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1. Limuodyiiastes dorsalis. 



LimiioJyna:)te3 dorsnlis, (Iraij, 3LSS. 



Cystifirnatluia dorsalis, Gnii/, in Cupt. drey's West Austr. p. 440, and, 



ill Eyre's Juurn. Ejrped. Coitriil Austr. i. A2ip. p. 407. pi. 1. f. 2. 

 ? Cyatignatlms peronii, Dum. ^- liibr. p. 40t). 



On each calf a large paratoid-like gland. Head largo, broad ; snout 

 of moderate length, rounded ; tongue circular, entire behind. Above 

 bro^^^l, with large, dark, more or less confluent spots ; a narrow 

 whiti.sli vertebral Une. 



a. Adult. West Australia. Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 

 6. Half-grown. West Australia. 



c, d. Adult. Port Essington. Presented by Dr. Fleming*. 

 e. Adult. Houtmans Abrolhos. 



2, Limnodynastes tasmaniensis. (Plate II. fig. B.) 



No large gland. Head moderate ; snout produced, depressed, flat ; 

 tongue cordifomi, very slightly nicked behind. Above olive, darker 

 spotted, with a narrow whitish vertebral line. 



a-c. Adult. Tasmania. Presented by R. Gunn, Esq. 



d, Adult. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



e, f. Half-grown. New HoUand. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



Description. — In habit similar to Diseoglossus ; snout rather pro- 

 duced, depressed, flat, rounded in front, canthus rostralis obtu.se ; 

 nostrils in the middle between eyes and end of snout ; eyes mode- 

 rate, rather prominent ; cleft of mouth moderate ; a glandular fold 

 behind the angle of mouth. Tongue cordiform, veiy shghtly nicked 

 behind ; on each side an opening for the single subgular vocal sac in 

 the male. Inner nares and eustachian tubes small, round ; vomerine 

 teeth in a nearly straight, in the middle hardly interrupted line, 

 behind the inner nares. Fingers four ; in the adult female the two 

 inner ones broadly fringed ; carpus vnth. three flat tubercles ; toes 

 five, slightly webbed at the base, slightly fringed ; metatarsus with 

 two small soft tubercles. Skin smooth, some warts hardly conspi- 

 cuous. Sacral vertebra not dilated. Olive, ■«'ith large and snudl 

 dark spots, and a whitish hnc from the muzzle to the amis ; a dark 

 streak along each canthus rostraUs. Beneath uniform wliitisli. 

 Length of an adult female If" ; length of the hinder extremity 2^" ; 

 length of the front extremity 1". 



3. Limnodjmastes omatus. 



Diseoglossus omatus. Gray, ZooL Misc. p. 5. 



Perialia ornata, Gray, in Et/re's Journ. Expcd. Centr. Austr. i. App. 

 p. 407. pi. 2. f. 2. ■ 



* In the stomach of cup of these specimens I found a half-gi'own Heleioporui 

 ullio-guftafus: see p. '3',t. 



