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ways stated as an important characteristic of this species, is in many specimens very 
indistincet. It seems also, as if the folds along the toes should differ in a conside- 
rable degree, but this may perhaps be due to the different state of conservation. I 
think that as a rule very great discrimination must be used in establishing new spe- 
cies of this genus, and it will perhaps be shown that some of the many species de- 
sceribed in later times are but forms of Crinia signifera. LUCAS has expressed the 
great variation of this genus with the following words: »I am inclined to suspect 
that all smooth Crinias of Victoria and Tasmania are varieties of but one species> 
(R. Soc. Victoria, Melbourne (2) 9 p. 42). 
Chiroleptes australis Gray. — 1 male specimen 27 mm., Mowla Downs, Kim- 
berley Division near Gillgally (Jungarry) Creek about 70 miles south of Fitzroy Ri- 
ver. R. Söderberg. Dec. 1910. 
13 specimens. Noonkambah St. George Range in the interior of the Kimberley 
Division. Jan.—Febr. 1911; 8 males, 3 females; 60—83 mm. EE. Mjöberg. 
The type-specimen of this species was from Port Essington, and GRAY says 
that it »inhabits the North coast of Australia». PETERS (1867) states it from »Rock- 
hampton in O. Australien», thus from Queensland. In the results of the Novara ex- 
pedition it is described under name of Cyclorana hollandice, and is said to be from 
»Rockhampton nördlich von Sidney im Binnenlande». To judge from these STEIN- 
DACHNER'S words, his specimens ought to be from New South Wales as his other 
collections from Australia. FLETCHER has not, however, found it in that colony, 
although he has carefully scarched for it, because both KREFFT and GUNTHER have 
recorded it at least from the northern parts of that country (Clarence River). In 
BOoULENGER'S catalogue it is recorded from Port Denison and Nicol Bay. It should 
then belong to the eastern and nothern coasts of the continent from Clarence River 
to Nicol Bay in North-west. By this expedition it is now stated to live in the 
interior parts of north-western Australia as well, and it seems to be common there. 
This species was spawning in January and February; the females captured are 
either filled with large eyes, or just spent. All the males, except the small specimen 
from Mowla Downs, have the inside of the thumb covered with blackish brown rugo- 
sities; the throat is in the males blackish brown, in the females light with small 
dark dots. In other characteristics the specimens agree very well with the diagnosis 
in BOULENGER'S catalogue, except that some of them have two distinct dorso-lateral 
folds on each side. Another thing is that, as FLETCHER remarks (Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. Wales 1891 p. 271), the pupil is horizontal, not vertical, which according to 
him it shares with the whole genus. In the small specimen the teeth are arranged 
in small round groups between the choan&, not in two long oblique series directed 
backwards from the inner anterior edges of the choane as in the others. 
