BY DENE B. FRY 



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7. Phanekotis fletcheri, Blgr. 



(PI. I, fig. 2, mouth only. Text fig. 1.) 



Phanerotis fletcheri, Boulenger, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.^ 

 (2), V, 1890, p. 593. Id., Fletcher, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., (2), V, 1890, p. 669. Id., Fry, Mem. Q'land 

 Mus., ii, 1913, p. 47. 



The types of this rare frog were taken at Dunoon,. 

 Richmond River, north coast of New South Wales, by Rich- 

 ard Helms, in 1890. In the Australian Muf.eum collection 

 is a single adult specimen collected by the late J. A. Thorpe, 

 in the year 1886, at Ourimbah, near Gosford, N.S. Wales. 

 Ourimbah is about forty miles north of Sydney and is the 

 southern termination of a stretch of " Dorrigo Scrub " 

 country possessing the same geological and botanical 

 features as that in which the types were procured. Its 

 range is thus extended about two-hundred miles southwards. 



Fig. 1.- — Phanerotis fletcheri. Blgv. Superior and lateral view of head of a, 

 specimen from Ourimbah, N.S. Wales. Slightly enlarged. 



This specimen differs slightly from the types as fol- 

 lows : — In transverse diameter the tympanum is two-thirds 

 the eye, perpendicularly it is four-fifths ; the A -shaped 

 fold between the shoulders is absent. The colouration 

 is here described in detail : — Upper-surface of body and 

 limbs grejdsh green to putty colour, with obscure faint 

 blotches of darker grey on the back ; a fairly distinct dark 

 cross-bar between the eye-hds ; sides of head with faint 

 marks, one of which runs from the eye to the Up ; a thin, 

 broken rostral streak of chocolate-brown which continues 

 from behind the eye to the posterior edge of the tympanum, 

 where it breaks into a few disconnected spots on the shoulder : 

 front, hinder and under -surfaces of limbs reddish-brown 



