524 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA, 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO A MORE EXACT KNOWLEDGE 



OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF 



AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA. No. iv. 



By J. J. Fletcher. 



To the kindness of Messrs. A. Sidney Olliff, C. T. Musson, J. 

 H. Rose, W. W. Froggatt, R. Helms, and in particular Mr. A. 

 ]\L Lea, I am indebted for the additional material upon which 

 the following notes are based. Mr. Lea's specimens, referable to 

 nineteen species, or more than half the total number of species 

 found in New South Wales, were obtained on the Lower Clarence 

 and the Northern Tableland. Those from the former locality are 

 of interest as being supplementary to an important collection 

 which I have already recorded from the Richmond River. Those 

 from the Tableland are not less important because collections 

 from this part of the colony have hitherto not been obtainable ; 

 and, as previously pointed out, the peculiar distribution of a few 

 species seems in some measure to be due to the proximity of the 

 sources of the eastern and western waters in this region, the 

 coastal portion of which is so favourable to animal life. 



(i.) The coastal division of N.S.W. 



(u) From the Maclean on the Lower Clarence (Mr. A. Sidney 

 Olliflf). 



Hyla ccerulea^ H. ckloris, and Hylella hicolor. 



(v) From the Lower Clarence [Ulmarra to Chatsworth] (Mr. 

 A. Lea). 



Limnodynastes ^^eronii Hyla cc^rulea 



ornatus peronii 



