BY J. J. FLETCHER. V 



(I)) From Waroo, Inglewood, about 60 miles west of Stanthorpe 

 (collected by Mr. A. J. Ewen). 



Livmodynastes tasmaniensis Pseudophryne coriacea 



Crinia signifera Hyla lesueurii 



Hyperolia marmorata lato^mlmafa 



Fifty-seven living specimens were kindly forwarded in an 

 ingeniously contrived vivarium by Mr. A. J. Ewen, through the 

 kind raerliation of Mr. R. Etheridge, junr., of the department of 

 Mines. In this collection the burrowers are conspicuously absent ; 

 and there are no peculiar Queensland species ; but it is 

 noticeable how inland, as well as on the coast, in about this 

 latitude, P. coriacea seems to have more or less completely 

 replaced P. hibronii, so common further south (recorded by me 

 from eight inland stations, besides Benalla and Ballarat in the 

 .southern colony) : otherwise, as far as it goes, it is a fairly typical 

 inland collection. 



A somewhat more extended and definite knowledge of the 

 geographical distribution of Australian Batrachians appearing to 

 be desirable, the best way of making a beginning seemed to be 

 to obtain from as many localities as possible, more particularly 

 extra-coastal ones, as complete collections as could be got together, 

 and then to record them. Thanks very largely to a number of 

 friends, to whom I freely acknowledge my indebtedness, a start 

 for IST.S W. has been made. Collections from seven coastal 

 stations (in this case rather districts), and from seventeen inland 

 stations — besides four others from which single specimens or 

 specimens of a single species are recorded, circumstances not 

 allowing of collections being made — have been got together, 

 comprising several hundred individuals, and in some cases form- 

 ing good series. Collections from stations on the South Coast, on 

 the Northern Tablelands, and especially on the Darling, and still 

 further west, are, however, still desiderata ; and I should be very 

 gla.d indeed to receive such, or promises of co-operation in obtaining 

 them. 



