BY J. J. FLETCHER. 525 



Cryptotis hrevis Hyla dentata 

 Pseudoj)hryne coriacea aicrea 



Hyla chloris, Blgr. nasuta 



Hylella hicolor 



Of the thirteen species represented in Mr. Helms' collections 

 from the Richmond River, six are to be found in Mr. Lea's 

 collections. The Northern River Districts may thus be credited 

 with twenty species, of which I have noted eighteen, two (Chiro- 

 leptes sp* and Ilyperolia marmorata) having not yet come under 

 my notice. Ten of them are recorded in the B. M. Catalogue (2nd 

 ed.) from the Clarence, and twelve (including H. verreauxi and 

 Litoria marmorata^ A.D., a species omitted from his latest list) by 

 Mr. Krefft, also from the Clarence. 



Fhanerotis is at present known only from one locality on the 

 Richmond River. Cryptotis is one of the commonest species, if 

 one may judge from the numerous specimens usually present in 

 collections. To the south I have found it sparingly just outside 

 the limits of the County of Cumberland, on the eastern portion 

 of the Blue Mts., at Grose Vale, and near Springwood, but not 

 further west ; thence it extends northwards to Queensland, as far 

 at any rate as Pimpana, and Ipswich (Krefft), and westward to 

 the Tableland at Bald Nob. The localities given in the B. M. 

 Catalogue for specimens presented by Mr. Krefft, are Clarence 

 River and Macquarie River. The latter is evidently a lapsus 

 calami for Port Macquarie on the Hastings River, for not only is 

 Gry^ytotis a coastal species but Mr. Krefft expressly says of its 

 habitats, " Clarence, Richmond and Hastings Rivers and Queens- 

 land (neighbourhood of Ipswich)." 



H. nasuta would appear to have been confounded with H. 

 freycineti (perhaps also with H. latopalmata) by Mr. Krefft, who 

 reported it as a Sydney frog. It is a Queensland species which, 

 as far as present knowledge goes, reaches its southern limit about 

 the Clarence. 



* G. australis according to Mr. Krefft and Dr. Giinther ; C. alhopunctatUH 

 (?) according to the B. M. Catalogue (2nd edition). 



