32 RECOKDS (iK THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEl'M. 



Short as is Dr. Peters' description*' of Liiiiniiih/iiit'<tef> 

 (Plafi/jilecfniii) (hiiiwrilii, there is sufficient to identify it witli 

 the eastern form. It is rather unfortunate that his name 

 shouki have to be used however, as North Queensland exam- 

 ples, although showing close affinity to New South Wales 

 specimens, are very different from the South Australian form 

 desci'ibed by him. 



I am unable to refer to Keferstein's original description 9 of 

 FlafyplecfrKm SKj^eiriliare and so do not know the locality of 

 his type. But as his somewhat obscure figure ^^ published 

 later represents the eastern form I have included his name in 

 the synonomy of var. (Jnuienh't. Dr. Steindachner's fine figure ^^ 

 of Heli(iri(N(t 'jrai/i leaves no doubt as to the form implied, and 

 represents a much more typical eastern example. 



Mr. Gerard Krefft mentioned ^- a frog by the name of 

 Lhmiodi/ndstes hihroiiii, giving no description or remarks, but 

 appending the localities Adelaide and King George Sound. I 

 am not aware of any other reference to this name and it is 

 probably nothing moi'e than a fupsKf! rahiitii for L. ihitin-nlii. 

 This view is strengthened since Krefft knew anil recognised 

 L. diihicrUil as distinct, but did not mention it in his list of 

 species on this occasion. 



In 1878 Dr. E. P. Ramsay exhibited ^'^ before the Linuean 

 Society of New Soutli Wales three specimens of a burrowing 

 frog allied to Llitntoihjiiastea fl<in^alit<, Gray, taken by Mr. James 

 Ramsay, near Merool Ci'eek, Lachlan District. After exam- 

 ining one of these specimens, two having apparently been lost 

 since, together with two others from Yandenbah, Riverina, 

 New South Wales, I have decided, as they are so distinct, to 

 sepai'ate them under the varietal name of ixtendris. 



« Peters— Monatsb. K. Preus. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863, p. 235. 

 " Kct'crstcin— Gottingen Nachrich., 1867, p. 34«. 

 1" Kcfcrstcin— Archiv. f. Naturj?., xxxiv.. 1868, p. L'67, pi. v., li^. 7. 

 " Stcindachncr — Reise der " Novara," Amphibia, p. 3L', pi. ii., li^s. 

 11-14. 



'-' KrelTt— Cat. Nat. and Industrial l^oducts N. S. Wales, Paris 

 Hxhibition. 1867, .App. p. 107. 

 '^ Ramsay— Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii., 11 <S, p. 73. 



