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soon more or less discharged in spirit : throat dark browa or 

 blackish, sometimes with a few light specks ; belly and thiglis 

 with light spots on a dark brown or blackish ground. Male with 

 a subgular vocal sac. 



Five specimens : two (9) 30 mm. from snout to vent; one [9 

 juv. C?)] 20 mm. ; two (^) 24-26 mm. 



Hah. — Near the head of Jervis Bay. 



In his Synopsis of the species of Crinia (B. M. Catalogue, 

 p. 264) Mr. Boulenger makes two groups : those with and those 

 without the lower surfaces granulate. The new species belongs 

 to the first of these which includes C. georgiana, Bibr., and C. 

 signifera, Crir., but it has relatively less extent of granulate 

 surface than either of them. From the former C. haswelU is 

 at once distinguishable by the dark throat and chest, and the 

 maculate belly ; from the latter by the different coloration, and 

 the presence of vomerine teeth. 



In September last at the invitation of Professor Haswell I had 

 the pleasure of joining a small dredging and collecting party 

 organised by him to visit Jervis Bay. On that occasion two 

 specimens of the new Crinia were obtained. A month later in 

 company with Mr. Hill I made a second brief visit, but a good 

 deal of searching resulted in only three additional specimens. 



I avail myself of this opportunity of pointing out that the first 

 sentence of my description of C. froggatti [P.L.S.N.S. W. (2), vi. 

 (1891), p. 275] should be amended so as to read — Vomerine teeth 

 in two small groups behind the choanse, rarely absent. On a 

 re-examination of eleven specimens still in my possession, I find 

 that nine have vomerine teeth ; but that in two the vomerine 

 teeth are absent or imperceptible. 



