26 RECORDS OF THE AL'STRALIAX MfSEUM. 



LniNODYXASTES i>ORSALi.s, dnnj, vHr. DrMKKiLii, Peters. 

 (Plate ii., fig's. 1 and la, Plate iii., fif^s. 2 and 2a.) 



.'' ]]'iii/len'n dorsul /'.•<, fJii-ard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., 



vi., 1853, p. 421. 

 Liiiinodijiitidfx (F/iifi/pIecfrdjiJ ilmiirrilii, Peters, Monatsb. Ak. 



Wiss. Berlin, 1863, p. 235. 

 HeliordjKi (/rai/i, Steindachner, Reise "Novara," Amphib., 1867, 



p. 32,pl.'ii., figs. 11-14 

 I'l'ityplcrtrnni xiiiifrriliitri\ Keferstein, rTottingen Nachrichteu, 



1867, p. 346. 



Helionuui snperriliiiris, Kefei'stein, Arcliiv. Natiirg., xxxiv., 



1868, p. 267, pi. v., fig. 7. 



Helioraua (iraiji (.Steindachner), Keferstein, Arcliiv. Xaturg'., 



xxxiv., 1868, p. 266. 

 Li)iuto(Ii/n(isfes dorsulis, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Batr., 1st 



ed., 1858, p. 33. 

 L'nnnoihjiKides dni-xaliK, Giintlier, Journ. Mus. Godeff., iv.. Heft. 



xii'., 1876, p. 47. 

 Livhuodijvastes dorsalis, McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., 1880, v., 



p. 12, pi. xxxii., fig. 2. 

 Limnodyna^'stes dorsalis, Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Batr., 2nd 



ed., 1882, p. 261. 

 Li»inodijnastes dorsalis, Fletcher, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 



Wales, xxii., 1897, p. 675. 

 Liiunudipuistes dorsulis, Savage-English, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1910, 



p. 629, pi. li., fig. 3. 



Size modei-ate to large. Habit moderate to very stout. 

 Head two-thirds to four-fifths as long as broad, the measure- 

 ment taken at a line dj-awn between the hinder margins of the 

 tympana. Tympanum hidden or visible. Vomerine teeth in 

 two straight or somewhat arched series, extending to or beyond 

 the outer edge of the choanae. Toes moderate or short, fringed 

 or totally devoid of fringe. A web more or less developed, 

 the fir'st toe occasionally almost entirely webbed. Outer 

 metatarsal tubercle present-^ or absent. Back tuberculated, 

 granulated, or with Hat ghmdular swellings. 



' In several of Dr. Bancroft's specimens from Eidsvold, Queens- 

 land, there is a very distinct outer metatarsal tubercle, rcsembUnj' 

 in one case a miniature shovel-shaped inner tubercle. 



