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On some new Batrachians from Queensland. 

 By Charles W. De Vis, M.A. 



LlMNODYNASTES LINEATUS. 



Habit rather slender, but with powerful hind limbs. Tongue 

 oval, with its free hind edge scarcely eruarginate. The line of the 

 vomerine teeth extends somewhat beyond the choanal, and is but 

 slightly interrupted ; each half is dilated in the middle, has its 

 anterior edge convex, and its posterior rather concave. The 

 choanee are small and obliquely elliptical. The head is as broad, 

 or nearly as broad as long. The snout is rounded, longer than the 

 orbit, and as long as or longer than the interorbit. The nostrils 

 are equally distant from the orbit and tip of the snout. The 

 loreal region is concave, the tympanum indistinct. The first 

 finger is shorter than the second ; the second in the female is 

 broadly fringed. There are three metacarpal and one metatarsal 

 tubercles, the latter small and blunt. On protraction of the 

 hind limb the ankle reaches the front edge of the orbit. The skin 

 is entirely smooth. 

 Measurements : — 



Total length 18 lines Osseous interorbit .. 2-3 lines 



Length of head 8 ,, Hind limb 16 ,, 



Breadth of head 7|-8 „ Foot 9 „ 



Snout 3 „ Forelimb 10* „ 



Orbit 2| „ 



The ground colour is olive green to olive brown. A black 

 longitudinal line commencing in a spatulate marking on the 

 interorbit runs on each side of a narrow vertebral line of the 

 ground colour. External to this, a broad black band runs along 

 the side of the back. A third proceeds from the tip of the snout 

 over the canthus rostralis and the eye to the shoulder, or is 

 continued on to the body, where it breaks up into spots. Flanks 

 and limbs on their front and back surfaces mottled with chestnut 

 brown. Lower surface of thighs rufous, chin and throat mottled 

 with brown. A black spot on the upper lip. 



