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Zoological Miscellany, 
Discoglossus ornatus. Grey, in spirits, very beautifully and symmetri- 
cally marbled with blackisb grey on the back : the upper lip and upper part 
of the legs and feet blackish grey banded ; chin and under part of body and 
limbs white, with a few distant granules near the vent ; rest quite smooth : 
the front toes slender, quite free, each with 2 tubercles at the base beneath, 
and with 2 larger tubercles at the wrist ; the hinder toes half-webbed and 
fringed along each side, so as to appear tapering to a point, and with a 
blunt compressed tubercle at the anMe : palatine teeth on 2 rather oblique 
ridges. 
Inhabits North coast of Australia; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Alytes australis. Back purplish, in spirits, with an arched purple band 
from the muzzle, including the nostrils, dilated behind, enclosing the edge 
of the eyelid and the tympanum, then produced behind into a spot on the 
side ; the upper lip edged and the lower lip and chin spotted with purple ; 
chin and under side of body and limbs white, mottled on the edge : back 
smoothish, with a slight longitudinal fold on each side : the front toes quite 
free, hinder ones half-webbed, with a blunt compressed tubercle on the wrist, 
and all with rounded tubercles beneath : the belly and back part of thighs 
granular : the palatine teeth in two rather oblique half-ovate ridges. 
Young whitish above, and the band on the face narrower. 
Inhabits the North coast of Australia. 
Pelodytes nasutus. Nose rather produced, conical. Purplish brown, 
in spirits, with a broad whitish streak on the end of the nose, divided 
behind into two lines extended down the middle of the back to the groin, 
and some cross lines and a central streak on the loins, an irregular grey 
streak on each side and a spot on the front of fore arm ; an ovate white 
spot from the angle of the gape to the shoulder : sides, lower jaw, back 
and thighs purplish marbled : chin, under side of body and legs white : 
belly and hinder part of thigh granular ; the front toes free, the hinder 
elongate, webbed, all with roundish tubercles beneath, and with a roundish 
tubercle on the ankle : tympanum large : palatine teeth in 2 roundish 
groups ; tongue oblong, slightly nicked behind. 
Inhabits the North coast of Australia ; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Pelodytes affinis. ' Nose slightly produced and rounded : purplish brown, 
in spirits, streak on the side of the face, and a large squarish spot enclos- 
ing the tympanum purplish ; lips, front of upper arm, under part of the 
body and limbs white, chin blackish : the thighs and legs with a series of 
black spots : the belly and back edge of thighs granular : tongue oblong, 
slightly nicked behind : palatine teeth in 2 roundish groups : toes and fin- 
ger like P. nasutus. 
Very like the former, but the back is not mottled, and the nose not so 
much produced or conical. 
Inhabits the North coast of New Holland. 
Hyla ccerulea. Hyla cyanea, Daud. 
Inhabits Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
This differs from the description of M. Dumeril chiefly in the fore feet 
being not so much webbed as he describes them. 
Hyla ruhella. Beddish grey, in spirits ; a broad band from the nostrils 
on the side of the face and along each side of the body purplish : chin, un- 
derside of body and limbs whitish, granular : skin smooth : eyes large : the 
