BY CHARLES W. DE VIS, M.A. G7 



the disks ; disks about two-thirds of tympanum. Toes entirely 

 webbed, with small disks. On protraction of the hind foot, the 

 ankle reaches between the eye and the nostril. No distinct tarsal 

 fold. A faint fold over the wrist. 

 Measurements : — 



Total length . 20 lines Osseous interorbit. .. 3 lines 



Length of head 1\ „ Hind limb to ankle... 18J „ 



Breadth G£ „ Foot 9 „ 



Snout 4 ,, Fore limb, entire 10.', ,, 



Orbit 3 „ 



Colour variable, lead grey, olive or reddish brown, uniform or 

 mottled with darker. In one example, a faint trace of a dark line 

 on each side the back, anjd a fine dark line from the nostril to the 

 eye, curving down to the upper lip. In all the axil is black ; the 

 groins have large black spots which may run together into a line 

 between the groin and the axil. On the foreside of the thigh a 

 long irregular black stripe breaking up into spots distad. Pos- 

 teriorly, a similar black line enclosing more or less completely one 

 or two large yellow spots Lower surface of thigh purplish-red. 

 Generally a black crescentic band across the wrist. 



Four specimens collected at Mackay by Mr. Ling Roth. 



Occasional Notes on Plants Indigenous in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of sydney. no. 6. 



By E. H AVI LAND. 



This paper is the result of observations and notes that I have made, 

 from time to time during the past six months, on some species of 

 the genus Darwinia. That most common in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of Sydney is D. fascicularis. I have, however, found 

 one or two plants of D. taxifolia. The two species closely resemble 

 each other ; the leaves of D. taxifolia being a little more fiatt 

 than in D. fascicularis ; and the flowers in each head fewer. Its 



