HATHACniA SALTENTIA. 33 



1. Limnodynastes dorsalis. 



Limnodynastes dorsalis, (rray, 3ISS. 



Cystignathus dorsalis, Grai/, in Capt. Gre-y's West Audr. p. 446, and 



in Eyres Journ. Exped. Central Austr. i. Ajip. p. 407. pi. 1. f. 2. 

 ? Cystignathus peronii, Dtt>n. i5J- Bibr. p. 409. 



On each calf a large paratoid-like gland. Head large, broad ; snout 

 of moderate length, rounded ; tongue circular, entire behind. Above 

 brown, with large, dark, more or less confluent spots ; a narrow 

 whitish vertebral line. 



a. Adult. West Australia, Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Half-grown, West Australia, 



c. d. Adult. Port Essington. Presented by Dr. Fleming*. 

 e. Adult. Houtmans Abrolhos. 



2. Limnodynastes tasmaniensis. (Plate II. fig. B.) 



No large gland. Head moderate ; snout produced, depressed, flat ; 

 tongue cordiform, very slightly nicked behind. Above olive, darker 

 spotted, with a narrow whitish vertebral line. 



a-c. Adult. Tasmania. Presented by R. Gunn, Esq. 



d. Adult. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



e, f. Half-grown. New Holland. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



Description. — In habit similar to Discoglossus ; snout rather pro- 

 duced, depressed, flat, rounded in front, canthus rostralis obtuse; 

 nostrils in the middle between eyes and end of snout ; eyes mode- 

 rate, rather prominent ; cleft of mouth moderate ; a glandular fold 

 behind the angle of mouth. Tongue cordiform, very shghtly nicked 

 behind ; on each side an opening for the single subgular vocal sac in 

 the male. Inner nares and eustachian tubes small, round ; vomerine 

 teeth in a nearly straight, in the middle hardly interrupted line, 

 behind the inner nares. Fingers four ; in the adult female the two 

 inner ones broadly fiinged ; carpus with three flat tubercles ; toes 

 five, slightly webbed at the base, shghtly fringed ; metatarsus with 

 two small soft tubercles. Skin smooth, some warts hardly conspi- 

 cuous. Sacral vertebi-a not dilated. Olive, with large and small 

 dark spots, and a whitish hne from the muzzle to the anus ; a dark 

 streak along each canthus rostralis. Beneath uniform whitish. 

 Length of an adult female If" ; length of the hinder extremity 2^" ; 

 length of the front extremity ] ". 



3. Limnodynastes ornatus. 



Discoglossus omatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 5. 



Perialia ornata, Gray, in Eyre^s Journ. Exped. Centr. Atistr. i. Ajtp. 

 p. 407. pi. 2. f. 2. 



* In the stomach of one of these specimens I found a half-gi'own Heleioporus 

 albo-guttafus : see p. 39. 



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