62 HERPETOLOGICAL NOTES 



from the tip of the snout through the eye to the shoulder. 

 Under-surfaces uniform creamish. 



Total length of type . . . . . . 28.5 mm 



Localities : — One specimen from the Bloomfield River, 

 near Cooktown, North-eastern Queensland, collected by 

 Mr. Geo. Hislop, in 1897. 



The specimen on which this new species is founded 

 was regarded in my original description of Austrochaperina 

 rohusta* as a variety of that species. It was placed in. 

 var. B. of ^. robusta, a variety which may still be 

 distinguished amongst the collection of type specimens 

 by the absence of a thread-hke dorsal stripe. A. brevipes 

 is distinguished from A. robusta by its larger size, the type 

 of the latter being only 23mm. in length, its broader head, 

 its much shorter and stouter hind -limbs, and the more 

 accentuated markings. The colouration of the type of 

 A. brevipes, after 17 years immersion in spirits, resembles 

 markedly that of Chaperina polysticta as shown by von. 

 Mehely'sf figure. However, in that species the spots 

 are rather fewer and larger than in my new Austrochaperina. 



I have examined the sternal apparatus of A. brevipes 

 and find that it differs from A. robusta in the greater 

 development of the procoracoid cartilage, showing a con- 

 dition intermediate between the latter and Chaperina 

 punctata, v. Kampen,J for a specimen of which I am 

 indebted to the author. 



2. LiMNODYNASTES TASMANIENSIS, Gthr. 



Limnodynastes tasmaniensis, (Gthr.) Boulenger, Biit. Mus. 

 Cat. Batr., 1882, p. 260. Id., Fletcher, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, N.S.W. (2), iv, 1889, pp. 365 and 374. Id., 

 Fletcher, loc. cit., v, pp. 667-676. Id., Fletcher, 

 loc. cit., vi, 1891, p. 271. Id., Fletcher, he. cit.. vii, 

 pp. 7-18 {L.fletcheri, Blgr., a var, of L. tasmaniensis). 

 Id., Fletcher, loc. cit., xxii, 1898, p. 662. Id., Lucas 

 and le Souef, Anim. Austr., 1909, p. 269. figs. Id., 

 Enghsh, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1910, p. 268, pi. U, figs. 1-2. 



* Fry — Rec. Austr. Mus., ix, 1912, p. 89. 



tM6hely — ^Teraies. Fiizeteck, xxiv, 1901, pi. xii. 



I Van Kampen — ^Nora Guineae, ix, 1913, p. 463, pi. xi, fig. 7. 



