374 OVIPOSITION AND HABITS OF CERTAIN BATRACHIANS, 



in deep water and out of reach in a quarry. At Burrawang it is 

 tlie common Limnodynastes of the neighbourhood, and I have 

 found numbers hibernating under logs in July, some of them 

 females distended with ova as if the breeding season were not far 

 off. It is quite common to find the very young frogs with bright 

 red or carmine longitudinal stripes on the back, corresponding 

 with the light stripes of the adult, and also on the arms and legs. 

 A spirit specimen 22 mm. from snout to vent still shows them 

 well. 



2. Limnodynastes salminii, Steind. 



Keferstein gives Sydney as a locality for this species; Boulenger's 

 Catalogue also for one half-grown specimen. I have never been 

 able to find it, nor are there specimens of it from nearer than 

 Bathurst in the Macleay Museum 



3. Limnodynastes tasmaniensis, Gthr. 



One of our commonest frogs, and about the earliest of the 

 larger species to be heard croaking and to be found breeding after 

 hibernation, as it is about the last to leave off before this period. 

 A female taken in coitu on January 30th spawned the following 

 day ; she had a light vertebral line, the male had not. The 

 tadpoles must be very common, but I do not happen to have met 

 with them at a stage of growth in which they were identifiable. 

 As Mr. Krefit observes, the very young frogs often show a dis- 

 tinctly red vertebral line. 



4. Limnodynastes dorsalis, Gr., sp. 



Probably not rare, but it manages to keep out of sight, possibly 

 owing to its penchant for burrowing. I have seen one pair in 

 coitu late in September ; guided by the croak I captured a male 

 in November with well-developed breeding rugosities — a pair on 

 each hand ; in February I found three dead ones (probably stoned 

 by boys) with frothy spawn in a pond at Manly ; and I have seen 

 a male captured in March, also with breeding rugosities. The 

 breeding season is thus possibly as prolonged as in L. tasmaniensis. 



