BY J. J FLETCHER. 15 



To Mr. W. W. Froggatt I am vpry much indebted for thirty-one 

 specimens of the typical form of H. etvingii from the neighbour- 

 hood of Ballarat, Victoria. I do not know this frog from any 

 locality in N.S.W., though I have one specimen of a Hyla obtained 

 by me under the bark of a tree in a gully on the Blue Mts., which 

 I am inclined to refer to this species : it is larger (52 mm. from 

 snout to vent) than any specimen of H. kreffti or II. etvingii I 

 have seen, it has the fingers insufficiently webbed to be referred 

 to the former, and is toq long in the legs, the tibio-tarsal joint of 

 the adpressed limb reaching beyond the level of the tip of the 

 snout, to quite satisfactorily be placed in IT. ewinyii, with which 

 otherwise it has most in common ; if it may correctly be regarded 

 as a very large and unusually long-legged individual of the typical 

 form of H. ewingii, then it is the only specimen from N.S.W. 

 known to me ; while if it should not strictly be referable to this 

 species, then, as far as my experience goes, H. etvingii is repre- 

 sented in N.S.W. only by var, calliscelis. 



H. etvingii var. calliscelis from King George's Sound differs from 

 the typical form " in having the hinder side of thighs with large 

 pui'plish -black spots on yellowish ground ; a purplish-black spot 

 in the groin " (B.M. Cat. 2nd ed. p. 407). In specimens from the 

 County of Cumberland and from the three adjoining counties, the 

 presence of spots seems quite constant either in the groin or on 

 the flanks, frequently they are absent on the hinder surface of the 

 thighs : the concealed surfaces of the legs in living specimens and 

 in such as have not been long in spirits, are of a bright orange ; 

 while the dark inguinal spots in the living animal appear on a 

 background tinged with light yellow. Some of Mr. Froggatt's 

 specimens from Lucknow are much more spotted and blotched 

 even than Sydney examples, in six of them "the large well-defined 

 dark spot commencing between the eyes and covering the middle 

 of the back " of the descriptions being not merely a darker shade 

 of the groundcolour "speckled all over with blackish," but partially 

 edged or to some extent invaded by a dark tint like that of the 

 ordinary inguinal spot* : none of them have spots on the hinder 

 surface of the thighs, and some of them are not more blotched 

 than Sydney specimens. 



