10 L. G. ANDERSSON, BATRACHIANS. 
at many places, a single time even west of the Dividing Range, but only >»as a 
straggler from the coast> (FLETCHER 1890). From New South Wales the species is 
distributed southwards to Victoria where Lucas records it from several places, and 
to Van Diemens Land where it is found according to statements in the British Mu- 
seum”s Catalogues, though not refound later by Mr ENGLISH. Towards the north it 
reaches to the southern parts of Queensland where it has been found by this expe- 
dition as well as by KREFFT (Cat. Batr. Sal. 1882) and FLETCHER (1892). 
The colour of the upper surfaces of the two specimens in this collection, a 
large female and a small male, agree completely, as both are provided with beauti- 
ful and regular dark markings, viz. a broad median dorsal stripe, beginning be- 
tween the eyes and divided by a narrow light vertebral line, running from snout to 
vent, a »dark stripe from the tip of the snout along the canthus rostralis, through 
the eye to the shoulder», another dark brown band on the flanks from behind the 
eye to the groin, and below this several dark spots. All the dark markings are very 
distinct, and generally margined with a narrow white line. In the small specimen 
the under surfaces of the limbs, especially those of the thighs, have a pretty yellow- 
ish red tint. 
The difference in length of the hind limbs which has been stated betwen this 
species and the nearly allied L. tasmaniensis CNTHE. is shown by the following mea- 
surements (in percentages of the length of the body). 
| Length of | Length of SOSEh Su Length jof 
forna tibia tarsus with | whole hind 
I 4th toe limb. 
L. peronii 9 44 mm. . . . | 46,3 | 50,5 | 78,0 | 174,8 
| LD. tasmaniensis 2 41 mm. 53,3 55,2 83,9 | 192,4 
Limnodynastes dorsalis Gray. — A male specimen, Perth, West Australia, 
August 1911, 47 mm. in length, without any rugosities on the digits. =? 
5 larve, four of these nearly fully developed, Perth, Sept. 1910. 
This species is recorded from the coasts of all the colonies of the Australian 
continent, and from Tasmania, and it is also known to occur in the inland division 
of New South Wales (FLETCHER). The HOoRN-expedition did not, however, find it 
in Central-Australia, nor has it been found by Dr. MJÖBERG's expedition in the inter- 
ior of the Kimberley-district, and evidently the coastal regions are the main habitat 
of this species. 
