22 L. G. ANDERSSON, BATRACHIANS. 
large eggs) from Noonkambah, St. George Range, the one crawled in among the 
leaves of a Pandanus, the other into a bird-nest. Dec. 1910. E. Mjöberg. 
About the habitat of TscHuprs (BIBRON's) type-specimen there is no more 
exact statement than »New Holland». According to FLETCHER, however, this spe- 
cies is common in New South Wales, on the plains as well as at the coast; it is 
recorded from several localities in Queensland and in Victoria, from Port Essington, 
N. Australia, and according to a statement in Cat. Batr. Sal. also from Tasmania, 
although ENGLISH has not found it there. In the Animals of Australia it is stated 
to live in Western Australia as well, yet without any nearer account about the lo- 
cality, and I have not myself seen any other note about that. By this expedition, 
however, the correctness of this statement has been proved. In Northwestern Aust- 
ralia it lives at the coast, as well as in the interior of the country. 
To some extent these specimens differ from the diagnosis in Cat. Batr. Sal., 
and I have been uncertain if not possibly they should be considered as representing 
a separate West-Australian race different from the eastern one. Thus, the snout is 
considerably longer than the orbit, and the interorbital space much broader than 
the upper eye-lid, in addition to which the groups of vomerine teeth are quite small, 
rounded, and smaller than the choan&, rather much different from the figure, given 
by KEFERSTEIN (Taf. 8, fig. 31). The colour, as well as other characteristics, howe- 
ver, agree well with the descriptions of the typical H. peronit, and by DE Vis” diag- 
nosis of his H. rotht, considered by BoULENGER as synomynous with that one, I 
have got an idea about the great variation of this species, and have convinced my- 
self about the correctness of referring my specimens to Hyla peronii 'TscHuUDpI, which 
then is distributed over the whole East and North Australia. 
In the male the throat is mottled with brown, which also to some extent is the 
case in the female with the large ova, whereas the female specimen with small ova 
has the throat uniform dirty white. 
Hyla rubella Grayr. — 9 specimens, 3 adult (2 males, I female 38, 36, 30 
mm.) and 6 joung ones, 26—20 mm. in length, all from different springs in St. Ge- 
orge Range, Kimberley Division, N. W. Australia, about 170 miles from the coast. 
Jan.—Febr. 1911. E. Mjöberg. 
GRAY”s specimen was from Port Essington, the North coast of Australia, and 
according to statement in Cat. Batr. Sal. this species it recorded from Nicol Bay, 
N. W. Australia, and from several localities in Queensland. FLETCHER has obtained 
it from the interior of N. S. Wales, but not from the coast, and the Horn Expedi- 
tion collected »numerous specimens at various localities» in Central Australia. As 
shown above it appears to be common also in the interior of N. W. Australia, and 
probably this species is an inland form, although it at several places has straggled 
to the coast. 
The toes are said to be ”/s—?/« webbed; as far as I can see, they are in all 
these specimens only about half webbed, 2—3 joints of the fourth toe being free from 
