8 L. G. ANDERSSON, BATRACHIANS. 
Chiroleptes dahlii BOoULENGER from Daly River, N. Australia in Proc. Z. 8. 
1895 p. 867. 
Hyla gillent SPENCER from Alice Springs in Central Australia, in Report Horn 
Scient. Exped. Cent. Austr. Part II, Zool. 1896, p. 173. 
Philoria frostt FLETCHER new genus and new species, allied to Limnodynastes, 
from Victoria. Proc. R. Soc. Victoria (2) 13, p. 176, 1901. 
Hyla maculata SPENCER from Victoria, Proc. R. Soc. Victoria (2) 13, p. 177, 1901. 
Hyla luteiventris OÖGILBY from Brisbane in Proc. R. Soc. Queensland 20, p. 31, 1907. 
As may appear from this short review, New South Wales and Victoria are the 
habitat of most of the species described during the last 30 years. In these colonies 
the fauna of batrachians has been very actively investigated chiefly by Mr. J. J. 
FLETCHER which author has published a series of papers (the most important of them 
in Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 1889—1893) regarding the batrachians of N. S. 
Wales, their geographical distribution and their life history. At the same time A. 
H. S. LUCAS gives two short papers on species from Victoria (Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria 
Tom 4 and 9), and lately T. M. S. ENGLISH has given an account of batrachians 
living in Tasmania (Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1910). Regarding the fauna of batrach- 
ians of the remainder of the Continent, however, I have not been able to find 
more than the following two papers published in later years: Report on the work of 
the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, Part II, Melbourne 1896, and Se- 
mon's Zoologische Forschungsreise in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel 1891— 
1893, Jena 1894. In the former B. SPENCER carefully describes and figures the few 
batrachians which were found in Central Australia, viz. Limnodynastes ornatus, Chi- 
roleptes platycephalus, Chiroleptes brevipalmatus, Heleioporus pictus, Hyla rubella, and 
Hyla gilleni, the last being new. In the latter of the publications mentioned O. BoETT- 
GER gives short notes on Limnodynastes salmint, L. ornatus, Hyperolia marmorata, 
Chiroleptes australis, Pseudophryne bibronii, Hyla cerulea, H. peronii, H. rubella, H. 
lesueuriti and Hylella bicolor, collected at Burnett River District, Queensland. 
On the batrachians of West Australia, however, nothing has been published; 
especially its interior parts have been a real terra incognita regarding these animals. 
As this expedition during several month has explored the interior of the Kim- 
berley district, viz. regions at the Fitzroy River and on St. George Range with the 
headquarter at Noonkambah about 160 miles from the coast, the determination of 
the batrachians collected there has been of a great interest. The collections now 
examined may thus, at least to some extent, fill up the gaps in our knowledge of the West 
Australian fauna of batrachians. Of the 17 species obtained 12 are from West Australia, 
and. of these not less than 10 from the interior of the Kimberley district. One of the latter 
I have described as new, Pseudophryne mjöbergii, and five are new to West Australia, 
viz. Limnodynastes ornatus GRAY, Chiroleptes inermis PETERS, Heleioporus pictus PE- 
TERS, Notaden benetti GNTHR., and Hyla affinis GRAY. Beside these the following 
