274 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA. 



(b) From Ballarat, Victoria (collected by Mr. W. W. Froggatt). 



Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Crinia froggatti, Fl. 

 Crinia signifera Pseudophryne bibronii 



Hyla ewingii 



This collection comprised sixty-two specimens, of which half 

 were tree-frogs which I take to be the typical form of Hyla 

 ewingii, that is to say, the form which is entirely devoid of large 

 dark spots on the flanks, groin, or hinder sides of the thighs, a 

 species recorded from Melbourne in the B. M. Catalogue. As the 

 statements made by different authors as to the characters and 

 distribution of H. ewingii disagree in several not unimportant 

 points, I propose to offer some remarks on this subject on a future 

 occasion. I may here remark that Mr. Froggatt brought me one 

 Hyla alive because of its different appearance compared with the 

 others. It is a beautiful little frog, light silvery bronze above, 

 reminding one something of H. dentata, but with a bright green 

 broad band down the back (and specks of green elsewhere), a not 

 very well denned dark band commencing at about the level of the 

 shoulder edging the green on each side, and another similar lateral 

 band on the flanks soon disappearing. Whether this is H. ewingii 

 or a variety of it, or whatever else it may be, I leave for further 

 consideration. 



