BY J. J. FLETCHER, 233 



has been good enough to inform me that during a visit of some 

 eight months' duration to West Australia in the year 1866 when 

 collecting for the Australian Museum he met with this species 

 only once, at King George's Sound after a thunderstorm with 

 heavy rain succeeding an intensely hot day in April, when the 

 frogs appeared in great numbers. Mr. Masters secured as many 

 as he wanted, but he says that without much trouble he could 

 have got a thousand individuals if he had wished. The next day 

 they had disappeared, and he never encountered the frog again. 

 The specimens obtained were brought to Sydney, and were ])0S- 

 sibly included in the "340 specimens referable to 39 Species of 

 Reptiles" mentioned in the Annual Report for 1869 as added to 

 the Australian Museum Collection as the result of Mr. Masters' 

 visit to West Australia. From this source not improbably came 

 the specimens of this species which Mr. Krefl't distributed to his 

 correspondents. 



Philocryphus, n.g. 



Allied to IIeleioj)orus and Chirolei)tes ; differing from the former 

 chiefly by the distinct tympanum ; and from the latter by the 

 vertical pupil, and the first linger not opposite to the others; as in 

 both the diapophyses of the sacral vertebra are slightly dilated. 



P. FLAVOGUTTATUS, n.Sp. 



Habit stout. Tongue subcircular, slightly nicked and free 

 behind. Vomerine teeth in a transverse interi-upted series 

 between the choanse. Head broader than long ; snout rounded, 

 shorter than the orbital diameter ; without canthus rostralis ; 

 nostril obviously nearer the eye than the tip of the snout ; inter- 

 orbital space not quite so broad as the upper eyelid, the latter 

 warty ; tympanum very distinct, about two-thirds the diameter of 

 the eye, usually with a few small warts. Fingers blunt, free ; 

 first finger longer than second ; a tubercle between the first and 

 second, and the second and third fingers as in L. dorsalis : toes 

 short, blunt, with a thick distinct basal webbing ; subarticular 



