54 Dr. A. Gunther on Australian Reptiles and Fishes. 



3. Limnodi/7iastes Krefftii (Gthr.). 



Limnodynastes Salmini, Steindachner, Reise d. Novava, p. 27, taf. 4. figs. 



12-15. 



Specimens from Rockhampton, collected by Hr. Darnel, have 

 the hinder surface of the thighs black, dotted with white. 



Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Clarence River (Krefft, 59), 

 Port Denison. 



4. Limnodynastes ornatus (Gray). 



Opisthodon Frauenfeldi, Steindachner, Reise d. Novara, p. 9, taf. 1. figs. 1-3 

 (representing the usual coloration). 



Extremely variable in coloration. 

 Port Denison, Cape York. 



5. Limnodynastes {Platypectron) Dumerilii (Ptrs.). 

 Heliornna Grayi, Steindachner, Reise d. Novara, p. 32, taf. 2. figs. 11-14. 

 Adelaide. 



6. Limnodynastes platycephalus, sp. n. 



Closely allied to L. tasmaniensis, but with the head much 

 broader and depressed. Snout very short, not longer than the 

 eye. Hind leg without large gland. Two small metatarsal 

 tubercles. Hind toes slightly fringed. Choanse very small. 

 Olive, with large dark-brown blotches, sometimes a white verte- 

 bral line. A broad dark band along the canthus rostralis, an- 

 other from the eye to behind the angle of the mouth ; an 

 oblicjue band-like spot below the eye descending forwards. 



Adelaide (Krefft, 39). 



7. Chiroleptes australis (Gray). 



Cyclorana Novce Hollandue, Steindachner, Reise d. Novara, p. 29, taf. 2. 



figs. 7-10. 

 IPhractops alutaceus (Ptrs.) = old example? 



Clarence River, Rockhampton, Port Denison, Nicol Bay. 



8. Chiroleptes alhoguttatus, sp. n. ? 

 ? Chiroleptes inermis, Ptrs. 

 Head as long as broad ; snout depressed, with very indistinct 

 canthus rostralis, somewhat pointed ; the distance between the 

 nostrils is less than that from a nostril to the eye. Tympanum 

 at least one-third smaller than the eye. Vomerine teeth between 

 the choanse, in two transverse series, separated by an inter- 

 space, but extending to the edge of the choanse. The inner 

 metatarsal disciform tubercle well developed; no outer meta- 

 tarsal tubercle. Smooth above ; hinder lower parts very finely 

 granulated. Toes half webbed. Blackish ashy above, indistinctly 

 marbled with black. A white vertebral line. Sides of the 



