262 CYSTIGNATHID 2%. 
6. Limnodynastes ornatus. 
Limnodynastes ornatus, Giinth. Cat. p. 33. 
Discoglossus ornatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 56. 
Perialia ornata, Gray, in Eyre’s Journ. Exped. Centr, Austr. i., App. 
p- 407, pl. 2. f. 2. : 
Platyplectrum marmoratum, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (8) xi. 
p. 27, pl. 4. f. A; Keferst. Gotting. Nachr. 1867, p. 345, and Arch, 
f. Naturg. 1868, p. 261. 
occidentale, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) vi. 1866, p. 90. 
ornatum, Keferst. Gotting. Nachr. 1867, p. 346, and Arch. f. 
Naturg. 1868, p. 261. 
Opisthodon frauenfeldii, Steindachn. Novara, Amph. p. 9, pl. 1. 
f. 1-4. 
Limnodynastes ornatus,. Giinth, Zool. Rec. iv. p. 145. 
Habit of Alytes obstetricans. Tongue subcircular, entire or 
slightly nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in a straight or slightly 
arched, scarcely interrupted series behind, not extending outwards 
beyond the choanz. Snout rounded, as long as the orbital dia- 
meter; nostril equally distant from the eye and the tip of the 
snout; interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid; tym- 
panum indistinct. First and second fingers equal; two metacarpal 
tubercles ; toes rather short, one-third webbed, the web extending 
as a fringe to their tips; subarticular tubercles well developed; inner 
metatarsal tubercle large, shovel-shaped. The hind limb being 
carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 
reaches the eye, or between the eye and the tip of the snout. Skin 
of upper surfaces with small smooth tubercles. Olive above, marbled 
with darker; generally a light, dark-edged cross band between the 
eyes; sometimes a light spot on the occiput; sometimes a light 
vertebral stripe ; beneath immaculate. Male with a subgular vocal 
sac and, during the breeding-season, brown rugosities on the inner 
side of the two first digits. 
Australia, 
a. 3. Port Essington. (Type of Discoglossus ornatus.) 
bed. SQ. Port Denison. 
e-g*. SQ. Port Denison. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
h-l. 29 & her. Cape York. 
m 3. N. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 
n-0. &. Peak Downs. Mus. Godeffroy. 
(eee Clarence River. G. Krefft [C.]. (Type of Platy- 
plecti Une marmoratum. ) 
20. CRYPTOTIS. 
Cryptotis, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) xi. 1863, p. 27; Cope, Nat. 
Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 107, and Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) vi. 1866, p- 80. 
* The female has on the breast two cicatrices which are evidently caused by 
the thumbs of the male; this proves that the male seizes the female under the 
axillx, and not round the waist as in Pelobatide and Bombinatoride, with which 
Limnodynastes bears great external resemblance. 
