BY J. J. FLETCHER. 375 



The tadpoles are very large — the largest occurring in the neigh- 

 bourhood. I have seen them in ponds at least as late as June and 

 as early as September. Several which I have measured are from 

 2J to nearly 3 inches long, the tail about half as long again as the 

 body. At first they are very dark in colour, almost blackish, but 

 they become lighter as they increase in size, the ground colour 

 becoming brown or olive-brown much spotted with darker spots ; 

 they have a single spiraculum on the left side of the body. 

 Two larval frogs with the tail all but absorbed are about 21 mm. 

 from snout to vent. Neither the tadpoles nor the frogs seem to 

 show any of the carmine spots or stripes so commonly present at 

 some stage in other species of the genus.* 



5. Crinia georgiana, Bibr., sp. 



I have never met with this species which ought to be easily 

 recognisable by its having the " loins, front and hinder side of 

 thighs and inner side of tibia6 carmine." Mr. Krefft mentions it 

 only in the latest of the four papers referred to, and then as from 

 King George's Sound, not from Sydney. The latter is given by 

 Dr. Giinther (Ann. Mag. JV. H. (3) xx, p. 53) and in the British 

 Museum Catalogue. 



6. Crinia signifera, Gir. sp. 



One of our commonest species. At Burrawang late in June after 

 three days' incessant rain during which as many inches fell, 

 hundreds of these tiny frogs in the swamps and creeks began to 

 croak. One much distended female had the oviducts crammed 

 with ova. A few mornings after I found at least fifty deposits 

 of similar ova attached to blades of grass and reeds in a small 

 pond though except on cloudy nights there were sharp frosts and 

 the surface of the pond was frozen over in the mornings. A 

 fortnight later at Capertee (2700 feet) in equally cold weather 



* In the young frogs of L. tasmaniensis and L. peronii as mentioned above ; 

 in the adults, probably also in the young, of L. salminii and L. fietcheri^ 

 Big. ; and in the young frogs, and, as I have also reason to think, in the 

 advanced tadpoles of L. ornatus. 



