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lection of the British Museum was published, only two good new species became 
known, viz. Litoria (Hyla) punctata, described by A. DUMERIL in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1853 
(recorded in BoULENGER'S Catalogue under the name of H. dimolops CorE, the name 
H. punctata being preoccupied), and beside this Crimia signifera, briefly described by 
GIRARD in Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia 1853. This latter species was obtained 
by a U. S. Exploring Expedition, under the command of CH. WILKES, which also 
visited the south-eastern parts of Australia, where it collected beside the species 
mentioned specimens of Limnodynastes peronii and of Bufonella crucifera, a new ge- 
nus and new species, established by GIRARD, but afterwards not with certainty iden- 
tified with any species known. KEFERSTEIN (p. 272) thinks that it possibly may be 
a Pseudophryne bibronii which seems to me to be rather probable, although the yellow- 
ish head speaks of a close relationship to Pseudophryne australis as well. According 
to my opinion, however, these forms are not specifically distinct. Two other species, 
also described by A. DUMERIL (1853, 1854) under the names Litoria marmorata and 
Litoria wverreauxii, have not been identified afterwards, and are not recorded in the 
Catalogue of the British Museum 1882. 
In the year 1858 A. GÖUNTHER published his excellent work, the Catalogue of 
the Batrachia Salientia in the Collections of the British Museum. In this 26 Austra- 
lian species are recorded, one of which was described as new, viz. Limnodynastes 
tasmaniensis from Tasmania and New Holland. Among these 28 species described be- 
fore that time (DUMÉRIL'S Litoria marmorata and L. verreauxit also reckoned among 
them) he does not record Rana papua, Orinia signifera and Hyla lesueurii, beside 
which Hyla affinis GRAY is considered as synonymous with H. freyceneti "TSCHUDI. 
On the other hand, Myobatrachus gouldii GRAY is recorded both under this name 
and under the name of Chelydobatrachus paradoxus SCHLEGEL. 
Of course the British Museum in the first rank received material from Aust- 
ralia, and in the years following after the publication of his Catalogue GÖNTHER des- 
eribed several new Australian frogs. In three »>Contributions to our knowledge of 
Batrachians from Australia> in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1863, and in Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1863, 1864 the following are described: firstly Limnodynastes krefftii and Hyla kreff- 
tir from Sydney, Limnodynastes affinis, Cryptotis brevis, and Platyplectrum marmoratum 
from Clarence River, the last mentioned afterwards proved to be identical with Lim- 
nodynastes ornatus, already known before that. In the second »contribution», Obser- 
vations on Australian Tree-frogs living in the Societys Menagerie, Hyla phyllochroa 
from N. S. Wales is described as new, beside which the author gives an account of 
the life in captivity of Hyla ccerulea, H. peronii, and H. krefftii, all received from 
N. S. Wales. In the third »contribution» we find diagnoses of Mixophyes fasciolatus 
from Clarence River, Pterophrynus affinis from West Australia (by BOULENGER con- 
sidered as a variety of Crinia georgiana), Pterophrynus (Crinia) tasmaniensis, and 
Pterophrynus (Crimia) levis both from Van Diemen's Land, and Litoria (Hyla) wilcoxii 
from Clarence River (in BoULENGER'S catalogue stated to be synonymous with H. 
lesueurii DUM. & BIBR.) 
