20 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Dr. Boulenger- gives the range of 1". iiiiiicf((fiis as North and 

 West Australia and records it from Perth, Western Australia, 

 North-west Australia, Port Essington, and Torres Strait. The 

 type came from Shark Bay, Western Australia. 



J.nc.s'. — In the Australian Museum are one adult and two 

 half grown specimens from Eidsvold, Upper Burnett River, 

 Queensland. They were collected by Dr. Bancroft and 

 presented to the Trustees through Drs. J. Burton Cleland and 

 T. Harvey Johnston of the Health Department of Sydney. 



Ti/iie. — In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Hyla latopalmata, aihitlicr. 

 (Plate i, and figs. 11 and 12.) 



Lifnn'n Ii(tiij>i(I„iiitii, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xx., 1867, 



p. 5;"3. 

 Iljllii Jiitiijiiil iiniiii, Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Batr., 2nd. ed., 



1882, p. 414, pi. xxvi., fig. 4. 

 11 ijlit hit(qiitl iiiiiiii, Fletcher, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



xxii., 1898, pp. 681 and 2. 



Habit very slendei'. Head a.s broad as or slightly broader 

 than long, the measurement taken at a line di-awn between the 

 hinder margins of the tympana. Tongue sub-circular, slightly 

 nicked and free behind. Vomerine teeth in two oval, oblique 

 gi'oups, their front edges on a level with a line drawn between 

 the anterior mai-gins of the choanae. Snout pointed, ver}' 

 prominent, once and one half to twice as long as the orbital 

 diameter ; nostril nearer the tip of the snout than the eye. 

 Inter-orbital space as broad as or slightly biondor than the 

 nj)per eye-lid. Canthus rostralis distinct, romidcd ; loreal 

 regicm concave, with a groove fi'om the nostril to l)elow the 

 eye. Tympanum very distinct, with a distinct rim, foui-Htths 

 the diameter of the eye. Fingers free or fringi'd, the fringe 

 most prominent between the bases of the fingers ; fiist finger 

 opposed, slightly longer than the second ; no distinct iMidimoiit 

 of pollex. Discs veiy small ; sub-articular tubei'cles small 

 and very ])i()iiiim'nt. Toes fringed and with the exception of 

 the fourth, webbed almost to the di.scs. A small inner and a 



'-' Boulcnt^er— I^rit. Mus. Cat. Lizmds, 2nd cd., ii., 1S85, p. 322. 



