Dr. A. Giinther on Australian Batrachia. 313 
The length of the body is more than the distance between vent and 
metatarsal tubercles. Upper parts reddish olive, with a double series 
of irregular blackish spots along the back ; a black band runs from 
behind the eye along the side of the body towards the loin, a blackish 
streak along the canthus rostralis. Lower parts whitish. 
lines. 
Menethiof the body... cs 2's ttle tere Le 
of the hind) limb; ... 4.35. 52 «ern, ALO 
of the fourth hind toe............ 5 
Distance between vent and knee.......... 43 
Hab. Western Australia. 
Having found in the collection of the British Museum a specimen 
of Pterophrynus verrucosus, Liitken, I convinced myself that the 
slight swelling of the skin between the angle of the mouth and the 
shoulder is not produced by an accumulation of glands, so as to 
deserve the name of a parotoid. The processes of the sacral ver- 
tebra are so slightly dilated, that they might be described as cylin- 
drical ; however, each process terminates in a cartilage, which is 
very distinctly dilated. On comparing this Frog with the Camario- 
lius of Peters, I came to the conclusion that both these genera must 
be united; for although Professor Peters describes the processes 
of the sacral vertebra as narrow, I find them in Camariolius varius, 
Peters, as slightly dilated as in Pterophrynus. Probably any one 
who had no opportunity of observing the following species would 
have overlooked the dilatation of those processes in the species 
mentioned. P. levis has them very distinctly dilated, and P. affinis 
and P. tasmaniensis are, in this respect, intermediate between these 
extreme forms. They form only one genus, which, perhaps, must 
be still further extended ; for, whilst none of the species mentioned 
are provided with vomerine teeth, several specimens in our col- 
lection, which, perhaps, are the Cystignathus Georgianus of D. & B., 
and which can scarcely be generically separated from our Ptero- 
phryni, have those teeth well developed. ‘Tschudi has proposed the 
name of Crinia for the last-named species. 
PTEROPHRYNUS TASMANIENSIS. 
Very similar to Camariolius pictus, Peters ; upper and lower parts 
nearly entirely smooth, with scarcely any trace of flat tubercles. Snout 
rounded in front, somewhat pointed, sloping downwards in a gentle 
curve from the nostrils. Eye of moderate size, rather longer than 
its distance from the nostril. Tongue narrow, ovate, entire behind ; 
vomerine teeth none. Toes fringed; tarsus without longitudinal 
fold ; metatarsus with two minute tubercles. The length of the 
body equals the distance between vent and metatarsal tubercles. 
Upper parts blackish brown, with a more or less distinct broad red- 
dish-olive band running from behind the eye towards the loin ; lower 
parts beautifully rose-coloured, largely marbled with black ; the pre- 
anal parts black. 
