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CONTRIBUTIONS TO A MORE EXACT KNOWLEDGE 



OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF 



AUSTRALIAN BATRACHIA. No. II. 



By J. J. Fletcher. 



In this second small contribution I am able to supply some 

 supplementary details of interest, to record several additional 

 collections from localities in New South Wales west of the 

 Dividing Range — as well as two from Victoria ; and to give some 

 interesting facts kindly communicated to me by two of our 

 members, about the habits of several inland species which town 

 residents rarely get the chance of observing in the natural 

 haunts. Though the number of species (eighteen) previously 

 recorded from the inland division of the colony is not increased, 

 the particulars now given offer additional evidence of wide 

 distribution. 



(i.) The Coastal Division of N.S. W. (East of the Dividing Range). 



(a bis). From Dunoon, Richmond River (collected by R. Helms). 



Hyla phyllochroa, Gthr. Hyla gracilenta, Ptrs. 



During a second visit to Dunoon, early in this year, Mr. R. 

 Helms obtained and kindly forwarded to me alive one example of 

 the former, and a number of specimens of the latter, both additions 

 to the fauna of the district, and the second of them to New South 

 Wales as well, the species having been previously recorded only 

 from Queensland (N. E. Australia and Port Bowen by Peters ; 

 Rockhampton, in B. M. Catalogue ; specimens obtained for the 

 Macleay Museum by Mr. Froggatt at Cairns were exhibited at a 

 Meeting of this Society in August, 1886). About the same time 

 Mr. A. Sidney OllifF kindly handed over to me two specimens of 



