BY DENE B. FRY. 63 



There is a reason to doubt Gerard Krefft's record* 

 of this species from South Australia, for it is probable 

 that the specimens were those afterwards described by 

 Dr. Gunther as L. platycephalus . The only other record 

 is that of Peters. f This record is substantiated by a 

 specimen forwarded recently to the trustees by Miss A. M. 

 Sharply from Narracoorte, a township near the Victorian 

 border in South Austraha. 



In this specimen there is no trace of an outer meta- 

 tarsal tubercle so distinct in L. platycephalus, although 

 it sometimes does occur in Eastern Austrahan examples. 

 The toes are normall}^ fringed, and the width of the head 

 is normal. Whether L. platycephalus is distinct or not, 

 there can be no doubt that the true L. tasmaniensis shares 

 with it or lives closely approximated to its habitat. 



3. LiMNODY PASTES PLATYCBPHALITS, Gthr. 



Limnodynastes platycephalus (Gthr.) Boulengei, Brit, Mus. 

 Cat. Batr., 1882, p. 260, pi. xvii, fig. 3. 



Redescription of Limnodynastes platycephalus, Gthr. 



Habit moderate. Head, three-quarters as long as 

 broad, the measurement taken at a line drawn between 

 the hinder margins of the tympana ; very depressed. 

 Snout bluntly rounded, not prominent, less than the dia- 

 meter of the eye ; nostril much nearer the tip of the onout 

 than the eye ; canthus rostralis rounded, loreal region 

 with a concavity in the form of a narrow groove. The 

 outline of the tympanum is very slightly visible, about 

 half the diameter of the eye. Interorbital space con- 

 siderably broader than the upper eye-hd. Vomerine 

 teeth in two long contiguous series, perfectly transverse 

 and not arched, behind, and extending beyond the outer 

 edge of the widely separated choanse. Tongue sub-circular, 

 entire. Skin smooth with very obscure flat warts ; no 

 fold above the tympanum, but a glandular thickening 

 along the side ; a yellowish gland from below the eye 

 past the angle of the mouth ; under -surfaces smooth 



* Krefft :— Cat. Industr. Nat. Prod., N.S.W., Paris Exhib., 1867» 

 App., p. 107. 



t Mon. Berl. Ao. 1863. 



