4 L. G. ANDERSSON, BATRACHIANS. 
By this eight Australian species were known, which number is considerably 
increased already two years afterwards (1841) by the publication of two important 
works: the part VIII of DUMÉRIL and BIBRON's great Erpetologie général, Paris 1841, 
and the account of Captain GEORGE GREY'S journey in North-West and Western 
Australia, Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Aus- 
tralia during the years 1837, 38 and 39, London 1841. In the first mentioned work 
DUMÉRIL and BIBRON describe as new Cystignathus (Limnodynastes) peronii from New 
Holland?, Hyla jervisiensis from la baie de Jervis, Hyla lesueurii from Port Jackson, 
Hyla ewingii from Van Diemen'”s Land and Phryniscus australis (Pseudophryne bibronii) 
from New Holland. In an appendix to the other work quoted J. E. GRAY describes 
Cystignathus (Limnodynastes) dorsalis, Helioporus albopunctatus, Hyla adelaidensis, Hyla 
binoculata, Uperoleia marmorata, and Breviceps (Myobatrachus) gouldit, the two Hyla 
species being, however, synonymous with each other. All these GRAY'”sS species are from 
West Australia but without any exact statement of the localities. The districts ex- 
plored by GREY'S expedition were, however, the surroundings of the small Glenelg Ri- 
ver, opening into the Doubtful Bay, N. W. Australia, as well as the coast from Perth 
to Shark's Bay, thus the same part of the continent visited by Dr. MJÖBERG'S ex- 
pedition, although the latter also penetrated into the interior of the country. 
The following year (1842) J. E. GRAY published in the Zoological Miscellany 
some notes on a small collection of batrachians from Port Essington on the North 
coast of Australia, received to the British Museum from Mr. GILBERT, and con- 
taining the following new species: Discoglossus (Limnodynastes) ornatus, Alytes (Chiro- 
leptes) australis, Pelodytes (Hyla) nasuta, Pelodytes (Hyla) affinis, Hyla rubella and 
Eucnemis (Hylella) bicolor. 
In the years 1840—1841 E. J. EYRE explored the regions of the Murray River, 
penetrating also into the interior of Central Australia as far as to 29” S. Lat., and 
continued his journey along the whole South coast to King George's Sound. E. J. 
GRAY revised the herpetological collections of this expedition as well which, however, 
were rather poor with regard to batrachians. In the account of the journey: Jour- 
nals of Expeditions into Central Australia and overland from Adelaide to King George's 
Sound, London 1845, he described as new only a single species, Perialia eyrii, from 
the Murray River, which, however, according to GÖNTHER'S statement in the Cata- 
Jogue of Batr. Sal. in the British Museum 1858, is only a young Heleioporus albo- 
punctatus, already described from GREY'S journey. In this work, however, GRAY 
gives good figures not only of the species mentioned, but also of some others, des- 
cribed, but not figured before, viz. Phryniscus (Pseudophryne) australis, Discoglossus 
(Limnodynastes) ornatus, and Cystignathus (Limnodynastes) dorsalis. By these figures 
EYRE'S »Journals> are also to be reckoned among such older works which are valu- 
able for the knowledge of the Australian batrachians, although there are no exactly 
new diagnoses to be found in the same. 
By this now 24 species were described from different coast districts of the 
Australian continent, but thence follows a long stagnation. During the whole period 
from 1842 to 1858, when GÖNTHER'S Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the Col- 
