[Piioc. EoY. Soc. Victoria, 20 (N.S.), Pt. IT., 1907.] 



Art. XV. — The Anatomy of Some Australian 

 Amp/dhia. 



Part I. 



A.- — The Openings of the Nephrostomies from the Coelom. 



B. — The Connection of the Vasa efferentia with the 



Kidney. 



By GEORGINA SWEET, D.8c. (Melb. Univ.). 



(With Plates XX., XXI.). 



[Read 12th December, 1907]. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The research, of which the following is ai record, was sug- 

 gested in the first instance by the conspicuous character of the 

 Nephrostomes in the common "green" frog of Victoria., Hyla 

 aurea, especially in connection with Professor Sedgwick's state- 

 ment, so recently as 1905, of his doubt of the correctness of the 

 descriptions of previoui? workers on the European and American 

 genus, Rana. So far as 1 have been able to find, Rana, Bufo, 

 Diacoglossus, Bonxbinaitor and Alytes are the only genera of the 

 Anura which have received any attention from workers in 

 reference to the points herein discussed. The remainder of the 

 Bufonidae, the Hylidae and the Cy>-tignathidae, have been un- 

 touched heretofore. These three families are well represented 

 in Australia, especially the Cystignathidae. I ha;ve therefore 

 endeavoured to till the gap by this work on the following eight 

 forms : — - 



HvLiUif;. 

 Hyla aurea. H. ksueurii 



BUFONIDiE. 



Notaden hennetti. Pseiidophryne ausiraiis. 



