On a VAKANUS and a FROd fiom HriiNKTT lilVKR, 



QUEENSLAND, and a REVISION oC tlio VARIATIONS in 



LIMXODYXASTl'JS Dnh'SJLIS, Gray. 



Bv Dkxk B. Fi!Y, .hinior Assistant. 



(Plates i-iii, and Fi<?s. 7-18.) 



Tlie Triastees liave recently received from Dr. T. L. Banci-oft 

 several very interesting' consignments of Reptiles and 

 Batrachians, collected at Eidsvold on the Burnett River, 

 Queensland. Amongst those deserving special attention are 

 the two species here mentioned, a rare frog, /////" liitdjKihiinfii, 

 Giinther, and a new variety of Vnrmntx pinn-tnf un, Clray, which 

 is described as var. nn'eiifdiix. 



The collections also include a large series of a strikingly 

 coloured form of Liiiiiiinhjind^tpx dnrsali.^, Gi'ay, and it has been 

 thought best to deal with them in conjunction with a detailed 

 account of the distribution and variation of this widely distri- 

 buted frog. 



A list of the Reptiles and Batrachians fi'om the Burnett 

 River District has been publislied in Semon's " Zoologische 

 Forschungsreisen in Australiens" ^ by Drs. Bottger and 

 Oudemans. They record forty-two species, twenty-five of 

 which are represented in Dr. Bancroft's collections, together 

 with the following, which up till the present were not recorded 

 from the district. 



Batkauhia. 



L'niniiiihjuii^cx jieraiiii, Dum. and Bibr. 

 ,, f(t>i))i(()n'eiists, Giinther. 



,, ilorsfdin, Gray, var. (himerilii, Peters. 



' Bottycr and Oudemans — Semon's Zool. Forschung. Austr., v., 

 1894, Batrachia, p. lUK, Ophidia, p. 115, Laccrtilia, p. 129. 



