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pointed, I have two specimens of the same batch as the two 

 type specimens of the latter sent to Mr. Boulenger ; these have 

 the fingers and toes pointed as Mr. Boulenger describes, but I 

 cannot help thinking that there is something abnormal about 

 them — possibly they may, when collected, have been put into too 

 strong spirit, — and that they are of the same species as the speci- 

 mens without pointed fingers and toes, and that both are simply 

 a variety of L. tasmaniensis. 



Mixophyes fasciolatus, Gthr., the type speciuiens of which 

 came from the Clarence River (two specimens appearing to be in 

 the Collection at the time the second edition of the Catalogue was 

 published), is said to have the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching to 

 the tip of the snout, and the " toes two-thirds webbed, so that the 

 three outer phalanges of the fourth toe remain free." I have 

 before me a fine series of seven large specimens, of which five 

 were obtained for me by Mr. Helms on the Richmond Rivei', and 

 two others subsequently a little further to the north on the Tweed : 

 in all these the tibio-tarsal articulation of the ad pressed limb 

 reaches well beyond the level of the snout (say from ;j to 1 inch), 

 while as to the webbing, several may be said to agree with the 

 description, others have a little more webbing, it is thicker, and 

 intensely pigmented, the maximum being reached in a very tine 

 specimen from the Tweed : the difference in size between the 

 type, of which measurements are given by Dr. GUnther, and this 

 specimen is very well indicated by the following : in Dr. Giinther's 

 specimen length of body (from snout to vent) 33 lines, length of 

 hind limb 54 lines : in my specimen the corresponding measure- 

 ments are 3^ inches, and 8 inches (to the tip of the 

 fourth toe along the straightened leg) : now in this specimen 

 every toe, even the fourth, is webbed to almost the very tip on at 

 least one side (of the toe), but the toes cannot be said to be fully 

 webbed, because toes 2-4 are not equally webbed on both sides 

 (of the toe). There is in the Macleay Museum from the Richmond 

 River a still larger and finer example than mine, — the largest 

 Australian frog I have yet seen — which is more or less similar 



