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nostrils. Tongue round, entire ; eustacliian tubes as large as inner 

 nostrils ; tympanum hidden. Sacral vertebra trihedi-al, pyramidal. 

 Australia. 



Heleioporus, Gray, in Grey's Journ. West. Austral, p. 447. 

 Perialia, sp., Gray, in Eyre's Journ. Exped. Centr. Austral, p. 407. 



1. Heleioporus albo-punctatus. 



Gray, I. c. t. i. f. 2. 



Either brownish with white rounded spots, or reddish white 

 marbled with brown. 



a. Adult male. West AustraUa. 



b. Adult male. Port Essington. Presented by Dr. Fleming. 

 €. Adult female. Swan River. From Mr. Gilbert's Collection. 



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



e. Half-grown. Sec Limnodi/nastcs dorsalis, No. d. 



f. Half-grown. Australia. From the Collection of the Zoological 



Society. 



Young animal. Above olive with more or less conspicuous brown 

 spots ; on the sides brown, darker spotted : — Pericdia Eyrei, Gray 

 in Eyre's Journal, p. 407. t. 2. f. 3. 



ff-7c. West Australia. Bank of River Murray. Presented by E. J. 

 Eyre, Esq. — Original specimens for Dr. Gray's figure and 

 description. 



Fam. 6. UPEEOLIID^. 



Ranina with free toes, with the processes of sacral vertebra dilated, 

 and with paratoids. 



One genus. Australia. 



1. UPEROLEIA. 



Habit as in Pleurodcma ; fingers and toes rather slender, quite 

 free ; metatarsus with a roundish external and a small conical inner 

 tubercle. Skin rather warty; on each side of the neck a large 

 paratoid. Vomeiine teeth none. Tongue small, oblong, rounded, 

 entire behind; eustachian tubes small, tympanum hidden. Male 

 with an internal subgular vocal sac with two opeuing-.s. Sacral 

 \-crtebra not much extended. Australia. 



Uperoleia, Gray, in Caitt. Grey's West Austr. p. 448. 



1. Uperoleia marmorata. 

 Gray, I. c. 

 Black and green marbled, leaving a triangular greenish spot on 

 the forehead ; beneath lead -coloured. 



u. Adult male, li" long : not good state. West Austraha. 



