54, Dr. A. Giinther on Australian Reptiles and Fishes. 
3. Limnodynastes Kreffti (Gthr.). 
Limnodynastes Salmini, Steindachner, Reise d. Novara, p. 27, taf. 4. figs. 
12-15. 
Specimens from Rockhampton, collected by Hr. Damel, 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) Dumerilit (Ptrs.). 
Heliorana Grayi, Steindachner, Reise d. Novara, p. 32, taf. 2. figs. 11-14. — 
Adelaide. | 
6. Limnodynastes platycephalus, sp. n. 
Closely allied to ZL. 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. Choane 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 
oblique band-like spot below the eye descending forwards. 
Adelaide (Krefft, 39). 
7. Chiroleptes australis (Gray). 
Cyclorana Nove Hollandie, Stemdachner, Reise d. Novara, p. 29, taf. 2. 
figs. 7-10. : 
?Phractops alutaceus (Ptrs.)=old example? 
Clarence River, Rockhampton, Port Denison, Nicol Bay. 
8. Chiroleptes alboguttatus, sp.u. ? 
? Chiroleptes inermis, Ptrs. 
-Head as long as broad; snout depressed, with very indistinet 
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 choanz, in two transverse series, separated by an inter- 
space, but extending to the edge of the choane. 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 
