232 A NEW CYSTIGNATHOID FROG FROM N.S.W., 



of New South Wales" published about the middle of 1871, wheieas 

 Keferstein's is to be found in Archiv fiir Naturgesch. xxxiii. Jalirg. 

 1 Bd., on the title-page of which the year of publication is given as 

 1868. Whether some of the material was supplied without locali- 

 ties being given, and, as has so often been the case with other 

 Australian animals, the writer having received it from Sydney 

 thereupon concluded that that was the correct habitat and so 

 recorded it ; or whether Mr. Krefft was sometimes careless in 

 labelling the specimens sent to his correspondents, it is needless 

 to inquire. The fact remains that several of the localities given 

 by Keferstein are unquestionably wrong. For example, besides 

 H. alhoininctatus he records from Sydney Limnodijnasfes salminii^ 

 L. ornatus (both as Platy plectrum marmoratum and F. ornatum), 

 and Hyla nasuta (as well as H. freycineti with which Mr. KreiFt 

 would appear to have confounded it in recording H. nasuta as a 

 Sydney species) ; whereas these species, as far as I am aware, are 

 not to be found within the County of Cumberland nor yet even 

 in the adjacent counties. Crinia georgiana, D. and B., for a 

 purchased specimen recorded as from Sydney in the B, M. Cata- 

 logue"^ ; and Hyla gracilenta, Gthr., recorded from Sydney in Dr. 

 Boettger's " Katalog der Batrachier-Sammlung im Museum der 

 Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt 

 a. M." (1892), have in my opinion no better claim for recognition as 

 Sydney frogs. In fact it is quite evident that if the Batracliian 

 fauna of Sydney really included all the species with which at 

 different times by different authors it has been credited, it would 

 comprise a very considerable proportion of all the species recorded 

 from Australia. And H. albojmnctatus and Crinia georgiana as 

 I think should therefore be eliminated from the list of New South 

 Wales frogs. 



Little is known of the habits of //. alhopunctatus. Like the 

 Sydney frog described below it is evidently a burro wer of \evy 

 retiring habits, for Mr. Masters, Curator of the Macleay Museum, 



" Still earlier [for the same specimen] by Dr. Giinther [Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. I.e. p. 53], a locality for this species never adopted by Mr. Krefi't. 



