234 A NEW CYSTIGNATIIOID FROG FROM N.S.W., 



tubercles present, those of the fingers larger than those of the 

 toes ; inner metatarsal tubercle only present, large, compressed, 

 blunt. Limbs short, stout ; the tibio-tarsal articulation of the 

 adpressed hind limb reaching to about the shoulder. Skin very 

 glandular warty above; on the sides the warts more individualised, 

 less confluent, a number of them lighter coloured, yellow during 

 life ; a short fairly defined light-coloured glandular ridge, yellow 

 in life, above the angle of the mouth below the tympanum : 

 beneath smooth, but with a few small scattered pale warts about 

 the chin and throat. Upper surfaces purplish-grey or bluish- 

 black, in spirit tending to become olive-brown, the sides of the 

 body and the region about the vent much spotted with yellow, 

 the light tint of contiguous papillse sometimes confluent ; belly 

 white, throat dusky. Male without vocal sac, with the skin more 

 shagreened, many of the papillae on the sides and thioat having a 

 black horny capping, and in the breeding season with a longitu- 

 dinal row of from seven to ten or fewer acute black horny conical 

 tubercles on the upper surface of the first, second, and third 

 fingers, of which the proximal one on the first finger is very large. 



Three adults 79-85 mm. from snout to vent ; one (juv.) 38 mm. ; 

 t\\o of the adults are preserved in a more or less completely 

 distended condition, measuring 61 and 65 mm. respectively across 

 the loins. 



ffab. County of Cook— Mt. Victoria, Blue Mts. (3fr. C. 

 Hamilton): County of Cumberland — Thornleigh (Mr, W. W, 

 Froggatt), Dural near Parramatta (Mr. L. S. WoolrychJ, near 

 Manly (J.J.F.J. 



Apart from the distinct tympanum, and the more glandular 

 warty upper surface, this species appears to differ from Heleio- 

 porus albopunctatus, Gr., in respect of the glandular ridge below 

 the tympanum, in the nostril being nearer the eye than to the 

 tip of the snout, in the secondary sexual characters of the male, 

 and apparently by the absence of parotoids of which I can find 

 no trace. Cope* figures the sternum of II. alboj^unctatus as 



* Batrachia of North America, pi. lxx. fig. 18. 



