70 HERPETOLOGICAL NOTES. 



"with small grey spots ; lower-surfaces of body yellowish, 

 the gular region with faint brown spots ; with the excep- 

 tion of the sides of the body the colour of the upper and 

 lower surfaces shows a sharp line of demarcation ; the 

 limbs bear indistinct cross-bars. 



8. Phractops brevipalmatus, Gthi'. 



Chiroleptes brevipalmatus, (Gthr.), Boulenger, Brit. Mus. 

 Cat. Batr., 1882, p. 269, pi. xvii, fig. 5. la., Spencer, 

 Rep. " Horn." Sci. Expd., 1896, p. 165. Id., Fletcher, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., xxii, 1898, pp. 678 and 682. 

 Id., Lucas and le Souef, Anim. Austr., 1909, p. 277. 



This species is known from the following locahties : — 

 Port Denison, Cape York, Gayndah and Peak Downs, in 

 Queensland (Boulenger, 1882), Central Australia (Spencer, 

 1896), King's Sound, Fitzroy River, and Margaret Creek 

 in Western Australia (Fletcher, 1898). It does not, however, 

 appear to have been recorded from New South Wales, 

 l)ut in the Muf eum collection are eighty well preserved 

 specimens from Wilcannia on the Darling River, in the 

 iar west of that State. 



9. Philocryphus australiacus, Shaw. 



Hana australiaca, Shaw, Nat. Misc., vi, 1795, pi. 200, 



and text. Id., Andersson, Kungl. Sv. Ak. Handl., 



Bd. 52, 1913, p. 3. 

 Rana spinipes, Schneider, Hist. Amphi. i, 1799, pp. 129 



and 139. Id., Shaw, Gen. Zool., iii, i, 1802, p. 112. 



Id., Andersson, loc. cit. 

 Heleioporus albopunctatus, Gray ? Fletcher, Proc. Linn. 



Soc, N.S.W., (2), V, 1890, p. 671. 

 Philocryphus flavoguttatus, Fletcher, loc. cit. (2), viii, 1894, 



p. 233. Id., Lucas and le Souef, Anim. Austr., 1909, 



p. 282, fig. Id., Steel, Austr. Nat., ii, 1912, p. 



135, (habits). Id., Fry, Rec. W. Austr. Mus., i, 



1914, p. 205, figs. 8a and 9. 



Whilst recently referring to Shaw's " Naturalists' 

 Miscellany" (1795) I was struck with the resemblance 

 between the frog figured on plate two-hundred as Rana 



