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CYSTIGSTATHID^, 



pink stripes .along the back; sides of body and limbs blackish, 

 dotted with white ; throat marbled with brown. Male with a 

 subgular vocal sac ; female with a fringe along the second finger. 

 Australia. 



3. Limnodynastes tasmaniensis. 



Limnodynastes tasmaniensis, Giinth. Cat. p. 33, pi. ii. f. B. 

 Limnodjaiastes afRnis, Giinth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (3) ii. p. 27. 

 tasmaniensis, Steindachn. Novara, Amph. p. 23 ; Keferst. Arch. 



f. Naturg. 1868, p. 258. 

 — ^ — peronii, var. tasmaniensis, Keferst. Gotting. Nachr. 1867, p. 344. 



Habit moderate. Tongue subcircular, slightly nicked behind. 

 Vomerine teeth in a straight, scarcely interrupted series behind, 

 and not extending outwards beyond the choanse. Snout rounded, 

 longer than the orbital diameter ; nostril equally distant from the 

 eye and the tip of the snout ; interorbital space as broad as, or 

 narrower than, the upper eyelid ; tympanum indistinct. First finger 

 not extending quite as far as second ; three metacarpal tubercles ; 

 toes moderate, slightly fringed ; a small blunt inner, and a very 

 small outer metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 

 the eye, or between the eye and the nostril. Skin smooth or with 

 hardly conspicuous warts above ; a glandular fold from below the 

 eye to the shoulder. Olive above, with insuliform dark spots ; 

 a dark streak from the tip of the snout, through the eye, to the 

 shoulder ; generally a light vertebral line. Male with a subgular 

 vocal sac, and, during the breeding-season, blackish rugosities 

 on the inner side of the two inner digits ; female with the two 

 inner digits broadly fringed. 



Tasmania ; Australia. 



a-c 



Tasmania. 



E. Gunn, Esq. [P.]. (Types of 

 L. tasmaniensis^ 

 d-g. (S Sc hgr. Tasmania. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



h. Several spec, Sandhurst, Victoria. Col. Beddome [P.]. 



4. Limnodynastes platycephalus. (Plate XVII. fig. 3.) 



Limnodynastes platycephalus, Giinth. Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 

 p. 54. 



