HERPETOLOGICAL NOTES. 



By Dene B. Fry, 



Australian Museum, Sydney. 



(Printed by permission of the Trustees.) 



(Plates I— IV, text-figures 1—7.) 



{Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, May 31«< 

 and June 28th, 1915.) 



The present paper consists of notes on, and descriptions 

 and redescriptions of, new or little known Reptiles and 

 Batrachians from Australia and New Guinea, based mainly 

 on specimens in the collection of the Australian Museum. 

 The ' notes ' mostly consist of additions to the faunae of 

 the different States of Australia and New Guinea, together 

 with remarks on affinities and distribution. There are 

 four new species and two new varieties proposed. 



The following species are dealt with : — 

 Austrochaperina brevipes, sp. no v. . 

 Limnodynastes tasmaniensis, Gthr. 

 ,, platycephalus, Gthr. 



,, fletcheri, Blgr. 



„ olivaceus, de Vis. 



,, dorsalis, v. terroe-regince var. nav. 



Phanerotis fletcheri, Blgr. 

 Phractops brevipalmatus, Gthr. 

 Philocryphus australiacus, Shaw. 

 Lechriodus melanopyga, Doria. 

 Hyla macgregori, Ogilby. 



,, ewingii v. alpina, var. nov. 

 „ ,, V. calliscelis, Ptrs. 



,, lesueurii v. vinosa, Lamb. 

 (Edura monilis, de Vis. 



