526 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA, 



H. chloris, Blgr., either ranges to the north as far as Cairns, cr 

 it is very closely allied to //. gracilenta, Peters. In the !Macleay 

 Museum is a series of specimens of a frog which I have been 

 accustomed to regard as B. gracilenta, collected at Cairns by Mr. 

 W. W. Froggatt. On comparing these with my fine series of 

 specimens of the Richmond and Clarence frog, I am disposed to 

 regard them as referable to one and the same species. 



Hylella hicolor is an eleo^ant little frog of which until recently 

 I have been unable to obtain examples ; and then almost simul- 

 taneously they reached me from three different sources. It ha.s a 

 frtirly wide but discontinuous distribution (northwards to Cape 

 York) ; but where it does occur it is reported as common. My 

 first examples were given to me by Mr. Musson, who obtained 

 them near the western limits of the County of Cumberland. 

 Then Mr. OUiff and Mr. Lea gave rae specimens from the Lower 

 Clarence; and it is also contained in an earlier collection of Mr. 

 Lea's from Armidale and Tamworth, in which the specimens from 

 the two localities were not kept separate ; those of Hylello. were 

 probably obtained at Armidale, but the other six species in the 

 collection \_Limnodynastes tasmaniensis, L. salminii, Hypero'ia 

 marmorata, Fseudoiiihryne hihronii, Hyla carulea, R. lesueurii 

 and var. (?j] might very well have come from either locality. 



The County of Cumberland may be credited with twenty-one 

 species, of which I have seen all but H. dijuolops. Of a total of 

 thirty-seven species at present attributaVjle to the colony, thirty- 

 two occur in the Coast Districts. From the numbers given above, 

 which represent those for the two districts best known at some 

 distance apart, it is evident that the thirty-two species are not Ijy 

 any means all uniformly distributed. 



(w) From Jervis Bay. 



Limnodynastes peronii Hyperolia marmorata 



dorsalis Pseudophryne hibronii 



Crinia signifera Hyla aurea 

 haswelli, Fl. ijeronii 



H. dentata 



