16 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OP AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA, 



The beautiful little Hyla brought me alive from Ballarat by 

 Mr. Froggatt, referred to in my last paper (p. 254), has puzzled me 

 not a little : with the general characters of H. ewingii, it presented 

 when alive a broad bright green dorsal band edged by a dark 

 narrow band, and with also a lateral linear dark band, in which 

 respects it differs from the thirty-one (spirit) specimens of ff. 

 ewingii from the same locality ; and makes some approach to the 

 specimens from Lucknow, collected and given to me also by Mr. 

 Froggatt, who likewise brought me one of these specimens alive ; 

 (this specimen, like every other specimen of H. ewingii var. callis- 

 celis which I have ever seen, was entirely devoid of any green 

 tint). I do not know how to speak of it except as another variety 

 of H. ewingii (var. C). 



Limnodynastes tasmaniensis, Gthr., is a widely distributed and 

 variable eastern species rein-esented in my collections, exclusive of 

 Sydney specimen.s, by about 120 specimens, from fourteen inland 

 and several coastal stations. In the original description (B.M. 

 Cat. 1st ed. p. 33) the toes are said to be "slightly webbed at 

 the base, slightly fringed"; in the second edition of the B.M. 

 Catalogue, Mr. Boulenger says, "toes moderate, slightly fringed." 

 The typical form may be described as having usually no crimson 

 or reddish spots on the upper eyelids, though in young specimens 

 these may occasionally be present and more frequently a vertebral 

 red stripe ; three metacarpal tubercles, two metatarsal tubercles, 

 tarso-metatarsal joint of adpressed limb reaching the eye, or 

 between the eye and the nostril ; fingers and toes not pointed, 

 toes slightly fringed, slightly webbed at the base (the basal 

 webl)ing appears to me merely the continuity of the fringe of 

 two contiguous toes, and when the fringe is very slight the 

 webbing is correspondingly slight, and the toes may be said to 

 be almost free) ; throat of male dusky, tinged with yellow, 

 concealed surfaces of both sexes tinged with yellow, especially 

 in the breeding season, in some of my collections, as from 

 Wentworth, Urana (togetlier with the typical form), Mudgee 

 (together with the typical form, and L. Jletcheri), and Waroo, 



