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significance it has to-day, and the obscure tympanic rim 

 and undifferentiated colouration makes it easy to under- 

 stand its absence in the figure, which undoubtedly gives 

 a striking, if a little impressionistic, representation of this 

 ungainly frog. The colouration resembles closely one of 

 my specimens. In L. dorsalis there is a yellowish glandular 

 band laterally, but the row of spots figured are typically 

 those of Philocryphtis, giving the suggestion for Fletcher's 

 specific nsime flavoguttatus . Hence I regard P.flavoguttatus, 

 described in 1894, as identical with Rana australiaca, des- 

 cribed a century earHer. As has been shown* recently 

 Philocryphus is not, as afterwards supposed by Fletcher, 

 synonymous with Heleioporus, therefore the name will 

 be altered to Philocryphus australiacus. 



The disappearance of a well figured, named, and 

 localised frog from literature is unaccountable. L. G. 

 Anderrron recently called (ree syn.) attention to the fact 

 that the name Rana australiaca had disappeared from 

 literature subsequent to the mention by Schneider in 1799 

 and Shaw in 1802. After examining the works of Daudin, 

 Cuvier and Merrem, he saj^s that " but a single Austrahan 

 species is recorded, viz.. White's Rana ( Hyla) coRrulea." 

 He also suggests the likelihood of Shaw's locahty being 

 erroneous, suggesting that perhaps the frog really came 

 from the East Indies and not New Holland, in which case 

 it would probably prove identical with Bufo melanost- 

 ictus. We have no need to assume this, however. 



10. Lechhiodus melanopyga, Doria. 



(Plate I, fig. 1, Text fig. 2c.) 



Asierophrys melanojryga, Doiia, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov , 

 vi, 1874, p. 355, pi xii, fig. k. Id., Ptrs. and Doria, 

 loc. cit., xiii, 1878, p. 417. 



Batrachojisis melanojjyga, Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Batr. 

 Sal., 1882, p. 439. Id., Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., xxiii, 1898, p. 359. 



* Fry :— Rec. W.A. Mus., I, 1914, p. 206, fig. 8o and 9. 



