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from the Tablelands, and Mr. J. D. Cox and Mr. A. G. Hamilton, 

 who know the Mudgee District well, never met with either of 

 them, and (3) a few stragglers, sometimes from the east, in collec 

 tions from the Tablelands, as Limnodynastes peronii (one specimen) 

 in the collection from Guutawang, close to the western slope of 

 the Dividing Range, and Ilyla etvingii var. in the collections from 

 Yass and Lucknovv ; sometimes, however, apparently from the 

 north, as Limnodynastes ornatus at Guntawang, Hyla rubella at 

 Dandaloo and Bearbong, and perhaps H. latopalmata, though this 

 may be a widely distributed notthern inland species at about its 

 southern limit. In any case, the distribution of some of our 

 species cannot be satisfactorily dealt with until more is known of 

 the distribution of Queensland species. 



That the Dividing Range does not separate two move widely 

 divergent faunas than, as far as present knowledge goes, have 

 been met with, is not surprising when the faunas of the east and 

 west coasts are contrasted, for it then appears that of fourteen 

 species recorded in the B.M. Catalogue from W. Australia, seven, 

 or 50 per cent., are members of our coastal fauna, and eight 

 (iiichiding Helioporus albo-punctatus, recorded from the Murray) 

 of our inland fauna. And it may be said generally of any and 

 every colony, that its batrachiau fauna consists of an admixture 

 of more or less cosmopolitan forms and of a small number of others 

 characteristic of the region. 



Hyla ewingii, Dum. & Bibr., was described in the Erpetologie 

 Generale (T. viii. p. 597, published in 1841), the habitat being 

 Tasmania; the description adds, " les parties superieures offrent 

 un gris verdatre." It is figured in Voy. au Pole Sud, Batrc. 

 pi. I. fig. 3, of which Dr. Giinther in the first edition of the B.M. 

 Catalogue of Amphibia says, "figure not good." The localities 

 given in the second edition of the same work are Tasmania, 

 Hobart, Melbourne, and Australia, var. A {H. calliscelis) being 

 recorded from King George's Sound. Dr. Giinther (Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (3), XX. (1867), p. 57) also records H. ewingii from 

 N. E. Australia. 



