23. CHIROLEPTES. — 24, HELEIOPOEFS 271 



subgular vocal sac, and blackish rugosities on tlie inner side of the 

 first digit during the breeding-season. 

 Australia. 



a-b, c-d. 5 . Port Denison, Cape York. (Types.) 



e. S . Port Denisou, Cape York. G. KrefFt, Esq. 



f. (S. ? Clarence River. G. Kj-eflFt, Esq. 



6. CMi'oleptes inermis. 

 Chiroleptes inermis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1S67, p. 30. 



Yomerine teeth in t'wo small groups between the inner front edges 

 of the choanie. Snout rounded ; tympanum distinct, two thirds the 

 diameter of the eye, separated from the latter by a \exy narrow 

 interspace. Two metatarsal tubercles, the inner small, but little 

 larger than the outer. Upper surfaces with small scattered tubercles ; 

 belly minutely granular. Greyish brown above, with irregular dark 

 spots ; lips spotted ; hinder side of thighs black- and white-spotted 

 or marbled. 



Rockhampton, X.E. Australia. 



24. HELEIOPORUS. 



Heleioporus, Gray, Grey's Journ. W. Austral, p. 447; G'unth. Cat. 



p. 39 ; Cope, Xat. Hist. Eev. 1865, p. 108, and Journ. Ac. Philad. 



(2) vi. 18(56, p. 94. 

 Neobatrachus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 234 ; Cope, Journ. Ac. 



Philad. (2) vi. 1866, p. 94. 

 PeriaUa, sp., Gray, Eyre's Journ. Exped. Centr. Austral, p. 407. 



Pupil erect. Tongue subcircular, slightly nicked behind. Yo- 

 merine teeth. Tympanum concealed. Fingers free ; toes more or 

 less webbed, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. 

 Omosternum cartilaginous ; sternum a semi-ossified plate. Sacral 

 vertebra slightly dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. 



Australia. 



1. Heleioporus albopunctatus. 



Heleioporus albo-punctatus, G'unth. Cat. p. 39. 

 Heleioporus albo-pimctatus, Grai/, Grei/'s Journ. W. Austr. p. 447, 



pL 1. f. 2 ; Eeferst. Arch.f. Natury. 1868, p. 269, pi. o. f. 2-5. 

 Perialia eyrei. Gray, Eyre's Journ. Exped. C. Austr. i. p. 407, pi. 2. 



f. 3. 



Yomerine teeth in a transverse interrupted series between the 

 choanae. Habit very stout. Snout rounded, without canthus ros- 

 tralis ; nostril equally distant from the eye and the tip of the snout ; 

 interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid. Fingers blunt ; 

 first longer than second ; toes short, blunt, hardly half webbed ; 

 subarticular tubercles, especially those of the fingers, well developed ; 

 inner metatarsal tubercle large, shovel-shaped. The hind limb 



