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punctatus and Crinia georgiana, are either rarer than they used 

 to be since resident collectors do not find them, or, what is per- 

 haps more probable, the earlier collectors of frogs used the term 

 Sydney in a similar somewhat elastic sense to that in which the 

 early botanical collectors are known to have used the term Port 

 Jackson. Dr. Keferstein was indebted to Mr. Krefi"t for some of 

 his material ; but it is noteworthy that though Krefi*t's latest list 

 was published about two years later than Keferstein's paper, yet 

 the former does not give Sydney as a locality for L. ornatus ; nor 

 indeed for any of the other species in question, nor for L. salminii. 

 If we except Crinia georgiana, this is not a matter of much 

 importance, as the others undoubtedly occur in New South Wales. 

 But, as far as I can learn, the British Museum specimens of Crinia 

 georgiana, which were acquired by purchase, are the only speci- 

 mens recorded from New South Wales, and in this colony from 

 Sydney only ; in which case, and if the collector did not mix his 

 specimens, it is remarkable that it should not have been again 

 found here. 



Mr. Krefft frequently refers to Hyla verreauxii, a name which 

 does not occur at all in Mr. Boulenger's Catalogue, but which he 

 tells me in a letter was unintentionally omitted, and that it is pro- 

 bably a variety of II. ewingii. From Mr. Krefft's remarks about 

 it I suspect that he refers to the frog now known as H. ewingii 

 var. calliscelis. 



