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OPHISTOGLOSSA PLATYDACTYLA. 

 Hylina. 



Fam. POLYPEDATYDiE. 



Hyperolius (Rapp). 



Byperolius hicolcr (Gthr.) Blue Mountains, CLarcnce 

 Eiver, common near Port Denison. 



Fam. Hylid^. 



Litoria (Tscliudi.) 



Litoria Freycineti (Bibr.) Port Curtis. 



Litoria nasuta (Gray). Sydney, Port Essington. 



Litoria 'punctata (Dum.) Sydney. 



Litoria marmorata (Dum.) Sydney, Clarence River. 



Litoria Wilcoxii (Gthr.) Clarence Eiver, Port Curtis. 



Hyla (Burm). 



Syla Ewingii (D. and B.) Sydney and east coast of 

 Australia, Tasmania. 



Hyla rubella (Gray). Port Essington and Port Denison. 



Eyla Peronii (Bibr.) Port Essington, east coast generally, 

 and Tasmania. 



Syla Jervisiensis (D. and B.) Jervis Bay. 



B.yla Adelaidensis (Gray). Adelaide and King George*s 

 Soimd. 



Syla aurea (Less). Australia generally. 



Syla Verreauxii (Dum.) Sydney, Clarence Eiver. 



Syla citropus (P. and L.) Sydney. 



Syla Krefftii (Gthr.) Sydney. 



Syla ^hyllochnoa (Gthr.) Sydney, Brisbane. 



Fam. Pelodryadid^. 



Pelodryas (Gthr.) 

 Pelodryas cceruleus (White). 



The above-enumerated 39 species of frogs have with few 

 exceptions a very wide distribution, but are piincipally 

 inhabitants of the eastern and southern portion of the 

 Australian continent. Of the west and north-west coast 

 we know as yet little or nothing. It is probable, however, 

 that when these regions are better explored by naturalists 

 many more new genera and species will be discovered, and I 

 am confident to see our Batrachio-fauna numbering more than 

 a hundred species a few years hence. 



With regard to the frogs of Tasmania we are very much in 

 arrear, for looking over the British Museum catalogue we find 

 the following species only mentioned as inhabiting that island :- 

 Limnodynastes Tasmaniensis 

 Pseudophryne Bibronii 

 Syla Ewingii 

 Syla Peronii 

 Syla aurea. 



