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records to make. In a large specimen from .liiidabyne, 

 Sontliei'u New South AVales, collected by Mr. A. R. McCulloch, 

 the back and legs were suifused with a bright coppery colour, 

 approaching that of Hyla aiiren. The ground colour was dark 

 green, and the uudersurfaces, as is usual in breeding specimens, 

 was a bright lemon yellow. The coppery marmorations were 

 confined to the head, sides of bod}-, and the upper surfaces of 

 the limbs. Again, in a large series of specimens from Eidsvold, 

 Upper Burnett River, Queensland, the legs and sides showed 

 bright scarlet markings. Thinking that this might be due to 

 the action of the presei'ving fluid, as is sometimes the case, I 

 wrote to Dr. Bancroft, who collected the specimens, and who 

 very kindly forwarded me a drawing showing the distribution 

 of the colours during life. The throat, gland at angle of 

 mouth, and sides of the abdomen are bright lemon yellow, 

 while there is a yellow streak marking a glandular area on the 

 side of the back. The chest, and the belly and symphysis are 

 creamy white. The groin, fi-ont side of thighs, and under- 

 side of shank is brilliant red. Reticulations of black or brown 

 on the belly may or may not be present, and are not breeding 

 colours. In a series of breeding specimens, collected during the 

 phenomenally i^ainy season of January and February, 1910, at 

 Katoomba, Blue Mts., these reticulations were exceptionally 

 marked ; a specimen is figured on PI. ii., figs. 1 and la. 



The Cape York examples, obtained by Messrs. C. Hedley 

 and A. R. McCulloch in 1907, present a rather distinct form 

 (PI. iii., figs. 2 and 2a.) The vomerine teeth are very strong 

 and extend well beyond the edge of the choanal ; the toes are 

 shoj't and cylindi-ical and totally devoid of fringe, while the 

 marking approaches that of var. / /i/iini, a very distinct light 

 dorsal stripe being present. However these variations are en- 

 tirely linked up by the Burnett River series. 



After the examination of a very large series of this frog 

 from many localities Mr. J. J. Pletcher'' says of its colour 

 vai'ieties : — " Tasmanian examples show a fairly established 

 differentiation into a spotted variety, with at least an incom- 

 plete doi'sal stripe, and an unspotted variety without :i doisiil 

 stripe. In Victoria the differentiation seems to be liiiily well 

 established. In Western Australia there seems to i)c ohI\ tlir 



" Fletcher— Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxii., 1897, p. 675. 



