22 IJECdKDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN' I^H'SEUM. 



Dr. Bancroft has forwarded a fine series of this rare frog, 

 and as his specimens show considerable difFerences from Dr. 

 Boulenger's description of tlie type, J have redescribed the 

 species. 



iy'X>-. — -?-////" I'ifdjiiil iiiKtu has a wide and notewortliv distri- 

 bution. Kreft't says-^ : — "We believe tins to be a well dis- 

 tributed species which occurs at Adelaide, neai' Sydney, and 

 probably in the intermediate district." The above record of 

 Adelaide is the oidy notice of the species south of Svdnev. 

 Since then, however, it has been recorded from the following 

 localities : — Port Denison, Queensland (types) ; Brisbane, 

 Queensland, and Richmond, New South Wales (Boulenger) ; 

 St. Marys, near Sydney, Dandaloo on the Bogan River in 

 Westei'n New South Wales, Warroo in Queensland, King's 

 Sound and Kimberley in North West Australia (Fletcher) ; 

 the Australian Museum collection contains specimens collected 

 by Mr. Robert Helms between Bourke and Wilcannia on the 

 Darling River, Western New South Wales, a large series col- 

 lected by Dr. Bancroft at Eidsvold, Upper BurnettRiver, Queens- 

 land, and five specimens collected by the author at Norton's 

 Basin, Nepean River, New South Wales. Its distiibution is 

 mainly coastal, but it also occurs in Western New South 

 Wales and South Western Queensland. Together with 

 Fhrd-ctopti hrevipes, Peters, 1'. hreriiialniitfiis, Giinther, and /////" 

 rahella. Gray, it goes to show that the watei'slied of Queensland 

 is not such an efficient barrier to the migration of frogs as is 

 the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales. These 

 coastal forms have apparently found their way to tlie head of 

 the Darling River system on the tablelands of Southern 

 Queensland, and, following the permanent water, they have 

 become established on the Western Plains of New South 

 Wales and Southei'u Queensland. 



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In the preparation of the following pages 1 am indebted to 

 Mr. J. J. Fletcher, M.A., for much lielj) and valuable ciiticisni. 

 As explained in his paper,* he has, after examining a large 

 series of Liinmul ijiaixti's iliirtiulis, found cei'tain variations, 

 which, however, he refrains from naming. I have endeavoured, 



• Krcttt. — .\ustr. N'crtcbrata Fossil and Recent, IS71, p. 6'^. 



^ Fletcher — Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxii., lS'.i7, p. (375. 



