6 L. G. ANDERSSON, BATRACHIANS. 
Although it does not contain any description of new species, a paper by G. 
KREFFT, On the Batrachians occurring wn the neighbourhood of Sydney with remarks 
upon their geographical distribution, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, is worthy of mentioning 
here, as it gives an account of the geographical distribution of the East-Australian 
frogs, known at this time. In this paper KREFFT enumerates 17 species as occuring 
in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and gives short notes on their distribution and 
biology. 
At the same time also Prof. W. PETERS in Berlin is very actively writing upon 
Australian batrachians. In Mon. Ber. Berlin Ac. this excellent herpetologist descri- 
bes 1863 a collection of batrachians from Adelaide which, however, contains only 
one new species, Neobatrachus (Heleitoporus) pictus. Beside this, he records from the 
same locality Limnodynastes tasmaniensis, L. dorsalis (described as new under name 
of Platyplectron dumerilii), Crinia signifera (also described as new, and called Came- 
rolius varius), and Hyla adelaidensis. Some years afterwards the same author de- 
scribes in Mon. Ber. Berlin Ac. 1867 Chiroleptes inermis from Rockhampton, Queens- 
land, and beside this from the same locality a species which he calls Phractops 
aluwtaceus, in BoULENGER'S Catalogue considered as synonymous with Chiroleptes 
australis. | 
In Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. of the same year (1867) GÖNTHER gives an account 
of the collections of Australian batrachians received to the British Museum during 
the time which has elapsed after his last publication mentioned above. Among 
these he records as new Limnodynastes platycephalus from Adelaide, Chiroleptes al- 
boguttatus from Port Denison (Cape York), Litoria (Hyla) latopalmata from Port Deni- 
son, Hyla infrafrenata and H. migrofrenata both from Cape York. Besides he gives 
in this paper many new localities for species described before. 
A third important work from this year is the zoological part of »Reise der Ös- 
terreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde, 1857—1859. Erster Band, Wien 1867», 
written by Prof. FR. STEINDACHNER. In Australia the expedition only visited Sydney, 
but there and from its neighbourhoods STEINDACHNER obtained a rich collection of 
batrachians. He names several species as new, most of these, however, later stated 
as identical with forms already described, viz. Opistodon frauenfeldti (= Limnody- 
nastes ornatus), Cyclorana Nove Hollandie (= Chiroleptes australis), Pterophrynus fas- 
ciatus (= Crimia signifera), Heliorana grayi (= Limnodynastes dorsalis), and Litoria 
copei which, also according to statement by BoULENGER, possibly may be synonymous 
with Hyla lesueuwrii DUM. & BIBR. Only one of STEINDACHNER'S new species Lim- 
nodynastes salminii, »aus Australia», has been maintained as a good species. In addi- 
tion to the species, mentioned, he records from N. S. Wales Mixophyes fasciolatus, 
Limmnodynastes tasmaniensis and krefftii, Cryptotis brevis, Pterophrynus varius, Upe- 
roleia marmorata, Pseudophryne bibronii, Litoria freyceneti and nasuta, Hyla peronir, 
lesueurii, aurea, phyllochroa, and ewingii, and Calamites cyaneus. 
In the following year (1868) the first, and really, even to the present day the 
only monographical work on the batrachians of Australia, »Uber die Batrachier 
Australiens», was published by W. KEFERSTEIN in Archiv f. Naturgeschichte 1868 
