpus 

 with a large, soft, oval, white tubercle on inner edge, and a much smaller, rounded 

 one in the middle of underside ; underside of metatarsus with onlj' one larg'e, oval, 

 soft, white tubercle on inner edg-e, and none in the mi(klle; skin with numerous 

 very small tubercles. Color : above dull yellowish-gTey, with large very irregular 

 longitudinal patches, with jagged edges, of dark-grey or blackish ; a more or less 

 distinct, narrow, straight, light stripe along middle of back frum tip of snout to 

 posterior end (sometimes nearly obliterated by the encroaching irregularities of the 

 dark blotches); legs and sides irregularly mottled with much smaller, vermicular, 

 dark markings ; underside of legs and belly marbled with small, close, vermicular 

 markings of liver-color or chocolate on whitish ground ; throat dull, yellow-ochre 

 with or without the markings of the belly ; a dark band from tip of snout to eye, 

 and a dark and broader one with a yellow under-edge from e3-e to shoulder. Iris 

 golden bronze ; nostrils midway between eye and ti]) of snout. 



Reference. = Cystignofhus dursaJis (Gray) in Eyre's Central Australia, 1. 1, f. 2 ; 

 Giinth. Cat. B. M. Batrac. Sal, p. 33. 



This curious Frog is easily distinguished from the L. Tasjnaniensis 

 by the large, swollen, oval gland on the calf of each leg, as well as 

 by the darker coloring of the back and the dark chocolate marbling 

 of the undei-side, the broader and thicker head, and the smaller 

 number of tubercles on the underside of the ankle and wi'ist joints ; 



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