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schuetteri from Sydney, described by KEFERSTEIN 1868, p. 279, is a synonym of H. 
adelaidensis, as BOULENGER says, and which KEFERSTEIN'S figure appears to confirm, 
and if there are no mistakes about the habitat of the same, this species must also 
live in N. S. Wales, although it has not been collected there by FLETCHER. It is 
neither recorded from Victoria, nor from Van Diemens Land. 
The five specimens show a beautiful colour series from the young light-striped 
dark specimens to the considerably lighter, almost uniform olive greyish adult ones. 
One of the smallest specimens has the upper surfaces pretty bluish black with a light 
dorsal line from between the eyes to the vent (fig. 9), another broader light stripe 
extends from the tip of the snout to between the nostrils where it divides into two, 
each running along canthus rostralis above the eye and the tympanum, and along 
the sides to the groin. Between the dorsal line and these lateral stripes a narrow 
light line extends on each side from somewhat before the middle of the body to the 
lumbar region. From the tip of the snout another light band runs below the eye 
to the axil, tapering behind, and not reaching the margin of the upper jaw which 
is black. Also the upper surfaces of the legs are bluish black with light irregular 
crossbars. Lower parts of sides light without distinct limits merging into the under 
surfaces which are dotted with blackish on the light bottom. From this specimen 
another of about the same size differs only by a lighter ground colour; in this lat- 
ter the dark colour has disappeared from the margin of the upper jaw and to a great 
extent as well from the limbs which are light olive grey, with exception of some 
dark spots on the tibia. The outermost lateral bands have to great extent blended 
with the light colour of the side, as well as partly with the inner lateral bands. 
All light bands are broader than in the first mentioned specimen. In the next spe- 
cimen (a male, 57 mm.) the differences from the smallest dark specimen are still 
greater. As is shown by fig. 10, the light colour of this one has become the ground 
colour, and the dark one has been reduced to four parallel dorsal stripes which, es- 
pecially the outer ones, show a tendency to split into spots, and to a pair of bands 
extending from the nose through the eye, above the tympanum to the middle of 
the side. Between this pattern and that, shown in KEFERSTEIN'S figure of Hyla 
schuetteir, Taf. VIII, fig. 27, the differences are not very great; in this latter some 
irregular markings are left of the regular four bands in the former. If even these 
spots should disappear, such a colour would be produced as that of the two largest 
of my specimens wich are uniform plumbous grey only with indistinet dark dots on 
the back and a broad light dorsal band, indistinetly limited from the somewhat dar- 
ker ground-colour. 
Hyla affinis Grav. — 6 specimens from the Kimberley Division, N. W. Aust- 
ralia; at the end of the year 1910 and the beginning of 1911. =E. Mjöberg; viz.: 
1 specimen in a billabong (clay-pit) at Jedda 25 miles from the coast; male, 
37 mm. 
