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CONTENTS OF PROCEEDINGS 1924
PART I. (No. 195).
(Issued 9th April, 1924.)
Pages.
Presidential Address, delivered at the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting,
26th March, 1924, by A. F. Basset Hull. [Plates i-ili.] .. .. .. ik-xvii.
Hilecctions and “Ammoumeements) 25 5.6 G8 sc.) evdeteede os elegans XVlli.
Hons ‘reasurenis’ Balance Sheets 2 5) 4 25 Sue ee se cw sl ee, | XD ORXI.
PART II.. (No. 196).
(Issued 2nd July, 1924.)
Studies in the vegetation of arid and semi-arid New South Wales. Part
ii. The botanical features of the Grey Range and its neighbourhood.
By Marjorie I. Collins, B.Sc., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society
inpelyo Lamy. | (lates ol. -1K.))ia -vsmualaulicrt « oytesik erst ele! <e-elhe 1- 18
Australian Coleoptera. No. ii. Notes and new ies By, H. J.
Carter, B.A., F.E.S. (Ten Text-figures) . 19- 45
New trilobites noun Bowning, with notes on Rachie: and Cacti ae
By Jobn Mitchell. (Plate x.) .. . 46- 54
Studies in parasitism: a contribution to the physiolog ry 68 ii pire
Cassytha. By J. MeLuckie, M.A., D.Se. (Plate xi., and thirty-two
Text-figures) . Sey hn Wa fe een CATR Ce Ta edits)
The Loranthaceae of Acnecnaltin. Part Vers By, Win ES. pei (Plates
SAVOY Qo eo 79- 96
A critical revision of cis Aeainraicry fa Nee Heabenal specs of the
genus Secotium. By G. H. Cunningham. (Commumicated by J.
B. Cleland, M.D., Ch.M.). (Plates xii.-xv., and sixteen Tiext-
figures) .. .. 97-119
A monograph of the ‘Thaskaraicz intone trace) of New South Wales: .
Part iv. Phyllopoda. By Marguerite Henry, B.Se., Linnean
Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology. (Plates xxvili.-xxxii.) 120-137
Notes on Australian Diptera. No. ii. 4 J. R. Malloch. i ae
by E. W. Ferguson, M.B., Ch.M.) . ‘ bo 66 loo disteaetn
Kuealypts of the Blue Moantaina and “fhe Hiennedl: areas. is HC:
oad M.B., Ch.M. UE Nebel by J. H. Maiden, I.8.0., °
PRS.) .. he Cbg Ae vee qaetertne toni tnae es eT RATIO)
Observations on ‘Helin tft in “Antstraline “By T. Steel. (Three Text-
figures) .. .. : set WW hake A We oat al eT 2
The food’ milan or fr Bete oR some ‘Bijian inkbcta Part. ui = By Ri
Veitch, B.Se:, and W. F. N. Greenwood .. .. > 152216h
Studies in the Epacridaceae. i. The life-history of Styphelia Wongépaliti
(RiBr.).. By Patrick ae M.A., B.Se., B.Se. Ag. . (Thirty-one
aa ae SA : RN EIND Ds ORR M., I6QEITR
iv. CONTENTS.
PART iy (Nowl9%)):
(Issued 24th October, 1924.)
Results from Roy Bell’s Molluscan collections. By Tom Iredale. (Plates
XXX111.-XXXVi. ) :
Two new thrips-galls end ee Sanaa, eon New, South Wwiele!
By W. Docters van Leeuwen and H. H. Karny. a ae
by J. H. Maden, F.R.S.). (Three Text-figures) .
On some Australian Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera). By Arthur M. Tey
F.E.S. (Nineteen Text-figures) .. .
Entomostraca collected in the vicinity oi dele, New Zealand.’ By
Marguerite Henry, B.Se., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the ces a,
Zoology. (Five Text- fenes) ees
Notes on breeding Entomostraca from cred rad) and hele eines in
aquaria. By Marguerite Henry, B.Sc., Linnean ae! Fellow of
the Society in Zoology. ee iaste WMO WANS oe Pet tatiats
The nectar of flowers. By Thos, Steel.” cus
Notes on Australian Diptera. No. iii. By J. R. Malloch. Commnnenen
by Dr. HE. W. Ferguson). (Four Text-figures) .
An Australian Caryophyllaeid Cestode. By erocescon T. Tisaray
Johnston, M.A., D.Se. (Seventeen Text-figures). .. .
Notes on Australian Diptera. No. iv. By J. R. Malloch. (Communicated
by Dr. E. W. Ferguson). (¥ive Text-figures). : Te stameraie
A revision of the Australian Chiromyzini (Sietinngiiias, Diptera).
By G. H. Hardy. (Seventeen Text-figures). Reon aeelanrs
The motor nerve-endings of the limb muscles of fie Rays (rane tem-
poraria) and of the muscles of the pectoral fin of the Dog-fish
(Squalus acanthias). By P. D. F. Murray, B.Se., Linnean Macleay
Fellow of the Society in Zoology. (Plates xxxvii.-xliil.). :
Studies in plant pigments. Part ii. The red pigment induced by ee
injury in Eucalyptus stricta. By J. M. Petrie, D.Sc., F.I.C., Linnean
Macleay Fellow of the Society in Biochemistry. (Plate ane) hs
Mite of genus Eriophyes associated with malformation of leaves of
Eucalyptus stricta. By W. B. Gurney, F.E.S. (One Text-figure).
PART IV. (No. 198).
(Issued 29th December, 1924.)
Revision of Australian wanes: capa By A. Jefferis
Turner, M.D., F.E.S.
Upper Permian Golceoreral and a new ‘order ‘eon ihe ‘Belmont Beds,
New South Wales. By R. J. Tillyard, M.A., Se.D., D.Sc, F.N.Z.,
Inst., F.L.S., F.E.S. (Plates xlv.-xlvi., and fie Text-figures)
The Influence of certain Colloids upon Fermentation. Part i. By R.
Greig-Smith, D.Sc., varia Bacteriologist to the Society. (Six
Text-figures),. . SE anes seo TeCuies PRN CREA RAREOMAD. <<) 5.” oO. yABRGER eee
Australian Nemecteridael (inves). By G.. H. Hardy. (Thirteen
Text-figures ) ai Sl lees rach Memo tester ellll GAch Nie.) yas AM OMMMRMORD. «sy cmets
Pages.
179-278
279-282
283-312
313-318
319-323
324-328
329-338
339-347
348-359
360-370
371-385
386-394
395-396
397-428
429-435
436-446
447-460
CONTENTS. Vv.
Pages.
Two new Hemiptera from New South Wales. By Herbert M. Hale.
ens by A. J. Nicholson, M.Sc.). er xlvii.-
Sivas) ve: «Pears 0 461-467
Kleven new medio of Viecmeen nin Gecroniecans) Rocks) Myall
Lakes, N.S.W. By John Mitchell. (Plates xlix.-lii.) .. .. 468-474
An ecological study of the flora of Mount Wilson. Part i. The West
tation of the basalt. By P. Brough, M.A., B.Sec., B.Se. Agr., John
McLuckie, M.A., D.Se., and Arthur H. K. Petrie. (Plates lvii.-
Ix.; and five Teceheures yi 475-498
A further reference to the occurrence Be Merista plebeve Sac in
New South Wales. By John Mitchell. (Plate lili.) .. .. . 499-503
A preliminary reference to a new species of Elonichthys om the ae
Beds of the Newcastle Coal Measures. By John Mitchell. (Plate
abl) ‘ Seuravelate 503
Note upon peamining fhe. Eiecraeeani -ion We cnceateaticn Colorimietenlin’
in small quantities of fluids. By R. Greig-Smith, D.Sc, Macleay
Bacteriologist to the Society .. .. 504-508
Critical notes on the Temnocephaloidea. By ereteceor W. A Gasvell
M.A., D.Se., F.R.S. (Plates liv.-lvi.) .. .. i 509-520
Australian Coleoptera: Notes and new species. Noe iv. By H. i
Carter, B.A., F.E.S. (Thirteen Text-figures) .. .. .. ‘ 521-544
PART V. (No. 199).
(Issued 18th February, 1925.)
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vi.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF NEW ORDINAL, FAMILY AND GENERIC NAMES PROPOSED
IN THIS. VOLUME (1924).
Austropeus (Helopinae, Tenebrionidae) Notoprataeus (Heterotarsinae) .. .. 37
543° Nototrintus (Adeliinae) .. wearin 4)
Balanotaenia (Caryophyllaeidae) 347 Paranisops (Notonectinae, Hemiptera)
Buprestodes (Buprestinae) | 28 461
Caviceps (Chloropidae) . 300 Permophilidae (Coleoptera) 430
Deltastoma (Chloropidae) . 309 Permophilus (Permophilidae) 430
Endothina (Opatrinae, Tenebrionidae) Permosyne (Permosynidae) 431
536 Permosynidae (Coleoptera) .. .. .. 431
Eremonoma (Cnethocampinae) .. . 409 Protocoleidae (Protocoleoptera) . 434
Fergusonina (Agromyzinae) .. .. . 337 Protocoleoptera, ord. nov... .... . 434
Mesodrepta (Cnethocampinae) . 401 Protocoleus (Protocoleidae) 434
Notobubastes (Buprestinae) .. .. .. 37
NEW GENERA OF MOLLUSCA PROPOSED IN THIS VOLUME.
ADORED. 60° oo 06 ae 22. Hawton s% aah ye 230) Propefusus 8 3.
Astelena .. .. Ba CONS WIUOIGRGOP 90 ea G6 209: Propeleda .. ....
Bathycardita . .. . 205 Fluviolanatus .. .. .. . 196 Propesinum ..
BEdeva enue... 2. ale) Galfmdusi se ey: Zhky, Pugilara si. ic.
Bellastraea .. ~. 202 Gazameda.. .. .... . 241 Radulphus -..
Berylsma . . 267 Glyptozaria .- .. .. .. 248 Rimulanazx ..
Borniola .. .. .. » AVE Govilenmjinty 5 06 60 00 o AUD IRMe 65
Botellus . 244 TIcuncula .. .. .. 251 Salaputium
Cacozelia .. .. 246 Lodderena .. . 233 = Salsipotens
Chioneryx .... .. 210 Melliteryx .... .. 207 =Scissurona ..
Coenaculum .. .. 244 Mendicula...... 206 Seilarex ..
Comitileda .. .. . 185 Mesoclanculus 224 Semelangulus
Cosmetalepas .... . 218 Minopa .. 226 Solamen ..
Cnosscoltay nae 251 Naccula .. 238 = Sophismalepas ..
Cuptdoliva .. .. 259 Notocallista 210 Spectamen ..
Cymatiella 254 Notogibbula .. 226 Stipator ..
Dolicrossea .. .. 251 Notolimea 194 Subzeidora ..
Elegidion .. .. 220 Notomyrtea .. 206 Talabrica ..
Ethminolia .. 228 Numella .. 206 Thracidora .. .. ..
Eucrassatella .. 202 Patellanax .. 239 = Trichomusculus .. ..
Eumarcia .. 211 Peculator . BO) WEG so oon
Eximiothracia .. .. .. . 199 Pervicacia.. .. AGS GAWG oo oo. 66 iat
Pratulum .. 207
Page 34, line 25, for Bendin read Baudin
CORRIGENDA.
Page 104, 7th line from bottom, for locis gramineis read sylvis
Page 105, line 7, delete “in grassy places ”
Page 105, lines 9, 10, after Type), read Forest Reserve, Packakariki, Whakatikei
Page 108, 8 lines from bottom; and page 110, line 10, for Cleland read Cleland
and Cheel
Page 151, for Helix aspera read H. aspersa
Page 261, line 29, for 92 read 62
Page 347, line 9, for larvei read laruei
CONTENTS. Vili.
LIST OF PLATES.
PROCEEDINGS, 1924.
i.—Shellharbour, N.S.W.
ii— Moffat Head, Q.; Point Cartwright, Q.
iiiPort Macquarie, N.S.W.; Magnetic Island, Q.
iv.-ix.—Vegetation of the Grey Range and its neighbourhood.
x.—New Trilobites from Bowning, N.S.W.
xi.—General habit of Cassytha.
xii.-xv.—Australasian species of Secotium.
XVi.-xxvil.—Species of Loranthus.
XXVili.-xxxii—Phyllopoda from New South Wales.
XXXili,-xxxvi.—Mollusca from Roy Bell’s Collections.
XXXVil.-xliii—Motor nerve-endings in limb muscle of the frog and in muscles of
the pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias.
xliv.—Hacalyptus stricta injured by species of Hriophyes.
xlv.-xlvi—Upper Permian Coleoptera from Belmont, N.S.W.
xlvii.-xlviiimNew Hemiptera from New South Wales.
xlix.-lii—New species of Aviculopecten from the Carboniferous of New South
Wales.
lii.—EHlomchthys davidi, n.sp., and Middle Devonian brachiopods from New South
Wales.
liv.-lviReproductive system in species of Temnocephala.
lvii—Map of the Mount Wilson Region.
lviii.-lx.— Vegetation of the basalt at Mount Wilson.
STUDIES IN THE VEGETATION OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID NEW
SOUTH WALES.
Part ii. THs BOTANICAL FEATURES OF THE GREY RANGE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.
By Margorte I. Couuins, B.Se., F.L.8., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in
Botany.
(Plates iv.-ix.)
[Read 26th March, 1924.]
Introduction.
As an introduction to a previous paper upon the Plant Ecology of the Barrier
District (Collins, 1923) the writer described the physiographic and climatic features
of Western New South Wales. It was shown that the extensive sandy plains
stretching out to the west of the Main Divide are interrupted at rare intervals
by regions of high land, old peneplain surfaces which stand partly buried in their
own detritus. The most important of these old residuals are the Cobar peneplain,
about 140 miles east of the River Darling, and the Barrier and Grey Ranges in
the far west and north-west respectively.
Western New South Wales was further shown to be a region of decreasing
annual rainfall as one proceeds from east to west, the region of lowest rainfall in
tne State, Yandama, being close to the boundaries between New South Wales,
Queensland and South Australia.
The choking up of main and subsidiary stream channels with sand and de-
tritus, and the cutting down of new channels in the old creek beds, in addition
to other interesting physiographic features, point to the far west of New South
Wales being a region of increasing aridity in recent geological time. This being
the ease, the vegetation of such an area should offer much that: is of special
interest to the plant ecologist.
In the paper referred to above (Collins, 1923, pp. 246-261) the writer dealt
with the plant associations of the various habitats in the Barrier Range, and, as
far as she was able, from the data available, discussed the possible developmental
relationships of the chief associations.
It was with the intention of adding to the data collected in the Barrier Range,
and thereby forming a truer and more complete conception of the relationships
of the plant associations, that the Grey Range was visited in 1922.
Although comparatively few species were found in addition to those already
listed for the Barrier Range, yet the reaction upon the vegetation of certain
physiographic features not previously met, such as the extensive areas of parallel
sand ridges and the formation of “gibber” plains and slopes, seems to merit the
special consideration of a separate paper. Also, the occurrence of summer rains
2 STUDIES IN THE VEGETATION OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID N.S.W.,
will be shown to have some effect upon the nature of the ground flora, an effect
not appreciably noticed in the Barrier Range, and one of special interest in a
pastoral country.
In connection with this investigation in the Grey Range, the writer is in-
debted to Dr. W. MacGillivray of Broken Hill for much assistance, to Mr. Fuller
of Mt. Poole and Mr. and Mrs. Winton of Yandama Stations for their hospitality
and kindness in facilitating the work. The writer also wishes to express her
thanks to Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.R.S., and his staff, who placed the facilities of
the National Herbarium at her disposal and assisted in the identification of many
species.
Tue GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE GREY RANGE.
The Grey Range is a line of low undulating hills extending from about Lat.
30° S., Long. 140° 50’, across the New South Wales boundary into Queensland.
Although the height of these hills ranges from about 400 to 500 feet above the
level of the surrounding’ plains, there are occasional higher peaks which stand out
sharply, such as Mount Poole, Mount Sturt, Mount Browne and Mount Shannon.
The Grey Range is held by certain geologists to be a northerly extension of
the Barrier Range, and in age its rocks have been tentatively placed with the
Willyama Series (Archaean) of this latter Range. Andrews says in this connection
(1922, p. 63) “The North and South axis along which members of the Willyama
Series are arranged, is continued to the Queensland border, a distance of 250
miles North from Broken Hill, the older rocks cropping up as small shields and
long ridges at distant intervals (Packsaddle, Koonanberry, Mount Arrowsmith,
ete.) Of these the most marked are the Tibbooburra and Milparinka groups,
distant respectively 210 and 185 miles from Broken Hill.”
The most noteworthy of the rocks making up the Grey Range are claystones
and slates with a dip ranging from about 60° to vertical, and with a strike of
about N. 35° W. (Andrews, 1922, p. 62).
Occasional thin beds of sandstone were observed by the writer interbedded
with the slates near Mt. Poole. Large quartz reefs are a consistent feature of
the range and are mostly thinly veneered with oxide of iron. The presence of
these quartz reefs, and particularly the sheets of quartz rubble resulting from
their fragmental weathering, recalls a similar occurrence in the beds of the Torro-
wangee Series north of Broken Hill. In the case of the Grey Range, however, the
silicification appears to have been more intense, hills: and plains at the present
day being often entirely covered with dazzling white quartz fragments, which, in
the distance, give the appearance of snow. Gold, which was at one time mined in’
the Grey Range and is at the present time often found in the sandy creek beds
after rains, was no doubt liberated by the breaking down of these quartz reefs.
Further evidences of silicification are found in the chalcedonised pebbles,
agates and jaspers, so common a feature of the rubble and gibber sheets.
Intrusive rocks of the range are chiefly the granite masses, such as that
occurring near Tibbooburra, and the diorite dykes which frequently traverse the
slates.
An interesting occurrence of sedimentary rocks in the district is that of the
Cretaceous sandstones which extend into New South Wales from Queensland as
outliers from the Artesian Series. These sandstones are more commonly found
in situ near Tibbooburra and upon denudation contribute in large measure to the
formation of the gibber sheets which are a noteworthy feature of the lower slopes
of the Range.
BY MARJORIE I. COLLINS. 3
Physiography. ‘
The physiographic features of the Grey Range are still more markedly of an
arid cycle than those of the Barrier Range. Streams again originate centri-
fugally in the hills. The Milparinka and Evelyn Creeks are of note on the eastern
flanks and eventually lose themselves on the plains towards the Darling River;
while Yandama Creek on the west, flows towards the Lake Callabonna drainage
basin.
As in the Barrier Range, these creeks are sandy or pebble-strewn courses
lined by gum-trees (Hucalyptus). Occasionally waterholes occur in the creek beds,
and these are often the sole source of water supply in times of prolonged drought.
With a good downpour of rain, however, water runs in these creeks for some
hours and floods the surrounding country.
As in the case of the Barrier Range, the Grey Range is surrounded by ex-
tensive plains. These are, for the most part, of a red sandy soil, with occasional
patches of clay and darker loam in the areas subjected to flooding. The Plains
stretch on the south to the Barrier Range and are interrupted at intervals by
isolated peaks and ridges, such as Mt. Arrowsmith, Koonanberry Range, Mt.
Packsaddle. It is on these plains between the Barrier and Grey Ranges that the
extensive clay-pan lakes, Bancannia and Cobham, occur.
In the east the sandy plains stretch to the Darling River, while to the north
and west they extend, as an almost endless waste of sand, to the Central Aus-
tralian Desert. A
A feature of these sandy plains, and one not developed to any marked ex-
tent near the Barrier Range, is the occurrence of mile after mile of parallel sand
ridges separated by clay flats. Mr. H. Y. L. Brown narrates (1883, p. 3) “These
plains are chiefly composed of red loam and sand with soft silt depressions, clay-
pans or hard depressed floors, and dry lakes. Further North these depressions
become deeper, and the sand ridges commence from here to Yandama Creek; they
are composed of loose red sand and vary in height from 30-50 feet, and are
placed in roughly parallel rows at distances of from a few inches to a quarter
of a mile apart, being separated by long reaches of clay’ and silt flats.”
The trend of these sand ridges appears to vary. The Cobham sand ridges, on
the mail route from Broken Hill to Milparinka, cross the track diagonally, trend-
ing almost north-east, while west of the Grey Range they are approximately north
and south in direction.
In addition to the clay flats between the sand ridges, clay pans of varying
size and generally of cireular outline occur on the sandy plains and form an im-
portant feature of the country after rains.
In the neighbourhood of the range itself and extending out onto the plains
for some distance are the gibber or stone sheets.
The gibber plains are perhaps amongst the most characteristic of the physio-
graphic features of desert-arid Australia. Spencer and Gillen say of them (1912,
p. 40) “Nothing could possibly be more desolate than these ‘gibber fields’ . .
The horizon is shimmering and indistinct, and the level ground is covered with a
layer of close-set, purple brown stones, all made smooth and shiny by the con-
stant action of wind-borne sand-grains, for in winter especially, a strong South
Kast wind often blows all day long.” The stones making up these gibber sheets
are rounded and polished and often glazed by the deposition of a layer of silica
or iron. They are hard and flinty, and testify to the intense silicification of the
strata from which they were derived. Geologists hold that these stones are de-
4 STUDIES IN THE VEGETATION OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID N.S.W.,
rived from the cappings of Cretaceous sandstones, which apparently extended at
one time over a much greater area than at the present day.
In the neighbourhood of the Grey Range the gibbers are limited in extent
and were nowhere observed to extend over such boundless wastes as described by
various writers for the central, more desert regions of Australia (Spencer and
Gillen, 1912; Jack, 1915; Howchin and Gregory, 1909). They are found covering
slopes and bases of low hills and extend for limited distances onto the plains.
Yandama, on the western fringe of the Range, gives noteworthy evidence of this
formation.
Another physiographic evidence of aridity in the Grey Range is to be found
in the occurrence of certain salts in the soil. Gypsum deposits are frequent and
fragments of crystalline gypsum are commonly found amongst the gibbers and
on the rubble slopes.
Saline lakes occur to the west of the Range and increase in number as one
passes across the South Australian border into true Desert Country. Lake
Frome, Lake Callabonna and, to the north-west, Lake Eyre are the most im-
portant of these lakes. Travertine also occurs in the range, constituting a kind
of hard pan some slight distance beneath the surface soil.
CLIMATE. *
Rainfall.
The Grey Range is situated in the most arid portion of New South Wales,
in fact the plains upon its western and north-western flanks fringe the most arid
portion of Australia—the Lake Eyre basin. Yandama, on the western side of the
Range, has an average annual rainfall of 6.55 inches, while Oodnadatta, in the
Lake Eyre basin, has 4.85 ins.
The monthly average distribution of rainfall is only available for two stations
in the Grey Range, Milparinka and Tibbooburra, and is shown in Table I.
Table I.
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. June.July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Total
Malliparinikal es) 2s) ens 5G ue bby OWE GOO Or ie SBi Sel 3564S eet 5 G4s 2GY> eS Wor
UMN OO MA Sos BW COM BB SO. (A COR (BB. 548 oA) (Geb we COO 8a 8e
Fyom this table, it will be seen that, although there is a fair degree of uni-
formity throughout the year, the average is highest for the summer months
(November to February). It seems highly probable too, that if more data were
available, particularly from the northern end of the range, the average for the
summer months would be still higher. The position of the Grey Range is such
that it receives some rain from the southern region of winter rain contro] and
some from the region of summer rain control. This results in a degree of seasonal
uniformity, but at the same time is responsible for the extreme variation in rain-
fall total. The following table indicates the extent of this variation.
* For meteorological data used in this paper the writer is indebted to Mr. Mares,
Weather Bureau, Sydney.
BY MARJORIE I. COLLINS. 5
Table II., showing variation in total rainfall for stations in the Grey Range, New South Wales.
Station. Rainfall in inches. Year.
{ MSE sti ane Meivecie abate 16.20 1890
Wammene \eaiealdowestinswuiiuenean Seer lkauee 2.38 1905
SEBO (ft ERI Sal Cea ERG 18.13 1885
SURE SUNN AAS Tan teReinn a a eee 2.18 1888
Huphestieniiasnie soph ek MMiel 42 1887
Tibbooburra { Lowest 1.88 1919
A feature of the rainfall in the Grey Range, in which this Range resembles
the Barrier and other arid regions in Australia, is that a certain percentage of
the rain falls in small amounts, from .10 to .25 inch. If,-as is often the ease,
these small falls are followed by intensely hot dry days, then it is only reasonable
to suppose that a large amount of this water is lost by evaporation before it can
be made use of by the plants.
Dr. Cannon (1921, p. 67) observed at Leigh’s Creek and other stations in
South Australia that fine soil is moistened to a depth of 4 em. by a rain of .21
inch, while a coarser soil is penetrated to a depth of 8-9 em. He shows further
that “given favorable soil conditions, a rain amounting to .20 inch, penetrates
the soil sufficiently to moisten the horizon occupied by the roots of many annuals
and also by a portion of the horizontal roots of certain perennials.”
In addition to small falls of rain, this country is one characterised by severe
thunderstorms, often local in nature, during which several inches of rain may
fall.
During the writer’s recent visit to Yandama in October, 1922, 1.25 inch fell
in one fall after a drought of two years. Later, during December, 1922, falls of
seven, eight and ten inches were recorded from various localities in the Grey
Range within a few days.
Heavy and soaking rains which can penetrate the hard baked surfaces of
clay, and can percolate through the more heated upper layers of the sandy soil,
are apparently the only rains which affect the larger perennial plants with their
more deep-seated root systems. _
Evaporation and temperature.
There is no information available concerning evaporation in the Grey Range,
but, Judging from the rate at which the water dries in the clay pans and water-
holes after rain, the amount of evaporation must be considerable. According to
the mean evaporation map for Australia (Cannon, 1921, p. 26) the north-west
corner of New South Wales, including the Grey Range, comes between the 90
and 100 inch lines.
Temperature records are also meagre, but, if records for Tibbooburra may be
taken as typical for the Range, the average may be regarded as from 69° to 70°. -
Table III. shaws the monthly averages in temperature for Tibbooburra.
Table III.
Jan. Web, Mar. Apr. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Tibbooburra ® 83.9 83.0 76.3 68.3 59.8 54.2 52.4 57.% 63.4 70.0 76.5 82.3
The highest shade temperature recorded for Tibbooburra is 115° and the
lowest in the same year 28° giving a range of 87° F. ~
6 STUDIES IN THE VEGETATION OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID N.S.W.,
Previous Investigations.
Until the present time, our knowledge of the plants and their relationships
in the Grey Range has been very meagre and confined almost entirely to the
botanical notes made during Sturt’s Exploring Expedition to the interior in 1844-
1845 (Sturt, 1849). More recently Dr. W. MacGillivray referred to various
species collected in the Grey Range and its neighbourhood while on a journey to
Cooper’s Creek from Broken Hill (MacGillivray, 1923).
After leaving Flood’s Creek, at the northern extremity of the Barrier Range,
in the advance upon the distant Grey Range, Sturt and his party encountered sand
ridge after sand ridge covered with pine trees. The red clayey flats between were
clothed with “Salsolaceous plants.” Sturt says of these ridges (1849, p. 184) :—
“The sand ridges, some partially, some thickly, covered with Pine-trees [| Callitris
robusta (?) | were from thirty to fifty feet high, and about eighty yards at their
base, running nearly longitudinally from north to south. They were generally
well covered with grass, which appeared to have been the produce of recent rains;
and several very beautiful leguminous plants were also growing on them” [pro-
bably Crotalaria, Swainsona, Clhanthus, Indigofera, ete.].
Later, when attempting to reach a hypothetical inland sea north-west of the
Grey Range, Sturt is seriously hampered by these sandridges and exclaims—
“Sandy ridges once more rose up in terrible array against us, although we had
left the last full 50 miles behind, even the animals I think regarded them with
dismay” (p. 378) . . . . “Here, on both sides of us, to the eastward and to the
westward, they followed each other like the waves of the sea in endless succession,
suddenly terminating as I have already observed on the vast plain into which they
ran” (p. 380). Sturt records the occurrence of Acacias, Hakeas and Melaleucas
on these ridges, but as he proceeds into the true desert country of the Lake Eyre
basin, he finds the ridges bare but for the “poreupine” grass or “spinifex”
(Triodia irritans) and an occasional “species of Mesembryanthemum with light
pink fiowers on a slender stalk” (p. 405), by which he probably meant Calandrima
Balonensis (Portulacaceae). Sturt refers frequently to the slopes of the Grey
Range covered with quartz rubble and to the gibber sheets, which he describes as
being bare of timber. An outstanding feature of his narrative from the botanical
point of view is his reference to pine thickets and pineries on sandridges north
of the Barrier Range and in the neighbourhood of the Grey Range.
There is no doubt that by the pine Sturt referred to Callitris robusta or
some species of Callitris. Since the pine is almost absent from these ridges at
the present day and is only represented by scattered groups in both Barrier and
Grey Ranges (Collins, 1923, p. 262) Sturt’s botanical notes describing conditions
of nearly 80 years ago, have an added interest.
Investigations of arid regions in South Australia, where physiographic and
climatic conditions are somewhat similar to those described by the writer for the
Grey Range, have been carried out in recent years by Dr. Cannon (1921) and
by Osborn and Adamson (1922). Physiographically the Grey Range and its
neighbourhood approximate more closely to the Oodnadatta region (Cannon, 1921)
in that gibber slopes and plains with sparse vegetation and sand ridges and
claypans constitute extensive habitats. A difference exists, however, in that the
serub vegetation of the sand ridges near Oodnadatta is more open and contains
fewer species than near the Grey Range in New South Wales.
Osborn and Adamson (1922, p. 543) deseribe a luxuriant sandhill vegetation
for the Ooldea region in South Australia. Although Ooldea is situated just within
BY MARJORIE I. COLLINS. 7
the 10-inch isohyet and, consequently, the serub vegetation in this locality con-
tains a wider range of species than observed by the writer in north-western New
South Wales, the observations of these writers upon developmental relationships
of the vegetation bear out, to a certain extent, those already made by the present
writer in arid New South Wales (Collins, 1923).
The Plant Habitats.
As in the case of the Barrier Range, there are certain fairly well defined
habitats in the Grey Range and its neighbourhood. The most important of these
are the rocky hills and slopes, the sandy plains and the ereek beds.
The rocky hills and slopes are of two distinct types—the slate and claystone
deposits making up the greater part of the Range, and the lower hills and slopes
which are covered for the main part by gibbers and rubble. The sandy plains
are either level stretches of sand dotted with clay-pans, or they are thrown up
into a corrugation of sand ridges. The latter are rarely colonised as thickly as
the sandy’ plains*and possibly indicate less beneficial water relations. Where the
lower slopes of the range merge into the plains, the latter are covered with sheets
of rubble and gibbers. These sheets are in process of formation and represent
primary bare areas within the plains. They are almost destitute of tree and shrub
vegetation and, on account of the heat reflected from the polished surface of the
stones, these gibber slopes and plains. represent a most inhospitable habitat for
the invasion and establishment of seedlings. However, miniature depressions 0c¢-
cur in the gibber sheets, and, since these represent centres of small localised
drainage systems, they have naturally become centres of colonisation after rains.
The claypans are a consistent feature of flat sandy country throughout arid
and desert Australia. They vary considerably in size, ranging from a few yards
to over a mile in diameter. In outline the pans are sometimes circular, but more
often irregular. Neighbouring pans often merge into one another, owing to the
Sweeping away, by wind, of the intervening barrier of sand. In some eases there
is hardly any boundary delimiting the claypans from the surrounding plains and
in these cases the pans tend to become buried in sand drift. In other cases a
rim of sand is built up round the pan, the water-carrying capacity of which is
thereby increased. Tate and Watt (1896, p. 23) offer the following suggestion to
account for the origin and formation of claypans. “They naturally oceur only
where the country is flat. . . . . There is, therefore, a tendency for the water to
le on the surface or rather to be gathered into slight depressions, which are
sure to exist even on otherwise almost level surfaces. At first the water that was
gathered into these slight depressions would almost immediately percolate the
porous strata, but in doing so it would leave behind a deposit of silt. This would
happen with every subsequent heavy fall of rain, until the silt suspended in the
water and carried into the depression and deposited there, was in sufficient quantity
to prevent further percolation. The claypan has now become established, and will
retain water for a longer or shorter period, and as there is now very little pereo-
lation through the bottom there will be no further settling of the floor as there
may haye been in the early stages.” —
It is possible that many of the claypans originate in the manner described
above; others perhaps are formed by the removal of sand from the clayey sub-
stratum, which is known to lie close to the surface in some localities at least,
and the subsequent holding of water in these clayey areas.
Surrounding the larger claypans there are definite zones subjected to flooding.
8 STUDIES IN THE VEGETATION OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID N.S.W.,
These are known as “box” flats, since they are colonised by the box, Eucalyptus
bicolor (Collins, 1923, Plate xxu.).
The sandy creek beds are colonised by box (EH. bicolor and E. microtheca)
and river red gums (H#. rostrata), species of Acacia and other small trees and
shrubs. It is on these water-courses that the only tall tree vegetation of the re-
gion is found.
The Vegetation of the Rocky Hills and Slopes.
As has been shown above, the rocky hills and slopes are of two main types,
those which are made up of slatey deposits, and those where the surface soil is
covered with a rubble of quartz fragments or with a mosaic of gibbers. In either
case these slopes are but sparsely timbered. The slate outcrops bear an open
vegetation of scattered bushes and small trees, all of which are represented in the
serub flora of the sandy plains to be described later. Species of Acacia such as
Acacia aneura F.v.M., A. tetragonophylla F.v.M. and A. cana Maiden are fre-
quently found with scattered species of Hremophila (EH. Latrobei F.v.M., E.
Sturtii R.Br., H. maculata F.v.M., EH. latifolia F.v.M., H. Freelingu F.v.M., etc.)
and Myoporum deserti A. Cunn. The vegetation on slate outcrops was nowhere
observed by the writer to form a thick serub. At the time of the writer’s visit to
the Grey Range during a period of drought (Oct., 1922) the ground between the
small trees and bushes was practically bare, except for low bushes of Kochia and
Atriplex and the withered remains of grasses and annuals of a previous rainy
season. Although the open nature of this vegetation is no doubt due in part to
the practice of grazing and the non-establishment of perennials during extended
droughts, it is highly probable, in the case of the slate outcrops at least, that
edaphie factors affect the general configuration of the flora to a large degree.
Osborn’s observations upon the vegetation of the slate outcrops in the Mt. Lofty
Ranges near Adelaide (Osborn, 1914) and those of the writer in the Barrier Range
(Collins, 1923) give support to this view. Where the rainfall is great enough to
ensure the growth of grasses, as near Adelaide, a grassland results. In such a
climate as that of the Grey Range, however, where rain is periodic and seanty at
best, the ground flora, when present, is made up chiefly of species of Chenopodiaceae
(Atriplex, Kochia, Rhagodia, Bassia) and such annuals as are commonly found
on the plains belonging to the Compositae, Leguminosae, Cruciferae, Gramineae,
ete.
The quartz rubble slopes are generally bare except for a few species of
Chenopodiaceae such as Bassia brachyptera * and other species of Bassia. In one
locality near Mt. Poole, a rubble and gibber slope is being colonised by a com-
munity of the leafless Aesclepiad Sarcostemma australe R.Br., the so-called “caustic
bush” or “snake-bush” of stockmen (Plate v., Photo 4).
Gibber slopes are devoid of tree and tall shrub vegetation except in the
neighbourhood of creeks, where certain shrubby species often extend up the slopes
from the creek beds. In several localities Acacia Cambagei, the “gidgee’ (Plate
y., Photo 6), has spread over gibber slopes to form dense serubs. The usual ap-
pearance of a gibber slope, however, is that of a barren sheet of stones, un-
relieved by any tall vegetation. A stunted form of Atriplex vesicariwm colonises
gibber slopes and plains extensively and represents the sole vegetation for many
miles (Plate v., Photo 5). Where the gibber sheets are characterised by the de-
* Formerly Kochia brachyptera F. v. M.
BY MARJORIE I. COLLINS. 9
pressions referred to above, small centres of colonisation occur and patches of
annual vegetation are found. The withered remains of Bassia brachyptera were
observed by the writer in all these depressions, the species representing again the
pioneer coloniser on rubble slopes and plains (Collins, 1923, p. 253).
Such annuals as Helipterum floribundum DC., H. polygalifolium DC., Myrio-
cephalus Stuartu and the grasses Astrebla pectinata V.v.M. (Mitchell Grass),
Iseilima Mitchelli Andr. (Flinders Grass) and Andropogon sericeus R.Br. (Blue
Grass) are frequently found in these depressions. These latter are good standing
erasses, and represent important additions to the flora for summer grazing. An
interesting addition to the tree vegetation of the rocky outcrops of the Grey Range
is the blood-wood Eucalyptus terminalis F.v.M., which occurs on the sandstones
near Tibbooburra. This is the only species of Eucalyptus in the neighbourhood of
the Grey Range, which grows away from creek beds or flooded flats.
The Vegetation of the Sandy Plams.
The vegetation of the sandy plains and sand ridges in the neighbourhood of
the Grey Range is considerably more dense than that of the rocky outcrops des-
seribed above. In fact, if one were to look out, from some elevated point in the
range, over the surrounding country, one would see monotonous miles of dense
grey-green scrub rolling away to the horizon. Occasional open spaces, practically
devoid of trees and tall shrubs, point to the effects of grazing and clearing. The
trees and shrubs making up this vegetation are distinctly xerophilous. The
canopy or umbrella form of branching as seen in Acacia and Hremophila is com-
mon, the leaves are either hard and leathery, with a marked development of
selerenchyma and with thick cuticles, or they are characterised by the secretion of
a layer of resin over the surface (e.g., Hremophila spp. and Dodonaea). Leaves
and phyllodia are commonly strap-shaped and are generally arranged parallel to
the incident rays of light. Partial or total aphylly is sometimes found as in
Casuarina and EHxocarpus. Although there are no truly deciduous types in this
region, it frequently happens that certain Leguminous plants shed their pinnae
or leaflets and become phyllodineous (e.g. Acacia and Cassia). An interesting
ease of the shedding of lateral leaflets occurs in Crotalaria Cunninghamii R.Br.,
where the two lateral leaflets are shed soon after the opening of the leaf, the
broad terminal leaflet remaining. In this manner certain plants diminish their
transpiring surface, and are thereby better fitted to withstand the intense heat and
desiccating winds of summer. Species of Acacia e.g. Acacia tetragonophylla, shed
their phyllodes during prolonged droughts, further production of phyllodes taking
place with the comimg of rain. As has been shown above, the sandy plains are
thrown up in certain areas into a corrugation of sand ridges which sueceed one
another for many miles and are separated by clay flats of varying width. As a
general rule the vegetation of these ridges is not so dense as that of the level
sandy plain. This may be due to the less stable condition of the sand ridges or
perhaps, in part, to their lower water-capacity. Small sand ridges are pioneered
by clumps of Salsola Kali followed, after rain, by various annual Chenopodiaceae
such as Atriplex holocarpum F.v.M., A. halimoides Lindl., A. angulatum Benth.,
A. campanulatum Benth., A. limbatuwm Benth., A. fissivalve F.v.M., A. Muelleri
Benth. Other annuals appearing during the early colonisation of sand are various
Composites such as Myriocephalus Stuartii Benth., Helipterum floribundum DC.,
H. strictum Benth., H. polygalifoliwm DC., also Blennodia canescens var. ptero-
sperma, Solanum ellipticum R.Br., 8. esuriale Lindl. and many others. Amongst
10 STUDIES IN THE VEGETATION OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID N.S.W.,
the perennials, Acacia ligulata is frequently found during the early stages of
development and is generally associated with the small Leguminous shrub Crota-
laria dissitiflora. The long golden-flowered racemes of this latter plant bring a
prodigal wealth of colour to the parched sand ridges. Although the early stages
of colonisation of sand are only observable upon small recently formed ridges, it
is probable that plant succession is the same for both sandy plain and sand ridge.
Where open areas occur on sandy plains, owing to scrub-cutting and burning, and
partly to the eating out of perennial seedlings by rabbits and sheep, a community
of Atriplex vesicarium (Plate vui., Photo 11) or Kochia sedifolia is often found,
K. pyramidata, K. aphylla and Rhagodia spinescens being oceasionally associated
with the former. Annuals, chiefly belonging to the Compositae, Leguminosae, and*
Gramineae, together with a variety of small herbs, enter the scrub in these open
spaces. It has apparently been the policy of pastoralists to eut and clear scrub,
in order to increase the area occupied by the saltbushes and annual herbage, and,
as a result, at the present day, large open areas of saltbush country occur in the
scrub. The scrub, which is apparently the climax vegetation for the region, is
characterised by small trees and tall shrubs, with an undergrowth of smaller
shrubs, and a groundflora of the smaller woody perennials and numerous annuals.
In general character, this association closely resembles the “mulga” scrub
described for the rocky hills and slopes of the Barrier Range (Collins, 1923).
There are minor differences, however, in that certain species are represented in the
one locality and not in the other, and certain species which are dominant in the
one locality are but sparingly represented in the other.
The mulga, Acacia aneura (Plate viii., Photo 14) is still the dominant species
of the serub association. With Acacia aneura and often assuming the role of co-
dominant, are Acacia tetragonophylla, A. cana, A. ligulata, A. Murrayana (Plate
vi. Photo 10), A. Oswaldi, A. stenophylla, A. Burkitti, and A. rigens. Amongst
the trees of the association, perhaps the most important are Caswarina lepidophloia
(Casuarineae) Myoporum platycarpum and Eremophila longifolia (Myoporineae)
Grevillea striata (Plate vi., Photo 8) and Hakea leucoptera (Proteaceae), Santa-
lum lanceolatum and Exocarpus aphylla (Santalaceae) Atalaya hemiglauca (Sapin-
daceae), Owenia acidula (Meliaceae) and Pittosporum phyllyraeoides (Pittospor-
aceae). Of these species, Atalaya hemiglauca and Owema acidula were not ob-
served by the writer in the Barrier Range, but as these are known to have ex-
tended down the Darling River and to the east as far as the Cobar district, it is
possible that outlying individuals do occur in the Barrier Range, although they
cannot play as important a part in the scrub association as they do in the
neighbourhood of the Grey Range. <Atalaya hemiglauca generally grows in groups
of from four to six individuals. This is due to vegetative propagation from hori-
zontal roots, a common feature of plants in these regions. Hakea leucoptera 1s
of lower stature here than observed in the Barrier Range and is generally charac-
terised by the “mallee” habit, three or four stems taking the place of the main
central stem. This adoption of the mallee habit is of interest, since Hakea
leucoptera is known to store water in similar manner to the various species of
mallee (Eucalyptus oleosa, E. incrassata Labill. var. dumosa F.v.M., ete.). Apart
from the trees enumerated above, the mulga scrub is largely made up of shrubs of
varying size. Of these the Myoporineae, Leguminosae and Sapindaceae play an
important part. Of the Myoporineae Myoporum acuminatum, M. platycarpum
and M. deserti are frequently found while EHremophila Duttom, E. Sturtu, E.
Latrobei, E. longifolia, E. alternifolia, E. oppositifolia and E. Brownti are: comr
BY MARJORIE I. COLLINS. 11
mon members of the scrub. Rarer species of Hremophila are occasionally met in
groups of a few individuals such as Hremophila bignoniflora and the almost
leafless EL. polyclada (Plate vi., Photo 9).
Of the Leguminosae, species of Cassia are second in importance to the Acacias.
Cassia Sturtu, C. eremophila, and C. artemisioides are again prominent, but
Cassia phyllodinea increases in number of individuals as we proceed north from
the Barrier Range, until, in the neighbourhood of the Grey Range, it is the most
abundant species. Cassia pleurocarpa is recorded by MacGillivray (1923, p. 140)
for sandy country in the Grey Range, though it was not collected by the writer.
Templetoma egena, T. aculeata and Crotalaria dissitiflora are further Leguminous
plants entering into the undergrowth. Crotalaria Cunninghame, with its large
green flowers, is an interesting addition to the scrub flora, but is more often
found on open sandy ridges. This species is characterised by trifoliate leaves,
the two lateral leaflets of which are shed at an early stage. Of the Sapindaceae,
in addition to Atalaya hemiglauca (the white wood) referred to above, Dodonaea
viscosa, D. viscosa var. spathulata, D. attenuata and Heterodendron oleaefolium
are important species. The latter often occurs in dense “mono-specific” com-
munities (Plate vu., Photo 12) and forms scrubs similar to those made by the
various species of Acacia.
An undergrowth of lower woody and herbaceous perennials is a characteristic
feature of the scrub vegetation. Amongst the most important of these are Ptilotus
obovatus and Ptilotus nobilis (Amaranthaceae), Atriplex vesicarium, Kochia sedi-
folia and Rhagodia spinescens (Chenopodiaceae), Sida virgata and Lavatera
plebeia (Malvaceae), Solanwm Sturtianum (Solanaceae), Scaevola spinescens
(Goodeniaceae), Senecio magnificus and Senecio Gregori (Compositae). .
Open areas in the scrub are generally occupied almost exclusively by members
of the Chenopodiaceae and after rains by a large additional flora of annuals. This
annual flora resembles that described for the Barrier District (Collins, 1923), and
it is possible that most of the species recorded for that region are found in the
Grey Range. The Compositae make up a great part of this annual flora, species
of Helichrysum, Helipterum, Myriocephalus, Angianthus, Minuria and Brachy-
come, being important. Such Leguminous plants as Clianthus Dampieri (Sturt’s
Desert Pea), Swainsona procumbens, S. tephrotricha, Psoralea eriantha, and the
trailers Indigofera brevidens and Glycine clandestina are perhaps second in im-
portance to the Composites amongst the annual flora.
According to the time of the year in which the great part of the rain falls,
a winter or summer. herbage develops. Since the Grey Range is close to the
southern boundary of the summer rain controls it is usual for more rain to fall
during the spring and summer months. This results in the development of a grass
herbage mixed with annual salt bushes. The Mitchell Grass (Astrebla pectimata
F.y.M.), the Flinders Grass (Isetlima Mitchel Andr.) and the Blue Grass
(Andropogon sericeus R.Br.) are the most important of these grasses, species of
Stipa, Danthonia, Neurachne and Aristida also occurring.
It is possible that a fairly large grass flora develops in the Grey Range and
its neighbourhood after rains, but it is only the good standing grasses which re-
main with the onset of the drying winds so prevalent in these parts.
Amongst the winter herbage are various species of Cruciferae such as Blen-
nodia canescens R.Br., Blennodia lasiocarpa F.v.M., B. nasturtioides Benth.,
Stenopetalum lineare R.Br., Lepidium papillosum F.v.M., Sisymbriwm sp., Portu-
laca oleracea and Calandrinia Balonensis are important members of this herbage
12 STUDIES IN THE VEGETATION OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID N.S.W.,
owing to their water storage capacity and their consequent ability to persist
through the hot weather of early summer. Hrodiwm cygnorum (the crowfoot),
Daucus brachiatus (the wild carrot) and Didiscus glaucifolius (the wild parsnip)
are further members of the winter herbage.
The Vegetation of the Claypans, Creek Beds and Flooded Flats.
As in the case of the claypans described for the Barrier District (Collins,
1923, p. 257) early colonisation takes place by species of Babbagia and Bassia,
with Chenopodium nitrariaceum on the outer limits. In the region of the Grey
Range, claypans which have been dry for some time are commonly colonised and
often completely reclaimed by the Cane-grass Glyceria ramigera (Plate viii., Photo
16).
The sandy creek beds are again conspicuous as bearing the tallest trees of
the region, the River Red gums (Hucalyptus rostrata) (Plate ix., Photo 18) and
the “box” (Hucalyptus microtheca). With Eucalyptus rostrata and E. microtheca
smaller trees and tall shrubs often oceur. These are the Whitewood, Atalaya
hemiglauca, Owenia acidula, Pittosporum phyllyraeoides and various species of
Acacia, Eremophila and Myoporum. Acacia Cambagei, the Gidgee, often con-
stitutes the entire vegetation along minor creek channels. This forms dense
thickets for some distance on either side of the creeks (Plate ix., Photo 17).
The flooded areas on either side of creeks and minor drainage channels and
the flats surrounding the larger claypans are often covered by a dense growth of
the leafless Muehlenbeckia Cunninghamii, the so-called “lignum.” This occurs
with the “black box,” Hucalyptus bicolor. The groundflora of such flooded re-
gions closely resembles that deseribed for the Barrier District, the species being
practically identical. Wet soil is colonised by the small stocky Composite, Centi-
peda thespidioides, and by Marsilia Drummondii. (“Nardoo’”’) and Marsilia exarata,
Mimulus repens, Morgania glabra, Lavatera plebeia, together with many Com-
posites, Gramineae, and Chenopodiaceae occupy the drier land. Nitraria Schoeberi
1S again common on flooded land and the Amaryllid, Crinwm flaccidum, appears
to reach its maximum development in these parts (Collins, 1923, p. 260).
General Discussion.
As has been shown above, the Grey Range and its neighbourhood differ from
the Barrier District in certain geologic and physiographic features. The fact, that
the Grey Range comes within the region previously capped by the great Cretaceous
sandstone series, has resulted in the formation of gibber slopes and plains, due to
the weathering and wind-polishing of these sandstones. The barrenness of such
areas gives ample evidence of their inhospitality as a plant habitat.
The abundance of slates and claystones in the rock formation of the Grey
Range is probably responsible, in part, for the open nature of the vegetation and
the absence of thick serub on the rocky hills and slopes, such as is found on the
Willyama Series of the Barrier Range. On the other hand, a comparatively
luxuriant vegetation is developed on sandy plains in the neighbourhood of the
Grey Range. Although sandhill and claypan country is found in the Barrier Dis-
trict, it appears to reach its maximum development to the north-west of the Grey
Range. It was here that the sand ridges and sandy plains with their dark gloomy
serub filled Sturt and his band of explorers with dismay.
From the description given, in the present paper, of the vegetation of these
sandy plains, it will be seen that, in general configuration, this vegetation resembles
BY MARJORIE I. COLLINS. 13
the mulga scrub previously described for the Willyama Series in the Barrier dis-
trict. Minor differences occur, however, in that certain species recorded for the
Grey Range were not previously met in the Barrier district. The most important
of these are Atalaya heniglauca, Owema acidula, Eremophila bignoniflora, E.
polyclada and Acacia Farnesiana. Again, certain species, which were abundantly
represented in the scrub of the Barrier district such as Fusanus acuminatus and
F. persicarius (Santalaceae) were not observed by the writer in the scrub of the
Grey Range, and are probably absent from this region. Santalum lanceolatum,
on the other hand, is a more prominent member of ‘this latter scrub. The scrub
of the sandy plains near the Grey Range apparently represents the climax vege-
tation for the region. The mulga, Acacia aneura, is still the dominant species over
wide areas, though other species of Acacia such as Acacia Cambagei and A. cana
become dominant in places and form dense serubs.
This vegetation, to which the term Acacia Steppe may be applied, doubtless
represents the chmax vegetation at the present day for all country in New South
Wales west of the River Darling, that is, country with an average annual rainfall
of from 6 to 10 inches. Observations upon succession in the Grey Range and its
neighbourhood, bear out those already made in the Barrier district. Bare areas,
whether of primary or secondary origin, are first colonised by members of the
Chenopodiaceae. In the case of secondary bare areas within the scrub association,
communities of Atriplex, Kochia and Rhagodia are commonly found. Primary
bare areas, such as rubble slopes and gibber sheets, are colonised in the first in-
stance by Bassia brachyptera and B. divaricata, followed later by other species of
Bassia, Kochia and Atriplex. Other primary bare areas such as claypans are first
invaded by species of Bassia and Babbagia, while minor drainage channels are first
colonised by annual species of Atriplex.
In general configuration the serub association of the Grey Range and its
neighbourhood resembles that of the Barrier district. “Monospecific” communities
are again a characteristic feature of the vegetation as is also the sporadic occurrence
of small groups or isolated communities. The pine, Callitris robusta, is represented
sporadically in this locality where at one time it formed dense pineries (Sturt,
loc. cit.). As far as the writer is aware, Acacia Farnesiana is represented by a
solitary group of individuals a little south of Milparinka. In the western portion
of the region, that approximating more closely to desert conditions, certain species
are met which, according to the writings of other investigators (Cannon, 1921,
Osborn and Adamson, 1922), appear to reach a greater development in more de-
sert regions.
The “mallee” (Hucalyptus oleosa) which occurs in pockets or “inliers” through-
out the Barrier district is no longer a member of the serub vegetation in these
parts.
A feature worthy of note in the far north-west of New South Wales, and one
observed by the writer in the Barrier district also, is the apparent failure of
natural regeneration of certain woody perennials. The mulga, Acacia aneura,
being one of the most important woody fodder plants of arid and semi-arid New
South Wales, naturally comes under closer observation than other woody peren-
nials. During the investigations of the writer, which were carried out over two
years, and over a strip of country over 300 miles in length, in no instance were
seedling plants of Acacia aneura observed. The general consensus of opinion
amongst old residents in these parts seems to indicate that crops of seedlings of
14 STUDIES. IN THE VEGETATION OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID N.S.W.,
Acacia aneura are rare, and that when these do appear, the plants rarely reach
maturity.
It is known that many woody perennials of arid regions are able to rejuvenate
and produce more individuals by means of suckers from horizontal roots. The
apparent failure of regeneration of Acacia aneura should give grave cause for
alarm where this species is an important fodder reserve and where grazing is
carried out, at best, under most adverse circumstances.
To make better use of our desert fringe as a grazing region it is important to
know the factors affecting the establishment and development of the mulga (Acacia
aneura). The faet that this species is dominant in the scrub association at the
present day indicates that conditions were more favourable in the past for its
establishment. We have evidence to show that prolonged droughts have killed
large communities of woody perennials in arid New South Wales and that the
mulga has suffered in this way. There is no doubt that recurrent droughts seriously
affect the amount of seed produced and the number of seedlings eventually estab-
lished of any species in these parts.
The relative capacities of the seedlings of woody perennials to withstand
drought seems to the writer to merit special attention in arid New South Wales.
In addition to the recurrence of droughts as affecting the establishment of
seedlings of woody perennials, and of Acacia anewra in particular, in arid New
South Wales, the biotic factor is of importance. Rabbits cause extensive damage
in western New South Wales by ringbarking seedlings and young plants of woody
perennials, and by creating large secondary bare areas in the scrub around their
burrows. Overstocking of runs and continued browsing down of seedlings by
stock no doubt play an important part in causing the failure of natural re-
generation and in retarding natural development of communities. To what ex-
tent the vegetation of western New South Wales has been affected by these factors
in the past cannot now be estimated, but we are in a position to state that, at
the present day, the natural balance of vegetation is being seriously disturbed by
these agencies.
In conclusion, it seems to the writer that strict supervision of western lands
is necessary in order to check retrogression of vegetation, and the. consequent
encroachment of desert conditions upon what is now shrub-steppe.
Summary.
1. Geological, physiographic and climatic features of the Grey Range and its
neighbourhood are briefly dealt with.
2. Plant habitats are described, such as rocky hills and slopes, “gibber” and quartz
rubble sheets, sandy plains, sand ridges, claypans, creeks and flooded flats.
3. An account of the vegetation of these habitats is given, attention being paid
to early colonisation of bare areas and evidence of succession.
4. The nature of the groundflora in reference to summer and winter rain controls
is briefly dealt with.
5. In a general discussion, the developmental aspect of the vegetation is dealt
with and reference made to the apparent failure of natural regeneration of
certain woody perennials. i
6. Evidence shows that Acacia Steppe is the climax vegetation in New South
Wales at the present day for the 6-10 inch rainfall belt; and further, that a
certain amount of deterioration is going on within this formation due to biotic
and climatic factors.
BY MARJORIE I. COLLINS. 15
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Appendix.*
List of Plants collected in the Grey Range and its neighbourhood in September
and October, 1922.
Marsilea Drummondii A.Br.
M. exarata A.Br.
Calhitris robusta R.Br.
Spinifex paradoxus Benth.
Aristida calycina R.Br.
Stipa elegantissima Labill.
S. setacea R.Br.
S. scabra Lindl.
Danthonia penicillata F.v.M.
Astrebla pectinata F.v.M.
Triodia irritans R.Br.
Glyceria ramigera F.v.M.
Tseilima Mitchelli Andr.
Andropogon sericeus R.Br.
Crinum flaccidum Herb.
Bulbine semibarbarta Haw.
—
Casuarina lepidophloia F.v.M.
Grevillea stenobotrya F.v.M.
G. striata R.Br. —
Hakea leucoptera R.Br.
Exocarpus aphylla R.Br.
Santalum lanceolatwm R.Br.
Loranthus exocarpi Behr. ‘¢
L. Preissii Miq. N
L, miraculosus Maiq.
L. Quandong Lindl.
Muehlenbeckia Cunninghamii F.v.M.
Rhagodia spinescens R.Br.
Chenopodium mitrariaceum F.v.M.
_ Atriplex vesicarium Hew.
A. holocarpum F.v.M.
A. halimoides Lindl.
* This list is, no doubt, incomplete. particularly as far as annual species are con-
cerned, since the writer visited the locality after an intensely dry season.
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A.
Jabs
Ab
A.
angulatum Benth.
Muelleri Benth.
limbatum Benth.
fissivalve F.v.M.
Bassia diacantha F.v.M.
bbb dod
. paradoxa F.v.M.
. biflora F.v.M.
. bicornis F.v.M.
. gquinquecuspis F.v.M.
. longicuspis F.v.M.
. divaricata F.v.M.
. bicuspis F.v.M.
. lanicuspis F.v.M.
+B. brachyptera (¥.v.M.)
Kochia brevifola R.Br.
K. pyramidata Benth.
K
K.
. aphylla R.Br.
sedifolia W.v.M.
Enchylaena tomentosa R.Br.
Arthrocnemum arbuscula Moq.
Salsola Kali L.
Babbagia dipterocarpa W.v.M.
B.
acroptera F.v.M.
Ptilotus obovatus K'.v.M.
Je
nobilis F.v.M.
Alternanthera triandra Lam. var.
nodiflora F.v.M.
Tetragoma expansa Murr.
(Aizoon quadrifidum)
Gunniopsis quadrifida (F.v.M.) Pax.
Portulaca oleracea L.
Calandrinia balonensis Lind).
Blennodia trisecta Benth.
B.
B.
lasiocarpa F.v.M.
nasturtioides Benth.
Stenopetalum lineare R.Br.
Lepidium papillosum W.v.M.
LL.
fasciculatum.
Tillaea recurva Hook.
Pittosporum phyllyraeoides DC.
Acacia tetragonophylla F.v.M.
mh BR fh fb &
. rigens A. Cunn.
. sentis F.v.M.
. gladuformis A. Cunn.
. Murrayana ¥.v.M.
. Cambagei R. T. Baker.
. Oswaldi F.v.M.
. stenophylla A. Cunn.
j Formerly Kochia brachybtera F. v. M.
OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID N.S.W.,
A. Burkitti F.v.M.
A. aneura F.v.M.
A. Farnesiana Willd.
A. cana Maiden.
A. Loderi Maiden.
A. ligulata 2.
Cassia pleurocarpa ¥.v.M.
C. phyllodinea R.Br.
C. eremophila A. Cunn.
C. Sturtu R.Br.
C. artemisioides Gaud.
Templetonia aculeata Benth.
T. egena Benth.
Crotalaria Cunninghamii R.B:.
C. dissitiflora Benth.
Lotus australis Andy.
Indigofera brevidens Benth.
I. australis Willd.
Psoralea eriantha Benth.
P. patens Lindl.
Clianthus Dampieri A. Cunn.
Swainsona tephrotricha F.v.M.
S. phacifolia F.v.M.
S. procumbens F.v.M.
Glycine clandestina Wendl.
Erodium cygnorum Nees.
Linum marginale A. Cunn.
Zygophyllum apiculatum F.\ M
Z, iodocarpum F.v.M.
Z. fruticulosum DC.
Tribulus terrestris L.
Nitraria Schoeberi L.
Owenia acidula F.v.M.
Euphorbia Drummondii Boiss.
F. eremophila A. Cunn.
Atalaya hemiglauca F.v.M.
Heterodendron oleaefoliwm Dest.
Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.
D. viscosa var. spathulata Benth.
D. attenuata A. Cunn.
Abutilon sp.
Lavatera plebeia Sims.
Sida virgata Hook.
S. corrugata Lindl.
Cienfuegosia gossypioides Hockr.
Pimelea simplex V.v.M.
P. petrophila F.v.M.
Eucalyptus bicolor A. Cunn.
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E. microtheca F.v.M.
E. rostrata F.v.M.
E. terminals V.v.M.
Melaleuca trichostachya Lindl.
Didiseus glaucifolius F.v.M.
Daucus braciiatus Sieb.
Jasminum lineare R.Br.
Sarcostemma australe R.Br.
Convolvulus erubescens Sims.
Heliotropium curassavicum L.
Lappula concava ¥.v.M.
Rochelia maccoya F.v.M.
Solanum esuriale Lindl.
S. ellipticum R.Br.
Nicotiana suaveolens Lehm.
Mimulus gracilis R.Br.
Morgania glabra R.Br.
Myoporum deserti A. Cunn.
M. platyearpum R.Br.
M. tenmfolium var. acunanatum R.Br.
Eremophila oppositifolia R.Br.
E. Sturt R.Br.
E. Latrobei F.v.M.
E. longifolia F.v.M.
E. bignoniflora F.v.M.
f/
E. polyclada F.v.M.
E, Browntt F.v.M.
E. Duttonii F.v.M.
E. maculata F.v.M.
FE. alternifolia R.Br.
Cucumis sp.
Isotoma petraea.
Wahlenbergia gracilis A. DC.
Goodenia sp.
Scaevola spinescens R.Br.
Minuria integerrima Benth (Candollei
F.v.M.).
Calotis hispidula F.v.M.
Myriocephalus Stuartii Benth.
Angianthus pusillus Benth.
Craspedia globosa Benth.
C. chrysantha Benth.
Helichrysum apiculatum DC.
Helipterum polygalifolium DC.
H. floribundum DC.
HI. strictum Benth.
Senecio Gregori F.v.M.
S. magnificus F.v.M. .
Centipeda thespidioides F.v.M.
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES IV.-IX.
Plate iv.
Quartz rubble in foreground slop-
Myriocephalus
1. Western fringe of Grey Range at Yandama, N.S.W. Creek in foreground
with Hucalyptus microtheca (box), Atalaya hemiglauca (Whitewood) and
Acacia Cambagei extending up rubble slopes.
2. Low hills of Grey Range from Mt. Poole.
ing to Evelyn Creek (Box and Gum).
3. Vertical slate outcrop at Sturt’s Depot Glen, Mt. Poole.
Plate v.
4. Gibber and rubble slope colonised by community of Sarcostemma australe.
5. Gibber slope with community of Atriplex vesicarium, Yandama.
6. Gibber slope near Yandama Creek, with Acacia Cambagei as sole timber.
Plate vi.
7. Open serub near Mt. Arrowsmith, with emus in foreground.
Stuart making up groundflora; Hremophila Sturtit at side and Acacia aneura
in distance.
8. Grevillea striata (the beefwood) on sandy plain west of Yandama.
9, Hremophila polyclada (?) on clayey flat, Grey Range.
10. Acacia Murrayana on sandridge north west of Grey Range. Triodia irritans,
the “poreupine” grass or “spinifex” constituting the only ground flora.
Plate vi.
11. Open sandy plain with community of Atriplex vesicarium.
12.
Sand ridge west of Grey Range with “monospecific” community of Hetero-
dendron oleaefolium.
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13. Heterodendron oleaefoliwm on sandy rise near Yandama, showing exposure of
roots by wind erosion.
Plate viii.
14. Mulga serub (Acacia aneura) on sand ridge west of Grey Range.
15. Part of a claypan bordered by open saltbush plain with Atriplex vesicariwm
and Kochia sedifolia. Colonisation of pan by Glyceria ramigera has com-
menced.
16. Claypan reclaimed by Glyceria ramigera.
Plate ix.
17. Acacia Cambagei in creek bed, Mt. Poole, Grey Range.
18. Eucalyptus rostrata in Yandama Creek.
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AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA—NOTES AND NEW SPECIES NO. iii.
By He J.-Carter, B.A., FHS:
(Ten Text-figures. )
[Read 26th March, 1924.]
The following notes are the outcome of my recent visit to the British Museum
of Natural History and to the Hope Museum. There are added descriptions of
two new genera of Buprestidae, with two and three new species respectively; two
new genera of Tenebrionidae, of which one belongs to a subfamily (Heterotarsinae)
not hitherto recorded from Australia and which is apparently closely allied to a
North American genus; and a few new species that recent investigations show to
be undescribed.
BUPRESTIDAE.
My revision of the genus Stigmodera (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aus., 1916) should
be corrected as follows :—
Stigmodera cyaniventris Kerr. = S. variabilis Don.
S. viridicincta Waterh. var. = S. carpentariae Blkb.
The latter species was omitted from my list of synonyms by accident. Black-
burn’s type is almost identical with the specimen marked viridicincta var. by
Waterhouse, the type itself being an unusual form of a fairly common North
Queensland species. .
S. major Waterh. is a variety of pubicollis Waterh., as stated by its author,
and not as in my tabulation under parryi Hope.
S. aeneicornis Saund. is a distinet species not synonymous with rotundata
Saund., and should stand in my table near disjecta Kerr. (No. 215).
S. deleta Kerr. is a distinet species, not a variety of mastersi Macl.; Kerre-
mans labelled every example of a species he described as “type” and, in some
eases, two different species are marked with identical labels, e.g., of two specimens
labelled “inermis Kerr. type,” one is a distincta Saund, the other is nova Kerr.).
S. pallidipennis Blackb. is a small example of auricollis Thoms.
S. addenda Kerr. (nom. praeoce. by Thomson) = straminea Macl.—a common
form of this species without the lateral maculae; later also described by Théry as
S, johannae.
S. septemguttata Waterh. = tyrrhena Blackb., a variable species in which the
fasciae are often broken up into spots. (Types compared). Waterhouse’s name
has priority.
S. anchoralis C. and G. = agrestis Kerr.
S. rubriventris Blackb.—The type of this was described from Western Aus-
tralia and is not the species usually labelled in Australian collections under that
20 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
name, which is a well-known Eastern species (N.S.W.) described as maculifera
Kerr. (erroneously given in my tabulation as a synonym of rubriventris).
S. simulata C. and G. = perpleca Hope = lanuginosa Hope. The last two
ot these were placed by Saunders as synonyms of burchelli C. and G., a mistake
repeated by Masters.
S. hostilis Blackb.—An examination of the type has convinced me that this is
a good species, with each elytron trispinose, and therefore is not synonymous with
burchelli C. and G.
S. suavis Kerr. is only one of the many forms of scalaris Boisd. (= cyani-
collis B.).
S. libens Kerr. (omitted from my tabulation, vide loc. cit., p. 99) is synony-
mous with alternecosta Thoms.
STIGMODERA PRAETERITA, N.sp.
3. Hlongate, oblong; head, pronotum, scutellum, underside and legs dark brassy-
green or black, the pronotum with yellow margins, antennae green; elytra yellow,
sometimes clouded (by the darkening of the striae and seriate punctures); the
apical three-quarters of suture dark green, or bluish; this dark part widening
anteriorly and towards apex, to a variable degree; apical segments of abdomen
sometimes yellow at sides. Head channelled and coarsely punctate. Prothorax
depressed, strongly bisinuate at apex and at base, anterior angles acutely produced,
base with wide medial lobe, angulately excised near the yellow margin; sides
straight (parallel or slightly obliquely widening) on basal half, thence rather
abruptly narrowed to apex, posterior angles rectangular; dise finely and evenly
punctate (without a sign of rugosity), the medial channel smooth and very clearly
defined. Hlytra sub-parallel on basal two-thirds, thence rather sharply attenuated
to apex, and not quite covering the abdomen; apices variably bidentate, a strong
sutural tooth obliquely directed inwards, and an external tooth (unusually variable
in length), the interspace arcuate; dise striate-punctate, the punctures in striae
irregular, intervals nearly flat, the interval between the 5th and 6th striae wide
and coarsely punctate; underside sparsely clothed with long whitish hairs, finely
and evenly punctured, the prosternum lghtly transversely TUB eRe, the last seg-
ment of abdomen widely excised.
2 differs in the following: colour of head, prothorax, underside and append-
ages black (in two only of nine females examined green, while of the three males
one had these parts black, the abdomen bluish, rarely greenish), the exterior apical
spine of elytra short; apical segment of abdomen rounded. Dimensions: 5 26-29
x 9-10 mm.; ¢ 30-32 x 10-12 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Kuring-gai Chase and Mona Vale, on Angophora
cordifolia (H. J. Carter). A species that has surprisingly escaped notice in a
district that has been more closely collected than any in Australia. This is pro-
bably due to its superficial likeness in the field to some forms of S. variabilis
Don, which also occurred in numbers at the time of its capture. In structure and
sculpture it is very close to S. affinis Saund., as also in the arrangement of dark
colour on the elytra; but besides the absence of any red colour on pronotum and
elytra and the frequent black surface of body, it is differentiated from affinis by
(1) the bispinose apices of elytra, (2) the strongly angulated baso-lateral excision
of pronotum, (3) the sharper angles of pronotum. Twelve examples were taken
during December, 1923, of which three only were males. Types in Coll. Carter.
Stigmodera affinis Saund.—The author states that “the puncturation of the
thorax is larger and deeper” than in 8. limbata Don. This is misleading, since
BY H. J. CARTER. 21
one of the main distinctions between these species lies in the evidently finer
sculpture of affinis, from which the interpunctural rugosities which characterize
the pronotum of limbata are absent. Also the “two apical segments spotted with
red on the sides,” is not a constant character.
STIGMODERA COMMIXTA, n.sp. (Text-fig. 1.)
Ovate; surface violaceous blue, the elytra with medial and sub-apical fasciae
yellow, sometimes also with a small yellow spot near base at middle, not extending
to sides or base; antennae bronze; tarsi greenish-bronze. Pronotum very convex,
more sinuate at base than at apex, anterior angles acutely produced, sides widely
rounded with greatest width near the middle, dise moderately punctate on basal
half, closely so at apex. Hlytra obovate, widened at shoulders and post-medially,
hind margins finely serrated, apices with a small lunation without spines; disc
striate-punctate, intervals convex, and coarsely punctate; underside finely and
closely punctate with sparse, white pubescence. Dimensions: 15-18 x 6-8 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Sydney (G. S. Bryant and H. J. Carter). This is
the species referred to in my Revision (p. 82) as a variety of S. klugi C. and G.,
but which, with more material, I am satisfied is a distinet species. While like
klugi in general form and colour, the following differences may be tabulated :—
S. klugt (Text-fig. 2). S. commeta.
Head with interocular space narrower This area wider and diverging.
and sub-parallel.
Prothorax, sides near base straight or More convex, sides widely rounded,
slightly widening; widest behind widest near middle.
middle.
Underside strongly punctate. More finely punctate.
There is also a slight colour difference in the more violet shade of commizta,
and a tendency of the yellow fasciae to be little or not interrupted at the suture,
as in klugi.
Fifteen examples of klugi and eight of commixta are before me, with both
sexes of each. In both there is sometimes a basal yellow spot on the elytra as
well as the two fasciae. In klugi eight (1 d, 7 2) have the basal spot as in
Saunders’ figure, extending from near the scutellum to the sides and base, seven
(S$) are without it. The yellow fasciae are generally more widely interrupted at
the suture than in commizta. In commixta four (2 d, 2 2) have a small spot .
half way between scutellum and sides, but in no case extending to base or sides;
four (2 d, 2 2) are without it.
(V.B.—The sexes in both species are little differentiated by abdominal struc-
ture, the last segment being subtruneate in d, rounded in 2). ‘Type in Coll.
Carter.
Stigmodera puerilis Kerr—Amongst the vagaries of pattern variation in the
genus, this species varies as follows: (1) The medial yellow fascia, usually divided
at the suture, is connected and widened in that region, (2) the medial yellow
fascia is not only connected at suture, but is extended to join the basal yellow
spots. I have examples from the Dorrigo district, as well as five examples taken
by myself at Gosford and Wahroonga, that show these variations.
| STIGMODERA’ LATIPES, n.sp. (Text-fig. 3.)
Hlongate oblong, rather flat; head, pronotum and seutellum bronzy-black,
elytra red, underside blue-black; legs, tarsi and antennae black. Head prolonged
in front, strongly punctate, deeply channelled between eyes. Pronotwm hisinuate
22 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
at apex and base, anterior angles acute, sides nearly straight on anterior half;
surface very uneven, with four prominent ear-like ridges, two on each lobe, the
inner two enclosing a large oval fovea near base; the outer two forming a rounded
extension at sides on basal half; medial channel deeply excised, the whole surface
a
Figs. 1-7.
1. Stigmodera commta. 4. Buprestodes coruscans.
2. Stigmodera klugi. 5. Notobubastes occidentalis, &.
3. Stigmodera latipes. 6. Notobubastes orientalis, 3.
7. Notobubastes aurosulcata.
closely punctate. Hlytra: sides sharply rectangular at junction with pronotum,
rather strongly widened at shoulder, lightly compressed at middle, rounded and
minutely crenate behind; apices finely and inconspicuously bidentate; each elytron
with three carinate costae, of which the two inner are parallel throughout, the
exterior diverging at shoulder; the lateral border forming a fourth, besides two
faint scutellary costae; the sutural edges also sub-carinate. Sternal area coarsely
punctate, abdomen finely strigose-punctate, the apical segment densely and finely
punctate; tibiae and tarsi unusually widened, the former flattened. Dimensions'
14 x 5 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Coonabarabran district (H. J. Carter). Two ?
examples were taken by me on Leptospermum flowers at Timor, Warrumbungle
Mountains, in November, 1923. The species belongs to my first section of the
sub-genus Castiarina, “Elytra carinate costate,” near nasuta Saund. and spinolae
C. and G., but unmistakably distinct from these (and praetermissa Cart.) by
elongate form, pronotal ridges and widened tibiae inter multa alia. Type in Coll.
Carter.
Chalecotaemia martini Saund. = bi-impressa Carter. The latter name must
therefore disappear. Saunders’ species was erroneously placed under Pseudo-
taenia by Kerremans, and this misled me. It is an anomalous species in that the
medial line of the pronotum is raised apically while suleate for the greater part.
The prosternum is deeply suleate. (Type examined).
BY H. J. CARTER. 23
Paracephala minuta Kerr. is evidently synonymous with P. pistacina Hope.
Nascio lunaris Kerr. is distinet from vetusta Boisd.
Euryspilus (Hurybia) australis Blackb.—This species is very doubtfully dis-
tinet from H. chalcodes C. and G. In examining a series of H. chalcodes. taken
at S. Perth on the same date and evidently conspecific, I notice differences of
sculpture that correspond closely to Blackburn’s differential character of C. aus-
tralis. 1 think this difference is individual and may be sexual.
Anilara (Melobasis) obscura Macl. = A. cuprescens Kerr. = A. uniformis
Kerr. = ? A. platessa Thoms.
I have already noted (‘Revision of Melobasis,” Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1923,
p- 70) the confusion of names Amilara (Melobasis) obscura Macl. and Anilara
(Anthaxia) obscura Macl., and have proposed the name A. macleayi for the
latter. A close inspection of Kerremans’ types fails to show specific differences
between his cuprescens and uniformis. Moreover, the locality, “Australie: Nouvelle
Zélande”’ for uniformis requires confirmation. I have placed a query before
Thomson’s species, since the identification of his species is doubtful, though his
name is general in collections for a common insect that is variable in size and
that I have frequently secured by beating dead Eucalyptus boughs in New South
Wales and Victoria. It is probable that A. deplanata Théry is the same species.
The genus Anthaxia does not, apparently, occur in Australia. The species
described by Macleay as Anthaxia are referable either to Anilara or to
Melanophila.
The genus Anilara is approaching the nebulous state that Cisseis was in.
Six Australian species have recently been added by Théry (Mém. Ent. Soc. Belg.,
1920) to the twenty so far recorded, but no one has been bold enough to attempt
a tabulation of the genus.
Belionota saundersi Waterh. = B. aenea Deyr. = B. carteri Kerr. (MSS. ?).
Specimens from Cape York sent some years ago to Monsieur Kerremans were
returned to me as B. cartert Kerr. sp.nov. I have no record of the publication
of this name, but the species is certainly synonymous with B. saundersi Waterh.,
which I am unable to distinguish from a series labelled aenea Deyr. in the British
Museum. JDeyrolle’s species has a long priority. In the Genera Insectorum,
Kerremans gives Ile Damma as the habitat of sawndersi, though the type came
from Cape York, Australia.
BUPRESTODES (gen. nov. Buprestinorum).
Surface brilliantly metallic. Head lightly convex, front slightly flattened, not
grooved; epistoma subangulately excised at apex; antennal cavities large and tri-
angular, bordered above and below by prominent carina, open behind on margin
of eye; antennae with first jomt pyriform, 2nd, 3rd and 4th short and oval,
successively increasing in length, 5th subeonic, longer than 4th; 6th-11th dentate,
each with a terminal poriferous fossette. Eyes large, elliptic, well separated, a
little closer behind than in front. Prothorax sub-trapezoidal, sides feebly arched,
lateral border sub-crenulate with ill-defined carina, apex feebly sinuate, anterior
angles slightly advanced and acute; base bisinuate, with wide medial lobe and sub-
acute posterior angles. Scutellum small, rounded and bilobed (or longitudinally
cleft). Hlytra moderately convex, sides lightly compressed and subangulately
lobed in front of middle; posterior sides not denticulate, each apex truncate be-
tween two spines, the exterior spine the longer; dise coarsely striate-punctate,
intervals varyingly convex. Prosternal process forming a bisuleate tongue. Basal
segment of abdomen suleate; hind tarsi with three basal joints subequal, fourth
24 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
short and bilobate, claw joimt longest of all. Facies of Chalcotaenia. A genus
apparently near Melobasina, of. which, however, the pronotum has a straight an-
terior margin; the posterior sides of elytra denticulate, apical abdominal segment
of male trifid inter ala.
BUPRESTODES CORUSCANS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 4.)
Robust, glabrous, upper surface brilliant golden copper, intermixed with green,
the latter colour showing chiefly on head, sides of pronotum and humeral area of
elytra; beneath fiery coppery, antennae greenish-coppery, tarsi metallic green.
Head: labrum prominent and rectangular, forehead coarsely longitudinally
rugose-punctate. Prothorax irregularly and coarsely punctate on dise, rugose-
punctate on sides, an irregular smooth line on basal half at middle, and a few
irregularly placed smooth areas elsewhere. Hlytra coarsely striate-punctate, with
about ten convex intervals of darker colour than the rest of elytra, narrowing and
subcrenulate towards apex and sub-obsolete near base, the Ist, 3rd and 5th of
these having irregularly spaced, fiery spots contaming punctures, the punctures
in striae large and irregular. Prosternuwm very coarsely punctate, its intercoxal
process having a small convex area in middle, with a deep, punctate sulcus on
each side of this; abdomen glabrous, irregularly punctate, basal segment sulcate
in middle, apical segment finely rounded behind. Dimensions: 21-22 x 7-8 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Doverin and Kellerberrin (Mr. J. Clark). Two
examples, both female, of this fine species, at first suggest inclusion among the
Chaleophorini, but the structure of antennae and prothorax point to its place in
the tribe Buprestini, though unlike any other Australian genus of this group.
Male wanting. Type in Coll. Carter.
BUPRESTODES VARIEGATA, n.sp.
Differs from the above species as follows: Head, prothorax, sides of elytra,
underside and legs metallic green, the prothorax showing a few coppery areas at
base and underside; middle area of elytra violet coppery, antennae and tarsi dark
coppery.
Pronotum clearly carinate in middle on basal half. Elytra more regularly
striate-punctate, without the irregular fiery areas on intervals; the large punctures
in the 4th, 5th and 6th striae containing smaller punctures within. The prosternal
tongue with setiferous punctures on middle convexity, the two punctate sulci finer
and narrower; basal segment of abdomen longitudinally rugose, other segments
coarsely punctate, the sides of meso- and metasternum, also of abdomen, clothed
with fine, recumbent, golden hairs; apical segment sub-truncate, with projecting
aedeagus. Dimensions: 19 x 6 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Kellerberrin. A single male example, also sent by
Mr. J. Clark. This, when further material is .available, may prove to be the
male of B. coruscans, but apart from colour differences, the different sculpture of
elytra, prosternum and abdomen justify its distinction until further evidence
arrives. The head and pronotum of the two species are similar, the elytra are
narrower and more sharply attenuated behind. The three examples noted above
are the only specimens I have seen.
Female wanting. Type in Coll. Carter.
NoOToBUBASTES (gen. nov. Buprestinorum).
Antennae and antennal cavities as in Bubastes; eyes large, prominent, widely
separated and nearly parallel. Prothorax shorter and less convex than in
BY H. J. CARTER. 25
Bubastes, apex subtruncate; the anterior angles a little produced, lateral carina
more or less continuous on basal two-thirds, not visible from above; base strongly
bisinuate, disc suleate in middle. Scutellwm tranversely oval, moderately large.
’Hlytra wider and less convex than in Bubastes, apices tridentate, posterior sides
not serrated, surface striate-punctate; posterior tarsi with first joint clearly longer
than the second.
A genus having a facies somewhat between Bubastes and Melobasis; differ-
ing from the latter in apical structure and the non-serrate elytra and from
Bubastes in its wider, more explanate form, larger and more prominent eyes,
larger scutellum, ete.
NOTOBUBASTES OCCIDENTALIS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 5.)
Elongate, subeonical, unicoloured, dark purple bronze, head and underside
sparsely and shortly pilose, beneath more nitid than above. Head lightly im-
pressed, with a short carina in middle (near epistoma) and.some vaguely raised
spaces on each side of this forming a discontinuous oval; antennae short and as
in Bubastes. Prothorax (34 x 5 mm.): anterior angles feebly advanced, base
rather strongly bisinuate, sides lightly incurved near apex and base nearly straight
in middle; anterior angles obtuse, posterior subrectangular; dise coarsely rugose-
punctate; medial sulcus rather wide with fine clear-cut line at its base, the sides
with a few nitid pustules and sparse hair. Scutellwm transverse, depressed in
middle. Hlytra roundly widening behind junction with prothorax, thence sub-
obliquely narrowed to apex; apices tridentate, with a sharp sutural, a blunted
medial, and a sharp externo-lateral tooth, the two last separated by a wide sinuous
interval; striate-punctate, the striae clearly impressed on apical half, on basal
half obscured by coarse punctures with flat transversely rugose intervals, the apical!
intervals between striae themselves containing punctures of the same size as striae,
the 2nd, 4th, 6th more closely punctate than the rest; underside coarsely punctate.
Dimensions: 16-17 x 54-63 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Cue (H. W. Brown). Four examples in my col-
lection were collected by Mr. Brown who appears to have taken it in some quan-
tity. The sculpture of the elytra is closely punctured everywhere with large punc-
tures. These show clear longitudinal arrangement, with well-marked striae and
convex intervals near apex, but the tendency of the punctures to form transverse
ridges becomes more marked towards the middle; and these ridges gradually
obscure the striae near base. The lateral margin is finely carinate; that is trace-
able to near the apex, without distinct serration. The sexes are little separated
by external structure, the abdominal apical segment being shorter and truncate in
3, rounded in 9.
Types in Coll. Carter.
NOTOBUBASTES ORIENTALIS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 6.)
Elongate ovate, pronotum and elytra metallic purple, the former sometimes
bronzy, head and underside bronze, sparsely albo-pilose, tarsi, antennae and front
side of legs brownish purple. Head coarsely punctate, a depression above epistoma
limited by an irregularly raised triangular margin, having its apex about the
middle of forehead; antennae short and slender. Prothorax convex, feebly sinuous
at apex, the middle slightly gibbous and advanced, base lightly bisinuate, sides
moderately and evenly rounded, the angles slightly produced, the anterior obtuse,
the posterior subrectangular, disc finely suleate in middle, coarsely rugose-punctate,
the punctures sparse on middle, especially near seutellum, rugose on sides, the
26 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
lateral carina interrupted or undulate, traceable only near base. Sceutellum bright
coppery, less transverse than in preceding. Hlytra slightly wider than prothorax
at base, sides a little compressed near middle, attenuate behind, margins entire,
apices tridentate, sutural tooth short and acute, middle and lateral wide, their
interspace wide and substruncate; suleate-punctate throughout, each elytron with
ten sulci, the 10th on side; the punctures in sulci small, intervals convex, sharply
so near apex, each with a row of widely placed punctures and transversely rugose
near shoulders and sides; legs and underside very coarsely punctate, abdomen with
longitudinal punctures irregular in size. Dimensions: 15-17 x 53-6 mm,
Hab.—Queensland: Dawson River and Wide Bay (Macleay Mus.). Four
examples, including the types, in the Macleay Museum, are clearly distinct, though
closely allied to the former species. The chief distinctions are (1) brighter colour
of, and more nitid, upper surface, (2) pronotum more coarsely sculptured, with
more smooth spaces, (3) elytral intervals convex, (4) apices subtruneate between
external spines.
NOTOBUBASTES AUROSULCATA, n.sp. (Text-fig. 7.)
Elongate oblong, dark purple bronze, pronotum reddish bronze, its medial
suleus metallic golden, head and underside rather thickly clothed with white re-
eumbent hair. Head: Eyes prominent, smaller than in N. occidentalis ; interspace
wider than diameter of an eye, interior margins of eyes slightly converging be-
hind, forehead lightly gibbous, surface coarsely rugose. Prothorax (2 x 3 mm.):
apex subtruncate, the anterior angles slightly advanced, base lightly bisinuate, the
posterior angles rectangular, sides nearly straight on basal two-thirds, thence
roundly narrowed to apex, medial suleus deep, limited by a short transverse ridge
at basal margin, the sulcus accentuated by a slight gibbosity on each side, this
portion nitid and sparsely pitted with round punctures of irregular size; towards
the sides coarsely transversely rugose and pilose. Scutellum small, transversely
oval. Hlytra enlarged at shoulders, feebly narrowed behind, apices tridentate, the
middle tooth the most prominent, striate-punctate, each elytron with 10 fine, well-
marked striae, besides a short scutellary stria, each containing rows of close small
punctures; intervals flat on medial area, lightly convex at sides and apex, a single
row of large round metallic punctures on each interval, these irregularly placed
(sometimes invading the narrow striae), humeral area and sides transversely
ridged; epimera and metasternum with sparse, coarse punctures, mesosternum
albo-floecose, abdomen pilose with a few large punctures showing near margins of
segments. Dimensions: do. 11 x 3} mm. 2. 13 x 4 mm.
Hab.—North West Australia: Hammersley Range, Fortescue River (W. D.
Dodd). Three examples from the South Australian Museum are near, but dis-
tinct from N. occidentalis by smaller, narrower form, suleate pronotum with its
irregular surface and sparser punctures, and the different elytral sculpture. The
metallic pronotal suleus and elytral punctures are also characteristic of this species.
Types in South Australian Museum.
HETHON LEAI, n-sp.
Narrowly ovate, head and pronotum bronze, elytra purplish, above sparsely,
beneath more densely pubescent. Head sharply and deeply intersected between
*eyes. Prothorax widely transverse, strongly bisinuate at apex and_ base, sides
arcuately converging to the front, dise subconcentrically striolate, with a few
seratch-like punctures in middle area, depressed laterally, the depressed and
medial areas sparsely pubescent. Scutellwm large and triangular. Hlytra seriate-
BY H. J. CARTER. 27
punctate, the serial punctures fine and close, interspaces closely covered with a
minute transverse rugosity; a thin white pubescence extending in two wide lines
on middle of each elytron from hbase to apex, this vaguely sub-fasciate towards
apex. Prosternum rather coarsely punctate, rest of underside finely scalose-pune-
tate with moderate pubescence. Dimensions: do. 5.5-6 x 2-2.3 mm. 2. 7 x 2.5 mm.
Hab.—South Australia (Meadows. In South Australian Museum), Nariootpa
(J. G. O. Tepper). Ten examples examined are somewhat like small examples of
FE. affinis C. and G., but may be distinguished by the rugose elytra, and the sub-
ecntinuous elytral pubescence, as well as by its small size. #. brevis Cart. is a
wider species with coarser seriate punctures and bifasciate pubescence.
Type in South Australian Museum.
CISSEIS VIRIDI-PURPURBA, n.Sp.
Oblong oval. Head, pronotum, underside and appendages golden-green or
ereen, elytra bright purple, the elytra scarcely, the underside not pubescent. Head
nearly flat, finely channelled, vertex closely, not very finely, punctate. Prothorax:
apex lightly produced in middle, base strongly bisinuate, sides arcuately narrowed
from base to apex, lateral carinae subparallel, anterior angles acute, posterior ob-
tuse, dise transversely depressed near base, with fine transverse striolation. Scwtel-
lum transversely oval. Hlytra lightly enlarged at shoulder, separately rounded at
apex, the apical margins finely serrated; a little gibbous behind scutellum, the
surface finely and regularly covered with seale-like punctures. Prosternum
coarsely, meso- and meta-sternum moderately, abdomen finely and closely punc-
tate. Dimensions: 5 x 2 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Geraldton (J. Clark); Victoria and Australia
(Coll. Théry). Four examples examined, of the same size and of closely similar
colour, of which two in my collection had hitherto been withheld from description
as being possible forms of C. tyrrhena mihi. The two further examples occur in
a collection sent for determination by Mons. André Théry. The species cannot be
matched with any that I have seen. While in colour like some examples of tyr-
rhena, it is without the pubescent spots of that species, besides being smaller and
more bluntly oblong, among other differences.
IT am not quite sure whether it should be placed in Sect. uu. or Sect. ui. of my
tables, since the elytral pubescence is so feeble as to be faintly discoverable,
with a Zeiss binocular, only in one of the four examples. If placed in Sect. u1.,
it should come between roseo-cuprea Hope and minutissima Thoms.; distinguished
from both by its bicolorous upper surface.
Type in Coll. Carter.
CISSEIS CUPRIPENNIS Guér.—By inadvertence this species was omitted from
the tables in my Revision of the Genus, though mentioned in the introduction
(p. 161). It is one of the species in which there is sex colouration, the males
having a green head and pronotum, the females a more or less concolorous sur-
face. The amount of elytral pubescence, always slight, depends on the freshness
of the specimen; it 1s often found in collections without pubescence. Its place
should be in Sect. i1., Group B., p. 165, between acuducta Kirby and scabrosula
Kerr., which may be tabulated thus :—
8. Rather widely oval, elytra nitid, underside pubescent (8-10 mm.) ;
. acuducta Kirby
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9a. Narrowly oval, nitid above and below (6-8 mm.), male with head and prono-
LUM ROTO MN Nar catle Uipuie leita vsvisiieien Neha er RH a MN Mk . cupripennis Guér.
9b. Elytra with opaque, subcyaneous patch... .......... .. scabrosula Kerr.
AGRILUS DODDI, n.sp.
Head a fiery copper, pronotum and elytra subnitid coppery bronze with
patches of silvery pubescence as follows: the side of pronotum, a cireular patch
within the humeral foveae, a premedial comma-like patch on each side of suture,
and a pair of similar but more elongate pre-apical patches close to suture, the
last merging into the fine, close pubescence of the apical third area; underside
albo-squamose, showing coppery gleams where abraded: appendages coppery.
Head not wider than prothorax, feebly excavate between eyes, the latter not
prominent, densely and finely punctate. Prothorax: apex feebly, base strongly
bisinuate, sides nearly straight; dise transversely rugose; a large medial triangular,
and a lateral elongate depression. Scutellum triangular. EHlytra with a large
sub-cireular fovea at shoulder, lightly concave on each side of suture, the concavity
limited by a feeble ridge traceable from near the premedial pubescence to near
apex; apices separately rounded and finely denticulate; surface with a fine scalose
derm showing pubescence towards sides and apex. Dimensions: 9 x 2.5 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Townsville (F. P. Dodd). A pair long since obtained
from the famous naturalist to whom it is dedicated is apparently undescribed and
absent from the British Museum collections. The pale pubescence occupies de-
pressions and makes a faint pattern, unlike that of other known Australian
species.
Type in Coll. Carter.
AGRILUS BISPINOSUS, n.sp.
Head and pronotum metallic greenish-copper, the former fiery copper on
front, the latter with a large reniform patch of golden flocculence filling the
lateral depressions; elytra, underside and appendages dark blue or blue-black,
the first with two small medial golden pubescent spots situated on the coneave
area, one on each side of suture, and two preapical more elongate and nearer the
suture than the former two; the prosternal episterna and four large patches on
abdomen also with golden floceulence (two on the exposed dorsal surface at the
lateral medial expansion, and two on sides of 3rd ventral segment, continued ov
dorsal area).
Head sharply excavated and channelled between eyes, the frontal area some-
what elevated above the eyes with a marked lateral carina; eyes large and pro-
minent, extending laterally beyond the apex of prothorax, finely rugose punctate.
Prothorax: apex feebly, base strongly bisinuate, sides nearly straight, slightly
narrowing from base to apex, sides with a large deep circular, depression not ex-
tending to base, a large medial depression not quite extending to apex and widen-
ing near base, surface transversely rugose. Scutellwm triangular, its fore part
transversely carinate, depressed behind. Elytra slightly wider than prothorax, the
humeral callus forming the extension of longitudinal ridge traceable to apex and
produced behind into two sharp spines, base foveate within humeral ridge, sub-
sutural concavity evident from near middle to apex, the suture itself carinate;
apices denticulate on each side of spines. Underside lightly punctate. Dimen-
sions: 11 x 3 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: S. Johnstone River (H. W. Brown). A single specimen
received from its captor is unlike any described Australian Agrilus, though ap-
BY H. J. CARTER. 29
proximating the former species (A. doddi), from which it differs widely in ground
colour, underside, and form, especially as to apex of elytra.
Type in Coll. Carter.
N.B.—Agrilus flavotaeniatus Thoms. is evidently a form of the wide-spread
A. australasiae C. and G.
The following list contains the previously described Australian species:
1. australis Thoms. 4. deauratus Macel.
2. aurovittatus Hope. _ 5. frenchi Blackb..
3. dustralasiae C. and G. masterst Macl.
hypoleucus C. and G. nitidus Kerr.
assimilis Hope. terrae-reginae Blackb.
purpuratus Hope. zonatus Kerr.
flavo-taeniatus Thoms.
2 OAS
AGRILUS SEMIVIRIDIS, n.sp.
Head, pronotum, basal half of elytra, legs and antennae emerald green, apical
half of elytra bronze, the bronze continued also narrowly along sides to shoulders;
suture near apex narrowly bordered with whitish villose clothing; underside bronze,
sometimes green on sternal areas. Head minutely rugose, furrowed on vertex
only; antennae extending considerably beyond the head. Prothorax: apex a little
advanced in middle, base lightly bisinuate, sides sinuously widened at base, thence
subparallel, or lightly converging to apex, a short lateral carina on basal half;
posterior angles subacute, medial furrow well-marked throughout, widening to-
wards base, dise transversely striolate. Hlytra at shoulders slightly wider than
prothorax, sides compressed behind shoulders, sharply attenuated towards apex,
each elytron separately, convex and the suture carinate on apical half, each apex
separately, but rather finely rounded, not serrate, underside minutely punctate.
Dimensions: 3.5-4.5 x 1-1.5 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Cairns (H. Dodd), Johnstone River (H. W. Brown) ;
New South Wales: Tweed River (W. W. Froggatt). Eleven examples of this
pretty little species under examination; it is apparently not uncommon. A pair
examined by Mr. K. G. Blair were labelled as “resembling A. semi-aeneus Deyr.,’
a species described from Borneo. The following characters from Deyrolle’s des-
cription are inconsistent with identity: (1) greater size (63 x 12), (2) Elytra
“armeés chacune d’une longue épine,” (3) ‘“dessous vert doré brillant.’’ Of these
(2) seems decisive. -
Type in Coll. Carter.
AGRILUS NiGRITuS Kerr.—Specimens from the 8. Johnstone River, Queens-
land, taken by Mr. H. W. Brown were compared with Kerremans’ type in the
British Museum and found to be inseparable from it. The type was described
from Banguey, an island north of Borneo.
AGRILUS BREVIS, n.sp.
Concolorous, brownish-bronze, glabrous, pronotum more nitid than elytra;
rather wide and flat. Head finely rugose, widely furrowed throughout, eyes large
and prominent, antennae short, scarcely extending beyond head. Prothorax trans-
verse, lightly advanced in middle at apex, base lightly. bisinuate, sides nearly
straight, lateral carina very short, extending less than half-way from the posterior
angle; this rectangular; dise with large foveate depression near middle at base
and two latero-basal depressions; surface with fine transverse striolations. Elytra
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of same width as prothorax at base, lightly compressed behind shoulders, moderate-
ly attenuated behind, each apex separately rounded, without serrations; surface
with scale-like punctures. Epipleurae coarsely and closely, abdomen very finely
punctate. Dimensions: 4 x 1.5 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Johnstone River (H. W. Brown). Two examples examined
are shorter, wider and less convex than other species of Agrilus known to me, but
I cannot specify any structure that is inconsistent with its generic classification.
Type in South Australian Museum.
SynEcHOcERA Deyr.—So far, two Australian species have been described:
S. elongata Thoms. and S. tasmanica Théry. I think I have determined Thomp-
son’s insect in specimens from South and Western Australia in the Adelaide
Museum. Macleay’s Aphanisticus occidentalis is another species and probably my
A, albo-hirtus is a fourth, but I have no example at hand for examination. The
genus is characterized by a flat, elongate, subparallel form, elytra rounded behind,
and by an abnormal structure of the sternum. The antennae are toothed from the
5th segment. Three new species are described below.
APHANISTICUS Latr. belongs to another group of the Agrilini (Trachytes)
characterized by a convex body, attenuated behind, tarsi short, the antennae hav-
ing the apical three or four joimts forming a club. Four species have been ecata-
logued: canaliculatus Germ., lilliputanus Thoms., occidentalis Macl., and albo-
hirtus Cart. Of these, the first is synonymous with Paracephala pistacina Hope,
the second is a mystery, but will probably prove to be a Germarica, while, as stated
above, the last two should be, I consider, referred to Synechocera. If I am correct
in this, the two described below are the only known Australian species.
SYNECHOCERA CYANEIPENNIS, n.sp.
EHlongate-oblong, depressed, subnitid; head, pronotum and underside black,
elytra a rich violet blue, antennae reddish. Head bulbous, divided medially by a
deep, narrow sulcus, eyes occupying almost whole side of head, but only a narrow
section visible from above; front pitted with large shallow punctures, antennae
short, the last four segments serrate. Prothorax transversely oval and flat; apex
rather strongly advanced in middle; anterior angles unseen from above; base
strongly bisinuate, the middle lobe widely rounded and deep, posterior angles
widely obtuse; sides arcuately and strongly widening to near apex, then somewhat
abruptly narrowed and depressed; a horizontal explanate margin throughout; dise
with a longitudinal, oval depression occupying a large part of medial area, the
whole disc minutely and densely striolate. Scutellum transversely triangular,
punctate. Hlytra rounded and widened at shoulders, sides parallel, apices separate-
ly rounded, a narrow, black, horizontal margin extending from base to apex, this
margin narrowed and sub-carinate at base; whole surface pitted with large shallow
punctures on a minutely rugose or striolate ground; a sub-obsolete ridge faintly
seen, extending from humeral region along middle of each elytron. Underside
glabrous and nearly impunctate. Dimensions: 4x1 + mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Atherton (A. M. Lea). Six examples of this pretty little
insect, taken by Mr. Lea from a shrub (unspecified), are the only specimens I
have seen. The pronotum at its widest is at least as wide as, or slightly wider
than, the elytra.
Type in South Australian Museum.
BY H. J. CARTER. Sil
SYNECHOCERA SETOSA, n.sp. .
Hlongate, cylindric, black, clothed above and below with short white setae.
Head sub-bilobate, widely exeavated and deeply channelled. Prothorax clearly
wider than head, lightly bisinuate at apex, strongly so at base, sides moderately
rounded, widest at middle, all angles bluntly rounded off; dise without fovea, a
medial line indicated only by absence of setae in one example. Hlytra more than
three times as long as prothorax and of about the same width as it; very slightly
compressed in middle, apices separately rounded; surface irregularly and closely
sealy-punctate throughout, each puncture bearing a short recumbent hair. Abdomen
clothed with longer hairs. Dimensions: 4-5 x 1-14 mm.
Hab.—Swan River, W.A. (Mr. J. Clark). Two examples generously given
me by the captor show a species distinct from occidentalis Macl. by its excavate
head, its much narrower prothorax and the absence of elytral ridge. A. albo-
hirtus Cart. is bronze, with a convex forehead, the sides of prothorax subsinuate
behind, hind angles sub-explanate, the elytral apices forming a single curve, ete.
Type in Coll. Carter.
SYNECHOCERA (?) CUPRIPES, n.sp.
Very elongate and narrow; head, antennae, sternum and legs metallic coppery
(head, antennae and tibiae greenish-coppery) abdomen bluish, pronotum and elytra
blue-black. Head very wide, eyes large and prominent, forehead moderately ex-
eavated and finely channelled and punctate. Prothorax of same width as head at
apex, gradually narrowing to base, sides nearly straight, apex strongly bisinuate,
base quadrisinuate—the middle lobe itself bismuate to receive the seutellum; dise
very uneven, a large elongate oval fovea on front half (framed in front by medial
extension), a transverse depression on basal half, enlarged triangularly in middle,
the apex of triangle near basal margin of pronotum, and again enlarging on sides,
thus leaving two oblique raised areas near base; the raised portions of dise nitid
and impunctate, the rest very finely punctate like the head. Scutellwm transverse,
oval. Hlytra of ‘same width as prothorax at base, and three and a half times as
long; compressed in middle, apices widely and separately rounded off showing
serrations on rounded margins and a short external tooth on each. Surface finely
sealy-punctate and setose, with fine and close white hairs along medial area, a
feeble ridge running obliquely from shoulders towards middle, thence parallel to
suture and obsolete towards apex. Underside minutely punctate and _ setose.
Dimensions: 7 x 14 mm.
Hab.—Queensland (Mr. H. W. Brown) and Cairns (A. M. Lea and A. P.
Dodd). Five examples examined may ultimately be found to need generic distine-
tion. The narrow, compressed form, especially of the elytra, suggests the genera
Macrones and Enchoptera of the Cerambycidae. The sub-trapezoidal pronotum
with its uneven surface, its attenuate form and dentate apices separate it from
other Australian species, though showing some affinity with S. albo-hirtus Cart.
in the form of head and prothorax.
Type in Coll. Carter.
APHANISTICUS ENDELOIDES, n.sp.
Elongate, subeylindric, nitid bronze. Head elongate, glabrous and minutely
punctate with deep triangular cleft; extending on the upper surface for two-
thirds of its length, eyes rather flat on the outside of the cuneate lobes formed by
the cleft, a short suleus at the base of each lobe; antennal cavities very closely set
on each side of the pointed and triangular epistomal process, the antennae at rest
32 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
lying alongside this and extending but a short distance (4) of the prothorax, the
last 3 joints of antennae lamellate. Prothorax trapezoidal, apex and base nearly
equally wide and wider than the head, apex truncate, base strongiy bisinuate, sides
moderately rounded with greatest width in front of middle, narrowed and slightly
sinuate behind, margins explanate, especially at base, densely, minutely punctate,
anterior angles depressed and blunt, posterior obtuse; the dise consisting of
strongly convex areas, intersected by three wide transverse depressions, the first
sinuous behind the apex, forming a depressed collar (giving the raised area behind
it the effect of a bisinuate pseudo-margin), the second straight post-medial, the
third following the outline of the base. Sewtellwm minute, round. Elytra: base
widely bilobed, sides sinuate, arcuately enlarged behind shoulder, compressed be-
fore middle, narrowed behind to a pisciform apex (arcuately excised behind twe
external teeth); each with about three rounded costiform impressions becoming
flatter towards apex, the intervals with large punctures, more or less seriate.
Prosternum with middle area in the form of an elongate trapezium with its apex
wider than the base, meso- and metasternum with sparse coarse punctures, abdomen
sparsely punctate, the punctures smaller near apex, last segment truneate; under
surface of tarsi forming a wide tomentose pad. Dimensions: 34-4 x 1 mm.
Hab.—North Queensland: Cairns (Coll. Carter, Lea and Macleay Mus., also
National Museum, Melbourne). Some carded specimens were given me some
years ago as an Agrilus by the late Mr. Masters. Thinking‘ it likely to be allied
to Papuan forms, I carefully went through allied species in the British Museum
collection and find that it is quite close (except in colour)! to A. mitratus Chev.,
a Madagascar species. Its widely cleft head separates it from other known Aus-
tralian Buprestidae. The following is another of a similar structure.
Type in Coll. Carter.
APHANISTICUS BROWNI, 1.Sp.
Differs from preceding as follows:—Shorter and wider; colour black nitid.
Head more widely cleft (as seen from above, terminating behind in an oval, not
a triangular excision), the eyes more prominent, antennae longer, the last four
joints with short lamellae. Prothorax wider, the raised parts less convex, the
medial transverse depression subobsolete (a mere seratch), the apex more sinuate,
lateral foliation wider, sides more widely rounded, with greatest width at, or be-
hind, the middle; antericr angles acute, posterior obtuse. Scutellwm larger and
triangular. Elytra wider and flatter, sides less sinuate, anterior half subparallel,
thence obliquely narrowed, with feeble sinuation near apex; apices separated at
suture, each subtruncate; striate-punctate, punctures foveate and shallow, inter-
vals flat. The suture is sub-carinate near apex. Anterior and mid-tibiae curved,
abdomen nitid and apparently impunctate. Dzmensions: 23-3 x 1 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: South Johnstone River (H. W. Brown). Mr. Brown has
generously given me five of this interesting novelty, which he took in some quan-
tity.
Type in Coll. Carter.
TENEBRIONIDAE.
Platydema sulcato-punctatwm Cart.—Two examples, evidently the sexes, of
this species are amongst some Tenebrionidae lately examined from Moa, Banks’
Island, Torres Straits. I am thus able to add the following notes to my deserip-
tion and to make a correction (These Proceedings, 1922, p. 73): (1) The unique
type is a 2 (not db as stated). The d has two conical horns ‘arising from the base
of head, each of which is surmounted by two spinose bristles. In the ¢ the horns
are replaced by longitudinal ridges which are punctured like the rest of the head;
BY H. J. CARTER. 33
(2) The ¢ example has some rufous markings, probably variable and inconstant
near the base of the elytra, somewhat as in P. rufibase Cart., which is, however,
quite differently sculptured. The 2 example from Moa is identical with the type,
and J have no doubt as to the two examples from Moa being conspecific.
Saragus marginellus Hope = 8S. rudis Macl. I have examined the Hope type,
and at once recognized the Macleay species.
Amphianax sub-coriaceus Bates = Agasthenes goudiet Cart. = A. euclensis
Cart. An examination of Bates’ type makes the first synonymy certain, the second
was recorded previously. This raises the question of the differentiation of the
genera Amplhianax and Agasthenes. An examination of the genotypes shows, to
my mind, specific distinctions only, while some of the details of the author’s
deseriptions are misleading. Thus, under Amphianaxr, he states “sides of sub-
mentum not dentiform” whereas I find, as stated in my description of A. goudiei,
“tooth of submentum small and conical.” The same is true of A. frenchi Cart.
Again, of the tibiae of Agasthenes, the author says “the anterior with a single
spur,’ whereas there are two, one being very small. Eliminating these distinc-
tions, there is little to discriminate between the genera, which are, I consider,
synonyms. The name Agasthenes, appearing two pages later is thus redundant.
Thus Amphianax Bates = Agasthenes Bates.
Onosterrhus sculpturatus Blackb. and O. veternosus Blackb. - An examination
of the unique types of these species shows a very close likeness. Further material
is necessary before establishing their relationship, but it is worth while to eall the
attention of other workers on the group to the possible identity of these two.
The genus Brises Pase. is sufficiently distinct from the Tenebrioninae and the
Cyphaleinae to warrant the establishment of a separate subfamily, Briseinae,
for its inclusion, for the distinctive characters of which see my “Revision of the
Tenebrioninae” (These Proe., 1914, pp. 45, 46).
Moerodes kershawi Cart.—This species is really out of place under Prophanes,
where I suggested it should stand (These Proc., 1917, p. 718). Its punctate-
striate elytra place it more suitably under Platyphanes.
Adelium.—The vast number and wide range of many species of this family
is associated with a correspondingly wide variation. JI now consider the follow-
ing synonymy as established :—
(a) A. pilosum Pase. = A. scutellare Pase.
(b) A. reductum Pase. = A. aucilla Pase. = A. convexiusculum Macl. = A.
nitidum Cart.
(c) A. similatum Germ. = A. obesuwm Pasc. (var.); while the identity of A.
aerarium Pase. with A. augurale Pase. is open to suspicion. The type of the
former, compared with that of the latter, shows brighter colour, and a sculpture
on the middle area that may be described as a rectangular reticulation, rather
than linear-costate.
(a) The range (from specimens before me) is Allyn River, Armidale, Dorrigo,
Tenterfield, Narrabri, Brisbane.
(b) Has a similar wide range over Northern New South Wales, and an even
wider range in Queensland.
(c) I have seen A. obesum only from Victoria.
Micretyche ferruginea Bates = M. rye? Bates (Types examined).
HETEROCHEIRA TROPICA, N.sp.
Ovate, nitid black or brownish above, under side and appendages dark
castaneous. Head densely, minutely punctate, antennae not extending beyond half
34 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
the length of prothorax, joints 8-10 transverse, 11 subspherical. Prothorax: apex
subtruneate, base lightly bisinuate, widest at base, thence arcuately narrowed to
apex, front angles obtuse, hind rectangular, disc very minutely punctate, the
punctures finer than on head.: Scutellum large, equilatero-triangular. Hlytra
rather wider than prothorax at base, slightly obovate, with greatest convexity and
width behind middle; striate-punctate, with small punctures half hidden in deep
striae, intervals wide, nearly flat on basal half, clearly convex behind and sub-
laevigate (the minutest punctures discernible under a Zeiss binocular); pro-
sternum nearly smooth on medial area, elsewhere, as also the meso- and meta-
sternum, finely punctate, abdomen densely punctate. Tibiae spinose on exterior
margins, apices enlarged. Those of the fore tibiae very wide, especially in the d.
Dimensions: 5-6 x 24 mm.
Hab.—North Queensland: Townsville, sea-beach (G. F. Hill and H. J.
Carter). A species I have long had under notice, and which has been compared
with possible allies in the British Museum Collection by Mr. K. G. Blair. I
took a long series under sea-weed in July, 1921, and have also received it from
Mr. G. F. Hill (late of the Institute of Tropical Medicine). Compared with A.
australis Boisd. (the only other member of the genus), it is wider and more con-
vex, with shorter antennae and legs, the tibiae, especially the fore-tibiae, more
enlarged at apex; the upper surface is considerably more finely punctured, the
elytral striae are deeper, the intervals less fiat.
Type in Coll. Carter.
Note.——In January, 1914, Mr. T. G. Sloane and myself took H. australis
Boisd. in similar quantity at Cottesloe Beach, near Fremantle, W.A., also under
sea-weed. I have a specimen labelled by Blackburn, besides others from Bendin
Is., N.W.A. (taken by Commander J. J. Walker) at roots of sea-grass and noted
as varieties by Champion (Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond., 1894, p. 366). For detailed
diagnosis of this species see Bates (lc., 1872, p. 266).
Diaclina (Heterocheira) nitida Cart. 1s a flatter insect with a differently
shaped head, the base of pronotum more strongly bisinuate, hind tibiae curved,
elytra and pronotum highly polished (See also These Proec., 1921, p. 307).
SARAGUS PUNCTATUS, n.sp.
Ovate, moderately convex, subnitid black, margins of pronotum, elytra, as
well as of abdominal segments, reddish, antennae and tarsi red. Head scareely,
or microscopically punctate, epistoma truncate in front, oblique and revolute at
sides, its surface with four raised lines radiating from the forehead, two near
middle short and sub-pustulose, the other two obliquely directed outwards from
inner margin of eyes, the latter separated by a space of the width of one eye.
Prothorax: apex arcuate-emarginate, base bisinuate, sides arcuately narrowed to
front, rather abruptly and roundly narrowed behind, anterior angles wide and
rounded, posterior subfaleate but not overlapping elytra, explanate margins wide
and concave, with smooth surface; dise very finely and not densely punctate,
nearly smooth at base, middle line indicated by smooth space near base and a
short linear impression at apex. Scutellwm equilatero-triangular. Hlytra of same
width as prothorax at base, thence ovately widened and bluntly rounded at apex,
explanate margins smooth, wide on front half, thence narrowed, but moderately
wide to apex; dise covered with rows of large, round punctures, the intervals near
suture very irregular and sub-costate, the lines of punctures in this region also
irregular, alternate intervals more or less raised, a little crenulate in parts, some-
BY H. Jj. CARTER.
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times with an irregular transverse connection. Prosternum earinate, and pustu-
lose, mesosternum with sparse fine pustules near sides, abdomen minutely punc-
tate. Dimensions: 11 x 7 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Shoalhaven River (Taylor Coll. in Australian
Museum). The specimen examined is nearest to, but very distinct from, S. rugo-
sipennis Macl. (from the region south-west of Shoalhaven), differing from that
species chiefly as follows: (1) Form rather shorter and wider, (2) Surface more
nitid, (3) Explanate margins nowhere with any sign of corrugation, (4) Pronotal
punctures very fine and rather distant (close and much coarser in rugosipennis),
(5) Elytral punctures much more and transverse rugosity much less defined than
in Macleay’s species. Type (No. K. 44721) in Australian Museum.
NYCTOZOILUS CRASSUS, n.sp.
Widely ovate, convex body and appendages subnitid black, tarsi and apices
of tibiae clothed with red tomentum. Head finely and densely punctate, antennae
stout, apical half opaque and hirsute, jomt 3 as long as 4-5 conjointly, 4-7 ob-
conic, 8-10 nearly round, 11 ovate, 14 times as long as 10. Prothorax areuate-
emarginate at apex, anterior angles prominent, bluntly sub-acute, base nearly
straight for the greater part, a little sinuate before the backwardly-produced
dentate hind angles, these overlapping elytra, widest a little behind middle, sides
thence subangulately narrowed, arcuately in front, lightly sinuate behind, raised
lateral border strongly thickened and round, widely coneave within, this gutter
smooth; dise closely finely punctate with a faint indication of a smooth medial
line and a large foveate depression on each side of this. Scutellum transversely
triangular, punctured like pronotum. Hlytra as wide as prothorax at base and
less than three times as long, widening rapidly from shoulders to half way; each
with four wide and slightly flexuous costae, the inner three nitid, the fourth, near
margin, opaque and less raised than the rest; the first and second costae adjacent
but scarcely meeting at base, 3rd and 4th meeting at shoulders; transverse ridges
irregularly branching from the costae, the interstices thus being irregularly ridged
and foveate-punctate, though without defined reticulation, the sculpture becoming
vague and sub-obsolete on the steep apical declivity, the sutural ridge less raised
than costae; the usual lateral: row of large punctures evident on basal half; under
side finely, not very closely, punctate. Tibiae straight. Dimensions: 16 x 9 mm.
Hab—New South Wales: Uralla (Dr. E. W. Ferguson). <A single male
example shows a distinet species which, by the combination of punctate, thickly
margined pronotum and 8-costate elytra, is nearest to N. marginatus Cart., from
which it differs in smaller size, shorter and proportionally wider form, the sides
of pronotum sinuate behind, the lateral gutter not rugose, inter alia.’
Type in Coll. Carter.
NYCTOZOILUS PUSILLUS, n.sp.
Oblong ovate, opaque brownish-black, apical joints of antennae piceous, of
palpi red; tarsi and apices of tibiae clothed with golden tomentum. Head:
epistoma concave in front, labrum very prominent and ciliate, whole surface (in-
cluding prominent canthus) densely rugose-punctate, antennae moderately enlarg-
ing outwards, joint 3 as long as 4-5 conjointly, 4-8 oval, 9-10 short and transverse,
11 ovoid. Prothorax: apex arcuate-emarginate, base nearly straight, a little
sinuate near angles, widest behind middle, sides thence roundly narrowed to the
acute front angles, sinuately narrowed behind to meet the lightly produced, but
36 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
scarcely dentate hind angles, these overlapping elytra; a thin raised lateral border,
lightly concave within; dise very densely punctate, the punctures smaller than on
head, without rugosity; a smooth medial line shown near middle and a shallow
depression on each side of this. Scutellum transversely triangular, punctured like
pronotum. EHlytra oblong, obovate, with four thin, nitid, sub-undulate costae. be-
sides the wider but less raised sutural convexity, the interstices showing shallow
irregularities of surface; the whole densely punctate, the punctures showing dis-
tinctly along the narrow costae; costae one and two meet en apical declivity but
not at base, the third and fourth meet at both extremities of their length; a pos-
terior loop on the declivity, connecting the junctions of 1-2 and 3-4. The lateral
margin without any sign of the usual row of large punctures. Prosternum rugose-
punctate, the rest of under side densely punctate (more coarsely so than the upper
surface) the abdomen also longitudinally strigose. Dimensions: 12 x 6 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Rockhampton. A single example, probably male, has
long been, in my collection, wrongly determined as N. daemeli Haag. and figured
in outline under this name (These Proc, 1917, p. 706), when I deseribed N.
parvus from Townsville. Last year, however, it was compared with a specimen
of daemeli in the British Museum, and found to be distinet by its narrower
oblong form, the less acutely produced hind angles of prothorax, and differentiy
sculptured elytra. (In daemeli Haag., there are obvious transverse rugosities
while the interstices are as described “vix punctatis”). It is thus possible that
N. parvus Cart. is identical with N. daemeli. The unique type of parvus is in
the National Museum, Melbourne. My outline figure of parvus is not unlike that
of daemeli, as given by its author.
Type in Coll. Carter.
MENEPHILUS PULCHER, N.Sp.
Elongate, parallel, upper surface brilliant peacock blue-green, elytra with
three latcral intervals on apical half gold; antennae, legs and underside red. Head
strongly and closely punctate, epistomal suture areuate, antennal joints 1-4 un-
usually fine, three terminal joints strongly enlarged, joint 8 intermediate in size
between 7 and 9. Prothorax: apex and base subtruneate, the latter feebly pro-
duced in middle, sides nearly straight, wider in front than behind, narrowly mar-
gined at base and sides, anterior angles widely rounded, posterior sharply defined
but obtuse, dise clearly and rather closely punctate, middle line indicated near
base by less punctate area. Elytra wider than prothorax at base, shoulders
rounded, sides parallel; striate-punctate, striae deep, the punctures therein slightly
crenulating the sides of the convex intervals, the latter finely punctate and sharply
carinate at apex. Sternwm nearly smooth, abdomen wanting. Dimensions: 10
x 4 mm.
Hab.—North Queensland: Deeral ? (Dr. J. F. Illingworth). An example
generously sent me by its captor, and a second shown me in London by Dr. G. A.
K. Marshall, who had also received it from Dr. Ilingworth, can only be confused
with M. laetus Cart. and M. corvinus Erichs. by colour and size. Smaller than
either, it is easily distinguished by (1) the golden sides of elytra, accentuated (in
the type) by the purple-blue horizontal margin, (2) straighter sides of prothorax,
(3) the more strongly punctured surface, (4) more convex elytral intervals, and
(5) especially by the different antennae, which in laetus and corvinus are more
gradually enlarged externally. The abdomen is, unfortunately, wanting, but the
type‘is otherwise in good condition.
Type in Coll. Carter.
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BY H. J. CARTER.
NOTOPRATAEUS (gen. nov. Heterotarsinorum).
Ovate, winged; eyes large, transverse, coarsely granulated; antennae long
(about extending to base of prothorax when at rest), joints enlarging outwards,
the last three considerably larger than the rest; maxillary palpi long, apical joint
seeuriform, mentum and labial palpi small, mandibles simple, epistoma scarcely
separated from front by suture; prothorax not concealing eyes, wider than head,
base and apex of nearly equal width, both bismuate; sides not explanate, with
narrow entire border. Elvtra coarsely regularly punctate; epipleurae narrow;
prosternal process received into a deep triangular notch of the mesosternum;
procoxae globose, middle coxae with trochantins, postecoxae rather widely
separated by a triangular intercoxal plate; apices of tibiae not enlarged and each
bearing two short spines; tarsi with silky-pubescence beneath, penultimate joint
bilobed, claws small; posterior tarsi with first and fourth joints of equal length,
each as long as the second and third conjointly, the latter two of equal length.
This is the first record of a genus of the tribe Heterotarsini in the Australian
fauna. Acccrding to Mr. K. G. Blair, it is near Paratenetes, but following Le-
conte and Horn (Col. N. Amer.) 1t would appear to be still nearer the American
genus Prataeus.
NOTOPRATAEUS LITORALIS, Sp.
Narrowly oval and rather flat; nitid black, sparsely clothed at sides, more
densely beneath, with pale, short bristles; antennae, palpi and tarsi red. Head:
epistoma widely rounded, slightly produced in the middle; mandibles and labrum
prominent; coarsely, not closely punctate; antennae with joints 1-2 short and
stout, 3 half as long again as 4, 4-6 longitudinally ovate, 7-8 pear-shaped, as wide
as long, 9-10 transversely oval, llth largest, sub-globular. Prothorax transverse
quadrangular, apex more sinuate than base, front angles widely rounded, sides
rounded, widest at middle, lightly sinuate on basal half, posterior angles sharply
rectangular, dise coarsely punctate without sign of medial line, basal or other
toveae. Scutellum triangular, smooth. Hlytra distinctly wider than prothorax at
base and 23 times as long, humeral angle obtuse, showing a narrow epipleural
told, a narrow border evident from above for two-thirds of length; coarsely, ir-
regularly punctate, each puncture, where not abraded, bearing a short hair; under
side more densely setose-punctate. Dimensions: 4 x 1.6 mm.
Hab.—N. Queensland: Townsville (H. J. Carter). I took a single example
of this interesting species in company with Heterocheira tropica on the beach.
HKUTOREUMA MINOR, n.sp.
Hlongate, convex, nitid coppery-bronze above, reddish-brown beneath, an-
tennae, tibiae and tarsi red. Head densely punctate, forehead canaliculate, eyes
large, half-concealed by prothorax, separated by a distance about equal to the dia-
meter of one eye; antennae slender, about reaching base of prothorax, apical
joints lightly enlarged. Prothorax arcuate-emarginate at apex, anterior angles
acute and prominent (extending in front of eyes); base strongly bisinuate, pos-
terior angles acute, sides lightly arcuately widened from apex hindwards, the
arcuation strongest near front; a thin raised lateral border, narrowly sub-concaye
within; a medial and two larger foveae near base; dise closely and rather strongly
punctate. Scutellum triangular with rounded sides, punctate. Elytra of same
width as prothorax at base, sides subparallel for the greater part; apical half
more tumid and convex than basal half; dise irregularly vermiculate-punctate,
38 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
with bladder-like swellings irregularly disposed, interspersed with foveate pune-
tures; of these, some longitudinally arranged near suture on apical third; whole
surface also with a close minute system of punctures; prosternum finely punctate,
abdomen longitudinally strigose. Dimensions: 7 (plus) x 3 mm.
Hab.—S. Queensland: Coomera (Mr. R. Illidge). A specimen was generously
given me by its captor some years ago and then diagnosed as a Mithippia. It is,
however, in structure, sculpture and colour extremely like its only congener, E.
cupreum Cart., from which it differs as follows:—Size much smaller, pronotum
more closely and coarsely punctate, with the lateral border much finer, the an-
terior sides more arcuate. The elytra also show a more distinct system of ground
punctures.
Type in Coll. Carter.
CHARIOTHES DODDI, n.sp.
Rather widely ovate, moderately convex, head, pronotum, underside and legs
nitid black, elytra bright violet, antennae, palpi and tarsi red, the last clothed be-
neath with long yellow hair; the penultimate joint with a tassel of the same.
Head finely, closely punctate, epistoma with rounded depression on each side, an-
tennae with joint 3 longer than 4, joints 7-11 transverse, 11 largest, ovoid. Pro-
thorax transversely convex, apex feebly sinuate, the middle very little prominent,
anterior angles widely obtuse and depressed, base lightly bisinuate, posterior
angles sub-rectangular; sides rather widely rounded, widest in front of middle and
without sinuation, lateral border narrow, disc finely, sparsely punctate. Scutellum
small, triangular. Elytra ovate, slightly wider than prothorax at base, striate-
punetate, the strrae well-marked and deeply furrowed at apex, the punctures small,
half-concealed in striae on basal half, obsolete at apex, intervals convex through-
out, strongly so behind, also impunctate, the suture carinate on apical third. Gular
area, transversely rugose, prosternum coarsely punctate, its apical process with deep
longitudinal suleus; abdomen strongly punctate except on two apical segments,
here sub-obsolete, all tibiae bowed.
Hab.—N. Queensland: Cairns district (Mr. F. P. Dodd). Another of Mr.
Dodd’s captures in this region of unlimited entomological supply. It is nearest
C. subviolacea Cart. in size and colour and differs from it as follows :—General
surface, especially elytra, more depressed and more widely oval, the pronotum
more convex, elytra striate-punctate; the colour of elytra much brighter. It is of
quite different form from the sub-cylindric striato-punctata, Macl., with more even
striation and smaller punctures. It is not very near any of the 30 species re-
cently described by Gebien under the preoccupied name Chariotheca (see These
Proe., 1914, p. 78) from Papua. :
Type in Coll. Carter.
APTEROTHECA PUNCTIPENNIS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 9.)
Robust, ovate; head, pronotum, underside and legs nitid black; antennae and
tarsi reddish, elytra violaceous with cyaneous tints near base and suture. Head:
epistoma impunctate, forehead finely, sparsely punctate; antennae gradually
widening outwards, joint 1 concealed by canthus, 7-11 increasingly transverse, 11
longer than 10. Prothoraxz transverse and convex, apex and base subtruncate,
front angles depressed and widely rounded off; hind angles acute, emphasized by
the meeting of the basal and lateral margins; widest at middle, sides well rounded,
subsinuate behind; a narrow, raised lateral border; a transverse depression within
basal margin; disc microscopically punctate. Scutellum arcuate-triangular.
BY H. J. CARTER. 39
Elytra of same width as prothorax at base, convex and oval; striate-punctate, with
8 rows of large punctures connected by shallow striae, besides a short scutellary
row of about 3 punctures; seriate punctures not very close, 4 punctures (two in
adjacent rows) forming a square, intervals flat and impunctate. Gular region
transversely striolate, sternum and abdomen finely punctate, the metasternum and
first segment of abdomen with fine longitudinal striolations. All tibiae a little
curved, hind tibiae of male strongly so. Dimensions: 14 x 6 mm.
Figs. 8-10.
8. Nyctozoilus crassus. 9. Apterotheca punctipennis, 6.
10. Nototrintus hackeri, &.
Hab.—South Queensland, National Park (Mr. H: Hacker). Two examples
(3, 2) form another of Mr. Hacker’s discoveries in this prolific region. This is
the third known species of a genus lately separated from Chariotheca by Gebien
(Résultats de lexpedition scientifique Néerlandaise 4 la Nouvelle Guinée, 1920,
p. 348), under its present title. It is readily distinguished by colour and elytral
sculpture from A. amaroides Pase. and A. besti Blackb. Vide infra), the pune-
tures in the elytral series being as large as in Encyalesthus punctipennis Pasc.
Types in Queensland Museum.
The three species may be thus separated :—
A. Pronotum, legs and underside black.
1. Elytra cridescent (purple-eyancous) ; very finely striate-punctate.
. amaroides Pase.
2. Elytra deep violet i dess nitid than 1), strongly striate-punctate.
BUM Re NER ces CNT (EI-G) 0058, cl OVC AIM EERE OR aE . punctipennis, n.sp.
AA. Pronotum, legs and underside blue.
Hlytra fiery coppery. .. .. .- un OeStiy lacks
(Blackburn deduced from aee oer S omission nen the vies of amaroides were
not striate. I have a cotype, however, from Lizard Is., given in exchange at the
British Museum, which shows a fine striation, containing small punctures).
I have already noted (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1911. p. 215) the differen-
tiation of the two groups of Otrintus. I now propose the generic name Noto-
40) AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
trintus for the reception of O. jacksoni Cart., O. striatus Cart. and O. acaciensts
Cart., of which the first is the genotype.
Nororrintus (gen. nov. Adeliinarum).
Near Otrintus, but separated from it by the flatter, non-cylindrie form, pro-
thorax trapezoidal or sub-cordate; widest near apex, base truncate or lightly
arcuate, hind tarsi long. Elytra suleate. In Apasis—another allied genus—the
apex of pronotum is not emarginate, the front angles depressed and rounded,
while in Nototrintus they are more or less explanate and emarginate, and quite
sharply emarginate in Otrintus. The following adds another species to the
group.
NOTOTRINTUS HACKERI, n.sp. (Text-fig. 10.)
Oblong ovate, subnitid black; antennae and tarsi piceous, the latter clothed
beneath with red tomentum. Head strongly, not closely punctate, eyes rather nar-
rowly transverse, antennae extending to base of prothorax in the male (not quite
so far in the female); joint 3 half as long again as 4; 4-10 oval, very slightly
progressively enlarged, 11 longer than 10, ovate acuminate. Prothorax: apex
arcuate, anterior angles sub-rectangular with the extreme apex blunt,
base truncate, posterior angles defined and obtuse; sides arcuately — con-
verging from near apex, subsinuous near hind angles; all angles a little explanate,
the explanation extending narrowly along sides, extreme border narrowly raised
throughout; a fine medial line clearly cut, whole dise closely and finely punctate.
Scutellum rather widely triangular. Elytra oblong ovate, shoulders widely
rounded, epipleural fold well raised in this region; suleate, with 10 rather deep
sulci, including the extreme lateral one, intervals carinate towards base and apex,
and becoming sharper laterally, everywhere convex. Underside smooth and _ nitid,
hind tarsi having first and fourth joints subequal in length. Dimensions: 16-17
x 5.5 mm. 5
Hab.—Queensland: National Park (Mr. H. Hacker). Five examples sent by
Mr. Hacker show the largest and most nitid of the four species. The single male
differs from the female in having greatly enlarged front tarsi, widened tibiae, the
hind tibiae rather strongly curved and in having longer antennae. I am pleased
to name this insect after the enthusiastic and capable entomologist who is doing
such admirable work at the Queensland Museum.
Types in the Queensland Museum.
The following table will distinguish the four known members of the genus.
Nototrintus.
1-3. Colour opaque brown-black.
2. Pronotum subcordate, elytral intervals sharp, 12-14 mm. long. striatus Cart.
3. Pronotum narrower, elytral intervals rounded, 16-17 mm. long. jacksom Cart.
4-6. Surface nitid.
5. Colour brown-black, elytral intervals clearly punctate, 13-15 mm. long.
LTRS WRT NTA Linea tala MAGS MMM iMeMcraty 6 QICTIGIO SOS || Ceber
6. Colour black, elytral intervals impunctate, 16-17 mm. long. hackerz, n.sp.
NV.B.—All four species are denizens of the dense brush of the regions limited
by the Bellinger River and the Queensland National Park, MacPherson Ranges.
BY H. J. CARTER. AL
LICINOMA PUNCTICEPS, n.sp.
Subeylindric, nitid black, labrum, palpi, antennae and tarsi red, apical joints
of antennae pale red. Head with epistoma unusually elongate, its sides obliquely
narrowed to front, the whole forehead and epistoma very coarsely punctate, an-
tennae with joint 3 a little elongate, 4-10 moniliform and slightly enlarging out-
wards, 11 much larger and pear-shaped. Prothorax: apex and base subtruneate,
anterior angles feebly emarginate and obtuse; widest before middle, sides lightly
rounded and narrowly margined, dise strongly and unevenly punctate, the pune-
tures smaller than on head and becoming’ finer near middle, a foveate impression
towards each side; without sign of middle line. Scutellum small. Elytra slightly
wider than prothorax at base; striate punctate, the striae wide and deep, almost
concealing the punctures; intervals flat, very minutely punctate but not setose,
the Ist, 3rd, 5th, and 7th wider than the rest. Prosternum and sides of meso-
sternum coarsely, metasternum and abdomen finely (the apical segment densely)
punctate. Dimensions: 11 x 4 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Bowral. A single specimen probably taken by the
late Mr. Helms, is clearly differentiated from its nearest ally monticola Blackb.
by its elongate head and the unusually coarsely punctate head and pronotum in
combination with flat, non-setose elytral intervals of unequal width.
Type in Coll. Carter.
LICINOMA UMBILICATA, n.Sp.
Oblong oval, pale bronze, subnitid, underside, legs and apical half of an-
tennae red, basal half of antennae, tarsi and upper part of tibiae testaceous.
Head finely punctate, epistomal suture arcuate, antennae with basal joints linear-
ovate, 6-11 gradually enlarged, 11 not much larger than 10. Prothorax arcuate-
emarginate at apex, base sub-truncate, sides rather widely and evenly rounded;
anterior angles a little rounded and snbacute; posterior obtuse; dise with fine,
close, shallow punctures, two foveate depressions near middle, one on each side
of middle line, the latter lightly impressed at apex, widening into a
pear-shaped fovea at middle, thence obsolete. Scutellum triangular. Hlytra
ovate, widest about middle, shoulders obsolete; striate-punctate, the striae well-
marked, the seriate punctures small and close, intervals quite flat, the 3rd, 5th,
7th and 9th with umbilicate nodules; in general * each bearing a coarse spinose
oblique bristle; the 3rd having about five, the 5th about seven, the 7th about
eleven, more or less evenly spaced, those on the 9th appearing in outline at the
sides, Underside finely punctate; hind tarsi with basal joint about as long as the
rest combined. Dimensions: 8 x 3 (+) mm.
Hab.—Dorrigo (Mr. 8. W. Jackson). A puzzling species that on a strict
interpretation of Pascoe’s phrase “p»rothoraz apice haud emarginato” would re-
quire separation from Licinoma. It, however, accords with the genus in other
respects, while the extent of “emargination” depends somewhat on the point of
view. The “arcuation” is slightly deeper than that of ZL. aerea mihi as shown in
figure (These Proc., 1920, p. 242, fig. 8).aq AyTuo ues evajdyo oy} Jo oangdynos oy,
compared with that of the Tasmanian LZ. nodulosa Champ.; but in this species is
feeble, chiefly confined to the apical region, and unaccompanied by setae.
Type in Coll. Carter.
“The unusually coarse spinose bristles are apparently easily abraded, since
they are irregularly absent from some of the nodules.
42 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
CHALCOPTERUS LUCIDUS, n.sp.
Robust, oval, convex; head, pronotum, underside and legs nitid black, an-
tennae and tarsal clothing black; elytra burnished, pale greenish-copper, very
brilhant. Head: eyes separated by space nearly equal to the diameter of one
eye; antennae robust, little enlarged externally, 3rd joint proportionally longer
than in affinis Bless. Prothorax: apex lightly arcuate, base sub-truncate, front
angles depressed and very wide, posterior acute, sides gently arcuately narrowing
from base to apex; dise very finely sparsely punctate, medial line smooth.
Scutellum black, nitid, equilatero-triangular. Elytra strongly widened at shoulders,
thence sub-parallel to apical third; minutely striate-punctate, the fine shallow
striae only seen by close scrutiny, the seriate punctures much smaller than in
affinis Bless. or sparsus Blackb.; intervals flat and impunctate; metasternum and
abdomen finely strigose. Dimensions: 14.5-15 x 8-8.5 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Beverley (Mr. Tepper, Junr.), and N. Territory.
A robust species after the manner of affinis Bless. and sparsus Blackb.; nearer
the latter, but distinguished by the larger form, the extreme brilliance of its sur-
face and the absence of any sign of interstitial punctures on the elytra. I have
had the species long under observation, but, not having clearly identified sparsus
until my recent visit to the British Museum, had left it undescribed till now.
The colour of elytra is elusive and apparently uniform, or nearly so, but the
metallic reflections are decidedly greenish, and there is an entire absence of
purple. Two examples, including the type in Coll. Carter, one in the British
Museum, others in the South Australian Museum.
CHALCOPTERUS PRAETERMISSUS, D.sp.
Hlliptic, convex; head, underside and appendages black, pronotum and elytra
green, with metallic purple sheen near hind angles of pronotum, also on humeral
eallus and sides of elytra. Tarsal clothing yellow. Head closely and rather
strongly punctate, eyes bordered by sulcus, separated by about the length of 2nd
joint of antennae; antennae enlarged towards apex, joints 4-11 subequal in
length. Prothorax: apex arcuate, base bisinuate, sides well rounded and converg-
ing to apex, all angles obtuse; disc irregularly and rather coarsely punctate, the
medial line and a few small irregular areas more or less laevigate. Hlytra re-
gularly elliptic, considerably wider than prothorax, humeral eallus prominent;
seriate-punctate, punctures in striae near middle very much as in C. smaragdulus
F. but much less diminishing in size towards apex than in that species; intervals
flat and strongly punctate (as in C. variabilis Bless.). | Underside striolate.
Dimensions: 13 x 7 mm.
Hab—N. Queensland (Kuranda). A species long overlooked in my collec-
tion, superficially like green examples of smaragdulus F., but an examination
at once shows the following distinctions: Form more regularly elliptic (in
smaragdulus the elytra are ovate with the big end at base); eyes less close, ocular
suleus present, punctures of pronotum and elytral intervals much stronger, seriate
punctures well-marked to extreme apex; tarsal clothing yellow. The species
should be placed in my table (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1913, p. 31) after
rusticus Blackb. (— cupreus F.) from which it differs in smaller size and its
strong interstitial punctures.
Type in Coll. Carter.
BY H. J. CARTER. 43
STRONGYLIUM VERTEBRALE, N.Sp.
Hlongate, subeylindric, glabrous; head, pronotum, scutellum, the greater part
of elytra and underside metallic peacock-blue (im one example head and prono-
tum dark metallic green); elytra with suture, base and margins red, this colour
varying in extent, but generally covering one elytral interval at suture and sides
and widening towards base and apex. Underside of head, coxal regions, epi-
pleurae and margins of abdominal segments more or less red or suffused with
‘red, antennae and legs blue-black, tarsal claws yellow. Head: labrum prominent,
forehead coarsely, epistoma more densely and finely punctate, eyes moderately
prominent, widely separated, in d by the width of an eye, in 2 more widely
separated. Antennae extending beyond base of prothorax when at rest, joints
1-2 short and stout, 3-5 sub-lmear, 3 shorter than 4-5 conjoined, 6-10 subconie,
of equal length but widening outwards, 11 oval, as long as 10. Prothorax trans-
verse and sub-depressed, apex and base sub-truncate, all angles rounded off, the
anterior widely so, sides variably widened, in ¢ examples nearly straight or
feebly subangulately widened near middle, in 2 more widely rounded, a raised
border throughout, showing more prominently at apex and middle of base, medial
line sometimes indicated by short depression near middle and absence of the
coarse, irregular puncturation elsewhere displayed on disc. Scutellum areuate-
triangular, the apex rounded off, impunctate. Elytra considerably wider than
prothorax at base, slightly widened behind middle, shoulders rather squarely
rounded, strongly striate-punctate, with nine deeply cut striae, besides a shorter
seutellary stria, containing rather large, irregularly-spaced punctures; intervals
convex and impunctate, underside almost smooth, the abdomen with light shallow
punctures, the episterna with a few larger punctures. Dimensions: 8-93 x 24-33
mm.
Hab.—North Queensland (Cooktown, Kuranda, Mackay, ete.). A common
species found in most collections (11 examples now before me) that J] have
hitherto considered as Pseudo-strongylium viridipenne Kraatz. The latter species,
however (described from a single example) possesses the following characters
inconsistent with this determination: “apex of antennae reddish,’ “joints small
and threadlike,” “eyes almost adjacent,” “tibiae at base and thighs red” (trans-
lated from German). Some examples are almost entirely cyaneous, this colour
varying from green-blue on head and pronotum to bright violaceous on elytra, in
old specimens becoming dingy, while the amount of red is variable. The ap-
pendages, except tarsal claws and scutellum, are in all cases dark.
Type in Coll. Carter.
HKBENOLUS BANKSI, n.sp.
Oblong, subeylindric; head, pronotum, underside and legs nitid black, elytra
green and purple (the former colour predominating on the middle area), an-
tennae piceous, tarsi red. Head minutely punctate, strigose on basal ridge, eyes
almost contiguous, the interspace in apical half of d narrowly lineate, thence
triangulately widening behind; in 2 the interspace is twice as wide in front and
much more rapidly widened behind; in both sexes the widened interspace im-
pressed; antennae long and slender, joints 3-11 successively shorter and slightly
wider. Prothorax subquadrate, wider than long and rather wider in front than
behind; apex, base and sides nearly straight, narrowly margined throughout, an-
terior angles rounded, posterior rectangular; dise with fine, shallow punctures,
with an area of larger punctures near middle of base, medial channel lightly im-
pressed (more strongly so in 2) on basal half. Seutellum equilatero-triangular,
44 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, NOTES AND NEW SPECIES,
punetate. Hlytra considerably wider than prothorax at base, shoulders angulate,
sides sub-parallel; seriate-punctate, the first two rows of punctures in sub-striate
depressions, intervals impunctate and slightly convex, the two first more strongly
so; the punctures round, moderately large and regular. Prosternum suleate,
abdomen finely punctate, post-tarsi with 1st joint shorter than the rest combined.
Dimensions: 3. 12-13 x 4-44 mm.; 2. 13 x 5 mm.
Hab.—Moa, Banks Island, Torres Straits (Mr. W. McLennan). Two ¢ and
one 2 in the Australian Museum, presented by Mr. H. L. White, show an evident
ally of EH. vernicatus Fairm. and FE. sub-viridis Geb., both from New Guinea. Be-
sides differing in colour from both, the former is said to be suleate between the
eyes, the pronotum “multi-impresso,” and elytral punctures “apice obsoleto”’;
from the latter it is separated by closer eyes and elytral punctures not at all in
pairs. H. wollastoni Blair is larger inter alia. 1 have named it after the great
naturalist whose name is associated with its habitat.
Type in Australian Museum.
KBENOLUS MINOR, n.Sp.
Oblong, subeylindric; head, pronotum, underside and legs black, the two first
subnitid, the two last nitid; elytra blue, sometimes tending to purple with purple
and golden metallic gleams near apical declivity; antennae, palpi and tarsi red.
Head impressed on front, densely and finely punctate, intereye-space in d about
the length of 1st antennal joint, in 2 rather more distant; antennae slender, extend-
ing beyond the base of prothorax, joints on basal half sublinear, widening and
growing shorter outwards. Prothorax: apex and base truncate, sides nearly
straight, slightly wider in front than behind; the anterior angles obtuse and a
little blunted at tips, posterior angles sharply rectangular; dise densely and finely
rugose-punctate, the narrow lateral margins not visible from above; transversely
impressed near basal margin, medial line not indicated. Scutellwm triangular,
punctate. Hlytra wider than prothorax at base, shoulders sub-angulate, but
rounded; sides parallel; striate-punctate, the seriate punctures round, large, rather
close and regular; intervals impunctate, generally flattish, some intervals towards
sides and apex lightly convex. Sternal regions densely, the abdomen closely and
finely punctate; post tarsi with first jomt about as long as the rest combined.
Dimensions: 7-7.5 x 2-2.5 mm.
Hab.—Moa, Banks Island, Torres Straits (W. McLennan, in Australian
Museum, presented by Mr. H. L. White). Several examples recorded as at-
tracted to light by Mr. McLennan; both sexes evidently present amongst the nine
specimens closely examined, which show little variation of colour or size. Its
small size separates it from any described species, while it is further distinguished
from the species having a black prothorax and coloured elytra by its densely
rugose-punctate pronotum.
Type in Australian Museum.
The genus Hbenolus Fairm., with genotype EH. vernicatus Fairm., segregates
a special group of the heterogeneous and numerous Strongyliinae that appears to
have its zoo-centre in Papua. It probably includes some of our Australian
species, especially S. macleayi Pase., with which Mr. Blair compares his S. wol-
lastoni, and which Gebien has recently placed under Hbenolus, while describing
Six new species from New Guinea. The chief characters appear to be: eyes close,
antennae long and slender, prothorax subquadrate, its sides margined, prosternum
suleate, body oblong, non-gibbous, the shoulders angulate without tuberosity.
BY H. J. CARTER. 45
CISTELIDAE.
Homotrysis (Allecula) flavicornis Macl.—Since the Australian species of
Allecula are now merged in Homotrysis the name macleay?, given by Borchmann
in the Junk catalogue to this species, is superfluous. There is a black variety of
this, commonly found round Sydney, as well as the typical brown form. Possibly
the brown colour shows immaturity.
46
NEW TRILOBITES FROM BOWNING, WITH NOTES ON ENCRINURUS
AND CORDANIA GARDNERI.
By Joun MircHeuu, late Principal of the Technical College and School of Mines,
Neweastle.
(Plate x.)
[Read 26th March, 1924.)
Introduction.
In 1907 the late General A. W. Vogdes, an eminent authority on trilobites,
gave a complete history of the genus Hncrinurus (Trans. San Diego Soe. Nat.
Hist., 1. (2), 1907, pp. 61-83), and proposed its division into the genera Hncrinurus
and Cryptonymus, claiming that the latter name should be retained for the generic
name of the group. If the rule of priority is to be followed strictly, the claim
for Cryptonymus appears unquestionable, but the fact that Hncrinurus has been
in common use for some eighty years should be taken into consideration.
The separation into Encrinurus and Cryptonymus depends on the presence or
absence of spines on the genal angles: those forms with spines are placed in the
genus Encrinurus, of which the generic type is Hncrinurus punctatus; Cryptony-
mus is to inelude those forms having rounded genal angles, the generic type sug-
gested being H. variolaris Brong. As far as the proposed genera and generic
types are concerned, the present writer agrees with these divisions, but considers
the features on which the separation of the genera is based are not of generic
value; he admits that the separation may be useful in practice. If spines on the
genal angles be accepted as features having generic or subgeneric values, then
several old-established genera are open for similar generic division. Should
Vogdes’ proposed classification of Hnerinurus be accepted, all the Australian
species recorded up to the present time would have to be placed in Cryptonymus,
for they all have rounded genal angles.
It has oceurred to the writer that a division of the group might be effected
on well marked and constant pygidial characteristics, viz:—the continuity or
discontinuity of the rings of the axis of the pygidium. Under this classification,
those species of Encrinurus having continuous axial rings on their pygidia would
be placed in the genus Cryptonymus, and have Cryptonymus (Encrinurus)
variolaris for the generic type. Such as have the axial rings of their pygidia dis-
continuous or medially interrupted, wholly or in part, would form the genus
Encrinurus, the type species being Encrinurus punctatus.
Adopting this classification, the following Australian species would be in-
cluded in Cryptonymus:—H. etheridge: E. and M., HE. duntroonensis HE. and M.,
together with Cryptonymus platynotus, C. incertus, CO. robustus, C. perannulatus,
and (. angustus, described in the present paper. In the genus Enecrinurus would
BY JOHN MITCHELL. 47
be placed EL. mitchelli, EH. silverdalensis, E. bowningensis, E. rothwellae, and the
species H. frontalis here described. The solitary H. (C.) spryi would find its
resting place in Cryptonymus.
The writer is aware that to establish a genus on a feature of the pygidium
of a trilobite is exceptional; but in the present case, the separation of: the genera
under discussion, on the lines stated by him above, seems sound and reasonable;
and especially does it appear so, when the classification is applied to the Aus-
tralian species. Also, seeing that the genus Hncrinuwrus itself is established on a
feature of the pygidium, it seems reasonable, if further division becomes neces-
sary, to use some well-marked pygidial character, as is proposed above.
The general characters for Encrinurus would remain as they have been here-
tofore recognised. The genus Cryptonymus would have a head-shield and thorax
of the types common to the Enerinuridae, and its separation from Encrinurus
would depend on the interrupted or continuous rings of the axis of the pygidium.
In the following pages eight new species of trilobites from the Bowning
(Bounyongian) beds of New South Wales are described and figured. Two of
these (one doubtfully) are placed in the genus Bronteus (Goldius). Six new
species are placed in the genera Hnerinurus and Cryptonymus. Up to the pre-
sent, no less than ten species of Hncrinurus have been recorded from New South
Wales, four (EH. punctatus Brunn., #. barrandei De Kon., H. (Cromus) bohemicus
and H. murchisoni De Kon.) by De WKoninck (Foss. Pal. Nouv. Galles du Sud, Pt.
J., 1876, pp. 49-55, Pl. 1., figs. 8, 9, 9a-b.).
When dealing with the Silurian Encrinuridae of New South Wales, the late
R. Etheridge, junior and the writer expressed certain opinions with reference to
the correctness and value of these determinations of De Koninek (Proce. Linn.
Soc. N.S.W., xl. (4), 1915, pp. 651-654) ; and the present writer is unaware of
any reason why the opimions then expressed should be altered. By the addition
of the species of Eincrinurus and Cryptonymus (or Encrinurus alone) dealt with
in the present paper, the species of these genera have been increased to a greater
number than has been recorded from New South Wales for any other genus of
trilobite; and still, to the writer’s knowledge, there are fragments of new species
of these genera awaiting description.
In Europe and North America, Encrinurus, sens lat., is practically confined
to the Ordovician and Upper Silurian systems. In New South Wales, species
occur from the base to near the top of the Bounyongian beds and, up to the
present, the whole of this formation has been considered to be of Upper Silurian
age. Recent study, however, has led the writer to conclude that the uppermost
beds, at least, are of Lower Devonian age; and in these beds Hnerinurus is not
known to occur. The Yarralumla beds are the equivalents of the Lower Trilobite
beds of Bowning, as are also, in part or altogether, the Back Creek beds of the
Tarlo River. The age of the Duntroon beds has not yet been satisfactorily solved,
but, in the opinion of the writer, they are older than those of Bowning. It may,
therefore, be taken as approximately correct that, in New South Wales, and in-
deed in Australia, Encrinurus (including Cryptonymus) is confined to the Upper
Silurian and older formations.
Family ENCRINURIDAE.
CRYPTONYMUS PLATYNOTUS Mitchell. (Plate x., fig. 1.)
The specimen available has the anterior portion of the head-shield and a
small part of the tip of the pygidium missing. The head-shield is subsemi-elliptic,
its surface being densely tubereulate, with medium to small tubercles; the surface
48 NEW TRILOBITES FROM BOWNING,
of the glabella is removed, leaving the greater part of the hypostoma exposed; the
neck-furrow is narrow and ill-defined, its lateral extensions wide and distinct;
neck-ring and its lateral extensions similar to a thoracic segment; fixed cheeks
large, the wings unusually wide postero-anteriorly, densely tuberculate, the
tubereles being arranged in nearly regular rows; eyes placed well forward and
outward. Thorax much wider than long (25:15 approx.), smooth; axis spindle-
shaped, widest at the third and fourth rings, mildly convex, each ring subtuber-
culate at its bases; axial furrows deep; side lobes almost horizontal between their
origin and their fulera, thence steeply deflected; an indistinet tubercle at the
fuleral point of each pleura; terminals of the pleurae strongly imbricate and
eurved forward. Pygidium triangular, moderately convex, about two-thirds as long
as wide (13:20); axis mildly convex, rings continuous, about twenty-two in num-
ber (on the specimen there are nineteen, but a part of its end is broken off) ;
medially there are five inconspicuous tubercles; the junction with the thoracic axis
is quite gradual. Pleurae of the side lobes are 9 to 10, each, except the first,
slopes gently from the origin to the margins and ends in ploughshare-like edges,
having a fairly strong backward curve.
On a casual inspection this may easily be taken for H. mitchelu; but from
that species it is separated by (1) the great size of its fixed cheeks and their alae,
(2) the continuity of the axial rings of its pygidium, (3) the gradual merging
of the thoracic axis into that of the pygidium, (4) the more forward position
of the eyes, and (5) less convexity and prominence of the axis. From EH. bowning-
ensis and H. silverdalensis K. and M., it is easily distinguished. In the size of
its fixed cheeks and forward position of the eyes it resembles H. rothwellae; but
differs from that species, widely in other respects.
The outstanding features of the species are the large fixed cheeks, anterior
and lateral position of the eyes, general low convexity, continuity of the axial
rings of the pygidium, and the indistinetness of the medial tubercles of the pygidial
axis.
Loce.—Bowning Creek, Lower Trilobite beds.
CRYPTONYMUS INCERTUS, n.sp. (Plate x., fig. 2.)
Of this species only the pygidium, with two complete thoracic segments at-
tached, 1s known. The description of the pygidium is as follows: Triangular,
about two-thirds as long as wide, fairly well inflated, smooth or nearly so. Axis
prominent, convex, made up of numerous rings (more than twenty), ending
bluntly short of the posterior margin, subtended by a pair of pleural segments,
its greatest spread approximately equals one-fourth of the greatest width of the
pygidium (5:19); its junction with the thorax is quite gradual, along the medial
line there are faint traces of two tubercles. Side lobes consist of twelve pairs of
pleurae, convex, only the posterior three pairs strongly directed backwards, geni-
culation indistinct. Dimensions: Length 13 mm., width 19; greatest height of
axis 5; greatest height of side lobes 4 mm.
The present pygidium resembles, in general contour and pleural characters,
E. bowningensis more than it does any other Australian species; but from the
pygidium of this species it differs in having twelve pairs of pleurae instead of
nine, the axis ending short of the margin, and in its rings being continuous.
These differences alone are sufficient to separate the two specifically. The pygi-
dium of C. robustus mihi and the one under discussion agree in several features,
but the former is densely, finely and evenly granulated, while the latter appears
BY JOHN MITCHELL. 49
to be practically smooth; the pleurae of the former are less in number and less
prominent than those of the latter. The pygidium of the latter does not possess
the distinct border which is present in the former.
Loc. and horizon.—Railway cutting near the Bowning railway station. Upper
Trilobite Beds, Bounyongian Series.
CRYPTONYMUS ROBUSTUS, n.sp. (Plate x., fig. 3.)
Complete form oval. Head-shield almost semicircular, densely tuberculate.
Glabella pyriform, mildly convex, greatest width equal to length, tubercles re-
latively large and fairly even in size, not prominent, those adjacent to the anterior
margin arranged subconcentrically, the posterior ones forming one or two trans-
verse rows, the remainder irregularly placed. There are five pairs of glabellar
furrows and, if such they may be called, the lobes are conspicuous, subquadrate in
shape and depressed, the posterior pair being inconspicuous; axial furrows deeply
incised. The lobe-like tubercles of the fixed cheeks, corresponding to and op-
posite those of the glabella, are prominent; neck-furrow inconspicuous, its lateral
extensions across the fixed cheeks narrow and deep, neck-ring narrow, fairly pro-
minent and granulated, its lateral extensions also narrow. Fixed cheeks well
developed, wide between the facial sutures and the posterior furrows, its granu-
lation like that of the glabella, moderately inflated, lower than the glabella. Free
cheeks large, inflated, lateral furrows and thickened borders conspicuous, the an-
terior parts between the exits of the facial sutures and the axial furrows flat,
wide and joining squarely. Eyes subellipsoidal in shape, sunken within their sur-
rounding furrows, rather widely apart, the anterior tubercles, forming the circlets
around the eye furrows, large, visual area depressed; posterior branches of the
facial sutures run from the back of the eye in a slightly oblique curve; genal
angles rounded; axial furrows conspicuous. Thorax transversely oblong, twice
as wide as long, sparsely granulated. Pygidium triangular, much wider than long
(30:18), finely granulated. Axis gently convex, medially subdepressed; rings ap-
parently twenty-four in number, continuous, segmented portion ending bluntly
before the margin is reached, the remainder appearing to be joined to the pleurae
of the side lobes; no tubercles visible along the medial line. Side lobes made up
of eleven pairs of pleurae, or perhaps twelve, moderately convex, deflect mildly
from the axial grooves, their backward curve is gentle and regular, anterior pair
conspicuously faceted, their marginal ends are chisel-like. Dimensions: Total
leneth, 52; length of head, 16; length of thorax, 18; of tail, 18; width of thorax,
34; spread of thoracic axis, 10 mm.
This species shows some resemblance to E. mitchelli Foerste, but differs in
quite a number of features as follows: The eyes of our species are wider apart
and are ellipsoidal instead of circular, as well as less prominent; the tubereulation
of the cephalon generally is coarser, less prominent and orderly arranged; its
pseudo-glabellar lobes are larger and more quadrate in shape; the spaces between
the posterior branches of the facial sutures and the posterior furrows of the
cephalon are wider and these furrows are narrower in C. robustus; the parts of
the free cheeks between the emergence of the axial grooves, and the facial sutures
in front of the glabella are flat, not lobed; the axial rings of the pygidium are
continuous; tubercles appear to be absent along the medial line of the pygidium.
These differences appear to warrant its separation from EF. mitchelli. It may be
noted further that the head of this species bears more than a passing resemblance
to the head of Encrinurus (Cromus) bohemicus Barr., but is easily separated from
50 NEW TRILOBITES FROM BOWNING,
that species. It is quite possible De Koninck made his determination of the pre-
sence of C. bohemicus in the rocks of New South Wales( Mem. Geol. Surv. N.S.
Wales, Pal. No. 6), from a head of the present species, mistaking it for the
Bohemian species. It is easily separated from all other Enerinurids which have
come under the writer’s notice.
Loc. and horizon.—Limestone Creek, near Goodyer’s hut, on the Yass-Burruwa
Road, Parish of Bowning, County of Harden. Lower Trilobite Beds, Bounyongian
Series.
CRYPTONYMUS PERANNULATUS, n.sp. (Plate x., fig. 4.)
Pygidium triangular, moderately inflated, apparently smooth and wider than
long (12:10). Axis very slightly convex, and very slightly elevated above the
side lobes, from which it is separated by faint axial grooves; it possesses about
forty-four continuous rings, reaches the posterior margin, greatest width 3 mm.,
or one-fourth of the anterior width of the pygidium. Side lobes show thirteen
pairs of segments; the posterior inclination of the segments is mild and they
terminate at the margin with straight edges; the deflection of the pleurae from the
axial grooves is steep throughout and posteriorly almost vertical.
The other parts of this species have not been determined; but the features of
this pygidium are so clearly different from all pygidia of the genus which have
come under my observation, that I have no hesitation in giving it specific rank.
Associated with this pygidium there occur several cephala and pygidia as
well as some free cheeks which were referred to by the late R. Etheridge and the
writer some years since; and it is possible that the cephalon and free cheek
described and figured by these writers (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xl., 1915, PI.
lvi., figs. 7, 9) belong to the species now under discussion. The free cheek in
question was then placed with E. etheridgei, but evidence now available discloses
that it does not belong there, because the facets of the eyes are very fine and
numerous, while the facets of the eyes of EH. etheridgei and of the Bounyongian
Encrinurids generally are relatively few in number, large in size and less conical
in shape.
Loc.—Gurnett’s farm, three miles west of Bowning township.
CRYPTONYMUS ANGUSTUS, n.sp. (Plate x., figs. 5, 6.)
Pygidium (testless), which is the only part known for certain, acutely tri-
angular, finely granulated, high anteriorly, and strongly drooping posteriorly,
longer than wide. Axis made up of some 30 or more continuous rings, narrow,
its anterior width being one-fifth of the anterior width of the pygidium, reaching
to the margin, ending bluntly; axial grooves faint. Side lobes made up of twelve
pairs of pleurae, the first pair only being geniculated, the others deflect strongly
. from their origin to the margins, and all have an increasingly oblique direction
posteriorly. The axis is very prominent anteriorly, but gradually becomes less
so posteriorly, until before the margin is reached it is inconspicuous. Dimensions:
Length, 13; width, 10 mm.
The outstanding features of this pygidium are its narrowness; steep, ad-
pressed sides; narrow, anteriorly elevated axis; few and inconspicuous tubercules
along the medial line of the axis. It is plain, from the axis of this pygidium,
that the axis of the thorax of the species would be narrow, and also that the
glabella would be narrow, at least posteriorly; and such a glabella was obtained
from Gurnett’s selection, and tentatively placed (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xl,
1915, pp. 672, 673, Pl. lv., figs. 7, 8) with EH. etheridgei E. and M. because of its
BY JOHN MITCHELL. 51
resemblance to the cephalon of that species, and there, for the present it must
remain.
It must be noted too that the pygidia previously figured (loc. cit., pp. 673,
674, Pl. lv., figs. 9, 10) resemble, in several particulars, the one under review, but
they are approximately as wide as long, with wider and inconspicuous axes, and
thirteen pairs of pleurae.
It may be pointed out here, that the pygidia from Gurnett’s selection are of
different types from those of the trilobites from the adjacent Bounyongian Series.
This probably indicates some difference in the geological horizon of the two
places.
Loc.—Gurnett’s selection, west of Bowning.
HENCRINURUS FRONTALIS, n.sp. (Plate x., fig. 7.)
Only a cephalic shield, minus the free cheeks, is known. The specific charac-
ters are:—Glabella subpyriform, front margin semicircular, width in front greater
than the length, tuberculate, tubercles varying in size, arranged subconcentrically,
except for a row in front of the neck furrow which is transverse; on each side are
four conspicuous tubercles (possibly there were five originally), some of which
are surmounted by a smaller one and separated from each other by pronounced
pseudo-glabellar furrows; neck-furrow narrow and deep, its lateral extensions
also deep; neck-ring strongly arched, bearing a conspicuous tubercle at each point
of origin and between these are a few inconspicuous ones; lateral extensions
narrow and prominent, bearing a few faint granules. Fixed cheeks of moderate
size, inflated, nearly as high as the glabella, tubercles in oblique rows, separated
from the glabella by deep axial furrows; eyes circular, facets rather large, visual
surface depressed, distinctly separated from the cheeks by a well defined furrow.
Facial sutures of the usual character for the genus. Free cheeks unknown.
This fragmentary head resembles Encrinurus mitchelli more than any other
Encrinurus known to me; but it differs from that species in having the glabella
wider than long; the eyes wider apart; an additional row of tubercules between
the eyes and the axial furrows; the neck furrow and its lateral extensions deeper —
and the latter at least narrower; fixed cheeks more inflated; glabellar lateral lobes
and furrows more distinct; glabella more tumid and its tuberculation more crowded,
irregular and prominent. These differences are ample to separate these two
species. It also resembles H. punctatus Brunn. more closely than does any other
Austrahan Enerinurid.
Loe. and horizon—A quarter of a mile south of the Bowning public school.
Associated with Dalmanites (Hausmannia) meridianus EK. and M., D. loomesi, ete.
This is the only Enerinurus which has been obtained from the Middle Trilobite
Beds of the Bounyongian series.
CryptoNyMuUS (ENCRINURUS) DUNTROONENSIS H. and M. (Plate x., figs. 10, 11.)
Encrinurus duntroonensis, Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., xl., 1915, 670-1, 674, 675
(b and c), PI. lv., figs. 13, 14, Pl. lvi., figs. 11, 13. The two pygidia, previously
described (loc. cit.) and thought to be specifically distinct from the cephalon
described as H. duntroonensis, are now regarded, with an additional two specimens,
as belonging to the same species. The axes of two of the four pygidia under
examination appear to have suffered compression. The following is the descrip-
tion of the normal pygidium: Triangular, slightly wider than long (8:7), granu-
lation faintly indicated. Axis moderately prominent, rings thirty or more, con-
52 NEW TRILOBITES FROM BOWNING,
tinuous; posteriorly the axis droops steeply and ends at the margin closely in-
vested by the terminal pair of pleurae; axial grooves faint. Side lobes strongly
inflated, fulera close to the axial grooves, from thence the lobes deflect almost
vertically; each pair of pleurae from the second to the ninth pair posteriorly
has a decided /-like shape; apparently there are twelve pairs of pleurae, certainly
eleven, ending at the margin with a. straight edge, and the whole pygidium has
the form of an equilateral triangle. Dimensions: Length, 7; width, 8; height, 3;
anterior spread of axis, 2.5 mm. A compressed specimen has length 7, width 5
spread of axis 2 mm.
That the pygidia formerly referred to (loc. cit.), and again described above,
belong to Encrinurus duntroonensis seems a reasonable conclusion because they
are the only pygidia found associated with the cephalon on which the species was
established, and the glabella of the type cephalon is narrow, and consequently, the
axis of its thorax and pygidium must also have been (unusually) narrow as is
the case with the pygidia under notice; for these reasons I place them with that
species without hesitation.
The pygidia of Silurian age from Europe most closely resembling these now
under notice, are those of Enerinurus seebachi Schmidt, which agree in shape,
proportionate length to width, and number of rings in the axes; but the local
ones have a larger number of pleural segments, and these slope much more steeply
from the axial grooves to the margin than do those of EH. seebachi.
Loc. and horizon.—A small creek near Duntroon homestead, Parish of Can-
berra, County of Murray. Upper Silurian or perhaps older.
b]
ENNCRINURUS MITCHELLI Foerste. (Plate x., figs. 12, 14.)
Enerinurus mitchell Foerste, Bull. Sci. Lab. Denison Univ., iii., Pt. 2, 1888,
p. 124, Pl. xiu., figs. 2, 3, 20.—(?) Cromus murchisoni De Koninck, Foss. Pal.
Nouv. Galles du Sud, 1876, Pt. 1, Pl. 1, fig. 9 (exclude figs. 9a and 9b).—E.
mitchelli Etheridge and Mitchell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xl., 1915, pp. 657-662,
TAB line ikes iby Ted Inga vitesh) TS) US) EI Wvaty, ines, 2) IO), JPA Invi, nko, ),
A careful study of a large number of specimens of this species enables me
to add an important point or two to former descriptions. In the original des-
cription by the late R. Etheridge, junior, and Mitchell the axis of the pygidium
is said to terminate mucronately and to possess twenty-six rings; but instead of
that some well preserved pygidia show that it ends in a fairly fine, rounded point
in front of the submucronate terminal formed by the coalescence of the last pair
of the pleurae; and that it bears thirty-two annulations, or more, in mature
specimens, also, in the description referred to, doubt was expressed whether there
were ten or eleven pairs of pygidial pleurae. It may now be stated definitely,
that in all specimens of the species which do not exceed 1% inches in length, the
pygidial pleurae consist of ten pairs and for mature specimens which reach a
length of two inches or a little more, eleven pairs is the normal number.
ENCRINURUS SILVERDALENSIS Etheridge and Mitchell. (Plate x., fig. 13.)
Encrinurus silverdalensis E. and M., Proce. Linn. Soé. N.S.W., xl., 1915, pp.
GSC JAR Wiyayimteny MLS IE tien sales, 25 Ge IRI ihyaig, vote 4b isp (6), dee JET Thyauty, ileys.
Sy, U0),
In the original description of this characteristic Encrinurus it was stated that
the thorax and pygidium were finely granulated. Later evidence proves that these
parts were coarsely tuberculate in a way which makes it easily distinguishable
BY JOHN MITCHELL. 53
from all other Australian species of Encrinurus. Also (loc. cit.) it was stated
that the axis of the pygidium is made up of thirty or more annulations; but a
well preserved and approximately mature specimen of the species shows it to have
only twenty-six rings and that the axis does not quite reach the posterior margin,
and subtending its termination is a short convex piece between the posterior pair
of pleurae. Another important feature about this species is, that the posterior
pleurae of the pygidium are strongly folded under the margin. This feature does
not occur in any other Encrinurus yet descrtbed from Australia.
An additional reference to CORDANIA GARDNERI Mitchell.
Since the publication of the paper in which this trilobite was described
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xlvii., 1922, pp. 535-540, Pl. liv., figs. 1-7) Mr.
T. H. Pincombe had the good fortune to find an almost perfect specimen of
the species which he kindly passed on to me for study. This specimen (Plate x.,
fig. 15) permits the following modifications of the original description: The form
of the eye is sublunate rather than reniform; the axis of the thorax is practically
as wide as the combined width of the two side lobes; and the genal spines reach
to the fifth thoracic segment.
Family BRONTEIDAE.
BRONTEUS (GOLDIUS) SINGULARIS, n.sp. (Plate x., fig. 8.)
In my collection there is a nearly complete thorax of a trilobite which I have
placed in the genus Bronteus. Its description has been withheld for many years,
hoping that some better specimens of it might be secured.
The specimen shows an almost complete axis and the two side lobes of a
thorax, with, on one side, several appendages attached to the pleurae; these parts
closely resemble Bronteus, but the thorax seems to have eleven rings, an unusual
number for the genus. One of these rings may, however, be the neck-ring. There
are three almost complete appendages of the pleurae on the left side, and three
others of which proximal parts only remain. The side lobes and the mild con-
vexity of the axis are characteristic of the Bronteus group. The axis and side
lobes are approximately of equal width and some of the segments bear on their
surface, striae such as are found only on Bronteus. The appendages of the pleurae
are subsickle-shaped. Dimensions: Length of thorax, 20 mm.; width, 18; width
of axis and of the side lobes, 6 mm.
The present determination of this fragment is only a tentative one and made
largely for the purpose of drawing attention to it.
Loc. and horizon—Lower Trilobite Beds of the Bowning Series, Minahan’s
selection, Bowning Creek.
BRONTEUS PLATYNOTUS, n.sp. (Plate x., fig. 9.)
The only specimen of the species known is a whole individual, but un-
fortunately the head is turned under the thorax, and most of it is hidden. From
the portion of it exposed, the following particulars are noticeable: Battle-axe-
shaped, very mildly convex, adorned anteriorly with concentric striae only visible
under a lens, and laterally, at least, these are crossed by coarser anastomosing
lines. Eyes reniform, large, faceted. Neck-furrow narrow; neck-ring stout.
Thorax evidently consists of ten segments, which are transversely striated, mildly
convex, oblong and twice as wide as long. Axis mildly convex, relatively wide,
its spread being equal to the combined width of the side lobes; axial furrows faint.
Pygidium large, oblong-semicireular, slightly convex, adorned with very fine
54 NEW TRILOBITES FROM BOWNING.
concentric striae; its axis is small, trilobed, smooth, shows no signs of segmen-
tation, and is separated from the ribs by a shallow furrow. The ribs are fifteen
in number, separated by shallow, but distinct furrows; at the margins they are
all about of equal width and smooth but for the fine striae already referred to.
Dimensions: Head, long 7, wide 14 mm. approx.; thorax, long 5.5, wide 11 mm.;
tail, long 9, wide 11 mm.; spread of axis, 5.5 mm.
This Bronteus belongs to the group having the midrib of the tail entire. Its
distinguishing features are: The great relative width of the thoracic axis, the re-
latively long, spined terminals of the thoracic segments, the shortness of the por-
tions of these segments between the axial furrows and the fulera, and the very
fine concentric striation and smoothness of the pygidium.
Loe. and horizon.—Minahan’s selection, Bowning Creek, 14 miles N.W. of
Bowning township. Lower Trilobite beds of the Bounyongian beds.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE X.
Fig. 1—Cryptonymus platynotus Mitchell. (x 1.7). Coll. Mitchell.
Fig: 2.—Cryptonymus incertus Mitchell. (x 1.7). The left side shows the
pleural segments in their normal state. Coll. Mitchell.
Fig. 3—Cryptonymus robustus Mitchell. (x 1.2). An almost complete
specimen, slightly depressed, shows the varioloid markings and other features dis-
tinctly.
Fig. 4—Cryptonymus perannulatus Mitchell. (x 4).
Figs. 5, 6—Cryptonymus angustus Mitchell. (x 1.7). Owing to the poor-
ness of the photo the features in fig. 6 have been lined in with ink.
Fig. 7.—Encrinurus frontalis Mitchell. (x 1.6).
Fig. 8.—Bronteus (Goldius) singularis Mitchell. (x 1.7). A photo of a
mould or cover (intaglio).
Fig. 9.—Bronteus (Goldius) platynotus Mitchell. (x 1.7). Some of the
features inked in.
Fig. 10.—Cryptonymus (Encrinurus) duntroonensis EK. and M. (x .85). A
pygidium showing distinctly the plough-share-like character of the pleurae.
Fig. 11.—Photo of the wide, and supposed normal form of tail of the above
species.
Fig. 12.—Encrinurus mitchelli Foerste. A very well preserved specimen,
complete but for the displacement of the free cheeks. The pygidium is perfect
and shows all the normal features clearly. (x 1.7). The photo is from a squeeze
from a mould.
Fig. 13.—Encrinurus silverdalensis EK. and M. (x 1.7). Shows the charac-
ters of a nearly complete, testless tail of the species, and the punctation of the
thorax.
Fig. 14.—Enecrinurus mitcheli Foerste. (x 1.7). A large tail which shows
the axis with twenty-eight to thirty rings and pleural lobes with eleven pairs of
segments; also, faintly, the granulation of the pleurae.
Fig. 15.—Cordania gardneri Mitchell. A complete testless specimen of the
species which was not available when the species was described. (x 1.7).
All the specimens figured (except fig. 15) are in the writer’s collection.
5d
STUDIES IN PARASITISM.
1, A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE GENUS CassyTHA. Part i.
By Joun McLucxin, M.A., D.Sc., Lecturer in Plant Physiology, University of
Sydney.
(Contribution from the Botanical Laboratory, University of Sydney.)
(Plate x1., and thirty-two Text-figures. )
[Read 26th March, 1924.]
Introduction.
Parasitic Angiosperms have generally proved of considerable interest. They
were probably originally free-living forms which subsequently took to a de-
pendent existence. Various forms indicate degrees of parasitism varying from
the water parasites such as Viscum, Arceuthobium (Pierce, 1905) and Loranthus
to such pronounced and complete parasites as Cuscuta, Phoradendron, Balano-
phora, ete. Pierce (1894) has furnished a complete account of the physiology
of the genus Cuscuta, a climbing parasite which develops haustoria into its host
in order to obtain food and water. It possesses little chlorophyll and is de-
pendent absolutely upon its hosts. The fact that the various flowering clusters,
situated in relation to haustoria, may be severed from one another and yet flourish,
suggests this view; Cassytha, however, while resembling Cuscuta in its mode of
twining and coiling, and its development of haustoria, differs radically from it,
in the possession of chlorophyll, and in the fact that the haustoria mainly with-
draw water from the hosts. Cassytha, therefore, is intermediate in position be-
tween an independent, leafy, climbing plant and the complete parasite, Cuscuta.
This fact suggested the desirability of making a complete study of the New South
Wales representatives of the genus; and of comparing them with Cuscuta australis
and with the results which Pierce, Koch (1874) and others have obtained for
C. glomerata, C. europea, and C. epilinum.
The material used for my work included four species of Cassytha, C. glabella,
C. paniculata, C. pubescens, GC. melantha; and one species of Cuscuta, C. australis,
a small, leafless, thread-like form. These parasites belong to two quite distinct
orders, the former to the Lauraceae and the latter to the Convolvulaceae. This
fact adds interest to the investigation of the physiology of Cassytha. Many
observations and experiments were made upon the plants growing in their native
habitat under perfectly natural conditions. The field experiments and observations
were supplemented by laboratory experiments on plants raised from seed in pots.
The seedlings of each species were grown under two sets of conditions, namely,
in pots exposed to sun, rain and wind, and under a bell-jar where the warmth
56 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
and increased humidity produced accelerated growth. Cassytha has an advantage
for experimental work over Cuscuta, in the fact that it is a perennial form and
lives generally upon perennial hosts, so that it is possible to continue the ex-
perimental work almost indefinitely, and make observations upon the seasonal
variations of the parasite.
In 1846 Decaisne published a paper on “Structural Anatomy of Cuscuta and
Cassytha,” while in 1877 the haustorium of Cassytha was studied by Poulsen,
whose paper unfortunately I have not been able to obtain. In 1904 Bowig studied
Cassytha filiformis, and Mirandé (1905) published a paper entitled “Cassythacées.”
Ewart (1919) studied the germination of the seeds of Cassytha melantha. This
cepresents the extent of the bibliography upon Cassytha.
General description of Plant.
Cassytha is a small genus of the Lauraceae and includes a most interesting
group of parasites. There are five species which occur as long, thread-like, twin-
ing plants throughout New South Wales from the coastal districts to the table-
lands and throughout the plains. The various members of the genus climb by a
twining movement. There are no tendrils produced, but the apex of the plant
cireumnutates—and by this nutation and the probable assistance of the wind, is
carried against adjacent plants. The experiments described later will show the
influence of circumnutation and irritability to contact and gravity upon the
spreading and development of the plants.
Some species of the genus have relatively stout stems, others are thin and
glabrous. The leaves are absent or reduced to scales and the stems function as
the photosynthetic organs.
In C. glabella, the smallest species, the stems are delicate, thread-like and
perfectly glabrous. OC. pubescens, quite a* large species, has a thick covering of
brownish hairs, especially on the younger shoots. The species are typically red-
dish tinted. The older stems frequently retain the hairy covering. The hairs are
also present in large numbers on the surface of the fruit. The stem of this
species has a peculiar, irregular surface contour. C. paniculata has fairly stout
stems, but, like C. glabella and C. melantha, is perfectly glabrous.
C. melantha is the coarsest species of the genus, frequently exceeding 3 mm.
in diameter. The stems are glabrous. All the species branch considerably, but
this condition is particularly evident in C. melantha where three branches generally
develop from a node—the main stem and two large lateral branches. In all forms
the lateral branches arise from a bud protected by scale-like leaves. In C. glabella
the leaves are extremely small; they are largest and most conspicuous in C.
melantha. The great reduction of leaf surface is probably an indication of
xerophily, as one would naturally anticipate in plants which are water parasites.
The plants branch profusely and some produce a tangled mass of branches hang-
ing upon any plants they have been able to reach.
The spiral coils formed round the branches and leaves of plants are some-
times loose, sometimes close, and the haustoria which attach the parasite to the
host are numerous. These penetrate into the wood of the host and the stimulating
cause (as experiments described later prove) is the continuous contact of the stem
with the branch or leaf or petiole of the host (Fig. 1).
The flowers of Cassytha are hermaphrodite and small. The calyx consists of
six persistent segments. There are 9 functional stamens and three staminodia
arranged in two whorls of six. The calyx-tube encloses the gynoecium, which
terminates a small lateral shoot. There is a single oyule. In all the species the
calyx tube becomes considerably enlarged and succulent, particularly so in C.
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. 57
glabella, the fruit of which is red or yellow. In the
other species the fruit is green and comparatively
succulent—e.g., C. pubescens. The flowers terminate
short lateral branches in C. glabella, but in C.
pubescens and C. melantha they are crowded in short
spikes. In C. paniculata and C. phaeolasia the
flowers are arranged in elongated spikes some dis-
tance apart.
In the New South Wales Cassythas a succulent
fruit is developed, which probably assists in dis-
semination by attracting bird life, although in nature
I have found numerous fruits germinating beneath
the dense tangle formed by the parasitic branches.
The succulent tissues decay rapidly, and by absorb-
ing water and retaining it, assist in the germination
of the seed. The fruit, like other parts of the plant
body, contains numerous large eells filled with an
extremely mucilaginous cell sap, which is capable of
considerable absorption of water. The putrefying
tissue of the fruit, therefore, furnishes an extremely
satisfactory matrix into which the young root rapid-
ly penetrates on germination of the seed.
In each fruit there is a single globular seed; at
its apex the remains of the style and stigma per-
1 sist. The seed of most species is covered by numer-
ous short hairs which are developed from the hard,
Fig. 1—Portion of parasite lack, rather stony seed-coat.
ae eeuwep)showiny the/altema- Within the seed-coat is a whitish-yellow endosperm
ion of loose and close coils, ane 5 s
and the distribution of thecontaining starch and oil and mucilage, and em-
haustoria on the closely coiled bedded in the centre of this nutritive tissue is the
zones. (Nat. size.) small embryo.
The seed-coat consists of three distinct layers: an outer hard, brownish-black,
stony layer, often pubescent; a central zone of clear cells elongated considerably
at right angles to the surface; on the inner limit of this zone is a narrow layer
of cells with thick mucilaginous walls. The thickening is laid down on the cell
wall; when placed in water the cells swell and stretch in a radial direction. This
property of the mucilaginous layer assists in the germination of the seed.
Cassytha arises from a seed which germinates in the soil, and the young
seedling develops normal roots capable of absorption. The apex of the
seedling cireumnutates, and comes into contact with portion of a plant round
which it coils, Then haustoria are developed, and penetrate the tissues of the
host. When a number of these haustoria are developed at intervals along the
stem, and the water supply is secured, the lower part of the plant dies away; so
the older plants of Cassytha have no relation to the soil. I have examined
numerous tangled masses of various Cassythas and in_no ease could I detect con-
nection with the soil or a normal root system.
Physiologically there is no necessity for absorption from the soil, directly,
by the parasite, if it can obtain an adequate supply from the xylem tissues of its
host, and the absence of this soil relation directly affects the structure and develop-
ment of the conducting system.
Furthermore, the spiral coiling of the branches of the parasite round the
58 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
host twigs (and leaves) and the development of numerous haustoria in these coils
bring every part of the xylem tissue of the host under contribution. So effectually
is this done, that the younger twigs and branches of a host-plant often die owing
to the scarcity of water; when this occurs, the parasitic branches producing this
effect appear to receive water from other parts of the body, continue to grow,
and soon attach themselves to other branches. Frequently, however, the parasite
dies away on dead branches of the host. The dead parts of the parasite soon lose
all their cell contents, which are removed by the active parts for growth of more
favoured branches, and shrivel away to a mere shell which is cut off from the
living parts by a formation of callus.
In nature the apices of young shoots, being very turgescent and soft, are
often damaged; when this occurs, the quiescent buds further back develop and
continue the general growth of the shoot. Although (as I shall. demonstrate
later) conduction of water sometimes takes place over considerable lengths of the
parasite, this is not the normal condition in the economy of the parasite; and, if
certain branches cannot support themselves by drawing upon their living supports
for their necessities in the way of raw materials, they are severed physiologically
from the rest of the body. The explanation of the death of numerous branches
of the parasite upon dead parts of their host is to be found in the inadequacy
of the conducting tissues of the main stems of the parasite to meet the demands
of a much-branched and very elongated body.
All the species of Cassytha are perennials, and, while they may be parasitic
on annuals, their main hosts are perennials. For some time the young seedling
plants are parasitic upon grasses, and small herbs such as Sonchus, Stylidium,
Senecio, ete., but rapid growth and development soon carries the parasite’s shoots
to larger hosts—which in the Australian bush are evergreens. Along the coastal
districts, where the difference between summer and winter temperatures is not
very great, there is a certain amount of growth throughout the year. Indeed, in
a large number of plants the greatest growth occurs during the cooler, more moist
days of late winter and spring. Throughout the year, therefore, there is always
some sap flowing, and the parasite is certain of being able to obtain a supply of
the necessary water and salts from its host. In all its various hosts, there is a
sudden burst of great growth-activity in the spring, culminating in flower pro-
duction, and it seems probable that the parasite obtains an amount of organic
substance from its host during this period when plastic food materials pass along
the vessels. At any rate, there is frequently an interesting coincidence in the
flowering period of the hosts and the parasites.
The parasites continue flowering for several weeks, and one commonly finds
flowers and fruits at the same time. The seeds take 4 to 5 weeks to germinate
and, by the end of 8 weeks, the seedlings are from 10 to 30 inches long.
All the species of Cassytha grow rapidly upwards. They branch profusely.
The smaller parasites do not twine around a support of greater girth than 2.5
em., but C. melantha, the largest species, coils round the stems of hosts fully 4
em. thick. The coiling, however, is loose, the spirals being from 24 inches to 1
inch apart, and few haustoria are developed. When the parasite is utilising such
thick supports, it branches less frequently, and generally strikes out along the
first branch of smaller diameter. When the supports are thin, the close coiling is
frequent, and the haustoria numerous. Once the parasite reaches the upper
branches of its host, it multiplies the number of its shoots, grows rapidly, and
soon envelops the foliage and twigs of the host in a mass of tangled threads
which withdraw their contribution of raw materials. The lower parts of the
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. 59
parasite frequently become yellowish and etiolated, owing to the lack of necessary
light for chlorophyll formation, and since the food synthesised by the upper por-
tion of the parasite tends to gravitate towards the young apices, the lower
branches are starved and soon wither. The parasite flourishes on the upper il-
luminated branches of its host and spreads out in all directions from such a _
centre of infection, in search of new sources of food materials.
Habitat of Cassytha.
Cassytha seems to develop most successfully in shaded gullies where hosts are
closely crowded and there is considerable moisture. Light appears to have a
dominating influence upon its development, as young seedlings, which have found
hosts in the smaller plants of the undergrowth of the dense formations, grow
extraordinarily rapidly, and soon spread upwards to the taller plants around.
The tendency during early growth appears to be upwards to the tops of the small
bushes and shrubs which form its hosts; once on the top, the parasite spreads out-
wards to all points of the compass and soon becomes attached to other hosts. The
flowers are always produced upon the parts of the parasite exposed on the upper
branches of the various hosts. The fruits of Cassytha drop on to the moist,
shaded substratum beneath the hosts, the pulpy mass rapidly decays and the seeds
germinate. This habitat appears to be the most favourable for the development
of the young seedlings of the parasite, and under such conditions of moisture and
shade, the growth is extraordinarily rapid. Where, on the contrary, the seeds
germinate on more exposed, sunny situations, growth is not so rapid. Species of
the parasite developing on hosts found on the exposed dry tablelands of the Blue
Mountains are less virile: indiyiduals of the same species occurring in the sheltered,
moist, marshy spots on the slopes, not scorched by the sun are much more vigorous.
The slender, less luxuriant forms on the more exposed sunny habitats are probably
due to the stunted condition of the hosts, the lack of water and the retarding
effect of the intense insolation. That Cassytha flourishes most successfully under
shaded moist conditions is supported by my observations in the laboratory. One
series of seedlings, growing in pots covered over with a large bell-jar, to create
a humid atmosphere, showed undoubtedly greater rapidity of growth than un-
protected seedlings of the same age.
From observation and cultivation in the bush, and from germination of the
seed in the laboratory, there is evidence that Cassytha, in its early development
at any rate, requires a moist, sheltered habitat. In such a situation the loss of
water by transpiration is not great, and the reduced root-system of the seedling
absorbs sufficient water to maintain the necessary turgidity of the growing apices,
which is indispensable for rapid growth. Where Cassytha occurs on the sand-
‘ stone among highly xerophilous hosts, it passes through the early stages of develop-
ment rapidly when the moisture factor is favourable, and attaches itself securely
to its hosts.
Experiment indicates that the most favourable habitat for the development of
the seedlings of Cassytha is a moist warm soil and atmosphere such as is developed
under a bell-jar in the sun.
Hosts of Cassytha.
From observations in the field and laboratory experiments, it appears that
this genus lives and flourishes upon any host, and parasitism within the genus has
not developed to the degree of selective parasitism, or preference for certain
hosts.
To mention cases in point, I have observed a mass of C. melantha parasitic
upon Pittosporum sp., Hakea dactyloides, Persoonia salicina, Acacia discolor, and
60 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
a species of Casuarina growing together. Near by, another mass of the parasite
was twining upon Leptospermum stellatum, Lasiopetalum ferrugineum, Xerotes
longifolia, Xanthorrhoea sp., and numerous small grasses and herbs forming the
undergrowth. Other hosts on which I have found species of the parasite are
Ceratopetalum gummiferum, various species of Leptospermum, Persoonia, Casu-
arina, Acacia, other than those enumerated above, Grevillea sericea, G. robusta, G.
buxifola, Callitris cupressiformis, Schinus sp., Loranthus longiflorus, Pteridium
aquilinum, and Cryptomeria japonica. Indeed, from my field observations, I have
not the slightest doubt but that. the various species of Cassytha, particularly C.
glabella, C. paniculata, C. melantha, and C. pubescens, are capable of growing
upon any host which they can reach, and about which they can twine.
Probably no stronger evidence of the remarkable adaptability of the parasite
ean be furnished than examples of its parasitism upon other parasites. I have
found the branches and leaves of Loranthus longiflorus encircled by the threads
of Cassytha and many close coils were made on each little branch. Each coil had
numerous haustoria, which were larger generally than those produced upon many
other hosts. Moreover, owing to the fact that all the species of Cassytha are
capable of encircling any object, provided it is not too thick and induces contact-
irritation, one might expect that Cassytha would twine about itself. In its natural
habitat it is quite a common occurrence to find two or three branches of the
parasite closely entwined, and with fully developed haustoria just as numerous
as upon other hosts. Experimental proof may be advanced in support of these:
observations. Young branches of the parasite were carefully fixed in a pendent
oblique position. Within six hours the apex had curved into a vertical position,
and begun to cireumnutate; in from three to six days, the time varying according
to the length and the degree of sensitivity of the branches used, the apex had
coiled around the pendent part of the parasite’s branch and haustoria were developed
in the close coils formed. The fact, that Cassytha will develop haustoria upon
any host, from the small annual herbs to the large perennial species of Hucalyptus,
Persoonia, Grevillea, Pittosporum, Acacia, Casuarina, ete. of the Australian bush,
upon plants with smooth or rough bark, upon leaves with thick or thin cuticles,
hairy surfaces, upon plants with abundant latex, oxalate of calcium crystals and
ether substances generally injurious to haustorial development, and even upon
itself, points irresistibly to the conclusion that the various species of Cassytha
do not possess any particular chemotropic sensitivity and do not respond to
particular substances or concentrations of substances in the plants upon which
they are parasitic. Were the haustoria developed as the result of chemical stimu-
lus, one would naturally expect the confinement of the parasitism of Cassytha to
particular hosts, in which certain chemotropic compounds are present. At any
rate, one would expect the absence of auto-parasitism. Auto-parasitism, however,
while indicative of a low grade in parasitic specialization, is correlated in this
genus with the physiological demands made by an extremely attenuated body. If
the plant is able to draw upon certain portions of its own body by haustorial
action, it will naturally obviate, to a certain extent, the necessity of conduction
through considerable distances, and supplies of water and nutritive solutes will
be more readily accessible to the young, actively growing parts. Indeed the pro-
blem of conduction throughout a thin climbing organism is a difficult one, but
seems to be satisfactorily met by this auto-parasitism. Moreover, each section of
the plant may be considered to be almost independent of the rest, for the haus-
torial connections are all that are necessary for the supply of water and solutes
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. 61
to the parasite. No connection with the soil is essential when the plant has once
established an intimate association with some host.
The apex of the shoot.
The young shoots and the apices of seedlings are typically yellowish-green:
some are pubescent, others are perfectly glabrous. They contain little chlorophyll
and therefore photosynthesis is feeble or non-existent, as indicated by the evolu-
tion of oxygen. Studies of the young shoots in section show that very few chloro-
plasts are present in each of the cortical cells, and also that numerous small
spherical starch grains, mucilage and oil occur in the cells of the cortex, xylem-
parenchyma and pith, to within a few centimetres of the actual tip of each branch.
This reserve material may have been translocated from older, photosynthetic re-
gions of the stem and accumulated for the periods of intense physiological
activity, namely, growth in length of the shoot, followed later by close coiling,
and haustorial development.
All the older parts of the plant growing in shaded situations are typically
dark green, particularly so in C. glabella, C. melantha, and C. paniculata. In
C. pubescens, the stems are coated with brownish hairs which somewhat obscure
the green colour, while exposed plants of all species, in bright sunlight, are fre-
quently yellowish-green. In sections of all older stems of the various species of
Cassytha, made in the autumn, there is a great accumulation of reserve foods in
the parenchyma of the body. This is an indication that consumption, even dur-
ing the active vegetative period of the summer months, has not been as great as
the supply, and that the stem is comparatively efficient in photosynthesis.
The Seedling.
Ewart (1919) has described the germination of the seed of C. melantha, For
the sake of completeness I give my observations fully although a re-examination
confirms the previous work. As Ewart has observed there are no cotyledons on
the embryo.
The fruits of C. paniculata, C. glabella, and C. pubescens were placed in
flowerpots containing loam. In a few days the fleshy part of the fruit became
brownish in colour, and decayed into a pulpy mass leaving the small black seed
lying in the putrefying matrix. The latter probably serves the purpose of hold-
ing moisture around the seed until it germinates. At any rate the seed obtains
water either from the soil, or from the decayed fleshy covering of the fruit, its
walls swell, the entire seed becomes quite turgescent, and the minute wrinkles on
its outer surface are smoothed out. After 4 weeks the root appears as a small,
conical protuberance which emerges from the micropyle. In numerous eases of
germination the root grew upwards, slightly above the soil level, and then curved
downwards towards the soil. The main root of the seedling is strongly positively
geotropic, as when it is placed in any but the normal position, a positive curvature
results. It is at first like an ordinary root of any other plant, and is only a few
millimetres long, but in the course of the next few days, when it has placed itself
in the proper relation to gravity and the soil, the base of the stem becomes
swollen, owing to the transfer of food from the endosperm of the seed (Figs. 2
to 14). This absorption of food is carried on by the stem apex, which is in the
closest intimacy with the surrounding endosperm, especially at the extreme apex.
While the foods are being transferred to the root and the base of the stem,
the latter elongates and becomes swollen to many times its original thickness and,
with the root, forms a U-shaped bend. The main root continues to elongate very
slightly and becomes swollen, like the lower stem, with foods withdrawn from the
62 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
endosperm. No root hairs are developed from this primary root, so that up to
this stage no water has been supplied to the embryo except that absorbed by the
seed coats (Figs. 6, 7, 8). The root of Cassytha differs from the seedlings of
other plants which early develop root-hairs. Several (usually three) lateral roots
arise 2 or 3 mm. behind the tip of the main root, from the swollen, tuberous part
and enter the soil obliquely; these develop the short root-hairs characteristic of
the parasite (Fig. 8). jl
Figs 2 to 14.—Stages in the development of the seedling, showing the
development of the swollen primary root and base of the “hypocotyl” and the
early assumption of the vertical position. (Nat. size.)
In experimental seedlings which had attained a length of 20 to 32 em., six
short white rootiets were developed, each from 2 to 5 em. long. The root-hairs.
upon these are short, stiff, comparatively broad and unicellular. They are re-
markably like the secretory cells of nectaries (Figs. 15-16). The hairs are not
limited to any definite zone, but occur from about 1 mm. behind the apex to the
base of the rootlet. Nearest the apex the hairs appear as short, broad, dome-
shaped to conical, outgrowths of epidermal cells, rich in protoplasm. The walls
are thin, the hairs very turgid and swollen. Basipetally the hairs: become more
mature and even the oldest hairs appear to be quite functional.
It is unusual to find so many root-hairs in the incipient stage near the grow-
ing point of a root; but this is readily understood in Cassytha when one considers
the very slow rate of growth of the root, and also the fact that it attains to only
a few centimetres in length.
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Anatomy of Root.
The main primary root of Cassytha is short and thick, seldom more than a
few millimetres in length. It is very parenchymatous and fleshy. The cortex is
broad and composed of thin-walled parenchyma with large quantities of tetrahe-
dral starch grains, and little protoplasm. Spaces occur between these cells,
permitting the aeration of the root. The vascular tissue occupies the centre of
the root, the xylem forms a diarch plate extending across the central region. On
Fig. 15—A portion of the surface of a lateral root showing the short, thick
root hairs. (x 167.)
Fig. 16.—T. S. of lateral root showing diarch stele, and the short, broad root
hairs. (x 67.)
either side of this is situated the narrow band of phloem with several layers of
conjunctive tissue between (Fig. 16). This layer, if secondary thickening oc-
curred in the root of Cassytha, would give rise to the secondary conducting tissues.
The thin, but longer, lateral roots, which arise when the hypocotyl begins to
thicken, have practically a similar structure to that of the primary root, but they
contain less starch. All the roots of Cassytha have a poorly developed root-cap.
The root-system only penetrates a very short distance into the soil. The root
generally grows upwards at first, then curves downwards into the soil. The
“hypocotyl” forms an arch, while the stem apex remains embedded in the seed.
The entire root-system of the parasite is considerably reduced, but it seems
natural that the parasitic habit of the plant should lead to a reduction of the
root-system. This attaches the young plant fairly securely in the soil, and the
stem portion, still retained within the seed coats, rapidly elongates and frees
itself from the seed, curving obliquely upwards. The young seedling is strongly
negatively geotropic, as one might expect in a climbing plant. The early erowth
of the seedling is extraordinarily rapid, provided that the humidity and tempera-
ture are favourable. During the first three weeks the growth attained the maxi-
mum of four to five inches in a week. At the end of this very active period,
growth decreased remarkably, so much so that some seedlings only increased by
two inches in the next four or five weeks. All the seedlings showed clearly this
64 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
variation in the growth, and there seems some physiological significance attached
to this phenomenon. During the phase of accelerated growth the functional root
provides the water necessary to mobilise the food reserves in the seed, and for the
maintenance of the turgidity of the growing apex. The seedling, therefore, at-
tains a certain length compatible with the root-system, and the amount of reserve
food available. The root does not grow beyond a certain size, so, although the
seedling, by virtue of its chlorophyll corpuscles, which are numerous, as the green
colour suggests, may be capable of supplying itself with synthetic foods; the
necessary water and salt solutions from the soil are not provided in quantities
sufficient to meet the demands of the seedling. This rapid growth, moreover, will
afford the parasite a stronger chance of reaching some suitable host.
In experiments with young seedlings which did not secure attachment to a
host, the root died after from eight to ten weeks period of functional activity.
In other seedlings which had been allowed to twine around a host, the root-
system perished sooner. Later the basal portion of the young plant died away,
the cell contents probably being absorbed by the more active regions of the body
as occurs in Cuscuta, as these portions later become reduced to mere hollow shells.
In the case of seedlings which were not allowed to become attached to a host,
slow growth continued for about 9 or 10 weeks, amounting to a maximum of 1 em.
per week. Seedlings growing so feebly are generally unable to entwine round a
host when presented to it.
The whole development and activity of the seedlings of Cassytha indicate
that the ancestors of the present forms were a series of climbing and independent
plants like many of the Convolvulaceae, the parasitic mode of life being developed
as the result of acquiring great sensitiveness to contact.
The seed of Cassytha, though small, contains a considerable quantity of re-
serve foods, which must be mobilised for the nutrition of the developing organs
of the young plant, and to ensure this end water is essential. The young root
of the parasite is, therefore, functional at first, and provides the water required
to dissolve the reserve foods of the endosperm, to translocate them to the growing
stem, and to maintain the turgidity of the cells of the seedling. Although the root
of Cassytha, like that of Cuscuta, is a comparatively short-lived organ, yet the
mere fact, that functional roots do appear in the early development of the parasite,
suggests that climbing parasitic Angiosperms at any rate are degenerates from
free-living independent forms, and that the comparative simplicity of their root-
system is probably the result of their dependent mode of life.
The genus Cassytha, furthermore, like most twining parasitic Angiosperms,
was no doubt represented originally by free-living independent autotrophic organ-
isms, which had developed the climbing habit. The parasitic mode of life, especial-
ly in Cassytha, as in many other climbing forms, is a derivative condition; its
efficiency is exemplified in the success of the plants which have adopted it, as
these gain a considerable advantage over other plants in the struggle for raw
materials and light, by being freed from their competition. The advantage ac-
cruing to the parasite is not only biological but also physiological, in as much as
these climbing water parasites can dispense with a considerable amount of
mechanical and conducting tissues, which would otherwise be necessary. The
development of haustoria makes each little part of the plant practically an in-
dependent entity, so far as the supply of water and solutes is concerned.
A seedling one inch to three inches high is practically erect, but the elonga-
tion soon causes the apical region to assume a procumbent position, with the ex-
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ception of the extreme apex which is raised slightly. Mechanical tissues are
absent.
Some plants which | raised in flowerpots attained a length of 30 em. in about
a month. They were removed from any object which might act as a support,
and consequently straggled along the ground, the apex meanwhile executing a
series of wide circular or elliptical sweeps in search of some support.
Young seedlings a few inches in length were brought into contact with small
plants of various kinds so that the sensitive surface of the nutating apex was
stimulated for a time. The whole cireumference of the stem apex is sensitive to
contact. In 2 days, two complete close coils were made around a young plant of
Sonchus sp.; in another 40 hours haustoria were developed as very small papillae.
When the haustoria have penetrated into the xylem of the host, the growth of the
seedling parasite is accelerated so that its length between the last series of haus-
toria attaching it to the host plant and the apex, rapidly increases. There is a
certain periodicity in the growth of the parasite—a period of rapid growth until
a living support has been found alternating with a period when growth is slow
and the parasite is developing a series of close coils and haustoria which secure a
firm attachment to the host. This periodical variation in growth is advantageous
in as much as it is instrumental in the spreading of the parasite.
Cassytha branches freely and spreads in all directions over the small her-
baceous and shrubby plants on which it is parasitic. The last series of haustoria
supply the water necessary for rapid growth of the apical region and the long
terminal portion of the parasite, rapidly elongating, executes wide circumnutations
and may often come into contact with new individuals which act as hosts.
A simple experiment shows that water may be conducted over considerable
distances in the stem when necessary. In some of my seedlings, which were not
attached to a host, the water was conducted through a distance varying from 20
to 32 em. In experiments in the bush I removed all the lateral branches from a
main, rapidly growing branch, supported the shoot carefully in the horizontal
position, and in this way obtained a growth in length of between 40 and 50 em.
beyond the last series of haustoria. Such a result indicates clearly that close
coiling and haustorial formation are not necessary for the growth of the plant,
because water may be transported over quite considerable distances. In this re-
markable group of parasites which may attain to lengths of upwards of 30 feet,
conduction through considerable lengths of the stem is not the general rule, and,
in fact, is quite unnecessary, owing to the very frequent distribution of haustoria
supplying the necessary raw materials for each unit of the stem; but, in specia!
cases, conduction through lengths of several feet may take place. This occurs in
the young apices of the plant. These may attain to a length of several feet be-
yond the last series of haustoria; during their early development, that is to say,
when they project a few inches beyond the support, growth is very rapid, and
circumnutation is readily demonstrated, but when the free apical region attains,
in the coarser species C. melantha and C. paniculata, a length of about 18
inches, it begins to droop and growth falls away considerably, although it may
continue until the apex projects as much as two to three feet beyond the last
group of haustoria. During this time the apex remains turgid, so that conduction,
not only of water but also of plastic materials, must take place.
The Functional Period of thé Root.
Pierce (1895), in his studies of Cuscuta, observed that the root of the seed-
ling dies either just before or immediately after the apex has begun to twine
around a host, that it seldom lives more than seven days, and that thd seedling’s
66 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
growth is a form of slow locomotion owing to the ability. of the young part to
draw upon the food of the basal region. Cassytha evidently differs somewhat
from Cuscuta in this regard, for the root of C. paniculata or C. glabella, after 7
weeks, although the apex was coiled around a host, was still living. In other
seedlings which had not found a host, the root persisted for a longer time. After
attachment to a host, the root and the basal portion of the stem die away and
their contents are transported to the growing parts. It therefore appears that
the root of Cassytha functions for a longer period than that of Cuscuta. In
nature the older plants have no connection with the soil. There is, in Cassytha,
as Pierce has described in Cuscuta, a “form of slow locomotion,” with the differ-
ence, however, that the root lives and functions for a longer period than in the
more complete parasite Cuscuta. It is a noteworthy fact, that the root functions
for a longer period in: seedlings which fail to encompass a host. The longest
period of activity I have actually observed for the root of Cassytha is two months;
and this oceurred in seedlings which attained a length of between 25 and 32 em.
The development of haustoria into a host and the satisfaction of the needs of the
plant as regards water, seemed to cause a fairly rapid change in the relation of
root to stem. The physiological requirements of the parasite are supplied by the
haustoria and a normal root becomes unnecessary.
The parasite varies in thickness from the lower portion towards the growing,
cireumnutating apex; the younger branches are extremely thin and delicate, the
apex slightly curved or hooked, so that on coming into contact with a suitable
object, twining begins almost immediately. The twining is counterclockwise.
The coils may be loose in parts, but at other points the number of coils in a
short distance may be considerable. This close coiling is correlated with the
development of haustoria (Fig. 1).
Structure of Parasite’s Stem.
The stem of C. glabella is circular in section, except where the coiling may be
so tight upon the soft-barked host that compression of the bark takes place and
the cortical tissues swell out over the parasite’s stem; in such circumstances the
stem is elliptical in outline. The epidermal layer is strongly cutinised, and in-
terrupted by stomata arranged in longitudinal groups of three to seven. These
are sunken, and each has a very pronounced cuticular ridge forming a distinctive
outer cavity. The stomatal groups open into a relatively large air space, which
communicates with the small intercellular spaces in the cortex. Each layer re-
sumes its latent meristematic activity when the haustorial disc develops. The
epidermis is devoid of chlorophyll, but its cells contain abundant protoplasm, and
a conspicuous nucleus. There are no trichomes present in this species (Fig. 17).
Passing inwards we next come to the cortex, composed of three or four rows
of thin-walled cells, with abundant protoplasm and numerous small chloroplasts.
This tissue constitutes the photosynthetic tissue of the parasite, for the leaves are
reduced to small seales, with little or no chlorophyll, protecting the buds. Amongst
the chlorophyllous cells, large isolated cells, without chloroplasts but with con-
siderable protoplasm and mucilaginous sap, occur. These are probably concerned
with the conservation of water in the stem. Intercellular spaces occur in this
tissue, which forms a ring around the central vascular system. There is no de-
finite endodermis to be distinguished. A group of thick-walled cells is in as-
sociation with the phloem. The vascular bundles are reduced and separated from
one another by comparatively broad tracts of parenchyma. The xylem consists
of a few, large, pitted vessels, very numerous xylem-parenchyma cells, wood fibres
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. 67
and the endareh protoxylem vessels. The phloem is composed of thin-walled ele-
ments protected on the outer margin by groups of thick-walled cells (Figs. 17,
18). Sometimes a eavity separates these from the phloem. Between the xylem
and phloem groups a narrow cambial zone occurs. There is a central small pith
which, like the medullary rays and xylem parenchyma, frequently contains starch.
Many of the cells of the pith are pitted.
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(x), phloem (ph), and fibres (f) are clearly delineated. (x 100.)
Fig. 18.—Portion of a T. S. of stem showing the vascular tissue and the cell-
division (m), initiating the haustorium just outside the phloem (ph). (x 167.)
Fig. 19.—Part of a L. S. of stem of C. pubescens showing irregular surface
contour, and the dermal hairs; also young haustorium (H.). (x 100.)
A radial section of the stem shows that the epidermal cells are oblong in
outline; the hypodermis also consists of rectangular but wider cells; the chloro-
phyll-bearing cells have the same form as in the transverse section, while the ele-
ments of the vascular bundle are comparatively large pitted and smaller reti-
culated vessels, elongated thin-walled wood parenchyma, long narrow cambium
cells, and thin-walled sieve tubes and companion cells. The tubes are shorter
than one generally finds in Angiosperms, while their terminal walls are only
slightly oblique. There is a thin but distinct callus over these walls.
The stems of C. pubescens are very similar to those of C. glabella, but hairs
are very numerous in the former species. These arise from small, narrow, epi-
68 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
dermal cells, and are unicellular, with a ecutinised tip and a central strand of
granular protoplasm. The euticle of the surrounding epidermal cells grows over
the base of the hairs, so that it appears to dip into a narrow funnel. Each hair
is in contact with a hypodermal cell, and has an aggregation of protoplasm at
the base (Fig. 19). The older stems are characterised by a series of protuber-
ances, imparting an irregular contour to the surface. C. paniculata and C.
glabella are glabrous forms, resembling C. melantha closely in their anatomical
features.
The Xerophily of Cassytha.
The governing factor in the construction of plants growing on physically or
physiologically dry soils or as epiphytes and climbers is water conservation.
When the plant is a water parasite and its hosts are xerophytes growing as a
rule upon sandy soils which do not retain water tenaciously, the conservation of
the available water is imperative. From the life conditions of the parasite it
might be assumed that it would show many xerophilous features. Since the
parasite is a chlorophyll-bearing form, its structure will represent a compromise
between two fundamental principles of body construction, namely, the maximum
development of chlorophyll-bearing surface, and minimum transpiratory surface.
In Cassytha, therefore, the reduction of leaves from the main functional photo-
synthetic organs to mere scales protecting the young buds, and the relegation of
the photosynthetic function to the stem is apparent. The photosynthetic tissue
is very definite and comprises most of the cortical tissue. In addition to the re-
duction of leaf surface, there is a further xerophilous character indicated by the
sunken position of the stomata, which are protected by a cuticular ridge developed
over the guard cells and forming an outer chamber. The occurrence of consider-
able quantities of mucilage in cell walls and in cell cavities is a further indication
of xerophily. The hairs of C. pubescens probably serve to reduce transpiratory
activity as well as functioning as tactile organs. The root-system of xerophytes
generally shows considerably greater development than that of hydrophytes, but
in Cassytha it is reduced to very small proportions in the seedlings, and is absent
entirely from the plant’s economy in the later phases of its development. The
reduced root-system is probably rather a derivative condition, owing to the as-
sumption of a semi-parasitic mode of life by an originally xerophilous plant,
than a primitive feature which has stimulated the adoption of parasitism to
supplement its activity by securing supplies of water and solutes from plants
supporting the parasite. All the species show a further xerophilous characteristic,
namely, a very thick cuticle enveloping the outer layer of the epidermal wall.
External features and distribution of haustoria.
Haustoria of the species C. pubescens and C. melantha have the form of an
elliptical disc, the periphery of which is generally raised and very closely applied
to the host branch. The central zone of each dise is occupied by the actual sucker
apparatus which grows into the host tissues. Between the central and peripheral
parts there is a slight depression. The entire marginal portion of the haustorium
is composed of parenchyma. Frequently the margin of the haustorium grows
considerably and becomes firmly and closely applied to the surface of the branch.
This region, as far as I have been able to find, never develops sucker-tissue, but
its epidermal cells may be modified owing to contact with the support. It is
merely a development to obtain, especially on villous stems and leaves or on
leaves or stems with thick cuticles. a more secure attachment of the haustorial
disc to the host, so that the pressure developed by the growing haustorium may
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. 69
not push the host away. The haustoria are frequently circular, and sometimes of
greater diameter than the stem of the parasite itself. No obvious difference in
size between the parts of the parasite bearing haustoria, and those without, such
as one might anticipate if much food were withdrawn from the host’s tissues, was
observed. There is normally a gradual tapering of the body from the base to
apex, while, generally, long stretches of the parasite may have quite a uniform
thickness. There are, however, occasional instances of considerable difference in
size between haustorial and non-haustorial parts of the parasite, but these dis-
erepancies are not due to the better nourishment of the haustorial regions as com-
pared with those parts remote from haustoria, but rather to the lateral extension
of the parasite itself owing to great pressure, to slight torsion of the stem, and
to callus development on the host stimulated by the coils of the parasite. The
parasite frequently compresses Lastopetalum and Hovea stems so much that a
distinct spiral groove is developed on the bark. The parasite, under such con-
ditions, is generally elliptical in section. The host tissues sometimes develop
over the region, leaving the climber more or less embedded in the tissues. In
C. glabella and C. paniculata the haustoria may occasionally be so crowded that
their margins are in contact. Where haustoria are numerous and have succeeded
in penetrating the xylem of the host tissues, branches generally form. These do
23
Fig. 20—Haustoria of the parasite showing lateral develop-
ments of the cushion. (Nat. size.)
Figs. 21, 22, 23.—Haustoria of C. paniculata showing peculiar
and irregular branching, which is a feature commonly observed
in haustoria developing upon a yielding surface such as a leaf.
(Nat. size.)
not appear until the coiling and haustorial development are complete. I have
made careful study of this relation between the haustorial groups and the appear-
ance and distribution of the parasite’s branches, and there appears to be a de-
finite connection between the penetration of the haustoria into the xylem of the
host and the branching. Buds which have remained dormant during the coiling
and formation of the haustoria, soon develop once this phase of the plant’s
activity is past.
A lateral growth from the periphery of the dise of some haustoria has been
observed frequently. This growth may sometimes become lobed and invariably 1s
closely attached to the surface of the host. This “proliferation” may be due
to the tightening of the coils of the parasite upon the host and to torsion and
70 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
the consequent stimulation of the periphery of the haustorial dise by contact
irritation. _ The result of this extension of the area stimulated would be the
development of haustoria of greater surface and more firmly attached to the
support (Fig. 20).
In Cassytha melantha and C. pubescens, branched haustoria are very com-
mon. These haustoria develop in the ordinary way, but the central cylinder of
tissue bifureates and branches several times on coming into close connection with
the host. These occur almost invariably on coils of the parasite around soft
leaves. When growing upon Lasiopetalum, the parasite develops numerous coils
around the leaf, haustoria appear upon both surfaces, penetrating into the meso-
Fig. 24—Longitudinal section of stem of parasite through a young haustorium
embedded in the tissues. The rejuvenated epidermal cells of the stem are clearly
‘ndicated and the origin of the haustorium just outside the phloem fibres (ph/f.).
(x 94.)
Fig. 26.—Longitudinal section of an abortive haustorium developing’ in contact
with a yielding surface. The haustorial tissue has not broken through the over-
lying cortical and epidermal tissues of the stem which have kept pace with the
cevelopment of the haustorium. (x 94.)
phyll cells. The pressure of the parasite causes the crushing and folding of the
lamina, and in many instances the haustoria develop to an extent quite excep-
tional for any species of Cassytha. They branch like roots and grow over the
surface and amongst the stellate hairs of the host, until some convolution of the
lamina affords sufficient resistance to assist in penetration (Figs. 21-23).
Haustoria are developed only upon the elose coils of the parasite in contact
with stems, petioles or laminas of the host. In all the species I have examined,
the long axis of the haustorium is generally approximately parallel to the axis
of the host. Where the coils are close the divergence from the parallel position
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. 71
is small; where the coils are long and loose the angle of divergence is greater.
In this respect Cassytha resembles Cuscuta. Generally, the haustoria are raised.
The origin of the haustorwwm of C. glabella.
When the parasite has formed a series of close coils around a host branch,
the concave surface of its stem is stimulated by contact and certain changes take
place in the cortical zone. The cells from the pericycle outwards enlarge so as
to produce a slight swelling upon the surface. A layer of cells just outside the
phloem (possibly the pericycle) then begins active division, cutting off a series
of cells by tangential divisions. The cells cut off in this manner at first form a
flat discoid structure which gradually becomes more and more convex. This con-
vex structure is clearly defined by the absence of chlorophyll from the cells, and
by the very distinct, well delimited outer layer abutting upon the cortex. This
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Fig. 25——T. S. of stem of parasite through a young haustorium embedded in its
tissues. The origin of the haustorium just outside the phloem is indicated, and
the transformation in the epidermis of the stem owing to contact with a support.
The cortical tissues overlying the young haustorium show slight crushing. (x 83.)
Fig. 27—-L. S. of haustorium (T. S. through stem of parasite) showing the
details of structure and the development of the sucker-apparatus into the leaf of
ae eee sp. The elongated cells at the tip of the haustorium are plainly
seen. (x 50.)
body is the young sucker or haustorium. At this stage in its development the
following parts may be distinguished: a superficial layer of cells with abundant
protoplasmic contents and large nuclei and a small group of active meristematic
cells just beneath; between this zone and the pericycle is a mass of elongated cells,
whose elongation serves to inerease the length of the haustorium (Figs. 18, 24,
25). These cells are of two types, namely, a central axial strand of narfow cells
with protoplasmic contents and large nuclei, forming a procambial tissue; and a
cortical zone of elongated, but wider cells with less protoplasm. The meristematic
zone of the haustorium is responsible for the increase in its cells. As the haus-
torium grows, it pushes outwards upon the epidermis and cortical cells overlying
it, and soon the swelling representing the haustorial, dise increases in size. The
epidermis of the stem and the tissues divide anticlinally to keep pace with the
12, STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
growing haustorium, their activity may be maintained, as will be described later,
for a very long time until haustoria attain a length of 5 to 10 mm. (Fig. 26).
Generally, however, the haustorial dise is only slightly elevated beyond the general
level of the stem, and, if contact with a host branch is continuous, the young
haustorium soon develops through the overlying tissue. Where the contact irri-
tation is intermittent, the growth of the haustorium is considerably slower, so
that the outer tissues of the stem can keep pace with it.
Stimulation of contact then, induces the haustorium to form just outside the
vascular cylinder, and at the same time the epidermal cells of the stem are re-
juvenated, for, in addition to showing reawakened meristematic activity, they
elongate considerably and become partially decutinised and densely protoplasmic.
In short, they assume the typical form, appearance and structure of secretory
cells (Figs. 24, 25). By their own elongation, the growth of the haustorial dise,
and the tightening of the coils of the parasite upon the stem, they are brought
into contact with, and finally adpressed to, the surface of the host. These elon-
gated epidermal cells form the “cushion” of the dise and this may attain quite a
considerable area. The epidermal cells in the centre of the cushion differ slightly
in structure, in so far as they become papillate. Pierce has observed a similar
papillate region in the “cushion” of the haustoria of Cuscuta, and has called it
the “prehaustorium.” The prehaustorium of Cassytha is not nearly so_ highly
differentiated as appears to be the case in Cuscuta; but there is sufficient differ-
ence in structure to distinguish it from the ordinary cushion cells which merely
serve to attain a close cementing of host and parasite together and to facilitate
the development of pressure by the haustorium (Vig. 25).
In sections of slightly older haustoria, which have been in contact with a
branch just long enough for the young haustorium to be ready to penetrate the
host tissues, it will readily be seen that the sucker has become more conical, and
that its apex has grown through the overlying tissues, pushing and crushing them
in the process. Evidence of crushing may be seen along the sides of the haus-
torium. The overlying tissue is carried against the opposing host tissue and may
be seen along the sides of the haustorium after penetration. As the epidermal
cells of the haustorium emerge from the cortex, and are freed from the restraint
of the overlying tissues, they become slightly papillate, while their thin walls,
dense cell contents, and large nuclei suggest secretory activity (Fig. 30). In
many cases, especially in the species C. melantha and C. pubescens, less frequently
in C. paniculata, the cortical cells of the stem grow and divide by tangential walls
so that when the growth of the young haustorium is slow, owing to the inter-
mittent contact-irritation or to contact with a yielding surface, e.g., the lamina
of a leaf, they may keep pace with its elongation. But this growth-phase of the
cortex of the parasite stem forming the haustorial dise or cushion is particularly
evident towards its periphery, so that its margin is slightly raised. The cushion
accommodates itself to the contour of the support. This feature is not only ap-
parent when the cushion is applied to cylindrical supports but when a haustorium
is developed in contact with the leaf margin. In such eases the cushion margin
grows considerably and curves, in order to grasp both the dorsal and ventral leaf
surface. This characteristic, no doubt, may occur in Cuscuta in such cireum-
stances, and seems to confirm the view suggested by Chatin in his description of
Cuscuta monogyna that “the raised margin of the cushion acts as a prehensile
organ.” The “cushion” cells secrete a. fluid which binds host and parasite to-
gether, while the central papillate cells prepare the path for the developing haus-
torium. There seems no doubt but that the most important factor in securing
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. es
penetration is the fluid secreted by these cells, as, no matter what torsions may
take place in the cushion owing to the coiling of the stem, the young haustorium
grows outwards‘through the overlying tissue towards the point of contact made
by these papillate cells, so that, in some cases, the haustorium actually penetrates
the host in an oblique direction. In such circumstances, it seems highly im-
probable that pressure could exert much influence in securing penetration. When
the young haustorium penetrates the host, differentiation in the central zone of
the shaft begins at its base, extending apically as the haustorium progresses into
the host. Typical reticulate tracheids are formed from the central cells, and these
are connected directly to the xylem of the mother stem (Fig. 27).
The Morphology of the Haustorium and its Parts.
The haustorium of Cassytha glabella has precisely the same origin as that of
Cuscuta americana: it arises in proximity to the phloem of a bundle. It is there-
fore endogenous, and, in point of origin, an adventitious root. Its structure,
however, differs somewhat from that of Cuscuta and from a normal root. In the
very young state, about the time the apex is ready to penetrate the tissue of the
host, there are two or three groups of reticulate tracheids which, as the haustor1um
develops, become confluent forming a central axial core (Fig. 27) directly in-
serted upon the vessels of one or more bundles of the mother stem. Surrounding
this central mass of tracheids, two or three layers of active procambial cells,
which add to the tracheids as the haustorium develops, are formed. At the apex
of the haustorium there is a well defined epidermis, characterised by its densely
protoplasmic cell contents and the elongated form of the cells which become
shghtly papillate. There is no phloem in the haustorium, which never, at any
stage of its development, shows the typical radial vascular structure of roots
(Figs. 27, 28).
Morphologically, the haustorium of Cassytha is an adventitious root; its
definite epidermis corresponds to the dermatogen of a normal root. There is no
root-eap, although, physiologically, the overlying cortical and epidermal cells of
the mother stem perform the function of such a structure until the haustorium
actually penetrates the host. The cortical tissue of the haustorium appears to
correspond to the periblem, while the central axial zone of the procambium cells
and tracheids represents the plerome. The general relations of the epidermis,
cortex and central cylinder of the haustorium, suggest the corresponding relations
of dermatogen, periblem, and plerome of true roots. It, therefore, appears that
the haustorium of Cassytha is a root whose structure is modified to meet a series
of physiological conditions which are not presented to normal roots. Normal root-
hairs are absent, but their function is to a certain extent performed by the
papillate epidermal cells which undoubtedly possess greater solvent powers on
account of their secretion. Pierce (1894) has given the term “sucker” to these
cells, and considers them to be physiologically root-hairs which correspond in
origin and position to the root-cap of ordinary roots. This appears to be the
correct interpretation, and is equally applicable to the corresponding structures
of Cassytha glabella and other species.
In Cassytha glabella, therefore, haustoria arise by contact of the parasite with
the tissues of a host. Their origin is endogenous, while their structure is more
simple than that of ordinary roots. They grow by a similar apical meristem.
They are therefore adventitious roots whose structure is radically simplified, so
that they may be more physiologically efficient amongst the tissues of the host.
74 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
Internal Structure of the Mature Haustorium.
The young haustorium of this species is composed of parenchymatous cells,
containing conspicuous and relatively large nuclei, abundant granular protoplasm
and food substances (Figs. 25, 27). This parenchymatous condition is evident in
haustoria which have penetrated some distance into the cortex of the host. The
foods which are particularly abundant in all young haustoria, even before they
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Fig. 28—Portion of a L. S. of a haustorium showing the cushion cells (c.s.),
the crushed cells along the edge of the sucker and the tracheidal cells, bordered on
each side by cambiform and cortical cells of the haustorium. No sieve tubes are
present. (x 156))
Fig. 29—T. S. of haustorium showing the trachzidal core, and the cambiform
and cortical cells on each side. (x 156.)
Fig. 30—Apex of the haustorium embedded in a leaf of Xanthorrhoea showing
the papillate character of the peripheral cells. The shading in contact with the
papillate cells indicates discoloration of the host’s cells in advance of the sucker.
(x 156.)
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. 75
are in organic association with a host, are no doubt accumulated freparatory to
their active growth. I have observed reserve starch in haustoria which are dis-
tinguishable by the small hemispherical or conical swelling upon the stem of the
parasite. While such starch is accumulated by the parasite itself for the growth
of the haustoria, it seems reasonable to assume that the solution of the walls and
cell contents of the host by the penetrating haustoria, supplements these reserves.
In the mature haustorium, tracheids appear in three or four isolated groups
which connect up to different bundles or to the same bundle at different levels
of the main stem. There is generally a main group of tracheids in the centre
and, on either side towards the base, one or more smaller groups. On each side
of the tracheal groups, there is a zone of undifferentiated active procambium eells
which add to the tracheal group and the cortex as the development of the haus-
torium demands. Surrounding this procambium tissue is a complete and com-
paratively narrow ring of wider cells forming the cortex of the haustorium, which
abuts directly upon the cortical tissue of the main stem. There is no phloem
developed, and therefore the vascular system of the haustorium is of the simplest
type. The differentiation within the haustorium proceeds from the base towards
the apex, and longitudinal sections of the haustorium show that the vascular tissue
keeps pace in its development with the growth of the haustorium (Fig. 27).
During the early growth of the haustorium, up to the time it becomes closely
applied to the xylem tissues of the host, the water necessary for its rapid elon-
gation is obtained directly from the parasite. As the haustorium penetrates more
and more deeply into the host tissues, the tracheids become more numerous at its
base. The tracheids have thick hgnified and pitted walls. Their end-walls are
only shghtly oblique. The thickening is of the close reticulate character. Around
this axial core of tracheids is a ring of procambium cells with long spindle-
shaped nuclei which retain their meristematic character, and so increase the dia-
meter of the haustorium (Fig. 29). Phloem tissue is absent; therefore, it ap-
pears that the haustoria of Cassytha are much more simple in their. organisation
than the corresponding structures of Cuscuta. Longitudinal sections of the haus-
toria were kept in an aqueous solution of aniline blue, others were stained with
eosin and with Schultze’s solution, but no indication of sieve tubes, callus plates,
or anything resembling phloem tissue could be detected. Cassytha, therefore, is
not a complete parasite like Cuscuta, but establishes organic connection with the
xylem tissues only, and withdraws, from its numerous hosts, mainly water. If
organic connection be established with the phloem of the host, one would antici-
pate the occurrence of sieve tubes in the haustorium or of sieve plates between
the haustorial cells and the host phloem. The absence of such structures affords
anatomical proof of the fact that Cassytha is only a water parasite and does not
depend upon its host for the food necessary for its growth and flowering.
As the haustorium grows in length, following generally the radial path pre-
pared by the solvent activity of its epidermal cells, the tracheids differentiate
just behind the meristematic zone and keep pace in their development with the
growth of the whole haustorium. In Cassytha glabella the diameter of the haus-
torium is small and uniform and the apex is irregularly rounded, owing to the
different rate of growth of the epidermal papillae due to the variation in the
resistance of the opposing tissues of the host. The margin of the haustorium
embedded in the tissues of a host is delimited by a sheath of erushed dead cells
(Fig. 28).
The elongated cells forming the papillate epidermis of the haustorium within
the host tissues are densely protoplasmic and thin-walled. The nucleus is general-
76 STUDIES IN PARASITISM,
ly seen, as in most active secretory cells, near the tip of each cell. Where they
develop through the intervascular or cortical parenchyma or through the phloem,
their papillate structure is maintained (Fig. 30). They clear away the opposing
tissue by the solvents. But, wherever they abut upon lignified tissue, their tips
are almost invariably flattened (Fig. 31), and therefore swollen and almost
globular in appearance. They only occur at the conical apex of the haustorium.
The margin of the haustorium consists of ordinary cortical cells, which, how-
ever, as already mentioned, may retain their powers of meristematic and secretory
activity.
The Haustorium of C. melantha.
The development and main structural features of the haustorium of this
species are similar to C. glabella. Certain differences, however, are apparent and
will be discussed.
The tip of the haustorium of C. melantha is more spreading than that of
any other species, and the axial zone of tracheids, therefore, assumes a spreading,
fan-like arrangement.
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host, showing contact of the tracheids of the parasite (tr.) with the vessels of
the host (v.). Many of the thin-walled peripheral cells of the haustorium are
flattened against the lignified cells of the host. (x 156.)
Fig. 32—L. S. of a haustorium of C. melantha embedded in a small stem of
Ficus sp. and in contact with the vascular bundles of the host. In this section
the marginal branching of the haustorium referred to in the text is) shown. (x 94.)
In transverse sections of the stem of Ficus sp., passing through a haustorium
of C. melantha embedded deeply in its tissues, it was observed that the haustorium
traverses the cork which is dissolved by the solvents secreted by its tip, the
cortical parenchyma, phloem, and enters the xylem. There is, therefore, a con-
siderable destruction of host tissues along the path of penetration. The vascular
bundles of Ficus sp. are of the ordinary endarch, collateral type, separated from
one another by narrow medullary rays; while laticiferous tissue occurs in the
BY JOHN MCLUCKIE. 17
cortex and pith, and in association with the phloem. The haustorium penetrates
deeply into the woody tissues and its apex, as well as its margins, is applied
directly to the xylem elements. Growth of the meristematic cells behind the epi-
dermal cells of the margin near the apex of the haustorium ceases, and they
differentiate into tracheids. Cells of the haustorium immediately behind do like-
wise and so longitudinal rows of these tracheids are formed which are in direct
communication with the xylem elements of the host and with the corresponding
elements of the parasite stem (Fig. 31). The tip of the haustorium may con-
tinue to develop further into the xylem, generally following the medullary rays
and occasionally the pith. I have not found the tip of the haustorium traversing
the pith, although, I think, in Cassytha this may be expected. The reason that
it does not occur is probably owing to self regulation on the part of the parasite,
for the bundles on the opposite side of the pith to the haustorium will be tapped
by haustoria higher up in the series of coils. A very noticeable characteristic of
Cassytha is the development of haustoria in groups and the general correspondence
in the number of haustoria to the vascular bundles of the host. This is not with-
out exception, but, where an excess of haustoria does occur, the adverse effect is
evident upon the host, and the parasite defeats its own ends. This probably ex-
plains the death of many young twigs and leaves of hosts attacked by the para-
site. In the case of a Sonchus seedling forming the host of some of my ex-
perimental seedlings, there were only three vascular bundles in the petiole around
which three complete coils of the parasite were formed. In these three coils,
ten haustoria penetrating the bundles were formed. The leaf soon died, the
conducting tissues of the petiole being unable to meet its demands and those of
the parasite simultaneously.
A rather important feature of the haustoria of C. melantha is the marginal
branching of the zone some distance behind the apex (Fig. 32). This suggests
a retention of meristematic activity by cells of the cortex, and that the latter are
also capable of secretory activity. I have found proliferous developments of the
haustoria into the cortex of the host, growing obliquely through the cortex and
phloem of the host and becoming applied to other bundles (ef. Viscwm album and
Loranthus spp.). The manner of growth of the haustorium on Ficus sp. sug-
gests the application of its tracheids- directly, not only upon the tangential walls
of the water-conducting elements of the host, but frequently upon their radial
walls. In transverse sections of the host. through the haustorium, this method of
application may be seen plainly where the destruction of a wedge-shaped mass
of the xylem of the host takes place, e.g., in Ficus, Lasiopetalum, ete.
The application of the haustorial tracheids is to the radial walls generally,
where the bundles of the host are isolated and the haustorium develops along the
medullary rays. If radial longitudinal sections of the host be cut, passing
through the haustoria, the first tangential application will also be demonstrated.
In a longitudinal section of the mature haustorium upon Ficus the tracheids will
be seen to curve towards the margin and to attach themselves to the radial walls.
The haustorium of C. melantha takes the form of a massive wedge with a
broad base, and tapering or spreading apex.
SUMMARY.
1. The writer deals with the habit, habitat and parasitism of the several species
of Cassytha found in New South Wales.
2. The plant is a twining parasite which forms alternating close and loose coils
upon the stems, branches and leaves of the hosts.
78 STUDIES IN PARASITISM.
The -haustoria are confined to the series of close coils.
The development of the seedling is described, and the writer observed that
the root-system functions longer than that of Cuscuta. The endosperm re-
serves are absorbed by the apex of the stem.
5. Growth is very rapid at first in the seedling, but ultimately is slowed
down remarkably if contact with a support has not been secured.
6. The parasite develops considerable chlorophyll tissue in the cortex of the
stem. In very exposed situations with strong insolation the parasite assumes
a yellowish-green colour. The leaves are reduced to scales.
7. The parasite frequently develops upon its own branches, and shows no pre-
dilection for any particular host, provided its stem can twine round its
branches.
8. The root-system of the seedling 1s reduced; the old plants have no direct soil
relation.
9. Haustoria developing in contact with a yielding surface may attain consider-
able length before penetration, or may abort. Branched haustoria are com-
mon where the parasite is in contact with a yielding or pubescent surface.
10. The haustorium is a medified root, and has its inception immediately outside
the phloem of the stem.
11. The epidermis of the parasitic stem is rejuvenated and divides while its cells
become slightly papillate and form the haustorial “cushion” securing adhesion
to the surface of the host branch or leuf. ;
12. No sieve tubes are present in the haustorium. This is a decided contrast to
the haustorium of Cuscuta as described by Pierce.
13. The haustorium of C. melantha frequently develops lateral growths into the
cortex or phloem of the host.
14. The parasite is highly xerophilous.
ee
_ Botany School, University of Sydney, November, 1923.
Literature.
Bowie, 1904.—Cassytha filiformis. Bot. Contrib. Pennsylv. Univ., ui, 3.
Decaisng, 1846.—Structural anatomy of Cuscuta and Cassytha. Ann. Sci. Nat.,
Ser. 3, t. v.
Ewart, A. J., 1919.—Contribution to the Flora of Australia. No. 27. Proc.
Roy. Soc. Victoria, xxxi. (2), 370.
Kocu, L., 1874.—_Untersuchungen tiber die Entwickelung der Cuscuteen Hausteins
Botanische Abhandlungen. Bd. u., 1874.
Mrranpg, 1905.—Cassythacées. Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 9, t. 1.
Pierce, G. J., 1893.—On the structure of the Haustoria of some Phanerogamic
Parasites. Ann. Bot., vii., No. xxvii.
, 1894.—A eontribution to the Physiology of the Genus Cuscuta.
Ann. Bot., viii., No. xxix.
1905.—The Dissemination and Germination of Arceuthobiwm
occidentale, Engl. Ann. Bot., xix., 75-98.
PouLsEen, 1877.—Haustorium von Cassytha, ete. Flora, 1877.
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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI.
General habit of Cassytha—Photograph of C. paniculata growing upon
several hosts, especially Lasiopetalum ferrugineum and Banksia latifolia.
79
THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA. Part v.
By W. F. BuaKkety, Botanical Assistant, National Herbarium, Sydney.
(Plates xvi.-xxvii.)
[Read 30th April, 1924.]
20. LorantHus Nestor Moore. (Plate xvi.)
Journ. Bot., xxxv., 1897, 170.
Supplementary notes to the description.
The fruits are globose, densely woolly, 10-12 mm. long, but not seen in a
fully developed state. Epicarp thick. Viscin not plentiful. Embryo very small
for the size of the fruit, barely 1.5 mm. long.; embryonic cotyledons rather
broad, spathulate when opened out. Primary leaves not seen.
Affinities —L. Nestor is a very interesting species with a superficial resem-
blance to LE. Maideni and L. Quandang Lindl., and would pass for these species
when not in flower; the leaves are, however, more pubescent, and the young shoots
rusty tomentose, eventually becoming quite glabrous with age. The flowers are
large, and, when seen in the bud, are similar in shape to those of L. gibberulus
Tate and L. ferruginiflorus W. V. Fitz., though more closely resembling L. gib-
berulus, being densely covered with a soft woolly rufous tomentum, shaded purple
in the upper part.
When not in flower it is similar to some of the short, broad-leaved forms of
L. vitellinus ¥.v.M., especially in the venation of the leaves, which have distinctly
raised nerves on the under surface.
Like L. grandibracteus, L. Nestor has outstanding characters which. readily
distinguish the two from all the other Australian species.
Range.—Between Kunnunoppin and Mt. Marshall; Comet Vale (on Acacia
quadrimarginea) ; near type locality (near Bricke’s Soak, between Goongarry and
Mt. Margaret); Murrin Murrin, Austin district (George, in Herb. Berlin, vide
Diels and Pritzel, Bot. Jahr., 35, 1905, 176. Dr. A. Morrison records it in
“Notes Nat. Hist. W.A.,” 1903, 204, and in W.A. Yearbook, 1904, without de-
finite localities.
Hosts.—Leguminosae: Acacia quadrimarginea W. V. Fitz., A.sp.
80 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
21. LorantHus Hiuiiana, n.sp. (Plate xvii.)
Frutex cinereus; foliis juvenilibus laneto-tomentosis, foliis adultis furfuraceis,
oppositis, oblongi-lanceolatis, obtusis, crassis, 3—5-costatis, petiolatis, 4-7 om.
longis, 24 em. latis. Cymis axillaribus, 2-radiatis, radiis, utrisque flores tres
sessiles gerentibus. Alabastis breviter lanati-tomentosis, clavatis, acutis, 20-23
mm. longis. Bracteis lateralibus cordatis, concavis, 23 mm. longis; bractea inter-
media lanceolata, 3 mm. longa, apice recurvato. Calyce subcylindracea truncata,
3-4 mm. Petalis 5-6, liberis, externe cinereis, interne viridis. Filamentis pur-
pureis, 4 mm. longis; antheris adnatis, 2 mm. longis. Stylo filiforme quadrangu-
lata; stigma parva, globosa. Fructo incognito.
Hoary plants, branchlets and young leaves minutely woolly-tomentose, adult
leaves scurfy, opposite, narrow lanceolate to oblong, obtuse, obscurely 3-—5-
nerved, 4-7 em. long, 24 em. broad; petioles about 1 em. long. Inflorescence a
two-branched axillary cyme; the common peduncle 10-14 mm. long; branches of
the cyme shorter and thicker than the peduncle, bearing at the apex three almost
sessile flowers. Buds closely woolly-tomentose, clavate, acute, 20-23 mm. long.
Bract of the lateral flower cordate, concave, 24 mm. long; bract of the central
flower lanceolate, the apex abruptly deflexed, 3 mm. long. Calyx cylindrical to
urceolate, minutely hoary-tomentose at the base, 4 mm. long; the limb entire,
more or less carnose, 2 mm. long, pubescent on the margin. Petals 5 or 6, spathu-
late, acute, hoary on the outside, the inside greenish, minutely pubescent at the
apex and along the commissural line. Filaments purple-brown, about 4 mm.
long; anthers adnate, linear, pale purple, 2 mm. long, the cells very shallow.
Style slender, quadrangular, thickened towards the base, bent towards the small
globose stigma, pale purple throughout. Ripe fruit not seen, immature fruit
urceolate, somewhat similar to the young fruit of ZL. Maideni.
Named in honour of the collector, Gerald F. Hill.
Affinities —L. Hilliana has the two-branched cyme of L. Nestor, but the buds
and bracts resemble those of L. Maideni, and were it. not for the bifureate eyme
and longer leaves it would pass for that species. In the cyme and leaves L.
Hilliana bears some resemblance to L. Quandang; the sessile flowers and different
vestiture are the points which distinguish it from this species.
Range.—Northern Territory: 20 miles N.W. by N. of Meyer’s Hill, McDonnell
Ranges (G. F. Hill, No. 220, 1.6.1911). Recorded as L. Quandang, Ewart and
Davies, FI.N.T., 88. I have only seen one small specimen.
22. Lorantuus Lucast, n.sp. (Plate xviii.)
Syn.—L. Quandang Benth. (in part), mon Lindley.
Frutex glaucus intomentosus ramis divaricatis crassioribus juvenilibus glabris
nitentibus maturioribus lenticulatis. Folia opposita oblonga-lanceolata obtusa
crassa glauca 3-5 costata. Petiolata 3-6 em. longa, 1-5 em. lata. Inflorescentia.
cymosa cymis axillaribus 2-4 radiata utroque radio 3 flores sessile ferente. Gem-
mae graciles clavatae 2 cm. Bracteae late-naviculares coneavae acutae marginibus
cilatis. Calyx eupularis basi dense tomentosa. Corolla 3 petalis liberis viridibus
necnon rubescentibus fragilibus nonnunquam basi unitis. Filamenta compressa
straminea. Antherae adnatae angusti-lineares fragiles 2 mm. Fructus urceolatus
vel ampulliformis 5-9 mm.
Glaucous shrubs, but not tomentose; branches divaricate, rather stout, slightly
swollen at the nodes, the young ones smooth and shining, the old ones marked by
numerous oblong lenticles. Leaves opposite, broad elliptical to oblong-lanceolate,
obtuse, very rarely acute, thick, glaucous, triplinerved or quinquenerved, and often
with prominent transverse veins on both surfaces, giving the leaf a wrinkled
BY W. F. BLAKELY. 81
appearance, abruptly narrowed into a_ short, distinct, somewhat compressed,
straight or curved petiole, 3-6 cm. long, 1-5 em. broad. Inflorescence cymose;
cymes axillary, nearly as long as the leaves, glabrous, except the calyces; the
common peduncle very slender, dark coloured, 2-3 cm. long, bearing 2-4 rays,
each with 3 closely sessile flowers. Buds slender, 2 em. long, clavate, somewhat
inflated at the base. Bracts broadly navicular, concave, acute, with ciliate mar-
gins. Calyx cupular, densely woolly tomentose at the base, the limb rather large
or about half the size of the calyx, glabrous, except for the almost entire, trun-
cate, ciliate margin, 2 mm. long. Petals 5, free, green or reddish, occasionally
shortly united at the base and falling off in pairs, narrow linear to linear spathu-
late, very thin and frail, recurved whew fully developed, ciliate on the inner
margins of the concave apex, somewhat rugose on the back. Filaments com-
pressed, straw-coloured, adnate to the centre of the petals, 10-12 mm. long.
Anthers adnate, narrow-linear, very frail, about 2 mm. long. Style slender,
straw-coloured, suleate; stigma minute. Fruit urceolate to flask-shaped, hoary
tomentose, the limb dark coloured, contracted, closing over the thick 5-angled
dise, 5-9 mm. long. Seeds obconic, with a sharp base, indistinctly 5-furrowed.
Embryonic cotyledons obtuse, oblong-linear, 3 mm. long, but not seen in the ripe
fruit.
Range.—So far L. Lucasi is confined to New South Wales and Queensland.
New South Wales: Near Darling River, E. of Broken Hill (on Flindersia
maculosa. Leaves broad, green, somewhat like L. miraculosa; flowers yellowish-
green; fruit small, white with a dark top); Grenfell; Nyngan (Cymes with 3 or 4
rays, each with 3 sessile yellowish or greenish flowers. Whole plant glabrous except
the calyx. On Flindersia maculosa F.v.M., W. Bauerlen, No. 2477); West
Bogan (on Flindersia maculosa, and Grevillea striata); Wittagoona, near Cobar;
Yarrawin Station, Barwon River; Nulty-Toorale (on Flindersia maculosa, “Union
ball-like without adventitious roots,’ J. L. Boorman); Narrabri; Walgett (on
Flindersia maculosa) ; 40 or 50 miles North-west of Collarenebri (S. W. Jackson,
No. 838, on Atalantia glauca; also No. 839, associated with L. linearifolius, L.
Mitchelana and parasitic on Flindersia maculosa. Nos. 838-839 constitute the
type).
Queensland: Rosewood, 35 miles W.S.W. from Brisbane (“Flowers green or
yellow; parasitic on a number of different kinds of trees principally Melaleuca
genistifolia,” C. T. White, September, 1911; also recorded in Q’land Naturalist,
1911, as L. Quandang).
Affinities.—L. Lucasi is perhaps more closely allied to L. obliqua than to
any other species. The leaves are, however, distinctly petiolate, and not sessile
or oblique as those of its ally.
In the general colour of the leaves it resembles L. Quandang, but the flowers
are all sessile, while only the central flowers are sessile in L. Quandang. There
is a photograph of this plant in the “Forest Flora of New South Wales,” vi., 282,
as L. Quandang.
Wath L. Benthami it has a marked similarity in the buds and ecalyces, but the
fruits are dissimilar, those of L. Lucasi being hoary carnose when ripe, of L.
Benthami yellowish.
Named in honour of Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Se., late Headmaster,
Sydney Grammar School, and honorary specialist for Algae, attached to the
National Herbarium, Sydney.
Hosts.—Loranthaceae: Loranthus Mitchelliana Blakely. Proteaceae: Grevillea
82 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
striata R.Br. Rutaceae: Flindersia maculosa F.v.M., Eremocitrus (Atalantia)
glauca Swingle. Myrtaceae: Melaleuca genistifolia Sm.
23. LORANTHUS QUANDANG (Lindl., MSS.). (Plate. xix.)
Mitch. Three Exped., ii., 1838, 69; Hook., Mitch. Trop. Aust., 1848; 158, as
L. nutans A. Cunn. MSS., non Sprengel; Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst., ii., 1851-52,
730, as L. nutans A.C.; Mueller, Trans. Vic. Inst., 228, as L. canus, also in
Hook. Jour. Bot., viii., 1856, 144; Lindl, Amn. Sci. Nat., xv., 57; Benth., B.FI.,
lii., 1866, 395 (in part).
The following is the original description :—
Loranthus Quandang (Lindl. MSS.) ; incanus, foliis oppositis lineari-oblongis
obsoleté triplinerviis obtusis, pedunculis axillaribus folio multo brevioribus apice
divaricato-bifidis 6-floris, floribus pentameris aequalibus, petalis linearibus, an-
theris linearibus basi insertis. Next L. Gaudichaudi.
The following is a more detailed description :—
Hoary or glaucous shrubs with more or less divaricate, erect or pence
branches, 1-3 feet long, the young tips somewhat rusty tomentose, turning hoary
with age. Leaves opposite or alternate on the same branch, narrow to broad
lanceolate, or sometimes lanceolate falcate, 3—5-nerved, though usually 3-nerved,
5-10 em. long, often somewhat rounded at the base, and ending in a well defined,
usually terete petiole, 1-1.5 em. long.
Inflorescence an axillary, two-branched, hoary, pubescent cyme, the common
peduncle 1-2 em. long, each branch bearing the flowers in triads, the central flower
of each triad sessile, the lateral ones on short pedicels, rarely more than 2-3 mm.
long. Bracts orbicular, coneave, thick, ciliolate. Calyx hemispherical, with a
small denticulate or ciliate expanded limb, scarcely exceeding 3 mm. in the newly
expanded flower. Buds angular, contracted in the middle, swollen near the base,
blending from purple white to hlac white (Plates 6 and 7 Dauthenay, Rep. de
Coul.). Petals 5, straw yellow inside (Plate 31, l.c.), free to the base, densely
clothed with white woolly hairs for about half their length, between the attach-
ment of the free portion of the filaments and the apex. Filaments old carmine
red (Plate 107, l.c.), the adnate portion ending in a spur-like eallosity at the
base.
Anthers about 3 mm. long, secund, narrow, linear, adnate. Style exceeding
the anthers, green to creamy white at the base, shading into raspberry red at the
top.
Fruit greenish-white, oblong-elliptical to urceolate, 5-7 mm. long, crowned
with a somewhat conspicuous dise.
It has been recognised for a long time that the identity of this species was
unsatisfactory, owing to the many forms attributed to it, and many botanists
were at a loss to know what to regard as the typical form; this, perhaps, ac-
counts for it not being figured, as it is as destructive to a certain class of vege-
tation as other species which have received considerable advertisement because
of their noxious propensity. Indeed, the type specimen of L. Quandang in
Lindley’s herbarium at Cambridge is far from being satisfactory. According to
Dr. Otto Stapf, in a letter to Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director, Botanic Gardens,
Sydney, March 21st, 1919, “Lindley’s sheet of L. Quandang contains two distinct
species. One with the original label, “Serub near Darling, 21st July, 1835,” and
another with a label with the general printed legend Major Mitchell’s Expedition
(1835). Now as to the two species on Lindley’s sheet, the top one corresponds
BY W. F. BLAKELY. 83
to L. pendulus Sieb., var. parviflorus Benth., in “Fl. Aust.” or at least to part
of it, the bottom one (in fruit) to Z. nutans A. Cunn. and L. canus F.v.M., which
is in my opinion a synonym of L. nutans.
“Both are quoted in ‘B.Fl” under L. Quandang, but from an examination
of our material, and Bentham’s enumeration of specimens it is clear that he in-
cluded under L. Quandang several, possibly as many as Six, species.”
As regards the two species on Lindley’s type sheet referred to by Dr. Stapf,
drawings of both were made by Miss Smith, the artist attached to Kew Her-
barium, and presented to the National Herbarium, Sydney. The upper figure is
labelled “Scrub near Darling, 21st July (1835), Flowers of the bush producing
the round nuts.” This is referable to L. miraculosus Miq. var. Boormani, L.
pendulus var. parviflorus Bth. (in part). The lower figure is labelled “Interior
of New Holland, Parasitical upon the Quandang, Major Mitchell’s Expedition,
1835.” Any
On looking up Mitchell’s Three Expeditions, Vol. 1, 282, for 21st July, 1835,
I find that Mitchell was on the Darling River, but no mention is made by him
of a Loranth or a Quandang in his narrative. Turning to the original description
' (Vol. ii., p. 69), L. Quandang is connected with an observation recorded on May
9th, 1836, when Mitchell was on the Lachlan River between Lake Waljeers and
Oxley, and the following reference to the plant is made by Mitchell. “I observed
the Quandang bushes, having their branches covered with a parasitical plant,
whose bright crimson flowers were very ornamental.”
The discrepancy between the dates on the label and in the book I am not
able to explain.
We must, therefore, accept the lower figure as representing the type of L.
Quandang Lindl., as it agrees with the original description in all essential charac-
ters; the upper figure on the drawing of the type sheet is a glabrous plant, and
is entirely different in flowers, fruit and arrangement of the cyme. Dr. Stapf is
also of the same opinion, as he concludes, “The name Quandang if not dropped
altogether should be connected with the bottom specimen on Lindley’s type sheet.”
The type appears from the drawing to have opposite and alternate leaves;
they are narrow, lanceolate to somewhat broad-spathulate, obscurely 1—3-nerved,
13-23 inches long, tapering into a well defined petiole up to 4 inch long. Cymes
short, two-branched, with 3-6 nearly sessile flowers. Fruit oval-oblong or some-
what urceolate, and usually with the style persistent upon it.
The term, “foliis oppositis,” applied to the species in the original description,
has influenced botanists to regard the opposite-leaved species, allied to L. Quan-
dang, as being the same as it, hence the inclusion of so much variable material
under this species. In the majority of cases the leaves of L. Quandang are
alternate; to refer to them as being opposite or alternate would perhaps lead to
fewer errors in the future.
It appears to me that Mitchell confused ZL. miraculosus Miq. with ZL. Quan-
dang, by his reference to “the bright crimson flowers,” as the flowers of the
former are more highly coloured than those of the latter. He also appears to
have mistaken the flowers of the Loranthus for those of the Quandang; hence
his field note, “Flowers of the bush producing the round nuts,” seems to be more
applicable to the Quandang than to the Loranthus, and therefore does not apply
to the lower specimen on Lindley’s type sheet which, strangely enough, is in fruit,
also in bud. The term “nut,” would scarcely apply to the fruit of the Loranthus,
at least not to the species involved, whereas it is commonly used to describe the
fruits of the “Quandang,” Fusanus acuminatus R.By.
84 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
Bentham and Hooker (Genera Plantarum, iii., 208), ascribe the species L.
Quandang to Mitchell instead of Lindley.
Synonyms.—L. nutans A. Cunn. et Hook., L. pruimosus A. Cunn., L. canus
F.v.M., L. pendulus Sieb. var. canus Tate, L. pendulus Sieb. var. canescens
Mueller and Tate.
Range—The range of this species is very extensive; I have examined speci-
mens, from all the States mentioned below, which are remarkable for their uni-
formity over such a large area. The peculiar two-branched cyme of this species
impressed me as being a most stable character. Only once have I seen the cyme
three-branched, and then, not on the typical form, but in the broad leaved form,
or var. Bancrofti. The short hemispherical calyx is also a most constant char-
acter.
The species appears to be less common in Western Australia and the Nor-
thern Territory; this may be on account of the very imperfect botanical survey of
those States.
Victoria: Mount Cole (J. W. Audas), Buffalo Creek (B.FI.), Victorian Alps
(Vict. Nat., xxvui., 1910, 112), Grampians (B.FI1.).
New South Wales: Moama; Cowabbies, Wagga District (on Acacia Oswaldi) ;
Zara, Wanganella (on A. pendula), between Lake Waljeers and Oxley on the
Lachlan (the type), Yenda (on A. pendula), Barmedman (on Santalum acumina-
tum), Fields Plains (on Eucalyptus and Acacia), Condobolin to Borambil, Parkes
(on Acacia pendula), Lake Cargelligo, Eugowra (on A. aneura), Darling R. to
Barrier Ranges, Broken Hill, between Bengala and Cassilis, Dandaloo (on A.
aneura), Nevertire to Bourke (on species of Acacia, Eucalyptus bicolor and
Eremophila Mitchell), White Cliffs (on A. cana), Hunter River District, War-
rumbungle Ranges, Boggabri (on A. pendula), Narrabri (on A. pendula), Burren
Junction.
South Australia: Willochra Valley (Trans. Roy. Soe. §.A., vii, 1901),
‘Cooper’s Creek (B.FI.), Adminga (Horn Exped. No. 1030 in Adelaide Herb.),
Cootanoorina Creek, Arkaringa. |
Queensland: Moreton Bay (B.FI.), Bulloo River district (on Atalaya hemi-
glauca), Keppel Bay (R. Brown), near Jericho (on Hucalyptus melanophloia,
Proe. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlx., 1915, 443), Thompson River (B.Fl.), Georgina
River (EH. W. Bick, in Queensland Herbarium), Sutton Desert (Mueller, B.FI.),
Cloncurry (Rk. H. Cambage, No. 3948), Boomaria (Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix.,
1915, 429), Flinders and Mitchell Rivers (on the “Gidya,” Acacia Cambagei;
vide also Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., iii., 107).
Northern Territory: Hermannsburg (Trans. Roy. Soe. S.A., v., (1881-82) ;
Tate, Rept. Horn Exped., Part iii, 160), Stuart’s Creek (B.FI.), Victoria River
(B.FI.), Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria (B.FI.). These are probably re-
ferable to L. conspicuus Bail. or L. congener Sieb.
Western Australia: North of Kingoonya (Recorded in Trans. Roy. Geog. Soe.
$.A., 1916-17, as L. pendulus Sieb. var. canescens Mueller and Tate. I take full
responsibility for this name as I had followed Mueller before I had thoroughly
investigated the synonyms of L. Quandang Lindl. [W.F.B.].
Affinities——TI could not understand why Lindley referred to L. Gaudichaudi
DC., as having the closest affinity to L. Quandang, as the two are very dissimilar,
until I saw the drawing of Lindley’s type sheet of L. Quandang which contains
(as already stated) two species. It at once occurred to me that he probably re-
garded the upper specimen as L. Gaudichaudi, a species that has been confused
with L. miraculosus Miq., and the specimen on his type sheet appears to be re-
BY W. F. BLAKELY. 85
ferable to L. miraculosus Miq. var. Boormani, probably the closest affinity te
L. Quandang in general appearance and in the sparsely flowered cyme, which
character approaches more closely to L. Quandang than any other allied species.
The leaves are also a good deal alike, but those of L. Quandang are usually
broader, with more numerous veins, and are closely invested with a hoary pubes-
cent vestiture, which serves as a sharp line of differentiation between them.
Perhaps L. congener Sieber is as closely allied to this species as the preced-
ing, but the cyme is rarely, if ever, two-branched; the leaves are, however, some-
what similar, but those of L. congener are often broader and more shortly petio-
late, and the veins are more obscure; as it is a coastal species, it is not likely to
be mistaken for L. Quandang, which belongs more to the drier interior. Never-
theless, it was mistaken for the latter by Bentham and others, but this error will
hardly be repeated, now that attention has been drawn to it.
It is very different from ZL. pendulus Sieber in foliage and inflorescence.
Hosts.—Santalaceae: Santalum lanceolatum R.Br. Leguminosae: Acacia
aneura K.v.M., A. cana Maiden, A. calamifolia Sweet, A. Cambagei R. T. Baker,
A. homalophylla A. Cunn., A. melanoxylon R.Br., A. Oswaldi F.v.M., A. pendula
A. Cunn. Sapindaceae: Atalaya hemiglauca F.v.M. Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus
bicolor A. Cunn., H. ecrebra F.v.M., E. melanophloia F.v.M. Myoporaceae:
Eremophila Mitchel Bth.
LORANTHUS QUANDANG, VAR. BancrorrTi Bail. (Plate xix., fig. 10.)
~Q’land Agric. Journ., xxix., 1912, 180, plate 23; Bail., Comp. Cat. Q’land..
Pl., fig. 448, p. 463.
The whole plant more or less puberulent. Leaves bluntly lanceolate, the
base truncate, rounded, thin, tapering to a short petiole, 2-34 in. long, 4-14 in.
broad, coriaceous; longitudinal nerves 5, the three central ones more prominent
than the others. Inflorescence much resembling other forms. Filaments and
style of a rich purple. Eidsvold; Dr. T. L. Bancroft. This is probably the
broad form referred to by Mitchell, Tropical Australia, pp. 158, 256.
Var. Bancrofti represents the coarse venulose quinque-nerved leaved form of
the species, which appears to reach its greatest size in Queensland. It is also
found over a large area in New South Wales.
Range—New South Wales: 40 miles East of Broken Hill (on “Neclia,”
Acacia Loderi), Broken Hill (hosts: Acacia aneura, A. Burkitti, and A. calami-
folia), Lake Cudgellico, Coolabah, Byrock (on Acacia aneura), Warren-Coon-
amble Road (on Acacia pendula), Gilgandra (on Acacia pendula, “Large masses
infest the trees.” R. H. Cambage, No. 1136; also recorded in Forest Flora of
New South Wales, ii, 128, as L. pendulus Sieber, with a photograph by Mr.
Cambage), Mount Terrible, Currabubula (on Acacia neriifolia, R. H. Cambage,
No. 3777).
Queensland: Mt. Maria (in Queensland Herbarium. This locality is near the
type locality of L. nutans A. Cunn. = L. Quandang Lindl.), near Mt. Mudge
(Mitchell, August Ist, 1846), Hidsvold (only on ‘Brigalow,’ Acacia harpophylla,
Dr. T. L. Bancroft), Nogoa River, Gindie, Aramac (The specimen has a seedling
plant of L. Hxocarpi attached to it [W.F.B.]), Longreach, Diamantina River (on
Acacia Cambagei), Blackwater (on Acacia harpophylla).
Hosts.—Leguminosae: Acacia aneura F.v.M., A. Burkitti F.v.M., A. calami-
folia Sweet, A. Cambagei Baker, A. harpophylla A. Cunn., A. Loderi Maiden,
A. nervifolia A. Cunn., A. pendula A. Cunn.
86 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
24, LorRANTHUS BENTHAMI, n.sp. (Plate xx.)
Frutex parvus confertus fusiformis ramis glabris neenon glaucis lenticulis
obseuris. Folia glauca opposita cordata vel elliptica obtusa amplexicaulia 4 cm.
longa 3 em. lata imperfecta 3 vel 5 costata. Inflorescentia plerumque cymus bi-rama-
tus axillaris vel terminalis utroque ramo umbellano 3 florum quorum centralis sessilis
ferente. Bracteae angustae ad late naviculares acutae. Calyx ecupularis nec
longus ad 3 mm. dentatus vel miniatus. Corolla 5 petalis liberis angusto-linearibus
fragilissimis. Antherae adnatae oblongae 14 mm. longae. Stylus sulcatus stigma
vix augmenta. Fructus elliptico-oblongus vertice constrictus subtomentus super-
iore parte glabra, 10-12 mm. longus.
Small compact shrubs; union fusiform; branches rather stout, smooth, some-
what glaucous, otherwise glabrous, lenticles obscure or obsolete; leaves stem-
clasping, rarely above 4 cm. long and 3 em. broad, imperfectly 3—5-nerved. In-
florescence usually a 2-branched cyme, either axillary or terminal, each branch
bearing an umbel of 3 flowers, the central one sessile, the lateral’ on very short
or minute pedicels; common peduncle slender, terete, 10-15 mm. long, with an
annular-like thickening at the top, and not bracteate as in most species; branches
of the partial cyme 3-6 mm. long. Bracts narrow to broad, navicular, acute,
strongly keeled, margins minutely ciliate with rufous hairs or glabrous, 13 mm.
long. Calyx cupular, under 3 mm. long, obscurely toothed or truncate, some-
times the limb ciliate, the base usually densely hoary tomentose. Buds slender,
terete, rarely 2 cm. long, clavate, quite glabrous, pale pink in the lower half,
greenish towards the top. Petals 5, free, narrow linear, concave and very fragile.
Filaments free to about the centre of the petals, compressed, greenish; anthers
adnate, oblong, 14 mm. long, the cells conspicuous. Style minutely suleate, geni-
culate a little below the scarcely enlarged stigma. Dise annular. Fruit elliptical-
oblong, somewhat contracted at the top, semitomentose, or the upper half glabrous
and dark coloured, the lower half yellowish, 10-12 mm. long, epicarp coriaceous.
Seeds 6-8 mm. long, on a small spongy base; endosperm white, but as soon as
germination takes place it turns green. Hypocotyl terete, verrucose; dise some-
what conical, papillose. The growth is exactly like that of L. bifurcatus and L.
congener, but in appearance it resembles L. grandibracteus. The cotyledons are
not withdrawn from the endosperm on germination.
Synonymous with L. pendulus Sieber, var. amplexifolius Benth. (B.FIL., ii.
394) and L. Quandang Lindl., var. amplexifolius Benth. (B.FI1., m1., p. 395).
A great deal of uncertainty centres around these varieties. The type of
the former, according to the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is neither at
Kew, nor at the British Museum. The latter was described by Bentham thus,
“LT. Quandang Lindl. var. ? amplexifolius. Leaves broad, sessile, cordate, Victoria
River, F. Mueller; the specimen very imperfect and doubtful.” I have seen a
leaf of this specimen and find no difficulty in matching it with leaves of specimens
collected by R. Helms, W. M. Cusack and J. T. Jutson. After a careful examin-
ation of material purporting to be either one or the other variety by different
botanists, I fail to see any difference between them, and the justification of keep-
ing them apart as varieties of either L. pendulus or L. Quandang, especially as
the difference is so marked between those species. On the other hand, the large
amount of variation admitted by Bentham under either species, afforded a con-
venient receptacle for quite a number of unknown species as shown in this mono-
eraph; and very naturally this particular form, which I propose to call L. Ben-
thami, shows affinity to one of the plants included in Bentham’s wide definition
BY W. F. BLAKELY. 87
of L. pendulus Sieb., and L. Quandang Lindl., namely L. Lucasi, which is dealt
with above.
Range.—tt is confined to North-west Australia: 40 miles south from Victoria
Springs (on Brachychiton Gregoru F.v.M. Recorded by Mueller and Tate,
Trans. Roy. Soe., S.A., x1., 1892, 360, as L. pendulus Sieb. var. amplexifolius.
Through the kindness of Professor Osborn of the Adelaide Herbarium I was able
to see this specimen, which is in the early fruiting stage. Leaves stem-clasping,
cordate, oval-oblong, obtuse, faintly 3—5-nerved. Fruit oval-oblong, densely
hoary at the base, crowned by a somewhat toothed calyx limb), Coolgardie (on
B. Gregorit), Boulder, near Roan’s Dam (on B.- Gregorii), Comet Vale (on B.
Gregori, J. T. Jutson), Roebuck Bay (Leaves sessile, broad cordate, quoted by
Bentham, as the type of L. pendulus Sieber var. amplexifolius Benth.), Cygnet
Bay, West Kimberley (Leaves narrow to narrow-obovate 14 inches long. Flowers
yellow to green, scarcely ? in. long, on Santalum lanceolatum R.Br., W. V.
Fitzgerald’s MSS.), Sunday Island, between May and Meda Rivers (Leaves
sessile, narrow oblong, 1-23 inches long), Victoria River (quoted by Bentham as
the type of L. Quandang Lindl. var. amplexifolius).
Affinities —L. Benthami is very unlike the typical L. pendulus Sieber, and
L. Quandang Lindl., and differs greatly from these species, not only in the shape
and size of the leaves, but also in the structure of the flowers and cyme. Its
nearest affinity appears to be with ZL. obliqua; they resemble each other a great
deal in the structure of the common peduncle, and in the arrangement and out-
line of the closely packed triads of flowers.
L. Lucasi has more than a passing resemblance to this species, not only in
the colour of the leaves, but more intimately in the shape of the buds and
calyces.
The leaves of LZ. Benthami are somewhat analogous with those of L. homo-
plasticus and some species of Eucalyptus.
Hosts.—Santalaceae: Santalum lanceolatum R.Br. Stereuliaceae: Brachy-
chiton Gregoru F.v.M., the common host plant.
(D) Capitellati: Engler.
Capitellées van Tiegh. l.c. =.
Inflorescence capitate. Flowers 4-6, sessile on the summit of the peduncle,
or the outer flowers on very short bracteate pedicels.
25. LoraANntHUS MAImeENI, n.sp. (Plate xxi.)
L. Quandang Benth. and others (non Lindley).
Frutex confertus cinereus ramis divaricatis teretibus tomentosis. Folia op-
posita oblonga lanceolata vel elliptica obtusa petiolata. Inflorescentia peduneulo
compresso capitato 3-6 sessilibus floribus. Gemmae cinereae teretes 2-24 cm.
Calyx sub-cylindraceus truncatus 3 mm. Corolla 5 petalis liberis externe cinereis
interne rubescentibus. Filamenta flavescentia. Antherae adnatae 1-2 mm. Frue-
tus urceolatus dense nisi superne cinereus.
Compact hoary shrubs with rather short, divaricate, terete tomentose branches.
Leaves opposite, narrow oblong, spathulate to oblong lanceolate, obtuse or ellip-
tical, gradually tapering into the petiole, almost glabrous when old, the very
young ones mealy or scurfy, more or less of a dull yellowish or greyish-green
colour, coriaceous, 3—5-nerved, or in some specimens the veins obscure, 3-5 em.
long.
Inflorescence an axillary or terminal compressed capitate peduncle, bearing
88 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
3-6 closely sessile flowers; the common peduncle erect or recurved, dilated up-
wards, 1.5-2 em. long. Buds hoary, terete, somewhat clavate, slightly inflated at
the base, straight or curved, 2-24 cm. long. Outer bracts decurrent and per-
sistent on the peduncle, narrow oblong, with a conspicuous, recurved, obtuse
lobe, longer than the inner ones and quite different in shape; inner bracts de-
ciduous or falling off with the calyces, erect, broadly and obliquely cordate, con-
cave, hoary, more or less carnose, rarely exceeding the calyx.
Calyx semi-cylindrical, truncate, the limb rather large and darker or less
tomentose than the base, 3 mm. long. Petals 5, linear-lanceolate, free, hoary out-
side, reddish inside, the inner margins minutely puberulent or irregularly barbed
with erect, minute, deciduous bristles. Filaments free to about the centre of the
petals, yellowish; anthers adnate, oblong, 1-2 mm. long.
Style yellowish, angular, somewhat flexuous, geniculate about 3 mm. below
the small capitate stigma. Dise raised around the base of the style into 4-5
acute angles, surrounded alternately by a paler and darker zone.
Fruit urceolate, densely hoary, except the upper portion or neck, 6-8 mm.
long. Epicarp thick, seeds elliptical, obscurely 5-ribbed, 3 mm. long, but only
seen in a dried state. KEmbryonic cotyledons oblong, with a broad base, 2 mm.
long, not withdrawn from the endosperm on germination. Hypocotyl minutely
tubereulate with reddish tubercules.
Named in honour of Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.R.S., Government Botanist of New
- South Wales and Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney, who for many years has
taken a keen interest in the Loranthaceae.
Range.—This species is endemic to the dry interior of Western Australia,
South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. Its habit is still imperfect-
ly known.
New South Wales: Narrabri, Tarecoon, Cobar, Paroo River, Paldrumatta
Bore, Tarella, Broken Hill, near Thackaringa. On species of Acacia (A. harpo-
phylla, A. aneura, A. tetragonophylla).
Queensland: N.S.W. border north and a little west of Broken Hill, Diaman-
tina R.
South Australia: Moolooloo Stn. between Beltana and Blinman (on Myo-
porum platycarpum), Youralanna Waterhole near Goddard Ranges, Mt. Lynd-
hurst (on A. aneura or A. tetragonophylla; recorded as L. Quandang, Trans. Roy.
Soe. S.A., vi., 1883, 103), Tarcoola, Moorilyanna Native Well, Wanberlana (on
A. aneura).
Western Australia: Victoria Desert (on A. aneura; recorded as L. Quandang,
Trans. Roy. Soc. §.A., xvi., 1892, 360).
Affinities—lIts position is near L. Fitzgeraldi, on the one hand, and L.
Nestor on the other. From the former it is distinguished by the larger and more
compact cyme, sessile flowers, and-larger bracts; from L. Nestor by the differently
shaped leaves and venation, smaller flowers, closer vestiture, and smaller bracts.
Like its nearest ally, it has been mistaken for L. Quandang Lindl. on many
occasions, but it is very dissimilar from that species in all essential characters,
although, ecologically, they have much in common, sharing the same environmental
conditions.
Hosts.—Leguminosae: Acacia aneura F.v.M., A. harpophylla A. Cunn., A.
tetragonophylla F.v.M. Myoporaceae: Myoporum platycarpum R.Br.
Frutex ramis erectis minute tomentosis lenticularibus obscuris. Folia op-
posita juvenilia aureo-pubescentia vel paullatim ferruginea elliptica spathulata
obtusa triplicostata in brevi petiolo constricta 2-3 em. longa 1-3 em. lata. Cymi
BY W. F. BLAKELY. 89
axillares singuli vel pares communi pedunculo superne dilatato rugoso 3-5 flores
externos pedicellatos internos sessiles ferente. Bracteae rugosae cordatae. Gem-
mae tenues cylindricae cinereo-tomentosae 2 em. longae. Calyx dense tomentosus
angusti-cupularis 2 mm. longus. Corolla 5 petalis interne rufis externe cinereis..
Filamenta compressa longiora antheris. Antherae adnatae lineari-oblongae cras-
sae 2 mm. longae. Fructus urceolatus vel ellipticus tomentosus 6-7 mm. longus.
Plants hoary; mode of attachment unknown, branches apparently erect,
minutely tomentose and lenticulate, dark coloured; leaves opposite, the young ones
golden pubescent or slightly ferruginous at the tips, the older ones hoary, or lead
coloured and almost glabrous, elliptical to spathulate, oblong, obtuse, triplinerved,
narrowed into a distinct petiole, 2-3 em. long, 1-2 em. broad. Cymes axillary,
single or in pairs, the common peduncle slender, terete, except towards the top,
suleate or rugose, tomentose, bearing 3-5 closely packed flowers, the outer ones on
short, stout, articulate-bracteate pedicels, the inner, or central ones sessile, and
often with a small bract. Bracts rugose, lead-coloured, gibbose, broadly cordate,
26. LORANTHUS FITZGERALDI, n.sp. (Plate xxii.)
acute, nearly embracing the calyx and sometimes exceeding it, though usually
about the same length. Buds slender, cylindrical, acute or slightly rostrate, hoary-
tomentose, 2 em. long. Calyx densely tomentose, narrow cupular, 2 mm. long.
Petals 5, free, usually reddish inside, linear lanceolate, the basal portion linear;
filaments compressed, narrowed upwards, varying in colour from yellowish to
red, about twice as long as the anthers; anthers adnate, linear oblong, thick, 2
mm. long, the cells conspicuous. Style very slender, angular, abruptly bent be-
neath the small conical stigma. Dise angular, distinctly raised around the base
of the style. Fruit urceolate to elliptic, tomentose, 6-7 mm. long, the calyx limb
somewhat contracted, red when ripe (according to some collectors). Seeds ellip-
tical, 4 mm. long, faintly 5-ribbed. Endosperm white; embryo 3 mm. long,
shghtly compressed, oblong; hypocotyl dark green, minutely verrucose.
Synonym.—L. Quandang Benth. (in part) (non Lindley).
Named in honour of Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald, author of the “Botany of the
Kimberleys, North-west Australia.” <
Range—Between Kunnunoppin and Mt. Marshall, 12 miles N.E. Kanowna
(on Acacia aneura), Comet Vale (on Acacia quadrimarginea F.v.M. and Acacia,
aneura F.v.M., var. ?), Wilson’s Creek between Wilson’s pool and Lake Darlot
(The host is a Grevillea, probably G. aculeolata S. Moore. Recorded as L. Quan-
dang, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, xxxiv., 1898-1900, 226, but probably this species),
Minginew (on Acacia rostellifera Bth.), Greenough (parasitic on “Raspberry Jam,”
Acacia acuminata), Irwin district (common on Acacia acuminata, sometimes on
the same branch with L. linophyllus), Northampton, Murchison River.
Affinities—L. Fitzgeraldi has been confused with L. Quandang Lindl., by
many authors. Nearly all the Western Australian records of L. Quandang are
referable to either L. Maideni or L. Fitzgeraldi. The flowers of L. Fitzgeraldt
are very often in threes, but there never appear to be more than 5 in the cyme.
L. Fitzgerald: differs from its nearest ally, L. Maideni, in the different struc-
ture of the cyme, totally different peduncle and bracts, more pointed buds and
smaller stamens. The leaves are usually smaller with a more deciduous vestiture
than that of ZL. Maideni. It is apparently a much smaller plant.
From L. Lucasi it is distinguished by its hoary vestiture and sub-composite
eyme. :
90 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
The short elliptic leaves, composite cyme and different shaped calyces are the
eharacters which separate it from L. Quandang Lindl.
Hosts.—Proteaceae: Grevillea aculeolata S. Moore. Leguminosae: Acacia
acuminata Benth., A. anewra F.v.M., A. aneura var., A. quadrimarginea V.v.M.,
A. rostellifera Benth.
Sect. Dipuatia Engler.
Engl. et Prantl, Pfizfam. Nachtr., 1897, 129; genus Diplatia van Tiegh.,
Bull. Soe. bot. France, xli., 1894, 501.
Inflorescence capitate. Flowers 4-6, sessile on the dilated apex of the
peduncle, between two large foliaceous bracts, with a very small deciduous, scari-
ous bract at the base of the outer flowers. Petals 5. Calyx entire or toothed,
usually minutely ciliate. Fruit urceolate, yellow. Viscin scanty. Large pen-
dulous shrubs with a ball-like union, without adventitious roots. Leaves lanceo-
late or ligulate, 3—5-nerved.
27. LORANTHUS GRANDIBRACTEUS F.v.M. (Plates xxiii.)
Rept. Burdk. Exped., 1860, 14; Benth., B.F1, i1., 1866, 395; Bail., Q’land
Fl., v., 1381, Plate lxiv.; Van Tiegh., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fy., xli., 1894, 501, as
Diplatia.
Additional notes to the description.
Glaucous plants forming fairly large masses. Union (according to Mr. J.
L. Boorman) ball-like. Branches in the coastal plants rather short and stout;
those of the interior long and slender, with numerous linear transverse lenticels,
especially on the old branches. Pedicels axillary, fused into two foliaceous floral
leaves, with the flowers between them in two closely sessile rows or clusters.
Bracts attached to the fused pedicel or torus at the base of the calyx, and in some
eases to the calyx, narrow-linear acute, slightly curved, about as long as the
calyx, though sometimes longer; the central flower of each triad without bracts
in all the flowers examined. Calyx cylindrical or shaped like a flower pot, 3-4
mm. long, the limb denticulate-ciliate, membranous, and the most deciduous of
all the Australian species. Buds angular in the lower half, terete and slightly
clavate, obtuse. Segments 5, cleft to the base; the petals obtuse, deflexed, the
basal portion much thicker than the free upper portion, caused by the fusion of
the filaments. Filaments compressed, 23 to 3 times as long as the anthers; the
latter narrow, 3 mm. long. Style angular or suleate, bent below the small capi-
tate stigma. Dise pentagonal. Fruits elliptical, yellowish, smooth and shining,
10 to 12 mm. long, opening semi-apically. Viscin not very copious and not as
sweet as in most species. Seeds oblong-elliptical, with a small spongy base,
similar to L. vitellinus F.v.M.; endosperm green; hypocotyl green, terete, verru-
cose, very short. Cotyledons narrow linear, obtuse, 4 mm. long; suctoral dise
white, conical and verrucose.
The plant figured by Bailey (J.c.) shows 3 spent flowers only, with the style
exceeding the large foliaceous floral leaf, and is without any small floral bracts
at the base of the calyx; these no doubt are deciduous at an early stage, as I
have not seen them on any fruiting specimens, but on flowering ones only. The
length of the foliaceous floral leaves varies; they are usually longer than the
flowers in broad leaved specimens or those from coastal localities. In the case
of the narrow-leaved forms, the floral leaves are usually shorter than the flowers.
The Albert and Flinders River specimens collected by Mueller constitute the type;
BY W. F. BLAKELY. 91
these I have not seen. The above Rivers flow into the Gulf of Carpentaria at
its most southern point in North Queensland.
Mueller (Report Burdk. Exped., 14) states that, “This eurious plant at-
tracted already Dr. Leichhardt’s attention when passing on his discovery-journey
over nearly the same tract of country .where it was noticed by myself. Hence
it is cursorily mentioned in the diary of that lamented traveller.”
Affinities—This species is distinct from all other Australian Loranthus in its
large foliaceous floral leaves, which are confluent with the pedicel, and not articu-
late upon it; in this particular character it is only approached to a minor extent
by L. Nestor S. Moore, which has conspicuous bracts, but they are quite distinet
from those of L. grandibracteus. -In L. Murrayi the pedicel is winged by the
decurrent bract, which in some specimens is distinctly, though equally, bilobed,
the longer sometimes exceeding the calyx and assuming a foliaceous appearance.
If the development of both lobes were equal, we would then have, in a small
way, a pair of foliaceous bracts as in L. grandibracteus. In the case of L.
Murrayi the flowers are solitary, and the fact that the bracts are bilobed enables
us to understand the origin of these bracts, which form an interesting natural
link between these species. The foliage resembles in some eases that of L.
Miquelii, and some of the small leaved forms of ZL. sanguineus F.v.M. The calyx
more closely resembles the latter species than any other, but the buds and stigma
are not the same.
At first I was inclined to regard L. grandibracteus as being so distinct from
all the Australian Loranthus as to merit a different genus, but by the closer study
of its most distinguishing character, in conjunction with those of L. Nestor, L.
Murrayt, and to a limited extent, L. linearifolius (ZL. Mitchelliana), I have aban-
‘doned that view.
D. Oliver (Journ. Linn. Soe. Lond., vii., 101) refers to this species as L.
bracteatus V.v.M., as does Mueller, ibid., Ix., 1857, 167.
Range.—This species extends from Thursday Island, N.W. of Cape York,
the most northern point of the continent, to Cobar in New South Wales, its
southern limit (vide F. EK. Haviland, These Proceedings, xxxvi., 1911, 523) and
extends to Western Australia, but I have no definite locality for it in the western
State; it is included in Dr. Morrison’s list of Extra-Tropical W.A. plants (Wes-
tern Australian Year Book, 1900-01, 204). It is safe to assume that it will be
found skirting the Great Victoria and Gibson Deserts in Western Australia,- as
well as coastal localities in the North.
This species like many others follows closely the water-courses of the in-
terior, and its fruits form an important article of food for the few frugivorous
birds frequenting those parts.
Hosts Myrtaceae: Melaleuca leucadendron L., Callistemon viminalis Chieel,
Eucalyptus bicolor A. Cunn., E. microtheca F.v.M., EL. Normantonensis Maiden
and Cambage, H. populifolia Hook. Rubiaceae: Canthium vacciniifolium F.v.M.
Sect. NEOTREUBELLA Enel. (of Elytranthe).
Engler et Prantl, Pflzfam., Nachtr., 1897, 126; Treubella van Tiegh., Bull.
Soe. bot. France, xli., 1894, 265, non Pierre.
Inflorescence glabrous, racemose, racems secund, many flowered. Flowers
ternate, sessile on the apex of the very short secondary peduneles, each supported
by a small subcordate sessile bract. Buds cylindrical, acute or nearly so. Petals
_5 or 6, free or sometimes imperfectly united 1-2 mm. from the base. Filaments
sshghtly longer than the acute anthers. Style terete or angular; stigma small.
92 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
Fruit ovoid to urceolate, greenish, or more often guttate with pale streaks. Ovary
1-celled. Embryo subulate with a rather large disc. Embryonic cotyledons pro-
bably withdrawn from the endosperm when germination takes place. Pendulous-
and divaricate shrubs with smooth lenticulate whitish branches. Union fusiform
with adventitious roots. Leaves usually opposite to broad lanceolate or cordatey.
penninerved,
Engler (Nachtr. 126) transfers the species belonging to this section te
EKlytranthe Blume. Taking E. albidus Blume as Blume’s type of Elytranthe which
he figured (FI. Javae, iii., tab. xxii.) it appears to me to differ very materially
from the species belonging to the Section Neotreubella, and is readily separated
from them by the sheathing or tubular bract which embraces the gamopetalous
flowers, and also in the ovary being two or more eelled.
In L. Britteni and its allies, each flower is seated within a single subcordate
bract; the petals are also free or sometimes imperfectly united 1-2 mm. from the
base; while the ovary is one-celled.
It is obvious that the natural position of the species belonging to Section
Neotreubella, is under subgenus Euloranthus in proximity to Section Amyema,.
from which they differ in the inflorescence being racemose, instead of being simple
or cymose.
The disposition of the individual flowers is similar to those of L. Lucasi, L.
Betchei, L. conspicuus, and L. obliqua, i.e., in sessile triads, and each flower is
subtended by a small subcordate sessile bract.
All the other Australian species of the Euloranthus series, with the exception
of L. Nestor, have either terete, flat, triplinerved or quinquenerved leaves. While
all the species belonging to Section Neotreubella have penninerved leaves, some-
what similar to those of L. Nestor, a species which is rather anomalous in the
venation of its leaves, while all the other essential characters are obviously those
of Section Amyema.
28. LORANTHUS BRITTENI, n.sp. (Plate xxiv.)
Ill. Bot. Cook’s Voy., iii., 1905, p. 87, fig. 276, as L. pendulus Sieb. var.? Britt
Additional notes to the description.
Glabrous branches long and slender, smooth, and pale coloured. Leaves op-
posite, distantly alternate on some specimens, narrow lanceolate, or falcate
lanceolate, obtuse, or sometimes gradually tapering into a sharp point, and usual-
ly contracted at the base into a long curved petiole, 1-nerved with a few fine
lateral nerves, or, when thick, the median nerve prominent, 5-20 em. long, 5-10
mm. broad. Inflorescence racemose, the racems secund, and the flowers mostly
deflexed.
Bracts broadly cordate, the central one persistent on the pedicel. Calyx
cylindric, 3 mm. long, the rather prominent limb minutely denticulate. Buds.
slender cylindrical, acute, slightly inflated towards the base, the raised commen-
sural lines giving it an angular appearance, 20-25 mm. long. Petals 5-6, free,
or imperfectly connate at the base, dark reddish-brown in a dry state, the centre
thickened by the confluent adnate portion of the filament, which causes the in-
flation of the bud; free portion of the filament about the same length as the
anthers, which are linear lanceolate, acute, 23 mm. long. Fruits not seen in &
fully developed state.
Named in honour of James Britten, late Senior Assistant, Department of
Botany, British Museum. ;
BY W. F. BLAKELY. 93
Range.—North Queensland, N.E. coast (A. Cunningham and R. Brown, quoted
‘by Bentham, under L. signatus F.v.M.), Endeavour River (Banks and Solander.
The type, collected along with L. bifurcatus Bth., during Cook’s voyage in the
Endeavour along the N.K. coast in 1770), Gilbert River (Mueller, 1855).
The following specimens are identical with the preceding; Georgetown (on
Melaleuca leucadendron WL. var. saligna = M. saligna Schau., as L. longifolius
Hook. (?) vide Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix., 1915, 416), Stannary Hills.
Affinity.—This species bears a somewhat strong resemblance to L. biangulatus
W. V. Fitz., in the narrow leaves and secund racems, with its brilliant scarlet
flowers. The leaves, however, are narrower and longer than those of L. biangu-
Jatus, and also considerably longer and narrower than those of L. signatus.
Hosts——Myrtaceae: Melaleuca leucadendron L. var. saligna Bail.
29. LorantTuus signatus F.v.M. (Plate xxv.)
Rept. Burdk. Exped., 1860, p. 12, as L. insularum (non A. Gray); Benth.,
B.F1., ii., 1866, 392; Bail., Synop. Q’land. PI., 1883, p. 450; Bail., Q’land. F1., v.,
1902, 1379.—Treubella van Tiegh. (non Pierre), Bull. Soe. bot. France, xli., 1894,
265.—Elytranthe signata Engl., Nachtr., i., 126.
Mueller’s description includes L. insularum A. Gray and L. celastroides Sieb.
and Bentham’s description includes L. Britteni and L. amplexans, therefore I pro-
-ceed to describe its more fully :—
Mode of attachment and size of the plant unknown. From herbarium speci-
mens the branches appear to belong to erect divaricately branched shrubs; they
-are smooth and pale coloured, rather stout, angled or decurrent at the nodes, and
much enlarged or swollen, lenticels obscure. Leaves glaucous, opposite, from
ovate to oval-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, 2-4 in. long, thick,
penninerved, the midvein prominent. Inflorescence racemose, 2-8 em. long, the
rachis thick, the secondary peduncles 5-10 mm. long, curved, each bearing 3 close-
Jy sessile glabrous flowers, supported by three rather spreading, cordate, acute
bracts, with membranous margins, and keeled or thickened at the base, about half
the length of the calyx. Calyx cylindric, 3 mm. long, the limb membranous and
usually truncate. Buds slender, 24 cm. long, angular and inflated towards the
‘base, the tops slightly thickened and more terete, the apex acute. Petals usually
-6, lanceolate-acute, cleft to within 2 mm. of the base, and much broader in the
lower portion than at the point of attachment of the short filaments, opening
from the centre upwards. Anthers adnate, narrow linear, contorted when dry.
Style curved, angular and enlarged in the lower half. Stigma confluent, very
small. Fruit elliptical, 10 mm. long, faintly variegated with pale streaks, con-
tracted at the top, the membranous calyx limb forming a collar-like termination ;
-dise somewhat raised and thickened. Cotyledons acute, slightly eurved, probably
-articulate upon the hypocotyl. Primary leaves not seen.
Synonyms.—Loranthus insularum F.v.M. (non A. Gray); Trewbella signata
(F.v.M.) van Tiegh.; Elytranthe signata (F. Muell) Engler.
Range—The species is a tropical one, and is not recorded further south than
Kimberley district, Western Australia. The type came from the Gilbert River
(vide Mueller’s Report Burdekin Expedition, under ZL. insularum). One of
Mueller’s specimens in Melbourne Herb., agreeing with the type, is without
‘locality, but the date is September, 1855, which coincides with the date of Flood’s
specimen of Z. amplexans. The loealities recorded by Bentham (B.Fl.) are
Arnhem’s Bay, and Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. R. Brown; North Coast,
“Mueller. These specimens I have not seen, and as they are not commented upon
94 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
by Bentham, I assume that they belong to the typical form. It has since been
collected at Castlereagh Bay, Arnhem’s Land (B. Gulliver, 1.2.1867).
Affinities.—Its nearest affinity is with ZL. biangulatus W. V. Fitz. which it
very closely resembles in the colour and venation of the leaves, and to some ex-
tent in the secund inflorescence.
The characters which separate it from L. Britteni are its shorter and broader
leaves and paler flowers.
To L. vitellinus ¥.v.M. it is allied in the shape and venation of the leaves.
particularly the short broad lanceolate-leaved form so common in the Port Jack-
son district, and extending northwards along the coast.
Host.—Leguminosae: Bauhinia sp.
30. LORANTHUS AMPLEXANS (van Tiegh.). (Plate xxvi.)
Bull. Soe. bot. France, ,xli., 1894, 265.
I have not seen van Tieghem’s description. In fact I am doubtful whether
he described it, as I am informed that he did not describe his species, but used
the name only. He probably received the specimen from Mueller as L. stgnatus
F.v.M. var. amplexans.
Frutex ramis glabris robustis divaricatis; foliis glaucis, oppositis, latis ovato-
lanceolatis, basi cordatis vel amplexis, corsets, 5-15 em. longis, 3-5 em. latis;
inflorescentia racemosa, ramis secundis; floribus sessilibus ternatis; gemmis grac-
ilibus, 20-25 mm.; calyce cupulare, 3 mm. longa; bracteis paris, cordatis; petalis
5-6, liberis, nonnumquam basi conjunctis; antheris linearibus; fructu ovato, fuseo
viride lineis inaequalibus vittato.
Glabrous, branches stout, divaricate, swollen at the nodes and somewhat pro-
minently lenticulate with small orbicular lenticels. Leaves thin, rather large, op-
posite, sessile, with a cordate or amplexicaul base, broadly lanceolate and gradu-
ally tapering into the apex, but not acute, prominently, but distantly penninerved,
the midvein conspicuous on both surfaces and sometimes showing the confluent
secondary nerves, which, after following the midvein closely, diverge towards the
margin, 3-6 inches long, 13-23 in. broad.
Inflorescence racemose, the flowers ternately arranged on the apex of the
bracteate peduncles. Braects. cordate or orbicular, about 2 mm. long, the fused
or persistent bract more acute than the two deciduous ones, not, or searcely en-
larging under the fruit. Calyx cupular, 3 mm. long, dark brown streaked with
green stripes, the limb conspicuous, paler than the base of the calyx and usually
truneate. Buds slender, slightly clavate, striate, or somewhat angular, straight or
curved, reddish at the base, and shading into green towards the top, 24-27 mm.
long. Petals usually 6, free, or sometimes partly united at the base into a small
tube, 2-3 mm. long, narrow at the top, gradually broader towards the base. Fila-
ments shofter than the anthers, the adnate portion somewhat raised on the inner
surface of the petals, the very short free portion compressed, terminating a linear
lanceolate anther, 3 mm. long. Style slender, gradually thickening towards the
base and resting on a very small slightly raised dise. Fruit ovoid, dark green,
striped with a lighter green, crowned with the persistent calyx limb, 5-7 mm.
long, but not seen in a fully developed state. Embryo somewhat subulate, the
cotyledons apparently articulate on the hypocotyl and probably withdrawn from
the endosperm on germination. Suctoral dise broad.
Synonyms.—L. signatus F.v.M. var. amplexans (Herb.) Mueller—Treubella
amplexans van Tiegh., Bull. Soc. bot. France, xlii., 1895, 87.
BY W. F, BLAKELY. 95
Range.—The type is from Quail Island (Flood, 9.1855) quoted by Bentham.
There are specimens in Herb. Melb. labelled L. signatus F.v.M. var. amplexans
in Mueller’s handwriting, but it was never published by him. This is probably
the specimen referred to by Mueller in Hooker’s Journ. Bot., viii., 1855, p. 50
(“Among the plants obtained (Quail Island) was a beautiful broad leaved
Loranthus). There are two specimens from Quail Island; one with shorter leaves
led Mueller to think that it was L. insularum A. Gray, and he suppressed his own
species on that account. This, no doubt, is the L. imsularum A. Gray, referred
to in his Catalogue of the Plants of the Gulf of Carpentaria (“Appendix to
Landsborough’s Exploration of Australia, Carpentaria to Melbourne,” 116). A
specimen from near Darwin (Gilruth and Spencer, No. 655, July-August, 1911)
is identical with the large specimen from Quail Island, and I have used it in draw-
ing up this description. It is recorded as L. signatus F.v.M., by Ewart and
Davies (Flora Northern Territory, p. 88. Common about Darwin).
Alice River (K. Sv. Vet. Akad., Handl., 52, 1916, p. 15, as L. longifolius
var. amplexifolius).
Affimities—Differing from L. signatus mainly in the stouter branches, larger,
sessile or stem-clasping leaves, and in the longer raceme.
In the leaves it is allied to L. dictyophlebus, both in texture and shape, but
they are strictly stem-clasping, paler, and the veins less reticulate.
Hosts.—Not mentioned.
31. LORANTHUS BIANGULATUS W. V. Fitz. (Plate xxvii.)
Proe. Roy. Soc. W.A., 11., 1916-1917, 35. .
Pendulous, quite glabrous and somewhat glaucous, the internodes acutely two-
angled or narrowly winged, widened upwards. Leaves opposite or subopposite,
narrow to broad lanceolate, obtuse, tapering to the bases, mostly vertical, the
veins numerous, very oblique and reticulate between; inflorescence an axillary,
rarely terminal, distinctly pedunculate, raceme of usually five branches, each
branch with three terminal closely sessile flowers; buds slender; bract as large
as the adnate portion of the calyx; limb of calyx rather broad, membranous,
obseurely toothed, and half as long as the tubes; corolla segments usually six,
very narrow; anthers linear, adnate, much longer than the perianth segments;
style slender, the stigma not broad; fruit ovoid, brownish. Leaves 4 in. long or
less. Corolla segments ? in. long, pale yellow to red in the lower half, green in
the upper portion. Anthers green or greenish-yellow. Fruit about 4 lines long.
Type locality, base of Mount Broome. Parasitic on Tristania suaveolens, Hugenia
eucalyptoides, W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 816, 5, 1905. Other localities are Sprigg,
Isdell and Calder Rivers, W. V. Fitzgerald.
So far it is only recorded for Western Australia.
Affinities—Its nearest affinity is with L. Britteni, to which it bears a general
resemblance, both in the foliage and inflorescence, but the compressed winged
branches readily separate it from that species.
To L. vitellinus F.v.M. it bears some resemblance in the shape, colour, and
venation of the leaves. To LZ. acacioides A. Cunn. it is allied in foliage and
glaucousness; but in floral characters it is quite different from both, being in
another section.
The name was first published by Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald in the “Western
- Mail,” Perth (9th June, 1906) accompanied by a photographic sketch, with the
following note: “Is not uncommon from the eastern base of Mount Broome to the
North, it being parasitic on species of Tristania and Eugenia.”
Hosts.—Myrtaceae: Eugenia eucalyptoides F.v.M., Tristania suaveolens Sm.
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4. Anther, back view; 5. Style; 6. Calyx, after anthesis.
of segment showing the callosity;
THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, V.,
EXPLANATION OF PLATES XVI.-XXVII.
xvi.—Loranthus Nestor Moore.
xvii.—Loranthus Hilliana, n.sp.
xviii Loranthus Lucasi, n.sp.
xix.—1-9. Loranthus Quandang (Lindl. MSS.).
10. L. Quandang var. Bancrofti Bail.
xx.—Loranthus Bentham, n.sp.
xxi.— Loranthus Maideni, n.sp.
xxii— Loranthus Fitzgeraldi, n.sp.
xxili—Loranthus grandibracteus F.v.M.
xxiv.—Loranthus Britteni, n.sp.
xxv.—Loranthus signatus F.v.M.
xxvi.—Loranthus amplexans (van Tiegh.).
xxvii.—Loranthus biangulatus W. V. Fitz.
Plate xvi—l. A flowering branch, nat. size (Comet Vale, J. T. Jutson, No. .
247, 8/1917); 2. A bud; 3, 4. Bracts, front and back views; 5. A segment; 6.
Fruit, nat. size; 7. Embryo.
Plate xvii—tl. Portion of branch, nat. size; 2. Bud; 3. Anther, front view;
Plate xviii—l. Flowering branch, nat. size; 2. Bud; 3. Flower; 4. A ‘bracteate
peduncle with fruits in situ; 5. Fruit; 6. Seed, not. size; 7. Embryo.
Plate xix—l. Flowering branch, nat. size; 2. A marrow leaf; 3. Flower, en-
larged; 4. Vestiture of the flowers and young shoots; 5. Bud; 6. Lower portion
7. Fruit, enlarged; 8. Germinating seed; 9.
Embryo, enlarged; 10. Leaf of var. Bancrofti from Eidsvold.
Plate xx—Il. Base of a young plant, showing union, nat. size, A, host, B,
parasite; 2. Flowering branch, nat. size; 3. Portion iof flowering branch, nat. size,
Sunday Is.; 4. Flower, enlarged; 5. Fruit, nat. size; 6. Germinating seed, slightly
enlarged.
two
6. Upper portion of segment; 7. Types of anthers;
minating seed, nat. size; 10. Seed, with two radicles;
Plate xxi—l. Flowering branch, nat.
size; 2. Common peduncle showing the
persistent and two deciduous bracts; 3. A deciduous bract; 4. Bud; 5. Flower;
8. Fruit, nat. size; 9. A ger-
11. Embryo showing the
cotyledons; 12. Germinating seed, much enlarged; 18. Common peduncle with two
foliaceous bracts; 14. Leaf showing venation and vestiture.
tion
Plate xxii—l. Flowering branch, nat. size; 2. Bud;
3. Flower; 4. Upper por-
of segment; 5. Anthers; 6. Fruit, nat. size; 7. Cyme with spent flowers; 8.
Leaf showing the vestiture.
Plate xxiii—l. Flowering branch, nat. size; 2. Buds and basal bract; 3. Bracts;
4. Flower; 5. Fruit, nat. size; 6. One of the foliaceous bracts, with young fruit in
in situ; 7. Calyx and style.
Plate xxiv—1l. Flowering branch, nat. size; 2. Fruit, after Britten.
Plate xxv—1l. Flowering branch, nat. size; 2. The bracteate pedicel, enlarged;
3. Bud; 4. Flower; 5. Style; 6. Fruit, nat. size; 7. Embryo.
Plate xxvi—1l. Flowering branch, nat. size; 2. Anther; 3. Fruit.
Plate xxvii—1l. Flowering branch, nat. size; 2. Bud; 3. Flower; 4. Fruit, nat.
size; 5. The persistent bracteate pedicel; 6. A young plant showing the cotyledons,
nat. size; 7. A more advanced young plant, showing the ,attachment and the
adventitious roots.
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A CRITICAL REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND
SPECIES OF THE GENUS SECOTIUM.
By G. H. CUNNINGHAM, Government Mycologist, Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, N.Z.
(Communicated by Professor J. B. Cleland.)
(Plates xil.-xv.; and sixteen Text-figures. )
[Read 30th April, 1924.]
There are a greater number of known species of this genus in Australia
and New Zealand than anywhere else in the World, for of the 16 species dis-
cussed in this paper, 14 are confined to Australasia, and 2 occur also outside
Australasia.
The following table will show the distribution of these species :—
Table of distribution of the Australasian species of Secotium.
Species. Type locality. Distribution.
agaricoides Ukraine W. Aust., N.Z. (?); America, Europe, Asia
cartilagineus N.Z. N.Z.
coarctatum W. Aust. W. Aust., S. Aust.
erythrocephalum N.Z. Tas., N.Z.
Guinzit S. Africa Tas.; S. Africa
Gunnii N.Z. Tas., N.Z.
leucocephalum N.Z. S. Aust., N.Z.
melanosporum W. Aust. W. Aust., S. Aust., N.S.W.
novae-zelandiae N.Z. N.Z.
ochraceum Tas. Tas.
porphyreum N.Z. N.Z.
pirtforme N.S.W. N.S.W.
Rodwayt Tas. Tas.
scabrosum Vie. Vie.
superbum N.Z. N.Z.
virescens N.Z. N.Z.
All are saprophytes; for the most part they grow upon the ground, but
certain species (e.g., S. erythrocephalum and S. novae-zelandiae) occur upon de-
caying wood.
Considerable confusion exists in mycological literature as to the taxonomic
position of this genus; for example, De Toni (1888) placed it in the tribe
Podaxineae of the family lLycoperdaceae, a classification generally followed.
Fischer (1900) placed it in the Secotiaceae, a family he described to contain this
and three other genera—Cauloglossum, MacOwanites and Gyrophragmiwm—
although he himself has admitted it bears little resemblance to these genera, and
that they bear little or no resemblance to one another. He also included the
95 * AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
genus Polyplocitum, but this is a synonym of Gyrophragmium. Several claims
have been put forward as to the position it should occupy; for example, Berkeley
(1843) believed that Secotiwm and Polyplociwm should be considered as connect-
ing links between the Hymenomycetes and the Gasteromycetes; Fischer (1900)
considered that the genus may have been an ancestral form of the Phallales, and
would therefore consider it to have affinities with this family. Conard (1915),
as a result of the study of the development of S. agaricoides (Czern.) Hollos,
considered the genus to be related to Psalliota, as he believed it to be an arrested
or paedogenie form, and would consequently place it in either the Agaricaceae or
Marasmieae of Hennings (1897).
This genus must be retained in the Gasteromycetes for the following
Yeasons :—
1. he development of the gleba in its first stages (until the formation of
the first glebal cavity) agrees with that of Psalliota as deseribed by
Atkinson (1906, 1914, 1915), but later stages agree with the development
of certain genera of the Hymenogastraceae, as, for example, Hymeno-
gaster,
2. The hymenium is borne on the walls of tramal plates enclosing distinct
lacunae, and not on or in structures which are wholly or in part exposed
at maturity.
3. The hymenium, during the lifetime of the plant, is enclosed and the
spores are set free only with the decay of the plant. Dehiscence at the
base is given as one of the generic characters, but this must be interpreted
in a broad sense, for although the margin of the peridium does in cer-
tain specimens separate from the base of the stipe, the spores do not
become liberated, as the lacunae in this region are covered, even at
maturity, by remnants of the partial veil. This structure serves as an
effective cover over the exposed lacunae. Furthermore, only a minute
portion of the gleba becomes exposed when this separation occurs, for
the majority of the lacunae are remote from the stipe. The plants may
im reality be considered to be indehiscent.
4. A distinet columella is always present and is, in part, united to the
gleba during the lifetime of the plant, forming a definite and characteris-
tic part of its structure.
In fact, were these plants devoid of columella and stipe, they would without
hesitation be included in the Hymenogastraceae. On account of the nature of
the basidia and spores, the structure of the gleba, and the presence of a definite
stipe and columella, the genus forms a well defined group. The presence of the
stipe and columella, together with the similarity of the early developmental
stages, link it with the Agaricales, whereas the nature of the gleba and peridium
link it with the Hymenogastraceae. It would, therefore, appear to oceupy an
intermediate position, and as no known genera connect it closely with either
family, it should be placed in a distinct family. The family Secotiaceae of
Fischer (1900a) would suffice, if emended to include those genera possessing a
stipe, columella, persistent cellular gleba, tetrasporous sterigmate basidia, and to
exclude any genera possessing a capillitium.
Structure of the mature plant.
S. erythrocephalum vepresents the genus as now defined fairly well; it is
probably the most abundant species known, and has been well described and
figured by the brothers Tulasne.
A mature plant consist of (a) peridium, (b) gleba, (c) stipe.
BY G. H. CUNNINGELAML. 99
(a) Peridium (PI. xiv., fig. 1, p) may be depressed-globose or ovate, and at-
tain a diameter of 5 em. In structure it is thick, coriaceous and in this species
coloured bright scarlet. Externally it is covered with a gelatinous layer, formed of
hyphae which have become gelatinised. The first few external layers of the peridium
contain the colouring matter. This is in the form of fine granules, embedded in
the protoplasm lining the hyphal walls. At the apex the peridium is about 3 mm.
thick; it tapers to the base, where the margin is usually incurved and closely
pressed to the stipe, being held in position in adult plants by the few remaining
hyphae of the partial veil. Frequently the margin is lacerate, and sometimes it
may be decurrent.
(b) Gleba (Pl. xiv., fig. 1, gl)—This constitutes the body of the peridium.
It consists of very numerous tramal plates, which ramify through the interior,
anastomosine at frequent intervals to enclose irregular lacunae. The walls en-
closing the lacunae are lined with the hymenium, which consists of basidia closely
compacted together in the form of a palisade layer. The tramal plate is com-
posed of three classes of tissue: (1) an inner layer of parallel hyphae, the trama
(Text-fig. 1, tr.), (2) a layer on either side of this composed of small irregularly
polygonal cells, comprising the sttb-hymenium (Text-fig. 1, sub.), and (3) the
palisade layer of basidia (Text-fig. 1, hym.). When mature, each basidium bears
on its distal end four slender sterigmata, to the apices of which the spores are
attached. The spores are smooth, coloured and continuous. The structure of the
eleba varies with the species; for example, in the species under discussion it 1s
cellular, but in others it may be lamellar (S. agaricoides), or labyrinthiform (S.
por phyreum).
(c) Stipe (PI. xiv., fig. 1, st)—The stipe is well developed in most species,
is central, and extends from the substratum to the apex of the plant, where it
merges with the peridium. The portion which passes through the gleba is termed
the columella (Pl. xiv., fig. 1, col.), the anterior half of which, during the lite-
time of the plant, is united with the gleba, and is not separable from it. The
lower portion of the columella is surrounded by a conieal cavity which extends
from the base of the peridium to about half-way into the gleba. The portion of
the columella which merges with the gleba is solid, but the portion below this,
together with the stipe, is in this species always hollow. In two species the
stipe is solid throughout, whilst in others the cavity may be filled with loosely
woven hyphae. Frequently the apex of the columella is thickened somewhat,
especially in those species which are umbilicate. The stipe is attached to .the
substratum by coarse, coloured or white rhizoids; in certain species, as the one
under discussion, these may extend for several centimetres from the point of at-
tachment, and it is from these rhizoids that the various developmental stages may
be obtained.
Dehiscence is supposed to be effected by the separation of the base of the
peridium from the stipe. Although this separation often occurs, it does not re-
sult in the liberation of the spores, since most are enclosed within cavities re-
mote from the base of the peridium and those cavities adjacent to or adjoining
the base of the peridium are not always exposed, being commonly eovered by the
remains of the partial veil (PI. xv., fig. 2). Therefore, as the plants are de-
pendent on decay for the release of the spores, they are in reality indehiscent.
Decay of the plants, in New Zealand at any rate, is readily and rapidly
effected by the larvae of an insect which, in the course of a few days, convert
the whole of the gleba into a viscid mass. In fact, so rapid is the destruction
wrought by these larvae, that they will completely destroy a collection within 48
100 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
hours. It is probable that they serve in some measure to disseminate the spores.
Slugs, too, probably are instrumental in the dissemination of the spores, for
many plants, especially of S. novae-zelandiae, are frequently found to be much
damaged by these animals.
Development and Cytology.
The writer has recently carried out an investigation into the development of
S. erythrocephalum and S. novae-zelandiae, the detailed results of which will be
published elsewhere. An abbreviated description of the developmental stages of
the latter species will be given here since it embraces a more complete series and
since the development of the two species differs only in minor details.
Numerous specimens in all stages of development were obtained from rhizoids
springing from mature plants. These were fixed in picro-formol, sectioned, and
stained in iron-alum haematoxylin, followed by 1% iodine green in clove oil.
g Young plants are first noticeable as small white swellings on the rhizoids.
Sections show these swellings to consists of intricately woven, undifferentiated
hyphae. They continue to grow slowly until they ‘are about 2 x 1 mm., when
sections show that differentiation has commenced. The stipe is the first to be-
come differentiated, and is at this stage recognisable on account of the parallel
arrangement of its component hyphae. In the undifferentiated apical region
(the primordium of the peridium and gleba) appears a small compact area of
deeply staining hyphae. In this area a small radial cavity appears (Pl. xi,
fig. 1), followed by differentiation of the lower portion of the columella. In the
glebal cavity a palisade of closely compacted hyphae appears, and simultaneously,
extending downwards from the floor of the cavity to the upper and outer margin
of the stipe, appears a wedge-shaped radial area (PI. xi1., fig. 2), noticeable on
account of the hyphae of which it is composed being less closely compacted. This
is the partial veil. No further growth occurs in this region, so that as the stipe
and columella increase in size, the hyphae composing the partial veil become more
and more drawn apart, until at maturity a few only persist, holding the base
of the peridium in contact with the stipe. Fragments of the veil persist on the
periphery of the stipe, giving to it a somewhat fibrillose appearance.
Following the appearance of the first glebal cavity, the stipe makes little
growth until the plant is about one-quarter the normal size. Then it commences
to thicken, and after a time to elongate. The cavity of the stipe appears shortly
after the first glebal cavity (Pl. xu., fig. 3). The columella gradually grows,
becoming slowly differentiated from the primordial tissues of the gleba until the
plant is about one-quarter grown, when it merges with the peridium, which is
not differentiated until about this time.
The palisade layer of the glebal cavity extends around the walls of the
cavity until it almost surrounds it; then outgrowths grow downward from the
roof and merge with the side walls, dividing the original cavity into several
smaller ones (PI. xii, figs. 3-4). At the same time small lacunae begin to ap-
pear in the undifferentiated portion of the gleba above the original cavity (PI.
xil., fig. 4). These become lined with the hymenium and spores begin to appear
on the first formed palisade (Pl. xi, fig. 2). Further differentiation of the
gleba consists in the continuous appearance of these lacunae (PI. xi, fig. 5; Pl.
xil., fig. 1), until the whole of the area enclosed within the peridium is per-
forated with them. These lacunae also appear in the tramal plates, which be-
come thinner in consequence. Colour now appears in the exterior cells of the
peridium, it enlarges rapidly, and at the same time is carried upwards by the
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. 101
CHL. an 2
Text-fig. 1. Section through the tramal plate of S. erythrocephalum Tul.
hym., hymenium; sub., subhymenium; fr., trama. (x 1000).
Text-fig. 2. Basidia of S. novae-zelandiae G. H. Cunn. (x 1500).
Text-fig. 3. Clamp connections from partial veil of S. novae-zelandiae G.
H. Cunn. (x 1000).
Text-fig. 4. Nuclear phenomena of S. erythrocephalum Tul. (x 1000). a.
Nucleus of basidium before (left) and after division (right) preceding nuclear
fusion; b. fusion nucleus; c. 4 nuclei in distal end of basidium prior to migration
into spores; d. 2-spored basidium from which 2 nuclei have migrated; they are
shown in the spores, in mitosis; e. nearly mature spores showing binucleate con-
dition.
Text-fig. 5. Two binucleate spores of S. erythrocephalum Tul. (x 1000).
102 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
rapid elongation of the stipe. So that at maturity, the plant stands well above
the substratum, and the gleba consists of plates surrounding very minute lacunae.
It is thus seen that the early stages, until the appearance of the first glebal
cavity, resemble the development of Psalliota (= Agaricus), but from this stage
onwards further differentiation of the gleba is similar to that of certain genera
of the Hymenogastraceae, notably Hymenogaster.
Cytology (Text-figs. 2-5).
The hyphae of the columella, stipe and peridium are invariably bi-nucleate.
The basidia at first are binucleate, these nuclei fuse, and a slightly larger fusion-
nucleus is formed. This takes up a position in the distal end of the basidium;
there it divides twice. The first division precedes the formation of the sterig-
mata, the second succeeds their appearance. When the sterigmata are about’ half
their normal length, spores begin to appear on them, and when they are full
length, the spores are about half size. When the spores are about one-quarter
their normal size, a nucleus migrates into each, divides mitotically, and the spore
becomes binucleate, a character constant in each of the numerous species examined.
The spore attains its full size before it changes colour; at maturity the epispore
becomes coloured some shade of brown, the depth of colour depending on the
species.
Clamp connections are abundant in the tissues of the stipe and partial veil
(Text-fig. 3).
On germination a germ tube protrudes, usually from the end of the spore
opposite to that by which it was attached to the sterigma; this branches repeated-
ly to form a mycelium, the cells of which are septate and binucleate.
Determination of Species.
Species of this genus have proved most difficult to determine since the
earlier writers, who based species on the external characters of the peridium and
stipe alone, confined their descriptions to the shape, size and colour of the peri-
dium, and the length and colour of the stipe. This was sufficient when but two
or three were known, but, as the number of species increased, it became obvious
that these characters were often of insufficient value in themselves, since they are
decidedly variable, even in the same collection. Certain later workers have gone
to the other extreme, and based species on spore characters alone, other characters
being presumably considered of minor importance. This again makes determina-
tion difficult as several species, widely different in macroscopic, agree very closely
or are identical in microscopic characters. For the determination of species in
the field, a knowledge of macroscopic characters is essential; on the other hand,
the shape, size and colour of the peridium and stipe are of little value to anyone
working with herbarium material, for these characters may become wholly altered
in drying. Therefore, with herbarium material, a knowledge of those characters
which are not changed during drying is essential; and, as the spores and gleba
undergo little alteration, their structure, colour, and other characters are invalu-
able aids to the systematist. Unfortunately the artificial keys in taxonomic
papers are generally based on a combination of macroscopic and microscopic
characters and consequently are valuéless for use either in the field or in the
herbarium. The difficulty of preparing an artificial key becomes apparent when
the factors upon which species are based are considered, for rarely is a species
deseribed on any one character alone, but usually on the sum of two or three
minor characters.
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. 103
Tt is not claimed that the following key will enable anyone to determine 4
species with certitude; but it is used in this paper mamly for the purpose of
dividing the genus into groups, for in a key of this nature all closely related
species are brought together, when their characteristics become more apparent.
Acknowledgments.
The writer wishes to thank the following:—Professor J. B. Cleland, Ade-
laide, Mr. L. Rodway, Government Botanist, Hobart, and Mr. E. Cheel, Botanic
Gardens, Sydney, for the loan of specimens in their possession; Professor Cleland,
Mr. Rodway, Dr. J. R. Weir, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, and
Messrs. J. C. Neill, E. H. Atkinson, J. G. Myers, for donations of specimens;
and especially Mr. Neill for the preparation of all microscopic material used in
this work.
All the descriptions given below are original, unless otherwise stated, and
have been drawn up from material examined by.the writer. It is believed that
all species of this genus known to occur in Australasia have been examined.
Secotium Kunze.
Flora, xxiu., 1840, p. 321.—Hndoptychum Czern., Bull. Soe. Imp. Nat.
Moseou, xvui., 1845, p. 146.
Peridium stipitate, variously shaped, consisting of a single thick layer often
externally brightly coloured; margin at first entire, appressed to the stipe, be-
coming somewhat lacerate, and in some species separate from the stipe.
Stipe central, long or almost obsolete, inserted in a depression in the base
of the peridium, hollow, stuffed or solid; continuing as a columella to the apex
of the peridium. ?
Gleba cellular, labyrinthiform or lamellar, permanent, indehiscent, consisting
of numerous anastomosing plates enclosing irregular lacunae; hymenium lining
free surfaces of plates; eystidia or other aberrant cells absent. Basidia common-
ly tetrasporous, spores borne on slender sterigmata, variously shaped, continuous,
hyaline or coloured, rough or smooth, binucleate.
Habitat.—Saprophytie upon decaying humus in the ground, or upon rotting
wood buried in the substratum; commonly in shady and damp places.
Distribution—North and South America, Africa, Europe (excluding Britain),
Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
About 22 species have been recorded, 11 of which have been collected in
Australia and New Zealand. Sixteen species (including 5 described as new) are
discussed in this paper, all but 2 of them being confined to Australasia.
Species of the genus are characterised by the structure and permanent nature
of the peridium, and the presence of a definite stipe and columella. The peridium
consists of a single coriaceous cortex. The gleba is cellular, and consists of
tramal plates anastomosing at various points, enclosing irregular cavities or
lacunae, the inner walls of which are lined with the hymenium. The stipe is
usually well defined and traverses the gleba as a columella. Plants are commonly
epigean, but one or two species are known which are at first subterranean, and
approach the surface only when they near maturity; a New Zealand example is
S. porphyreum. One Tasmanian species, S. Rodwayi, is said to be truly hypo-
geal and is exposed only (?) by burrowing marsupials. Another peculiarity
worthy of note is that whereas most of the New Zealand species are brightly
coloured, the Australian species, with the exception of S. piriforme, are some
shade of grey or brown. ;
104 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
Fischer (1900) has ineluded the genus EHlasmomyces Cay. as a synonym of
Secotium, but the presence of cystidia in the hymenium would serve as a character
sufficiently important to warrant its separation, for of the 15 Australasian species
examined by the writer, not one possesses cystidia.
Artificial Key to the Species.
Spores smooth.
Peridium smooth, usually viscid.
Gleba ochraceous or ferruginous.
Peridium some shade of blue or green.
Stipe long, 8 cm. or more 1. S. superbum.
Stipe short, 2 cm. or less .. 2. SS. virescens.
Rerigiumscarletha seme 3. WS. erythrocephalum.
Gleba chocolate or sepia- “alowed. . aie 4. §. novae-zelandiae.
Peridium rough; scabrid, hispid or OTe SAFOS.
Gleba tan, ochraceous or ferruginous.
Spores) over 10yn a ieee 5. S. ochraceum.
Spores under 10, . 6. S. coarctatum.
Gleba bronze or almost black.
Stipe long, 3 cm. or more . 7. S. melanosporum.
Stipe short, 2 cm. or less 8. S. agaricoides.
Spores rough.
Peridium smooth, usually viscid.
Stipe solid.
Stipe long, 3 cm. or more .. .. .. .. 9. §. leucocephalum.
Stipe short, 2cmjor less)... Wud Os ua San GaLaiuit:
Stipe hollow.
Stipe long, 3 cm. or more.
Spores) over 10) asewa- i) eee oll Onan Oonpieymeune
Spores) under 10; sea) oo eee enn SenGurinzer
Stipe short, 2 cm: or less .. 2.) . -- eld. S. piriforme.
Peridium rough; scabrid, hispid or tomentoce:
Gleba cellular.
Spores over Oyen. uo Sy cantibaguneus.
Spores under ne SGiromi a biog) 60 (on jooldlby VSG Vaxaeonnnns
(Ghrslozy ikvontallbie 555065 Go dodo 6a de od oa oo IR, Gh) Sadooguip.
All drawings and Serra are oni the drawings of spores have been
made with the aid of a camera lucida, and are all x 1,000 diameters. I have not
presented photographs of dried plants, as they are worthless for illustrative
purposes.
1. SECOTIUM SUPERBUM, n.sp. (PI. xiv., fig. 2; Text-fig. 6a.)
Peridio caeruleo, griseo-viride vel viride, conico, apice acuto, ad 8 em. alto,
4 em. lato, primum pruinoso demum gilabro, leve. Stipite aurantio, ad 5 cm.
longo, 12 mm. erasso, leve, glabro, excavato. Gleba brunnea, cellulosa. Sporis
levibus, pallido-brunneis, ovatis vel ellipticis, 14-18 x 6-8 p.
Hab.: Solitarii ad terram in locis gramineis.
Otaki Forks, Upper Otaki River, Wellington, N.Z. 300 m. J. G. Myers,
K. H. Atkinson.
Peridium azure, sage-green or sea-green, sometimes mottled with pallid spots,
conical, apex sharply acuminate, base strongly excavated, truncate, or more fre-
quently margin decurrent, up to 8 em. high, and 4 em. wide, at first pruinose, be-
coming glabrous, polished and slightly viscid; drying dull green or olivaceous.
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. 105
Stipe bright yellow, stout, up to 5 em. long, and 12 mm. wide, tapering from
base to apex, smooth, shining, hollow; columella slightly thickened at the apex.
Gleba ferruginous, cellular, cells 2-4 mm. long, laterally compressed, dissepi
ments thin.
Spores smooth, pallid ferruginous, ovate or elliptical, one end rounded, the
other pointed, frequently shortly pedicellate, 14-18 x 6-8 yw, epispore thin.
Habitat——Solitary on the ground in grassy places in the forest.
Distribution.—Otaki Forks, Upper Otaki River, Wellington, N.Z. (300 m.,
J. G. Myers, K. H. Atkinson, 8/7/22. Type), Forest-Reserve, Whakatikei, Packa-
kaviki, Wellington, N.Z. (45 m., J. G. Myers, J. C. Neill, 16/6/23). Collections
in the herbarium of the writer, Nos. 922, 1094.
Text-fig. 6. a. Spores of S. superbum. (x 1000). b. Spores of S. erythro-
cephalum Tul. (x 1000).
Text-fig. 7. iS. virescens Mass. Plant (nat. size); spores (x 1000).
The large conical peridium, stout yellow stipe and large smooth spores
characterise this species. It closely resembles the following species, but is
separated on account of the shape and large size of the peridium. It is a
magnificent species, the azure peridium and yellow stipe being very conspicuous.
The base of the peridium does not as a rule separate from the stipe, but remains
106 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM
3,
closely pressed to it. This is one of the largest species known, and should be
readily determined on this account.
2. SECOTIUM VIRESCENS Massee. (Text-fig. 7.)
Mass., Grevillea, xix., 1890, p. 47; Sace., Syll. Fung., 1x., 1891, p. 266.
Peridium pallid sage-green, ovate or broadly conical, apex obtusely acuminate,
base abruptly rounded, slightly or not excavated, 2-3 em. high, 2-2.5 em. broad,
coriaceous, glabrous, shining, with occasional longitudinal furrows, margin lacerate,
somewhat decurrent; drying dull green.
Stipe greyish-white, short (almost obsolete in the specimen examined), about
5 mm. long, hollow, smooth, glabrous, tapering from base to apex; columella
-shehtly expanded at the apex.
Gleba ferruginous, cellular, cells regular, laterally compressed, 2-3 mm. long,
dissepiments thin, enclosed within a dense purplish-brown layer within the wall
of the peridium.
Spores smooth, pallid ferruginous, elliptical, ends bluntly pointed, 15-18 x
7-8 » (Massee 18-20 x 7-8»; Cleland 14.5-16 x 8), epispore thin.
Habitat—Solitary on the ground in rain forest.
Distribution.—Dannevirke, N.Z. (W. Colenso. Type, in Herb. Kew).
Locality unknown (T. Kirk. Specimen in Herb. Kew), Bluff, Southland, N.Z.
(J. B. Cleland, 10/6/22. Specimen in Herb. Cleland).
This species is characterised by the colour of the peridium and gleba, short;
almost obsolete stipe and the large size of the spores. The plant somewhat re-
sembles the preceding.
I am indebted to Dr. Cleland for the loan of the specimen from which the
above deseription has been drawn up. In a note accompanying the specimen he
has given details as to the colour, shape and size of the peridium when collected,
and these have been incorporated in the above deseription.
This species was originally described from material forwarded to Kew by
Colenso. It is apparently rare, for, with the exception of one collection made
by the late Mr. T. Kirk, Dr. Cleland’s plant is the only collection made since the
species was described.
3. SECOTIUM ERYTHROCEPHALUM Tulasne. (PI. xiui., fig. 2; Text-fic. 6b.)
Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 1, vol. 3, 1844, p. 115.—Sace., Syll. Fung., vi., 1888, p.
54; x1., 1895, 158; Mass., Grev., xix., 1890, p. 96; Cke., Hdbk. Aus. Fung., 1892,
p22) Mod, liye: Ams. 905, 9.16, iacxivaeyene mle G:
Peridium scarlet, globose, depressed-globose or ovate, apex obtuse or rounded,
base excavated, truncate or decurrent, 2-4 em. high, up to 6 em. wide, smooth,
frequently somewhat lobed, glabrous, shining, often slightly viscid; retaining its
colour when dried.
Stipe bright yellow, slender, up to 10 em. long, 3-10 mm. thick, equal,
smooth or fibrillose, often polished, hollow; columella slightly expanded at the
apex.
Gleba ferruginous, cellular, cells polygonal or slightly elongate, up to 3 mm. °
long, numerous, dissepiments thin.
Spores smooth, pallid ferruginous, elliptical or elliptic-ovate, bluntly pointed
at one or both ends, 12-25 x 7-11 p, (Tulasne, 12 x 5y; Massee 10-11 x 5y;
Lloyd, about 12 x 6,).
Habitat—Gregarious or solitary on decaying wood on the forest floor.
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. 107
Distribution—Tasmania; N.Z. (Herb. Nos. 120, 610, 938, 1097). Common
throughout the lowland forests of New Zealand.
J have collected this species at Auckland, Hamilton, Cambridge, Rotorua, Te
Ayoha (Auckland Province); Weraroa, Mt. Waiopehu, York Bay and Botanical
Gardens (Wellington Province); and have received collections from Peel Forest
(from Dr. H. H. Allan), and Governors Bay (from Mr. J. F. Tapley), Canter-
bury Province; and Dun Mt., Nelson Provinee (from Mr. J. C. Neill). It is
not confined to the forest, for several collections have been obtained from flower
gardens, especially where these have been at one time in forest. It is commonly
stated that this species grows on the ground; but although I have collected
hundreds of these plants, | have always found them to be attached to decaying
wood.
The scarlet colour of the peridium separates this from any other species,
but in glebal and spore characters it is closely allied to S. virescens and S.
superbum.
The spore measurements I have given are much greater than those given by
other writers. But with certain large forms found here, spores of a length of
25 » are not uncommon. I believe that it would be inadvisable to separate these
forms, for they are identical in all other respects. Furthermore, intermediate
stages, in which the spores vary in size between the large and small spore forms,
are not uncommon.
This species was named by Tulasne from material collected at Akaroa, Banks
Peninsula, Canterbury, by Raoul, now preserved in the museum herbarium at
Paris.
4. SECOTIUM NOVAE-ZELANDIA‘E, n.sp. (PI. xii., fig. 3; Text-fig. 8a.)
Peridio pallido-griseo vel pallido-viride, ovato vel elliptico-oblongo, apice
acuto vel obtuso, 3-5 em. alto, 1.5-3 em. lato, primum fibrilloso demum leve,
glabro. Stipite pallido-griseo vel pallido-viride, 4 em. longo, 6 mm. erasso,
xlabro, excavato. Gleba brunneo-nigra, cellulosa vel lamelliforma. Sporis
brunneo-nigris, elliptico-ovatis, vel ellipticis, levibus, 11-15 x 5-8 yu.
Hab.: Solitari vel gregarii ad_lignis im silvis. ’
Weraroa, Wellington, N.Z. 100 m. G.H.C.
Peridium commonly french-grey, changing in old specimens to pallid-green,
ovate or elliptic-oblong, apex bluntly acuminate or obtuse, base bluntly rounded,
or deeurrent, 3-5 em. high, 1.5-3 em. wide, at first finely fibrillose, fibrils longi-
tudinally arranged, so that the surface appears striate, becoming smooth, glabrous,
polished and slightly viscid, coriaceous; margin folded and frequently lacerate,
drying dingy brown.
Stipe pallid french-grey or tinted bluish-green, yellowish at the base, slender,
up to 4 em. long, and 6 mm. thick, equal, at first fibrillose, becoming glabrous
and polished, save at the base, hollow; columella thickened at the apex.
Gleba chocolate- or sepia-brown, coarsely cellular, sometimes lamellar, cells
elongated, up to 10 mm., sparse, laterally compressed, dissepiments thin.
Spores smooth, sepia-coloured, elliptic-ovate or elliptical, rounded at one
end, 11-15 x 5-8, epispore thin.
Habitat—Solitary or crowded on decaying wood buried in the substratum.
Yn Jowland rain forest.
Distribution—Weraroa, Wellington, N.Z. (100 m., G.H.C. 1/8/19. Type),
Weraroa (HE. H. Atkinson, 20/8/19; J. C. Neill, G.H.C., 2/5/23), Forest, Bo-
108 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
tanical Gardens, Wellington (80 m., G.H.C., May, Aug., 1922). Specimens in
the herbarium of the writer, Nos. 872, 874, 1098.
The sepia colour of the gleba serves to separate this from any other species
in this section. It is fairly abundant in the early winter and spring months in
lowland mixed rain-forest near Wellington. It occurs only on decaying wood,
principally on rotting branches of Melicytus ramiflorus Forst. I have recently
obtained a very complete suite of developmental stages, from which the ab-
breviated account of its development has been drawn up. The plant is usually
covered with dried leaves, and so difficult to find unless these be first removed.
It is readily eaten by slugs, and it is in consequence often difficult to find mature
specimens that have not been injured by these animals.
The shape of the peridium varies considerably in different specimens, for
one may obtain ovate, elliptical or even depressed-globose plants. When the plant
is ovate, the columella is usually considerably thickened at the apex. Another
variable feature is the gleba, which may in certain specimens be cellular, whilst
in others it may be lamellar, approaching in extreme cases the gleba of S. agari-
coides. As all intermediate stages may be collected it is impossible to segregate
these forms, save at the extremes.
5. SECOTIUM OCHRACEUM Rodway. (Text-fig. 8b.)
Proc. Roy. Soe. Tas., 1919 (1920), p. 112.
Peridium pale ochre-brown, subglobose, base slightly excavated, 1-2 em. diam.,
tomentose, very thin, hardly apparent; drying dingy brown, becoming rugulose.
Stipe short, 3-5 mm. long, 2 mm. thick, pallid brown, equal, tomentose, hol-
low; columella not expanded at the apex.
Gleba ochraceous, labyrinthiform, cells minute, 1-2 mm. long, dissepiments
thick.
Spores smooth, pallid ferruginous, elliptical, bluntly pointed at both ends,
12-17 x 6-9» (Rodway 16 x 8p).
Habitat.—Subterranean, solitary.
Distribution.—Caseades, Hobart (L. Rodway. Type). Specimens in Herb.
Rodway, No. 933.
The ochraceous gleba with its labyrinthiform lacunae, and the large elliptical
spores, characterise the species. The subterranean habit is a character worthy
of note.
I am indebted to Mr. Rodway for the loan of his type specimens from.
which the above description has been drawn up.
6. Srcotium coarctatum Berkeley. (Text-fig. 9.)
Berk., Hook. Jour. Bot., iv., 1845, p. 63, t.i., £. 3—Cda., Icon. Fung., vol.
6, 1854, t. vi. f. 25-30; Sace., Syll. Fung., vii., 1888, p. 150; Cke., Hdbk. Aust.
Fung., 1892, p. 220; Lloyd, Lye. Aus., 1905, p. 7; Cleland, Trs. Roy. Soe. 8.
Aust., xlvii., 1923, p. 74.
Peridium pallid greyish-brown, obovate or depressed-globose, umbilicate, base
strongly excavated and truncate, up to 12 mm. high, 12-20 mm. wide, rugulose,
minutely and densely tomentose, coriaceous, thick; pallid brown and rugulose
when dried.
Stipe greyish, up to 2 em. high, usually shorter, 2-3 mm. thick, glabrous or
tomentose, tapering from base to apex, hollow or stuffed; columella thickened at
the apex.
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. 109
Gleba pallid grey or tinted tan colour, labyrinthiform, cells very minute, up
to 0.5 mm. long, very numerous, dissepiments very thin, whole gleba crumbling
readily when cut.
Spores smooth, tinted yellow, almost hyaline, subglobose to ovate, shortly
pedicellate, 5-8 » diam. (Berkeley, 5-7»; Cleland, 5-7»; Lloyd, 6 x 5,4), epi-
spore thick.
Habitat——Solitary on the ground.
Distribution—Swan River, W. Aust. (Drummond. Type, in Kew Herb.),
Narrabri, N.S.W. (J. B. Cleland, 2/6/19), Adelaide, S. Aust. (Miss Joan Cle-
land, 20/5/23). Material in Herb. Cleland.
4 ee,
Text-fig. 8. a. Spores of S. novae-zelandiae. (x 1000); b. Spores of S.
ochraceum Rodw. (x 1000).
Text-fig. 9. S. coarctatum Berk. Plant (nat. size); spores (x 1000).
Characterised by the pallid colour and minute cells of the gleba, pallid colour
and tomentose surface of the peridium, and small, smooth, subhyaline spores.
I am indebted to Dr. Cleland for the loan of the material from which the
above description has been drawn up. In a note accompanying the specimens
he stated that the plant possesses a strong and pleasant odour, especially notice-
able when freshly collected. This odour apparently disappears from old material,
however, for I have been unable to detect it in the material at hand.
The peculiar nature of the gleba is worthy of note, for this structure is
present in no other species. Apart from its light colour and minute cells, it is
110 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
extremely friable, crumbling so readily before the razor as to make it a difficult
matter to obtain a section.
Lloyd (1905) believes S. Gunnii to be a synonym, but this is not the case,
for the glebal characters are quite different; the rough spores of S. Gunnii alone
are sufficient to separate it.
7. SECOTIUM MELANOSPORUM Berkeley. (Pl. xv., fig. 1; Text-fig. 14a.)
Berk., Hook. Jour. Bot., iv., 1845, p. 62, t.1., £. 2—Cda., Icon. Fung., vol.
6, 1854, t. vi., f. 19-24; Sace., Syll. Fung., vu., 1888, p. 54; Cke., Hdbk. Aust.
Fung., 1892, p. 220; Lloyd, Lye. Aust., 1905, p. 7, t. xxvi., f. 9-12; Mye. Notes,
1922) p. 1116,/f. 2111; Cleland; Irs. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., xlvi., 1923) p. 73:
Peridium dingy-grey, darker above, strongly depressed-globose, deeply um-
bilicate, base deeply excavated, truncate, 3-4 cm. high, up to 3 em. wide, finely
seabrid and longitudinally striate; dingy-grey and minutely rugulose when dried.
Stipe dingy-grey, up to 4 em. long, 8-12 mm. thick, stout, woody, equal,
seabrid, central portion coarsely cellular; columella strongly thickened at the
apex.
Gleba dark sepia-brown, almost black, cellular, cells minute, up to 0.5 mm.
long, laterally compressed, dissepiments thin, whole context tough and resistant.
Spores smooth, sepia-coloured, ovate or less commonly elliptical, bluntly .
pointed at one end, rounded at the other, variable in size, 5-11 x 4-6, (Berkeley,
6-10 x 4-7 1; Cleland, 8-9.5 x 6.5-7.5 w), epispore thin.
Habitat.—Solitary on the ground.
Distribution—Swan River, W. Aust. (Drummond. Type, in Herb. Kew),
Monarto South, S.A. (J. B. Cleland, 27/5/21. Specimen in Herb. Cleland),
Broken Hill, N.S.W. (A. Morris, Herb. Botanic Gardens, Sydney).
Characterised by the dark coloured spores, firm nature, almost black colour
and very minute cells of the gleba. The peculiar woody stipe is also worthy of
note. In the description given by Berkeley it is stated to be solid, but in the
specimens I have examined there is a distinct central portion, extending from the
base of the peridium to the base of the stipe, which is coarsely cellular. The
cells of the gleba are extremely small and closely compacted together, and in
certain parts numerous hyaline hyphae traverse them, giving the gleba a peculiar
appearance under the low power.
The plant was first found by Drummond in 1844 in Western Australia on
the bank of the Swan River. Until Dr. Cleland’s specimens were obtained in
1921 no other collection had been made. J am indebted to Dr. Cleland for the
loan of his speeimens and for his donation of a specimen which is now in my
herbarium, No. 1202. Also to Mr. Edwin Cheel for the loan of the specimen in
his possession.
8. SEcotruM aGARIcoIpEs (Czernajen) Hollos. .(Text-fig. 10.)
Hollos, Gasteromycetes Hungariae, 1903.—Endoptychum agaricoides
Czern., Bull. Soe. Imp. Nat. Moseou, xvi., 1845, p. 146, t. ii.-iv.—Secotium
acuminatum Mont., Fl. Alg., vol. 1, 1845, p. 371, t. xxii. bis, f. 4.—S. Thun
Sehulz, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol., 15, 1865, p. 792.—S. Szabolcsense Haz-
linsky, Mathem. et termes Zettudom Koslemenyek, vol. 13, 1875, p. 11.—S.
Warnei Peck, Bull. Torr. Club, vol. 9, 1882, p. 2.—S. pedunculatum Lloyd, Mye-
Notes, 1918, p. 788, f. 1183.
Sace., Syll. Fung., vol. 7, 1888, p. 53; Cke, Hdbk. Aus. Fune., 1892, p.
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. istal
220; Lloyd, Myce. Notes, 1903, p. 138, t. xui., f. 1-11; 1916, f. 874; Conard,
Mycologia, vol. 7, 1915, p. 104, t. clvu., f. 1-6.
Peridium dingy-grey, ovate, obtusely conical or subglobose, apex obtuse, base
abruptly rounded or truneate, excavated, up to 8 em. igh and 5 cm. broad,
minutely scabrid, and finely longitudinally striate, margin lacerate, often lobed.
Stipe very short, almost obsolete, dingy grey, scabrid, stuffed, up to 2 em.
long and 18 mm. wide at the base, where it is sometimes much inflated; columella
thickened at the apex, free throughout.
Gleba dark bronze-brown, lamellate, lamellae sinuate, margins finely serrate,
sparsely anastomosing, vertically arranged around the inner wall of the peridium.
Text-fig. 10. 8. agaricoides (Czern:) Hollos. a. Plant (nat. size); b. spores
(x 1000); c. lamellar eleba (x 2).
Spores smooth, ferruginous, globose or subglobose, 5-8), diam., sometimes
shortly pedicellate; epispore thick.
Habitat—Solitary on the ground in open grassy areas.
Distribution —North America, Hastern Europe, Hungary, Russia, North
Africa, Western Australia, New Zealand.
Western Australia: F. W. Stoward (cf. Lloyd, Mye. Notes, 1916, p. 617).
The illustrations and deseription are based on American specimens kindly
donated by Dr. J. R. Weir, now in my herbarium, No. 1201.
The globose spores, bronze coloured, lamellate gleba and short, stout stipe
characterise this species. It is an aberrant species, for the characters of the
gleba and stipe are not typical of the genus as it is now understood.
The plant was first deseribed in 1845 as Hndoptychum agaricoides by Czerna-
jen, from a plant collected in Ukraine; later, Montagne obtained a specimen from
Algiers, which he named S. acwminatum (under which it is generally known) ;
then in North America Peck obtained specimens which he named Lycoperdon
112 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
Warnei; later he changed the name to Secotium Warner. S. pedunculatum was
a name applied by Lloyd to a peduneulate form. I doubt whether such a minor
character is sufficient to separate a species, especially in such a variable plant
as this.
It has been recorded by Hollos from Australia (Banks Peninsula) [sic] and
New Zealand; as I have not seen his paper I am unable to state where the plant
was supposed to have been collected, or by whom.
9. SECOTIUM LEUCOCEPHALUM Massee. (Text-fig. 11.)
Mass., Grevillea, vol. 19, 1890, p. 95; Sacc., Syll. Fung., vol. 11, 1895, p.
157. ;
Peridium dingy-grey, depressed-globose, somewhat umbilicate, base truncate,
excavated, 9-12 mm. high, 20-26 mm. wide, smooth, minutely longitudinally striate,
glabrous, margin tardily separating from the stipe; drying pallid brown, surface
becoming rugulose.
Stipe whitish, slender, 12-25 mm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, attenuate downwards,
solid, striate, smooth, polished; columella expanded at the apex.
Gleba ferruginous, cellular, cells laterally compressed, up to 3 mm. long, dis-
sepiments thin.
Spores verruculose, pallid ferruginous, ovate or ovate-elliptical, commonly
lachrymiform, rounded at one end, pointed at the other, 9-11 x 5-7 (Massee,
8 x 5p), epispore thin.
Habitat.—Solitary on sandy soil.
Distribution.—Auckland, N.Z. (Berggren. Type, in Herb. Kew), Mt. Lofty,
S. Aus. (J. B. Cleland, 4/8/22. Specimens in Herb. Cleland).
This species is characterised by the small, smooth, depressed-globose peri-
dium and long, slender, solid stipe. The lachrymiform spores are also characteristic.
The Mt. Lofty collection is undoubtedly the same as the species described
by Massee, as it agrees in all characters, save in the size of the spores. The
difference in spore measurement is too slight to allow of the separation of these
specimens. The solid stipe is a character present only in this and the following
species. In shape the plant shows a general resemblance to S. erythrocephalum,
but the pallid colour of the peridium, and the verruculose spores separate it.
I am indebted to Dr. Cleland for the loan of the material from which the
above description has been drawn up.
10. Secorium Gunnir Berkeley. (Text-fig. 12.)
Berk., in Herb.; Massee, Grevillea, vol. 19, 1890, p. 96; Sace., Syll. Fung.,
vol. 11, 1895, p. 157; Cke., Hdbk. Aust. Mung., 1892, p. 221.
Peridium pallid brown, depressed-globose, base deeply excavated, truncate,
1.5 em. diam., smooth; drying dingy-brown, rugulose.
Stipe short, 1-1.5 em. long, 2-4 mm. thick, slender, equal, or slightly thickened
downwards, solid, pallid-brown; columella expanded at the apex.
Gleba ferruginous, cellular, cells minutely polygonal, 1 mm. long, dissepi-
ments thin.
Spores minutely verruculose, broadly elliptical, pallid ferruginous, one end
bluntly rounded, the other apiculate, 6-8 x 4-5» (Massee, 7 x 4), epispore thin.
Habitat—Solitary on the ground.
Distribution—Sulphur Springs, Rotorua, N.Z. (Gunn. Type in Herb. Kew),
Hobart (L. Rodway, Jan. 1884. Specimens in Herb. Rodway).
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. 113}
The smooth peridium, short, solid stipe and small, rough spores characterise
this species. It 1s separated from the preceding principally on account of the
short stipe and the small size of the spores.
In the original description the spores are stated to be smooth, but I find
them to be minutely but distinetly verruculose. This character varies somewhat
in individual plants, for, of the two plants in my possession, one exhibits more
pronounced markings than does the other.
Text-fig. 11. 8. leucocephalum Mass. Plant (nat. size); spores (x 1000).
Text-fig. 12. S. Gunnii Berk. Plant (nat. size); spores (x 1000).
Text-fig. 13. 8. Guinzii Kunze. Plant (nat. size); spores (x 1000).
Lloyd (1905) states that he believes this to be a synonym of 8. coarctatum ;
~ but examination will show that both in glebal and spore characters it is decidedly
different.
I am indebted to Mr. Rodway for the donation of two specimens of this
species, now in my herbarium, No. 1203. The question may be raised as to
whether the material I have examined is that of §. Gunnii, but I am assured by
Mr. Rodway that these specimens are from a collection determined by Massee
himself.
114 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
11. SEcoTIUM PORPHYREUM, n.sp. (Pl. xv., fig. 2; Text-fig. 140.)
Peridio violaceo, depresso-globoso, 7 cm. alto, 7 em. lato, leve, glabro.
Stipite pallido-violaceo, 3-9 em. longo, 10-20 mm. erasso, fibrilloso, striato, ex-
cayato. Gleba pallido-brunnea, cellulosa vel labyrinthiforma. Sporis grosse
verruculosis, castaneo-brunneis, ovatis, 12-17 x 8-11 p.
Hab.: Solitarii ad terram in silvis.
York Bay, Wellington, N.Z. 30 m., E. H. Atkinson.
Peridium violet, depressed-globose, base truncate, deeply excavated, up to 7
em. high, and 7 em. broad, smooth, glabrous, polished, viscid; drying pallid-
brown, becoming rugulose.
Stipe pallid-violet, tinted yellow at the base, stout, 3-9 em. long, 10-20 mm.
wide at the base, tapering to the apex, fibrillose, minutely striate, hollow; columella
slightly expanded at the apex.
Gleba pallid ferruginous, labyrinthiform or cellular, cells 1-2 mm. long,
numerous, dissepiments thick.
Spores coarsely verruculose, chestnut-brown, ovate, one end rounded, the
other pointed, 12-17 x 8-11 p, epispore thin.
Habitat—Solitary on the ground in beech forest. (Nothofagus sp.).
Distribution.—Beech Forest, York Bay, Wellington, N.Z. (E. H. Atkinson,
30 m., 5/10/10. Type, May, Aug., 1922; E. J. Butler, G.H.C., 29/7/23), Dun
Mt., Nelson (J. C. Neill, 30/5/23). Collections in the herbarium of the writer.
Nos. 873, 923, 1208.
This species is characterised by the large size and violet colour of the peri-
dium. It is not uncommon in a certain beech forest near Wellington, appearing
there during the winter months, usually after heavy rain. At first it is buried in
the ground, often in clayey soil, but as it approaches maturity it appears on the
surface. When submerged it is a pallid white, but as soon as it is exposed to
the light it changes colour; that this change is effected by light is obvious when a
specimen that has partially emerged is examined, for it is then seen that the
portion above the ground is violet, but that the remainder is white. The peridium
is decidedly viscid when fresh.
In its younger stages the plant is readily confused with Gallacea scleroderma
(Cke.) Lloyd, as in colour and hypogeal habit it resembles this species; but when
the peridium is sectioned the plants may be readily separated.
12. Srcotium Gurnzi Kunze. (Text-fig. 13.)
Kunze, Flora, p. 322, 1840; Berk., Hook. Jour. Bot., vol. 2, 1843, p. 200;
Sace., Syll. Fung., vol. 7, 1888, p. 52; Cda., Icon. Fung., vol. 6, 1854, t. vi., f.
10-18.
Peridium depressed-globose or ovate, base excavated, up to 5 em. diam.,
ochraceous, glabrous; drying ochraceous, becoming rugulose.
Stipe 3-5 em. long, 8-12 mm. wide, equal, ochraceous, dull, pruinose.
Gleba ferruginous, lamellate, of closely compacted vertical plates, held to-
gether by interwoven hyphae.
Spores verruculose, subglobose, tinted yellow, 5-7 », diam.
Habitat——Solitary on the ground.
Distribution—Cape of Good Hope, Tasmania (lL. Rodway, Feb., 1923.
Specimens in Herb. Rodway).
The above deseription is drawn up from a specimen kindly forwarded by
Mr. Rodway, now in my herbarium, No. 1204. The species was determined for
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. 115
Mr. Rodway by Mr. Lloyd. The above description does not agree well with that
given by Saceardo, differing in the size and colour of the peridium, absence of
“Volva” from the base of the stipe, and colour and shape of the spores.
The peculiar nature of the gleba should characterise the Tasmanian plant;
this consists of closely compacted plates arranged in a vertical manner around
the columella, the whole apparently held compactly together by hyphae which
pass from one plate to the other. Spores are not numerous—an unusual feature
for a Secotium. I believe that the specimen at hand is parasitised by some
Hyphomyeete, for hyphae differing from the normal are abundant throughout
the glebal tissues.
13. SEcoTIUM PIRIFORME Cleland and Cunningham, nsp. (Pl. xv., fig. 3;
Text-fig. 15a.)
Peridio pallido-lilacino, depresso-globoso, vel piriformo, 12-16 mm. alto, 8-10
mm. lato, leve, glabro. Stipite griseo-albo, 5 mm. longo, 2-3 mm. erasso, leve,
excavato. Gleba castaneo-brunnea, labyrinthiforma. Sporis grosse verruculosis,
castaneo-brunneis, ellipticis vel liminiformis, apicibus acutis, 11-17 x 6-8 pn.
Hab.: Solitari ad terram.
Somersby Falls, Gosford, N.S.W., G. P. Darnell-Smith.
Peridium pallid-llac, depressed-globose, or commonly pyriform, 12-16 mm.
high, 8-10 mm. wide, smooth, glabrous, polished, slightly viscid, attenuate down-
wards, margin continuous with the stipe; drying bay-brown, becoming rugulose.
Stipe pallid dingy-white, short, stout, 5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, smooth,
glabrous, hollow (or solid?), attenuate downwards, base somewhat inflated.
Gleba chestnut-brown, labyrinthiform, cells minute, irregular, up to 1 mm.
long, numerous, dissepiments thin.
Spores coarsely verruculose, chestnut-brown, elliptical or commonly lemon-
shaped, pointed at both ends, frequently pedicellate, 11-17 x 6-8 y, epispore thin.
Habitat—Solitary on sandy soil in damp places.
Distribution—Somersby Falls, Gosford, N.S.W. (G. P. Darnell-Smith,
4/7/15, 27/6/16. Specimens in Herb. Cleland).
A further collection, obviously of the same species, but preserved in formalin,
was forwarded by Dr. Cleland. This agrees with the above description, save
that the spores are slightly larger.
When dried this species is about the size of a garden pea; it differs from all
other Australasian species in that it possesses a “sterile base.” This is in reality
the base of the stipe to which the margin and base of the peridium are adherent,
for in one specimen partial rupture may be observed (under the microscope)
especially between the gleba and the stipe. I believe the specimens to be im-
mature.
This species is characterised by the colour and small size of the peridium,
together with its shape, and the glebal characters.
I am indebted to Dr. Cleland for the loan of the type material.
14. SECOTIUM CARTILAGINEUS, nsp. (PI. xviil., fig. 4; Text-fic. 15d.)
Peridio pallido-brunneo, depresso-globoso, base exeavato, 7-12 mm. alto, 18-
22 mm. lato, seabrido. Stipite 10 mm. longo, 4 mm. erasso, brunneo, excavato.
Gleba aurantio-brunnea, cellulosa, lenta. Sporis verruculosis, flavo-brunneis, »
ovatis, 12-15 x 8-11 p. ior
Hab.: Solitarii ad terram in silvis.
116 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
Dun Mt., Nelson, N.Z., 650 m., J. C. Neill.
Peridium pallid-tan, paler below, depressed-globose, base excavated, incurved,
margin distinct from stipe, 7-12 mm. high, 18-22 mm. wide, densely and closely
seabrid; drying dingy-brown.
Stipe short, stout, up to 10 mm. long, 4 mm. thick, tan-coloured, hollow,
scabrous, base slightly inflated.
Text-fig. 14. a. Spores of S. melanosporum Berk. (x 1000); b. Spores of
S. porphyreum G. H. Cunn. (x 1000).
Text-fig. 15. a. Spores of S. piriforme Clel. et Cunn. (x 1000); b. spores
of S. cartilagineus G. H. Cunn. (x 1000).
Text-fig. 16. S. Rodwayi Mass. Plant (nat. size); spores (x 1000).
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. aal7
Gleba dark ferruginous, cellular, tough, compact, cells minute, 2-3 mm long,
polygonal, dissepiments thin.
Spores verruculose, ferruginous, ovate, rounded at one end, pointed at the
other, 12-15 x 8-11 », epispore thin.
Habitat.—Solitary on the ground in beech forest.
Distribution—Beech Forest, Dun Mt., Nelson, N.Z., 650 m. (J. C. Neill),
27/5/23. Type in herbarium of the writer, No. 1099).
The seabrid surface of the peridium would place this close to S. scabrosum,
but the glebal characters are different from those given for the latter species.
In appearance and to the touch the peridium exactly resembles chamois
leather. The tough, almost cartilaginous nature of the gleba is also characteristic,
and would serve to separate it from any other Australasian species.
15. Srcorrum Ropwayt Massee. (Text-fig. 16.)
Mass., Kew Bulletin, 1901, p. 158; Sace., Syll. Fung., vol. 17, 1901, p. 218.
Peridium ochraceous-white, depressed-globose, umbilicate, base deeply ex-
eavated, 2-3 em. diam., tomentose; drying dingy-brown, becoming rugulose.
Stipe hardly apparent, 3 x 2 mm., subequal, hollow, tomentose.
Gleba pallid-ochraceous, labyrinthiform, cells minute, 1 mm. long, dissepi-
ments thin.
Spores verruculose, hyaline, globose or subglobose, apiculate, 6-9 » (Massee,
7-8 »), epispore thin.
- Habitat—Hypogean, solitary in sandy soil.
Distribution—Tasmania. (lL. Rodway, June, 1898. Type, in Herb. Kew).
The small size, shape and colour of the spores separate this from any other
species possessing a rough peridium. Massee states that the species is sub-
terranean, and specimens are exposed only when washed out by rain or dug out
by small marsupials.
I am indebted to Mr. Rodway for co-type material from which the above
deseription has been drawn up. These are now in my herbarium, No. 1205.
16. SEcOTIUM scABROSUM Cooke and Massee.
Cke. et Mass., Grev., vol. 20, 1891, p. 35; Cke., Hdbk. Aust. Fungi, 1892,
p. 221; Sace., Syll. Fung., vol. 11, 1895, p. 57. .
Peridium dingy-olive, or greyish, depressed-globose, 2 em. diam., minutely
seabrid.
Stipe short, almost obsolete.
Gleba dark reddish-brown, lacunose, septa gill-like, marie and folded.
Spores rather coarsely warted, lemon-shaped, Gait olive-yellow, 16-18 x 10 n.
Habitat—Solitary on the srouoadl
Distribution—Domain, Melbourne (Mueller. Type in Herb. Kew).
I have not seen specimens; the above description is that of the original.
The species should be readily determined on account of the lamellar gleba.
Strangely enough, this is the only record of the occurrence of this genus in the
State of Victoria.
TEEXCLUDED SPECIES.
a. Secotiwm Drummondii Berkeley, in Herb.
This has by Massee been used as the type of his genus Chainoderma Mass.
(Grev., vol. 19, 1890, p. 46).
118 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SPECIES OF SECOTIUM,
b. Secotium excavatum Kalchbrenner.
Hennings has placed this in the genus Strobilomyces (Boletinae) as S. ex-
cavatum P. Henn. (Hedw., vol. 43, 1904, p. 187).
e. Secotium lilacense Berkeley, Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 1867, p. 617.
As the description of this species was drawn up from a water colour draw-
ing, and not from a specimen, it has no place in botanical literature. The deserip-
tion given by Berkeley is such that if the plant should be encountered the finder
would have some difficulty in determining it!
“Azure, brief, pallid, fibrose, pruinose; pileus subglobose, lilac, spotted,
12 mm. high.
Hab.: On wood, Central N.Z., Haast.
d. Secotium sessile Mass. et Rodw. Nomen nudum.
Dr. Butler, Bureau of Mycology, Kew, informs the writer * that Mr. Mason
of the Bureau has searched for but has been unable to find any published descrip-
tion of this plant. He states that there is a collection at Kew Herb., labelled
“Tasmania, Rodway, 647, Type.”
Interature cited.
ATKINSON, G. F., 1906.—The Development of Agaricus campestris. Bot. Gaz.,
vol. 42, pp. 215-221.
, 1914.—The Development of Agaricus arvensis and A. comtulus.
Amer. Journ. Bot., vol. 1, pp. 3-22.
, 1915.—Morphology and Development of Agaricus Rodmani. Proc.
Amer. Phil. Soc., vol. 54, pp. 309-342.
BERKELEY, J. B., 1843—On Two Hymenomycetous Fungi belonging to the Lyco-
perdaceous Group. Hook. Journ. Bot., vol. 2, p. 200.
Conarp, H. §., 1915.—The Structure and Development of Secotium agaricoides.
Mycologia, vol. 7, pp. 51-60.
Dr Ton, J. B., 1888.—Hymenogastraceae and Lycoperdaceae in Saceardo’s
Sylloge I'ungorum, vol. 7, pp. 51-60.
FiscHer, Ed., 1900.—Untersuchungen zur Vergleichenden Entwickelungsgeschichte
und Systematik der Phalloideen. Denkschr. d. Schweiz. naturf.
Ges., vol. 36, pp. 73-74.
, 1900a.—Hymenogastrineae. Engler & Prantl Naturlichen Pflan-
zenfamilien, I., pp. 296-313.
HENNINGS, P., 1900.—Hymenomyeetineae. Engler & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzenfam.
I., pp. 105-276.
Luoyp, C. G., 1905.—Lycoperdaceae of Australia, New Zealand and Neighbouring
; Islands, pp. 1-44.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES XII.-XV.
Plate xu.
1. Developmental stage of S. novae-zelandiae G. H. Cunn. (x 45). First
appearance of radial cavity in primordium of the gleba. Note parallel arrange-
ment of the hyphae of the stipe. The striae across the surface are caused by
gaps in the microtome knife.
2. Later stage; the wedge-shaped area of the partial veil has become well
defined. (x 35).
*Letter to writer, 25/10/23.
BY G. H. CUNNINGHAM. 119
3. Stage showing first appearance of the cavity of the stipe, and down-
erowth of tramal plates from the roof of the first glebal cavity. Note the
abundant spores, well-marked partial veil and parallel arrangement of the hyphae
of the stipe. (x 25).
4. Appearance of lacunae in the undifferentiated portion of the gleba (top,
IeuB)) o> (&e IBS)
5. Further differentiation of the gleba. (x 8).
Plate xii.
1. Stage showing the appearance of lacunae in the tramal plates in S.
novae-zelandiae. (x 8).
2. SS. erythrocephalum Tul. (nat. size).
3. SS. novae-zelandiae G. H. Cunn( nat. size). Section on left. Photograph
from water colour painting by EH. H. Atkinson.
Plate xiv.
1. Section through nearly mature plant of S. erythrocephalum Tul. (not
quite median). (x 4). p., peridium; gl., gleba; col., columella; st., stipe. The
perforations in the columella are due to insects.
2. S. superbum G. H. Cunn. (x $4).
Plate xv.
1. S. melanosporum Berk. (nat. size). Note coarsely cellular stipe.
2. S. porphyreum G. H. Cunn. (Nat. size). Note that although the gleba
is removed from the stipe it is nevertheless covered with remnants of the partial
veil.
3. SS. pirdforme Clel. et Cunn. (nat. size). (Formalin specimens photo-
graphed in solution of formalin).
4. §. cartilagineus G. H. Cunn. (nat size).
Corrigenda.
Page 104, line 7 from bottom for locis gramineis read sylvis
Page 105, line 7 delete in grassy places; lines 9, 10 read Forest Reserve, Packa-
kariki, Whakatikei
Page 108, line 8 from bottorn, and page 110, line 10, for Cleland read Cleland
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A MONOGRAPH OF THE FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF NEW
SOUTH WALES. Part tv. PHYLLOPODA.
By Marauerire Henry, B.Se., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology.
(Plates xxvill.-xxxii. )
[Read 30th April, 1924.]
Introduction.
The first Phyllopod to be recorded in Australia was Lepidurus viridis, which
Baird described in 1850 from a specimen collected in Tasmania. The next re-
cords are those of the Rev. R. L. King published in 1855; King, very briefly,
described four species from New South Wales, some of which were not even
figured. This lack of figures hampered later writers in their identification of the
species and some synonymy resulted; in King’s original manuscript, all of which
was not published, there are detailed figures of all the species and from these
the author has been able to decide some doubtful points of synonymy.
In 1860 and 1866 Baird described two species collected in South Australia,
one of which was synonymous with his Lepidurus viridis.
Claus redescribed one of King’s species in 1872 from immature specimens.
In 1876 Richters described a new species which he called Branchipus austra-
hensis from Peak Downs, Queensland.
In 1877 Tate deseribed a Lepidurus collected in South Australia which was
also synonymous with L. viridis.
Four new species of Conchostraca from South Australia were described by
Brady in 1886, one of which was synonymous with one of King’s species.
In 1887 Sars deseribed Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird) as the type of a new
genus; the specimens had been hatched from dried mud collected at Rockhampton,
Queensland.
Hight species of Phyllopoda were recorded in Whitelegge’s list of the In-
vertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the neighbourhood, which was published
in 1889.
In 1895 Spencer and Hall gave a preliminary description of Apus austra-
liensis from Central Australia, and Sars published a paper describing five of the
previously described species. This was a valuable contribution to the literature
of Australian Phyllopoda, since it contained very detailed descriptions, biological
observations and five plates.
In 1896 the Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia was pub-
lished, in which Spencer and Hall described four new species and proposed the
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 121
new genus Limnadopsis. The same year Sars published three papers, one dealing
with two Phyllopoda from Western Australia, the second describing two new
species from Queensland and the third tracing the development of Estheria
packard.
In 1902 Sayce gave a complete catalogue of the Australian Phyllopoda that
had been previously recorded; he described some of the older species in more
detail and six new species; he also proposed two new genera, Parartemia and
Branchinella.
The Phyllopoda collected by the South Australian Museum Expedition to
Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks were dealt with by Chilton in 1917.
At the present time eighteen species have been recorded from South Aus-
tralia, including Central Australia and the Northern Territory; eight species
from Victoria; six from Queensland; four from Western Australia and one from
Tasmania. The present paper deals with nineteen species collected in New
South Wales; six of these are described as new and three others are recorded for
the first time in the State, and one for the first time in Australia.
The author’s thanks are due to Dr. C. Anderson for permission to examine
the collection of Phyllopoda in the Australian Museum and to Mr. EF. MeNeill
for his ever ready help in facilitating their study. The whereabouts of King’s
original manuscript was traced by Mr. G. M. Goldfinch and Professor Mackie
kindly lent it to the author from the library of the Teachers’ Training College.
The author is especially indebted to Sir Baldwin Spencer and Dr. C. Chilton
for specimens collected in Central Australia; to Professor T. Harvey Johnston
for a collection from the Burnett River, Queensland; to Professor L. Harrison
for specimens collected in various parts of New South Wales and to Sir T. W.
Edgeworth David for a sample of dried mad from which a specimen of Ariemia
salina was obtained. :
The drawings for this paper were all prepared by Miss D. Harrison.
Type specimens of the new species have been deposited in the Australian
Museum, Sydney.
The following lists give the species of Phyllopoda recorded from the different
States.
New South Wales.
NOTOSTRACA.
Family Apopipan.—tLepidurus viridis Baird, Apus australiensis Spencer and
Hall.
ANOSTRACA.
Family BRANCHINECTIDAE.
Subfamily <Artemiinae—Artemia salina (Linn.) var. arietina Fischer.
Subfamily Branchinectinae——Branchinecta tenuis, nsp., B. parooensis, n.sp.
Family CHIROCEPHALIDAE.
Subfamily Branchinellinae—Branchinella australiensis (Richters), B. fron-
dosa, n.sp., B. proboscida, n.sp., Branchinella eyrensis Sayee, Branchinella ornata
(Wolf).
CONCHOSTRACA.
Family Liwnapimar.—Limnadopsis birchti (Baird), ZL. parvispinus, n.sp.,
Paralimnadia stanleyana (King), Hulimnadia sordida (King), Estheria packardi
Brady, F#. lutraria Brady, E. rubra, n.sp.
Family Limnetipar.—Limnetis macleayana King, L. tatei Brady.
122 FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF N.S.W., IV., PHYLLOPODA,
Victoria.
NovTostRAca.
Family Apopipak.—Lepidurus viridis Baird, Apus australiensis Spencer and
Hall.
ANOSTRACA.
Family CHIROCEPHALIDAE.
Subfamily Branchinellinae—Branchinella australiensis (Richters).
CONCHOSTRACA.
Family Limnapiupar.—Eulimnadia sordida (King), E. victoriensis Sayce,
Esiheria packardi Brady.
Family LimnetipAE.—Limnetis macleayana King, L. tatei Brady.
South Australia.
NOTOSTRACA.
Family Apopipan.—Lepidurus viridis Baird, Apus australiensis Spencer and
Hall.
ANOSTRACA.
Family BRANCHINECTIDAE.
Subfamily Artemiinae.—Artemia salina (Linn.) var. arietina Fischer.
Family CHIROCEPHALIDAE.
Subfamily Branchinellinae-—Branchinella australiensis (Richters), B. eyrensis
Sayee.
Family BRANCHIPODIDAE.
Subfamily Parartemiinae.—Parartemia zieziana Sayce.
Family STREPTOCEPHALIDAE.—Streptocephalus archeri Sars.
CONCHOSTRACA.
Family Limnapimar.—LHulimnadia dahli Sars, E. sordida King, Limnadopsis
birchii (Baird), L. tatei Spencer and Hall, ZL. brunneus Spencer and Hall,
Estheria packardi Brady, E. lutraria Brady, E. dictyon Spencer and Hall.
Family Limnetipar.—Limnetis macleayana King, Limnetis tate: Brady,
Limnetis eremia Spencer and Hall.
Queensland.
NOTOSTRACA.
Family ApopIpAE.—Apus australiensis Spencer and Hall.
ANOSTRACA,
Family STREPTOCEPHALIDAE.—Streptocephalus archeri Sars.
Family CHIROCEPHALIDAE.
Subfamily Branchinellinae—Branchinella australiensis (Richters).
CONCHOSTRACA.
Family Lrmnapupar.—Fulimnadia dahli Sars, Cyclestheria hislopi Sars.
Western Australia.
NOTOSTRACA.
Family Apopipan.—A pus australiensis Spencer and Hall.
ANOSTRACA.
Family BRANCHINECTIDAE.
Subfamily Artemiinae.—Artemia salina (Linn.) var. arietina Fischer.
CONCHOSTRACA.
Family Linwnapipan.—Estheria elliptica Sars, E. sarsti Sayee.
Tasmania.
NOTOSTRACA.
Family ApopipAn.—Lepidurus viridis Baird.
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Classification.
The Phyllopoda are divided into three suborders, the Anostraca, Notostraca.
and Conchostraca, and this classification has been followed in the present paper.
Some writers reject the term Phyllopoda and divide the subclass Branchiopoda
into four orders; Anostraca, Notostraca, Conchostraca and Cladocera.
Key to the suborders of Phyllopoda.
A. Body elongated, devoid of a carapace .. .... .. ........ .. Anostraca.
AA. Body with a well developed carapace.
B. Carapace in the form of a shield covering the dorsal part of the body.
Notostraca.
BB. Carapace composed of two two lateral valves which enclose the body.
Conchostraca.
Suborder Notostraca,
Carapace shield-shaped, covering the dorsal part of the body. Second an-
tennae reduced or absent. Eyes sessile. Caudal filaments jointed.
This suborder comprises a single family, the Apodidae, which has a world-
wide distribution.
Family APODIDAE.
Carapace broad, with a cervical furrow defining the head. A variable num-
ber of segments projecting beyond the carapace. Caudal filaments elongated.
Males without special clasping organs.
This family comprises two genera, both of which are represented in New
South Wales.
Key to the genera of the Apodidae.
A. Last caudal segment produced into a flattened outgrowth between the caudal
SB RED Y ENON 10 a dyh el uN A CN RL ped Lepidurus.
NAS Vast) caudal segment mot produced .2 052.210. 3.052.205. 2. 8. Apus.
Genus Leprpurus Leach, 1816.
Carapace large, usually covering all the body except one or two segments.
Last caudal segment produced into a flat paddle-shaped outgrowth, extending
between the caudal filaments. About sixty-three pairs of legs, the first pair with
comparatively short endites which scarcely project beyond the edge of the cara-
pace. Species very variable; fifteen have been deseribed, one of which occurs in
New South Wales.
LePIpURUS virIDIS Baird.
Baird, Proce. Zool. Soc. London, 1850.
Syn.—L. angasii Baird, L. viridulus Tate, L. kirkii Thomson, L. compressus
Thomson.
A detailed description and numerous figures are given by Sars (Archiv. for
Math. og Nat., 1895, p. 4, Pl. 1, figs. 1-19). This is a very variable species,
especially in the comparative length of the carapace. Specimens from _ five
different localities were examined at the Australian Museum and the following
measurements obtained: 1. Specimens from Deniliquin had an average length
of 38 mm. and the carapace left four segments uncovered. 2. A single specimen
from Hay was 32 mm. long and had 10 segments exposed. 3. Two specimens
from Tamworth, one 20 mm. long and the other 25 mm., the former had 6 ex-
posed segments and the latter 4. 4. A specimen labelled N.S.W. was 15 mm.
&
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long and had 10 segments exposed. 5. A specimen from Molong was 25 mm.
long and only the caudal segment was exposed.
Two specimens collected at Holbrook measured only 6 mm. in length and
were possibly immature, so that the species could not be identified with certainty.
The specimens were remarkable: carapace very long, covering all the body and
also the caudal prolongation; dorsal keel distinct, extending more than three-
quarters the length of the body, produced backwards into a long spine; carapace
also produced back into spines at each side, the margins between the spines
bearing a series of strong denticles; caudal prolongation broad at the base,
somewhat triangular in form, bearing well-marked spines.
Distribution.—_N.S.W.: Sydney, Hay, Tamworth, Molong, Deniliquin, Hol-
brook (?), Hunter River. Victoria; South Australia; Tasmania; New Zealand.
Genus Apus Schaeffer, 1756.
Carapace usually comparatively shorter than in Lepidurus. Telson short,
eylindrical, without any paddle-shaped outgrowth. Endites of the first pair of
legs usually much longer than in Lepidurus.
Thirty different species have been described; one occurs in New South
Wales.
The genera Apus and Lepidurus are very closely allied and it may be ques-
tioned whether they are distinet; the main difference is the presence or absence
of a caudal outgrowth, but this in itself seems insufficient for the separation
into two genera. The comparative length of the endites of the first pair of legs
and the relative amount of body covered by the carapace are not good generic
characters and vary greatly even in members of the one species.
APUS AUSTRALIENSIS Spencer and Hall.
Victorian Naturalist, xi, 1895, p. 161; Horn Expedition to Central Aus-
tralia, Part 1., Zoology, 1896, p. 231, figs. 1-3.
This is a very variable species; specimens from the same locality often vary-
ing greatly in their relative dimensions. In 1896 Sars (p. 5, Plate 1, figs. 1-6)
described a specimen from Western Australia with the following measurements :
Total length 13 mm., length of carapace 8.5 mm., median length of carapace 6.5
mm., width of carapace 5.8 mm., length of caudal filaments 7.4 mm., length of
exposed portion of the body 6.4 mm., length of terminal caudal segment 0.7 mm.
The most striking differences between these measurements and those of Spencer
and Hall are: 1. the carapace is longer in proportion to the exposed part of the
body instead of being of equal length; 2. the width of the carapace does not
attain its median length instead of exceeding it. Measurements were made of
nine mature specimens, collected at Broken Hill, for comparison with these two
sets of figures and the following table shows the variations in comparative pro-
portions. In eight specimens the width of the carapace was greater than its
median length and in all nine specimens the length of the carapace was greater
than the length of the exposed portion of the body.
This species also varies in the number of exposed segments, the armature
of the posterior sinus of the carapace and of the caudal segment, and the pre-
sence or absence of serrations on the lateral margins of the carapace. These
variations are well marked in specimens in the Australian Museum which have
been collected from different localities:
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 125
Measurements of Specimens from Broken Hili.
SPECIMEN 3c) tela 1 2 3 4 5 6 a 8 9
Rotaltlensthy Waemen ee pets 50 42 45 50 38 27 42 40 43
Length carapace .. .. .. 30 23 27 28 25 20: 25 24 25
Median length carapace .. 22 20 22 24 21 16 20 20.5 21
Width carapace .. .. 26 25 25 25 21 20 26 24 26
Length exposed portion ol
the body .. . Ba Ns 20 19 18 22 13 7 17 16 18
Length terminal caudal
SESMEM EMR aioe Wereiii 2): 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1.5
Width of same .. .. de 4 BoD, Bob Ba Bs 2 3 3 3.5
Length caudal filament — 8 21 11 15 12 21 10 26
1. Specimen from the Namoi River at Narrabri. Total length 30 mm.,
carapace 4 mm. shorter than the exposed portion of the body; median length
equalling the width; 32 exposed segments, of which 14 are limbless. Posterior
sinus with over 30 small denticles. No serrations present on the lateral margin
of the carapace.
2. Locality Ivanhoe. Total length 45 mm., carapace 5 mm. longer than the
exposed portion; median length equal to the width; 28 exposed segments, 12
being limbless. Posterior sinus bearing 30 spines. Lateral margins of the ecara-
pace minutely serrated for half their length.
3. Locality Bourke. Total length 38 mm.; carapace 6 mm. shorter than the
exposed portion; width exceeding the median length by 2 mm.; 28 exposed seg-
ments. Posterior sinus with 33 spines. Lateral margins of the carapace minutely
serrated in the lower part. In one specimen, caudal segment devoid of spines;
in a Second, the segment with two central spines, one above the other; in a third
specimen, the segment without central spines but with a small group on each
side.
4. Loeality Mossgiel. Total length 55 mm.; carapace and exposed portion
of the body of equal length; width exceeding the median length by 7 mm.; 28
exposed segments, 12 being limbless. Posterior sinus with 37 spines; a few
- minute spines on each side of the carapace. Caudal segment with a group of
three spines and a sensory bristle on each side, a row of three spines down the
centre and a row on the posterior edge.
In the living animal the colours are very striking. The carapace is yellowish-
brown with deeper brown markings and changing opalescent tints; the exposed
portion is yellowish-green, the spines usually being dark brown; the legs are
reddish-brown.
Distribution—N.S.W.: Hunter River, Macquarie River, Mossgiel, Narrabri,
Ivanhoe, Bourke, Nyngan, Broken Hill, Budda and Marra Stations (Darling
River), Goorimpa (Paroo River). Queensland; Victoria; Central Australia;
South Australia; Western Australia.
Suborder Anostraca.
Body elongated, without a carapace, more or less vermiform, composed of
11-19 limb-bearing segments and 8 or 9 limbless segments. Eyes stalked and
movable. Antennules small, filiform. Antennae in the male modified for clasp-
ing. Daday de Dees in his excellent monograph of the Anostraca (1910) has
divided the suborder into five families, two of which are represented in New
South Wales. Daday de Dees’ scheme of classification has been followed through-
126 FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF N.S.W., IV., PHYLLOPODA,
out. For convenience the pedigerous portion of the body has been termed the
“trunk” and the limbless portion the “abdomen.”
Key to the Families of the Anostraca.
A..17 or 19 trunk segments, antenna of the ¢ one-segmented .. .. Polyartemiidae.
AA. 11 trunk segments, antenna of the d 2- or 3-segmented
BB. antennanon the! ay a-Seemented isi intl veel Streptocephalidae.
BB. Antenna of the ¢ 2-segmented.
C. Basal segments of the male antennae joined, forming with the head a
frontal clypeus .. . - .- , Branchipodidae.
CC. Basal segments of the nel Antennae aOR Gomed ‘or very slightly
joined at the base.
D: Head, male, with forehead unarmed .. .. -- Branchinectidae.
DD. Head, male, with one or more frontal ie pendaees Sc eee Digiea RIDA ath
Chirocephalidae.
Family BRANCHINECTIDAE.
Body of variable dimensions; trunk either equal to the length of the abdomen
without the cereopods, slightly longer or much shorter. Trunk composed of 11
segments, abdomen of 8 or 9. Cercopods of varying length, either mobile, arti-
culating with the last segment of the abdomen or immobile. Head of both male
and female unarmed. Antennae of the male composed of two segments, apical
segment flattened or falciform. Apical segment of the penis usually denticulate,
rarely smooth.
Key to sub-families of the Branchinectidae.
A. Abdomen composed of 8 segments, apical segment of antennae in the male
Hatteneds ie) apes. HiWas Arteminae.
AA. Abdomen emiposed tai ‘9 segments, eae oment oi Bennee in the male
oftén triangular,*falciform .. ...... .. ............ -. Branchinectinae.
Subfamily ARTEMIINAE Daday de Dees.
Body slender. Abdomen composed of 8 segments, the last of which is longer
than the preceding segments. Cereopods short, of diverse form and structure.
Head in both sexes simply rounded. All legs a similar structure, with one leaf-
like branch. Apical segment of the penis usually with a spinulose surface, un-
armed at the apex. This subfamily includes two genera which are inhabitants
of fresh, brackish and salt water. One genus is represented in New South Wales.
Genus Arremia Leach, 1819.
Male antennae with the basal segments slightly joined at the base; apical
segments flattened, elongated, with the apex pointed. Hgg-sac short, heart-
shaped. Species very variable. One species occurs in New South Wales.
ARTEMIA SALINA (Linnaeus) var. ARIETINA Fischer.
Syn.—Branchipus arietinus Grube, Branchipus oudneyi Liévin, Artemia
proxima King, Artemia australis Sayce, Artemia westraliensis Sayee.
Artemia salina is a very variable species and its synonymy is accordingly
somewhat confused. There are, however, ‘four distinct varieties, and the three
forms described from Australia are all comprised in the variety arietina Fischer.
The first of these was described by King in 1855 (p. 70) as Artemia proxima;
the description was very brief and the only figure published was that of the
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 127
fifth leg, so that its identification was uncertain. In King’s original manuscript,
however, there is a page of drawings which include figures of the whole animal
and separate studies of its parts; these show that it is decidedly synonymous
with A. salina. In 1902 (p. 229) Sayece described two forms under the names of
A. australis and A. westraliensis which are also synonymous.
The variety is characterised by its immobile cercopods which are united with
the last segment of the abdomen, their form is variable, they are usually flattened
and leaf-lke, they may be poorly supplied with apical setae or both apical and
lateral setae may be numerous. The body is of variable dimensions, the length
of the trunk may be greater or less than that of the abdomen; the last segment
of the abdomen may be longer than the preceding segments or of equal, length.
Egg-sac variable.
Distribution.—King’s specimens were collected in salt-pans at Newington,
N.S.W. A single female specimen was bred from dried mud collected at Macumba,
Central Australia. Sayce’s specimens were obtained from Glenelg, South Aus-
tralia and Murchison, Western Australia.
Europe; Asia; Africa; North America.
Subfamily BRANCHINECTINAE.
Body of varying dimensions, the trunk often not attaining the length of the
abdomen without the cercopods. Abdomen composed of 9 segments, last seg-
ment much shorter than the preceding segments. Cercopods usually mobile,
rarely immobile and joined to the last segment of the abdomen. Antennae of
the male two-segmented, apical segment either falciform or branched. Head of
both male and female, rounded, unarmed.
This subfamily includes three genera which live in fresh and salt water.
Key to genera of Branchinectinae.
A. Cercopods mobile, articulating with the last segment of the abdomen.
B. Apical segments of the male antennae falciform, simple .. .. Branchinecta.
BB. Apical segments of the male antennae branched ., .. .. .. Artemiopsis.
AA. Cercopods immobile, united with the last segment of the abdomen ...... ..
Branchinectella.
Genus BrANcHInEcTA Verrill, 1869.
Body of varying dimensions, either slender or very robust. Trunk usually
not as long as the abdomen without the cercopods. Abdomen composed of 9
‘seements, the last of which is often tapering, rarely of uniform breadth, always
much shorter than the preceding segments. Cereopods mobile. Integument of
the body smooth. Head rounded, unarmed. Antennules filiform, varying im
length. Antennae in the male with the basal segments either unarmed or with
tubercles and setae, apical segments usually falciform. Antennae in the female
flattened. Egeg-sac variable.
Key to species of Branchinecta.
A. Antennules reaching the end of the first segment of the antenna .. .. . tenuis.
AA. Antennules far exceeding the length of the whole antenna .. .. .. parooensvs.
BRANCHINECTA TENUIS, n.sp. (Plate xxx., figs. 4-7.)
Male (Fig. 4). Body long and slender. Trunk slightly longer than the
abdomen without the cercopods. All segments of the body with a smooth surface,
unarmed, last segment of the abdomen very short, less than half the length of
128 FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF N.S.W., IV., PHYLLOPODA,
the preceding segments. Cercopods (Fig. 6) very long, equalling the last five
_ segments of the abdomen combined, broad at the base, tapering to the apex,
both margins bearing long setae. Head rounded, unarmed. Antennules narrow,
slender, reaching the end of the first segment of the antenna. Basal segment of
the antenna (Fig. 5) broad, inner margin bearing three leaf-like projections,
middle projection serrated; second segment curved back over the first, tapering
towards the apex, imner margin bearing a double row of denticles. Eyes of
moderate size. Legs (Fig. 7) all of similar structure. Length 12 mm.
Female. Similar to the male in general structure of the body. Antennules
slender, not quite as long as the antennae. Antennae flattened, leaf-like, pointed
at the apex, surface bearing scattered hairs. Hgg-sac very long and slender.
Colour of spirit specimens milky white.
Distribution —N.S.W.: Dubbo.
BRANCHINECTA PAROOENSIS, n.sp. (Plate xxxi.)
Male. Body very robust, trunk not quite as long as the abdomen without
the cercopods. Segments smooth and polished, in places bearing very minute
hairs. Last segment of the abdomen much shorter than the preceding segments,
tapering slightly posteriorly. Cereopods equal in length to the last four seg-
ments combined, strongly built and densely fringed with setae on both margins.
Head comparatively small, forehead rounded, no trace of any frontal process.
Hye small. Antennules unusually long, extending to about the ninth trunk seg-
ment, strongly built, tapering gradually to the apex. Antennae composed of two
segments, basal segment broad and bearing an outwardly directed process which
is minutely spinulate; second segment curved, strongly built, margins bearing
tiny spines. Legs of similar structure. Length 36 mm.
Female. Similar to the male in general build, shghtly smaller. Antennae
flattened, pointed at the apex.
Colour in living specimens, transparent, cerecopods faintly tinged with pink.
Spirit specimens opaque white.
Distribution.Clay pans on Goorimpa Station, Paroo River.
Family CHIROCEPHALIDAE.
Body of varying dimensions, trunk either attaining the length of the abdo-
men without the cercopods or longer than it. Trunk composed of 11 segments,
abdomen of nine, last segment of the abdomen shorter than the preceding ones.
Cereopods mobile, articulating with the last segment of the abdomen, rarely
joined. Head of the female rounded, unarmed, that of the male either unarmed
or with frontal appendages of varying structure. Basal segments of male an-
tennae variously armed or unarmed. Eleven pairs of legs, rarely dissimilar.
Apical segment of the penis either spinulose or with a smooth surface and
pointed apex. Daday de Dees divides this family into three subfamilies, one of
which is represented in New South Wales.
Key to subfamilies of Chirocephaldae.
A. Apical segment of the penis smooth, pointed terminally.
B. Antennae of the male with serrated appendages .. .. .. Chirocephalinae.
BB. Antennae of the male lacking serrated appendaecs .. .. Hubranchpodinae.
AA. Apical segment of the penis spinulose .. .. .. -....... -- Branchinellinae.
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Subfamily BRANCHINELLINAE.
Body of varying dimensions. Trunk usually longer than the abdomen with-
out the cercopods; abdomen of 9 segments, the last of which is always the
shortest, segments usually cylindrical, sometimes flattened. Head of the male
bearing an appendage of varying structure; head of the female usually unarmed.
Antennae of the male with or without serriform appendages. Endopodites of
all feet usually similar, structure of endopodites of the anterior pairs sometimes
dissimilar. Last segment of the penis with a spinulose surface.
The members of this subfamily are inhabitants of both fresh and salt water.
It includes five genera.
Key to genera of the subfamily Branchinellinae.
A. Antennae of the male provided with serriform appendages .. . Branchinellites.
AA. Antennae of the male devoid of serriform appendages.
B. Frontal appendage of the male stalked, simple, projecting from the middle
of the forehead .. .. .- , Hubranchinella.
BB. Frontal encase Of tite ate cece dt ined fats two, projecting from
the middle of the forehead or from the vertex.
C. All segments of the abdomen flattened, cercopods joined forming a
Founded: keel Wh... . +. Thamnocephalus.
CC. All segments of the pbdormen bagel ecanods always distinct.
D. Endopodites of all the legs of similar structure .. .. Branchinella.
DD. Endopodites of the two anterior pairs of legs of different structure
from the succeeding pairs ..\.. .. .. .. -- .- . Dendrocephalus.
Genus BRANCHINELLA Sayee, 1902.
Body of varying size; segments of the trunk with a smooth surface; seg-
ments of the abdomen in the male sometimes pointed at the posterior angles.
Cercopods mobile, their margins setose. Head of the male with a stalked frontal
appendage of varying structure and length. Antenna of the male with the basal
segments distinct, apical segments usually falciform and unarmed. Apical seg-
ment of the penis elongated, armed with denticles.
This genus appears closely related to both Branchinellites and Dendro-
cephalus. Five species occur in New South Wales.
Key to species of Branchinella.
A. Frontal appendage in the male not exceeding the length of the basal segment
of the antenna .. .. .. -- » qustraliensis.
AA. Frontal appendage far axccsdhine. aie ‘toaenih 3 ‘ahi pitonnee!
B. Frontal appendage with numerous branches. S666 Ba 8b oO OLCOSG
BB. Frontal appendage biramous.
C. Second segment of the male antenna falciform.
D. Rami of the frontal appendage armed with spines .. .. .. eyrensis.
DD. Rami of the frontal appendage bearing rounded processes ornata.
CC. Second segment of the male antenna shaped like a foot .. proboscida.
BRANCHINELLA AUSTRALIENSIS (Richters).
Branchipus austrakiensis Richters, Journal de Mus. Godeffroy, xii., p. 43.—
Branchinella australiensis Sayce, 1902, p. 234, Plate xxx.
This species has not hitherto been recorded in New South Wales. A number ~ |
of fine specimens of both males and females were obtained by Dr. W. Hull at~
SE a
130 FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF N.S.W., IV., PHYLLOPODA,
Wagga. It has also been collected in the Paroo River and on Tiltagoona Station
in the Cobar district..
The species has been recorded from Queensland, Victoria, South Australia
and Central Australia.
BRANCHINELLA EYRENSIS Sayee.
Proe. Roy. Soc. Vict., xv:; 1902, p. 239, Plate xxxi:
A few specimens of this species were collected in water holes on Goorimpa
Station on the Paroo River. It has not been recorded previously from New
South Wales. The species was described from specimens collected in Central
Australia.
BRANCHINELLA ORNATA (Wolf),
Branchinema ornata Wolf; Branchinella ornata Daday de Dees, 1910, p. 266,
Fig. 40. ,
Male. Body graceful, trunk equal to the length of the abdomen without the
cercopods or a little longer. Last segment of the abdomen very much shorter
than the preceding segments, produced between the cercopods. Cercopods taper-
ing at the apex, comparatively short, about equal to the combined length of the
last two abdominal segments, margins with long setae. Vertical appendage of
the head with a flattened stalk, dividing into two at about half its length;
branches of the appendage bearing several rounded processes on both inner and
outer margins, otherwise unarmed. Antennules comparatively long; considerably
exceeding the length of the basal segment of the antennae. ‘Antennae unarmed
except for two small tubercles on the basal segment; apical segment falciform,
inwardly curved, pointed at the apex. Feet all of similar structure. Length, 12
mm.
Female. Body very similar to the male. Antennules very much longer than
the antennae. Antennae flattened, leaf-like, pointed at the apex, setose. Ege-
sac fusiform, extending the length of the first three segments of the abdomen.
_ - Distribution—This species has not hitherto been recorded in Australia.
Specimens were collected on Tiltagoona Station in the Cobar district. It has
only previously been recorded from Africa.
BRANOHINELLA FRONDOSA, n.sp. (Plate xxvili.; Pl. xxix., figs. 1-4.)
Male (Fig. 1). Body robust, length of the trunk far surpassing that of the
abdomen without the cereopods. Surface of the segments of both trunk and
abdomen smooth and polished. Last segment of the abdomen about half the
length of the preceding segment, slightly produced between the cercopods. Cerco-
pods (Fig. 4) tapering towards the apex, directed towards each other; length
almost attaining the combined length of the last four abdominal segments, setae
long. Head (Fig. 3) comparatively large, rounded, a strong complicated ap-
pendage proceeding from the vertex; processes near the base very small and in-
conspicuous. Vertical appendage (Fig. 2) stalked and flattened basally; the
basal portion narrowing at each end and broad in the middle; two main branches
spring from this basal portion and these at once divide again into (1) one
strong branch on the inside which remains undivided, (2) a strong branch which
divides into three and these again bear smaller lateral branches, (3) a branch
which bears lateral branches towards the apex. The whole structure has a tree-
like appearance and extends as far as the fifth segment of the trunk, the surface
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 131
of the basal portion and the branches has a4 wrinkled appearance; the branches
are provided with straight and curved spines. Antennules small, filiform, not
attaining the length of the first segment of the antennae. sorleanerts (Fig. 3)
composed of two segments, apical segment strongly curved and provided with a
row of strong denticles. Exopodites of all the legs of similar structure (Fig. 5).
Penis (Fig. 6) composed of two segments, the first very short, the second elon-
gated, provided with a series of strong eurved denticles along the sides. Length,
18 mm. Colour when alive transparent; cercopods a vivid orange-colour, of spirit
Specimens milky white.
Female (Plate xxix., fig. 1). Similar to the male in general structure. An-
tennae (Fig. 2) foie and leaf-like, produced apically into a narrow point.
Kgg-sae (Figs. 3 and 4) strongly built, seen laterally, triangular, tapering at the
apex, with a protruding lip. Length, 20 mm.
This species greatly resembles the genus Dendrocephalus in the form of its
frontal appendage, but in every other respect it appears to be a true Branchinella,
the exopodites of the legs all being of similar structure and the male antennae
devoid of appendages. It is this species that is referred to in Whitelegge’s
hist (1889, p. 318) as Chirocephalus sp.
Distribution—N.S.W.: Yass.
BRANCHINELLA PROBOSCIDA, n.sp. (Plate xxix., figs. 5-9; Pl. xxx., figs. 1-3.)
Male (Fig. 5). Body moderately robust; trunk almost equal to the length
of the abdomen without the cereopods; all the segments with a smooth polished
surface; last segment of the abdomen shorter than the preceding segments, not
produced between the cercopods. Cereopods (Fig. 6) long, tapering towards the
produced apex; equal in length to the four preceding segments combined, setae
on the margins very long and delicate. Head of moderate size; bearing an elon-
gated, segmented appendage which branches terminally and which almost reaches
the end of the abdomen; this appendage cari be coiled up and, when in this
position, does not reach the end of the antenna; it is composed of about twenty
seements before the bifureation, the two branches of the latter broaden in the
centre and taper apically; they .are covered with small hairs and bear several
rows of spines along the inner edges. Antennules filiform, slightly exceeding
the length of the first segment of the artéennae. Antennaé (Fig. 9) of very
unusual structure for the genus, first segment brodd and without appendages,
apical segment shaped somewhat like a foot, the margins of the apical portion
finely serrated. Penis (Fig. 7) with an elon es apical segment, rounded at
the apex and bearing rows of strong spines. Length, 14 mm. Colour similar to
that of the preceding species.
Female (Fig. 1). Similar in size and general structure to the male. An-
tennae (Fig. 2) flattened, leaf-lke, produced to a narrow projection apically.
Egg-sae (Fig. 3) aormaanattinclly long and narrow, extending the length of four
Seements, deeply lobed at the apex.
Distribution—N.S.W.: Dubbo, Marra and Budda Stations (Darling River).
a
Suborder Conchostraca.
Body enclosed by a bivalved carapace. Hyes sessile, either coalescent or
closely contiguous. Antennules small. Antennae large, used as organs of loco-
motion. One or two pairs of legs in the male modified as clasping organs. Tail
piece compressed, usually armed with spines.
132 FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF N.S.W., IV., PHYLLOPODA,
Key to families of Conchostraca.
A. Carapace with concentric lines of growth round a more or less prominent
umbo .. SPASM USB Limnadiidae.
AA. Carapace sient hort ime of Eroa til dol odio ob) oo co ou) JOOORIECIG
Family LIMNADIIDAE.
Carapace compressed, with a varying number of lines of growth. Head of
medium size, showing little difference in the two sexes. Tail-piece well developed,
forming two lamellae with varying armature. Legs numerous, endites short;
first and second pairs in the male usually prehensile.
Five genera occur in New South Wales.
Key to genera of Limnadiidae.
A. Dorsal organ present.
B. 26-32 pairs of legs; dorsal margin of the carapace with spiny processes.
Lamnadopsis.
BB. About 18 pairs of legs, no spiny processes on the dorsal margin of the
carapace.
C. Umbones inconspicuous or absent, few lines of growth .. . Hulimnadia.
CC. Umbones large and prominent, numerous lines of growth Paralimnadia.
AA. Dorsal organ absent.
B. First pair of legs only prehensile in the male; antennules simple ..
C aiolloainan.
BB. First two pairs of legs prehensile in the male; antennules lobed . Estheria.
Genus Limnapopsis Spencer and Hall, 1896.
Carapace ovate, compressed, narrower in the male than in the female; valves
thin and like parchment. Lines of growth distinct, prolonged dorsally to form a
series of spines on the dorsal margin of the carapace. Dorsal organ present.
26-32 pairs of legs, first two pairs prehensile in the male.
Key to species of Lamnadopsis.
A. 30 or more pairs of legs present.
B. Tail-piece armed with about fifty spines .. .. /. .. .. .. .. .. .. squoret.
BB. Tail-piece with not more than eighteen spines .... .. .. .. parvispinus.
AA. 26 pairs of legs.
B. Tail-piece with few spines of various sizes, carapace pitted .. .. .. .. tatet.
BB. Tail-piece with small spines of uniform size, carapace pustulate . brunneus.
LIMNADOPSIS BIRCHII (Baird).
Estheria birchit Baird, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, P. 392.—Limnado psis
squirei Spencer and Hall, 1896, p. 239, figs. 15-19.
Distribution —N.S.W.: Namoi River, Broken Hill. South Australia; Central
Australia.
LIMNADOPSIS PARVISPINUS, n.sp. (Plate xxxii., figs. 1-7.)
Male (Fig. 1). Carapace irregularly oval in outline, moderately compressed ;
dorsal margin forming almost a night angle with the anterior margin and an
obtuse angle with the posterior margin; anterior margin straight, ventral margin
evenly curved; dorsal margin depressed before the umbo, curving convexly im-
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 133
mediately after the umbo. 12-14 well marked lines of growth; the carapace valves
between the lines of growth smooth and polished. Processes on the dorsal margin
of the carapace (Fig. 7) small and inconspicuons, 5 or 6 present in the posterior
portion. Head of moderate size (Fig. 3), rostrum long and triangular. An-
tennules equal in length to the basal segment of the antennae. About thirty
pairs of legs; first two pairs (Fig. 4) very much modified to form clasping
organs. Tail-piece (Fig. 2) strongly built, end-claws longer than the lamellae,
provided with a series of spines along three-quarters of their length, the remain-
ing portion being provided with hairs; free margins of the lamellae curved,
bearing about eighteen spines of uniform size and a larger spine at each end.
Length, 16 mm. Colour yellowish-green, transparent.
Female (Fig. 5) slightly different from the male in the general shape of the
carapace, the height being greater in proportion to the length; dorsal margin
more evenly curved from the convexity behind the umbo to the posterior angle.
Head larger than the male, but possessing a shorter and less conspicuous rostrum.
Antennule shorter than in the male, not reaching the end of the basal segment
of the antennae. Legs as in the male except that the first two pairs are not
modified for clasping. Tail-piece (Fig. 6) with the free margins less curved
than in the male and the end-claws not so strongly armed.
Distribution—N.S.W.: Lake Cowal (Bland district), Mossgiel.
Genus PARALIMNADIA Sars, 1896.
Shell compressed, valves thin; lines of growth inconspicuous, very numerous;
umbones large and prominent. Propagation sexual.
This genus was suggested by Sars in 1896 for the species known as Hulim-
nadia stanleyana (King). It is closely allied to both Limnadia and Eulimnadia.
PARALIMNADIA STANLEYANA (King).
Limnadia stanleyana King, Proce. Roy. Soc. Van Diemen’s Land, 1855, p.
70.—Eulimnadia stanleyana Sars, 1895, p. 16, Plate 2, figs. 1-12, Plate 3, figs.
1-10.
Distribution—N.S.W.: Coogee, Maroubra, Bondi.
Genus Hunimnapia Packard, 1873.
Carapace narrowly oval in lateral view, usually only 4 or 5 lines of growth.
Flagella of the second antennae 9—10-segmented. 18-20 pairs of legs.
HULIMNADIA SORDIDA (King).
Limnadia sordida King, Proce. Roy. Soe. Van Diemen’s Land, 1855, p. 70.—
Eulimnadia rivolensis Brady, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1886, p. 87, fig. D.
This species was very briefly described by King and since he did not publish
any figures, it was difficult to identify. Sars (1895, p. 17) suggested it might
be synonymous with Paralimnadia stanleyana, while Sayce (1902, p. 245) con-
sidered that it was probably the same form as that described by Brady (1886,
p. 87) as Eulimnadia rivolensis. The original specimen described is figured in
King’s manuscript and the drawings show without doubt that Sayce’s opinion
was correct. A detailed description of this species is given by Sayce (1902, p.
245, Plate xxxii.) under the name of Eulimnadia rivolensis Brady.
134 FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF N.S.W., IV., PHYLLOPODA,
Distribution._N.8.W.: Botany Bay, Moure Park, Nelson’s Bay, Myall Lakes,
Lismore. Victoria; South Australia; Central Neeeoue
Genus Historia Riippell, 1857.
Carapace oval, 10-22 lines of growth usually very distinct. Dorsal organ
absent. 24-28 pairs of legs. Six Species are described from Australia, three
of which occur in New South Wales.
Key to species of Estheria.
A. Tail-piece bearing numerous anal denticles.
BaiMore than) 20) Mineswob wehowalay ieee yee es nAls d i iad eA nen ae packardi.
BB. Less than 20 lines of growth.
C. Marginal area of the carapace with crowded concentric striae . elluptica.
CC: Marginal area without any striae .. .. STM NM lors bien k Cadena tt
AA. Tail-piece with few (less than ten) anal denticles,
B. Dorsal margin forming a distinct angle with the posterior margin .. . sarsii.
BB. Dorsal margin joining the posterior without any angle.
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OC Byesisepanaiel) cy ick may Asi a Mec Ale ans als slcbney oe
EXSTHERIA PACKARDI Brady.
Brady, Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1886, p. 85, fig. C.
This appears to be the commonest species of Hstheria in Australia, and
usually occurs in large numbers. An account of its development was given by
' Sars in 1896 and a detailed deseription of the adult form in 1895 (p. 28, Plate 4.
figs. 1-9, Plate 5, figs. 1-9).
Distribution —N.8.W.: Botany, Hay, Dubbo, Trangie. South Australia;
Central Australia; Victoria; Queensland.
HISTHERIA LUTRARIA Brady.
Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1886, p. 85, fig. B.
Estheria lutraria is the largest species of the genus that occurs in Australia;
it has not hitherto been recorded in New South Wales.
Specific characters. Carapace, seen laterally, with a very straight dorsal
margin which meets the curved posterior margin without any definite angle.
Umbo small and pointed, situated very close to the anterior end, dorsal margin
sloping very obliquely from the umbo to the posterior end. Anterior margin
much broader than the posterior. Surface of the carapace with an average of
fourteen lines of growth, distinctly marked and bearing small hairs ; surface be-
tween the lines marked with an irregular reticulation. Tail-piece comparatively
short, dorsal margins of the lamellae deeply concave, about five small denticles;
end-claws bearing feathered setae along half their length. Length of fully grown
specimens attaining 14 mm.
Distribution—N.S.W.: Dubbo, Broken Hill. South Australia; Central Aus-
tralia.
HWSTHERIA RUBRA, n.sp. (Plate xxxu., Figs. 8-9.)
Carapace (Fig. 8), seen laterally, irregularly oval in outline; dorsal margin
ferming a distinet obtuse angle with the posterior margin; anterior margin
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 135
broadly rounded; posterior margin curved, narrower than the anterior. Umbones
very prominent, situated fairly far forward. Seen from above not very tumid,
greatest width oceurring considerably in front of the middle, anterior end broader
than the posterior. Surface of the carapace marked by about 12 distinct lines of
erowth which are provided with short bristles; between the lines the surface is
marked by an irregular reticulation, no concentric striae on the outer margin.
Dorsal margin bearing two or three small spines. Valves of firm consistency
and moderately thick. Head comparatively large, eyes confluent, situated behind
a somewhat round projection of the head. Last segments of the trunk with well
marked spines, situated on small projections. Tail-piece (Fig. 9) well developed.
a strong pair of denticles and two smaller pairs occurring in front of the caudal
setae; dorsal margin curved, bearing a total number of 18-20 pairs of denticles,
last pair very large; end-claws strong, bearing feathered setae along half their
length and very small hairs or bristles along the remaining half. Colour of Eving
specimens bright red to reddish-brown. Length, 6 mm.
Distribution —N.S.W.: Marra and Budda Stations on the Darling River and
Goorimpa Station on the Paroo.
Family LIMNETIDAE.
Carapace spheroidal, without lines of growth. Head large, not included in
the carapace. First pair of legs prehensile in the male. Tail-piece undeveloped.
Only one genus, Limnetis.
Genus Limnetis Loven.
Carapace without umbones; surface smooth. Head produced into a large
rostrum. Tail-piece unarmed. .
Two species occur in New South Wales.
Key to species of Limnetis.
A. Rostrum in the female broadly rounded .. .. ........ .. - macleayana-
AA. Rostrum in the female narrow, long, notched at each side... .. .. .. .. tate.
LIMNETIS MACLEAYANA King.
Proe. Roy. Soe. Van Diemen’s Land, 1855, p. 70.
Female. Carapace, seen laterally, of irregularly rounded shape, the greatest
height not as long as the length and occurring in front of the middle. Seen
from above, oval with the greatest width in the middle; anterior and posterior
ends pointed, and of equal width. Rostrum very broad and obtusely rounded at
the end. Eyes of moderate size, ocellus almost as large as the eyes. Twelve
pairs of legs diminishing in size posteriorly. Tail-piece very small, ending in
two rounded lobes, each of which bears a tiny spinule. Colour in the living
animal, jade green. Length up to 7.5 mm.
Male. Very like the female in general form, except that the posterior end
is narrower. Rostrum shorter than that of the female and transversely truncated
at the tip. Ten pairs of legs, the first of which are modified as grasping organs.
Distribution—N.S.W.: Botany, Liverpool, Denham Court, Hay, Myall Lakes,
Paroo River. It has also been recorded from Victoria.
LIMNETIS TATEI Brady.
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1886, p. 84.
Female. Carapace, seen laterally, rounded, greatest height occurring con-
siderably in front of the middle. Seen from above oval, the greatest width be-
136 FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF N.S.W., IV., PHYLLOPODA,
ing in the middle. Head comparatively larger than in the preceding species,
rostrum produced, seen laterally, pointed at the apex; seen from in front, obtuse
at the apex and with a well defined notch at each side. Legs similar to those
of the preceding species. Colour in living specimens yellowish-green. Length
up to 3 mm.
Male. Rostrum elongated, transversely truncated at the apex, the terminal
edge bearing a fringe of cilia.
This species is more rarely found than the preceding one but is usually in
large numbers when it occurs.
Distribution —N.S.W.: Sydney, Botany, Maroubra. Victoria; South Aus-
traha.
List of Works referred to.
Bairp, W., 1850.—Description of several new species of Entomostraca. Proc.
Zool, Soc. London, Part xvii, p. 254.
————, 1860.—Deseription of a new Entomostracous Crustacean belong-
ing to the order Phyllopoda from South Australia. Proc. Zool.
Soc. London, Part xxviu., p. 392.
—__— —_._-, 1866.—Description of two new species of Phyllopodous Crusta-
ceans. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 122.
Brapy, G. 8., 1886.—Notes on Freshwater Hntomostraca from South Australia.
Proce. Zool. Soe. London, p. 82.
Cuitton, C., 1917.—Results of the Soath Australian Museum Expedition to
Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., xli.
p. 475.
Cuaus, €., 1872.—Ueber den Korperbau ciner australischen Limnadia und iiber
das Minchen derselben. Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Zoologie, Bd.
22,°p. 305.
Dapay pe Dees, E., 1910.—Monographie systématique des Phyllopedes anostracés.
Ann. Sci. Nat., Zoologie, Series 9, Tome xi., p. 91.
—————, 1910.—Quelques Phyllopodes anostracés nouveaux, appendice a
la Monographie systematique des Phyllopodes anostracés. Ann-
So. Nat., Zoologie, Series 9, Tome xu., p. 241.
Kine, R. L., 1855.—On Australian Entomostracans. Proc. Roy. Soc. Van Die-
men’s Land, i1., part 1, p. 56.
Ricuters, F., 1876.—Branchipus australiensis nov. spec. Journal de Muséum
Godeffroy, xu., p. 43.
Sars, G. O., 1887.—On Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird). Christ. Videns-Sels. For.,
IM@, dl
—, 1895.—Deseription of some Australian Phyllopoda. Arch. f.
Math. og Nat., Bd. xvui., No. 2, p. 1.
-, 1896.—On some West-Australian Entomostraca raised from
dried sand. Arch. f. Math. og Nat., xix., No. 1, p. 5.
-, 1896.—Deseription of two new Phyllopoda from North Austra-
lia. Archiv. f. Math. og Nat., xviii., No. 8, p. 4.
, 1896.—Development of Estheria packardi Brady, as shown by
artifical hatching from dried mud. Arch. f. Math. og Nat.,
xvill., No. 2, p. 1.
Sayce, O. A., 1902.—The Phyllopoda of Australia, including descriptions of some
new genera and species. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xv., p. 224.
2
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 137
SPENCER and Hau, 1895.—Preliminary Description of a new species of Apus.
Victorian Naturalist, xi., p. 161.
, 1896—Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia,
Part 2, Zoology.
Tats, R., 1877.—Deseription of a new species of a Phyllopodous Crustacean.
Trans. Proc. Philosophical Soc. S.A., p. 136.
WuiteLecce, T., 1889.—List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna
of Port Jackson and the neighbourhood. Proc. Roy. Soe.
N.S.W.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXVIII.-XXXII.
Plate xxviii.
Branchinella frondosa &.
Fig. 1—Lateral view (x 15); Fig. 2.—Frontal appendage (x 28); Fig. 3—Head
(x 20); Fig. 4.—Cercopods (x 20); Fig. 5—First leg (x 100); Fig. 6—
Penis (x 100).
Plate xxix.
Figs. 1-4 Branchinella frondosa @.
Fig. 1—Head (x 30); Fig. 2—Antenna (x 35); Fig. 3.—Hgg-sac (x 30);
Fig. 4.—Hge-sae, lateral view (x 30).
Figs. 5-9 Branchinella proboscida 6.
Fig. 5—Lateral view (x 15); Fig. 6—Cereopods (x 30); Fig. 7—Penis (x 60) ;
Fig. 8—First leg (x 150); Fig. 9.—Antenna (x 60). .
Plate xxx.
Figs. 1-3 Branchinella proboscida °.
Fig. 1.—Head (x 15); Fig. 2—Antenna (x 30); Fig. 3—Hgg-sac (x 30).
Figs. 4-7 Branchinecta tenuis d.
Fig. 4.—Lateral view (x 10); Fig. 5—Antenna (x 15); Fig. 6.—_Cercopods
(x 15); Fig. 7.—First leg (x 150).
Plate xxxi.
Branchinecta parooensis 6.
Fig. 1—Lateral view (x 5); Fig. 2—-Antenna (x 7); Fig. 3—Cercopods (x 10) ;
Fig. 4.—First leg (x 20).
Plate xxxi.
Figs. 1-7 Limnadopsis parvispinus.
Fig. 1—lLateral view ¢ (x 3); Fig. 2.—Tail-piece O(c 9) ; Fig. 3.—Head ¢
(x 9); Fig. 4—Modified leg d (x 12); Fig. 5.—hLateral view Oy (is) eb
6.—Tail-piece 2 (x 9); Fig. 7—Dorsal margin (x 7).
Figs. 8-9 Hstheria rubra.
Fig. 8—Lateral view (x 10); Fig. 9.—Tail-piece (x 25).
138
NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA. No. ii.
By J. R. Mauiocu.
[Read 28th May, 1924.]
Family MUSCARIDAE.
Subfamily ANTHOMYIINAE.
Genus Hyuemyra Robineau-Desvoidy.
This genus is most abundantly represented in the northern hemisphere and
especially in Europe and the northern and mountainous sections of North
America. Africa and South America have so far produced very few represen-
tatives of the genus and only 3 are known to me as occurring in Australia, one
of these, cilicrwra Rondani, ‘being of world-wide distribution.
It is possible that collecting in forested mountainous sections may yet pro-
duce more Australian species, though those already known will probably be found
to be associated with cultivated crops, which is certainly the case with cilicrura.
I present herein a key for the identification of the three species known to
me. TF ailure to associate one of the species with any already described has com-
pelled me to describe it as new. The type and allotype specimens will be re-
turned to Dr. E. W. Ferguson.
The complete sixth wing-vein, presence of a bristle at base of hind meta-
tarsus on its ventral surface, and of fine sparse soft hairs on the ventral surface
of scutellum will serve to distinguish the genus from its allies in Australia. The
thorax has 2 + 3 dorsocentral bristles, the first posterior cell of wings is very
slightly narrowed at apex, and the lower ecalyptra is smaller than the upper.
Key to Australian species of Hylemyia.-
1. Wing with conspicuous black spots as follows: at apex of first vein, junction of
second and third veins, on fourth vein at base of discal cell, and on both
extremities of both cross-veins; thorax with three broad brown vittae, the
median one extending over scutellum .. .. . . .- deceptiva Malloch.
Wing without black spots; thorax not, or stidbyte eae Gintate Be nye Pee
2. Hind tibiae of male with a series of erect setulose hairs) on posteroventral
surface from base to apex, which are as long as diameter of tibia; hind
femur in same sex with some strong bristles on apical half of anteroventral
surface, the posteroventral surface unarmed, fore tibia with a stout curved
blunt-tipped spur at apex on posterior side; hind tibia in both sexes with
about six anterodorsal bristles of irregular lengths; prealar bristle dis-
PINCH ieee 5 .. .. .. . cilierura Rondani.
Hind tibia in ee nee erect Be coed hairs, femur with long fine
bristles on entire length of anteroventral surface, the tips of which are
BY J. BR. MALLOCH. 139
very fine, and a series of similar but weaker bristles on posteroventral
surface, which do not extend to apex, fore tibia with a short sharp-tipped
straight bristle at apex on posterior side; both sexes with two or three
anterodorsal and two posterodorsal bristles; prealar bristle absent .
. urbana, n.Sp.
HiYLEMYIA DECEPTIVA Malloch.
I have seen a large series of specimens of this species from Hlawarra and
Botany Bay, N.S.W., sent to me by Dr. C. F. Baker, Philippine Islands. Origin-
ally described from New Zealand, Sydney, N.S.W., and Adelaide, S.A.
Readily distinguished from its allies by the spotted wings. Length, 4-5 mm.
HYLEMYIA CILIcRURA Rondani.
I have but two females of this species before me from Australia. It has
been recorded also by Stein. The species is very widely distributed, the larvae
feeding in the sprouting seeds of maize, beans, ete. Same size as last species.
HYLEMYIA URBANA, D.Sp.
Male and female.—Black, densely covered with brownish-grey pruinescence.
Thorax faintly or not at all vittate with brown. Abdomen with a series of dark
spots in middle of dorsum, which are rather indistinct in male and sometimes
absent in female. Interfrontalia on female rufous in front, darker above. Legs
black. Wings hyaline. Calyptrae whitish. Halteres yellow.
Male——F rons linear above; arista pubescent; parafacial about as wide as
third antennal segment, and narrower than height of cheek. Thorax with a
sparse double row of presutural hairs and no prealar bristle. Abdomen de-
pressed, as in ciltcrura, none of the segments with abnormal armature. [ore
tibia with one or two posterior and one anterodorsal setula beyond middle; mid
tibia with one anteroventral, one anterodorsal, one or two posterodorsal, and
two posteroventral bristles; hind femur as described in key; hind tibia with two
or three anterodorsal, two posterodorsal, and from two to four anteroventral
bristles, the last very short. First posterior cell of wings slightly narrowed
apically; costal thorns both distinct.
Female.—Frons fully one-third of the head width, with a pair of cruciate
interfrontal bristles. Tibiae as in male, but the hind femur with sparse antero-
ventral bristles which do not extend to base, and the posteroventral surface bare.
Length, 4 mm.
Type, male, allotype, eight male, and one female paratypes, Sydney.
One female from Sydney has three posterodorsal and two anterodorsal
bristles and may represent another species, but more material is necessary te
warrant a decision.
Subfamily PHAONIINAE.
It is becoming more and more difficult to separate the so-called families
Muscidae and Anthomyiidae of authors, and it is evident to me that, while
within any one of the larger faunal regions of the world it is not impossible to
designate characters which will serve for that purpose, it is impossible to make
these or any other set of characters apply to the whole complex when the whole
world’s fauna is considered. I have in fact dropped the family Anthomyiidae
in preference to Muscaridae or Muscidae in all of my recent papers, using sub-
family groups of which Muscinae or Musearinae will form one,
The separation of Phaoniinae and Musearinae is difficult, and it may be
necessary yet to consider these groups as forming one subfamily as the limits
140 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, 11,
are very difficult to arrive at. There are, however, in the former, no species
which have the fourth vem of the wings angularly bent forward at or before
the middle of its last section as in typical Musca, the bend when present oe-
curring beyond the middle, and the lower calyptra in Muscarinae is almost in-
variably noticeably truncate at apex, while in the other group it is narrower
and more distinctly rounded, with its inner posterior angle well separated from
the anterior lateral angle of scutellum, which is not the case in Musearinae.
DICHAETOMYIA ARMATA Stein.
Male and female—Fulvous yellow, distinctly shining. Frons black, with
white pruinescence, interfrontalia paler, brownish in female; antennae and palpi
yellow, third segment of former whitish pruinescent in male, a little darkened
in female. Thorax with three whitish pruinescent vittae on dorsum, giving it
the appearance of being quadrivittate with rufous yellow. Apex of abdomen in
male more or less infuscated. Legs entirely tawny yellow. Wings, calyptrae
and halteres yellowish.
Male.—Eyes bare; frons over twice as wide as third antennal segment,
orbits distinct, each with six or seven bristles, the upper three or four curved
backward; parafacial eliminated below when head is seen from the side; cheek
narrow; longest hairs on arista about twice as long as width of third antennal
segment. Thorax with 2+ 4 dorsocentral bristles; prealar short; hypopleura
hairy below spiracle. Fore tibia with one long fine posterior bristle at middle;
mid femur normal; mid tibia with rather dense black hairs on ventral surface
that are longer than diameter of tibia, and two long fine posterior bristles; hind
femora swollen from near base, at base of swollen part, about one-fourth from
base of femur, on ventral surface with a dense clump of short black downwardly
directed bristles, the apices of which are flexed towards apex of femur, a very
long strong thorn at one-third from apex on same surface, which is as long as
from its base to apex of femur, sloped towards base of femur, and curved at
tip, some of the anterior bristles also strong; hind tibia slightly curved, with one
anterodorsal median bristle and some fine black anteroventral and posterodorsal
hairs or setulae. Wings normal.
Female——Frons nearly one-third of the head width, upper two orbitals on
each side backwardly directed. Fore tibia with one anterodorsal and one pos-
terior median bristle; mid tibia with or without a short anterodorsal bristle, with
two bristles and some short setulae on posterior side; hind femur with one or
two strong preapical anteroventral bristles; hind tibia with two anterodorsal,
two or three anteroventral bristles and a few posterodorsal setulae. Otherwise
as male.
Length, 7 mm.
Originally described from an unrecorded locality in a key which does not
give sufficient data to make the identification of the species absolutely certain,
but, owing to the fact that I have what is evidently the same species from ‘the
Philippines, I accept the name for this species even should Stein’s name be
considered a nomen nudum. I suspect that Mydaea rigidiseta Stein, described
from New Guinea, is merely this species, the type having but three pairs of
postsutural dorsocentrals and the abdomen with black-spots. I have one such
specimen from Queensland before me now.
Localities—Glenreagh, N.S.W., February 1, 1923, Coramba-Dorrigo Rd.,
1,000 feet, January 31, 1923; Hidsvold, Queensland.
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 141
PHAONIA UMBRINERVIS Stein.
Male and female.——Black, slightly shining, with drab-coloured dusting.
Mesonotum, when seen from behind, with four narrow black vittae. Abdomen,
when viewed from behind, with, an elongate black spot on each tergite, forming
an interrupted central vitta, less noticeable in female. Legs black. Wings
slightly smoky, both eross-veins broadly black. Calyptrae greyish. Knobs of
halteres fuscous.
Male.—Eyes almost bare; narrowest part of frons about one-eighth of the
head width, orbits linear, with long setulae on anterior half; parafacials silvery,
nearly as wide as third antennal segment; cheek one-third as high as eye; arista
sparsely plumose, the longest hairs as long as width of third antennal segment;
palpi normal, slender. Thorax with dorsocentrals 2 +3; prealar absent; both
intra-alars long; acrostichals in two series, three pairs in front of suture, one
pair conspicuous; sternopleurals 1:2; hypopleura bare. Abdomen elongate ovate;
basal sternite bare, fifth with a deep rounded posterior emargination. Fore tibia
without a median posterior bristle; mid tibia with two posterior bristles; hind
femur with a complete anteroventral and posteroventral series of bristles, the
latter the weaker; hind tibia with two anterodorsal and three or four antero-
ventral bristles, the calear of moderate length. Both costal thorns distinct;
venation normal.
Female.—Differs from the male in having the frons about one-third of the
head width, one upper orbital directed backward, hind femur without postero-
ventral bristles.
Length, 3.5-5 mm.
Originally described from one immature male from Botany Bay. I have
before me a male from Sydney, July 15, 1923, and a female also from there,
October 8, 1922.
PHAONIA FERGUSONI, n.Sp.
Male.—Black, slightly shining. Thorax and abdomen rather densely grey
pruinescent, the former with four broad black vittae, the latter with a dorso-
central black stripe which tapers apically. Legs black. Wings hyaline. Calyp-
trae gray, margins and fringes black. Halteres black.
Eyes densely haired; frons about one-ninth of the head width, orbits linear,
setulose on their entire length, strongly so anteriorly; antennae missing in type;
parafacial broad, over half as wide as height of cheek, the latter about one-fourth
as high as eye. Thorax with 2+ 3 dorsocentrals, two pairs of closely placed
fine presutural acrostichals, the prealar short, scutellum normal, hypopleura bare,
sternopleurals 1:2. Abdomen elongate-ovate, basal sternite bare or almost so.
Fore tibia unarmed at middle; fore tarsus without erect sensory hairs; mid
tibia with two posterior bristles; hind femur with a series of fine closely placed
bristles on entire length of anteroventral surface, longer apically; hind tibia
with four or five irregular anterodorsal bristles, the anteroventral surface with
a series of long setulae, and the posterodorsal bristle rather short. Wing normal,
outer cross-vein much curved.
Length, 11 mm.
Type, Mill, Allyn River, December 18, 1922 (Goldfinch).
The foregoing are the only two species which are definitely known as belong-
ing to this genus from Australia. Stein has doubtfully referred stwpida Walker
here, but it may readily be separated from either, if it really is a Phaonia, by
the reddish femora and tibiae, bluish abdomen, and the presence of four pairs
of postsutural dorsocentrals.
142 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, iL.,
As in the case of Hylemyza, this genus is most abundantly represented in
Europe and North America, there being comparatively few species in South
America, about half a dozen in Africa and none so far as I know in New
Zealand. There are about 50 in North Ameriea, some of which oceur also in
Europe, where there are about the same number.
Some of the larvae occur under bark of fallen trees, and one is parasitic.
Genus Hetina Robineau-Desvoidy.
The species which I have referred to Helina from Australia fall into several
more or less well marked groups, but in most cases these groups are slightly
different from those found in Europe and North America. The species related
to addita Walker are in many respects similar to the duplicata group found in
these regions, but there are rather dense hairs on the eyes, which are not found
as a rule in the European species which possess four sternopleural bristles. I
note that there is a very decided tendency in the Australian and New Zealand
Bpecies of some genera in this family to have the eyes hairy, whereas in other
regions the allies of these species do not have the hairs or they are very in-
distinct.
Hurope does not furnish any blue or green species of this genus, while
there are many such species in Australia. The presence of fine hairs upon the
hypopleura is a character which has been considered of sufficient importance to
use as a differentiating character for the families Muscidae and Anthomyiidae
by recent authors, but in many species of Anthomyiidae there are quite evident
hairs on the hypopleura and, in some cases, I have concluded that they may be
absent or present even in the same species. It is pertinent to note that some
of the blue species referred to have these hairs and others do not, a condition
which is found also in the other groups to some extent.
Possibly future workers on the family will arrive at a means of classification
which will take into consideration the immature stages and biology while linking
these up with characters which are not as yet evident to us and so arrive at a
better understanding of the relationships of the groups. However, in the mean-
time, we must perforce rely upon characters which appear to associate rather
diverse forms together and, under existing circumstances, there appears to be no
recourse other than to adopt for the Australian species the generic name above
used.
As limited here we have species which possess the following characters:
Sixth wing-vein incomplete, not extending to margin of wing; hind tibia without
a strong bristle beyond middle on posterodorsal surface; lower calyptra much
larger than upper; wing veins bare, fourth not appreciably bent forward apically;
fore femur not thorned at apex below in male; cruciate frontal bristles absent
in female.
HELINA CALYPTRATA, 0.Sp.
Male.—Head black, parafacials silvery. Thorax black, with distinct white
pruinescence and quadrivittate. Abdomen greenish-blue, with conspicuous whitish
pruinescence, the sides of dorsum slightly checkered. Legs black. Wings rather
noticeably brownish along costa, especially in subcostal cell and at inner cross-
vein. Calyptrae white, margin of lower one yellowish. Knob of halteres fuscous.
Hyes distinctly hairy; narrowest part of frons narrower than third antennal
seement; arista plumose; cheek twice as high as width of third antennal segment.
Thorax with 2+ 3 dorsocentrals; prealar very short; strong presutural acro-
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 143
stichals absent; some fine hairs below metathoracic spiracle. Basal abdominal
sternite bare. Fore tibia without a median posterior bristle; mid tibia with two
posterior bristles; hind femur with rather short bristles on apical half of antero-
ventral surface and a series of short setulose hairs on posteroventral; hind tibia
with two anterodorsal and one very short anteroventral bristle. Outer cross-
vein curved, at about its own length from inner. Lower calyptra narrower than
usual.
Female.—Similar to male, the eyes with very short hairs and the wing-veins
rather noticeably yellowish margined, the outer cross-vein as distinctly so as the
inner.
Length, 6-6.5 mm.
Type, male, Austinmer, N.S.W., December 19, 1921. Allotype, Sydney,
October 29, 1922.
HELINA FLAVOFUSCA, n.sp.
Female—Head black, with grayish pruinescence. Thorax reddish-yellow,
with a poorly defined dorsocentral fuscous vitta. Abdomen brownish fuscous,
with grayish pruinescence, the anterior lateral angles of tergites more or less
flavous. Legs reddish-yellow, tarsi black. Wings, calyptrae, and_halteres
yellowish.
Kyes bare; frons a little less than one-third of the head width, orbits narrow,
two upper bristles on each side curved backward; arista plumose. Dorsocentrals
2+ 3; one or two pairs of short widely separated presutural acrostichals present
besides the short hairs; hypopleura bare; prealar very short. Fore tibia without
a median posterior bristle; mid tibia with two posterior bristles; hind femur with
about three anteroventral bristles on apical third; hind tibia with one antero-
dorsal and one anteroventral bristle. Venation normal, last section of fourth
vein about 1.5 as long as preceding section.
Length, 5-6 mm.
Type, Sydney, July 21, 1923. Paratype, Sydney; May 19, 1923.
HELINA_IMITATRIX, n.sp.
Female.—Head black, face, cheeks, and orbits whitish pruinescent, inter-
frontalia black, when seen from in front white pruinescent; basal two antennal
segments tawny, third black; palpi tawny, infuscated apically. Thorax tawny,
centre of dise with a broad poorly defined fuscous vitta, the usual 4 vittae reddish-
brown but not very distinct; seutellum darker at base; a fuscous spot on upper
anterior part of pteropleura; postnotum dark in centre. Abdomen fuscous,
densely pruinescent, the dorsum checkered. Legs tawny, tarsi black. | Wings
grayish hyaline, both ecross-veins rather broadly clouded. Calyptrae and halteres
yellowish.
Hyes sparsely hairy; frons normal; arista with very short hairs; cheek
about twice as high as width of third ‘antennal segment; palpi normal; pro-
boseis much stouter than usual. Thorax with 2+ 4 dorsocentrals and at least
one pair of strong closely placed presutural acrostichals; prealar short but dis-
tinet; both intra-alars strong; sternopleurals 1:2. Abdomen normal. Fore tibia
with a posterior median, bristle; mid femur with about three ventral bristles at
base; mid tibia with three posterior bristles; hind femur with two or three pre-
apical anteroventral bristles; hind tibia with two anterodorsal and two to four
anteroventral bristles. Outer cross-vein straight; first posterior cell slightly
widened apically; both costal thorns distinct.
144 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, il.,
Length, 7 mm.
Type, Lorne, Victoria, October 23, 1918 (I. E. Wilson).
LIMNOPHORA OPACIFRONS, n.sp.
Female.—Head black, opaque, with dense white pruinescence on face, cheeks,
and orbits, occiput lavender-gray pruinescent except in centre where it is brown;
interfrontalia when seen from in front whitish, from the side brown in middle
and black on sides. Mesonotum and pleura lavender-gray pruinescent, the
former with five dark brown vittae, the pleura dark brown on upper margin;
seutellum dark brown. Visible tergites 1 to 3 each with a pair of very large
transverse fuscous brown spots which are narrowly separated in middle and ex-
tend entirely across dorsum at posterior margin leaving only a transverse gray
pruinescent area on each side anteriorly; fourth tergite with a large irregular
central mark of same colour. Legs black, with grayish pruinescence. Wings
clear. Calyptrae white. Halteres yellow.
Kyes almost bare; frons one-fourth of the head width; each orbit with two
recurved upper bristles; face concave; cheek higher than width of third antennal
segment; arista very shortly pubescent; palpi slightly broadened. Thorax with
2+ 4 dorsocentrals; both intra-alars distinct; sternopleurals 1:1 or 0:1. Abdo-
men without genital thorns. Fore tibia without a median posterior bristle; mid
tibia with one posterior bristle; hind femur with one preapical anteroventral
bristle; hind tibia with one anterodorsal bristle. First posterior cell of wing
hardly narrowed apically; last section of fourth vein about 2.5 as long as pre-
ceding section; outer cross-vein curved, slightly deflected towards base of wing
at upper margin, and at its own length from inner.
Length, 5 mm.
Type, Coramba-Dorrigo Rd., 1,000 feet, N.S.W., January 31, 1923.
LIMNOPHORA NIGRIORBITALIS, D.Sp.
Female——Similar to opacifrons. Differs in having the entire frons includ-
ing orbits opaque black when seen from the side; the face silvery; mesonotum
with the vittae fused so that only the lateral margins are pale gray pruinescent;
and the black abdominal spots are not separated in middle.
The species is more slender and even less strongly bristled than is opaci-
frons. Thoracic dorsocentrals 2+ 3. Bristles of legs as in last species, but the
hind femur in type has no preapical anteroventral bristle. Wings narrower than
in opacifrons, but in other respects similar, except that the outer cross-vein is
directed slightly towards apex instead of base of wing at its upper extremity.
In both species the setulae at base of third wing-vein are very fine and short.
Length, 4 mm.
Type, same as last species.
LIMNOPHORA ORTHONEURA, 1.Sp.
Male.—Head black, with silvery pruinescence, that on interfrontalia visible
only when seen from in front. Thorax shining black, densely whitish pruimescent
on dorsum except on two large subquadrate marks in front of suture and a
broad transverse mark behind suture which shows traces of divided vittae along
its posterior margin when seen from behind; scutellum gray pruinescent at apex.
Abdomen with basal tergite entirely black, a pair of large subtriangular fuscous
spots on second and another on third visible tergites, fourth with a less distinct
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 145
central brownish mark. Legs black. Wings hyaline. Calyptrae white. Halteres
yellow.
Eyes bare; frons one-third of the head width; face coneave in profile, vi-
brissal angle not projecting beyond level of base of antennae; cheek not as wide
as third antennal segment; parafacial linear in middle; arista pubescent, thick-
ened on basal half, hardly longer than antenna. Thorax with 2 + 3 dorsocentrals;
mesonotal hairs rather strong. Abdomen elongate ovate; hypopygium small.
Fore tibia unarmed at middle; mid femur with two or three posteroventral
bristles near base; mid tibia with two posterior bristles; hind femur with two
strong preapical anteroventral bristles; hind tibia with one anterodorsal and one
anteroventral bristle. First posterior cell not narrowed at apex; inner cross-
vein but little beyond middle of discal cell; outer cross-vein straight, at not more
than half its own length from apex of fifth; last section of fourth vein not
over 1.5 as long as preceding section.
Female.—Similar to male, arista longer, abdomen pointed at apex.
Length, 3 mm.
Type, Belaringar, N.S.W., May 31, 1923. Allotype, Fish River, N.S.W.,
March 25, 1923.
This species belongs to the triangula group, in which the eyes are widely
separated in the male. There are some closely related species in Formosa and
elsewhere in the Orient, some of which have yet to be described, though they were
included in a key to oriental species published by Stein some years ago.
Genus ATHERIGONA Rondani.
This genus has usually been placed in the subfamily Coenosiinae but it be-
longs without doubt in the Phaoniinae, though an aberrant group.
ATHERIGONA TIBISETA, D.Sp.
Male.—Testaceous yellow, subopaque. Third antennal segment and arista
fuscous brown; palpi yellow; interfrontalia orange; frontal orbits whitish pruin-
escent; occiput dark gray on upper half, with yellowish pruinescence. Dise of
mesonotum, scutellum and metanotum fuscous, densely gray pruinescent; humeral
angles broadly yellowish, mesonotum with a faint brown central vitta. Abdomen
with a brownish mark in centre of first visible tergite and a pair of large elon-
gate black spots on second and third. Legs yellow, bases of fore tarsi darker.
Wings hyaline. Calyptrae and halteres yellow.
Arista almost bare, moderately thickened on more than the basal half; palpi
short and stout, with three or four short black bristles at base of each on their
outer sides, the apical hairs pale. Thorax normal. Abdomen normal, first and
second visible tergites equal, third about half as long as second; hypopygial pro-
minence short, with a slender process on each side directed backward and tapered
a little at tips, and below the level of these, which are separated by a distance
about equal to their length, there is an almost indistinguishable wart or short
process in centre. Fore tarsus with a few short erect fine hairs along the an-
terior side of basal segment and one or more similar hairs at apices of the other
segments, which are about as long as the diameter of the segments; fore tibia
with about eight long black hairs on apical half of ventral surfaces, the longest
of which are as long as basal segment of fore tarsus; fore femur normal for the
typical group; mid and hind legs as in genotype. Inner cross-vein at about two-
fifths from base of discal cell; first posterior cell not noticeably narrowed at
apex; outer eross-vein erect.
146 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, ii.
Length, 3 mm.
Type, Sydney, April 2, 1923 (Mackerras).
There is no other species of the genus so far described which has the fore
tibia as in this one. Several Indian and African species have fine hairs on the
fore tarsi in the males. These hairs are not present in the females.
Subfamily FANNIINAE.
Genus Huryomma Stein.
This genus may be distinguished from Fannia by the widely separated eyes
of the male, the frons being one-third of the head width. There is but one
strong presutural dorsocentral bristle instead of two and the prealar bristle 1s
not duplicated.
The presence of one or two setulose hairs on hind coxa-above base of femur,
the abbreviated sixth and seventh wing-veins with the seventh longest and curved
round the apex of sixth, and the fact that the two upper orbital bristles on each
side of frons are directed outward over eyes, will separate the genus from others
occurring in Australia.
KURYOMMA PEREGRINUM Meigen.
Black, densely yellowish-gray pruinescent. Basal two antennal segments,
palpi, legs except tarsi, and the abdomen tawny yellow; third antennal segment
and tarsi black.
Arista almost bare. Postsutural dorsocentrals 3 pairs, the anterior one short.
Fore tibia with a very short anterodorsal setula beyond middle; mid tibia with
one anterodorsal and one posterodorsal bristle; hind femur with two strong pre-
apical anteroventral bristles; hind tibia with one anteroventral, one anterodorsal
and. one posterodorsal bristle close to middle. Lower calyptra hardly protruded.
Length, 2.5-3.5 mm.
One female, Sydney, July 26, 1923.
A cosmopolitan species. Probably the larva lives in decaying vegetable
matter.
HUCALYPTS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS AND THEIR DEFINED
AREAS.
By E. C. CuisHoum, M.B., Cu.M.
[Read 28th May, 1924.] -
In travelling on foot across the Blue Mountains from Lapstone Hill to
Clarence, and by car to Mount Wilson, where I spent the best part of two days
on two separate occasions, and taking a day at different places, I have en-
deavoured to locate different species of Eucalypts and define their boundaries.
In doing this I must acknowledge great help from the paper of J. H. Maiden
and R. H. Cambage, “Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains,’ (These Proc., 1905, p.
190), which enabled me to locate most of the species with comparative ease.
Two species they mention, viz., H. macrorrhyncha and E. melliodora, I have now
been able to find, probably because our routes differed after Mount Victoria,
they going by way of Hartley and Bowenfels, whereas I went by way of the
main western line to Clarence. With Mr. W. F. Blakely’s assistance I was able
to add three (Nos. 10, 20, 30 below) near Blaxland, new records for the mountains,
though he deserves the credit for the discovery. I have extended the range of
several others. Both Mr. Blakely and I failed to find H. notabilis about Blax-
land, although Glenbrook is its type locality (February, 1923). H. Dalrympleana
is recorded for the first time from the Blue Mountains.
A
1
Eucalypts found on the Blue Mountains.
1. E. Moorei Maiden and Cambage.—Found from half a mile south of
Nellie’s Glen, Katoomba, and near Minne-ha-ha Falls cn the north of the rail-
way to between Hartley Vale railway station and Bell.
2. H. coriacea A. Cunn.—A few trees, between Newnes Junction and
Clarence. ire
3. EH. coriacea variety——A Mallee type of tree with narrow leaves found in
quantity between Newnes Junction and Clarence, being seen right up to Newnes
Junction platform. This is an interesting form.
4. E. radiata Sieb—From Lawson, on the north side of the railway in
gully near Frederica Falls, right through to Mount Wilson and Clarence.
5. HE. fastigata Deane and Maiden.—From bottom of Wentworth Falls in
the Jamieson Valley and along the Federal Pass from “The Tables” at Leura,
some distance towards Katoomba, at any rate to under “The Three Sisters” and
again at Clarence. This becomes a very fine tree in the Jamieson Valley, in
great contrast to those found at Clarence, which were of poor growth.
6. EH. dives Schau.—I first came across this at Mount Victoria, on the
south-west side of the railway in the catchment area of the reservoir, and again
at Clarence, also at Katoomba.
7. EH. Blaxlandi Maiden and Cambage—From Katoomba right through to
Clarence, always on top of the range or just below.
8. EH. eugenioides Sieb—F rom Lapstone right through to Clarence, though
I have not recorded it for Blackheath. This is the commonest Stringybark on
the Mountains.
9. EF. ligustrina DC.—This dwarf form found at Wentworth Falls on top
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of the range, but it seems to have a limited area here. Common on King’s
Tableland.
10. HE. agglomerata Maiden.—Found by Mr. W. F. Blakely and myself
near Warrimoo, about 3 miles west of Blaxland, and apparently not very
numerous.
ll. #. piperita Sm.—Found right through from Lapstone to Clarence. One
of the commonest Euealypts.
12. E. stricta Sieb—From Wentworth Falls to Clarence and on the road
to Mount Wilson from Bell. Found mostly on the edge of the escarpment or
in other exposed places.
13. HE. alttor Deane and Maiden (= oreades Baker and Smith).—From
Lawson to Bell.
14. EF. micrantha DC.—From Lapstone in patches right through to Clar-
ence, though I did not find it at Springwood.
15. EH. Sieberiana F.v.M.—First seen in the een uoueNeoa of Lawson and
right on to Clarence.
16. H. Consideniana Maiden.—First seen near 40-mile stone on main wes-
tern road, about a mile west of Blaxland, and also at Springwood, where it is
fairly numerous.
17. E. paniculata Sm.—F ound on Lapstone side of Blaxland, about half a
mile east of the latter.
18. HE. crebra F.v.M.—On Lapstone Hill and about Glenbrook.
19. E. siderophloia Benth—On Lapstone side of Blaxland. There is a
narrow belt of these three Ironbarks (Nos. 17-19) just here, and this is the
furthest limit west on the Mountains.
20. EH. squamosa Deane and Maiden.—In company with Mr. W. F. Blakely,
a few trees were noticed about the 41-mile stone on main western road, about
2 miles west of Blaxland.
21. E. rubida Deane and Maiden.—Only seen at Mount Victoria in reservoir
gully, and Katoomba, north of railway.
22. EH. maculosa Baker and Smith.—First seen at Wentworth Falls, 2 miles
east of the station, and all the way to Clarence.
23. EH. Dalrympleana Maiden.—At Mount Victoria in reservoir gully, where
they were fairly numerous, and at Clarence. This species seems to prefer the
valleys to the higher ground. The affinity of this with EH. rubida seems to be
close. Found at Katoomba also, and at Blackheath.
24. E. goniocalyx F.v.M.—Seen at Lawson, Wentworth Falls, Katoomba
and Mount Wilson; mostly seen a little way down the valleys. Also found at
Blackheath.
25. EH. elaeophora F.v.M.—From Wentworth Falls to Mount Victoria,
though I did not find it at Blackheath, and nowhere in any number.
26. E. viminalis Labill—I only came across this at Mount Wilson, where
it forms splendid trees, very upright and tall, branching high, and large in
diameter at the butt.
27. E. Bauerleni F.v.M.—Only found at Wentworth Falls on the National
Pass, in the valley and under “Inspiration Point” on Lindeman’s Pass. It is
very restricted in distribution.
28. EH. Deanei Maiden.—Found at Springwood at the heads of the gullies.
Tsolated trees on the top at Lawson. One medium-sized tree close to the railway
line on the north side about 14 miles east of Wentworth Falls railway station.
They were plentiful from Wentworth Falls to under the “Three Sisters,”
Katoomba, in the Jamieson Valley. These latter were very fine trees.
29. E. punctata DC.—From Lapstone to Springwood on the top of the
BY E. C. CHISHOLM. 149
range and in valley. At Wentworth Falls and the “Valley of the Waters’ below
the escarpment in the valley. These latter were poor specimens in growth com-
pared with those seen at Springwood.
30. HE. Shiressii Maiden and Blakely—A narrow-leaved suckered form,
closely allied to EL. punctata, found by Mr. W. F. Blakely in my company half a
mile east of Blaxland on disused part of old western road.
31. E. resinifera Sm—F ound from Lapstone to 14 miles or so west of
Springwood, and fairly numerous. This form seems to me to differ a little
from that found at a lower elevation, in the fruit having more exserted valves
and more pronounced rim. The whole fruit coarser.
32. EH. corymbosa Sm—FTK rom Lapstone to Wentworth Falls, on top of the
range, thence in the Jamieson Valley to under Inspiration Point, some way be-
tween the Valley of the Waters and Leura Falls. Found again in the Megalong
Valley west of the Narrow Neck towards Nellie’s Glen.
33. EH. eximia F.v.M.—From Lapstone Hill to just east of Valley Heights.
34. E. apiculata Baker and Smith.—Found in Jamieson Valley along Linde-
man’s Pass between Valley of the Waters and Leura Falls under Inspiration
Point. This is of a Mallee type, about 4 to 8 feet high, very narrow leaf, the
fruit resembling that of EH. radiata. Only found in very restricted area. Neither
EH. stricta nor EH. Moorei in the neighbourhood, or I should have suggested a
possible hybrid. The diameter of trunk at 3 inches from the ground of the
tallest is 2 inches. The wood white and bark smooth or slightly rough and
greyish in colour at butt, becoming smooth and dirty white on branches. ‘Sucker
leaves narrow. This species, unlike H. stricta and H. Moorei, which grow mostly
on top of the range, is found below the cliffs in the valley. I found a few
plants on King’s Tableland, Wentworth Falls. A form with truncate fruit
found at reservoir, Blackheath.
Eucalypts found at different localities on the Mountains.
(c.) == common everywhere; (f.c.) = fairly common; (n.c.) = not: common.
Blaxland and vicinity.
EH. eugenioides (c.), HE. agglomerata (Warrimoo, n.c.), H. piperita {¢.), E.
micrantha (Lapstone Hill), H. Consideniana (common along Western Road from
40-mile stone), H. paniculata (a narrow belt on Lapstone Hill), E. crebra (a
narrow belt on Lapstone Hill), H. siderophloia (a narrow belt on Lapstone Hill),
E. squamosa (a few trees about 41-mile stone), EH. punctata (f.c. in valleys),
E. Shiressii (Lapstone Hill, 3 mile from Blaxland), E. resinifera (c.), E. corym-
bosa (¢.), H. eximia (c.).
Springwood and vicinity.
E. eugenioides (c.), E. piperita (c.), E. Consideniana (f.c.), HE. Deanei (com-
mon round the village at heads of gullies), H. punctata (f.c.), H. resinifera
(common to half a mile west of village), H. corymbosa (c.).
Lawson and vicinity.
E. radiata (a few isolated trees in valley north of railway), H. eugenioides
(c.), E. piperita (e.), EH. altior (common in gullies), EH. micrantha (few trees
met with), H. Sieberiana (¢.), E. goniocalyx (f.c. in gullies), H. Deanei (un-
common, only isolated trees), H. corymbosa (f.c.).
Wentworth Falls and vicinity.
E. radiata (f.c.), E. fastigata (seen only in Jamieson Valley), H. eugenioides
(c.), H. ligustrina (only seen on top of range), E. piperita (c.), EH. stricta (com-
mon on edge of escarpment), EH. altior (¢.), H. micrantha (n.c., and only on top),
150 EUCALYPTS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
E. Sieberiana (c.), EH. maculosa (f.c. in patches on top), EH. goniocalyx (common
on and near top of range), E. Bawerleni (uncommon, only in one or two patches),
E. Deanei (very rare on top; common in valley), HE. punctata (a few isolated
trees under escarpment), H. corymbosa (common on top and in valley towards
Leura), H. apiculata (rare; few clumps below escarpment and on King’s Table-
land).
Katoomba and vicinity.
E. Mooret (about half a mile south of Nellie’s Glen and near Minne-ha-ha
Falls), H#. radiata (common), H. fastigata (only seen in Jamieson Valley on
Leura side), H. dives (rare; only found one tree, on north side of railway), E.
Blaxlandi (f.c.), E, eugenioides (e.), E. piperita (c., mostly on top), H. stricta
(in patches on top), #. altior (common on top and for a short distance down),
E.. micrantha (in isolated patches on top), H. Sieberiana (ec. on top), EH. rubida
(n.c., found on north side of railway), EH. maculosa (f.c. on top of range), LH.
Dalrympleana (f.c. on north side of railway), EH. goniocalyx (most common a
little way down valley), H. elaeophora (un.c., and mostly about edge on top), H.
Deanei (only seen in valley extending as far west as the “Three Sisters’), H.
corymbosa (only found in Megalong Valley).
Medlow and vicinity on top of range.
K. radiata (f.c.), H. Blaxlandi (n.c.), EH. eugenioides (c.), EH. piperita (e.),
H. stricta (common in patches), H. altior (common), H. Sieberiana (c.), L£.
maculosa (f.c.), H. elaeophora (only a few isolated trees).
Blackheath and weinity, on top of range.
E. Moorei (common in patches), H. radiata (f.c.), EH. Blaxlandi (common;
seems to take place of H. eugenioides, which I have no record of having seen),
EK. piperita (c.), H. stricta (common in patches), E. altior (c.), EH. micrantha
(f.c.), EH. Sieberiana (c.), H. maculosa (f.c.), EH. apiculata (a form with truncate
fruit at Reservoir), #. Dalrympleana (along course of creek, Govett’s Walk),
E. goniocalyx (Govett’s Leap).
Mount Victoria and vicimty, on top of range.
E. Moorei (common in patches, especially towards Hartley Vale), EH. radiata
(c.), H. dives (uncommon; found a few trees in reservoir gully), H. Blaxlandi
(common), H. eugenioides (f.c.), H. piperita (e.), HE. stricta (common in patches),
E. altior (c.), E. micrantha (f.c.), HE. Steberiana (c.), H. rubida (f.c.), E.
maculosa (f.c.), EH. Dalrympleana (common in reservoir gully), H. elaeophora
{not common on top).
Mount Wilson and road from Bell.
E. Moorei (between Hartley Vale and Bell), H. radiata (c.), E. Blaxlandi
(f.c.), EB. piperita (¢.), H. stricta (between Bell and Mount Wilson), #. altior
(between Bell and Mount Wilson), H. micrantha (between Bell and Mount
Wilson), H. Sieberiana (c.), EH. goniocalyx (fine trees, common at Mount Wilson),
E. viminalis (tall straight trees at Mount Wilson).
Clarence and vicinity.
E. coriacea (n.c.), E. coriacea variety (Mallee type, narrow leaf, common),
E. radiata (common), EH. dives (common), H. Blazlandi (common about Newnes
Junction), EH. eugenioides (common from Newnes Junction east), HE. piperita
(common, especially about Newnes Junction), H. stricta (common), EH. micrantha
(f.c.), E. Sieberiana (¢.), E. maculosa (f.c.), BE. Dalrympleana (f.c. at Clarence),
E. fastigata (f.c. at Clarence, but not the fine trees that are in the Jamieson
Valley).
151
OBSERVATIONS ON HELIX ASPERA IN AUSTRALIA.
By TxHos. STEEL.
(Three Text-figures. )
[Read 28th May, 1924.]
In Europe monstrosities such as sinistrai and cornute forms of Hehx aspera
L. are occasionally met with and quite a number of other local forms have been
described as varieties and sub-varicties. In Australia, variations are rare and
the sinistral form has not so far been found. This was pointed out by Mr.
John Brazier, then conchologist to the Australian Museum, in a letter published
in the “Sydney Morning Herald,’ May 2, 1887. I can confirm Mr. Brazier’s
statement, for in the course of many years’ observation, during which J have
handled thousands of specimens in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia
and about Auckland, New Zealand, I have never met with a sinistral shell. As
I have previously poimted out (These Proc., 1922, 443), in my experience in
Australia and New Zealand, the shells are notably thinner, smaller and more
fragile than is usually the case in Europe and may properly be identified with
H. aspera var. tenmor Shuttl. Mr. C. T. Musson, of Hawkesbury Agricultural
College, N. 8. Wales, is quoted in J. W. Taylor’s Monograph of the Land and
Fresh Water Shells of the British Isles, as expressing this opinion.
Of the varieties described in the above monograph, volume on Helicidae, I
have met with a few examples at Pennant Hills, near Sydney, which agree closely
with those figured on Plate xxii. as H. aspera var. depressa Paul, and also the
sub-variety puncilulata Bandon. Mr. C. Hedley agrees with me in these identi-
oo Ae
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iL,
fications. A specimen of var. depressa is shown in text-figure 1 and its dimen-
sions are given in the table. The nearest approach to the cornute form which
I have met with, is a specimen found at Pennant Hills (fig. 2) in which the
Spire is distinctly drawn out. Fig. 3 illustrates an associated normal example.
The largest examples of the var. tenwior which I have found in Australia
occurred in my garden at Pennant Hills; the dimensions of these, Nos. 1 and 2
in table, agree in all but weight with Taylor’s measurements for normal H. aspera
in Europe, Nos. 9 and 10.
152 HELIX ASPERA IN AUSTRALIA.
In Australia the shells are extremely variable in their markings, the bands
varying from broad to quite narrow stripes and are frequently almost completely
suppressed. The depth of coloration also varies greatly.
Following the long drought and hot spell of 1922-3, I noticed a marked
diminution in the dimensions and thickness of the shells about Pennant Hills.
I have taken specimens in cop. in March, 1923, of dimensions stated, Nos. 5 and
6 in table, one of which is remarkable for its extreme thinness and fragility as
evidenced by the weight of the shell being only 0.10 gram. There was not the
shghtest trace of thickening of the lip. While the dimensions of the shells at
this time varied somewhat, No. 6 may be taken as fairly representing the
average.
I have observed a similar result from dry conditions on the development of
Peripatus (These Proe., 1896, 96), and Professor Spencer (Horn Exped. to
Cent. Aust., Part 2, 1896) relates his experience of reduction in size of mammals
in Central Australia following on similar arid conditions. The before-mentioned
drought of 1922-3' resulted in large numbers of individuals of Helix perishing, so
that now, after several months showery weather, few are to be met with where
formerly they were abundant. Doubtless with a continuance of favourable con-
Gitions they will soon return to their usual abundance and dimensions.
I have described the nature of the curious intermittent mucus tracks left
by this shell when crawling on rough surfaces (Aust. Naturalist, iv., 1919, 97).
This molluse possesses considerable power of repairing its shell when damaged.
So long as the animal is not injured and is protected from enemies, it can re-
place a very considerable proportion of the shell which has been removed.
Snails may frequently be seen clustered about old mortar for the sake of the
lime. They appear to have considerable sense of locality, for I have seen
marked shells return morning after morning to the same lurking place after quite
extensive feeding journeys.
Dimensions of Helix aspera and vars.
1 2 3 4, 5 6 a 8 9 10
Max. diam., mm. 36 35 28 27 20 25 24, 28 28 35
Min. diam. ,, 27 27 24 24 16 22 22 23 25 =
Height He 31 29 27 26 18 25 19 27 27 35
Weight, grams MS Da OLS OLGGM MOSS OOM Ors Oh Onova Ose es OS
and 2. Largest specimens found in N. 8. Wales—Pennani Hills.
and 4. Average dimensions of normal full-grown shells—Pennant Hills.
and 6. Specimens found in cop. After dry spell—Pennant Hills.
’ H. aspera var. depressa—Pennant Hills.
H. aspera approaching cornute form—Pennant Hulls.
and 10. H. aspera, normal dimensions, after Taylor’s monograph.
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153
THE FOOD PLANTS OR HOSTS OF SOME FIJIAN INSECTS. Part ii.
By Ropert VEITCH, B.Se. and WituiAm GreEeNwoop, H.D.A.
[Read 28th May, 1924.]
Since the original article dealing with the food plants or hosts of Fijian
insects was published (These Proceedings, xlvi., p. 505) a considerable number
of additional records have been obtained and it is now thought desirable to
publish these. Credit for the various records is made by initials as follows :—
INE, IS Gown Revenue vierteh:
KJ. EF. Jepson. W.G. W. Greenwood.
ie peaisaln: H.S. H. Simmonds.
J.I. J. Illingworth. C.P. C. Pemberton.
As in the previous article practically all the insect identifications have been
made through the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, and credit is also due to the
Sydney Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens and the Government Botanist, Queens-
land, for naming numbers of the plants.
A single mark (i.) opposite an insect record indicates that that insect is
of great economic importance, two marks (1.) similarly placed classify the insect
as being of some considerable importance, while three marks (iii.) indicate that,
although the insect attacks economic plants, insects or animals, yet its presence
in Fiji is of very little consequence: where no mark occurs it is understood that
the insect in question has either not yet been recorded as attacking anything of
importance in the economic life of the community or, if it has done so, the
object of attack has been in a rotting or decayed condition. The economic
status of each insect has been determined from Fijian records only and, if the
insect in question happens to be widely distributed or cosmopolitan, has no re-
ference to its status in other parts of the world.
LEPIDOPTERA.
The records for Lepidoptera refer to the feeding habits of the larvae.
Nymphalidae.
Deragena proserpina Butl. Feeds on the leaves of Hoya australis R.Br.
(Asclepiadeae). W.G.
Hypolimnas bolina L. Feeds on the leaves of Sida retusa i (Malvaceae).
SH ; and on the leaves of Synedrella nodiflora Gaertn. (Compositae).
HS.
Lycaenidae.
Catochrysops cnejus F. Feeds on the inflorescence of Crotalaria striata
DC. (Leguminosae). R.V.
154 FOOD PLANTS OR HOSTS OF SOME FIJIAN INSECTS, il.,
(ii.) Jamides woodfordi Butl. Feeds on the flowers of the following Legu-
minosae:—Crotalaria striata DC., Phaseolus Mungo L. and Vigna lutea
A. Gray. All W.G.
Zizera labradus Godt. Feeds on the flowers of Phaseolus adenanthus Mey.
(Leguminosae). W.G.
Papilionidae.
(ii1.) Papilio schmelizi H.S. Feeds on the leaves of the following Rutaceae :—
Citrus Aurantium L. (R.V.), Citrus Medica L. var. limonum (H.S.)
and Micromelum pubescens Bl. (H.8.).
Sphingidae.
(iu.) Hippotion celerio L. Feeds on the leaves of Colocasia antiquorum
Schott. (Aroideae). R.V.
Zygaenidae.
(i.) Levuana iridescens B.B. Feeds on the leaves of Musa sapientum UL.
(Scitamineae). HS.
Cosstdae. ©
(ii.) Acritocera negligens Butl. Bores in the spathe of Cocos nucifera LL.
(Palmae). H.S.
Thyrididae.
(iu.) Striglina superior Butl. Feeds on the leaves of Inocarpus edulis Forst.
(Leguminosae). R.V.
Hypsidae.
Argyna astrea Drury. Feeds on the flowers and young pods of Crotalaria
retusa L. (Leguminosae). W.G.
Geometridae.
(iii.) Thalassodes -pilaria Gn. Feeds on the leaves of the following :—
Inocarpus edulis Forst. (Leguminosae), R.V.; Mangifera indica lL.
(Anacardiaceae), W.G. and Hugenia rivularis Seem. (Myrtaceae), W.G.
Noctuidae.
(iii.) Achaea janata L. Feeds on the leaves of Ricinus communis Ix
(Euphorbiaceae). R.V.
(iii.) Anomis flava F. Feeds on the leaves of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.
(Malvaceae), R.V. and on the leaves of Gossypiwm barbadense UL.
(Malvaceae), H.S.
A. involuta Wik. Feeds on the leaves of Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq.
(Tiliaceae). W.G.
A. vitiensis Butl. . Feeds on the leaves of Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq.
(Tiliaceae). W.G.
(ii.) Harias fabia Stoll. Feeds in the flower buds of the following Mal-
vaceae:—Hrbiscus diversifolius Jacq. (W.G.) and H. tiliaceus L. (R.V.)-
Hyblaea sanguinea Gaede. Feeds on the leaves of Vitex trifolia L. (Ver-
benaceae). W.G.
(ii.) Laphygma exigua Hiibn. Feeds on the leaves of Sorghwm halepense
Pers. (Gramineae). R.V.
(ii.) Prodenia litura F. Feeds on the leaves of the following :—Colocasia
antiquorum Schott. (Aroideae), R.V., Geniostoma ruprestre Forst.
(Loganiaceae), W.G., Solanum Forsteri L. (Solanaceae), W.G. and
Synedrella nodiflora Gaertn. (Compositae), W.G. It also feeds on the
flowers of Acacia farnesiana Willd. (Leguminosae). W.G.
BY R. VEITCH AND W. GREENWOOD. 155
Pyralidae.
Hymenia fascialis Cram. Feeds on the leaves of the following Amaran-
taceae:—Amaranthus paniculatus L., A. viridis L. and Gomphrena globosa
L. All W.G.
(iu.) Maruca testulalis Hbst. Feeds on the leaves of Inocarpus edulis
Forst. (Leguminosae), W.G. and on the pods of Piswm sativum L.
(Leguminosae), R.Y.
Psara rudis Warr. Feeds on the leaves of Gomphrena globosa L. (Amaran-
taceae). W.G.
(iil.) Tirathaba trichogramma Meyr. Feeds on the young nuts of Cocos
nucifera L. (Palmae). HLS.
Pterophoridae.
Orneodes pygmaea Meyr. Feeds on the green fruits of Vitex trifolia L.
(Verbenaceae). R.V.
Tortricidae.
(iu.) Adoxophyes fasciculana W1k. Feeds on the leaves of the following
Leguminosae :-—Dalbergia monosperma Dalz., Inocarpus edulis Forst.
and Mucuna aterrima Holl.; also eats the stems of the last-named
species. All W.G. It also feeds on the leaves of Citrus Medica L., var.
limonum (Rutaceae) and Clerodendron inerme R.Br. (Verbenaceae). Both
W.G.
Tineidae.
Autosticha solita Meyr. Feeds on the leaves and flowers of Nelitris vitiensis
A. Gray (Myrtaceae). W.G.
Cyathaula maculata Meyr. Keeds under the bark of dead timber. W.G.
Exelastis pumilio Zell. Feeds on the leaves and flower buds of Alysicarpus
vaginalis DC. (Leguminosae). W.G.
(iii.) Gracilaria soyella Dev. Mines in the leaves of Phaseolus calcaratus
Roxb. (Leguminosae). W.G.
Hellula undalis F. Feeds on flowers of Gynandropsis pentaphylla DC.
(Capparideae). W.G.
Hieroxestis awrisquamosa Butl._ Probably rubbish feeder + in the ripe bolls of
Gossypium barbadense L. (Malvaceae). HLS.
H. citrinodes Meyr. Feeds in rotten seeds of Vigna Catiang Walp. (Legu-
minosae). W.G. ;
(iii.) Idiophantis chiridota Meyr. Breeds in ripe fruits of Hugenia malac-
censis Li. (Myrtaceae). W.G.
(iu.) Trichophaga abruptella Meyr. Feeds on the wool of socks. W.G.
Lyonetidae.
Catalectis pharetropa Meyr. Feeds in the fungus Lezites repanda Fr. W.G.
Decadarchis heterogramma Meyr. Probably rubbish feeders in ripe bolls of
Gossypium barbadense Li. (Malvaceae). HLS.
(iui.) Hrechthias zebrina Burl. Feeds in pith helmets. R.V.
Gelechudae.
Dichomeris transecta Meyr. Feeds on the leaves of Pongamia glabra Vent.
(Leguminosae). W.G.
+ All records commencing “Probably rubbish feeder” refer to insects actually
pred from bolls of Gossypium barbadense L., in which they were believed to be
rubbish feeders and were not the cause of any unhealthy condition of the bolls.
156 FOOD PLANTS OR HOSTS OF SOME FIJIAN INSECTS, ll.,
(ii.) Gelechia gossypiella Saund. Feeds on the bolls of Gossypiwm barba-
dense L., on the seed pods of Hibiscus tiliacews L. ‘and on the flower
buds of Thespesia populnea Soland. All Malvaceae and credited to
ES:
(au.) Pachnistis solita Meyr. Feeds in the stored seed of Zea Mays L.
(Gramineae). R.V.
(ii.) Phthorimaea heliopa Lower. Tunnels in the stems of Nicotiana Taba-
cum L. (Solanaceae). H.S.
Rhadinophylla siderosema Turn. Attacks leaves of Pongamia glabra Vent.
(Leguminosae). W.G.
(u.) Sttotroga cerealella Ol. Feeds in the seeds of Zea Mays L. (Gramineae).
R.V.
Eucosmidae.
(iii.) Argyroploce aprobola Meyr. Feeds on the young leaves of Mangif era
mdica L. (Anacardiaceae). W.G.
Eucosma defensa Meyr. Feeds on the leaves of the following Leguminosae :—
Dalbergia monosperma Dalz. and Pongamia glabra Vent. Both W.G.
E. eumarodes Meyr. Feeds on the leaves of Nelitris vitiensis A. Gray
(Myrtaceae). W.G.
Phyllorycteridae.
Acrocercops habroscia Meyr. Feeds in galls on the leaves of Calophyllum
Inophyllum L. and C. vitiense Turrill. (Guttiferae). Both W.G.
A. macroclina Meyr. Tunnels in the leaflets of Caesalpinia bonducella Flem.
(Leguminosae). W.G.
(iii.) Cyphosticha caerulea Meyr. Tunnels in the leaves of the following:
Leguminosae :—Phaseolus adenanthus Mey., P. vulgaris L. and Vigna
lutea A. Gray. All W.G.
Liocrobyla paraschista Meyr. Tunnels in the leaflets of Caesalpinia bon-
ducella Flem. (Leguminosae). W.G.
Cosmopterygidae.
Labdia allotriopa Meyr. Probably rubbish feeders in the bolls of Gossypium
barbadense L. (Malvaceae). H.S.
L. calida Meyr. Probably rubbish feeder in the bolls of Gossypiwm barba-
dense L. (Malvaceae). H.S. -
L. clytemnestra Meyr. Feeds in dead twigs of Mangifera indica lL. (Ana-
cardiaceae). W.G.
L. epizona Meyr. Probably rubbish feeder in the bolls of Gossypium barba-
dense Li. (Malvaceae). W.G.
Limnoecia inconcinna Meyr. Probably rubbish feeder in the bolls of Gossy-
pium barbadense L. (Malvaceae). H.S.
Pyroderces euryspora Meyr. Probably rubbish feeder in bolls of Gossypium
barbadense I. (Malvaceae). HLS.
Heliodinidae.
Stathmopoda synchrysa Meyr. _ Probably rubbish feeder in the bolls of
Gossypium barbadense L. (Malvaceae). HS.
Coleophoridae.
(ii.) Agonoxena argaula Meyr. Feeds on the leaves of Cocos nucifera L.
(Palmae). HLS.
Coleophora immortalis Meyr. Feeds on flowers of Amaranthus paniculatus
L. (Amarantaceae). W.G.
BY R. VEITCH AND W. GREENWOOD. 157
Olethreutidae.
(iu.) Crocidosema plebeiana Zell. Feeds in ripe fruits of Eugenia malac-
censis L. (Myrtaceae). W.G.
Spilonota cryptogramma Meyr. Feeds on the flowers of Nelitris vitiensis
A. Gray (Myrtaceae). W.G. ‘
S. holotephras Meyr. Feeds on the young leaves of Psidium Guayava UL.
(Myrtaceae). R.V.
Galleridae.
(iii.) Coreyra cephalonica Stn. Feeds in the seed of Zea Mays L. (Grami-
neae). R.V.
Sparganothidae.
Acrochta physalodes Meyr. Feeds in flowers of Barringtonia speciosa L.f.
(Lecythidaceae). W.G.
COLEOPTERA.
The stage in which the damage is done is noted in all the records for
Coleoptera because in some cases the attack is the work of the larva, in other
cases of the imago and in two instances of both larva and imago.
Dytiscidae.
(ii.) Cybister tripunctatus Ol. Larva and imago are predaceous on the
larvae and pupae of Culicidae. R.V.
Rutelidae.
(u.) Adoretus versutus Har. Imago feeds on the leaves of Bougainvillea
spectabilis Willd. (Nyctaginaceae), R.V. and Poinciana regia Boj.
(Leguminosae), R.V.
Cetomidae.
(i1.) Protaetia fusca Herbst. Imago feeds on the green pods of Crotalaria
striata DC. (Leguminosae). R.V.
Nitidulidae.
Haptoncus tetragonus Murr. Larvae feed on the rotten fruits of the follow-
ing plants:—Citrus decwmana Murr., C. Medica L. var. limonum (Ruta-
ceae), and Spondias dulcis Willd. (Anacardiaceae). All W.G.
Trogositidae.
(11.) Lophocateres pusillus Klug. Larvae feed in stored seeds of Zea Mays
L. (Gramineae). R.V.
Coccinellidae.
(ii.) Scymnus fijuensis Sic. Larva and imago feed on Coccidae generally.
lat WA
Dermestidae.
(ii.) Anthrenus pimpinellae F. Larvae feed on felt in pianos. R.V.
Bostrychidae.
(iii.) Xylothrips religiosus Boisd. Larvae feed in the branches of Inocarpus
edulis Forst. (Leguminosae). R.V.
Riapiceridae.
Callirrhipis vitiensis Fairm. Larvae breed in rotten timber. R.V.
Tenebrionidae. °
(ii.) Triboium confusum Jacq.-Duv. Larvae feed on dried moths in insect
collections. R.V.
Galerucidae.
(ii.) Aulacophora quadrimaculata F. . Larvae eat the flowers of Luffa
aegyptiaca Mill. (Cucurbitaceae). W.G.
158 FOOD PLANTS OR HOSTS OF SOME FIJIAN INSECTS, il.,
Anthribidae.
(u.) Araecerus fasciculatus de G. Larvae feed in the ripe pods of Acacia
farnesiana Willd. (Leguminosae), R.V. and in the dry fruits of Jatropha
Curcas L. (Kuphorbiaceae), W.G.
Curculionidae.
(i.) Rhabdocnemis obscura Boisd. Larvae tunnel in the base of the leaves
of Cocos nucifera L. (Palmae). F.J.
Scolytidae.
Cryphalus jatrophae Samp. Larvae feed in dry fruits of Jatropha Curcas
L. (Euphorbiaceae). W.G.
Hypothenemus gossypu Samp. Probably rubbish feeder in bolls of Gossy-
pium barbadense L. (Malvaceae). H.S.
H. plumeriae Nord. larvae feed in the ripe pods of Acacia farnesiana
Willd. (Leguminosae). R.V.
(iu1.) Xyleborus torquatus Eichh. Larvae feed in stalks of Saccharum
officinarum L. (Gramineae). R.V.
HYMENOPTERA.
The records for Hymenoptera refer to the feeding habits of the larva.
Dryinidae.
(11.) Haplogonotopus vwitiensis Perk. Attacks the nymph of Perkinsiella
vitiensis Kirk. (Asiracidae). F.M.
Mymaridae.
(i1.) Paranagrus optabilis Perk. Attacks the eggs of Perkinsiella vitiensis
Kark. (Asiracidae). F.M.
Pteromalidae.
(11.) Aplastomorpha calandrae How. Attacks the immature stages of Cal-
andra oryzae L. (Curculionidae). R.V.
(ii.) A. vandinei Tuck. Attacks the immature stages of Calandra oryzae
L. (Curculionidae). R.V.
(1.) Bruchobius laticeps Ashm. Attacks immature stages !of Bruchus
chinensis L. (Bruchidae). R.V.
Eulophidae.
_(i.) Aphelinus chrysomphali Mercet. Attacks Aspidiotus destructor Sign.
var. transparens Green (Coccidae). H.S.
(1.) Aspidiotiphagus citrinus Craw. Attacks Aspidiotus destructor Sign.
var. transparens Green (Coceidae). H.S.
Trichogrammatidae.
(i.) Chaetostricha cratitea Waterst. Attacks the eggs of Promecotheca
reichei Baly. (Hispidae). H.S.
Bracomdae.
(iii.) Apanteles expulsus Turn. Attacks the larvae of Cirphis unipuncta
Haw. (Noctuidae). R.V.
Eumenidae.
Eumenes ovalauensis Sauss. Feeds in mud cells on larvae of Thalassodes
pilaria Gn. (Geometridae). W.G.
Sphegidae.
Pison ignavum Turn. Feeds in mud nests on paralysed Attid spiders. R.V.
Scoludae.
(ii.) Scolia manilae Ashm. Feeds on the larvae of Adoretus versutus Har.
(Rutelidae). R.V.
BY R. VEITCH AND W. GREENWOOD. 159
HEMIPTERA.
Practically all the records for the Hemiptera refer to the feeding habits of
the nymph and imago, but in the Coccidae the male imago has aborted mouth
parts and so cannot suck plant juices.
Pentatomidae.
(u.) Alciphron glaucus F. Feeds on flower buds and fruits of Passiflora
quadrangularis L. (Passifloreae). R.V.
(u.) Brachyplatys pacificus Dall. Feeds on the leaves and stems of the
following Leguminosae:—Cajanus indicus Spreng. (W.G.), Phaseolus
semierectus L. (R.V.) and Pongamia glabra Vent. (W.G.). Also simi-
larily attacks Hibiscus tiliaceus L. (Malvaceae). W.G.
(i1i.) Tectocoris lineola F. Feeds on the leaves, young shoots and buds of
the following Malvaceae:—Gossypiwm barbadense L. and Thespesia
populnea Soland. Both H.S.
Coreidae.
(iu1.) Mictts profana F. Feeds on young shoots of Citrus Aurantium UL.
(Rutaceae). H.S.
Miridae.
(i.) Cyrtorhinus mundulus Bred. Sucks the contents of the éggs of Perkin-
siella vitiensis Kirk. (Asiracidae). C.P.
Pyrrhocoridae.
(ii.) Dysdercus impictiventris Stal. Feeds on the leaves, young shoots and
flower buds of the following Malvaceae:—Sida acuta Burm., S. retusa
L. and Thespesia populnea Soland. All H.S.
(i1.) D. insularis Stal. Feeds on the leaves, young shoots and flower buds
of the following Malvaceae :—Sida acuta Burm., S. retusa L. and Thes-
pesia populnea Soland. All HLS.
Capsidae.
(i1.) Dieyphus mimmus Uhler. Feeds on the leaves of Nicotiana Tabacum
' LL. (Solanaceae). F.J.
Gallobelicus crassicornis Dist. Feeds on leaves of Gynandropsis pentaphylla
DC. (Capparideae). W.G. -
Tetigonidae.
Nesosteles glauca Kirk. Feeds on the inflorescence of the following Grami-
neae:—Panicum barbinode Trin. and Paspalum dilatatum Poir. W.G.
N. hebe Kirk. Feeds on the inflorescence of the following Gramineae :—
Amphilophis glabra Stapf, Paspalum dilatatwm Poir. and Tricholaena
rosea Nees. All R.V.
Fulgoridae.
Urvillea melanesica Kirk. Feeds on the leaves and stems of Vitex trifolia
L. (Verbenaceae). R.V.
Psyllidae.
Leptynoptera didactyla Laing. Feeds on the leaves of Calophyllum Inophyl-
lum L. (Guttiferae). W.G.
Nesiope ornata Kirk. Feeds on the leaves of Heritiera littoralis Dryand.
(Stereuliaceae). W.G.
Aphidae.
(ii.) Aphis gossypii Glover. Feeds on the young shoots, leaves and flower
buds of the following:—Gossypiuwm barbadense L. (Malvaceae), H.S.,
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Ll. (Malvaceae), R.V., Phaseolus calcaratus Roxb
(Leguminosae), W.G. and Psidium Guayava lL. (Myrtaceae), R.V.
160 FOOD PLANTS OR HOSTS OF SOME FIJIAN INSECTS, il.,
Aleurodidae.
(iu.) Aleurodes comata Mask. Feeds on the leaves of the following Grami-
neae:—WMiscanthus japonicus Anderss. (R.V.) and Thuarea involuta
R.Br. (W.G:)..
(i.) Bernisia inconspicua Quaint. Feeds on the leaves of Colocasia anti-
- quorum Schott. (Aroideae). R.V.
Coccidae. —
(11.) Aspidiotus cocotis Newst. Feeds on Cocos nucifera L. (Palmae). H.S.
(1.) A. destructor Sign. var. transparens Green. Feeds on the leaves of
Anona reticulata L. (Anonaceae). W.G.
(ii.) A. palmae Ckll. Feeds on Cocos nucifera L. (Palmae).. H.S.
Ceroplastes rubens Mask. Attacks Barringtonia speciosa L.f. ‘(Lecythi-
daceae). R.V.
(ii.) Chrysomphalus (Aspidiotus) awrantii Mask. Feeds on Cocos nucifera
iy) (Palmae). EHUS:
C. dictyospermi Morg. Attacks the leaves of Alpinia nutans Rose. (Scita-
mineae). W.G.
(u.) Coccus hesperidum L. Attacks the following Rutaceae:—Citrus Auran-
tium L., C. Aurantium L. var. nobilis and Citrus Medica L. var. limonum.
Also attacks Cocos nucifera L. (Palmae). All H.S.
(11.) Hemichionaspis minor Mask. Feeds on the following:—Cocos nucifera
L. (Palmae), H.S., Dodonaea viscosa Jacq. (Sapindaceae), W.G.,
Gossypium barbadense L. (Malvaceae), H.S. and Inocarpus edulis Forst.
(Leguminosae), R.V.
(iu.) Icerya purchasi Mask. Attacks the following:—Cassia fistula L.
(Leguminosae), W.G., Casuarina equisetifolia Forst. (Casuarinaceae),
W.G., Inocarpus edulis Forst. (Leguminosae), R.V. and Premna taiiensis
Schauer. (Verbenaceae), W.G.
(iu.) Z. seychellarum Westw. Feeds on the following:—Hibiscus rosa-
sinensis L. (Malvaceae), R.V. and Psidium Guayava L. (Myrtaceae),
W.G.
Lecanium hemisphaericum T.T. Attacks Graptophyllum pictum L. (Acan-
thaceae). W-:G.
L. viride Green. Attacks Dodonaea viscosa L. (Sapindaceae), W.G. and
Psidium Guayava L. (Myrtaceae), R.V.
(iii.) Paleococcus rosae Ril. and How. Attacks Rosa sp., Garden variety
(Rosaceae). R.V.
(iii.) Psewdococcus citri Risso. Attacks the young pods of Acacia farne-
siana Willd. (Leguminosae), W.G., the leaves of Olerodendron fallax
Lindl. (Verbenaceae), R.V., the leaves and stem of Ficus Barclayi Seem.
(Urticaceae), W.G. and the leaves of Inocarpus edulis Forst. (Legu-
minosae), R.V.
(ii.) P. vitiensis Green and Laing. Attacks Cocos nucifera L. (Palmae).
AVE
(iii.) Saissetia nigra Nietn. Attacks the following:—Gossypiwm barbadense
L. (Malvaceae), H.S., Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. (Malvaceae), R.V.,
Pandanus odoratissimus L. (Pandanaceae), W.G., Panicum distachyum
L. (Gramineae), W.G. and Psidium Guayava L. (Myrtaceae), R.V.”
(iii.) Vinsonia stellifera Westw. Attacks Mangifera indica L. (Anacardia-
ceae). R.V.
BY R. VEITCH AND W. GREENWOOD. 161
ORTHOPTERA.
The records for the Orthoptera refer to the feeding habits of both nymph
and imago.
Forficulidae.
(u.) Chelisoches morio F. Feeds on insects generally. R.V.
Blattidae.
(u.) Leucophaea surinamensis L. Omnivorous on dead animal and vegetable
matter. R.V.
(1.) Pertplanata australasiae F. Omnivorous on dead animal and vegetable
matter. R.V.
(u1.) Phyllodromia notulata Stal. Omnivorous on dead animal and vegetable
matter. R.V.
Aeridudae.
(i1.) Aeolopus tamulus F. Feeds on Gramineae generally. R.V.
NEUROPTERA.
Chrysopidae.
(ii.) Chrysopa sanvitoresi Nav. The larvae feed on Aphids generally, W.G.,
and on the eggs of Prodenia litura F. (Noctuidae). R.V.
Lnbellulidae.
(.) Pantala flavescens ¥. Larva and imago predaceous on insects, more
especially Dipterous larvae, pupae and imagines. R.Y.
DIPTERA.
Culicidae. ;
(il.) Rachionotomyia purpurata Kdw. Attacks human beings in the female
imaginal stage. P.B.
Tipulidae.
Libnotes greenwoodi Alex. Larvae feed in the fruits of Eugenia malaccensis
L. (Myrtaceae). W.G.
Syrphidae.
(ii.) Xanthogramma grandicorne Meq. Larvae feed on Aphis gossypii
Glover (Aphidae). R.V.
Piophilidae.
(ii.) Piophila casei L. Larvae feed in cheese. R.V.
Trypetidae.
Dacus xanthodes Broun. Larvae feed in fruits of Citrus decumana Murr.
(Rutaceae). J.I.
Agromyzidae.
(ii.) Agromyza lantanae Frogg. Larvae feed in the berries of Lantana
Camara L. (Verbenaceae). F.J.
Muscidae.
(i.) Musca domestica L. Larvae feed in the rotten seeds of Vigna Catiang
Walp. (Leguminosae). W.G.
STUDIES IN THE EPACRIDACEAE.
1, THe Lirs-HisTory or STYPHELIA LONGIFOLIA (R.Br.).
By P. Broucu, M.A., B.Se., B.Se. (Ag.), Lecturer in Botany, The University of
Sydney.
(From the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Sydney).
(Thirty-one Text-figures. )
[Read 30th April, 1924.]
In a preliminary note (1923) the writer gave a brief account of certain
striking features regarding megasporogenesis and the embryo-sac of Styphelia
longifolia (R.Br.). A general account of the classification and distribution of
the Epacridaceae was also given, together with a description of the external
morphology of the genus Styphelia. A detailed study of the more important
phases in the life-history of S. longifolia is now presented.
Habitat.
A careful study of Styphelia longifolia in the field has revealed the fact,
that this species only flourishes when surrounded and sheltered by dense bush
consisting of plants which attain a relatively greater height such as species of
Banksia, Grevillea, Petrophila, Xylomelum, Isopogon, and Eucalyptus. The
species in question does not thrive in open exposed situations. It may be found
in such sites, but is then a remnant consequent on clearing operations. The
soil in which it grows is of a light sandy nature such as typically overlies the
Hawkesbury sandstone. It would seem then, that although the plant is adapted
to live in a dry porous soil, it none the less is unable to withstand the dry winds
of an isolated exposed position.
Another noteworthy fact is, that while a considerable number of plants may
be found per acre of bush, still they are almost always separated from one an-
other by other plants of the genera already referred to. This isolation of the
individual plant, considered in conjunction with the succulence and size of the
drupe, has suggested to the writer that animals, chiefly birds, are the final agents
in dissemination.
The Flower.
The essentials of the floral morphology of Styphelia longifolia have already
been described (1923). In Text-fig. 1 the relative positions of the floral elements
on the thalamus in the young flower bud are represented. In the gynoecium two
of the five loculi are depicted, and in each the nucellus is represented by a knob-
like mass of tissue. Surmounting the ovary is the style, terminated in turn by a
slightly lobed stigma.
BY P. BROUGH. 163
Inserted below the gynoecium are the stamens, two of which are represented.
These do not yet show the clear differentiation into anther and filament which is
so evident in the more mature stamen (Text-fig. 3). Even at this early stage.
however, sporogenous cells are present within the young microsporangium. Be-
Ut:
Text-fig. 1—A median longitudinal section of a young flower bud, showing
Fthe stage of development and relative size of the parts. (sep.) sepal, (p.) petal,
st.) stamens, (sg.) stigma, (nuc.) nucellus. (x 110).
Text-fig. 2—-A median longitudinal section of a bud slightly older than that
of Text-fig. 1. (br.) bract, (sep.) sepal, (p.) petal, (st.) stamen, (spor.) sporo-
genous tissue, (w.) wall of microsporangium, (sg.) lobed stigma, (nuc.) naked
nucellus. (x 110).
Text-fig. 3—A median longitudinal section of a still older bud. Thick-walled
microspores (sp.) are shown within the microsporangium (mgn.). The young ana-
tropous ovule (ov.), shows the nucellus (nuc.) and single integument (int.). (ov.c.)
ovary cavity, (sy.) style, (p) petal. (x 110).
Text-fig. 4—T.S. of flower bud about the same age as that in Text-fig. 2.
(sep.) sepal, (p.) petal, (mgn.) microsporangium, (con.) connective, (sy.) style.
The anther is seen to consist of two microsporangia, and the stamens alternate
with the petals.
164 THE LIFE-HISTORY OF STYPHELIA LONGIFOLIA (R.Br.),
low the androecium the petals are inserted and these in turn are ensheathed by
sepals and numerous bracts.
A slightly older stage is represented in Text-fig. 2. The nucellus is now
assuming the curved form which anticipates the anatropous condition of the
mature ovule. No integument has yet made its appearance. The microsporangium
shows a differentiation into wall, tapetum, and sporogenous tissue, while the style
has elongated and the stigma become more distinctly lobed. The non-essential
organs have grown in proportion.
A still older bud is presented in Text-fig. 3. The anatropous nature of the
ovule, which is at the spore mother cell stage, is clearly evinced. The ovary
cavity is relatively large, and remains so until maturity is almost attained. Thus
the young ovule has plenty of room in which to increase in size. In one of the
ovules, the single massive integument and the nucellus are clearly differentiated.
The integument, however, is still far from completely enclosing the nucellus.
Numerous microspores with very thick walls are present in each of the micro-
sporangia.
A transverse section of a bud of the same age as that figured in Text-
fig. 2 is delineated in Text-fig. 4. On the outside are seen three of the sepals
which ensheath the five lobes of the young corolla. In front of the petals, and
alternating with them, are the five stamens. Each anther is composed of only
two microsporangia and the supporting connective. The centre of the bud is
occupied by the style.
This then gives an idea of the gross morphology of the flower in the young
bud stage.
Microsporangium.
The stamen of the Epacridaceae is remarkable in that the anther consists of
only two microsporangia, in place of the four usually found in Angiosperms.
In addition it displays a longitudinal dehiscence in striking contrast to the
poricidal or apical fissure method characteristic of the Ericaceae. The two micro-
sporangia and connective are represented in Text-fig. 5, which shows a trans-
verse section of an immature anther taken when the flower bud is at the stage
indicated in Text-fig. 3.
One of these microsporangia at a higher magnification is presented in Text-
fig. 6. The uninucleate microspores are provided with enormously thick stratified
walls. The tapetum (t) is still quite visible, although somewhat depleted. The
wall of the sporangium is several cells thick, and the cells adjacent to the tapetum
are appreciably compressed in a radial direction. The epidermis of the anther
is composed for the most part of relatively larger square-shaped cells containing
numerous tannin granules. It is to be noted that these epidermal cells steadily
decrease in size as the region of dehiscence (d), on the anterior side of the
anther, is approached, and that separating the two sporangia is an area of thi
walled sterile cells.
When the petals begin to open, the filament quickly elongates. while the
anther speedily reaches its mature proportions. Examination of a transverse
section of an exserted anther shows the mature pollen grains in the bi-nucleate
condition (Text-fig. 7).
The microspore has now reached its full size, and its cell walls are much
thinner than those depicted in Text-fig. 6. At this stage numerous globules of a
yellow oily substance make their appearance on the outer surface of the exine,
thus imparting a stickiness to the pollen grains, which facilitates their con-
vevanee from one fiower to another.
higher magnification.
BY P. BROUGH. 165
No doubt the thick stratified walls of the younger microspores represent a
reserve store of cellulose which is drawn upon during the rapid development
which precedes the production of the mature spores. The tapetum has become
disorganised and some of the wall cells have also suffered. While this is going
Text-fig. 5—A transverse section of a young anther taken from a flower bud
at the same stage of development as that illustrated in Text-fig. 3. The two
microsporangia of the anther are shown. (x 225).
Text-fig. 6—A transverse section of one of the above microsporangia under a
The thick striated walls of the uni-nucleate microspores
(mic.), the tapetum (t.) and the compressed cells of the sporangial walls (w.)
are indicated. The cells of the epidermis decrease in size as the region (d.) is
approached.
Numerous grains of tannin are seen within the epidermal cells.
(x 270).
166 THE LIFE-HISTORY OF STYPHELIA LONGIFOLIA (R.Br.),
on, the walls of the epidermis undergo a remarkable change owing to excessive
thickening of the radial walls. The periclinal walls also share in this, but to a
-much less extent.
It is noteworthy that this thickening of the epidermal walls is interrupted
at the region (d) adjoining the vascular bundle. This feature is important be-
cause on that modification in structure the method of dehiscence largely depends.
Text-fig. 7—A transverse section of a microsporangium at a later stage. The
walls of the enlarged microspores (mic.) are now much thinner, and the tapetum
is no longer visible. Thickening of the radial walis (r.) of the epidermal cells is
pronounced while the tangential walls have also increased somewhat in thickness.
The width of each epidermal cell is greatest at the periphery. The thickening of
the cell walls of the epidermis becomes less pronounced as the region (d.) is ap-
proached. Oil globules (og.) are present on the surface of the microspores. (x 110).
Text-fig. 8—A transverse section of a microsporangium showing the initiation
of the slit of dehiscence. The thickened cells of the cpidermis are compressed
tangentially, and the thin-walled tissue at (d.) has been ruptured. The microspores
(mic.), with one exception, are fully developed and in the bi-nucleate condition.
(x 110).
Text-fiz. 9.—A transverse section of a mature microsporangium showing the final
stage in dehiscence. The slit of dehiscence is fully distended, and nearly all the pollen
grains have been shed. The thickening of the radial walls of the epidermal cells
is very pronounced. (x 110). ;
Dehiscence. Q
After the stamen has reached maturity, the ensuing desiccation leads to a
contraction throughout the cells of the sporangial walls. The epidermal cells
BY P. BROUGH. 167
“naturally share in the resultant tension, which steadily increases until rupture
oceurs, aS indicated in Text-fig. 8. Examination shows that this occurs ait the
-only region at which the cells are unthickened, and, as is to be expected, the
tissue gives way along the line of least resistance (Text-fig. 8). Not only that,
“but the extent and direction of the rupture are controlled by the ring of cells
with specially thickened walls surrounding the vascular bundle of the connective
(Text-fig. 6). The aperture thus initiated steadily increases in size until the
condition represented in Text-fig. 9 is reached. The dispersal of the microspores
then follows as a matter of course.
An examination of the microsporangia at different stages (Text-figs. 5-9)
demonstrates how the various specialised structures eombine to effect a common
purpose, namely, the rupture of the sporangium, to set free the spores.
The epidermal layer, which to begin with has cell walls of normal thickness,
gradually acquires a thickening of the radial walls, and to a much less extent
of the periclinal walls (Text-fig. 7). This inereases until the extremely thick
radial walls shown in Text-fig. 8 are produced. The outer walls of the epidermal
cells are slightly thicker than the inner walls. Accordingly, when contraction
due to desiccation occurs, the specialised structure of the epidermal cells permits
of tangential compression, but resists radial pressure. This naturally produces
a tangential strain, resulting in the rupture of the thin walled cells at (d), and
the gradual pulling apart of the arms of the sporangia. The opening outwards
of these arms brings the outer ends of the radial walls closer together, and so
produces the wrinkled appearance seen in profile in Text-fig. 9. The change in
shape of the epidermal cells is manifest on comparing Text-fig. 7-at (e) with
Text-fig. 9 at (e). The inner tangential walls are thin, and therefore well
adapted to permit of the change in shape which the individual cells of .the epi-
dermis undergo, when dehiscence is complete.
Microsporogenesis in Styphelia longifolia is at present under investigation
and will be described in a subsequent paper.
The Ovutle.
The young ovule consists of a slender nucellus surrounded by a single thick
integument. In Text-fig. 10 the relative positions and sizes of these parts are
illustrated. The megasporangium proper consists of a single axial row of eells
enclosed by an epidermis one cell thick.
Megas porogenesis.
The apical cell of this axial row enlarges and functions as a megaspore
mother cell. The enlarged nucleus is very apparent, and the balled condition of
the chromatin threads indicates the imminence of reduction division. No parietal
cell formation occurs, and so the megaspore mother cell is only separated from
the micropyle by a single layer of cells. A subsequent stage is seen in Text-fig.
1, where the four-nucleate condition, resulting from division of the mother
cell, is depicted. These nuclei are very large, and are not separated from one
another by walls. It seems clear then that the nucleus of the spore mother cell
divides into two, and then into four, in the normal way. Later, each of the three
inner nuclei becomes surrounded by cytoplasm and a thin membraneous wall, so
that four complete megaspores are evolved. All four megaspores are thus en-
closed within the original cell wall of the spore mother cell (Text-fig. 11).
So far then the history of megasporogenesis approximates to that charac-
teristic of the more advanced Angiosperms. From this point, however, certain
168 THE LIFE-HISTORY OF STYPHELIA LONGIFOLIA (R.Br.),
phases of the development are evinced, which give to this life-history an interest
peculiarly its own. All the megaspores continue to enlarge, but the functional
megaspore is the distal or micropylar one, and not the chalazal one, as is usually
the ease. This rare feature is illustrated in Text-fig. 15. The occasional func-
tioning of the micropylar megaspore in the Sympetalae was reported as far
back as 1888 by Oliver. Later, other investigators, Fry (1902), Vesque (1878,
1879), Lloyd (1902), and Guignard (1882) described examples in which mega-
spores other than the chalazal one may occasionally function, but it should be
noted that the case reported by Oliver is the only one in the Sympetalae in
which it has been clearly established that the micropylar megaspore normally
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Text-fig. 10—A median longitudinal section through a young ovule. The
massive integument (int.), partially enclosing the nucellus (nuc.), is seen. The
large cell terminating the axial row of the nucellus is the megaspore mother-cell
(meg.m.c.). The nucleus is in synapsis; (mi.) micropyle. (x 600).
functions in the production of the female gametophyte. Even in this genus,
Trapella, the cell adjacent to the distal one may on occasion be the one to
function.
In the Monocotyledons and the Archichlamydeae the functioning of the
micropylar megaspore has only been found in a few cases. Thus Treub and
Mellink (1880) have observed that the outer of the two megaspores normally
produces the embryo-sac in Agraphis, but that the inner of the two megaspores
develops to the four-nucleate stage. Again Campbell (1900) reports that the
outer micropylar megaspore in Dieffenbachia is the one to produce the female
gametophyte. Turning to the Archichlamydeae it is found that Loranthus, as
described by Treub (1882), is the only case in which the micropylar megaspore
is the functional one.
BY P. BROUGH. 169
A survey of these facts is sufficient to emphasise the rarity of the pheno-
menon described above for Styphelia longifolia. a
Contrary to expectation, the three remaining megaspores do not disintegrate,
but continue to increase in size, each being limited by a thin membraneous wall.
The nucleus is large and contains a single nucleolus. The cytoplasm is dis-
tinctly vacuolate and takes the form of thick strands (Text-figs. 13 and 14).
The nucleus of the micropylar megaspore divides, and the typical eight-nucleate
stage of the Angiosperm female gametophyte is evolved. In Text-fig. 12 the
two elongated cells Si, S2, adjoining the micropyle are obviously the young
Text-figs. 16, 17, and 18 show the polar nuclei (p.n.) in various stages of
fe) Fusion occurs in the region where the embryo-sac begins to. narrow.
x 270 ° ¥ 1
Text-fig. 19—A median longitudinal section through an ovule showing the
passage of the pollen tube (p.t.) through the micropyle (mi.) and into the embryo-
sac. The lower end of the tube is secn at the apex of one of the synergids (S;).
{x 200).
synergids. The other six nuclei vary somewhat in size. At this stage it is to
be noted that the eight cells of the gametophyte occupy the upper region of the
sac (Text-figs. 12 and 15). Nevertheless, their positions, relative to one another
in the sac, are quite normal, and in no way suggestive of the extreme lack of
polarity characteristic of Peperomia pellucida, as described by Campbell (1899)
-and: Johnstone (1900) respectively.
As the embryo-sac grows, however, four nuclei are aggregated at the micro-
_pylar end, while the other four are located towards the chalazal end of the sac.
These latter nuclei, however, do not always congregate at the extremity, as is
usual in Angiosperms. The distribution of the nuclei after separation is’: shown
in Text-fig. 10 of my preliminary note (1923). The polarity characteristic of the
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Text-fig. 11 shows the 4-nucleate condition consequent on division of the spore
mother cell. Each nucleus (n.) is the nucleus of a young megaspore. (x 920).
Text-fig. 12—A median longitudinal section of the embryo-sac. The eight nuclei
of the female gametophyte are shown, the two large pyriform cells are the synergids
(Sz, S2); (n. Sz) nucleus of synergid. (x 400).
Text-fig. 13—Two of the non-functional megaspores (imeg.) as seen in the
microtome section immediately following that of Text-fig. 12. The large nucleus,
«cytoplasmic strands, and wall of megaspore are clearly seen. (x 400).
BY P. BROUGH. ae 171
cells of the Angiosperm sac is thus attained somewhat late. Very soon a nucleus
from either end separates from its associates, and passes towards the middle of
the sac, where fusion oceurs (Text-fig. 18).
Female Gametophyte.
_Egg-Apparatus.
~The outstanding feature of the female gametophyte is the egg apparatus
in which the synergids are extraordinarily enlarged (Text-figs. 21 and 22). The
synergids are precisely pyriform and at maturity the beak of each protrudes
shghtly into the micropyle. The narrow end has a distinctly striated appear-
ance, and stains lightly with Haidenhain’s iron-alum haematoxylin, and Flem-
ing’s triple stain (Text-fig. 21). This behaviour is in striking contrast to the
deep staining characteristic of the body of the synergid. Each synergid has one
“or several vacuoles, and a large nucleus (Text-fig. 22). The egg is the lower-
most cell of the egg apparatus, and its lower extremity, in which the nucleus is
situated, extends below the synergids.
Polar Nuclei.
The polar nuclei are large, and distinct. Their gradual approach and sub-
sequent fusion are demonstrated in Text-figs. 16, 17 and 18. This fusion occurs
prior to fertilization. At this stage the embryo-sac is somewhat elub-shaped,
with the head, which contains the egg-apparatus, adjacent to the micropyle. The
polar nuclei fuse in the region where the sae is heginning to narrow (Text-
fig. 16). ©
Antipodal cells.
The most outstanding feature of the antipodal cells is the insignificant part
they play in the life-history of the gametophyte. They disintegrate before fer-
tilization and only occasional traces of them ean be found by the time the polar
nuclei have fused. Dense staining of the contents in the lower portion of the
sac no doubt indicates the locus of their disintegration. Thus it is evident that
the antipodals represent the most insignificant feature of the female game-
tophyte, and play no part in the nutrition of the sae.
Fertilzation.
When the flower opens the microspores are in the binucleate condition (Text-
fig. 8). Pollination occurs soon after the exposure of the stigma, as the pollen
tube is found traversing the micropyle in the material fixed within a few days
-of the expanding of the petals (Text-fig. 19).. The micropyle is narrow, and so
the pollen tube remains thin until entrance to the sac has been efiected. In many
“eases the synergids protrude slightly into the micropyle before the pollen tube
_actually reaches the vicinity of the sae. Atecess to the egg apparatus is thus
facilitated. At this stage of development starch grains begin to appear in the
. 6ytoplasm in the region of the egg and fusion nucleus respectively, and by the
‘time the pollen tube reaches the egg apparatus a dense aggregation of grains is
seen, especially around the egg. This is illustrated in Text-figs. 20-23. In some
cases the grains are packed so closely that. the egg is more or less hidden.
Text-fiz. 14-+The third non-functional megaspore as seen in the microtome sec-
. tion succeeding that of Text-fig. 13.
Text-fig. 15—Composite drawing composed from the three sections of Text-
figs. 12, 18, and 14. The cells of the’ female gametophyte and the three non-
‘functional megaspores (i.meg.) are seen to be enclosed in a common chamber. (x 400).
172 THE LIFE-HISTORY OF STYPHELIA LONGIFOLIA (R.Br.),
EN ORNS Or rane
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“22
_ Text-fig. 20—Another view of the micropylar region of the sac. A pollen tube
(pt.) is seen alongside one of the synergids (Si). Near the extremity of the tube
a mal»: nucleus (mng) is depicted, while in front a structure strongly suggestive
of a second male nucleus (mn ,) fusing with the nucleus of the egg (o.) is ap-
parent. Numerous starch grains (al.) are seen in the cytoplasm around the egg
nucleus. (x 270).
Text-fig. 21—Another view of the pollen tube (p.t.) within the sac. In this
case the tube seems to have penetrated, and to be making its way through, one
of the synergids (S;). Here again, the starch grains are aggregated around the
egg (o.). (x 270).
Text-fig. 22—This section immediately succeeds, in the microtome series, the
one shown in Text-fig. 21. The lower extremity of the tube (p.t.) which contains
the male nucleus (mnj) is seen emerging from, synergid $1. (x 270).
Text-fig. 23—The close packing of the starch grains around the egg nucleus is
iustrated. (x 270). : i
Text-fig. 24—A longitudinal section through an embryo-sac after fertilization.
The two synergids, Si, Se, are still visible, although somewhat distorted. A few
BY P. BROUGH. 173
The pollen tube was often seen in the narrow passage of the micropyle
(Text-fig. 19). The large synergids, however, with their rapid absorption and
tenacious retention of stain, tend to conceal the course of the pollen tube within
the sac. Consequently the tracing of its progress towards the egg is a matter
of unusual difficulty. However, by the careful destaining of overstained sections,
demonstration of the course of the pollen tube within the sae was effected in
several cases. Text-fig. 20 shows a typical example. There the pollen tube is
seen alongside one of the synergids, and its extremity is turned towards the egg.
One nucleus—the male—is seen near the end of the tube, while the appearance
of the structure adjoining strongly suggests the fusion of the egg nucleus with
the other male nucleus. Again, in Text-fig. 21, the pollen tube is seen emerging
from the micropyle and making its way down between the wall of the sac and
a synergid. It evidently pierces the synergid, because the next section of the
series, Text-fig. 22, shows the extremity of the same pollen tube emerging from
the same synergid. A male nucleus is seen in each portion of the pollen tube.
Division of the zygote does not at once follow fertilization.
The endosperm nucleus, on the other hand, shows immediate activity, and
very soon free nuclei are seen scattered throughout the sac (Text-fig. 24). It is
distinctly noticeable that relatively few though large nuclei are formed within
the enlarged micropylar region, while on the other hand very numerous nuclei
are formed within the lower and narrower region.
Growth of the sac proceeds apace, and its form undergoes a complete trans-
formation. This is due to the fact that the middle region of the sac enlarges
enormously, while the micropylar end shows no very appreciable inerease in size.
The endosperm nuclei continue to divide, wall formation supervenes, and finally
2 massive endosperm is developed, as indicated in Text-figs. 25 and 28-30 (also
1923, Text-figs. 11 and 12).
Tt will be noted that in the mature seed the endosperm does not extend
quite to the chalazal extremity of the sae. This leaves a small chalazal chamber
between the endosperm proper and the three non-functional megaspores.
The Embryo.
The actual division of the zygote has not been demonstrated, but a very
young embryo is delineated in Text-fig. 26. At this stage all traces of the
starch grains, formerly so abundant, have disappeared (Text-fig. 24). The pro-
embryo is provided with an extremely long suspensor, the evident function of
which is to transfer the embryo from the micropylar chamber, and push it deep
down into the region where endosperm formation is going on.
A slightly older embryo amid the endosperm is shown in Text-fig. 28. The
embryo continues to develop, and assumes the rounded form indieated in Text-
figs. 29-31. The digestive action of the embryo is indicated by the corroded
appearance of the adjacent endosperm cells. This feature is also apparent at
the earlier stage of development indicated in Text-fig. 28. Cell division con-
tinues until the stage shown in Text-fig. 31 is reached. The dermatogen is well
defined, and the differentiation into periblem and plerome is suggested. The
development of the embryo has not yet been followed beyond this stage.
large free endosperm nuclei (f.e.n.) are seen in the upper sac, while in the lower
and narrower region, abundant cytoplasm with numerous free endosperm nuclei
(f.e.n.) is found. (x 270).
Text-fig. 25—A longitudinal section through the endosperm (end.). _ An
embryo (emb.) and suspensor (sp.) are seen embedded in the endosperm tissue.
(x 150).
174 THE LIFE-HISTORY OF STYPHELIA LONGIFOLIA (R.Br.),
At this point the writer would again eall attention to the shape of the
mature embryo sae (1923, Text-fig. 11). At one end a large micropylar cavity
is developed in a manner similar to that so often figured by M. Peltrisot (1904)
in his extensive investigations in the Ericaceae. This cavity is separated by a
constriction from the distended region below, which forms the main body of the
Text-fig. 26—This view shows a very young embryo with the extremely long
suspensor (sp.) pushing the embryo into the lower region of the sac where endo-
sperm formation is going on. (x 180).
Text-fig. 27—Another view of the same highly magnified. (x 600).
sac. The function of this chamber is not apparent, because, as already pointed
out, it contains at maturity only a few free endosperm nuclei.
It may, however, have a haustorial function, as in the Hricaceae (Peltrisot,.
1904). The embryo develops amid the endosperm in the central region of the
sac, but the greatly elongated suspensor traverses the micropylar chamber, and
BY P. BROUGH. 175
passes through the constriction separating these two regions (Text-figs. 26 and
27).
The persistent megaspores remain in full activity until long after fertil-
ization, for they are seen to be intact when the embryo is at the stage indicated
in Text-fig. 28. Their disintegration commences when the endosperm approaches
maturity, for at the stage indicated in Text-fig. 31 only tha positions previously
occupied by them are apparent. Accordingly it is evident, that the megaspores
retain their vitality until nutrition for endosperm formation has been supplied.
This is what might be expected, seeing that the food supply of the embryo is
now assured by the presence of a copious endosperm. _
The various phases of the life-history of Styphelia longifolia having been
presented, it remains to probe into the significance of the several peculiar features
which stand revealed.
The functioning of the micropylar megaspore has already been discussed,
but the phenomenon of far more fundamental importance—and one which the
writer believes has never previously been demonstrated—is the long-continued
active persistence of the three inner megaspores. It must be borne in mind, of
course, that Oliver (1888), in the case of Trapella, describes an example in
which megaspore persistence is demonstrated, but at the same time it will be
realised that in Trapella only one of the non-functional megaspores—the inner-
most—persists for any length of time, and in this particular case it develops
into a bi-cellular haustorium. Moreover, the megaspores in T'rapella are par-
titioned off from each other and from the embryo-sac by definite cell walls.
Now the Hpacridaceae are generally conceded to be fairly primitive repre-
sentatives of the Sympetalae, which in turn are derivatives from the Archi-
chlamydeae. The persistence of the megaspores in Styphelia immediately sug-
gests that this phenomenon represents the survival of a primitive condition when
all of the four megaspores were functional. But, if this interpretation be
correct, then why has a similar state of things never been reported in the more
primitive and presumably ancestral forms in the Archichlamydeae?
A possible reply to this is that the Epacridaceae—which are confined to the
Southern Hemisphere in general, and to Australia in particular—may represent
a type which has emerged and diverged in very early times from extremely
primitive Angiosperms, and has ever since preserved its identity and, in a special
degree, one of its ancestral features.
Another aspect of this discussion relates to the present day function of the
three megaspores in question. They are highly nourished, vigorous organs up
to the time of endosperm formation, and it has occurred to the writer that they
may be instrumental in the nourishing of the embryo-sac. The innermost mega-
spore is in close juxtaposition to the conducting tissue of the chalaza, and any
nutritive supplies therefrom would clearly meet with little resistance in passing
upwards by way of the megaspores to the developing functioning megaspore,
female gametophyte and endosperm, especially when it is remembered that the
megaspores are not separated from each other by walls. Furthermore, in the
ease of Styphelia, the common chamber enclosing the female gametophyte and
the three megaspores clearly provides an increased surface for the absorption of
nutritive supplies from the surrounding tissue. It is suggested then that the
megaspores have assumed a haustorial function, and form a via media for the
transfer of nutritive supplies from the conducting tissue of the chalaza to the
embryo-sae.
Finally, it has been pointed out by Coulter and Chamberlain (1915) that
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF STYPHELIA LONGIFOLIA (R.BY.),
176
The nature of the encasing
endosperm cells is illustrated and the digestive action of the embryo is apparent.
Ire
(x 270
Text-fig. 29—-A further stage in the development of the embryo is illustrated
Text-fig. 28—A slightly older stage of the embryo.
Also Text-figs. 29-31.
(x 270).
Differentiation of the derma-
Periclinal walls ‘have initiated the dermatogen (d.).
Text-fig. 30—A still older stage of the embryo.
here.
BY P. BROUGH. 177
the known cases of the functioning of the micropylar megaspore- are so few
that the phenomenon may indicate some peculiar condition, and it has occurred
to the writer that this peculiarity is bound up, in some cases at least, with the
haustorial activity of the non-functioning megaspores. Certainly this is so in
the case of Styphelia longifolia and Trapella sinensis. In any ease it is evident
that if the non-functional megaspores are to be instrumental in the nutrition of
the embryo-sac, then their most advantageous position is adjacent to the chalaza,
and, that being so, the selection of the micropylar megaspore as the future em-
bryo sae is accounted for.
Summary.
The anther consists of two microsporangia instead of the four usual in
Angiosperms. No fibrous layer is formed by the sub-epidermal cells of the wall
of the microsporangium. The epidermis assumes the role of the usual fibrous
layer, and by differential thickening and variation in shape of the constituent
cells effects and controls the specialised method of longitudinal dehiscence. In
the younger stages the thick stratified walls of the microspore provide a reserve
food supply for the further development of the microspores which are shed in
the bi-nucleate condition.
A single anatropous ovule is contained in each of the five loeuli of the
gynoecium. The nucellus consists of a single axial row of cells, surrounded
by an epidermal layer one cell thick, enclosed by a single massive integument.
The distal cell of the axial row functions as the megaspore mother cell. No
parietal cell formation occurs.
The spore mother cell undergoes reduction division, and produces a row
of four megaspores which are not separated by cell walls. The micropylar
megaspore functions and produces the normal eight-celled. gametophyte, a some-
what rare occurrence in Angiosperm life-history.
The female gametophyte is characterised by the extraordinarily large pyri-
form synergids, each with a pronounced striated apical region. The polar nuclei
fuse prior to fertilization. The antipodal cells are insignificant and evanescent.
The polarity of the cells characteristic of the Angiosperm gametophyte is as-
sumed somewhat late.
The three innermost megaspores-do- not disintegrate but enlarge very con-
siderably, and persist in an active state until endosperm formation is almost
completed. This long-continued persistence and activity of the three non-fune-
tional megaspores has not previously been recorded in the life-history of the
Angiosperm.
The pollen tube makes its way down through the micropyle, enters the
embryo-sac, sometimes piercing a synergid en route to the egg, and brings about
fertilization in the normal manner.
Immediately after fertilization the endosperm nucleus divides rapidly, pro-
ducing numerous free nuclei, but wall formation speedily supervenes, and a
copious endosperm is developed. A micropylar chamber, similar to that des-
erihed by M. Peltrisot in his researches on the Ericaceae, is formed at the apical
region of the sac. A chalazal chamber is also present in the mature seed.
The embryo is transferred from the micropylar chamber into the central
togen (d.) is complete except in the region where the radicle is to appear. (x 270).
Text-fig. 31—This section represents the final stage found in this investigation.
The dermatogen (d.) is very evident, while the regions of the periblem and the
plerome respectively are suggested. (x 270).
178 THE LIFE-HISTORY OF STYPHELIA LONGIFOLIA (R.BI.).
region of the endosperm by a very long narrow suspensor. Various stages in
the development of the embryo are delineated, but no abnormal features have
been recorded.
It is suggested that the persistence of the three non-functional megaspores
represents the retention of an ancestral condition of the Angiosperm, and that
in consequence the Hpacridaceae have diverged in early times from very primi-
tive types, and have since preserved their identity in an extraordinary degree.
The restricted distribution of the family supports this view. The writer is of
the opinion that the present day function of these persistent megaspores is
purely haustorial.
For helpful advice and kindly criticism given during the course of this re-
search, I desire to place on record my sincere thanks to Professor Lawson, in
whose laboratory these investigations were carried out. My thanks are also
due to Dr. McLuckie for similar good offices.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE I.
Cowrie Island, Shellharbour, N.'S.W. Easter, 1923.
Shellharbour, N’S.W. Easter, 1928.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE II.
Moffat Head, Caloundra, O. Northern end of beach.
Point Cartwright, Q.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE TIL.
Port Macquarie, N.S.W.
Magnetic Island, near Townsville, Q.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
1. Western fringe of Grey Range at Yandama, N.S.\W.
2. Low hills of Grey Range from Mt. Poole.
3
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PLATE
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IV.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. IPLAC Wh
4. Gibber and rubble slope colonised by community of Sarcostemma
australe.
5. Gibber slope with community of Atriplex vesicarium, Yandama.
6. Gibber slope near Yandama Creek, with Acacia Cambagei.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE VI-
PHeSS SRR eae
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7. Open scrub near Mt. Arrowsmith. Groundflora, Myriocephalus Stuarti;
Eremophila Sturtii at side; Acacia aneura in distance.
8. Grevillea striata on sandy plain west of Yandama.
9. Hremophila polyclada (?) on clayey flat, Grey Range.
10. Acacia Murrayana on sand ridge, north-west of Grey Range.
Proc.
1924. PLATE
Linn. Soc. N.S
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11. Open sandy plain with community of Atriplex vesicarium.
12. Sand ridge west of Grey Range. ‘Monospecifie’ community,
Heterodendron oleaefolium.
13. Heterodendron oleaefolium, near Yandama, showing exposure of
roots by wind erosion.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE VIII.
14. Mulga scrub (Acacia aneura) on sand ridge west of Grey Range.
15. Part of claypan bordered by open saltbush plain. Colonisation
of pan by Glyceria ramigera has commenced.
16. Clavpan reclaimed by Glyceria ramigera.
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18. Hucalyptus rosiraétu in Yandama Creek.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE xX.
New Trilobites from Bowning, N.S.W.
Proc. Livy. Soc.'N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XI.
General habit of Cassytha.
Photograph of C. paniculata growing upon several hosts, especially
Lasiopetalum ferrugineum and Banksia latifolia.
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PLATE XVII.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
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Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
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PLATE xIx.
Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
LINN.
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Loranthus Quandang Windl.
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Proc. Lixn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
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PLATE XXII.
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
Proc.
Loranthus Fitzgeraldi, n.sp.
W.F-.B. del.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
W.F-.B. del.
Loranthus grandibracteus Fiv.M.
PLATE XXIII,
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE Xxv.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PrAntn xcxvite
Loranthus amplexans (Van Tiegh.).
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XXVII.
Loranthus biangulatus W. V. Fitz.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XXVIII.
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RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS.
By Tom IreEDALE.
(Plates xxxll1.-xxxvi.)
[Read 25th June, 1924.]
Roy Bell has made several collections of molluses which I hope to report
upon more fully in the near future, especially in connection with zoogeographical
problems relating to Australasia. Roy Bell was born on Raoul Island, in the
Kermadec Group, and was of the greatest assistance to all the members of the
Expedition of 1908, but more especially to myself, as I found he had an ex-
cellent knowledge of the larger shells and was keenly interested in this group.
After I left the island, he made stil] larger collections, which were partly re-
ported upon by Mr. W. R. B. Oliver, now at the Dominion Museum, Wellington,
one of our party. Owing to an unexpected disaster which compelled all the
settlers (the Bell family) to leave the island, I was able to obtain his services
for Mr. G. M. Mathews, to investigate the bird life of Norfolk and Lord Howe
Islands. While upon these islands he made large collections of molluses for me.
until the Great War suspended all scientific work and publication. Bell volun-
teered, though not sound, and served four years, and upon his demobilisation
made more collections in Australia. He landed at Melbourne and went to Port
Fairy, Victoria, where he studied the Adelaidean fauna; he then travelled to
Mallacoota, Victoria, where he found almost a pure Peronian Molluse Fauna.
This was all I had desired for comparison, but the influenza outbreak prohibiting
his return to New Zealand, he travelled to Eden in Twofold Bay and stopped
there until the epidemic was over. He employed himself in making a thorough
survey of the molluscan fauna, shore collecting in every available place, dredging
throughout the Bay in from five to twenty-five fathoms, and outside, as far
north as Merimbula, in water to the same depth, and in deeper water, from
fifty to seventy fathoms, off Green Cape. In this essay I deal with the Twofold
Bay collections, but use the other material for comparison. As all the material
has been collected by one man, employing the same methods, the results are
especially valuable in this respect, the personal equation, no small factor, being
eliminated. Angas recorded shells, received from Brazier, from Twofold Bay,
while apparently Cox and Hedley also collected there, but I have seen no note
of Disaster Bay, the southernmost limit of New South Wales, which Bell visited.
The littoral fauna was found to be stationary, little trace being found at a depth
of only five fathoms, while from five to twenty fathoms, the mollusean life was
uniform; but beyond twenty fathoms a new fauna was developing, and from
the deeper water, 50-70 fathoms, still more different forms were secured, but,
as usual, much of the deeper water material was dead. Again, the shells washed
mp on the beach yary according to the seasons, many being found during winter
180 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
gales which are not met with in summer; and these also are rarely dredged.
Thus, to investigate completely a faunal area, the seasons must be also considered
as well as much dredging and shore collecting. Probably a year’s collecting by
a company of workers would show three-quarters of the fauna in a restricted
area.
Hedley proposed a subdivision of the Australian coastline, as regards the
marine fauna, into four regions; these have been generally accepted by scientific
investigators, but seem to have been misunderstood by some who were ignorant
of the facts. The present collections were made for the purpose of enlarging
our knowledge of the regions, especially by means of the Loricate fauna, as I
had found these indicated the general results very fairly. I had made collections
at Port Curtis and at Caloundra, Queensland, and have recently collected con-
tinuously on the Sydney beaches, while I have paid a visit to Port Fairy, Victoria.
Hedley’s Regions are as follows: the Solanderian covered the coastline of
Eastern Australia from Cape York to Moreton Bay; the Dampierian Region
ran westward from Cape York to Shark’s Bay, Western Australia; the Adelaidean
Region extended along the south and south-west coasts of Australia from Wilson’s
Promontory, in Victoria, to Shark’s Bay, and included the north and west coasts
of Tasmania; the Peronian Region took in the rest of the east coast of Australia
and Tasmania, and the east coast of Victoria. The only emendations yet pro-
posed have been the separation of the eastern coast of Tasmania under the
name Maugean, and the acceptance of the Solanderian as inclusive of the Dam-
pierian. J have continually compared Peronian shells with the (same) species
from southern Tasmania, and commonly find them to differ to a greater or less
degree. At the point of inosculation of Regions, species of the two Regions
will commonly be met with, but the further away from this point the purer the
collection. Thus, to emphasise this point, Sydney should show almost a pure
Peronian fauna, while Adelaide would show just as pure an Adelaidean fauna,
but collections made at Twofold Bay or Western Port might show an appreciable
Adelaidean or Peronian element respectively. At Twofold Bay no Solanderian
forms would be expected, and these hypotheses have been absolutely confirmed
by facts. We can now with certitude generally designate the littoral marine
mollusea with their Regional names. It must be remembered that we are dealing
with the littoral fauna, and that the deepwater fauna does not obey these laws
so exactly, but curiously enough, even this fauna shows distinction in the same
manner. With regard to the exact relationship of these deepwater forms and
also the fossils, I have published a note (Proc. Malac. Soe., xv., 1922, pp. 37-8)
indicating a solution of the nomination of these related forms. A paper by
Chapman and Gabriel (Proce. Roy. Soc. Vict., xxxvi., n.s., 1923) has just been
received, in which they record their belief that the recent and fossil forms must
be compared and contrasted, and then describe some new species, and record
other fossils under living names. They do not appear to have considered my
note as simplifying their troubles. They have described a new species Cellana
cudmorei as differing from C. variegata in a few details. C. variegata is the
common Sydney limpet, which varies according to station and locality, and their
species could be matched in any series procured at any place. I regard their
form with exactly the same views as they have expressed, but my method of
nomination obviates any criticism. I will give details of my scheme under the
first species that lends itself to such treatment, rather than in this introduction.
These notes are critical of the nomination and status of New South Wales marine
molluses, and are revisional of the names utilised by Hedley in his Check List
BY TOM IREDALE. 181
published in 1918. The whole of this work is based upon Hedley’s foundation,
and should be regarded as ornamental rather than as destructive. In the same
way as the stonemason improves the face of the laid stone, I have amended
Hedley’s List: the stone itself is not altered, only beautified, and without the
stone to work upon the stonemason could not work. I have made much use of
Pritchard and Gatlifi’s Victorian List, with its continuation by Gatliff and
Gabriel, Tate and May’s List of Tasmanian molluscs with May’s additions, and
more recently May’s Check List and Illustrated Index of Tasmanian shells, and
Sir Joseph Verco’s numerous and invaluable papers on South Australian Mol-
lusea. As all these essays have appeared in circumscribed and well known
Australian scientific journals, I am not giving complete references save in neces-
sary cases. This will save very much space and will not cause much inconvenience
to the interested worker. It should be stated here that the collection reported
upon was studied at the British Museum (Natural History) in conjunction with
the use of Sherborn’s MSS., and has been reviewed by means of the collection
in the Australian Museum, so that both sides of each matter at variance have
been viewed. The collection will be placed in the Australian Museum for future
reference, and it should be emphasised that the thanks of the scientific world
are due to Mr. Charles Hedley, who has assisted me in every possible way in
this revision of his own life-work. We are agreed that it will be many years
before such drastic treatment can be again served out to the marine molluscs of
this State.
To save space the following notes have been condensed to a minimum, only
the bare facts being recorded, so that it may not be realised that many of these
notes represent months of research and have not been hastily produced. Twice
as many notes have been withheld for further consideration in connection with
fieldwork, and the multitude of new generic names here introduced is through
comparison, with the assistance of the leading British malacologists, of these
Austral forms with the Palaearctic types.
I have proposed as new :—
Nucula praetenta, nom. nov., for Nucula umbonata Smith.
Nuculana (dohrni) tragulata nov.
Comitileda, gen. nov., for Leda miliacea Hedley.
Poroleda pertubata, nom. nov., for Poroleda lanceolata Hedley.
Propeleda, gen. nov., for Leda ensicula Angas.
Glycymeris striatularis suspectus, subsp. nov.
Neotrigonia gemma, sp. nov.
Notolimea, gen. nov., for Lima australis Smith.
Tima nimbifer, sp. nov.
Trichomusculus, gen. nov., for Lithodomus barbatus Reeve.
Fluviolanatus, gen. nov., for Modiolarca subtorta Dunker.
Modiolus delinificus, nom. nov., for M. albicostus auct.
Amygdalum beddomei, nom. nov., for Modiolus arborescens auct.
Solamen rex, gen. et sp. nov.
Eximiothracia, gen. nov., for Thracia speciosa Angas.
Thraciopsis peroniana, nom. nov., for T. elegantula auct.
Thracidora, gen. nov., for Thraciopsis arenosa Hedley.
Myadora royana, sp. nov.
Myadora complexa, sp. nov.
Eucrassatella, gen. nov., for Crassatella kingicola Lamarck.
Talabrica, gen. Nov., fon Crassatella aurora A. Adams and Angas.
182 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’?S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Salaputium, gen. nov., for Crassatella fulvida Angas.
Bathycardita, gen. nov., for Cardita raouli Angas.
Mendicula memorata, gen. and nom. nov., for Lucina induta Iledley.
Notomyrtea, gen. noy., for Myrtaea botanica Hedley.
Numella, gen. nov., for Diplodonta adamsi Angas.
Melliteryx, gen. nov., for Erycina acupuncta Hedley.
Borniola, gen. nov., for Bornia lepida Hedley.
Pratulum, gen. nov., for Cardium thetidis Hedley.
Gouldiopa, gen. nov., for Gouldia australis Angas.
Fluctiger royanus, gen. et sp. nov.
Notocallista, gen. nov., for Cytherea kingtt Gray.
Chioneryx, gen. nov., for Venus striatissima Sowerby.
Eumareia, gen. nov., for Venus fumigata Sowerby.
Tellina beryllina, nom. noy., for Tellina inaequivalvis Sowerby.
Semelangulus, gen. nev., for Tellina tenuilirata Sowerby.
Abranda, gen. nov., for A. rex, nom. nov., for Tellina elliptica Sow.
Solen correctus, nom. nov., for Solen sloaniw auct.
Scissurona, gen. nov., for Scissurella rosea Hedley.
Scissurona rosea remota, subsp. nov.
Subzeidora, gen. nov., for Hmarginula connectens Thiele.
Rimulanax, gen. nov., for Puncturella corolla Verco.
Cosmetalepas, gen. nov., for Fissurella concatenata Crosse and I*ischer.
Sophismalepas, gen. nov., for Fissurella nigrita Sowerby.
Elegidion audax, gen. et sp. nov.
Riza, gen. nov., for Glyphis watsoni Brazier.
Vacerra, gen. nov., for Puncturella demissa Hedley.
Vacerra demissa menda, subsp. nov.
Haliotis naevosum improbulum, subsp. nov.
Mesoclanculus, gen. nov., for Trochus plebejus Philippi.
Notogibbula, gen. nov., for Gibbula cori Angas == Stomatella bicarinata A.
Adams.
Minopa, gen. nov., tor Fossarina legrandi Petterd.
Leiopyrga octona problematica, subsp. nov.
Spectamen, gen. nov., for Trochus philippensis Watson.
Ethminolia probabilis, gen. et sp. nov.
Minoha pulcherrima emendata, subsp. nov.
Salsipotens, gen. nov., for Trochus armillatus Wood.
Fautor, gen. nov., for Zizyphinus comptus A. Adams.
Astelena, gen. nov., for Trochus scitulus A. Adams.
Mimelenchus, subgen. nov., for Phasianella ventricosa Quoy and Caimard.
Bellastraea, gen. nov., for Astraea fimbriata auct.
Bellastraea kesteveni, nom. nov., for Astraea fimbriata auct.
Stipator, gen. nov., for Teinostoma starkeyae Hedley.
Lodderena, gen. nov., for Liotia minima Ten.-Woods.
Patelloida alticostata antelia, subsp. nov.
Patelloida alticostata complanata, subsp. nov.
Notoacmea mixta mimula, subsp. nov.
Radiacmea insignis cavilla, subsp. nov.
Notoacmea flammea diminuta, subsp. nov.
Naccula, gen. nov., for Nacella parva Angas == Patelloida punctata Quoy
and Gaimard.
BY TOM IREvALDE. 183
Patellanax, gen. nov., for Patella squamifera Reeve.
Parvacmea illibrata mellila, subsp. nov.
Cellana variegata ariel, subsp. nov.
Botellus, gen. nov., for Onoba bassiana Hedley. —
Coenaculum, gen. nov.. for Scala minutula Tate and May.
Stiva royana, sp. nov.
Cacozelia, gen. nov., for Cerithium lacertinum Gould.
Seilarex, gen. nov., for Seila attenuata Hedley.
Gazameda, gen. nov., for Turritella gunnii Reeve.
Glyptozaria, gen. noy., for Turritella opulenta Hedley.
Colpospira guillaumei, sp. nov.
Crosseola, gen. nov., for Crossea concinna Angas.
Dolicrossea, gen. nov., for Crossea labiata Ten.-Woods.
Icuncula, gen. nov., for Cingulina torcularis Ten.-Woods.
Austrotriton (parkinsonius) basilicus, nov.
Cymatiella, gen. nov., for Triton quoyi Reeve.
Propesinum, gen. nov., for Natica umbilicata Quoy and Gaimard.
Propesinum umbilicatum minusculum, subsp. nov.
Propesinum (umbilicatum) mimicum, nov.
Triviella merces, sp. nov.
Baryspira fusiformis gaza, subsp. nov.
Scaphella caroli, nom. nov., for Voluta maculata Swainson.
Cymbiola complexa, nom. novy., for Voluta punctata Swainson.
Gemmoliva, subgen., nov. for Oliva triticea Duclos.
Cupidoliva, gen. nov., for Olivella nympha Adams and Angas.
Pervicacia, gen. nov., for Terebra ustulata Deshayes.
Pervicacia assecla, sp. nov.
Teleochilus royanus, sp. nov.
Colus novae-hollandiae grandiculus, subsp. nov.
Berylsma, gen. nov., for Fusus waitei Hedley.
Propefusus, gen. nov., for Fusus pyrulatus Reeve.
Microvoluta royana, sp. nov.
Peculator verconis, gen. et sp. nov.
Radulphus royanus, gen. et sp. nov.
Zella, gen. nov., for Terebra beddomei Petterd.
Galfridus, gen. nov., for Triton speciosus Angas.
Typhis philippensis interpres, subsp. nov.
Bedeva, gen. nov., for Trophon hanleyi Angas.
Pugillaria gen. nov., for Siphonaria stowae Verco.
Pugillaria stowae comita, subsp. nov.
Additions to the New South Wales fauna are: Solemya australis Lamarck,
Glycymeris holosericus Reeve, G. crebreliratus Sowerby, G. flabellatus Ten.-
Woods, Osirea mordar Gould, Chlamys undulatus Sowerby, Modiolus victoriae
Pritchard and Gatliff, Gaimardia tasmanica Beddome, Myadora elongata May,
M. subalbida Gatliff and Gabriel, Phragmorisma watsoni Smith, Lucina mayi
Gathiff and Gabriel, Talabrica aurora A. Ad. and Angas, Dosinia victoriae Gat-
hff and Gabriel, D. caerulea Reeve, Solen vaginoides Lamarck, Saxicava subalata
Gathff and Gabriel. Ischnochiton tateanus Bednall, I. purus Sykes, Notoplax
speciosa H. Adams, Scissurella ornata May, 8S. rosea Hedley, Macroschisma_ tas-
maniae Sowerby, Leiopyrga octona Tate, Minopa legrandi Petterd, Calliostoma
184 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
legrandi Ten.-Woods, C. allporti Ten.-Woods, Phasianella rubens Lamarck,
Radiacmea insignis Menke, Notoacmea flammea Quoy and Gaimard, Radiacmea
calamus Crosse and Fischer, Patelloida submarmorata Pilsbry, Lironoba australis
Ten.-Woods, Botellus bassianus Hedley, Rissoina lintea Hedley and May, Hetero-
rissoa wilfridi Gatliff and Gabriel, Capulus australis Lamarck, Plesiotrochus
monachus Crosse and Fischer, Colpospira quadrata Donald, C. runcinata Watson,
Naricava vincentiana Angas, Phaliwm pyrum Lam., Natica shorehami Pritchard
and Gatliff, Sinum zonale Quoy and Gaimard, Cymatiella quoyi-Reeve, Baryspira
tasmanica Ten.-Woods, B. fusiformis Petterd, Marginella tasmanica Ten.-Woods,
M. dentiens May, M. gabrieli May, M. gatliffi May, M. caducocincta May, Terebra
ustulata Deshayes, Propefusus pyrulatus Reeve, Nassarius tasmanicus Ten.-
Woods, Philine columnaria Hedley and May.
I have included some additions to the Victorian List of Peronian molluses
sent by Roy Bell from the Mallacoota district, such as Ostrea glomerata Gould,
Heterozona fruticosa Gould, Haploplax lentiginosa Sowerby, Haliotis coccoradiata
Reeve, Clanculus floridus Philippi, Clanculus brunneus A. Adams, Cantharidella
picturata A. Adams, Eurytrochus strangei A. Adams, Astelena scitula A. Adams,
Notoacmea petterdi Ten.-Woods, Tectarius tuberculatus Menke, Baryspira fusi-
formis Petterd, and Xymene hanleyi Angas; many of the Peronian species now
distinguished, also occur at Mallacoota, as Rhyssoplax jugosa Gould, Ischnochiton
crispus Reeve, Callistochiton antiquus Reeve, Emarginula hedleyi Thiele, Haliotis
naevosum Martyn, Gena impertusa Burrows. It may be noted that Roy Bell
collected over two hundred species of marine mollusea in the Mallacoota district,
which I hope to report upon soon, as previously there is searcely a record at all.
SOLEMYA AUSTRALIS Lamarck, 1818.
Solemya australis Lamarck, Hist. Anim. sans Verteb., v., 1818, p. 489, King
George’s Sound, Western Australia—Mya marginipecta, ib., ex Peron MS., in
synonymy.
Three young specimens of a Solemya were picked out of dredgings made in
6-12 fathoms in Twofold Bay, and these are provisionally referred to the above-
named species, until series are collected and the locality given by Lamarck con-
firmed, I find similar young specimens in the Australian Museum, collected by
Hedley and Brazier in Middle Harbour, Sydney, and these do not exactly agree
with juveniles collected in King George Sound by Prof. Dakin also in the Aus-
trahan Museum. é
The genus Solemya was introduced by Lamarck with this species and S.
mediterranea, and Gray (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 192), named the latter
as type. Dall, reviewing the group (Nautilus, xxii., 1908, p. 2) cited the former,
and this error has been copied by Suter. According to Dall’s classification this
adds a superfamily Solenomyacea as well as a family Solemyacidae to the New
South Wales List.
* (5), Nucuna PusILuA Angas, 1877.
From the description and figure, this species appeared to be a Pronucula,
and comparison of specimens I have collected on the Sydney beaches confirms
this, necessitating its transference to that genus.
(6) NucuLa UmMBOoNATA Smith, 1891.
When Smith named this species, he overlooked the fact that J. Hall (Nat.
Hist. New York, Palaeont. v., 1885, pt. 1, p. 321) had appropriated the name.
* These numbers refer to Hedley’s Check List.
BY TOM IREDALE. 185
Smith did not describe the hinge, but it is a true Nucula so I rename it Nucula
praetenta, nom. nov.
(7) Nucunana crassa (Hinds, 1843.)
Described from “Australia” only; the type is a large shell agreeing with
Tasmanian shells named chuva by Gray, collected by Jukes at Hobart. I there-
fore select Hobart, Tasmania, as the type locality of crassa Hinds. Twofold Bay
shells are smaller and less coarsely sculptured, and this small form reaches north
to Caloundra, Q’ld. If a name be desired, hanleyi is available.
(8) NucuLANA DOHRNI (Hanley, 1861). (Plate xxxv., figs. 14-15.)
Leda hanleyi Angas, 1873, is not a synonym of this species as given by
Hedley, but is referable to the preceding (N. crassa Hinds) as will be seen from
the description and figure, and which I have verified from examination of the
type tablet preserved in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), which is, moreover,
labelled “N. crassa,”
Sowerby (Conch. Icon. (Reeve), xvi., Nov., 1871, Laeda, Pl. ix., sp. 54),
figured “Laeda dorhnii (sic) A. Adams. Hab ?” “Mus. Cum. in Brit. Mus.,”
probably from the same specimen, but the figure is very poor as it does not show
the elegant elongate shape of this species commonly occurring in shallow water,
15-25 fathoms, in Twofold Bay (Pl. xxxv., fig. 14). From deeper water, 50-70
fathoms, off Green Cape, specimens were secured which differed from the pre-
ceding in shape, agreeing better with Sowerby’s figure, and which may be shortly
described as having the shape of N. crassa, with the sculpture of N. dohrnii.
These I name Nuculana (dohrnii) tragulata, nov. (Pl. xxxv., fig. 15).
By this nomination, which I have referred to in my introductory remarks,
I indicate the relationship of the species without dogmatising as to the absolute
value of the observed difference. I note that the form described appears to be
the deepwater relative of the shallow water N. dohrnii. Leda woodsi Tate
(Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., vili., 1885 (May, 1886), p. 133, Pl. ix., f. 8), from the
Muddy Creek, is almost inseparable from WN. dohrnii according to Tate himself,
and its status would be shown by using the combination Nuculana [dohrnit]
woodsu, while Leda crebrecostata Ten.-Woods (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1886 (1887),
p. 112), as figured and described by Tate (loc. cit., p. 133, Pl. v., figs. 5a-b), ap-
pears to approximate very closely to the deepwater form here described, and this
might be recorded as Nuculana [crebrecostata] tragulata, or Nuculana [dohrnit]
erebrecostata might be used for the fossil form.
(11) Wocunana MILIACEA (Hedley, 1902.)
This peculiar little smooth species is very different in appearance from the
normal forms, so I provide the new genus Comitileda and name it as type.
(14) PoroLepa ENsIcuLA (Angas, 1877).
The elimination of all errors from a trebly-confused subject is a matter of
great difficulty. In the present case, the specific identities have been correctly
recognised with regard to the Australian species, but I propose to separate these
generically and thus, perhaps, obviate further error. Hedley, dealing with bi-
valves dredged in 110 fathoms in New Zealand waters (Trans. N. Z. Inst., xxxviil.,
1905 (June, 1906), p. 71, Pl. ii., fig. 7), gave the correct quotation for the intro-
duction of the genus name Poroleda, Hutton, Macleay Mem. Vol., Linn. Soe.
N.S.W., p. 86, Sept., 1893 (ex Tate MS.), figuring a recent shell doubtfully
identified as agreeing with the fossil type, Scaphula ? lanceolata Hutton, Trans.
186 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
N.Z. Inst., xvu., 1884 (1885), p. 332. Suter (Man. N.Z. Moll., 1913, p. 840)
has remarked upon the different size and proportions of the recent shell, so it
seems as well to name the species figured and described by Hedley as above; so
I here rename the 110 fathom shell Poroleda pertubata. . Poroleda spathula Hed-
ley generally agrees with this species in the nature of the teeth, but Angas’s Leda
ensicula shows teeth of a different formation, though the shell is similarly elon-
gated. I propose the new genus Propeleda, naming Leda ensicula Angas as type.
Thiele’s Antaretic Leda longicaudata (Deutsch. Sudpol. Exped., xiii., 1912, p. 229,
Pl. xvii, fig. 22), as determined by Hedley from the Shackleton Iceshelf, An-
taretica, is actually congeneric with this, and not a Poroleda as here restricted.
The two species, ensicula and spathula, occurred together in Twofold Bay in
20-25 fathoms, but the majority belonged to the former species. In a deeper
dredging off Green Cape, in 50-70 fathoms, many specimens turned up, but at
this depth spathula predominated. This suggests that the latter is a deeper-
water shell and this is confirmed by the series in the Australian Museum. P.
spathula varied a little in shape, the larger ones, some exceeding the type in size,
agreeing with Hedley’s first figures, the smaller ones being more like the later
painting made by Miss Clarke.
(23) Lissarca prora (Hedley, 1899).
The generic name Austrosarepta, proposed by Hedley for this species,
should be revived, as more material and study of Antarctic material shows this
genus to differ materially from, though superficially resembling, the Antarctic
and Subantaretie Lissarca.
Another item of interest is that No. 31, Bathyarca perversidens Hedley,
should be placed after No. 17, Cucullaea concamera Bruguiere, as it appears to
be the southern degenerate deepwater relation of the tropical Cucullaea, agree-
ing in most essential features. Johnston described a Cucullaea minuta (Proe.
Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1879 (1880), p. 40: Table Cape, Tas.) which name attracted
me, but from the description it seems more like a Limopsis, such as L. erectus
Hedley and Petterd (Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 1906, 224, Pl. xxxvii., figs. 14 and 15,
from 300 fathoms, off Sydney).
(26) Arca FasciaTa Reeve, 1844.
Some years ago Hedley suggested that Arca pistachia Lamarck reterred to
the shell deseribed by Smith as Arca (Barbatia) radula (Adams MS.) in the
Challenger Reports (Lamell., 1885, p. 260, Pl. xvii., figs. 3, 3b). Smith’s specimens
came from Station 162; off Hast Moncoeur Island, Bass Straits, 38 fathoms,
which he identified with Adams’s shell localised as “Hudson’s (i.e., Hobson’s)
Bay, Port Philip (sic), South Australia (recte Victoria) on seaweed 43 fathoms.”
Smith had overlooked the fact that Lamarck had described his species from
almost the same locality, Ile King, but protested (Journ. Malac., xii., pt. 2, p.
27, June 29, 1905) that Lamarck’s description was just as applicable to Arca
fusca Bruguiére or A. fasciata Reeve. Hedley searched, when in HKurope, for
Lamarck’s shells without success and then acquiesced in Smith’s rejection. Still
more recently Lamy, studying Arca as a group, determined Smith’s radula as
simply a variety of Reeve’s fasciata. This conclusion was accepted by Hedley
who, therefore, used Reeve’s name. This proves untenable, as Reeve had been
anticipated by Schroeter (Archiv. Zool. (Wiedemann), iii., pt. 1, 1802, p. 129),
so the matter must be reopened.
The description given by Lamarck agrees very exactly with the shells I
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have received from Twofold Bay, the “extus grisea, intus fusco-nigricante,”’ “ses
valves sont striées 4 l’intérieur” being descriptive, and I accept Lamarck’s name
without hesitation, especially as he also included in his list of Arca, fusca Bruguiere.
Lamarck’s specimens were in the Paris Museum, so it may be that the specimen
noted by Lamy, labelled “barbata Lamarck,’ as fasciata Reeve is one of the
original lot. As Lamy has pointed out (Journ. de Conch., lv., 1907, p. 51, foot-
note) Barbatia adolphi Dunker (Novit. Conch. (Pfeiffer), 2nd ser., pt. xiii., 1868,
Pl. 37, figs. 1, 2, 3, p. 107) collected in Australia by Preiss seems related to, if
not identical with, this species, and this name has priority over Smith’s radula,
the type locality apparently being south-west Australia, whence Preiss’s specimens
' were sent.
Australian Areas still require revision, as Lamy’s treatment does not com-
pletely cover the points at issue. Thus the acceptance of a worldwide range
for many species has already been disputed successfully by E. A. Smith and
Hedley and consequently for No. 24, Gmelin’s afra, given to a Senegal shell,
should be eliminated from an Australian catalogue. Lamy states that Lamarck’s
Arca pisolina (Anim. s. Verteb., vi., p. 41, July, 1819: mers de la Nouvelle
Hollande) is based upon small specimens he regarded as equivalent to A. sculp-
ttlis Reeve, and Lamarck’s name would be preferable to Gmelin’s.
For No. 30 an earlier reference is to Arca trapezia Deshayes (Rev. Zool.
Soe. Cuv., ii., p. 358, Dec. 1839: “Sem Blas, Mexico” error ?). Hedley has dis-
cussed this name and has agreed to the decision, but Lamy, in confirming this,
has noted that he has seen specimens from Panama which again suggest doubt;
but Deshayes’ figure is very like our shell.
(32) GLYCYMERIS AUSTRALIS (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834). (Plate xxxv.,
figs. 3, 18-20).
Pectunculus australis Quoy and Gaimard, 1834, clashes with P. australis
Morton (Synops. Org. Remains Cret. Group, U.S., 1834, p. 64). The preface
to the latter work is dated Jan. 1, and it is believed to have appeared early in
that year, while there is no definite record of the publication of Quoy and
Gaimard’s essay in 1834. I, therefore, reject Quoy and Gaimard’s name, as
there are numerous other names for the Australian shell. Hedley has included
as 32 A, G. australis flammeus Reeve, a colour variety he had collected at Two-
fold Bay some twenty years ago. May has recently added this variety to the
Tasmanian fauna as occurring on the Furneaux Group, noting it also from Lakes
Entrance, Gippsland, Victoria. Roy Bell sent me scores of washed-up valves
and a few complete specimens in good condition from the Victorian locality.
These showed a little variation in shape and sculpture, and, upon comparison at
the British Museum, I noted several synonyms. A series dredged by Bell in
shallow water at Port Fairy, Victoria, were mostly small and covered with a
dark brown periostracum, those from Lakes Entrance being practically naked.
These appeared separable and were regarded as striatularis. Lam. Then, from
Twofold Bay, Roy Bell sent many magnificent examples dredged at various
depths, some naked, some fully clothed. The larger, thicker shells were generally
unclothed, the thinner shells fully covered: they showed obliquity in shape, but
some of the young ones were regular. The fully clothed ones frequented the
deeper water and never appeared to become so obese as the naked heavier shells,
of which larger specimens still were sent from Disaster Bay in shallow water.
From the shallow-water dredgings in Twofold Bay small shells, fully clothed, of
varying shape and sculpture, were picked out. Then a series of small, almost
188 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
trigonal, shells were sent from a dredging made in 5-12 fathoms off Gabo Island,
Victoria. Close criticism of the British Museum material showed that, while all
these generally agreed in the hinge teeth (Pl. xxxv., figs. 18 and 20), a striking
difference was seen in specimens from Sydney northwards in New South Wales,
when the hinge was examined, the teeth being more numerous and more closely
set together (Plate xxxv., f. 19). These agreed with Pectunculus holosericus
Reeve (Conch. Icon., Vol 1., Pectunculus Vol. iv., sp. and f. 18, March, 1843)
from Australia: type in Brit. Mus. ex Mus. Cuming. Specimens dredged by the
Challenger in Sydney Harbour, and by the Rattlesnake in Broken Bay, agreed
with the type, and the velvety epidermis is a striking feature. Pritchard and
Gatliff (Proe. Roy. Soe. Vict., xvii., Sept. 1904, p. 244) had cited P. holosericus
as a synonym of striatularis, but it is very different in many ways. None of my
Specimens agreed with P. holosericus, but I collected shells at Caloundra that
came close but did not agree exactly, and these were differentiated by Lamy
(from specimens sent by Hedley) as P. hedleyi (Journ. de Conch., lix., 1911 (5
Feb. 1912), p. 123, Pl. u., figs. 6, 7) from Bundaberg.
Mr. A. E. J. Thackway collected a series of valves at Port Stephens, New
South Wales, which showed three distinct species, and then found the same three
at Narrabeen. I collected some hundreds of valves on the latter beach, and found
they could be easily separated and that the characters of each could then be
gauged. This series illumined the Twofold Bay eollection and I think 1 ean re-
present the facts correctly as follows :—
Bundaberg to Caloundra, Queensland.
G. hedleyi Lamy.
Port Stephens to Sydney.
G. holosericus Reeve.
These appear to be closely allied and I have no record further south yet.
Mast Head Reef, Queensland.
G. queenslandicus Hedley.
~ Moreton Bay to Sydney.
G. crebreliratus Sowerby.
Twofold Bay to Port Phillip, Vie.
G. tenuicostatus Reeve.
These appear to be related very closely.
G. flammeus Reeve seems to range from Port Stephens to Lakes Entrance,
Victoria, and the Furneaux Group, Tasmania, the synonyms being P. grayanus
Dunker (Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856 (8 May, 1857), p. 357): New Zealand
(error) and Axinaea kenyoniana Brazier (These Proe., xxi., 1897, p. 781 from
Lakes Entrance, Victoria.
G. flammeus is the largest and heaviest; broadly oblique, practically denuded
of periostracum, hinge-teeth few and distant. G. holosericus never grows quite
so big, but is still heavy, almost regularly orbicular, but when senile higher than
broad, a velvety periostracum which is persistent, and the hinge-teeth numerous,
set close together and in a roundly arched line. G. crebreliratus is much smaller,
thinner, circular but semi-beaked posteriorly, sculpture stronger, with periostracum
semi-persistent and not so velvety. G. tenwicostatus is similar, more trigonal in
shape, more obese and thicker, sculpture still stronger and periostracum persistent
and less velvety: teeth closer than those of flammeus, but not so close as those
of holosericus.
The Tasmanian shells referred to striatularis Lamarck by local workers were
not determined exactly by E. A. Smith in the British Museum, as they did not
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agree with typical shells from King George Sound (Hist. Anim. s. Verteb., vi.,
July, 1819, p. 52). Specimens, above referred to, as being thinner and fully
_ covered and more oblique, from Twofold Bay, agree very closely with southern
Tasmanian shells, and Lamy (Journ. de Conch., lx., 1912, p. 112, Pl. in, figs.
1-2) has figured a Tasmanian specimen for comparison with Lamarck’s type
(also figured). The series I secured on the beach at Port Fairy, Victoria, are
heavier shells, more obese, with the teeth in the hinge more closely set, and
approximate more closely to the type. I regard these as the eastern limit of
the typical form, and propose to name the Twofold Bay and eastern Tasmanian
series, figured since also by May (Illustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. i, f. 8)
subspecifically as Glycymeris striatularis suspectus nov. (Plate xxxv., fig. 3).
Study of Muddy Creek and Table Cape fossils, in conjunction with long
series of recent shells as above determined, would prove very interesting, as the
shells in the British Museum labelled G. cainozoicus Ten.-Woods are of different
shape, size, and teething and appear to include ancestral forms of more than one
of the species above determined.
The corrections and additions to the New South Wales list would read :—
32 and 32 A Glycymeris flammeus Reeve, 1843 = australis Quoy and Gaimard,
1834 not Morton, 1834 — grayanus Dunker, 1856 — kenyoniana
Brazier, 1898.
32 B Glycymeris holosericus Reeve, Conch. Icon., Vol. i., Pectuneulus, Pl. iv., sp.
and fig. 18, March, 1843: Austraha: Brit. Mus. ex Coll. Cum., type
probably from Sydney District.
33 Glycymeris gealei Angas, 1873. !
33 A Glycymeris flabellatus Ten.-Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xiv., 1877 (11
July, 1878), p. 61: Victoria = P. orbicularis Angas, 1879: Bass
Straits = P. beddome: E. A. Smith, 1885, as dealt with in the
succeeding note.
33 bis error = 34 Glycymeris tenwcostatus Reeve, 1843.
34 A Glycymeris crebreliratus Sowerby, Journ. Linn. Soe. Lond., Zool. Vol. xx.,
1889, p. 399, Pl. xxv., f. 20: Moreton Bay, Q.
34B Glycymeris striatularis suspectus here named. Lamy, Journ. de Conch.,
hix., 1912, p. 112, Pl. un, figs. 1-2; May, Illustr. Index Tasm.
Shells, 1923, Pl. u., f. 8.
(33) GLYCYMERIS GEALEI (Angas, 1873).
This species was described from Port Macquarie, New South Wales, and
the type is in the British Museum (Natural History). It is a very obese, tri-
gonal shell and does not appear to have been met with since: it agreed fairly
elosely in shape and sculpture with specimens sent to the British Museum by
Sir J. Verco as sordidus Tate from South Australia. The hinge-teeth are also
similar, so it was suggested that the N.S.W. locality might be erroneous, but I
have collected a valve on the beach at Narrabeen proving its distinction and
correct locality. Roy Bell sent me a specimen of a ribbed Glycymeris from
Lakes Entrance, Victoria, and then dredged a few nice specimens alive in 10-20
fathoms in Disaster Bay, and a valve was picked out of 20-25 fathoms dredging
in Twofold Bay. These agreed very exactly with the types of P. orbicularis
Angas (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 420, Pl. xxxv., fig. 9) from Bass Straits,
and P. beddomei KH. A. Smith (Voy. Challenger, Zool. Vol. xiii., 1885, p. 252, Pl.
xvil., figs. 1-1b), also from Bass Straits, 38 F.; and these are regarded as
synonyms of P. flabellatus Ten.-Woods (Proc. Roy. Soe. Vict., xiv., 1877 (11
190 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
July, 1878), p. 61), from Victoria. This was unfigured until recently when
May (Illustr. Index) figured, under Tenison-Woods’s name, the same shell. The
matter is more complicated than here appears as Vereo used, for the South
Australian shell, G. pectinoides Deshayes, remarking upon the great variation.
Lamy rejected pectinoides, to my view correctly, but records Verco’s pectinoides
as referable to flabellatus, not to sordidus, which he included as distinct. As a
synonym of the latter, he suggests, following Hedley, G. insignis Pilsbry (Proe.
Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1906 (24 July, 1916), p. 213, fig. in text) from Geographe
Bay, Western Australia. On account of the more numerous hinge-teeth I should
allow Pilsbry’s species distinction, as the Western representative, until more
specimens have been collected. There appear to be two species, one trigonal
with few teeth, one orbicular with more numerous teeth, and these are commonly
represented among fossil collections, the former under the name subtrigonalis
Tate, the latter under the name laticostatus Q. and G. from New Zealand, but
which differs at sight from the N.Z. species by the closer crenulations of the
edges of the valves and which should bear the name maccoyi Johnston.
(44) IsocGNomMon cumiInGit (Reeve, 1858).
This, of course, did not occur in the Twofold Bay collection, but I wish to
make a note regarding the generic name /sognomon, for whose recent acceptance
I was responsible (Proc. Malac. Soc. (Lond.), xi., 1915, p. 303). I there
observed “I have not yet noticed Solander’s usage of Pedalion, and it may be
that Gray’s was the first introduction of it. It is obviously equivalent to
Solander’s Isogonum as here discussed..” | have since noted that Dillwyn
(Deser. Cat. Recent Shells, 1817, p. 281-282) wrote in synonymy ‘“Pedalion
perna,’ “Pedalion isognomon,” “Pedalion ephippium” as of Solander’s MSS., in.
connection with the first-named citing “Portland Cat. p. 52, lot 1242” and adding
“was arranged by Dr. Solander in the Portland Cabinet under the name of
Pedalion torta.”’ None of these names is found in the Portland Sale Catalogue,
and Pedalion only dates thus from 1817. In the Linnean Index to Huddesford’s
edition of Lister, published in 1770, I find the entry (p. 23): “Ostrea epphippium.
Pedalion. Rudder. Solander.’’ If this be acceptable Pedalion Huddesford will
replace Isognomon.
(48) PrerIA PULCHELLA (Reeve, 1857).
This name, used by Angas, was accepted by Hedley without criticism, and,
unfortunately, May has used the name in his [llnstr. Index, though figuring a
Tasmanian shell. The latter had, however, an earlier name, having been named
Avicula hyalina Dunker (Zeitschr. fur Malak. (Menke), Jr. 9, No. 5, June, 1852,
p. 75) and figured in the Conch. Cab. (Kuster), Bd. 7, Abth. 3, 1872, p. 32, Pl.
10, figs. 3-4, where A. scalpta Reeve was synonymised. A. pulchella Reeve was
published in the Conch. Icon., Vol. x., Avicula sp. and f. 22, Pl. viii., March,
1857, from the Philippine Islands, while A. scalpta was sp. and f. 38, Pl. xi,
from Australia. The type of the former in the British Museum did not exactly
agree, while the latter was identical with shells from shallow water, Twofold
Bay, and from Lakes Entrance, Victoria. Previous to Dunker, however, Quoy
and Gaimard had named Avicula georgiana (Voy. de l’Astrol., Vol. iti., 1835, p.
457, Pl. 77, fic. 10-11) from King George’s Sound and this appears the name to
be used, unless the shell from the eastern coast can be differentiated, which ap-
pears a difficult matter in a variable featureless shell.
Lamarck had described Avicula papilionacea (Hist. Anim. s. Verteb., Vol.
vi., July, 1819, p. 149) from “les mers de la Nouvelle Hollande. Péron Mus no”
BY TOM IREDALE. 191
citing as illustrations “Chemn. Conch., 8, t. 81, f. 726” and “Eneylop., Pl. 177, f.
5,” the latter being a copy of Chemnitz’s figure. This name has been used for
the species here discussed, but Deshayes, in the 2nd edition of Lamarck (Vol.
vul., 1836, p. 100) noted that the shell in the Museum was a distinct species from
that figured by Chemnitz, which Lamarck had quoted, and that he could not quote
any good figure like Lamarck’s shell. Apparently he had one prepared simul-
taneously, as in his Elem. Traité de Conchyl. (plate dated 1835, but not pub-
lished until 1850) Pl. 40, figs. 7-8, a good figure named Avicula papilionacea
Lamarck is included. This proves that the name has nothing to do with the
Species now under review.
The generic name Electroma Stoliczka (Pal. Indica, iii., 1871, p. 391), pro-
yided for A. smaragdina Reeve, should be used for this group as in the Coll.
Brit. Mus.
(52) VULSELLA VULSELLA (Linné, 1758).
Smith’s revision at the place quoted by Hedley allowed Vulsella spongiarum
Lamarck as a distinct species from Southern Australia. As Smith, throughout
that revision, used genetic features as specific characters, there should be little
hesitation in allowing this form specific rank.
The name Vulsella was used, previously to Lamarck in 1799, by Humphrey
in the Museum Calonnianum in a different sense, so must be here rejected.
Swainson proposed Reniella (Treat. Malac., 1840, p. 386) for a new species,
Reniella dilatata, fig. 127, which is only an abnormality of the species V. vul-
sella Linné, so that Swainson’s generic name will come into use.
(53 and 55) Ostrna ANGASI Sow., 1871 and OSTREA VIRESCENS Angas, 1867.
Mr. Hedley has suggested to me that these two names refer to the same
species, and upon his proposal May had used the latter name; however, Mr.
Hedley has indicated a still earlier name and allowed me to publish this account.
When Peron’s account of his travels appeared (after his death), in Vol.
i, 1816, p. 80, is written “Annoncer que Vile Deerés a pu fournir 4 mes collec-
tions trois cent trente-six espéces de Mollusques, de Crustaces &c., c’est dire
assez qu'il me seroit impossible d’entrer dans de longs details sur cette mul-
titude d’animaux; je me bornerai done & présenter quelques-uns des principaux
résultats de mes observations en ce genre. J. A. Ventrée du petit port Daché, on
trouve une grande espéce d’Huitre, qui forme sur ce point des banes trés-étendus:
la chair de cet animal est tendre et délicate.”
Lamarck deseribed several species of Ostrea from the seas of New Holland
without naming the collector, so that it is even doubtful if the exact locality be
given. Some small species are named, such as QO. numisma, of which Hanley
wrote “having been founded on a single wretched specimen in the (Paris)
Museum which is destitute of any decided characters, should be expunged from
our catalogues.” -
However, Lamarck’s Ostrea sinuata (Hist. Anim. s. Verteb., Vol. vi., July,
1819, p. 208) is well described and compared to the European O. edulis, a con-
vincine factor, inasmuch as to within very recent years the Australian and New
Zealand oysters were regarded as only varietally distinet from that species.
Of this species Hanley wrote (Illus. and deser. Cat. Ree. Bivalve Shells,
1856, p. 300) “An examination of the type at the French Museum proves that
the characters upon which this species has been founded are purely accidental :
the name ought, consequently, no longer to be retained in our catalogues, the
shell being practically undefined.” As Hanley’s translation of Lamarck’s diag-
192 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
nosis was incorrect, and as he did not say what else Lamarck’s species was (pro-
bably thinking of edulis), we need not obey his dictum.
From this conclusion, Ostrea sinuata Lamarck is the name for the shell re-
cently known as O. angasii from Australia. The Neozelanic species known by
the latter name seems to be a distinct species. The status of O. virescens Angas
I have not yet decided.
(54) Ostrea cucuLLATA Born, 1778.
This species was described from the Mus. Caes. Vindob. without locality,
but, when figured in the later work, the locality was given as West Indies and
the Isle of Ascension and is still included in lists of these faunas. As there
appear to be two forms in New South Wales, the name may be totally rejected.
On the sheltered shores and with the mangrove associations is a form named by
Gould glomerata: this appears to range further south, and Roy Bell sent it from
Tellaburga Island, off the Victorian corner, which seems to be. an addition to the
Victorian fauna. The other form, which lives on the ocean reefs extending as
far south as Long Reef, near Sydney, and which Bell collected at Lord Howe
Island, may bear the name of mordax Gould. These names were proposed by
Gould (Proe. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 11., Dec., 1850, p. 346) for shells from New
Zealand and the Feejee Islands respectively, and may later have to give way to
some earlier name, as Solander appears to have collected specimens when here
with Captain Cook, probably at Cooktown. Thus, in the Sale Catalogue of the
Portland Museum, ODS the entry on p. 139, ete., “Ostrea purpurea S. from
New Holland, very rare.’
The name O. purpurea falls as an absolute synonym of Born’s O. Cucullaee
as Born’s figures (Tab. 6, f. 11-12) were cited as illustrative of Solander’s
species.
(56) NEOTRIGONIA MARGARITACEA (Lamarck, 1804).
A large series dredged in 15-25 fathoms showed that little variation occurs
in this genus, and that, in view of the lineage of the group, the observed
differences may be regarded as of specific value. Thus, although Lamarck named
King Island as one of the localities, Peron mentioned that he picked up the first
specimens at Adventure Bay, South Tasmania. This may, therefore, be fixed
as the type locality of Lamarck’s species, and a series from Port Arthur, South
Tasmania, are like the Twofold Bay shells, averaging a little larger, sculpture
more spinose, beak still a little longer proportionately, and generally more com-
pressed, but, to me, certainly conspecific. A long series in the Australian
Museum, from Port Jackson, show these to be more solid though smaller, and
to have a more acute beak with much less spinose sculpture, and these I regard
as specifically distinct. Verco’s T. beddomei is not easily confused, and I also
separate this specifically without any hesitation. The deepwater forms are also
separable and, so far, I have seen no large shells. | Tenison-Woods proposed
Trigonia lamarckii var. reticulata for specimens dredged in 45 fathoms off Port
Jackson Heads, and notes “the shell is small and thin.” For this, recently, the
name given by McCoy to a fossil, acuticostata, has been used, but my criticism
of fossils leads me to conclude that these show more variation than the recent
shells, and in the British Museum collection two entirely different species, one
from Muddy Creek, the other from Bairnsdale, are both named acwuticostata. Of
two specimens from Muddy Creek labelled howitti McCoy, one is very like the
Twofold Bay margaritacea, the other is much more elongated and quite distinet
in appearance.
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The juvenile sculpture has been investigated by Hedley and T. 8S. Hall, and
I note that it persists longer in the southern shells than in the northern, and is
followed by a flattened scale sculpture, which is soon lost in the normal eastern
forms, is practically retained in the South Australian beddomei, and is ex-
aggerated in the bizarre stranget.
(56a) NEOTRIGONIA GEMMA, n.sp. (Plates xxxul., figs. 1-2; xxxv., f. 1).
Shell small, for the genus, triangularly ovate, scarcely inaequilateral, obese,
rather solid, easily separable by iis small size and shape. The radials number
about twenty-two, each with about twelve triangular projections, easily counted
from the edge, diminishing rapidly in size after that, and becoming less pointed:
the interstices are finely lined. The ribs are finer on the posterior side, which
is little produced and simply indicated by an angle, but medially a little de-
pressed. The juvenile discrepant sculpture is well marked and the hinge is strong
for the size. Length 14 mm.; breadth 14 mm.
Dredged as dead valves commonly in 50-70 fathoms, off Green Cape, N.S.W.,
a few young live ones among them.
Trigona reticulata Agassiz (Etudes foss., 1840, Pl. 11, f. 10) anticipates
Tenison-Woods’s name, as I find topotypical specimens of the latter form come
very close to my shell, though the description did not agree. Plate xxxiii., figs.
1-2 show N. gemma contrasted as to shape with young of NV. margaritacea Lan.
of same size.
(58) PecTteN mepius Lamarck, 1819. tae
Inasmuch as this name must be abandoned it may be of interest to record
my results. I find that there is geographical variation, and that probably the
variation is of specific value. The Peronian shells are more orbicular, the right
valve deeper and the ribs rounded and unsculptured between: the Tasmanian and
Neozelanic shells are larger, more oval, the right valve shallower, the ribs of the
former square and with thread lines between. This is practically in agreement
with Tate’s results, who also separated the South Australian shell as a variety
only of the New South Wales form.
Tate (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886 (1887), pp. 113-116) reviewed the species
and distinguished :— en
Pecten fumatus Reeve for the New South Wales shell; var. albus or P. albus,
South Australian; meridionalis, Tasmanian; and laticostatus for the New Zealand
shell.
As the last name proves to be preoccupied, Reeve’s novaezelandiae will come
into use, but Tate’s other names will remain.
Thus, Pecten medius is anticipated by Bose (Hist. Nat. Coquille, Vol. ii.;
Mist. Nat. Buffon, ed. Deterville, Vol. 59, 1802, p. 275) who also introduced
Pecten fuscus (p. 263) and Pecten modestus (p. 277). This leaves, as the oldest
name, Pecten fumatus Reeve (Conch. Icon., Vol. viii., Nov., 1852, sp. and f. 32)
from Sydney, so that this name is unquestionable, whether the other forms be
regarded as varieties or species.
The series dredged in Twofold and Disaster Bays, 10-20 fathoms, show some
interesting variation, as some have the interstices between the ribs on the convex
valve smooth, while others have the interstices strongly striated: one specimen is
smooth until two-thirds grown, then striate. However, I believe that all the
southern shells tend to show striation, while the northern ones are smooth. Many
specimens have recently been studied, strongly supporting the view that the
194 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
observed differences are of specific value, while deepwater shells from off Twofold
Bay are near the Tasmanian species. With regard to the generic name Pecten,
it may be noted that Sherborn has included in the Index Animalium, 1901, p.
1156, the entry “Pecten P. Osbeck, Reise Ost. Ind. China, 1765, p. 391,” and,
that this is a nomen nudum, has been recorded by Dall. Using Forster’s trans-
lation published in 1771, Osbeck wrote (Vol. i1., p. 100) “With the cable we
pulled up a piece of coral, on which a red shell (Pecten adscensionis) was grow-
ing, which on its valves represented many branches. We took it with us, and
at present it is preserved in one of the greatest cabinets of natural curiosities in
Sweden.” If this be regarded as descriptive it is suggested that the shell named
by Osbeck was a Spondylus.
(6) CHLAMYS HEDLEYI Dautzenberg, 1901.
This species was dredged in 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape, and from recent
dredgings by the Australian Museum Officials it appears to be a constant deeper
water species. The name given by Dautzenberg must be rejected and Hedley’s
name fenestrata be resumed, as Forbes’s name does not clash in any sense to-day.
(65 A) CHLAMYS UNDULATUS Sowerby, 1842.
Pecten undulatus Sowerby, Thes. Conch., Vol. 1., 1842, Pecten, p. 60, PI.
xix., tf. 206, 207; Mediterranean ? — Australia.
A valve of this species was picked out of the shallow water dredgings from
Twofold Bay, and on critical comparison was found in agreement with the
(supposed) type of this species, and quite different from type of Angas’s
tasmanicus, with which it has sometimes been confused.
(74) Lima ANGULATA Sowerby, 1843.
This species was described from Panama, and it is fortunate that the name
is mvalid, being used previously by Minster (Beitr. Petref. Kunde, Vol. iv., 1841,
p. 73, Pl. 6, f. 30). Angas used Lima orientalis Adams and Reeve for this
species, and this name is also included by Hedley (No. 78), though only one
species is intended, and may be retained.
(75) Lima austrauis Smith, 1891.
This would have been placed under Limea, but as it represents a distinet
development from the fossil Kuropean type of Limea, and many species of deep-
water relations are known, | propose the new genus Notolimea, naming L.
australis Smith as type.
The species, L. murrayi Smith, inadvertently placed under Limea by Hedley
(No. 81), should be transferred back to Lima, sensu lato, placed next to L.
orientalis Ad. and Reeve, being referable to the section Mantellum, as Thiele
has already pointed out.
(77) Lima MULTICOSTATA Sowerby, 1843.
The species bearing this name has been often regarded as a form of Lima
lima (Linné), the latest authority to do so being Thiele (Conch. Cab. (Kuster),
Vol. vii., 1920, p. 20).
I had, however, recorded it from the Monte Bello Islands (Proe. Zool. Soe.
Lond., 1914, p. 666) living alongside a form of Lima lima (Linné), and_ being
a quite distinct species. ,
Roy Bell sent many specimens, and I find it to be a very common shell
here, dead shells abounding on all the beaches, and live ones, generally young,
BY TOM IREDALE. 195
attached by a byssus to the under sides of stones in rock-pools. Though very
variable in shape, nothing like L. lima has been met with, and no intergradation
is known.
The original locality of Sowerby’s species was unknown, probably the
Mediterranean Sea, and it has been recorded from other localities. As the name
proposed by Sowerby had been previously used by Geinitz (Charak-Schichten
Petref-sachs Kriede, Vol. i., 1839, p. 24, Pl. 8, f. 3) I am describing Roy Bell’s
specimens as a new species.
(77) Lima NIMBIFER, n.sp. (Plate xxxiv., figs. 1-4).
Well known under the name of Lima multicostata Sowerby, and sometimes
regarded as a variety of Lima lima (Linné).
Shell somewhat variable in shape, obliquely subovate, sometimes more
rounded, sometimes irregularly elongated, rather compressed, fairly solid, white.
Anterior side straight, with an excavate lunule, rayed longitudinally, a few faint
eross lines sometimes showing; posterior side short, produced into an auricle
similar to the anterior auricle and then, after a sinuaticn, sweeping boldly into a
rounded margin. Hinge-line oblique, ligamental area long, lateral margins
straight, showing no teeth. Sculpture consisting of about thirty-two ribs, narrow
and with narrower interspaces; interspaces in adult smooth, in juvenile trans-
versely striated; ribs in juvenile smooth, in adult bearing more or less regular
lamellate projections.
Length of type 32 mm.; breadth 24 mm.; narrow form, length 36 mm.;
breadth 20 mm. Common on the littoral of New South Wales.
The deepwater shell known as L. bassi Ten.-Woods (given to a fossil) ap-
pears to be the benthal representative of this species.
(84) Myvinus puaAnuLtatus Lamarck, 1819.
In Victoria and Tasmania two species occur, living together, which differ in
the character of the hinge teeth. May has recently regarded the larger narrower
form as conspecific with the New Zealand M. canaliculus Martyn, and suggested
that it might have been introduced. I have examined large numbers, and_ find
that the second species commonly occurs also in Victoria, and is naturally endemic.
The teeth do not agree exactly in growth stages with those of the New Zealand
shell, and there is a name for the Tasmanian shell, Mytilus tasmanicus Tenison-
Woods (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1875, p. 161).
Mytilus planulatus was described by Lamarck from King George’s Sound,
Western Australia, and before using this name the type should be re-examined.
There is a name given to the Sydney shell, Mytilus obscwrus Dunker (Proc. Zool.
Soe. Lond., 1856 (8 May, 1857), p. 360) and figured by Reeve (Conch. Icon., Vol.
x., Jan., 1858, Mytilus, Pl. viil., sp. and f. 30).
Oliver recently (Proc. Malae. Soe. Lond., xv., 1923, p. 181) rejected J/.
edulis Linn. from the New Zealand List. This was an obvious conclusion, but
he has replaced it by M. planulatus Lamarck, giving the range from King
George’s Sound to New South Wales and Tasmania, in New Zealand from Cook
Strait southward, and at Great Barrier Island. He explained that the true
M. edulis has an expanded lip, or hinge-plate, bearing a row of small teeth,
usually four or six in number, while the New Zealand shell (which he alls
planulatus) has only two or three teeth, placed inside the apex, not on an ex-
panded lip. Reconsideration now appears necessary.
A name given in his synonymy by Hedley, and copied by May, Mytilus
196 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
dunkert Reeve (Conch. Icon., Vol. x., Aug., 1857, Mytilus, Pl. v., sp. and f. 17),
from the Philippine Islands, should be omitted, as it probably refers to a form
of Stavelia subdistorta Recluz.
(85) BRrAcHYoponTES HIrsUTUS (Lamarck, 1819).
The acceptance of the generic name appears to be due to Jukes-Browne’s
Review of the genera of the Family Mytilidae (Proc. Malac. Soe. Lond., Vol.
vi., 1905, pp. 211-224), but it is obvious that correction must be made. Jukes-
Browne’s definition of Brachyodontes reads “Anterior margin with several close-
set teeth” and under the subgenus Hormomya, differentiated by form alone, he
placed hirsutus Lamk., rostratus Dkr. im Reeve, while under Brachyodontes s. str.
he allowed menkeanus Reeve. He then wrote under the genus Modiolaria Beck,
“T have not paid any special attention to the genus Modiolaria.”
I find that hirsutus Lamarck is apparently a close relation conchologically of
the species barbatus Reeve and splendidus Dunker, which Hedley has placed in
Musculus (1.e., Modiolaria olim) Nos. 92 and 97: that rostratus has prominent
hinge-teeth, two and one, the muscle sears of Mytilus and a peculiar boss arising
from the anterior muscle-sear; I do not see the “several close-set teeth on the
anterior margin,’ but in erosus Lamarck (= menkeanus Reeve olim), above the
ligaments, along the anterior side is a long row of small teeth only developed
with age, very pronounced in senile shells, missing in juvenile ones. These are
clearly seen in the figure of Mytilus polyodontes Quoy and Gaimard (Voy. de
V’Astrol., Zool., Vol. ui., 1834-1835, p. 462, Pl. 78, f. 15-16), described from
New Zealand, but incorrectly, the true locality apparently being King George
Sound, Western Australia. For hirsutus, Ihering proposed Trichomya, adding
thereto Stavelia torta Dunker, but Stavelia should have been used, if these were
considered congeneric. As Ihering named hirsutus as type of Trichomya, that
name can be retained as well as Stavelia.
Verco has recently described Modinla penetecta (Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust.,
Xxx., p. 225), pointing out that the “hairlets’” were branched like a stag’s horn,
whereas the “‘hairlets” in M. australis were simple. It is of interest to note
that the hairlets are branched in hirsutus, also in Stavelia subtorta Recluz (=
forta olim) and in the species of Musculus, barbatus Reeve and splendidus
Dunker, for which I propose the new genus Trichomusculus, with barbatus as
type.
Dall has recently proposed to reject Musculus Bolten on account of the
prior “Musc.” of Martyn, but this is stretching a little too far. While there is
suggestion that the abbreviation “Muse.” would have developed into Musculus,
there is no proof.
The species included by Hedley (No. 98) as Musculus subtortus Dunker, I
have collected in the Curl Curl Lagoon, near Manly, and this is a very aberrant
form, if any close relation at all. The shell lacks the discrepant sculpture so
characteristic of the “Musculus” group, is twisted, one valve partially clasping
the other, and has very distinct and peculiar musele-sears. I, therefore, propose
for it the new generic name Fluviolanatus.
(86) Mopronus auprcostus Lamarck, 1819.
As there is serious doubt as to the validity of this name, and it is a long
story, I propose to name the Australian shell so-called, and figured by May
(Ilustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. iv., f. 6), Modiolus delinificus, nom. nov.
BY TOM IREDALE. 197
(87) Mopioutus ARBoRESCENS (Dillwyn, 1817).
As usual with a Chemnitzian name, many complications occur. <A species
was described by Chemnitz (Conch. Cab., Vol. x1., 1795, p. 251, Pl. 198, figs.
2016, 2017) under the name Mytilus arborescens, said to have come from the
island of St. Domingo. This was made the type of a new genus Amygdalum
by Muhlfeldt (Ges. Nat. Fr. Berlin Mag., v., 1811, p. 69) who ealled the species
Amygdalum dendriticum. A world-wide range was developed, but Dunker and
Reeve named many species which are still shown, without prejudice, in the
British Museum. Shells from the Moluccas differ appreciably from the speci-
mens dredged in Twofold Bay, while Western Australian shells are again dif-
ferent, a series from China looking most like mine. Tasmanian shells marked
“beddomei Pett.” agree closely, and I propose to use for the eastern Australian
species the name Amygdalum beddomei (Plate xxxv., f. 21), which has recently
been figured by May (Illustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. iv., f. 8) under the
name Modiolus arborescens Dillwyn.
(88) MopioLus AUSTRALIS Gray, 1826.
Hedley (These Proe., xlviii, 1923, p. 302) has recently rejected Gray’s
name as applicable to the southern Australian shell and suggested the usage of
Modiolus areolatus Gould, given to a New Zealand specimen, regarding the
Neozelanic and Australian forms as inseparable. When Lamarck described his
Modiola albicosta he observed “On en a une variété élargie en spatule” and Tate
wrote (Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., xx., 1897, p. 49), “Modiola australis Gray.
This is also M. albicosta var. spatula Lamarck!”
(88 A) Mopiouus victortaE Pritchard and Gatlff, 1903.
Modiola victoriae Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xvi. (n.s.),
Sept., 1903, p. 93, Pl. xv., figs. 1-2: Rhyll, Western Port, 6 Fath., Victoria.
This is an addition to the N.S.W. List, being dredged in shallow water in
Twofold Bay.
(93) MuscuLus CUMINGIANUS (Reeve, 1857).
Tate (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., ix., 1885-6 (Mch., 1887), p. 106) used this
name for a South Australian shell, recording that Lanistina nana Dunker (Proe.
Zool. Soe. Lond., 1856, p. 365), from Port Lincoln, was evidently the fry, but
did not use the latter name though it was published on May 8, and Reeve’s did
not appear until December, 1857.
The common South Australian Musculus of this style 1s paulucciae Crosse
(Journ. de Conch., 1863, p. 89, Pl. 1, f. 8; Crenella), Gulf St. Vincent, and this
name appears in May’s Check List Moll. Tasm., published in 1921, but in the
Australian Museum Collection Hedley has crossed out paulucciae, and substituted
nana which is correct.
(95) MusctLus RECENS (Tate, 1897).
This species, described as a recent member of the fossil genus Arcoperna,
and Arcoperna scapha Vereo, a second species, have been transferred to the
genus Musculus. Investigation of this matter was induced by the receipt of two
examples dredged by Roy Bell in from 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape, both live
Shells, but one badly smashed. They agreed in character with Tate’s species, but
differed in shape: they recalled Crenella in some ways, but did not suggest
Musculus, the type of which is the N.Z. impactus. I think fossil relations have
been described under the generic name Crenella, but I cannot reconcile their
198 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
features with those of Arcoperna which is described as 4.5 mm. in height and
solid whereas A. recens was described as 19 mm. in height, thin, translucent and
vitreous.
Crenella globularis Tate (Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., vili., 1885 (May, 1886),
p. 126, Pl. x. figs. 3a-b), judging from the figure and description, suggests a
relationship with Arcoperna scapha Verco.
SoLAMEN REX, n. gen. et sp. (Plates xxxii., f. 15; xxxv., f. 2).
A genus of the Mytilidae (?) pérhaps not distantly related to Crenella,
but of no close relationship to Musculus.
The shell is globose, very thin, translucent, equivalve, inaequilateral, umbos
a little anterior, obtusely incurved and approximate, white. The anterior margin
is sinuate, then forwardly projecting, lower than the posterior which is more
curved, the ventral border ovately rounded. Hinge-line very narrow and show-
ing no teeth, but with a semi-internal ligamental groove. The sculpture consists
of very fine radials, very closely packed, towards the ventral edge tending to bear
sealy projections; growth-lines, which appear at intervals, become more crowded
as the shell grows older. Muscular impressions two, the anterior small and
ovate, the posterior large and rounded.
Length of type 11 mm.; breadth 8.5; depth of conjoined valves 8 mm.,;
larger broken shell 18 x 13 mm. Very closely agreeing with Arcoperna recens
Tate (Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., ii., 1896, p. 182), but differing in the shape and a
hittle in sculpture.
(101 A) GaArMARDIA TASMANICA (Beddome, 1883).
Beddome describes Modiolarca tasmanica (Proce. Roy. Soc. Tasm. for 1882,
(1883), p. 168) from Tasmania, and this was figured by Tate and May (These
Proe., 1901, Pt. 3 (19 Dee.) p. 439, f. 12) and more recently by May (Illustr.
Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. iv., f. 16). A few valves picked out of the
shallow water dredgings in Twofold Bay enable me to add a family to the New
South Wales List. As supplementary to my account (Proce. Malac. Soe. Lond.,
1914, xi., p. 173) of the confusion between Modiolarca and Modiolaria, 1 can add
the following information: In the Amth. Bericht, 24 Versamml. Deutsch Naturf.
Kiel, Sept., 1846, p. 217, published in 1847, an account of the molluscs named
by Beck and Kroyer is given, the new names being recorded. Among these was
“Modiolarca Gray fiir die mit Mytilus discors L. verwandten Arten.” This had
been printed in the Tagelblatt, No. 7, for Sept., 23, 1846, on p. 38, where
Modiolarca Beck is quoted as a new genus for Mytilus discors L. In his List
Brit. Anim. in Brit. Mus., pt. vii., 1851, p. 119, Gray used Crenella for a genus,
citing as synonyms, “Modiolaria Beck, Loven, I.M., 1846” and “Modiolarca Gray,
Syn. B.M., 1842, 92, Proc. Z.8., 1847, 199.” In the Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1854,
p- 108, Gray explained (under the name Modiolarca, which he stated was founded
on the Modiola trapezina, the characters of the family Crenellidae, given in the
Synopsis B.M., pp. 144, 155, being based on that species). “Two genera have
been made out of this word. Dr. Beck, when in this country, made a note that
IT had called the genus Modiolarca; but he appeared to have read it Modiolaria,
and that name has been used for it. The latter name is now chiefly used for
the more oblong Crenellae.” It is interesting to note also that in the Proc.
Bost. Soe. Nat. Hist., 1841 (1843), p. 26, at the meeting of June 2 is the in-
formation. ‘“Couthouy presented ‘A shell of a new genus, found only on the
Fucus giganteus, which he has named Gaimardia fucicola.’ ”
BY TOM IREDALE. 199
(106-123) Families THRACIIDAE and MYOCHAMIDAE,
The Australian sheils referred to these two families are so confused and
their characters so commingled, that it may be best to drop the former for the
present, and refer all the species to the latter, with some emendations. The
fact, that there are two series of shells of very similar appearance, has never
been fully appreciated hitherto, and has made the recognition of named species
very difficult. Firstly, there appears to be no typical Thracia in Australia, and,
moreover, as in many cases of the early named genera, the exact application of
the name (Thracia) is not even settled as regards European shells. Then (No.
106) Thracia anatinoides Reeve, described from Sydney, has not since been re-
cognised, and it is here suggested, on Mr. Hedley’s advice, that it may be based
on the Sydney representative of the shell later named Periploma angasi Crosse
and Fischer, the preceding species in Hedley’s List (No. 105). Nos. 107 and
109 appear to refer to the same species, both being deseribed by Smith at the
same time, and the ditferences cited being seen in a series to be individual only,
the name angasiana having place priority, the name jacksoniana falling as a
‘synonym. No. 108 must resume its earlier name jacksonensis, as this name 1S
not invalidated by the still earlier jacksoniana. No. 110 has not yet been de-
finitely determined, but may be based on a juvenile specimen of 108; no series
of either has been collected, while a different species has borne the name modesta
in most Australian collections: this species I identify as No. 121.
All these show an external ligament, as does No. 114, placed under Thraciopsis
in the List. I propose for this series the new name Hwximiothracia, citing
Thracia speciosa Angas as type, and the new names would read
No. 106 Omit.
107 and 109 Eximiothracia angasiana Smith = jacksoniana Smith.
108 jacksonensis Sow. = brazieri Sow.
110 modesta Angas, may = jacksonensis Sow.
114 speciosa Angas.
To this genus belongs Thracia myodoroides Smith (Chall. Rep., Zool. Vol.
xiu., 1885, p. 70, Pl. 6, f. 6) from Bass Straits, which may even be only the
southern representative of angasiana Smith. Tate’s Thracia perscabrosa (Trans.
Roy. Soc. 8S. Aust., 1886 (1887) ,-p.-173, Pl. xv., f. 5), from the Muddy Creek,
is very close in all its features. Some of my specimens I even determined as
myodoroides, while others have the form of perscabrosa, so that perhaps we have
here another series of zoological, geological and geographical relations. With re-
gard to the succeeding numbers, 111, 112, 113, there is still more confusion, but
the results read
No. 111 Thraciopsis angustata Angas.
112 Omit. :
113 Thraciopsis elegantula Angas, not elegantula auct.
114 Transferred to EHaimiothracia (ante).
113a Thraciopsis elongata Stutehbury.
113b Thraciopsis peroniana, nom. nov. for 7. elegantula auct., figured by
May (lllustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. v., f. 7).
The genus Thraciopsis was provided by Tate and May for Angas’s Alicia,
preoccupied, and they named angustata as type. Valves of the two species
simultaneously described by Angas appear to be common on the Sydney beaches,
but on closer investigation the species locally named as elegantula proved to
differ appreciably from Angas’s deseription and figure. Moreover, Stutehbury
200 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
had, many years previously, named from Port Jackson, Anatina elongata (Zool.
Journ., Vol. v., p. 100, Suppl., Pl. xlii., f. 9-10), which has been neglected. The
description and figure are poor, but show a shell not unlike Angas’s elegantula
in shape, but with a long pallial sinus whereas Angas’s shell had a very short
sinus; the shell wrongly identified as Angas’s species has a very long sinus. By
means of live specimens dredged at Twofold Bay, I have been able to identify
Stutchbury’s species, which may be placed in Thraciopsis. It may be recalled
that Smith rejected the genus Alicia, placing the species in Myodora, and Tate
described some fossils under this genus, comparing them to the species of Alicia,
as Myodora praelonga (Trans. Roy. Soe. 8. Aust., ix., 1886 (Mch., 1887), p. 174,
Pl. xix., figs. 12a-d) from Muddy Creek, very like angustata, and M. angustior
(ibid., p. 175, Pl. xvi., f. 16) from Muddy Creek, a rather different elongate
species. May recently deseribed Myodora elongata (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1915,
p- 98, Pl. 8, f. 40-40a), which I propose to add to the N.S.W. List (post), which
he has transferred to Thraciopsis in his Check List (p. 18, No. 73) and which
would clash with Stutchbury’s species if left here, but it seems a Myadora. Gould’s
Thracia cultrata is certainly unrecognisable from the description, but has nothing
to do with angustata, suggesting a shell more like Periploma micans Hedley, the
dimensions being 8 mm. x 6 mm. x 4 mm., the words “alba, tenuissima, ventricosa
intus argentata, apophysa cardinali triangulari” indicating a genus unlike Thracia.
Hedley’s Thraciopsis arenosa (No. 112), sometime referred to Pholadomya, can-
not be included with angustata, and it will be best to provide a new generic
name for it alone, viz., Thracidora, rather than bandy it about still further in
unsuitable genera.
The species.arranged under Myodora require subdivision, and the smooth
species may be separated at once, but it is suggested that later the corrugated
species will be investigated and re-defined. To take them in Hedley’s order, I
find confusion in No. 117. Vereo’s Myodora corrugata has been made a synonym
of albida Ten.-Woods, and Gatliff and Gabriel have described as a new species,
subalbida. Ten.-Woods’s species had not been figured when I examined the
species In England, but since May has given a figure of albida which does not
agree with specimens from Verco of his corrugata, nor with specimens from 100
fathoms off Cape Pillar, Tasmania, named albida by May. Then, as from the
last-named locality, May has figured one valve as subalbida, which is quite dif-
ferent from Gatliff and Gabriel’s figure of the type. Unfortunately, Verco’s
name had been used by Tate (Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., ix., 1886, p. 175, PI.
Xvil., figs. lla-b), for a very different Muddy Creek fossil. On Plate xxxiii., figs.
3-4, 13-14, I have given photographs of the two species, albida and subalbida, as
I have determined them.
No. 122, Myodora ovata Reeve must be rejected. It was described from the
Island of Zebu in the Philippine Islands, and Reeve wrote “This species exhibits
a greater disparity in the sculpture of the valves than any other, the striae of
the right valve being very fine and close set, whilst those on the left are almost
keel-like and comparatively distant,” and the figures agree. The shell known in
Australia by Reeve’s name disagrees entirely, having strong sculpture on both
valves, the southern shells very bold, especially those from Victoria and South
Australia, which recall the deseription of Myodora corrugata Tate (Trans. Roy.
Soe. S. Aust., ix., 1886 (Mch., 1887), p. 176, Pl. xvu., figs. lla-b) from Muddy
Creek, but disagree in shape.
I am describing the so-called “ovata” as a new species, and am continuing
the usage of the original spelling Myadora, as I see no reason for alteration.
BY TOM IREDALE. 201
The type of Myadora is the large species, brevis Sowerby, which has superficially
a different appearance from the commoner species, but I have not yet found any
separable structural character.
(122) Myapora COMPLEXA, n.sp. (Plate xxxiil., figs. 9-10).
Shell of medium size for the genus, oblong-ovate, inaequilateral, fairly solid,
anterior side rounded, longer than the posterior, which is straightly sloping and
abruptly truncate. Right valve convex, left valve flat, clasped all round by the
right valve.
The sculpture consists of bold concentric ridges, as well marked on the left
as on the right valve where, however, they are more deeply incised; a microscopic
radial sculpture overrides all the ribs, but is more easily seen on the flat valve;
umbos acute, that of the right projecting over the left, a posterior area marked
by a raised rib noticeable in the right, little elevated in the left, the sculpture
being less pronounced towards the posterior truncation.
Type: length 26 mm.; depth 19 mm.; more rounded form, length 24 mm.;
depth 19 mm. Well known under the incorrect name of M. ovata Reeve, com-
mon in the shallow water dredgings at Twofold Bay and very numerous in 10-15
fathoms in Disaster Bay.
(123 A) Myapora royANaé, n.sp. (Plate xxxiil., figs. 5-6).
Probably a deepwater relative of M. pandoriformis (Stutchbury) but of
different shape and finer sculpture, while M. australis Johnston (Proc. Roy. Soe.
Tasm., 1879 (1880), p. 40) from Table Cape, Tas., should be compared.
Shell inequivalve, almost equilateral but eccentric, thin, semi-ovate in shape.
Right valve convex, left valve flat, clasped by right valve. In the right valve
the apex is incurved, the posterior dorsal margin somewhat deeply concave, with
a large truncation, the ventral margin convex, meeting the straight anterior dorsal
margin at a rather acute rounded angle: the posterior area is marked by an
obsolete ridge with the concentric sculpture, common to this genus, more marked
than on the anterior area where they fade away towards the anterior end. This
concentric sculpture consists of closely spaced ill-defined ridges, merging ventral-
ly. The left valve corresponds in shape, but the sculpture is indefinite on the
posterior area, which is faintly indicated and the ridges are more widely spaced
and more noticeable towards the anterior end: a fine granular decussation (micro-
scopic) overrides the sculpture on this valve. Length of type 17 mm.; depth 9
mm. In 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape, N.S.W.
(123 B) PHracmorismMa waTsonr (EH. A. Smith, 1885).
Thracie watsoni KH. A. Smith, Chall. Rep., Zool., Vol. xiii, 1885 (pref.
1 Oct.), p. 69, Pl. vi., figs. 5-5b: Station 162, East Moncoeur Island, Bass Straits,
38-40 fathoms.
When Smith deseribed this shell, he wrote “This fine large species is re-
markable on account of its flattened compressed character, and being almost
equilateral. The ligament pit is very strong, and the outer epidermal shell layer
is peculiar.’ This was intended in comparison with European Thraciae as_ the
epidermal shell layer is very like that of the so-called Australian Thracia. A
few years later Tate introduced the genus Phragmorisma (Journ. Roy. Soe.
N.S.W., xxvii., 1893 (Mch., 1894), p. 189), giving as examples Thracia watsoni
202 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Smith and Phragmorisma anatinaeformis noy., Pl. xii., fig. 1, an “Kocene” fossil
from Spring Creek, near Geelong, and Table Cape, Tasmania, apparently naming
the latter purely because it was the fossil representative of the recent shell. Three
dead and broken valves, dredged in 15-25 fathoms, in Twofold Bay, add this
interesting genus to the New South Wales List.
(145) CRASSATELLITES KINGICOLA (Lamarck, 1805).
The generic name Crassatella having, in its first introduction, simply a figure
cited, which proves to be that of a Mactra, the name has been abandoned. The
substitute utilised, Crassatellites, seems a bad one for our purpose, and’ | have
already advised its rejection. In any ease, the name can only apply to a fossil
series which differ from the recent ones. I, therefore, propose Eucrassatella as
a new generic name with Crassatella kingicola Lamarck (Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat.
Paris, vi. (not v., as given by Hedley), Dec., 1905, p. 408) from King: Island.
A fine series showing growth stages was forwarded by Roy Bell from the
following places: about forty living specimens from 15-25 fathoms in Twofold
Bay from sandy mud and soft mud; from 20 fathoms off Lennard’s Island, 7
miles north of Eden from a fine sand bottom; and half a dozen from 15-20
fathoms in Disaster Bay from coarse sandy bottom. These show a little varia-
tion in shape, but constancy in coloration and sculpture: all the immature speci-
mens are rounded, with short beaks, comparatively compressed, and with a pale
brown epidermis. As they grow older, the beaks lengthen and the shell becomes
more swollen, with the coloration becoming more blackish and wearing off at the
umbos: they are, nevertheless, always a little compressed and the excavate lunule
and escutcheon never deepen to any great extent. The sulcations at the umbos
are always present, and number from twelve to sixteen before they fade away.
The measurements of a growth series read: Altitude 27: longitude 33: depth of
conjoined valves 15 mm.; then 38 x 46 x 22, 48 x 58 x 25, 55 x 62 x 30 and
57 x 65 x 30 respectively. Adults show variation m shape, as two dredged
together give 65 x 75 x 30 against 60 x 82 x 35, while the largest of my series
measures 72 x 90 x 42 mm. Verco has reviewed a series he dredged in South
Australian waters, and those appear to range larger and be more swollen with
slightly longer beaks and fewer suleations umbonally. | Although Vereo stated
“Tt is, therefore, least like C. kingicola Lam.,” I think he intended “most like,”
and that his shells fairly represented the true form. Hastern Tasmanian shells
are similar as regards sculpture, a little longer beaked than the Twofold Bay
shells, smaller, more swollen and a little more solid.
Lamy (Journ. de Coneh., Ixii., No. 4, 15 Feb., 1917, p. 197, et seq.) has
given a “Revision des Crassatellidae vivants du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de
Paris,” and has figured the type of Crassatella kingicola from King Island on PI.
vi, fig. 1, and I can exactly match the figure with some of my specimens. As
Reeve, eighty years ago, had named many “species” which were not understood,
in view of my own results I carefully criticised the British Museum collection.
T found that all the shells coming from any given locality were comparatively
eonstant and that errors of incorrect localisation could be at once detected. The
attachment of the names required careful study, as some of the specimens deseribed
by Reeve were in the “Mus. Stainforth” which was dispersed, and nothing is at
present known regarding the figured shells. Specimens named in the British
Museum from the Cuming Collection may even be the missing shells, but, in any
case, they are as authentic as can be got. Reeve’s castanea, decipiens, and pulchra
were simultaneously described (Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond., Nov., 1842, pp. 42, 43),
BY TOM IREDALL. 203
from the “Coasts of New Holland,’ the two former, being now localised as Swan
River, the latter as coming from Port Essington and Kangaroo Island, the latter
locality undoubtedly false. C. errones Reeve, a name sometimes met with, ap-
pears to be a clerical error for decipiens, the shell so labelled in the British
Museum also being shown from Swan River. Ten years later A. Adams (Proce.
Zool. Soe. Lond., 1852 (23 May, 1854), p. 90) published two more species, Crassa-
telia obesa, Pl. 16, fig. 2 from “New Zealand, deep water, Mr. Strange,” and
C. cumingu, Pi. 16, fig. 1 from ‘Moreton Bay, deepwater, Mr. Strange.” The
former has not since been found in Neozelanic waters, and it may be an obese
juvenile aberration of the Moreton Bay shell, and not have come from New
Zealand.
The South-west Australian shells are smooth with suleate umbos like the
typical form, but are constantly more elongate with deeply excavate lunule and
escutcheon. These should bear the name castanea Reeve. The North-west Aus-
tralian specimens are paler in coloration, and deeply suleate throughout, as well
as elongate in form: these should be called pulchra Reeve. Lamarck proposed
the name C. sulcata for a Paris fossil, with a living species collected by Peron in
New Holland as a variety (Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat., vi., Dec., 1805, p. 408), but
later (in the Hist. Anim. s. Verteb., Vol. v., July, 1818, p. 481) practically trans-
ferred the name to the living species, citing the fossil as the variety. This has
misled many writers into using the Lamareckian name for the recent shell. Nyst
(Bull. Acad. Roy. Soc. Belg., 1847) and Deshayes (Traité élem. Conch., Vol. ii,
1851, p. 113) indicated the incorrect usage, and renamed the recent form lamarckii.
Lamy (Journ. de Conch., Ix.) has figured the type of C. donacina Lamarck
(Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Paris, vi., Dec., 1805, p. 408), and finds it is labelled as
from “Shark’s Bay, West Australia’: as specimens from “Shark’s Bay, West
Australia,” also collected by Peron, prove to be the recent sulcata, it is
obvious that some error has crept in, and that the type of donacina came from
King Island, and that the Shark’s Bay shells are suleate, belonging to pulchra,
though at the extremity of the range it may show some variation. A different
shell lives at Torres Straits, ranging down to Port Curtis, these shells having
short beaks and semi-sulcation and apparently a form of this runs down into
northern New South Wales, while a close ally is shown in the Australian Museum
from Lord Howe Island. The Moreton Bay shell was named (. cumingii, and
this can be used until a long series is collected from the southern localities and
contrasted with the Torres Straits ones. Hedley has used for this, Reeve’s name
of corbuloides, but the specimen in the British Museum accepted as the type, and
agreeing with Reeve’s figure (Pl. ii, f. 9) is an abnormality from unknown
locality, and compared by Reeve himself with a South American species. As the
species was described from the “Mus. Stainforth,” the real type may be lost, and
therefore unrecognisable exactly. The following is given as the nomination sug-
gested as a basis for further work :—
Eucrassatella kingicola Lamarck, 1805. From Southern New South Wales, =
donacina Lamarck, 1805. Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia.
Eucrassatella castanea Reeve, 1842 (South-west Australia) == decipiens
Reeve, 1842, = errones, lapsus only.
Eucrassatella pulchra Reeve, 1842 (North-west Australia from Shark’s Bay
to Port Essington) = sulcata Lamk., 1818, not sulcata Lamk., 1805, = lamarckii
Nyst, 1847 = lamarckii Deshayes, 1851.
Eucrassatella cumingui A. Adams, 1854 (Queensland and Northern New South
Wales).
204 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Eucrassatella obesa A. Adams, 1854, said to be from New Zealand but locality
yet unconfirmed.
(145 A) Tauaprica AuRORA (A. Adams and Angas, 1864).
Crassatella aurora A. Adams and Angas, Proce. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1863 (1
Apl., 1864), p. 426, Pl. xxxvu., f. 15: Banks Straits, Tasmania; C. banksi id.,
loc. cit., p. 427, Pl. xxxvii., f. 16: same locality.
Roy Bell dredged six specimens in 12-18 fathoms off Lennard’s Isle, near
Merimbula, seven miles north of Eden, Twofold Bay. Each-is a different size,
.and they vary in shape, slightly in coloration and in coarseness of sculpture.
From study of this series and the types in the British Museum, I conelude that
Adams and Angas’s two species are simply individual variants, but agree with
Sir J. Verco that C. carnea Tate may be recognised as the distinct Adelaidean
representative. :
After much study of the large kingicola, it is difficult to accept this form as
congeneric, notwithstanding the great authority of Dr. Dall (Trans. Wagner
Free Inst. Science Phila., i1i., pt. vi., Oct., 1903, p. 1464) who concluded “Crassi-
tina Weinkauff 1881 was proposed for the smaller recent species, which resemble
Pachythaerus except in the greater development of the resiliary pit. The type
of the genus (Crassatellites) (C. gibbosulus Lamarck, according to Bronn) be-
longs to the type named by Conrad Pachythaerus, which is, therefore, an absolute
synonym of Crassatellites. Crassitina (sic) Weinkauff is only the modern re-
presentative of Pachythaerus, and therefore falls into the same synonymy.” It
may just be observed that Pachythaeras Conrad was proposed for an American
Cretaceous fossil, and the recent Austral forms differ too much to be considered
congeneric, especially as Muddy Creek fossils vary appreciably from present-day
shells.
With regard to the name Crassatina, above quoted, the details are of interest.
In Kuster’s continuation of the Conchylien Cabinet of Martini and Chemnitz, the
monograph of Crassatella bears on the title page by “Lobbecke and Kobelt,” 1886,
without any indication that it had been begun by Weinkauff and that pp. 1-16,
Pls. 1-6, had been published in Lief. 307 in 1881, and is recorded in the Zoological
Record, and the name Crassatina there credited to Weinkauff. No species were
named by Weinkauff and the group-name was later ignored by Loébbecke and
Kobelt, but Dall (loc. cit., p. 1468) has named as type C. contraria (Gmelin)
from Senegal, so we can leave it to that style of shell which is unlike ours.
Consequently, I propose Talabrica with C. awrora A. Adams and Angas as
type. When Hedley discussed the “Thetis” mollusca, he noted the small species
referred to Crassatella and queried Crassatina Weinkauff as being applicable.
As above shown, it cannot refer at all, so I propose the new generic name
Salaputium and name Crassatella fulvida Angas as type. This group is well
developed in southern and eastern Australian seas, many species being already
named, and new species being in collections, such as from the Kermadec Islands,
Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. No Australian collector, nor in all probability,
any other student, would class these minutiae with the huge Hucrassatella, save
by traditional assistance.
(156) Carprta CaLycuLATA (Linné, 1758).
Linné deseribed his Chama calyculata from the Mediterranean Sea, and the
local species is easily distinguishable. Fortunately, there are several names avail-
able. Lamarck described Cardita aviculina (Hist. Anim. sans Verteb., Vol. vi..
BY TOM IREDALE. 205
July, 1819, p. 26) from Shark’s Bay, Western Australia, and King Island. Nam-
ing the first as the type locality, the name may be used for the tropical form
which resembles more closely the Mediterranean shell, so that Lamy regarded
Lamarck’s name as a synonym. Deshayes monographed the group, and he
described Cardita excavata (Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1852 (23 May, 1854), p. 100,
Pl. xvii., figs. 1-3) from Sydney. Verco added as a synonym Mytilicardia tas-
manica Ten.-Woods (Proce. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1875 (1876), p. 161) from Black-
man’s Bay, south Tasmania, when he recorded the present species from South
Australia as “Taken on the beach at Venus Bay, west coast of South Australia:
very rarely dredged.”.
(157) VENERICARDIA AMABILIS (Deshayes, 1854).
In the Check List are included V. amabilis Deshayes and V. beddomei Smith
as ditferent species. Tate and May (and more recently May) allowed two species,
amabilis Deshayes and bimaculata Deshayes, citing as synonyms of the latter
gunni Deshayes and atkinsoni Ten.-Woods. Pritchard and Gathft followed Tate
and May, but Verco discussed the species, noting the variation, and recognising
the same two, recorded as synonyms of the former, beddomei Smith and gem-
mulifera Tate. No one observed that gunni had place priority over bimaculata,
peing described from Tasmania, while the other was localised as New Zealand,
as was amabilis, all being published at the same time. Suter doubtfully admitted
amabilis to the New Zealand list, but did not mention bimaculata.
Study of the British Museum collection in conjunction with a fine lot of
specimens sent by Roy Bell, dredged at various depths in Twofold Bay and
Disaster Bay, the latter bemg very large and typical beddomei, proves that
beddomei is absolutely a synonym of amabilis; that probably the Neozelanic
locality was false, and that it ranges from northern New South Wales down the
east coast to southern Tasmania, and to South Australia as gemmulifera, but
which does not seem separable even as Vereo coneluded. The species bimaculata
apparently does not occur in New Zealand, but is common in Tasmania and Vic-
toria, and atkinsoni Ten.-Woods is accepted as synonymous. Examination of the
type of gunnii in the British Museum showed that this species had nothing what-
ever to do with bimaculata, as it is a very small obese shell, most like elegantula
Deshayes described from the China Seas. When Hedley described his Cardita
cavatica, he observed “By its remarkable sculpture it is allied to a small group
of Tertiary Cardita, typified by C. gracilicostata, Ten.-Woods, from which it
differs by smaller size and greater length in proportion to height.” I find this
sculpture in the juvenile of amabilis, indicating the descent of amabilis from
species not unlike gracilicostata, and that cavatica is related to amabilis, by
Keeping the ancestral style of sculpture in the deeper water.
(161) VENERICARDIA RAOULI (Angas, 1872). (Plate xxxiii., figs. 11-12).
This recently re-discovered species appears to be a regular constituent of
the deeper water fauna, a large number being secured in from 50-70 fathoms off
Green Cape, N.S.W. It is quite an abnormal species, recalling the shore-
frequenting Cardita in form, so I propose the new genus Bathycardita and name
C. raouli Angas as type. Dall, when he studied this group, concluded that form
was of more significance than the variations of the hinge-teeth.
Young shells show hollow spines on the ribs while senile specimens tend to
smoothness, in which state they somewhat resemble Cardita astartoides von Mar-
tens (Sitz. Gesellsch. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 1878, p. 25) from Antarctic Seas.
206 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Hedley drew attention to Clessin’s Cardita racuti Angas (Conch. Cab.
(Kiister), Bd. x., 1887, p. 11, Pl. 2, figs. 7-8) suggesting it was meant for raouli.
This is certain, but the shell figured by Clessin was in the “Coll. Paetel” from
“Neuseeland,” and is not the present species. Bathycardita raouli (Angas) is
a characteristic molluse of the deeper water of southern New South Wales, being
represented in nearly every haul over 50 fathoms. With it was associated the
solitary coral, Flabellum australe Moseley (Chall. Rep., Zool., Vol. ii., 1881, p.
173, Pl. vi, figs. 4, 4a, 5, 5a, 5b), which was described from Station 163, off
Twofold Bay, 120 fathoms.
(173) Luctna inpuTA Hedley, 1907.
This deep-water form was not dredged by Bell, and is here noted simply for
the purpose of amending the name. Lucina has lost its traditional usage, and is
now restricted to an American type, nothing like the present quaint little species.
Hedley’s good figures and description are sufficient for every purpose, so I simply
propose the new generic name Mendicula, and rename the sole species, Mendicula
memorata, as Lucina induta had been previously used by Stoliczka (Martens,
Journ. Linn. Soe. Lond., Zool. xxi., 1887, p. 174).
(177) Myrrara sotanica Hedley, 1918.
Valves were dredged in 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape, N.S.W., and these
agreed with the figures and descriptions of Lucina mayi Gatlift and Gabriel (Proc.
Roy. Soe. Vict., xxiv., n.s., Sept., 1911, p. 189, Pl. xlvii., f£. 8-12), who described
their species from Port Phillip, Victoria, 5F., noting that it differed from
Lucina brazieri in the possession of radial sculpture and much sharper sculpture.
Hedley, accepting this difference, when he transferred Sowerby’s twice-named
Tellina brazieri to Myrtaea, renamed the Sydney shell Myrtaea botanica. The
Sydney species, however, possesses radial sculpture and differs only in its larger
size. Consequently, Hedley’s name would become subspecific only. Hedley has
also named Myrtaea bractea (Zool. Res. Endeavour, pt. i., 22 Dec., 1911, p. 99,
Pl. xvii., figs. 5, 6, 7, 8) from 100 fathoms south of Cape Wiles, S. Aust., which
does lack radial sculpture, and is quite distinct. For this group I propose Noto-
myrtea, naming M. botanica Hedley as type, the excellent figures and descriptions
already published enabling easy recognition.
(180) Dietopenta apamst (Angas, 1868).
For this species, described by Angas under the genus Mysia, subgenus
Felania, 1 propose the new generic name Numella. This genus appears to be
close to Felaniella Dall (Journ. Coneh., ix., 1899, pp. 244-245), proposed for a
Japanese species Felania usta Gould.
The two Australian species, adamsi and jacksoniensis, both of Angas, pub-
lished at the same time, differ a little from each other in their hinge-teeth, but
they may, for the present, be classed together. I could not understand how this
species had been placed under Diplodonta, and left there so many years, until
I found that it was one of the commonest shells of the Sydney beaches, being
even used to make ornaments by the aborigines of Botany Bay, and thus, on
account of its very commonness, had escaped serious study.
When Tate met with a fossil, he named it Sacchia (sic) swborbicuaris
(Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1886, p. 147, Pl. xviii., fig. 10a-c) comparing it with
these shells, but noting the hinge so unlike that of Diplodonta, and evidently
not examining the hinges of these two species.
BY TOM IREDALE. 207
(187) Erycina acupuncta Hedley, 1902.
When Lamarck introduced the genus Erycina (Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris,
vi., Dee., 1805, p. 413) he stated “On ne connoit encore que des espéces fossiles,”
and described six fossils as E. laevis, pellucida, trigona, inaequilatera, fragilis,
and elliptica. In the next volume (p. 53) he continued with EH. undulata, pellu-
cide (again), obscura, miliaria and radiolata.
In Hist. Anim. s. Verteb., Vol. v., 1819, p. 485, he added, as a recent species,
EH. cardioides from King George Sound, Australia, and this species has been eited
as the type by some writers, e.g, Chenu. By technical manipulation, the generic
name has recently been revived in connection with a fossil group, but its nomen-
clatorial status is very uncertain, and certainly the name Erycina should not be
used in connection with Australian recent mollusea. I, therefore, propose the
new genus Melliteryx, naming Hedley’s species, acupuncta, as type.
(190) Bornita Lepipa Hedley, 1906.
The reference to Bornia is obviously due to Dall’s conclusions, as admitted
by Hedley in connection with the species he next dealt with (Rochefortia donaci-
formis Angas). The name Bornia is of such uncertain status, even in connection
with Huropean bivalves, that it would be unwise to continue its usage here. The
species Hedley has named from New South Wales are very interesting, and
Born’s name may be retained in connection with Austral molluses by proposing
the new genus Borniola, and citing the commonest species, B. lepida Hedley, as
type.
(198) RochEFortrA aNoMALA (Angas, 1877).
This is a case where a name change can be weleomed. When Dall dis-
missed the generic name Tellimya, he selected Mysella Angas as the best sub-
stitute: a little later he recognised Rochefortia as congeneric, and on the score
of priority gave it precedence. This usage was accepted by Hedley, but Dall
had erred, and Mysella has priority. We are, therefore, at liberty to use an
Australian name for Australian shells, without discussing the relationship of the
foreigner.
Mysella Angas, Proc. Zool. ‘Soc. Lond., 1877 (1 Aug.), p. 176; Type by
monotypy M. anomala, id., Pl. xxvi., f. 22. P.J.
Rochefortia Velain, Compt. Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Ixxxiii., 1876, p. 285,
nom. nud.; Archiv Zool. Exper., vi., 1877 (1878), p. 132.
Velain’s paper was read on 11 April, 1877, and passed for printing by the
examiners on 12 Nov., 1877, only, and the title page reads 1878.
(217) CARDIUM PULCHELLUM Gray, 1843.
Hedley, dealing with the “Thetis” collection, proposed Cardium striatulum
Sowerby var. thetidis, nov. (Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., part 5, 29 July, 1902, p. 322),
writing “A considerable series taken by the “Thetis” appears specifically in-
separable from C. striatulum,’ but gave differential features to justify a varietal
name. I have compared the whole of the material in the British Museum with
a large number of specimens and valves secured by Roy Bell in various depths,
and find Hedley’s characters are quite constant, and J accept their value as
specific. The difference between this style of shell and typical Cardiwm is very
great, and I, therefore, propose the new genus Pratulum, naming Cardium the-
tidis Hedley as type.
208 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
(221) Dosryta crocea Deshayes, 1853.
When Hedley examined in the British Museum collection of shells, the
specimens, named as different species, in this genus, he observed that his con-
vlusions must be revised. I received a large number of specimens and care-
fully criticised the British Museum series in connection with them, and arrived at
certain results. More recently Mr. J. R. Le B. Tomlin, arranging some bivalves
in the British Museum, studied this genus and, after he had completed his work,
we both went over the whole lot and agreed upon every point. As our results
were quite independently achieved, they may be regarded as fairly representing
the truth.
Thus, we concluded that Deshayes crocea and circinaria were synonymous,
and that the former name should be maintained on account of place priority.
(224 A) Dosry1a victorran Gatliff and Gabriel, 1914.
Dosinia victoriae Gathff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soe. Viet., xxvii., Sept.,
1914, p. 96, Pl. xvi., figs. 17-19: Western Port, 5-10 F.
Before this species was described, Mr. Gabriel sent it to me for comparison
with the British Museum series; a shell sent by Bell from Twofold Bay, was
found to differ from all the others, and regarded as new, until I remembered
Gabriel’s inquiry, when I found this shell was their new species, an addition to
the N.S.W. List.
(224 B) Dosinria CAERULEA Reeve, 1850.
Artemis caerulea Reeve, Conch. Icon., vi., Artemis, Feb., 1850, Pl. iv., sp.
and fig. 25: Raine Island, Torres Straits, Captain Ince: Mus. Brit., 1.¢., error
for Tasmania.
This species was found commonly washed up at Twofold Bay, N.S.W., but
was not dredged, except as young, whereas, in Disaster Bay, it was dredged in
10-20 fathoms. This is a fine addition to the N.S.W. List.
(225) Sunerra TRUNCATA (Reeve, 1864).
When Reeve figured this species he gave a reference to Deshayes, and I find
that Deshayes had described a Cuneus truncatus (Cat. Conch. Biv. B.M., 1853, p.
43), from the Philippine Islands in Mus. Cuming. In his selection, Deshayes had
been anticipated by Costa (Brit. Conech., 1778, p. 205), so that we are relieved of
the consideration of Deshayes’s specific name.
For the Port Jackson species, Angas had proposed the name Swnetta ade-
linae (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867 (Apr., 1868), p. 909, Pl. 54, f. 5) and there-
fore no new name is required.
From Lakes’ Entrance, Victoria, Roy Bell sent a number of valves of the
species listed by Pritchard and Gatliff as Sunetta excavata, citing as basis,
Cytherea excavata Hanley (Proce. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1842 (Jan., 1843), p. 123),
described from unknown locality in the Museum Stainforth. The name has been
commonly used for a Japanese species, but again, fortunately, discussion is un-
necessary as there is a prior Cytherea excavata Morton (Synops. Org. Rem. Cret.
Group U.S., 1834, p. 67). Two names are available for the southern Australian
species, viz., Cytherea vaginalis Menke (Moll. Noy. Holl. Spec., 1843, p. 42) given
to a Western Australian species, and Swnetta aliciae Adams and Angas (Proce.
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 425, Pl. 37, fig. 18) from Encounter Bay, S. Aust.
According to the sperimens in the British Museum these differed, and I propose
BY TOM IREDALE. 209
the use of Adams and Angas’s name for the Victorian shell, and revive Menke’s
name for the Western Australian species listed by Hedley as S. excavata (Han-
ley). I find these are also separated as distinct in the Australian Museum.
Dall (Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Philad., iii., pt. v., Oct., 1903, p. 1245), ad-
mitted three groups of Sunetia, Sunetta s. str., type Donax scripta Linné;
Solanderina Dall, 1902, type (0.d.) S. solandri Gray; and Sunettina Jousseaume
(Le Naturaliste, Yr. 13, No. 108, 2 Ser., 1 Sept., 1891, p. 208), type, by tautonymy
S. sunetiina Jouss. The Australian species here noted fall into the last group,
which should be used generically. S. gibberula Tate is a Muddy Creek fossil,
ancestrally very closely related to the living S. aliciae Ad. and Ang.
(226) LioconcHa ANGASI (Smith, 1885).
Smith proposed Circe angasi as a new name for the shell named Gouldia
australis by Angas (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 459), when he transferred
it to Circe, as the combination Circe australis was invalidated by the earlier
C. australis Sowerby (Thes. Conch., Vol. ii., 1851, p. 651). When Hedley re-
transferred Angas’s species to Lioconcha, he should have revived Angas’s specific
name. I cannot class it even in Lioconcha, so propose the new genus Gouwldiopa,
naming Gouwldia australis Angas as type. When Smith named the species (Zool.
Res. Challenger, Vol. xii., 1885, p. 148, Pl. it, figs. 44e), he gave a detailed
description of the hinge-characters, and also figures, so that these are well known.
T might point out, however, that the description is more accurate than the
figures.
(227) GarraRiuM quoyi (Hanley, 1844).
When Dall reinstated Gafrariwm, ex Bolten, he made two attempts to fix a
type by elimination, and as it is doubtful whether either result. is valid, the
name may be dismissed from the Australian List. This is easier, since at the
latter conclusion and place (Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Science Philad., iii., pt.
vi., 1903, p. 1246), which Hedley has followed, he allowed Circe Schumacher
(Essai Nouv. Syst. Test., 1817, p. 152), with type Venus scripta L., subgeneric
rank. As Dall’s subgenera are all available under present views as of full
generic rank, and as the shell above named was previously called scripta, it will
be admitted that Circe seems a very excellent alternative.
(227 A) FLUCTIGER ROYANUS, n. gen. et sp. (Plate xxxii., figs. 7-8).
This is apparently the species recorded from Victoria by Gatliff and Gabriel
as Gafrarium navigatum Hedley. The latter was described from the Capricorn
Group, Queensland (These Proc., xxxi., 19 Nov., 1906, p. 476, Pl. xxxviii., fig.
33), and my shells were immediately recognised as congeneric from the figure.
Comparison, in the British Museum, with valves sent by Hedley, proved them to
differ in shape much more than the drawing would suggest. The general des-
eription given by Hedley applies to the sculpture and form, but the ventral
margin in the southern form is less cireular, and the altitude a shade less, and
consequently the “waves” fewer in number, becoming obsolete towards the margin.
It may be that the southern form is also larger, as Hedley’s measurements are:
6 x 5.4 mm., whereas mine are 9 x 8 and 11 x 9 mm. Both are dead valves,
a right and a left, and are worn; they show the muscle impressions, but not the
hinge-characters completely. As Hedley’s species should be absolutely con-
generic, and he dredged it alive, these may be recorded from that. When Smith
(the only English writer (save Jukes Browne) who has studied bivalves) wrote
210 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
up the Challenger Report, he lumped in a most aggravating manner and ranged
all these under Circe (Gafrariwm of to-day), and his conclusions have not been
since reviewed. On Pl. u., figs. 4, 4e, he gave figures of the hinge, ete., of Circe
angasi, and this does not agree with what I can make out of the hinge of the
present form, which agrees better with that of Circe.
(228) MACROCALLISTA DISRUPTA (Sowerby, 1853).
This species, with the next, M. kingii (Gray, 1826), was dredged in numbers
in 10-20 fathoms, in and outside Twofold Bay, and variation in size and shape
was noted. Further Tasmanian shells named disrwpta varied a little further,
while Sydney shells referred to this species should have a distinctive name. Dall
proposed to use the above generic name, given to an American fossil, to replace
Callista, a Polian name previously in use. The southern species vary inter se,
and I propose to eliminate Macrocallista from the Austral list, proposing Noto-
callista, naming C. kingii Gray as type.
Tate (Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., ix., 1886 (Mar., 1887), p. 161, Pl. xvi,
figs. 6-8) named Cytherea submultistriata from the Upper beds at Muddy Creek,
comparing it with C. disrupta, and it certainly seems a closely allied ancestral
form, only, in my views, trinomially separable.
As synonyms of M. kingii Gray, I noted in the British Museum, inflata
Sow. and rutila Sow., but remarked that lamarckii appeared more elongate, and
I had a very large series for comparison.
(230) Pirarta SOPHTAE (Angas, 1877).
Hedley has used the emendation Pitaria, but the name was proposed as
Pitar, and I am advised that this is of classical form, although Dall did not re-
cognise this.
From his (Dall’s) discussion (Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Science Philad.,
il., pt. vi., 1903, p. 1264), it is obvious that the recognition of the genus Pitar
is a difficult task, especially as he has regarded Venus dione Linné as subordinate,
with subgereric value. In the British Museum this species was placed alongside
the two previous species, while Pitar was also recognised. For the present then
Pitaria may be dismissed from the Austral List, and this species ranged under
Notocallista.
(238) ANTIGONA STRIATISSIMA Sowerby, 1853.
Venus striatissima Sowerby was apparently proposed as a new name for Erycina
cardiotdes Lamarck (Hist. Anim. s. Vert., Vol. v., July, 1818, p. 486) from
King George Sound, W. Aust., on account of another Venus cardioides. When
the species was removed from Venus, the earlier name should have been reverted
to. It is quite unlike the typical Antigona, and I, therefore, propose for it the
new generic name Chioneryx. As Angas noted, the species recalls superficially
the British Venus ovata Pennant, which is the type of Timoclea Brown, but the
hinge-characters differ.
Erycina, as already shown, was introduced for a series of fossils, and after-
wards the present species was added as a recent representative, being then cited
by some writers, e.g., Chenu, as type of Erycina.
(247) Marcia NITIDA (Quoy and Gaimard, 1835).
Quoy and Gaimard described Venus nitida from Hobart, Tasmania, and the
name proves to be preoccupied by Defranee (Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol.
BY TOM IREDALE. 211
Ivii., 1828, p. 290. As synonyms may be noted: Venus fumigata Sowerby, Thes.
Conch. Vol. ii, 1853, p. 737, Pl. clix., figs. 152-5: Australia (Strange).—V.
laevigata Sow., ibid., p. 738, Pl. clix., figs. 156-8: Australia (Strange).—V. polita
Sow., ibid., p. 738, Pl. elviii., figs. 139-40: given to Quoy and Gaimard’s figure
alone, therefore refers to Hobart, Tasmania.—Tapes faba Reeve, Conch. Icon.,
Vol. xiv., Feb., 1864, Tapes sp. 39, f. 39, Pl. viii.: Hab — ? Mus. Cuming.
The specimens collected by Strange probably came from Sydney Harbour,
and the figures agree very well with local shells. If southern Tasmanian shells
differ, as they appear to do, they may bear Sowerby’s third name.
The genus name Marcia was used by Hedley for this species and scalarina
Lamarck, an association that seems strained, in view of the differential characters
used in this family. Marcia proves to have been used previously by Warlow
(Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 11., 1833, p. 100), and there is a generic name Kate-
lysia Romer (Krit. Unters., May, 1857, p. 17), available for scalarina Lamk.,
that species having been definitely named as type by Dall, which should be used.
Dall proposed (Trans. Free Inst. Science Philad., iii., pt. vi., 1903, p. 1289),
Macridiscus, naming Venus aequilatera Sowerby from Japan as type, observing
“Venus faba Reeve and V. fumigata Sowerby seem to belong to this section” (of
the subgenus Gomphina, genus Chione). Our shell does not seem to have a close
relationship, disagreeing even with Dall’s definition. I, therefore, propose the
new name Eumarcia, naming Venus fumigata Sowerby as type.
(243) BAssINA PAUCILAMELLATA (Dunker, 1858).
Hedley has recently shown that the specific name must be pachyphylla
Jonas, 1839, and a note on its station may be here intercalated, as, though Bell
did not get this at Twofold Bay, he found a few valves at Port Fairy, Vic. I
found it commonly on the beach at Port Fairy, Vic., and Hedley found it com-
monly at Twofold Bay, in each ease in the early spring. Roy Bell never dredged
it, which proves that it lives just below low water, not going even into 5 tathoms.
Consequently, it is variable in shape, and the two fossils Tate described (Trans.
Roy. Soc. S. Aust., ix., 1886 (Mar., 1887), p. 159, Pl. xiv.,f. 14 and p. 160, PI.
xiv., f. 18) under the names Cytherea paucirugata and C. murrayana respectively,
are obviously aneestral and searcely separable save by the nomination I have
suggested, a trinomial one indicating the ancestral form without prejudice to
the specific status. Thus Cytherea [victoriae| paucirugata would: have explained
everything in one phrase at the time of description.
(262) TELLIna INAEQUIVALVIS Sowerby, 1867.
In selecting a Linnean name, Sowerby lost his specific right, and I here pro-
pose the new name Tellina beryllina for Sowerby’s shell, the type of which is in
the British Museum.
The grouping of Tellinid species must be undertaken at the first opportunity,
as in the British Museum they are arranged in the most haphazard fashion, the
same species occurring under two different groups, even of family rank. Error
has accumulated upon error, until it is difficult to determine any definite data.
Thus No. 272 is named Arcopagia striatula Lamarck, 1818, but Lamarck’s
Tellina striatula was based on “List Coneh., t. 267, f. 103,” with the locality
“T’?Ocean d’Europe,”’ and Lister had no Australian shells. It is fortunate that
Olivi (Zool. Adriat., 1792, p. 101) had previously used the name, and so settled
the discussion.
212 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
(263) TELLINA SEMITORTA Sowerby, 1867.
An interesting abnormal little Tellinoid was un-named from the British
Museum Collection. In the Australian Museum Collection it was found under
the above name, and specimens had been identified by comparison with British
Museum specimens. Some error has crept in as, though Sowerby described and
figured his species from the Mus. Angas from Port Jackson, and while one figure
suggests the shell here dealt with, the description was probably drawn up from
a variant of T. tenwilirata, named and handled at the same time. The words
“half twisted,’ “flexuous posteriorly,’ “end rather acuminated” do not apply to
the specimens under review, which I determine as Tellina subdiluta Tate (Trans.
Rey. Soe. S. Aust., ix., 1885-4 (Mar.. 1887), p. 65, Pl. iv., f. 9): Encounter Bay,
S. Aust., 22 F.
(264) TELLINA TENUILIRATA Sowerby, 1867.
This beautiful little species was common in the shallow water dredgings in
Twofold Bay and district, and it was obvious that it was not a normal Tellina.
Upon investigation I found that E. A. Smith, in the Challenger Reports, had
given details of the hinge-teeth, and suggested the differentiation of the species,
but did not name it, generically. In the British Museum, so that there should
be no difficulty in finding this peculiar species, the specimens were separated,
some being placed under the section Angulus, of the genus Tellina, while others
were found under the genus Semele, in a different family. I, therefore, propose
the new genus Semelangulus, with this species as type, so that it may be as
easily traced in literature.
Tellina masoni Tate (Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Aust., ix., 1886 (1887), p. 166, PI.
xvi., fig. 6a-b) from Muddy Creek is very like this, from description and figure,
and should be compared with it as Tate does not mention the present species.
(277) ABRA ELLIPTICA (Sowerby, 1867).
Sowerby named his species Tellina elliptica, but this name had been pre-
viously used by Brocchi (Conch. foss. Subapp., 1814, p. 513), and Lamarck
(Hist. Anim. s. Verteb., Vol. v., 1818, p. 524). The species was described from
Sydney in Angas’s collection, and Abra is another of the Palaearctic bivalve
generic names that is under discussion, and, therefore, not available for an Aus-
tral group. The only way to deal scientifically with the matter is the proposition
of a new generic name for this species, Abranda, and renaming the species
Abranda rec.
Superficially, this species appears to have fossil representatives, but the hinge-
characters need careful study before associating species of complex history like
this one.
(281) Garr tivipa (Lamarck, 1818).
Lamarck’s Psammobia livida was localised as from Shark’s Bay, W. Aust.,
and Dautzenberg et Fischer (Journ. de Conch., Ixi., pt. 2, 1914, p. 224) have
figured the types (PI. vii., figs. 4, 5, 6). These figures suggest that two different
species were confused, the figures 4, 5, referring to the species known as P.
modesta Deshayes (post), while fig. 6 is in agreement with Lamarck’s description,
and represents the species previously known as zonalis. Smith (Chall. Rep.,
Zool. Vol. xili., 1885, p. 95) separated zonalis and modesta, and gave a synonymy,
drawn up from the British Museum specimens, which requires revision. From
Dautzenberg and Fischer’s notes, it is evident that they used Tasmanian speci-
BY TOM IREDALE. 213
mens for their recognition of liwida, and it is here suggested that the Shark’s
Bay locality may be erroneous, and that the specimens came from southern Tas-
mania, where May states it is very common. Twofold Bay shells agree with such
Tasmanian shells, but the northern shells, such as commonly occur on the Sydney
beaches, differ in shape, tenuity, and size.
Deshayes described Psammobia menkeana (Proe. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1854
(8 May, 1855), p. 319) from Moreton Bay, and this was figured by Reeve
(Coneh. Ieon., Vol. x., (Jan., 1857), sp. and f. 43, Pl. vi.) under the same name,
from the type specimen, but without reference to Deshayes. This shell is more
elongate with less height, and smaller and thinner than the Tasmanian livida,
and is certainly not synonymous with modesta as given by Smith, but refers to
the Sydney shell hitherto called zonalis = livida.
This would mean the acceptance of Gari livida (Lamarck, 1818) for the
southern New South Wales species, and the recognitior of Gari menkeana
Deshayes for the northern and central New South Wales form, the exact value
of the differences being at present unknown.
(291 A) SoLEN vacrnorpEs Lamarck, 1818.
Solen vaginoides Lamarek, Hist. Anim. s. Verteb., Vol. v., 1818, p. 451:
D’Entrecasteaux Channel, S. Tasmania.
Many small specimens received from Twofold Bay and Disaster Bay are
referable to this species, which is an addition to the N.S.W. List. Hedley has
recorded Solen aspersus Dunker as a synonym, and Solen philippianus Dunker
(Proe. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1861 (7 Apr., 1862), p. 420) may also be added, though
K. A. Smith (Proe. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1906, p. 857) regarded it as a MS name,
citing it from Sowerby (Thes. Conch., 1874). While the facts in connection with
this species seem fairly clear, it is otherwise with regard to the species already
on the N.S.W. List, No. 291, Solen sloanii Hanley. This was described and
figured (Illus. and Deser. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells, 1842, p. 12, Pl. xi, f. 18)
from a British Museum specimen, so named in MS. by Gray. The tablet bears
upon it the information “Mus. Sloane,’ hence the specific title, but no locality
was known, and it obviously did not come from New South Wales, as the Sloane
Collection was completed before any shells were collected in New South Wales.
Other specimens I noted as marked Mus. Sloane are Tuwurritella exoleta and
Monodonta labio. Yet, when the History of the Collections in the British
Museum (Natural History) was published in 1906, it was stated (Vol. u., p.
704) “1759. Probably a number of shells were received with the collections be-
queathed by Sir Hans Sloane (1759) and these would in all probability form the
nucleus of the Museum Collection. It must be stated, however, that no record
of any such specimens has been traced.” The truth was, that no attempt was
made to trace such specimens, as the shells themselves are, and have been, openly
on view for the past forty years. Moreover, the year of the bequest is wrongly
stated, being 1753, and there is on record the number of Shells, Echini, ete., this
being 5845. To return to Solen sloanii, E. A. Smith recorded it (Proe. Zool.
Soc. Lond., 1906, p. 857) from Zanzibar, and this is a more likely locality. I
name the Sydney species, figured by Hedley (These Proc., xxiv., 1899, p. 432, fig.
3 in text), where the animal was described, Solen correctus, the shell being very
like that of S. vaginoides, but straight. Tate has described a fossil from Muddy
Creek as Solen sordidus (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., ix., 1886 (Mar., 1887), p-
SNP Mer xaxe fie 2)
214 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
(311 B) Saxicava supauata Gatliff and Gabriel, 1910.
Saxicava subalata Gatliff and Gabriel, Proe. Roy. Soc. Vict., xxiii. (n.s.),
Aug., 1910, p. 85, Pl. xix., f. 10-12: Port Phillip, Victoria, 8 fathoms.
Valves of this species were found in the shallow water dredgings from Two-
fold Bay, N.S.W., but it has no close relationship with Sazicava, the sculpture
suggesting the Eximiothracia-Phragmorisma series.
(319) Nausrroria sauLir Wright, 1866.
Calman, working on Marine Wood-Boring Animals (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.,
1920, p. 397) named Xylotrya australis, n.sp., text-figs. 6, 7, 8, from Brisbane,
Q’land, and Auckland, N.Z., figuring only the syntype from Auckland. This
was the species known under the above name, apparently incorrectly, as, though
Wright stated that the type specimens in the British Museum came from Port
Phillip, Australia, they are labelled “Callao, Peru,’ and do not agree with the
Australian species.
Xylotrya proves to be a synonym of Xylophaga, and the generic name to be
used is Bankia. This name was first introduced by Gray (Synopsis Contents
Brit. Mus., 1840, p. 150) as a nomen nudum; and then in 1842 (p. 76) in the
same publication, Gray defined it: “In Bankia they (the pallets of Teredo) are
elongated, and formed of small cones one within the other, looking somewhat
like a quill.”
(342-372) Class AMPHINEURA.
As this class was Roy Bell’s objective, though dealt with fully elsewhere, a
few notes must here be included, as the collection provided unexpected data in
connection with the zoogeographical regions. May and I had separated the
eastern Tasmanian Coast as showing a distinct Loricate faunula from that of the
mainland eastern coast, with which it had been previously united. To test this,
the present collections were made, and the separation has been emphasised. Thus
the most characteristic Peronian Loricates, Sypharochiton pellis-serpentis Q. and
G., Liolophura gaimardi Blainville, and Onithochiton quercinus Gould, disappear
before they reach Twofold Bay. Rhyssoplax jugosa Gould continues down to
Mallacoota, Victoria, but is replaced in Western Victoria (Port Fairy) by the
Tasmanian species, Rhyssoplax diaphora Ire. and May. The Tasmanian Sypharo-
chivon (maugeanus Ire. and May) does not cross the Straits while two other
Tasmanian species described at the same time, Heterozona subviridis Ire. and May,
and Ischnochiton atkinsoni Ire. and May, proved to be the commonest species at
Port Fairy, Vic., but not at Mallacoota, Vic. May and Hull found these at
King Island, but May did not find them on the Flinders Group. This line of
inquiry is being followed up. No Adelaidean form has reached Mallacoota or
Twofold Bay, but the Peronian Haploplax lentiginosa Sow. was found commonly
as far as Lakes Entrance, Victoria. The dredgings show some interesting items
as from 18-25 fathoms in Disaster Bay and, later, in the same depths in Twofold
Bay, a form of Ischnochiton tateanus Bednall was dredged, in the former case
accompanied by a single Js. purus Sykes. Odd valves representing Callochiton
mayi Torr. and Callistochiton mawlei Ire. and May were found in dredgings from
5-20 fathoms at Port Fairy, Vic., and out of the shallow water Twofold Bay
dvedgings valves apparently referable to Rhyssoplax coxi Pils., R. carnosa Angas,
Loricella angasi H. Adams, and Notoplax speciosa H. Ad. were sorted. Hetero-
zona fruticosa Pilsbry was also found at Mallacoota, as expected, with the
Peronian Callistochiton antiquus Reeve, Ischnochiton crispus Reeve and inter-
mediate forms of Ischnoradsia and Ischnochiton proteus Reeve.
BY TOM IREDALE. 215.
(373-375) Family PLEUROTOMARIIDAE.
This should be replaced by the family name Scissurellidae, as there is little
real relationship between the present minute species and the huge recent des-
eendants of the fossil Pleurotomaria. Moreover, there are two different genetic
series present in these small shells, the true Schizotrochus (e.g., Scissurella
australis Hedley) being quite irreconcilable with the Scissurella-Schismope series.
Thus the type of Scissurella is exactly comparable with the immature stages of
such a shell as Schismope beddomei Petterd, and absolutely represents an arrested
stage in the development of Schismope. The carinate Schismope, as S. atkinson
Ten.-Woods, are closely allied to the typieal series, whereas such a form as
Secissurella rosea Hedley is distinctly separable. The Schizotrochus series seems
to have no close relationship with the true Scissurella, and is apparently a world-
wide form in deeper water.
(373 A) ScISSURELLA ORNATA May, 1908.
Scissurella ornata May, Papers Proce. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1908, p. 57, PL. vi.,
figs. 4-5: Frederick Henry Bay, Tasmania.
The recognition of a single specimen of a true Scissurella suggested this
species, and it generally agreed, allowing for the variation commonly noted in
this group.
By this means Scisswrella remains a constituent of the N.S.W. fauna, as
S. australis Hedley belongs to the Schizotrochus series, a very different group.
I was going to omit this record for the present, when I found, in shell sand
from Coogee, and also from Watson’s Bay (Green Point), specimens of a true
Scissurella along with specimens of an undescribed Schismope, allied to brevis
Hedley, and many other minutiae, so that probably these things are well distri-
buted, but have been merely overlooked owing to their minute size.
(375 A) ScISSURELLA ROSEA Hedley.
This species was described from New Zealand, and was afterward recorded
from Tasmania by Hedley, who rejected the name obliqua used for it by Pritchard
and Gatliff and Vereo, as that had been given to a different species from Ker-
guelen Island. I first recognised this form in shell-sand from South Australia
sent me by Dr. Torr: I then sorted it out of some splendid shell-sand Roy Bell
secured at Port Fairy, Vic., and, later, I found it in the shallow water dredgings
from Twofold Bay, N.S.W. All the specimens differ from typical Neozelanic
shells in shape, the Australian shells being more ear-shaped, the last whorl
longer, the earlier whorls larger, the mouth not so patulate, and, consequently,
the slit apparently higher up. As a matter of fact, the Australian shell is more
like the shape of Incisura lytteltonensis Smith, from which Hedley easily dis-
tinguished the Neozelanie shell. There is no close relationship between this
species and the true Scissurella, and when Thiele monographed the family, he
placed it in Incisura, with which it is certainly not congeneric. I, therefore,
propose the new generic name Scissurona and name Scissurella rosea Hedley as
type, and propose Scissurona rosea remota, n.subsp., for the Australian form,
selecting a Twofold Bay specimen as type. I do this, as more critical examina-
tion, with longer series and better material, may also prove the necessity of
separating the Adelaidean form.
The extreme localisation of Hedley’s Incisura is worthy of remark, as, though
I have examined much shell-sand and dredgings, I have not met with that genus
outside Neozelanie waters, while it appears in nearly every Neozelanie sample
216 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
examined. In the case of Scisswrona, I think obliqua from Kerguelen Island
will be found to belong here, although decidedly not conspecific with the Aus-
tralian or Neozelanic species.
(376) Scurus antrpopEs Montfort, 1810.
Hedley has recently developed this genus and separated the well-known
Western Australian species under the new name Scutus astrolabeus. The Two-
fold Bay shells were typically Peronian, but the Port Fairy (Victoria) series
were somewhat intermediate, being notably broader than the Peronian shells, but
just as obviously narrower than the typical King George Sound species. KX fine
series was sent from Port Fairy, and the measurements of adult shells, fen large
ones being selected, varied from 99 mm. x 47 mm. to 84 mm. x 40 mm., the
average being 91 mm. x 43 mm.; the height varied from 14 mm. to 18 saint.
while the apex was from 22 to "oA mm. from the edge. Juvenile shells, well
grown, varied from 45 mm. x 21 mm. to 74 mm. x 32 mm., the height of the last-
named being 8 mm., and the apex situated at 17 mm. Sain the edge. I showed
Mr. Hedley ie Funes of Patella anatina Donovan (Rees Eneyclop. Conch., 1 Oct.,
1813, Pl. xvi.), and he at once suggested it might be the Western Tegienhen
species. The figure, which appears life size, measures 79 mm. x 38 mm., with
the apex 16 mm. from the edge.
(378) Hemitoma AspERA (Gould, 1846).
When Hedley rejected rugosa Quoy and Gaimard for the New South Wales
shell on the ground that a Western Australian littoral species was unlikely to
occur unchanged at Sydney, he selected Gould’s name as above given, influenced
by the known locality of Gould’s species. There was on record an earlier name,
Emarginula conoidea Reeve, figured in Conch. Syst., Vol. i., 1842, Pl. exl., fig.
7, where a view of the interior is given. Reference is made to the P.Z.S8., 1842,
where (on p. 50) the species was described from unknown locality, in the collec-
tion of W. Walton, Esq. A. Adams (Proce. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1851 (1852), p
87) quotes Reeve’s name in the synonymy of rugosa Quoy and Gaimard, giving
locality “Australia M.C.” The specimens regarded by A. Adams as belonging
to rugosa Q. and G. were eastern Australian shells, and the interior view of
-‘Reeve’s species shows a peculiar coloration of the spatula, as far as I can judge,
characteristic of the Peronian form. I have compared long series of this with
shells from Port Fairy, Vic., Port Lincoln, 8. Aust., and Busselton, W. Aust.,
and I conclude the two forms are separable. At any rate, the shells from
Caloundra, Q’land., Sydney Harbour and Twofold Bay, N.S.W., Mallacoota and
‘Lakes Entrance, Vic., all in the Peronian Region, are similar and separable at
sight from the Port Fairy (Vic.) shells, which are comparatively taller, the apex
less central, the anterior slope more arched, the posterior steeper not spreading
basally, sculpture finer and more regular. These differences are specially well
seen in immature specimens, as aged ones are dirty, worn, and ill-shapen.
I introduced for this group the name Montfortula, and suggested its nearer
relationship with the Australian Hmarginula (such as candida A. Adams) than
with Hemitoma s. str., and my more complete knowledge of the groups amply
confirms my judgment, and I am now making a study of the radulae, so that
in my next communication the facts will be so conclusive that no further argu-
ment will be necessary.
BY TOM IREDALE. 217
(381 A) EmarGinuLa pDEvoTa Thiele.
Emarginula devota Thiele, Conch. Cab. (Kiister), Bd. 11, Abth. 4a, heft
xxxvi., 1915, p. 81, Tab. 9, figs. 27, 28, 29: Port Jackson, N.S.W.; Hedley,
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xlvili., 1923, p. 307.
At the Kermadee Group I dredged a shell which, though Emarginuloid, pre-
sented a slight internal shelf, and ] named it in MS. E. connectens, proposing
to deal with the interest attached to such a shelf. Oliver, when later recording
the Kermadec mollusca, did not include this new species. Thiele, at the quotation
above given, has legitimatised the name, and, at the same time, proposed the
present species, closely allied, from the mainland. I have seen the group re-
presented, in the collection made at Lord Howe Island by Roy Bell, and also
sorted out a couple of specimens from the deeper dredgings from the Twofold
Bay district, and I have found it in shell-sand collected at Coogee, near Sydney.
The characters of the group for which I propose the generic name Subzeidora
(type H. connectens Thiele) are clearly marked: the small size, very long anterior
sht, arched back with incurved posterior apex, being diagnostic without reference
to the important internal shelf.
Thiele has recorded some of the interesting items I had written up some
years ago, but, as Thiele’s work will not be in the hands of the majority of the
readers of this note, I may briefly indicate some of the peculiarities of Fissurelloid
molluses. In this family the same shell condition appears to have been achieved
by means of different evolutionary processes, and consequently coincidence or
rather agreement in shell features is not conclusive evidence of animal relation-
ships. Further, the complexity of the radula necessitates prolonged study of
much material, and this is not yet available. Clues to the alliances of some
species may be seen in the juvenile stage growths, but here again all is. not
clear.
Thus in Fissurella the “keyhole” formation in the apical foramen is obvious
in some specimens and just as certainly absent in others. At first a high value
was placed on this feature, but, when the same species was seen to show both
styles, the character was rejected as absolutely valueless. More careful con-
sideration might have shown that the facts could be reconciled in this way:
some species begin with a keyhole and this persists in the adult; other species
begin with a keyhole and at a later stage deposition, internally, of callus destroys
the keyhole appearance; thirdly, no keyhole shape is seen either in the young or
adult. Consequently, it is suggested that no juvenile without a keyhole form
can produce an adult with a keyhole, while the reverse does occur. Thus, the
keyhole Juvenile shells show a different group from une ones that HEN no key-
hole form in the young’ shells.
The internal shelf, persistent in the genus Zeidora, appears to be an ances-
tral feature, as it is seen in connection with most other groups. Thus, the
evolution of the European Fissurella, from study of the growth stages, was
demonstrated by Boutan (Arch. Zool. Exper., ii., 1885, p. 102, Pl. xlii:, f. 5)
and most of the stages are represented commonly as different groups, but, since
then, other groups have been observed, showing different combinations. Granted
that Rimula constitutes an arrested stage in the development of Fissuridea,
there is a peculiar species of Hmarginula, Semperia paivana Crosse (Journ. de
Conch., 1867, p. 76, Pl. i1., fig. 2) from the Madeiran seas, which is an Emarginula
until senile, when it closes the slit entrance. There is no shelf in these, but, in
the group known as Cranopsis, a typically Rimuloid form, there is a large in-
ternal shelf, so that it has been generally called Puncturella. The species classed
218 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
as Puncturella are of different shapes, simply agreeing in being conical, and in
the possession. of an internal shelf. The deep-sea forms known as Cranopsis,
such as Rimula asturiana Fischer (Journ. de Conch., 1882, p. 51) are represented
in Austral seas by the magnificent Puncturella corolla Vereo (Trans. Roy. Soe.
S. Aust., xxxii., 1908, p. 193, Pl. xi., figs. 1-5). .This group I name Rimulanaz,
with P. corolla as type.
The South African species classed at present in Iissuridea (Glyphis olim) -
show the remains of an internal shelf, a feature never seen in any Australasian
species yet examined. We can arrange a series, from non-slit to apical-perforate
shells without an internal shelf, and we can nearly parallel it, at present, with
groups showing the shelf persistent, as, Scutus and Tugaka, Montfortula, Emar-
ginula, Rimula and Fissuridea, with no internal shelf, then the first two groups
unrepresented, Zeidora, Subzeidora, Cranopsis, Puncturella of many kinds and
the South African Fissuridea with internal shelf, probably with offshoots in many
directions as Emarginella and Scutus with huge animals, Subemarginula, Fis-
surelidea and then the Amblychilepas series ranging to Macroschisma, all of
which have lost the shelf while developing the animals, mostly with perforate
semi-patelloid shells. Moreover, it is suggested that these groups have evolved
independently in their various geographic homes.
(382) MEGATEBENNUS CONCATENATUS. (Crosse and Fischer, 1864).
This peculiar form appears almost unchanged in South Africa, the shell
found there being still called by Crosse and Fischer’s name, given to a South
Australian species. Tenison-Woods has also recorded it as fossil, noting a slight
difference between the fossil and recent shells, and also between the New South
Wales and South Australian shells. It is, therefore, obvious that its peculiarities
are of genetic importance, and I propose the new generic name Cosmetalepas
with Crosse and Fischer’s species as type. The shells I have received from the
Twofold Bay district were dredged dead in the 50-70 fathom hauls off Green Cape,
though a young dead shell was found in the shallow water dredgings, 10-15
fathoms, near Gabo Island, Victoria. I find it not uncommon as dead shells
on the Sydney beaches, and there appears to be definite variation from the
South Australian shells. Chapman and Gabriel have recently been unable to
separate the fossils from the recent shells, probably on account of insufficient
material.
(383) MEGATEBENNUS JAVANICENSIS (Lamarck, 1822).
In the Man. Conch. (Tryon), Vol. xu., pt. 47, 16 Dee., 1890, Pilsbry mono-
graphed the Fissurellids, and (on p. 182) introduced the new genus Megatebennus,
the American species, Fissurellidea bimaculata Dall being named as type. Two
pages later, he proposed Amblychilepas, as a section, naming as type, fF’. trape-
zina Sow., the Australian shell here recognised as javanicensis Lam. The animal
characters of the Australian forms have proved different in all the cases yet
investigated, so there is no need to continue the usage of Megatebennus, but
Amblychilepas should be regarded as the generic designation of this species. The
series in the British Museum suggests that easily recognisable forms are separable,
but I have no long series of my own to confirm this. When Dr. Pilsbry was
here last year (1923), he regarded the animal as differing at sight from the
American forms, so that there should be no hesitation in rejecting Megatebennus:
moreover, he suggested the next species was certainly not a Lucapinella, neither
was it a Megatebennus.
BY TOM IREDALE. 219
(384) LucaPINELLA NiGRITA (Sowerby, 1835).
The species under note was included by Pilsbry in his ‘new genus Megate-
bennus, when he proposed the new genus Lucapinella (Man. Conch., Vol. xiL.,
pt. 47, 16 Dec., 1890, pp. 179, 195) with type, by original designation, Clypidella
callomarginata Carpenter, from California. Hedley transferred the Australian
species from Megatebennus to Lucapinella, from study of the animal, but, with
our present knowledge of this group, the observed differences were quite sufficient
to separate the Australian shell generically. Hedley gave a figure of the radula
of his new species L. pritchardi (Proc. Roy. Soe. Vict., vii. (n.s.), 1894 (Jan.,
1895), p. 197, Pl. xi., fig. 7), and the radula in the Gwatkin Collection, labelled
L. nigrita, confirms this: i.e., the central tooth is degenerate and pear-shaped,
the inner laterals with short somewhat blunt eutting edges, the large outer lateral
strongly tricuspid; the marginals being comparatively few and simple, showing
no cusps.
Although the radulae of the Fissurellidae are somewhat generalised, com-
parison with that of callomarginata Carpenter, the type of Lucapinella, shows
striking differences. In the latter, the central is large and rhomboidal, the inner
laterals are similar to those of the preceding, but the cutting edges are more
pronounced, while the outer lateral is bicuspid, the third eusp, if present, beg
very minute and not recognisable, while the marginals are many and _ notably
cuspidate. This radula is more like that of concatenatus Crosse and Fischer, but
the outer lateral is differently shaped and the marginals are smaller, ete.
I have just remembered Claude Torr’s paper, Radulae of some South Aus-
tralian Gasteropoda (Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., xxxvili., 1914, p. 362), and good
figures of the radulae of M. concatenatus and L. oblonga are given: in the latter
it is stated that the marginals are “serrated” and that each row has nine teeth,
while in the former each row has twenty-one teeth.
From Port Fairy, Vic., Roy Bell sent a lot of shells of nigrita, a few oblonga,
easily separated by longer shape, narrower, and of coarser sculpture. A few
nigrita from Melbourne Heads agreed, but specimens from Twofold Bay, N.S.W.,
were narrower and with more lateral compression, though of -same length and
with similar fine sculpture. Shells I collected in Sydney Harbour showed the
same differences.
The locality given when Sowerby introdueed his Fissurella nigrita was Cape
of Good Hope, but the shells in the Mus. Cuming (two sets), either of which
might be regarded as types, are somewhat like the Tasmanian specimens in the
British Museum. Consequently, an arbitrary determination of a type locality is
necessary, and I here select Tasmania (southern) as such, and now introduce the
new generic name Sophismalepas with F’. nigrita as type. I think that Menke’s
F. oblonga, as recognised in Hedley’s pritchardi, is undoubtedly eongeneric. Hed-
ley has recently given a figure of the animal (from Sydney) of this genus.
(384 A) MAcROSCHISMA TASMANIAE (Sowerby, 1862).
This is a curious addition, if such it be, to the New South Wales list, as
one of the first localities cited for the genus is New South Wales. Thus Sowerby
(Conch. Illus. Fissurella, p. 5, No. 45, 1839) wrote “Fissurella. macroschisma.
Humphrey, Conchology. Conch. Ilust., f. 39, New South Wales, var. f. 39*,
Swan River. Obs. This forms the genus Macroschisma of Gray.”
The species I have to record was dredged as a dead shell, in 50-70 fathoms,
off Green Cape, New South Wales, and the reference reads: Macrochisma tas-
220 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
maniae Sowerby, Thes. Conch., Vol. ii. (pt. 21), 1862, p. 206, Pl. 244, f. 223,
from Tasmania. The next species is Macrochisma novaecaledoniae Sow., ibid., p.
206, Pl. 244, f. 222, from New Caledonia, and this is regarded as a synonym in
the British Museum Collection, shells sent from Tasmania by R. Gunn being so
labelled, the New Caledonia locality false, as in some other cases. A few com-
plications may be here noted,—thus, the shell figured by Humphrey in his Con-
chology was named Patella macroschisma by Solander, and the name published
in the Catalogue of the Portland Museum, p. 71, 1786. In the Museum Calon-
mianum, 1797, Humphrey proposed the genus Larva, and this is the only recog-
nisable eonstituent. In the Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells, pt. 21, Pl. 147,
fig. 5 (two views), 1823, Sowerby figured a Fissurella macroschisma, in the text
referring as a synonym to F’. hiantula Lam., which has no close relationship at
all. Recognising this, Swainson (Treat. Malac., 1840, p. 356), introducing in-
dependently a genus Machrochisma, gave the name M. hiatula to Sowerby’s figure.
This does not look like the Japanese shell figured and named by Humphrey, nor
does it well agree with any Australian species yet known.
A hitherto overlooked name is Patella lobata Donovan (Rees’ Bnevelop.
Conchology, 1 Mar., 1881, Plate i.), which apparently refers to the Red Sea
species named M. compressa by A. Adams (Proe. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1850, p. 202).
(385) Diopora LINEATA (Sowerby, 1835).
Traditional determination is peculiar in its usage. Reference to Sowerby’s
figure did not suggest the New South Wales shell, and as it was described from
unknown locality, I read the description without hopes of achieving anything
tangible, but was surprised to find “Dorsal aperture small, much nearer to the
anterior than to the posterior end, its margin internally truncated posteriorly” :
the italics are mine, as these prove Sowerby’s species to have belonged to a
different group from the Australian shell which does not show this feature. Such
a shell as F. listeri D’Orbigny, from the West, Indies, shows a posteriorly trun-
cated aperture, and is very similar in shape to the Australian so-called lineata.
The transference of lineata to the Australian species seems to be due to
Sowerby (Thes. Conch., Vol. ui., Mon. Fissurella, pt. 21, 1861, p. 195, sp. 80,
Pl. 6, f. 134, 185) who synonymised inci Reeve, writing “Although first figured
from a smaller specimen, there can be no doubt of the identity of this shell, to
which the name subsequently given by Mr. Reeve was therefore unnecessary.”
Fissurella incii Reeve (Conch. Icon., Vol. vi., June, 1850, Pl. 10, f. 69a-b) had
been described from Raine Island, Torres Straits, collected by Ince. Pilsbry
(Man. Conch (Tryon), Vol. xi., (pref. Apl.), 1890, p. 219) called the species
Glyphis lineata, giving as distribution: “North Australian Coast,’: gave figures
(on Pl. 63, f. 29, 30) from specimens, and copied Reeve’s figures (on Pl. 38,
f. 63-64). Consequently, it would seem that, if lineata were available (which I
deny), it would rather be applicable to the Torres Straits species. In every
case I conclude the shell from Twofold Bay is nameless, and I. propose to describe
it as a new species, and also a new genus. In shell features it approximates
fairly closely to the European type, but the apical fissure is different. Hxamina-
tion of the radulae in the Gwatkin Collection in the British Museum shows that
similar shells cover different animals, as the radulae vary according to locality.
(385) ELEGIDION AUDAX, n. gen. et sp. (Plate xxxv., figs. 5-6).
A genus of the Fissurellidae with apical perforation of “keyhole” style, and
radula somewhat like that of the European Diodora.
BY TOM IREDALE. 221
The sculpture consists of bold radiating ribs, with bold concentric rings
latticing the ribs; the shape is oval, not quite twice as long as broad, and more
than half as tall as broad, the apex at two-thirds the length. These Senn ertiond
vary with age: the largest specimen I have in this series measures 55 mm. in
length and 35 mm. at the broadest part but narrowed anteriorly to 27 mm.: it
is 22 mm. in height just behind the apical fissure. A fairly small typical shell
measures 13 mm. long, 9 mm. broad, seareely any anterior lessening, and 5 mm.
high at apex: in the young shells the “keyhole” shape of the perforation is seen
with an internal callus surrounding it, and in the senile forms, the fissure, though
_having lost the keyhole shape, is still regularly oval and does not show a posterior
truncation. In the immature the anterior slope is straight and the posterior slope
is, similar, but in the senile the posterior is convex and the anterior one slightly
concave, the fissure being on this slope pointing forwards, not directly upwards
as in the young stages. In the earlier stages about forty primary radials can be
counted, but, as intercalating secondary ones appear almost at once, and then
subsidiary, on the largest clean specimen I have examined I find, between two
primary ribs, three secondary and three smaller. In the young shells the
concentric rings are about a dozen and form strong nodules at their junctures
_with the radials, but with age these decrease so that the senile shells show simple
latticing, the nodules having disappeared. The muscle scars are scarcely dis-
_tinguishable.
The animal has been figured and deseribed by Hedley under the name Fis-
suridea lineata (These Proe., 1900, p. 95, Pl. i., fig. 11) but the coloration must
_vary, as I have seen many with the mantle pinkish-white dotted with pinkish-red.
©)
(386) DioporA waTsonr (Brazier, 1894).
When Brazier described this species, he commented upon its strange facies
as probably deserving a new generic name. I separated four shells from the 50-
70 fathom dredging off Green Cape, and they differed from any type of Fissurel-
‘hd I had previously studied. They were solid for their size, and showed a type
of Fissurellid with an internal shelf and persistent apex, recalling some Punc-
-turella forms, but very distinct. from any Australasian form Bese to Eee,
-of which I have half a dozen.
I hope to discuss these most interesting states later, but’: 1, here propose
Riza for this species alone, and by this means its later recognition will be as-
sured. I might note, with the eccentricity oft-times apparent in the British
Museum collection, this species is placed in Fissurella s. str., a position so absurd
“as searcely to call for comment. Judging from shell features, it would not even
belong to the subfamily containing Fissurella, I find it not uncommon as dead
‘shells on the Sydney beaches, but have not ee met with it alive: -
(388) PUNCTURELLA DEMISSA . Hedley, 1904.
This species was described by Hedley from New. Zealand, and later shen he
found the form in Australian waters he gave a good ilinsination of this, though
accepting the Neozelanic name. Compentiaan of ane two figures will show that
differences of form exist, and I propose to name the Australian shell Vacexra de-
missa menda, citing Hedley’s figured specimen (Ree. Aust. Mus., vi., 1907, p. 289,
‘Pl. 54, f. 3-5) as type, the generic name Vacerra. being -cpayaidled! for the small
Wictral forms ascribed to Puncturella, but which do Gh closely. agree, even in
‘superficial features, with the type of that genus. The present species I name as
222 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
type of Vacerra, but do not conclude that all the species, even in the N.S.W.
List, will prove later to be congeneric.- This species was found in the Green Cape
50-70 fathom dredgings, but the other two species listed by Hedley as Punetwrella
were found in shallow water dredgings. I have a new species Roy Bell found
alive, under stones, at low tide at Lord Howe Island, which appears to be the
first met with in such a situation in Austral waters. I hope to report fully upon
it later.
(391-394) Family HALIOTIDAE.
This family provides an excellent illustration of the difference between the
Peronian and Adelaidean faunas. Hedley admits, in the former, four species
brazieri, coccoradiatum, hargravesi, and naevosum, while in the Victorian List ap-
pear albicans, conicopora, cyclobates, emmae, and naevosa, Verco adding, in South
Australia, roei and tricostalis, noting that the correct name of the latter may be
sealaris (which it is) and that emmae may only be a variant thereof. Roy Bell
secured all the four N.S.W. species at Twofold Bay, naevoswm alive and the other
three dead, the rare ones in dredgings, while he also sent from Tellaburga I., Vie.,
specimens of coccoradiatum, an addition to the Victorian List. From Port Fairy,
Vie., he sent a fine series of the so-called naevosum, emmae and albicans, all liv-
ing: the naevosum are easily separated from typical Sydney shells by their more
elongate shape, less tightly coiled and higher spire, showing the whorling inside,
and probably larger size and stronger sculpture. I propose to differentiate these
as Halotis naevosum improbulum, n. subsp. Another correction may be here
made: Haliotis laevigata was given to a beautiful figure published in Rees’ En-
eyclopaedia. The plate was published on 1 Nov., 1808, on Pl. vi. of the
Conchological series, and the author was Donovan. This has never been recorded
previously, but the shell figured is undoubtedly H. albicante of Quoy and Gaimard,
whose name is a quarter of a century later. It may be noted that Peron men-
tioned a Haliotis gigantea from D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania; no deserip-
tion was offered, but apparently this was given to the southern Tasmanian form
of H. naevosum Martyn, which is, in shape, like the Sydney form and differs from
the Port Fairy series, while in seulpture it can be separated from typical H.
naevosum in lacking the pronounced radial striation and in its larger size. It
will bear the name Haliotis naevosum tubiferum Lamarck (Hist. Anim. s. Verteb.,
Vol. vi., pt. 2, 1822, p. 214), described from New Holland, probably from one of
Peron’s shells. Lamarck cited “Chemnitz 10, t. 167, f. 1610-11 and Martyn 2, f.
63.” In the first place Chemnitz figured a Japanese shell from Spengler’s col-
lection confusing it with the species found in New Holland and figured by Martyn
from New Seuth Wales as naevosum. When Hedley revived Peron’s name of
Haliotis cyclobates for excavata Lam., he observed “At. Kangaroo Island, a Halio-
tis whose perforations project so as to form open truncated cones, Peron named
H. conicopora. This answers to the H. tubifera of Lamarck, which has been re-
ferred to H. naevosa Martyn, but which may perhaps be H. granti Pritchard and
Gatliff.” In makine this identification, Hedley overlooked the data given by
Lamarck for his H. tubifera, viz., “maxima five inches 10 lines long by 4 inches
broad.” This does not agree with conicopora, which is probably emmae, a form
of tricostalis = scalaris, over which names Peron’s name has priority. The size
of Lamarck’s tubifera agrees with the southern Tasmanian shell, the name re-
corded by Peron being the same as that of Chemnitz, and the figure of Martyn
agreeing generally. J. EK. Gray (Proce. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1856 (11 Nov.), p. 148).
introduced a new generic and specific name, Schismotis exrcisa, for a specimen
BY TOM IREDALE. 223
figured on Moll., Pl. xxxiv., which he afterwards concluded was a monstrosity of
Haliotis albicans. This name seems to have been overlooked, and is available for
this peculiar species when separation is desired.
(395) STOMATELLA IMBRICATA Lamarck, 1816.
. The introduction of the specific name is correctly given, but a later one is
cited for the generic, a quotation which needs correction, as both were first pro-
posed at the same entry. I have been unable to detect any constant differences
in the shells referred to this species from different. localities, mainly on account
of their variability. f
As the generic name Tliboconus Peron is sometimes quoted as a synonym, I
give here the extract and quotation which should read, “Tliboconus Blainville,
Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. liv., p. 467, 1829. “Tibocone. Tliboconus
(Conchyl). This name I have found on a shell in the Coll. Mus. Paris, naming
a genus made by Peron. This shell has passed, I believe, into the genus Stoma-
tella of Lamarck.” Lamarck’s description and figure were probably based on
Peron’s examples, and the locality given, “Java,” false, the shells being collected
in southern Australia, probably south-western Australia.
(396) Gena stricosa A. Adams, 1851.
Recently Hedley has given some detail of the animal of the Sydney Gena,
and .has accepted A. Adams’s name, as I had compared for him Sydney speci-
mens with A. Adams’s types in the British Museum. He did not discuss the
Victorian form, for which Pritchard and Gatliff had used the name Gena nigra ex
Quoy and Gaimard, and quoted A. Adams’s name as synonymous. Specimens
from Port Fairy, Vic., sent by Roy Bell, differed a little from the Twofold Bay
shells, which agreed with Sydney shells I had collected some years before. The
Victorian shells are absolutely larger, a little differently shaped and with general-
ly coarser sculpture. Inasmuch as the two forms have been continually regarded
as distinct, these differences may be emphasised, but the nomination is a matter
of difficulty. Lamarck named and figured Stomatella auricula (Tabl. HEncy.
Method, 1816, Liste, p. 10, Pl. 450, figs. la-b). In the Hist. Anim. s. Verteb.,
Vol. vi., pt. 2, Apl., 1822, p. 210, Patella lutea Lin. Gmel., p. 3710, No. 94, was
synonymised and three references to Rumph., Favanne and Martini added, the
locality being given as “Habite Ocean des Moluques et de la Nouvelle Hol-
lande.” Although Hedley admitted nigra Quoy and Gaimard in his Western
Australian List, he has since received specimens from the Pacific Islands, now
in the Australian Museum, exactly agreeing with the description, by Quoy and
Gaimard, of a Tonga Tabu shell, and now eliminates the name from Australian
usage, a conclusion I had arrived at from study of the British Museum collection.
Further, he had determined specimens from Kangaroo Island as Lamarck’s
auricula, and in this determination I was inclined to agree when I met with Quoy
and Gaimard’s statement in the Voy. de |’Astrol., Vol. iii., p. 309, which absolutely
clinched the matter, viz., “Stomatella auricula Lam. Nous avons constaté que nos
individus provenaient du meme lieu que celui qui est au Muséum, et qui Peron
avait rapporté du port du Roi Georges, 4 la Nouvelle Hollande.” On this evi-
dence we can accept Lamarck’s name for the Western Australian shell which
ranges along the Adelaidean Region as far as Port Fairy, Vie.
The earliest recognisable name for the eastern Australian shell seems to have
been overlooked, viz., Haliotis impertusa Burrows (Elements of Conchology, 1815,
224 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
p. 162, Pl. xxi., fig. 2): no locality given, but probably Port Jackson, as Burrows
had shells ain that locality. The figure and description are good and are easily:
matched by a shell from any day’s collecting in this locality.
(398-436) Family TROCHIDAKE.
Probably only second in interest to the family Fissurellidae, Trochoids, on
account of the simplicity of their shell formation, present more difficulty, but
still are delightful on account of their littoral habit and their rapid alteration
as they descend into deeper water. In the two Regions here contrasted, the
Peronian and Adelaidean, the species continually represent each other, and only:
in a few instances does the same species oceur in both regions unchanged, and
then usually only in the territory adjacent. Consequently, it is comparatively
easy to indicate errors such as the admission of Clanculus maugeri Wood into the
Victorian and Tasmanian Lists, this being a northern Peronian species which ap-
parently does not travel so far south.
(403) CuancuLUS omMALOMPHALUS (A. Adams, 1853).
In the Proce. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1851, not published until 1853, A. Adams.
named numerous species of Trochoids, generally without definite, or else in-
accurate, locality. The name C. omalomphalus has been used because it was
noted that it had been collected at Sydney by Strange. On the previous page,
he had described Clanculus brunneus from. an unknown locality, and Mr. J. R.
Le B. Tomlin finds, from examination of the types in the British Museum, that.
these are the same species.
This species, along with C. floridus Philippi (No. 401), was sent from Tella-
burga Island, Vic., and they are additions to the Victorian List. From the series:
sent from Port Fairy, Vic., C. flagellatus Philippi appears to be the Adelaidean
representative of C. floridus Philippi, while C. limbatus Quoy and Gaimard re-
places C. brunneus A. Adams as above. These Adelaidean shells, according to
May’s Illustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl: xviii., occur on the eastern coast of
Tasmania, a record which is suggestive that the Peronian Trochoids do not occur
in the Maugean Region.
(404) CLANCULUS PLEBEJUS (Philippi, 1851).
This species is very puzzling, specifically and generically. To deal with the
latter item first, the species has been classed in Clanculus and also in Gibbula,.
two very distinct groups, and now Hedley has transferred it to Hurytrochus.
The false umbilicus, with the columella joining on the outside, differentiates it
from all the above, but, as it seems to approach the first-named genus, I propose
to separate it with the new generic name Mesoclanculus. Hedley recently added
it to the N.S.W. List from Montagu Island, a little north of Twofold Bay, but
Angas had included it from Port Jackson as Clanculus nodoliratus A. Adams.
The latter name was proposed in the same year as Philippi’s, but not published:
until two years afterward.
Philippi’s description and figure do not fit the New South Wales shells
(which I have found on the Sydney beaches), but are quite good for the Western:
Australian form, which appears common. From Port Fairy, Vie., Roy Bell sent-
it as a very common species, very variable in size. There appears to be a series:
of names for the eastern shell, as Tenison-Woods is credited with two, Clanculus-
angeli and Gibbula multicarinata, described in the same paper (Proc. Roy. Soe..
BY TOM IREDALE. 225.
Tasm., 1876, pp. 144 and 142), the last-named having priority. Then A. Adams’s
name would need consideration, but the selected epithet is not well applicable to
the eastern shell. Fischer (Coquilles Vivants, 1880, Trochus, p. 243. Hab ?)
‘separated a small form as Trochus muscarius, and the description agrees with
the smaller shells found at Port Fairy, Vic. and the Peronian: shells so far
examined.
Pilsbry (Man. Conch., Vol. xi., 1889, pp. 80-81) writes, “To this (typical)
form Dr. Fischer gave the mss. name 7. muscarius, which he considers as var. B.
of plebejus. . . . . In the Academy collection (shells) are marked C. rubicundus
Mighels: but I have seen no description of such a species by that author.” I do
not consider Fischer’s muscarius typical of plebejus, but would note C. rubicundus
(Mighels) Pilsbry in the synonymy of plebejus. Later, in the same volume,
Pilsbry suggested (p. 467) that C. rubicundus Dunker was perhaps intended.
(409) CANTHARIDUS FascIaTUS (Menke, 1830).
Three very different species have been included by Hedley in the genus.
Cantharidus, each of which has been long allotted a separate name. The first,
No. 408, Cantharidus eximius (Perry, 1811) may be allowed to represent that
genus, very little difference being seen between it (the type of Phasianotrochus)
and the Neozelanie type of Cantharidus (opalus Martyn). The present species,
the type of Bankivia, a MS. name by Beck, apparently first published by Krauss
(Die Sudafr. Mollusk., Jan., 1848, p. 105, Pl. vi. f. 7) by monotypy, should be
absolutely separated, although at present a monotypic genus. The radula is.
guite peculiar and recognisable at sight among these Trochoid forms.
(410) CANTHARIDUS LINEOLARIS Gould, 1861. (Plate xxxvi., figs. 1-2, 17).
This is the monotype of Leiopyrga H. and A. Adams (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,.
3 Ser., Vol. xii., 1863, p. 19), a genus which should be recognised. The extreme
variability of the species is seen in the hundreds of specimens now before me.
All were dredged alive on grass beds (Zostera) in the Bay, in from 5 to 10
fathoms of water. This species commonly shows a peripheral keel and specimens:
(immature) are found agreeing exactly with the type, figured by Hedley, of A.
Adams’s cingulata. I had intended to suppress that species as synonymie, but,
fortunately, found two tablets in the British Museum, one from Sandy Cape, N.
Queensland, and the other from Port Essington, Northern Territory, which
showed that the northern species was permanently smaller and constantly keeled.
Among the hundreds from Twofold Bay shallow water dredgings I found half a
dozen specimens showing: the whole of the whorls strongly spirally lirate, suggest-
ing Tate’s octona, and it seems doubtful whether these are stragglers from the
Adelaidean Region or merely aberrations. Though only a few specimens were
found in a dredging made off Gabo Island in Victorian waters, yet one was of the
octona type. Under these circumstances, it seems wise to accept three species,
quite representative, but probably entering each other’s regions at the point of
junction. Vereo, from a study of South Australian shells, was fain to conclude
that octona was no more than a validly spirally lirate variety of the Sydney
species. As the variation seen in the Twofold Bay series is very great, it is
possible that the fossils described by Tate (Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., xiv., Dec.,.
1891, p. 261), as Leiopyrga quadricingulata and L. sayceana may prove synony-
mous with each other or else inhabit different horizons.
The reference to Leiopyrga octona Tate is as above (p. 260, Pl. 11, f. 5), two
226 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’?S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
examples, one from Royston Head, S. Yorke Peninsula, the other from King
George Sound: this species should be added to the New South Wales fauna, pre.
tem., as I also find specimens from Sydney Harbour in the Australian Museum,
separated from the smooth shells, which also occur there. I, therefore, name the
Peronian form Leiopyrga octona problematica, n. subsp., type from Twofold
Bay.
(415) CaLLIoTROCHUS coxI (Angas, 1867).
The shell named Gibbula coxi Angas bears a superficial resemblance to the
European Gibbula, but has little real relationship, and I propose the new generic
name Notogibbula, with this species as type. J. R. Le B. Tomlin, while arrang-
ing the Trochoid shells in the British Museum, noted that this species had been
_ previously described by A. Adams as Stomatella bicarinata A. Adams (Thes.
Conch., Vol. ii. (pt. 15), 1854, p. 839, Pl. 175, figs. 39-40), from Moreton Bay,
Australia, the types being preserved in the Mus. Cuming. An alternative refer-
ence is to the Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853 (25 July, 1854), p. 74. The Western
Australian G. preissianus Philippi, recently placed in Gibbula, e.g., by Pritchard
and Gatliff, and classed under Monilea, subgen. Minolia by Pilsbry, appears con-
generic. Hedley has recently proposed to transfer lehmanni Menke (= preissianus
Phil.) and bicarinata Adams (= coxi Angas) from Gibbula to Minolia, but, as
I show later, they would not be settled in that genus.
(416) CALLIOTROCHUS TASMANICUS (Petterd, 1879).
When Hedley and May described Gibbula galbina (Ree. Aust. Mus. vii., 11
Sept., 1908, p. 114, Pl. xxi, f. 2) from 100 fathoms off Cape Pilar, Tasmania,
they observed that this was the species recorded as G. tasmanica from the Thetis
results, in 63-75 fathoms off Port Kembla, N.S.W.
Apparently C. galbina must be added to the N.S.W. List, as G. tasmanica
Petterd, according to the British Museum, oceurs as far north as Port Jackson.
In any case, similar shells occur in the shallow water dredgings from Twofold Bay.
Calliotrochus was proposed for Turbo phasianellus Deshayes, a formquite peculiar.
of which the Mauritius form is almost indistinguishable from the New Caledonian
one conchologically, but my Lord Howe series are easily separable from the
Norfolk Island one, and the genus also occurs at the Sandwich Islands. The
radular features of this genus are very peculiar and distinct, so that members
of the genus can be easily exactly determined.
(416 A) Mrvopa teGranpi (Petterd, 1879).
Petterd (Journ. Conch. (Leeds), u., 1879, p. 104), deseribed Fossarina
legrandi from northern Tasmania, and Pritchard and Gatliff recorded it as “a
rather common little species widely distributed along our coast,” transferring it
to the genus Gibbula, and simultaneously, Tate and Mav figured it, also placing
it in the genus Gibbula. From Tate and May’s good illustration it was easily
recognised as common in the shell-sand sent from Port Fairy, Vic., by Rov Bell.
Later a few were picked ou‘ of shell-grit sent from Twofold Bay. N.S.W., s0
that it seems a new record for the latter State. Owing to the generic svlitting
now necessary, this form requires a new location, and I therefore propose Minopa,
citing this species as type.
T have noted about Calliotrochus, and hope that the radula of this species will
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soon be examined, as well as that of the preceding. Until this is done the species
tasmanicus may be classed in Minopa, but I do not think it will stay there.
(418-426) Montura and Mrnouia. (Plate xxxv., figs. 7-12).
Hedley refers to the former genus, angulata, lentiginosa, oleacea, and vitih-
ginea, and to the latter arata, bellula, philippensis, pulcherrima and rosulenta.
In Proc. Malac. Soe. Lond., xiii, Aug. 1918, p. 36, I drew attention to the in-
validity of Monilea, and concluded that Talopia Gray, which first appeared in the
Synops. Contents Brit. Mus. (of which I have given full details in the Proce.
Malac. Soc. Lond., x., Mar., 1913, pp. 294-309), 42nd ed., p. 147, 1840, as a
nomen nudum, and in the 44th ed., 1842, p. 57, with the following definition,
“The Talopia are like the Rotella; the shell is striated and umbilicated, the um-
bilicus being edged with a striated callus edge,” could be used from the next
entry. Only the species lentiginosa of the above list would fall into Talopia,
while Minolia was proposed for a species from Japanese seas having the con-
chological features seen in pulcherrima, and for the present pulcherrima, arata
and rosulenta may be classed here. I had, from conchological features, separated
the group like philippensis, when Lt.-Col. Peile, to whom I had given speci-
mens to extract the radulae, informed me that the radula in this species was very
peculiar. I therefore propose the new generic name Spectamen, and name
Watson’s Trochus philippensis as type (Plate xxxv., f. 11). The species béllula
is so close to this, that it seems a geographical representative, but Hedley has re-
corded both from localities not very far apart.
From the description, oleacea represents still another distinct group, which fF
did not receive in these collections, but which Roy Bell dredged at Lord Howe
Island, and which strongly recalls Umbonium. Since the preceding was written,
consideration of radulae in the Gwatkin collection shows the radula of Talopia
(callifera) to be distinctive, and that, of two slides labelled vitiligenea from
South Australia, one shows a Trochoid radula unlike that of philippensis (Spee-
tamen), but the other radula is different and is of the style peculiar to Umbonium,
about which I hope to write more later. This latter radula appears to belong to
the true vitiligenea, which from shell features is an Hthminolia. Machaeroplax
was instituted by Friele for a northern shallow water Trochoid of simple character
on account of the peculiar radular features. Later it was suppressed in favour
of the earlier Solariella, proposed for a fossil species, not exactly agreeable even
in shell characters. Minolia was named for a Japanese shallow water form, not
much unlike in shell features, and has also been suppressed. In the northern
“Solariella,” two forms of radula are seen, the Machaeroplax style and a regular
Trochoid form. The radula of Spectamen proves to be comparable with that of
Machaeroplax, but I can see differences which decide me in favour of not using
the northern name, especially as the shells differ. It is probable that the radula
of Minolia (which is as yet unknown) will agree fairly closely in style with that
of Spectamen, but the fact that the species known as angulata, very similar in
shell character to the type of Spectamen, shows a very different radula, demands
the use of analogy with extreme caution. The continuous distribution of the
Minolioid shells decided me in my tentative use of that generic name.
(418) Monimra anauuaTa (A. Adams, 1853).
This species was described from the Sandwich Islands and the name should
not be used for a Sydney shell: 7. prodictus Fischer is simply a new name for
228 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Adams’s angulata, and must be referred to that species, although Fischer used
it for the Australian one. Monilea apicina Gould has nothing to do with the
present form, although Hedley, at the quotation given, recognised a photo of
the type sent by Dr. Bartsch, as of this species. It should be recorded that
Gould brought his shells to London for comparison with the Cuming’ collection,
and that he gave to Cuming typical specimens of his species, and that, upon his
return, his shells were lost and mislaid, and probably the most authentic represen-
tatives of his species are the shells in the Cuming collection, now in the British
Museum. In the present imstance, there is a specimen labelled “Monilea apicina
Gould,” with reference and locality, and this is obviously not even congeneric in
a broad sense with the shells referred to Adams’s species. Reference to the
original description shows this shell to be typical, and I only quote the follow-
ing items “Testa ovato-conica . . . . basi convexo, lineis incrementi nonnihil
granulatis: umbilico minuto, costa ecallosa marginali et altera interiori cincto,’
as showing the attachment of the species to Adams’s angulata to be quite in-
accurate. J was fortunate in being able to recognise, in Gould’s species, the
Lifu shell described as Minolia agapeta by Melvill and Standen, and probably
the loeality, “Port Jackson, W.S.,” is wrong.
The use of Adams’s name seems to depend upon a_ tradition now lost.
Fischer figured a Sydney sheii as prodictus, his unnecessary substitute for angu-
leta, but I have been unable to trace Adams’s type shells and here give the
latter’s description: ‘“M. testa orbiculato-conica, late umbilicata, albida, fusco
variegata; anfractibus supra angulatis, transversim omnino striatis; basi con-
vexa, concentrice striato, umbilico magno perspectivo.”
This description is very vague and may easily apply to a Sandwich Islands’
species. In the Museum Godeffroy Cat., iv., 1869 (p. 102), there were offered
for sale specimens of Margarita angulata A. Adams from the Sandwich Islands,
and as I have been unable to trace any authentie specimens to throw light upon
the subject, either to discredit tiie named locality or to legitimatise the adopted
one, I here deseribe the shell from Twofold Bay, N.S.W., as a new species.
This is the more necessary, as I have also to provide for it a new generic name,
as examination of the radula proves it to differ essentially from that of philip-
pensis, with which I had tentatively classed it from shell features, and is of the
style termed Umbonioid. [| here propose to describe the species (known as
angulata, A. Adams) as
ETHMINOLIA PROBABILIS, n. gen. et sp. (Plate xxxv., figs. 7-9).
Shell depressedly trochoid in shape, widely umbilicate, texture thin, whorls
medially angulate, and with strong square shoulder.
Colour variable, of shades of brown with white spots and blotches irregularly
placed, but sometimes whitish with regular brown rays of various widths. The
apical whorls are minute, white and smooth; the adult whorls are sculptured with
dense fine transverse lines, rarely, on the shoulder, one or two stronger than the
rest. Umbilicus perspective exposing all the whorls, the edges neither crenulate
nor angulate, though growth lines can be noted on the base. Mouth sub-
quadrate, outer lip thin, columella simple, a little convex, but bearing no tooth,
nor is the mouth complete or detached. Opereulum cireular, horny, multispiral.
Radula, resembling that of EHthalia, with degenerate rhachidian and laterals, and
with marginals of a rather normal rhipidoglossate form. Breadth 73; height 4
mm.
Common in shallow water dredgings at Twofold Bay, N.S.W.
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(425) MinoLIA PULCHERRIMA Angas, 1869.
Roy Bell dredged many beautiful specimens in Twofold Bay in 10-25 fathoms,
and these agreed with shells so named in the British Museum, but not so clearly
with the description and figure. The radula was extracted from such shells by
Lieut.-Col. Pelle. and reported upon (Proc. Malac. Soe.-Lond., xv., 1922, p. 17),
under Angas’s name. The radula agrees fairly closely with that of M. philip-
pensis Watson, whose shell differs. As discussed above, I propose to retain the
name Minolia for shells hike pulcherrima for the present. However, in the Aus-
tralian Museum Collection I found shells from Middle Harbour, Sydney, which
agreed exactly with Angas’s description and figure. The deeper water Twofold
3ay shell, which 1 propose to name Minolia pulcherrima emendata, n. subsp.
(Plate xxxv., f. 12), differs in being smaller, with the encircling lirae more re-
eular and closer together, so that the whorls show no shouldering, and the two
prominent keels of the type are missing. In view of the complexity of the re-
lationship of the species, this may hereafter prove of specific value.
(429) CaLuiostomA pEcORATUM (Philippi, 1846).
This species was introduced as Trochus decoratus, and previously Trochus
decoratus had been used by Hehl (C. H. v. Zieten, Petref. Wurtt. (6), 1832, p-
46).
When Hedley seleeteé the above name (These Proe., xxvi., 1901, p. 19) he
ranged as synonyms, T'rochus fragum Philippi, 7. pyrgos Philippi and Thalotia
zebrides A. Adams. In his more recent W.A. List, he has admitted as a distinct
species Cantharidus pyrgos Plulippi, citing as svnonym, CU. moniliger A. Adams.
This appears to leave Philippi’s fragwm as the species name (the reference be-
ing Zeitschr. fur Malak., 1848 (Feb., 1849), p. 106. Loc. unk.) while Thalotia
zebrides A. Adams, from study of the types, has nothing to do with this species.
Nevertheless, I cannot see why this species should not be classed in Thalotia,
as it is not a Calliostoma commonly so-called. The radula of Thalotia is quite
different from that of Calhostoma.
(430 A) CALLIOSTOMA LEGRANDI (Ten.-Woods, 1876).
Zizyphinus legrandi Tenison-Woods, Papers and Proce. Roy. Soe. Tasm.,
1875 (1876), p. 154: Chappell Island, Bass Straits.
Specimens of this species from Twofold Bay appear to be a new record
for New South Wales. With it, among the deep water dredgings, was an odd
specimen of another species, also lacking nodules, but of the shape of C. comptus
A. Adams, which was also sent from Twofold Bay. In the Victorian List, Prit-
chard and Gatliff used poupineli Montrouzier for comptus A. Adams, and when
Hedley recently acknowledged that A. Adams’s species was his Sydney purpwreo-
cinctum, he stated he had not seen Montrouzier’s species. In the British Museum
there are now shelis from New Caledonia, identified as poupineli, and these agree
with Montrouzier’s description, and also with Fischer’s figure, and are easily
separated from the Australian form, even as Brazier determined years ago from
examination of New Caledonian shells.
(430 B) Canuiostoma ALuPortTr (Ten.-Woods, 1876).
Zizyphinus allporti Ten.-Woods, Proe. Roy. Soe. Tasm., 1875 (1876), p. 155:
Bass Straits, Tasmania.
This species is also an addition to the N.S.W. List, and Lt.-Col. Peile, who
230 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
has examined the radulae of the Austral species in the Gwatkin Collection, now
in the British Museum, informs me, as I suspected, that these show notable
differences from those of the Northern forms, the true Calliostoma, and also, as
in the Palaearctic, the small forms are separable from the large similarly-named
species.
I, therefore, propose the new genus Salsipotens, naming Trochus armillatus
Wood as type, and autor for the small species, naming Z. comptus A. Ad. (=
C. purpureocinctum Hedley) as type.
A lovely species, oceurring in Victoria and Tasmania, but not found by
Bell in N.S.W., is Trochus nobilis (Philippi, Conch. Cab., 11., pp. 86 and 255,
Pl. 15, f. 6, and Pl. 38, f. 1, from Western Australia) figured by May in his
Tilustr. Index Tas. Shells, 1923, Pl. xix., f. 19, from King Island. The specifie
name had been previously chosen by Muenster (N. Jahrb. fur Min., 1835, p. 443)
but there is a substitute, 7. rubiginosus Valenciennes.
(431) ASTELE sciruLUS (A. Adams, 1855).
This common Sydney shell was sent from Twofold Bay, N.S.W., and also
from Mallacoota and Tellaburga Island, Vic. With it from Mallacoota came a
specimen of Astele subcarinata Swainson, the type of the genus, and this showed
that the present species could not be regarded as congeneric, the formation of
the umbilicus, the only common character, being of a different nature. From
the apical features, it suggests somewhat a loosely coiled form of the “Calliostoma”’
series, and I propose the new generic name Astelena for this species.
It is not uncommon at Mallacoota, Vic., and appears to be an addition to
the Victorian List, while, on the other hand, true Astele will later be found in-
side the New South Wales limits, as I received it from Mallacoota. The radula
of scitulus is separable from that of subcarinatus, the type of Astele.
(434) EucHeLus Baccatus (Menke, 1843).
This species, introduced as a Monodonta, does not agree with the type of
Euchelus, which is the tropical atratus Gmel. (a shell I collected at Port Curtis,
Queensland), in umbilical, columellar and opereular features. It would be better
placed in Herpetopoma proposed by Pilsbry (Man. Conch., Vol. xi. (pt. 44),
-Mar., 1890, p. 430), for Angas’s scabriusculus, which was deseribed as “am-
bilicated,” but the type series show that feature to be very indistinct.
Menke called the present species Monodonta baccata, and that combination
had been previously introduced by Defrance (Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol.
xxxil., 1824, p. 475), for a Paris fossil.
The next synonym is Trochus aspersus Philippi (Zeitschr. fur Malak., iii.,
July, 1846, p. 103), as of Koch, from unknown locality. The radula of scabrius-
culus is separable from that of atratus, but both belong to the same group, and
are distinguishable from Clanculus.
(437) PHASIANELLA PERDIX Wood, 1828.
In the Vict. Nat., xxxi., 10 Sept., 1914, p. 82, Gatliff and Gabriel super-
seded the well-known Phasianella ventricosa Quoy and Gaimard, 1834, by P.
perdix Wood, 1828, which was chronologically correct, and has been accepted by
Hedley in his Check List.
It has been overlooked, that, in the Appendix to the Cat. Coll. Shells Bligh,
Swainson had described this species twice, first under the name P. ventricosa,
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which can be therefore preserved, and then as P. inflata. As usual with Swain-
son’s work, there is confusion at every stage, and we see on the first page of
the Catalogue, Errata, and therein occur: “Lot 140 for Ventricosa read inflata”
and “Lot 285 for obtusa read ventricosa.’ On p. 12 is written, “Lot 140,
Phasianella ventricosa Swainson, a beautiful variety of this new species, see Ap-
pendix” and p. 19, “Lot 285, Phasianella obtusa Sw., (see Appendix) from N.S.
Wales, large’ and on p. 55, “Lot 967, scarce variety of Phasianella ventricosa
Sw. (see Appendix). New Holland.” The Appendix is separately paged, and
on p. 15 Phasianella ventricosa, Lots 285 and 967, is described, and on p. 16
Phasianella inflata, Lot 140, is also characterised. Both these descriptions apply,
and the locality New South Wales may mean Victoria, as at that time the latter
was not separated and all eastern Australia was known as New South Wales.
As the Sale of Bligh’s Collection took place on May 20 to 26 inclusive in the
year 1822, the Catalogue was published prior to May 20, 1822.
In connection with the Phasianellids sent by Roy Bell from Port Fairy and
Mallacoota, Viec., and Twofold Bay, N.S.W., I had to refer to the Man. Conch.
(Tryon), and here give some notes taken in this connection. The Phasianellids
were monographed by Pusbry in Vol. x., pt. 2 (reed. B.M., 18 July, 1888), and
he gave details of the radulae: on p. 163 he described the peculiar radula of the
type species (of Tricolia) P. speciosa and then introduced Orthomesus, noting
that the typical species was P. variegata, and adding “In P. virgo Angas (PI. 60,
fig. 70) I have found an extremely peculiar and, interesting modification of the
Orthomesus type of dentition.” On p. 179, he formally named “Subgenus Ortho-
mesus. Shell and operculum similar to Phasianella: radula with the central tooth
reduced to a minute rudiment or absent. Type, P. variegata Lam.”
However, as the range of P. variegata he gave “Zanzibar, Red Sea, New
Caledonia, Mauritius, ete.,” and cited numerous synonyms, concluding with “and
P. rubens Lam. The latter I cannot identify; but, judging from Philippi’s
description and figure (Pl. 39a, figs. 6-7), of what he supposes to be Lamarck’s
species, and from Kiener’s (Pl. 38, figs. 47, 48) I would place it in the synonymy
of P. variegata. Philippi gives Australia as the locality of P. rubens.’ Such
treatment is difficult to understand in view of the facts. Phasianella rubens was
described by Lamarck in the Hist. Anim. s. Vert., Vol. vi., pt. 1., 1822, p. 53,
from “Nouvelle Hollande; coll. by Peron,’ and a figure cited “Eneylop., Pl. 119,
f. 2a, b.”” The description is succeeded by that of P. variegata, where no figure
is cited, and agrees with the shell known by the latter name. A List explanatory
_ to the Enecylop. plates was published in 1816, but no specific name was given
to the figure cited. While the Twofold Bay shells seem to be a form of ventri-
cosa, I collected at Caloundra, Queensland, commonly, a form which agrees more
closely with rubens, and this should occur in Northern New South Wales, pro-
bably as far south as Sydney. I have noted that there appears to be geo-
graphical variation when these shells are examined in numbers. <A form, like
variegata, occurred at Port Fairy, Vie., which agreed with Crosse’s P. angasi
from South Australia, and this reached as far east as Mallacoota, but I did not
get any from New South Wales, though it may occur there.
Hedley has placed this genus in the Family Turbinidae, but from the radular
characters it deserves family rank, and perhaps later many genera may be re-
cognised.
The shells found on the Sydney beaches, I find to differ a little from the
Caloundra ones, and to agree closely with the typical rubens, while true Lam-
arckian variegata, judging from the figures given by Delessert (Recueil Coquilles
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232, RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Lamarck, 1841, Pl. 37, figs. 10a-b) is a slenderer form hke Crosse’s angasi (Journ.
- de Conch., 1864, p. 344, Pl. xi, fig. 5) and Lamarck’s name is used in this
sense in May’s Illus. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. xx., f. 5, and Check List Moll.
Tasm.,° 1922, p. 41.
Shells from Twofold Bay are ventricosa, and the species reaches as far north
as the Sydney beaches. As an item of interest this species (ventricosa) was
irregularly named by Perry, as when he figured Bulimus phasianus (Conchology,
1811, Pl. xxx.), he observed “There is also a smaller species of the Bulimus
phasianus, the pattern or marks of which are exactly similar to the one here re-
presented, though its shell is rather thicker: it may therefore be denominated the
Bulimus phasianus minimus of the before-mentioned genus.” This name is not
acceptable, but the solidity of the shell indicates the species here discussed.
When Pilsbry introduced Orthomesus, he figured, as the radula of P. australis,
that given by Eberhard, noting it required confirmation. Claude Torr (Trans.
Roy. Soc. S. Aust., xxxvill., 1914, p. 364, Pl. xix., figs. 5a-b) has since figured a
radula from P. australis, noting the formula as «, 5, 1, 5, o« x 38, explaming
‘that the central tooth was narrow and inconspicuous. This was annoying, as
suggesting that Pilsbry’s Orthomesus must be regarded as an absolute synonym
ot Phasianella, but did not explain Eberhard’s figure of a large broad rhachidian
tooth. This indicates that P. ventricosa of this note is the aberrant form, which
conchologically it is, and in order to renew interest, I propose for it the new
sub-generic name Mimelenchus, noting Quoy and Gaimard’s expression as typical.
The fact that the radula of Tricolia differs so much from true Phasianella
has been overlooked, and the recognition of. a radula like that of Orthomesus
ie. Phasianelia (sensu stricto), in P. virgo Angas shows that the small Aus-
tralian Phasianellae have no direct relationship with the European Tricolia,
of which the correct name would be Hutropia Humphrey, the only recognisable
species included by Humphrey being the European Turbo pullus Linné.
(444) ASTRAEA FIMBRIATA Lamarck, 1822.
The two species distinguished by Kesteven (These Proe., xxvu., 1902, p. 2)
occurred, and both the names used by Kesteven and listed by Hedley must be
amended. Their nomination is somewhat complex and the conelusions must be
carefully considered. Both species occur in Victoria and northern Tasmania, and
are represented in Western Australia, these representatives being named many
times, but apparently few names being given to the eastern shells. Gatliff and
Gabriel, and May both use the above name, but unfortunately Lamarck’s specific
name, while it also probably is Western Australian, was used before by Borson.
The generally-accepted synonym, Trochus squamiferus Koch, published by
Philippi, was given to a Western Australian shell, and of three others sometimes
cited in this connection, Trochus pileolum Reeve, Trochus limbiferus Kiener, and
Trochus cucullatus Kiener, none is applicable to the common Sydney shell. , [
propose to name this Bellastraeca kesteveni, citing it as type of Bellastraea, as the
species is not typical Astraea, and has no generic name.
For the other species Kesteven used the name tentoriiformis Jonas, but
Hedley has recently rejected this on account of its Western Australian origin,
and has preferred Gould’s name Turbo (Stella) sirius, given to a Sydney speci-
men, collected by W. Stimpson. I would at present include it in the genus
Bellastraea, the early development showing discrepancy which may necessitate a
readjustment.
Quoy and Gaimard differentiated the two species as varieties only, figuring
both under Lamarck’s name of fimbriatus, and Philippi (Coneh. Cab. (Kuster)
BY TOM IREDALB. 233
Vol. u., Trochus, p. 215, 1852, Pl. 32, fig. 4) reproduced Quoy’s figure of his
variety and distinguished it as 7’. urvillei. Quoy and Gaimard figured an animal
from Port Jackson, and others, including shells from King George Sound, W.A.
Kiener (Coquilles Vivants, Trochus, Pl. 31, f. 2) reproduced Quoy’s figure of the
above-mentioned variety under Quoy’s MSS. name of Trochus georgianus, thereby
indicating the locality. Consequently Trochus urvillei Philippi, and T. georgianus
(Quoy) Kiener, must be classed as synonymous of 7. tentoruformis Jonas, even
as Fischer in the text of the Coquilles Vivants (p. 41, 1875) placed georgianus.
(448) TEINOSTOMA STARKEYAE Hedley, 1899.
This species seems no close relation to the genus Teinostoma, which was first
published by H. and A. Adams in the Genera of Recent Mollusca, Vol. i., Aug.,
1853, p. 122, and the example given 7. politwm. This has commonly been re-
garded as type, and is here definitely so designated, since it was the monotype
at the later publication at the quotation given by Hedley. I propose to introduce
the new name Stipator and name the species T. starkeyae as type. It does not
seem at all wise to attach these Austral species to a name provided by Dall for
American fossils, which, moreover, do not recall, to my eyes, the Australian
shells.
Moreover, peculiar Teinostomoid shells do oceur in this region, and Chapman
and Gabriel have described a fossil as Teinostoma depressulum, which, while not
typical, has many of the peculiar features of the true Teinostoma, while Tate’s
Ethalia cancellata is also of a peculiar style, and specimens of this, or a very
closely allied, species are not uncommon in shell-sand round Sydney.
(463) Lopperra MINIMA (Ten.-Woods, 1878).
This species, proposed under Liotia, has been transferred to Lodderia, but
it should be separated as a distinet genus with the name Lodderena, with this
species as type. I propose this, as I have recognised the form, specifically dis-
tinct, from distant localities and it seems quite peculiar. I also believe that
under this specific name more than one species in Australia is already referred
to, as until actual comparison was made, my discoveries were regarded as con-
specific, and the same remark applies to Lodderia lodderae and Liotia micans. In
the Jatter case I have proved by actual comparison that the Port Curtis shell is
quite different from the Mallacoota one, though both had been lumped by Tate,
after examination; another ease of generic relationship being’ mistaken for
specific identity.
(480-484) Family ACMAEIDAE.
Roy Bell sent me a magnificent series of these things, well collected and with
full data, from every locality. I worked these out very carefully in connection
with the British Museum types and literature, and made many notes for future
research in the field. I am now taking my own advice, so here only deal with
the facts I collated. I have incorporated some of my results, and may here note
that the distribution of species in this family needs careful consideration, and
that my results have been checked at different localities within and without the
Harbour, and with attention paid to the station of life these forms adopt. When
hundreds are critically examined the individual variation ean be grasped and the
geographical variation can be determined. Local variation also oceurs, as well
as environmental, and all these factors have been considered in the notes here
following.
234 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
(480) PATELLOIDA ALTICOSTATA (Angas, 1865).
The type locality of Angas’s species is Port Lincoln, S. Aust. Accepting the
Port Fairy series as being nearly typical shells, the New South Wales form
seems separable, the former agreeing very closely with the type shell still pre-
served in the British Museum. A very large specimen taken at Port Fairy is
very tall and with the ribs flattened so that the edge is smoothish, and measures
57 mm. long by 47 mm. broad and 25 mm. high. Verco has given full details of
this South Australian shell, which begins as a somewhat flattened, nine-pointed,
acutely ribbed shell, and intercalating ribs begin behind the apex. All the
Peronian shells I have examined from Sydney Harbour and Twofold Bay, N.S.W.,
Mallacoota, Lakes Entrance and Melbourne Heads, Vic., are much smaller, the
ribs more regular and less prominent and for the same size more elevated. In
order to draw attention to this item, I propose to name the Peronian form
Patelloida alticostata anteha nov.
Maplestone (Monthly Micros. Journal, 1 Aug., 1872) has given (on Pl.
Xxvil.) under “Patella, No. 25,” a good figure of the peculiar radula form of this
species.
Since the preceding was written, I have carefully studied this species on the
Sydney beaches, and find that the variation is much greater than anticipated
from museum study, but that the factors above indicated exist in an intensified
state; moreover, that the species is developing two forms, at times very different
and even apparently specifically distinct. This smooth form lives below low
water, and is flattened, the ribs obsolescent, and it is now breeding true to the
specialised characters, series being collected from young to old, quite constant.
1 have as yet seen nothing like this form from any southern locality so I name it
Patelloida alticostata complanata n. subsp. This smooth form is not uncommon
as a déad shell, but has been dismissed as a worn form, whereas it is naturally
smooth.
(481) PareLLorpa mixta (Reeve, 1855).
When Hedley recommended the use of this name he did not discuss the
forms, but apparently admitted the distinction of mixta and crucis, though not
including the latter in the N.S.W. List.
The name was preferred, as Hedley suggested the rejection of Quoy and
Gaimard’s Patelloida flammea on the ground that it was a mixture. Unfortunate-
ly, I cannot agree as, though Quoy and Gaimard figured two species, their
statement, “I] habite en abondance sur le bord de la mer, dans la rade de Hobart-
Town, & Van-Diémen. Nous le trouvames aussi sur Ville (sic) de Guam, dans
VArchipel des Mariannes,” indicates the selection of the Tasmanian shell as_be-
ing the correct course. The sentence “tenuissime longitrorsum striata” seems to
distinguish the Tasmanian shell, which I conclude has little, if any, affinity with
mizta Reeve, and I note Verco’s most recent conelusion, “A form like the type
{of flammea) which I have from the Derwent estuary, the type locality, has not
been found by me in South Australia. It is questionable whether this is really
conspecific with A. jacksoniensis Reeve and A. crucis Tenison-Woods.” I have
regarded Quoy and Gaimard’s flammea (from the description and figures and ex-
eellent series given me by Mr. W. L. May, who has retained the name in his
Check List and Ill. Index Tasm. Shells) as the eastern representative of Quoy’s
own septiformis and it occurs as far north as Sydney Harbour. Reeve’s mizta
was described from Port Phillip, Vic., and Bell sent me a fine series from Port
Fairy, but none from Twofold Bay, N.S.W. I collected, in Port Phillip, a good
BY TOM IREDALE. 235
lot of these, as I found they lived almost at high tide (where petterd: does at
Sydney). Mr. W. L. May stated that the Tasmanian shell he called mixta had
the same habit. Reeve’s jacksoniensis is a different form of the same shell, and
several sets were in the British Museum from Sydney Harbour, but I could not
find it on the Sydney beaches. This perplexed me, until I found it commonly,
well inside the Harbour on the dead shells and stones in the Mangrove zone.
Although often confused with the crucis form, it has a distinct habit and be-
longs to a different group, and I propose to distinguish the Sydney form (Reeve’s
jacksoniensis, preoccupied) as Notoacmea mixta mimula, n. subsp.
(482) PateLttoma muFRIA (Hedley, 1915).
This peculiar little species was recognised as dead shells from shell-sand
from Twofold Bay. I have since collected it commonly on the Sydney beaches,
and regard it as a specialised derivative of the crucis series, and therefore re-
ferable to Radiacmea.
(482 A) RapracMEa INSIGNIS (Menke, 1843).
In These Proc. (xxxix., 1914 (26 Feb., 1915), p. 712), Hedley. suggested
the usage of Acmaea inradiata (Reeve, 1855, Patella) in place of Acmaea crucis
Ten.-Woods, quoting my letter as to their identity. Unfortunately, closer exami-
nation of the (reputed) type tablet failed to recognise any of the three shells
thereon, which proved to have been added at various times, as the specimen
figured by Reeve, though two were typical crucis, and the third aberrant. Con-
sequently inradiata must be rejected from this fauna. Menke’s Patella insignis
(Moll. Nov. Holl. Spee., 1843, p. 34) from Western Australia is undoubtedly the
Western Australian representative of crucis, shells from Busselton and Albany
agreeing with Menke’s description, as amplified in-the Zeitschr. fiir Malak., 10
Apr., 1844, p. 62. This species lives in Victoria, Tasmania and New South
Wales, under different forms, at extreme low water on the rocks and in pools,
and at Long Reef, near Manly, N.S.W., commonly on Turbo stamineus Martyn,
living below low water. The southern Tasmanian form is very large and conical,
while the N.S.W. form is small and less elevated. When adult, the sculpture is
not easily seen, but dead shells and young living ones show it to be a Radiacmea,
and I name the Sydney form Radiacmea insignis cavilla, n. subsp.
(483) PATELLOIDA PETTERDI (Ten.-Woods, 1877).
I find this to be the universal rock-living species on the Sydney beaches,
living high up above high water, and thus representing the Neozelanie P. pileopsis
Quoy and Gaimard, which it closely resembles. I collected it at Caloundra, Q’land,
and Roy Bell found it at Mallacoota and Lakes Entrance, Vic., and it must there-
fore be added to the Victorian List, as it is not conspecific with P. septiformis
Quoy and Gaim. Roy Bell found at Port Fairy, Vie., a fine lot of the shell
May has published (Illus. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Appendix to Pl. xxii., No-
3) with my name mayi. These species are Notoacmea, not Patelloida,
(483 A) NoToAcMEA FLAMMEA (Quoy and Gaimard, 1835).
As noted above, I regard this name as undoubtedly applicable to the species
May has figured (Illustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. xxii., f. 6) under this
name. A very fine series was sent from Port Fairy, Vic., and these were deter-
mined from comparison with the types as scabrilirata Angas (Proe. Zool. Soe.
236 , RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Lond., 1865, p. 154: Port Lincoln, South Australia), and this name may be later
varietally used. Mr. W. L. May has given me specimens very similar that he
collected at King Island. The juvenile of P. septiformis Quoy and Gaimard
from King George Sound, W. Aust., is very similar, but the adult is very dif-
ferent Hedley has suggested (These Proe., xlvii., 1923, p. 309) that Menke’s
P. onychitis (Moll. Nov. Holl. Spec., 1843, p. 34) may be a synonym of septi-
formis, both being from Western Australia. N. flammea lives under stones near
high water mark, and I have collected it at Port Fairy, Port Phillip, Western
Port, Vic., and on the Sydney beaches; the Sydney form being smaller and more
oval, may be called Notoacmea flammea diminuta, n. subsp.
(484) PATELLOIDA sUBUNDULATA (Angas, 1865).
This species was not recognised in the collection, but as Hedley included
it in the N.S.W. List, though described from South Australia, I re-examined the
types in the British Museum. I found two different sets, both labelled types,
but noted they were all presented as one lot. In the description Angas referred
to a “var.” One shell has been separated as the specimen described and label-
Jed type, and the others representing the “var,” unfortunately also labelled
type, thus misleading investigators. Two shells are in this second box, and one
may be a conoidea, the other a calomus. My. Hedley tells me he left this
species on the N.S.W. List on Angas’s inclusion, but has not been able to verify
it.
May (lllustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. xxu., f. 11) has figured conoidea
under the name subundulata, and his P. conoidea (Pl. xxii., f. +) seems to be
an unnamed species. .
(484 A) RADIACMEA CALAMUS (Crosse and Fischer, 1864).
Patella calamus Crosse and Viseher, Journ. de Coneh., xii., 1864, p. 348: St.
Vineent’s Gulf, S. Aust.
Dead shells were sorted out of shallow water dredgings from Twofold Bay,
N.S.W., which were referable to this species, though varying a httle from the
type and may later show a recognisable variant.
(484 B) PATELLOIDA SUBMARMORATA (Pilsbry, 1891).
Acmaea marmorata var. submarmorata Pilsbry, Manual Coneh., Ser. 11,
Vol. xi., 1891, p. 52, Pl. 42, figs. 69-70: Port Jackson.
This species was accidentally omitted by Hedley from his N.S.W. List, as
it is a common and well-known Sydney shell, living about high water mark just
below P. petterdi. It is well differentiated from the southern forms and ranges
into Victoria at Mallacoota. Bell’s series from Port Fairy were so instructive
that I investigated the nomination of the species with his shells in hand. These
showed two forms from the same locality, one living at medium tide, the other
below low water, the former higher and more irregular, the latter flattened and
regularly starlike. May states of marmorata, “common near highwater mark,
much eroded,” but does not show altitude, only internal view, in his Illustr.
Index Tasm. Shells, Pl. xxu., f. 9. Pritchard and Gatliff used the specific name
gealei Angas, citing latistrigata Angas and marmorata Ten.-Woods as synonyms.
Verco, from examination of the British Museum types, rejeeted gealei as refer-
able to a distinet species, but admitted latistrigata Angas was apparently only a
smoothish form of marmorata Ten.-Woods, but used the latter name. Pritchard
BY TOM IREDALE, 237
and Gatliff accepted this correction, but pointed out that latistrigata had priority.
_ 1 searched for the types in the British Museum, and found those of latistrigata
and gealei. Of the latter, Verco had concluded “The two type shells are 24 mm.
x 21. I think they are large albino variants of A. crucis Ten.-Woods.” I had
great difficulty in tracing these types in the British Museum, but at last found
them among the Patellidae, as one was a Patella, the other specimen an Acmaea
Though these were in the same box, they had been presented at different times,
the larger one, the Patella being registered 70.10.26.155. This means the 155th
set registered on the 26th of October, 1870, and the register showed that here
was included all Angas’s type shells presented by him, but none stated to be
types. Reference to the original description of P. gealei (Proce. Zool. Soe. Lond.,
1865, p. 57) gave details “sed pagina interna metallice splendente, aureo paruin
tineta, margine minimo; spathula lurida, plumbeo et fusco nebulosa. Long .1
(error for 1): lat. .86: alt. .4 poll.” The Patella agreed in these items, but not
the Acmaea, which is smaller, narrower and taller. The latter was registered
77.5.12.63, when Angas presented another series, including new species described
since the previous gift. The Acmaea was marked “type” some years later in
error, and then placed in the box with the real type. It was intended by Angas
as an additional specimen of the rare species previously deseribed. The Patella
is very much corroded externally, but the edges show the regular ribbing of the
Patella rather well: the inside is “splendidly shining” as it is a diseased specimen,
and the shining effect is due to the deposition of extra enamel internally to pre-
vent the external corrosion eating through. The Acmaea was regarded as con-
specific (probably from memory only) by Angas trom a similar cause, a fracture
causing the animal to enamel internally in the same manner. The Acmaea is un-
doubtedly a crucis shell, but the Patella, which is the sole type of P. gealei, is a
small diseased specimen of the South Australian variegata or limbata, it is im-
possible to determine which, if there be two species, as Verco concludes. The
New South Wales members of the Acmaeidae would now be
°480 Patelloida alticostata antelia Tredale
A Patelloida alticostata complanata Iredale
481 Notoaemea mixta mimula Iredale
~482 Radiaemea mufria (Hedley)
A Radiacmea insignis cavilla Iredale
483 Notoacmea petterdi (Ten.-Woods)
A Notoacmea flammea diminuta Iredale
484 Patelloida subundulata (Angas)
A Radiacmea calamus (Crosse and Fischer)
B Patelloida submarmorata (Pilsbry)
Two corrections to be made in connection with Neozelaniec species may be
here added. Searching for these Australian types I came across (in the British
Museum) a tablet bearing a small shell bearing the name “Patella inconspicua
Gray. New Zealand, Dr. Stanger” in Dr. J. KE. Gray’s handwriting, and the
register number 42.11.16.92; added by E. A. Smith was “Dieffenbach n. 123.”
Reference to Dieffenbach (p. 244) gave the deseription of n. 123. “Shell com-
seal, oblong, with about 20 radiating ribs, the apex erect, disk white, rather green-
ish under the tip, length 13 inch.” Sueh as it is, this description agreed with.
the shell on the tablet save in size, the length being 4 inch, not 13, as written:
such an error is common in connection with Gray’s work. The species described
-is the one later called Pissurella rubiginosa by Hutton, and the type probably
came from the Bay of Islands, a locality mentioned by Suter for this species,
238 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
which must now be catalogued as Radiacmea inconspicua (Gray). The shell
described by Suter (Manual New Zeal. Moll., 19138, p. 81) under the name
Helcioniscus ornatus Dillwyn subsp. inconspicuus Gray scarcely seems worth
distinguishing, but this matter must be determined by Neozelanie conchologists
on the spot.
The second item is the more pleasing reinstatement of the name fragilis for
the peculiar little species so named by Chemnitz, whose name | was compelled to
reject, since Chemnitz was not a binomial writer. At the time I wrote my
Commentary on Suter’s Manual, I could not trace, even with the help of Sher-
born’s MSS. for the second part of his Index Animalium, now happily in pro-
gress of publication, a use by a binomial worker of Chemnitz’s name prior to
the proposal by Lesson of his species P. unguis-almae. 1 now record that Patella
fragilis was legitimately used by Sowerby in the Genera Recent and Fossil Shells,
Part 21, Pl. 140, f. 6 and text in 1823, so that we can revert to the specific name
so well known, the species being now referred to as Atalacmea fragilis (Sowerby).
(485-488) Family PATELLIDAE.
The most remarkable distinction between the Adelaidean and Peronian Re-
gions is. seen in the presence of the genus Stenochiton, of the Order Loricata,
and of the genus Nacella, of the present family, in the former Region, in each
case more than one species having evolved, while no trace of either has been
found in the latter. In order to attract more attention to this item, I here
introduce the new generic name Naccula, naming Nacella parva Angas = Patei-
loida punctata Quoy and Gaimard as type. This species has so little resemblance
to Nacella, that, when it was first received in Britain some eighty years ago, it
so puzzled the industrious shell-namers of that period that they did not name
it at all, the specimens being still unnamed in the British Museum. The earliest
name, as above given, was bestowed by Quoy and Gaimard (Voy. de 1’Astrol.,
Zool. Vol. iii., 1835, p. 365, Pl. 71, f. 40-42) from King George Sound, W.A., @
determination hitherto neglected.
(485) PATELLA PERPLEXA (Pilsbry, 1891).
Dealing with Neozelanic shells, | was able to rectify the specific designation
of the shell previously known as Acmaea octoradiata Hutton, and from shell
characters referred it to Patelloida. Hedley, in his N.S.W. List, differed, con-
cluding it to belong to Patella, and, as the subdivisions of that family are im-
perfectly known, merely classed it under Patella. Roy Bell sent me a number
of dead shells, but also a few live ones procured at a very low tide, and one of
these showed the dried up animal, which proved to be of Patelloid facies. From
this the radula was extracted for me by my friend Lt.-Col. Peile, and upon
examination it was seen to be very near those of P. aculeata and P. ustulata, as
ficured by Claude Torr (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., xxxvi., 1914, p. 365, Pl.
xx., figs. 3 and 2). C. Torr notes that the latter has only one marginal, and
that P. vulgata L. has no central tooth, while P. cretacea, as figured by Cooke,
has a central tooth but only two marginals. Upon this evidence I much doubt the
occurrence of this species in New Zealand, and suggest reconsideration. I have
since examined specimens from N.Z., which proved to be immature Patelloida
stella Lesson. Some small dead shells from Mallacoota, Vic., and some from shallow
water dredgings in Twofold Bay, N.S.W., were attributed by me to Patella chap-
mani, but later I recognised that they were the young of the present species.
The deseription of Patella chapmani Ten.-Woods (Papers Proce. Roy. Soe. Tasm.,
BY TOM IREDALE. 239
1875 (1876), p. 157) applies very well to this species and suggests reconsidera-
tion of the specific name. Certainly my shells agree closely with the description
of P. chapmani, as they are as certainly Pilsbry’s P. perplexa, in which case
Tenison-Woods’s name claims usage.
The radular formula is 3.1.2.1.2.1.3: the central tooth is small while the
huge lateral appears to have four cusps, the three marginals rather delicate. In
examining these radulae, | was impressed by the futility of the radular formula
in indicating relationship, as another radula giving exactly the same formula was
absolutely different owing to the different setting of the teeth: in some eases,
almost .a straight line was seen, in others almost a semicirele, and consequently
the number of rows in the same length was very different, though the total
number of rows might be the same (since figured by Peile, Proc. Malac. Soe.
Lond., xv., 1922, p. 17, Pl. fig. 4). The preceding was written in England, and
I have since carefully studied the species with interesting results. Dead shells,
mainly very regular octoradiata, abound on the Sydney beaches, so that they
must be very plentiful below low water mark; consequently I made special
search and collected alive a fair number with the result that those on the surf-
beaten rocks were very flat, eight-ridged octoradiata, while those at all sheltered
by an intervening boulder were taller, still eight-ribbed, but ribs not so pre-
-minent. This at once confirmed the suggestion that chapmani was the same shell,
with the additional information received from Mr. W. L. May that chapmani
was the common form in southern and eastern Tasmania and octoradiata was
very rare, even if typically found there. He pointed out that Acmaea alba
Tenison-Woods was also a synonym. This was described (Proe. Roy. Soc. Tasm.,
1876 (1877), p. 155) from northern Tasmania, and I found in the Australian
Museum a specimen marked “Author’s type.” At first sight, this seemed very
different, being a high rounded, regularly ribbed shell with about fourteen sharp
ribs intercalated with smaller ribs and riblets; it has been cleaned up so that
the juvenile shell appears to show nine or ten primary ribs or bunches. The
loeality is confirmed by a set of three with data in Miss Lodder’s handwriting
“Acmaea saccharina L. (Plentiful on) N. Coast Tas.” One shell agrees very
closely with type, the second is a little less cireular and a little taller but other-
wise similar, while the third is a-small shell of the chapmani style, showing
eight primary ribs with four a little weaker.
_- My eonclusions are that the specific name must be chapmani, but that the
Adelaidean form may bear the varietal (subspecific) name of alba, and the
Peronian form may be called P. chapmani perplexa.
Pilsbry (Man. Conch., Vol. xi., 1889, p. 54, Pl.. 42, figs. 76, 77, 78) has
given excellent figures of a specimen of Acmaea alba Ten.-Woods, noting that
the description given by Tenison-Woods did not seem applicable to the shell
figured. Chapman and Gabriel (Proc. Roy. Soe. Vict., xxxvi. (n.s.), Dec., 1923,
p- 24) have described Patellotda hamiltonensis, while recording P. perplexa in a
fossil state: these should be compared with a series.
(486) PATELLA SQUAMIFERA Reeve, 1855.
The type of Patella is undoubtedly vulgata L., and, when the common Hel-
cioniscus of New South Wales was first described, it was independently compared
by two workers with the common European species, as already recorded by Hed-
ley. Consequently the reference of a very different shell to Patella does not
seem a logical conclusion. In view of this, it will be useful to have a name
for these aberrant forms, so I propose the new generic name Patellanax, with
240 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
P. squamifera Reeve as type. Some years ago Mr. Hedley, in correspondence,
suggested a relationship with the large Patella, i.e., “Ancistromesus”’ kermadec-
ensis, trom the WKermadee Group. Previous to that communication, I had at-
tempted to account for the presence of that large species on that isolated group,
and eoncluded that it was an outlier of the cretacea group. The series in the
British Museum shows Patella cretacea Reeve (Conch. Icon., Dec., 1854, Pl. xx1.,
f. 53: Tahiti) which seems to be equivalent to P. gigantea Lesson (Voy. Coquille,
Vol. ii., 1830, p. 423) from Borabora, Society Group; Patella pentagona (Born ?)
Reeve (Conch. Icon., Dee., 1854, Pl. xx., sp. 48): Elizabeth I., South Seas;°
Palmerston I.: Patella stellaeformis (ibid.) which was described first in the Conch.’
Syst., Vol. u., 1842, p. 15, Pl. exxxvi. f. 3, from unknown locality: P. pica
Reeve (Coneh. Icon., Dec., 1854, Pl. 19, sp. 45): South Seas. All these are
closely related to the Kermadee shell, and small specimens of the latter collected -
by J. Maegillivray were labelled pica fifty years ago. The series of pentagona
from, Palmerston Island shows the growth from a small regular eight-pointed
shell like Patella perplexa into a semi-oval comparatively smooth-edged adult. |
secured similar shells showing growth stages of the Kermadee species, and it 1s
peculiarly interesting to find Patella perplexa (see preceding note) showing this
evolution in the shell in an arrested stage, yet with a similar radula, while, if’
Claude Torr’s observations on the radula of ustulata be’ confirmed, we have also
a very peculiar modification in this feature with the shell characters little altered.
In Proe. Roy. Soe. Vict., xv., ns., pt. i, Feb., 1903, Pritchard and Gatliff al-
lowed Patella ustulata (p. 193), Patella aculeata (p. 193), P. chapmani (p. 193),
and then proposed (p. 194) Patella hepatica P. and G. nom. mut. for Acmaea
striata Pilsbry (non Quoy and Gaimard) Man. Conch., Vol. xii., 1891, p. 47,
Pl. 35, f. 27, 28, 29.” As no description was given, Pritchard and Gatliff’s name |
can only be construed as alternative for Pilsbry’s identification, which is of a
Celebes shell, and, consequently, has no place in South Australian literature.
Verco recorded hepatica from South Australia, but surmised that it might only
be a variant of ustulata, which he was also inclined to associate as conspecific
with aculeata. Claude Torr has published accounts of the radulae of ustulata and
aculeata, which proclaim these as very distinct species. My series, sent from
Port Fairy, Vie., showed them as quite distinet forms, the aculeata living higher
up, and the wstulata practically below low tide. I did not receive any shells
which I could refer to hepatica and from Lakes Entrance and Mallacoota all the
shells sent were aculeata, as were all the Twofold Bay specimens. From Tella-
burga Island, live aculeata of large size, quite abnormal, were also sent, but dead
shells were either ustulata or hepatica, and the latter looked very distinct. Since
the preceding was written, Gatliff and Gabriel have renamed (Proce. Roy. Soe.
Vict., xxxiv., n.s., May, 1922, p. 152) hepatica, which they have called vwictoriae,
as they noted the name was preoccupied by Gmelin, but still their name has no
standing. Verco has suggested that this un-named, yet multi-named, form may
be an extreme variant, but in view of Claude Torr’s differentiation of the
radulae of ustulata and aculeata, no certainty can be considered until the radula
of hepatica is determined.
Again, local collecting has furnished interesting results, as at Port Fairy I
found a couple of worn dead shells of the hepatica form, while continued search
on the Sydney beaches has failed to reveal anything save aculeata. In southern
Tasmania the predominant species appears to be ustulata, though aculeata also
occurs. This form was named P. tasmanica by Tenison-Woods (Proce. Roy. Soe.
Tasm., 1875 (1876), p. 157) who, the succeeding year, withdrew his name in
BY TOM IRSDALE. 241
favour of Reeve’s ustulata (id., 1876 (1877), p. 49), giving an exeellent account
of shell, animal, habits and radular characters, citing two laterals. Philippi’s
Patella diemensis (Zeitschr. fiir Malak. (Menke), 1848 (Mar., 1849), p. 162)
from Hobart, Tas., which Pritchard and Gatliff once proposed to use instead of
the ineorrect name. tramoserica, appears to be referable here, as the words, “albida,
sulcis frequentibus cirea 54, fuscis exarata, intus alba; margine crenulato, intus
ad erenas puncto fusco notato,” apply to some variations of the present species,
but are never applicable to tramoserica. An earlier name given to the Western
Australian shell appears to be Patella peronti Blainville (Dict. Sei. Nat. (Lev-
rault), Vol. xxxviii., 1825, p. 111) from King George Sound, but which may be
the southern Tasmanian shell. At this place Blainville definitely described six
species from Australia, one of which, Patella variegata (p. 101, from Botany
Bay), has been accepted for the Sydney Helcioniscus. The other names are P.
conica (p. 107) from Maria I., Tas., P. solida (p. 110), P. rubraurantiaca (p.
110), and P. laticostata (p. 111) from New Holland without definite locality. —
The description of P. conica does not agree well with any shell from Maria Island,
and it is here suggested that it may be the Patella gigantea named, but not des-
cribed, by Peron (Voy. decouv. Terres Australes, Vol. i., 1807, p. 120) from
Bernier’s Island, but no specimens are available from that locality for com-
parison. Patella solida appears to have been collected in southern Tasmania,
as the description agrees with the species commonly called limbata. Mr. Hedley
had independently arrived at tlus conelusion, and there are specimens in the
Australian Museum agreeing exactly with Blainville’s account. Patella rubrau-
rantiaca was given to the South Australian shell known as P. limbata, the deserip-
tion applying accurately to specimens in the Australian Museum collected at St.
Francis Island, Nuyts’ Archipelago, by Sir J. Verco, an island on which Peron
himself collected. Patella laticostata was given to shells, collected by Peron and
Lesueur at King George Sound, and these would undoubtedly belong to the
species, later named Patella neglecta by Gray, which name should be superseded.
This accounts for the species localised by Blainville from New Holland, and also
covers all the larger limpet-like shells, save P. alticostata, which may be among
the large number described from unknown locality. Another curious factor is
then explained as, when Quoy and Gaimard named all their new species of limpet-
like shells, they confined themselves to the smaller species, the reason being that
all the large ones already bore Blainville’s names in the Paris Museum where ©
they also worked.
To summarise:
Patella peronii Blainville, 1825 =: Patella diemensis Philippi, 1849 — Patella
ustulata Reeve, 1855 = P. tasmanica Ten.-Woods, 1875.
Patella variegata Blainville, 1825 = P. tramosericus auct.
Patella conica Blainville, 1825 may equal P. gigantea Peron, n.n., Bernier I.,
W.A.
Patella solida Blainville, 1825 — P. limbuta, Philippi, 1849: East Tasmania.
Patella rubraurantiaca Blainville, 1825 = P. limbata so-called from South Aus-
tralia.
Patella laticostata Blainville, 1825 = P. neglecta Gray. 1826.
(487) CreLuaAna ILLIBRATA (Verco, 1906).
I have been quite unable to understand why Verco described this species as a
Helcioniscus, as both the shell and radular characters differ appreciably. From
the shallow water dredgings from Twofold Bay, I sorted out dead shells which I
242 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
regard as similar to those accepted by Hedley as Verco’s species, but they do
not exactly agree in being of less altitude and the apex less directly central. I
have not been able to see the muscle scars in my specimens yet, so my identi-
fication may even be wrong.
I have sorted many specimens out of shell-sand from the Sydney beaches,
and find that the muscle scars are Patelloid, and consequently the species might
be better placed in Parvacmea, while the series is separable from Verco’s species
by their shape. Many are rose-rayed and recall May’s figure of N. suteri (Ilustr.
Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. xxii, f. 12). May’s shells may be the southern
variant of the species here discussed, and for which I propose the name Par-
vacmea illibrata mellila, n. subsp.
(488) CELLANA VARIEGATA (Blainville, 1825).
This species has long interested me and I desired good series to study the
variation. I collected a few in Sydney Harbour and a fine lot at Caloundra,
Q’land, and these showed little variability under normal conditions. Roy Bell
sent me a magnificent lot of limpets from Lord Howe Island, as these had been
regarded as the same as the Sydney species. They were obviously distinct and,
moreover, two separable forms were received, living in different localities. From
the British Museum Collection the form limbata seemed easily separable from my
normal variegatus, so I wanted to study series, as there had been more than one
view upon the subject. Tate and May called the Tasmanian shells tramosericus,
citing limbata Phil. as an absolute synonym without any remarks, while in
Pritchard and Gatliff’s List, Patella limbata is also included as a distinct species
from Cape Otway (G.B.P.) alone. Verco at first only included one form, but
afterward added P. limbata stating “It has been taken at the Neptune’s and
Thistle Island, and in Spencer Gulf by Dr. Torr: on Yorke Peninsula by Mat-
thews; at Eneounter Bay by myself. I did not find it at Kingston, Robe, Beach-
port, or MacDonnell Bay,” and later “It is very common, large and beautiful in
St. Francis Island. I did not take it anywhere in Western Australia.” Geo-
graphically, limpets from Port Fairy, Viec., might be limbata. A series sent by
Roy Bell are very instructive; all are tall and at first sight two distinct sets
ean be separated, which are demonstrably conspecific. The first set are normal.
of yellowish ground with black stripes, regular flattened ribs and the apex
eroded; inside yellowish, the spatula varying from brown to pale cream, the
edges marked with black: these came from sandstone rocks and some specimens
approximated in their uniform orange colour inside and out to the flava variety
of the Neozelanie C. radians, about which I have commented (Trans. N.Z. Inst.,
xlvii., 1914 (1915), p. 482-3). The second set are also tall, bluish-black above,
‘with few or no lighter stripes, ribs pronounced and somewhat sharply eut, and
very little erosion present: inside bluish, the spatula milky white from pale brown,
edges scarcely marked with black: these came from black basalt rocks and
correspond to the perana variety of the Neozelanic C. radians. I have compared
these with the Peronian representative and conclude they are specifically identical,
but, after allowing for individual variation, I find they are constant in their fewer
ribs, comparatively taller and narrower, and the beaded ribs so noticeable in the
typical juvenile are almost entirely missing. I propose to name the Port Fairy
series Cellana variegata ariel, n. subsp., as I find Patella limbata was proposed
by Bolten (Mus. Bolten, 1798, p. 1) years before Philippi used it. There are
probably many synonyms of the typical variegatus, but, as far as I can trace,
none from an Adelaidean locality.
BY TOM IREDALE. 243
A series of shells was sent from Mallaecoota, which were ali small and of the
yellowish type, and from Tellaburga Island, a fine lot of very large shells, also of
- this type, much eroded; a few small shells from Melbourne Heads were similar.
Very many smallish shells were received from Twofold Bay, which generally
agreed in coloration. The Mallacoota, Tellaburga Island, Melbourne Heads and
Twofold Bay shells, though varying slightly in each case, showed the features
ascribed to the Peronian form as already given from Sydney and Caloundra
specimens. Eastern Tasmanian shells all appear to differ, even reaching the
Furneaux Group, whence May recorded (Vict. Nat., xxx., 10 July, 1913, p. 57)
Patella limbata of huge size. The investigation of that Group has proved of
great interest to the student of geographic zoology, as the Adelaidean forms com-
monly met there by May are generally missing from the Mallacoota collection,
and, moreover, the Peronian species now traced down to Mallacoota do not ap-
pear to have yet reached the Furneaux Group. May, however, records C. varie-
gata Bl. as “rare and small in Tasmania, East Coast,’ so that reconsideration is
necessary, while I do not knew what species occurs on the North Coast. Cellana
wariegata, does not occur in Neozelanic waters, some form of radians having been
mistaken for it, as I have previously suggested.
The subject requires study from the following viewpoints: Cellana variegata
Bl. lives on the Peronian coast from Point Arkwright, a little north of Caloundra,
Q’land down the east coast and round the corner to Melbourne Heads. Accord-
ing to locality and station, it shows a little variation in size, shape, form and
colouring. Does it occur normally on the eastern Tasmanian Coast? What:
species occurs on the northern coast of Tasmania? The western Victorian shells
are notably different in shape and a little in sculpture, and appear to constitute
a recognisable race, which I have named Cellana variegata ariel. Does a form of
this race occur in South Austrahan waters?
Cellana solida Blainville is the name for the eastern Tasmanian shell known
as limbata, which appears to be a distinet species. Cellana rubraurantiaca Blain-
ville is the name of the South Australian shell, known as kimbata, and this may
be a different species from the eastern Tasmanian solida. What species occurs in
Victoria, that has been recorded as limbata, and what relation (if any) of this
species lives in Western Australia?
(494) TECTARIUS PYRAMIDALIS (Quoy and Gaimard, 1833).
The figure given by Quoy and Gaimard is very poor, but the locality Jervis
Bay, N.S.W., has allowed acceptance without argument. i
‘Fifty years previously Chemnitz (Conch. Cab., Vol. v., 1781, p. 42, tab. 162,
fig. 1545-46) had described “Der Kleinknotige Krausel,” “ex Museo Spengleriano
et nostro,” received from Cook’s trip to the South Seas which he figured, and
mentioned a smaller form from the West Indies. For this species (a compound,
but mainly Australian) Gmelin proposed the name Trochus nodulosus (Syst. Nat.,
Vol. i., 1791, pt. vi., p. 3582), giving as habitat “In Oceano australi et (minor)
mari Americano meridionalem alluente,” thus absolutely fixing his name to the
Australian shell. Unfortunately, the name he selected had been previously used
by Solander (Fossil Hanton, 1760, p. 10), and the same result befell Dillwyn’s
name Turbo trochiformis (Deser. Catal., pt. ii., 1817, p. 826), given to Chemnitz’s
figure with the locality restricted to South Seas, as Born (Index Mus. Caes.
Vindob., 1778, p. 355) had anticipated the name selection. This would leave.
Quoy and Gaimard’s name, but there is another complication. Menke (Verz.
244 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Coneh. Samml. Malsburg (pref. Mai 18) 1829, p. 10), introduced Litorina tuber-
culata for Trochus nodulosus Gmelin, and Menke’s name seems acceptable. In
his Synopsis, 2nd ed., published the succeeding year, Menke gave (p. 44) the
same name to Gmelin’s Trochus nodulosus minor, and the latter usage has been
aecepted, but is not correct.
Chemnitz’s figures are excellent, and are probably painted from specimens
collected by Captain Cook’s companions at Botany Bay, N.S.W., where the species
is easily procured at Cook’s landing place even at the present time. In volume
ix. of the Manual of Conchelogy, published in 1887, Tryon used (p. 258) Tec-
tarius nodulosus ex Gmelin, to include the West Indian, Ceylon, Australian and
New Zealand (where the genus does not occur) forms.
The name would then appear to be Tectarius tuberculatus (Menke, 1829)
and. the species ranges down to Mallacoota, Vic., and appears to be an addition to
the Victorian List.
(508 A) LiroNoBA AUSTRALIS (Ten.-Woods, 1875).
The common Tasmanian shell known as Rissoa tenisoni Tate is here added
to the New South Wales fauna. It was described as Cingulina australis by
Tenison-Woods (Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1875 (1876), p. 146) and the
specific name was altered on account of its transference to Rissoa, in this case
practically an unwarranted change, as it is less like the type of Rissoa, than it
is hike Cingulina. Upon its distinction as Lironoba, the original specific name
must be reverted to.
(508 B) Borenttus BAsstanus (Hedley, 1911).
Onoba bassiana Hedley, Zool. Results Endeavour, 1909-10, Part i., 22 Dee.,
1911, p. 108, Pl. xix., fig. 25: Off Devonport, N. Tasmania.
When I introduced Subonoba (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xlvi., 1914 (12 July, 1915),
p. 450), I wrote “Probably the shells classed by Hedley in Onoba viz. Onoba
bassiana . . . . could be here placed, as, though it does not fairly agree in
general shape and mouth characters, disagrees much more with typical Onoba.”
A few specimens were received from the 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape, and
from 25 fathoms in Twofold Bay, and I have no hesitation in introducing the
new generic name Botellus, citing O. bassiana Hedley as type. The circular
mouth separates this group widely from any other of the Austral Rissoid series.
Onoba glomerosa Hedley from Queensland belongs here, but Watson’s mercurialis,
also from Queensland, appears to be a Subonoba.
(510) ATTENUATA MINUTULA (Tate and May, 1900).
This species is certainly not referable to this family. It is a very peculiar
little form without any known close relations, and I do not. consider Hedley’s
Rissoa integella congeneric. I first found it as dead shells in shell-sand from
northern Tasmania, but I have found it alive in some dead-coral washings from
20-25 fathoms in Twofold Bay, and I now propose for it alone the new generic
name Coenaculum. It is not rare in shell-sand on the Sydney beaches.
(521) ANABATHRON EMBLEMATICUM (Hedley, 1906).
This species, easily recognisable, was not uncommon, but was. always small,
so that I concluded the measurements given by Hedley might be incorrect, and’
this I find to be so, a mistransliteration having taken place. The correct size of
the species is 2 mm. x 1 mm., not 4 x 2 mm. as given.
BY TOM IREDALE. 245,
(536 A) Rissoina Lintea Hedley and May, 1908.
Rissoina lintea Hedley and May, Rec. Austr. Mus., vii., 11 Sep., 1908, p. 117,
Pl. xxiii., fig. 11: 100 F., off Cape Pillar, Tasmania.
Specimens were sorted out of the 50-70 fathom dredgings off Green Cape,
another addition to the N.S.W. List.
(539 A) HETERORISSOA WILFRIDI (Gatliff and Gabriel, 1911).
Jeffreysia wilfridi Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soc. Viet., xxiv. (ns.),
1911, p. 188, Pl. xlvi., fig. 3. °
This adds a species and genus and probably a family to the N.S.W. List.
The genus Heterorissoa was proposed by me (Proc. Malac. Soe. Lond., x., Oct.,
1912, p. 221), with a Kermadec species, H. secunda (op. cit., fig. in text) as
type, to include the (apparent) southern representatives conchologically of the
northern Jeffreysia, which show a distinct difference in the opereular characters.
Found in shallow water dredgings sent by Roy Bell from Twofold Bay. I find
shells not uncommon in the shell-sand of the Sydney beaches.
(540 A) Sriva RoyANA, n.sp. (Plate xxxiv., f. 11.)
A second member of the genus Stiva, of smaller size and more delicate
sculpture, and with a typical operculum.
Shell awl-shaped, apex blunt, mouth ovate, slightly channelled anteriorly.
Colour white marbled with- orange, forming a subsutural band in many eases, the
apical whorls uniform orange. The first two whorls are smooth, the succeeding one
faintly longitudinally ribbed, the ribs growing stronger, the adult whorls number-
ing ten. The ribs number about thirty-two on the penultimate whorl, flexuous
and narrow, the interstices being wider and latticed with very fine scratched lines:
on the last whorl the ribs cease at the periphery and the basal sculpture consists
of transverse scratches and obsolescent growth lines. The outer lip sharp but
not thin, the inner lip continuous and appressed to the basal whorl, a minute
umbilical chink sometimes appearing. Length 15.5 mm., breadth 6 mm.
Dredged in 10-25 fathoms, Twofold Bay; also in 10-15 fathoms, Disaster
Bay; and also in 10-15 fathoms off Gabo Island, Victoria.
(561 A) Capunus AustTrALIS (Lamarck, 1819).
Hedley has recently accepted Capulus calyptra Martyn for the Bass Straits
Capulus, but this I think is erroneous, and I would recommend the name he
previously determined for use, and add the species to:the N.S.W. Fauna, as it
has pushed round the corner and lives in Twofold Bay. Numerous specimens
were sent from Port Fairy, where it is abundant on Haliotis, and then quite a
few were received from Mallacoota and Tellaburga Island, and among these very
many showed the apical whorls which were, as expected, always dextral. Some
time ago, I examined all the Capulus and Hipponyx in the British Museum Col-
lection and in my notes I find “Capulus danieli Crosse. Type from New Caledonia
is not South Australian shell, but is calyptra Martyn.’’ Specimens from Lord
Howe Island are quite unlike southern Australian shells. As I have now plenty
of good material I will reinvestigate the matter, and note the radular characters
of these animals. Maplestone (Monthly Micros. Journal, 1 Aug., 1872, PI.
xxvi.) has figured the radula of a Victorian specimen.
246 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
(563 A) PLesiotrocHUS MONACHUS (Crosse -& Fisher, 1864).
It seems very doubtful that this is the correct generic location for this shell,
which was described (Journ. de Conch., xii., 1864, p. 347) from Port Adelaide,
S. Aust., and which I recovered from a dredging made in 10-20 fathoms off
Merimbula, N.S.W., and odd broken dead shells from Twofold Bay. It appears to
be an addition to the recorded N.S.W. fauna. While the radula and operculum
of this species are known, those of the type of Plesiotrochus, a rather different-
looking shell, are not, and as the latter is a tropical genus, whereas the present
shell appears to be confined to the Adelaidean Region, outside the tropics, its
transference is soon anticipated.
(566) Brrrium GRANARIUM (Kiener, 1842).
Bittium has maintained its generic position because the animal showed a
multispiral operculum with a central nucleus, in place of the normal Cerithioid
paucispiral operculum. The Australian shells appeared exactly comparable with
the European forms, but the operculum is paucispiral, and, consequently, once
again an alien name must be dismissed, and the Australian shells that agree
most closely with European ones prove to cover different animals.
More than one generic form has been lumped in the Austral Bittium, but
I here propose only the new generic name Cacozelia, with the species Cerithiwm
lacertinum Gould as type.
Hedley has, since this note was written, published the differentia] features
that separate the Western Australian granarium from the eastern Australian
lacertinum Gould.
(577) SEILA TURRITELLIFORMIS (Angas, 1877).
Though Hedley synonymised with Angas’s species, his own Seila attenuata,
I have never been sure of this identity. Hedley’s species was well known and
represented a generic type for which I propose the new generic name Seilarez.
Species closely agreeing in generic characters from South Africa, differ at sight
from the Seila in shape, sculpture, form of mouth and texture of shell. Angas’s
picture did not show these particulars, and I have found, among some shells
belonging to Mr. Hedley, specimens collected years ago by Brazier which are
near Angas’s figure, and seem to represent the latter’s species. Therefore, I
would add No. 577a Seilarer attenuatus Hedley 1900 (Seila).
Live shells have not yet been found, but their study will be interesting, as,
in the Check List. Seila and Cerithiopsis are placed in Cerithiidae, and followed
by the Triphoridae, whereas in connection with Palaearectie species these genera,
from study of the animals, are widely separated, and it is possible that the
Austral species entirely differ.
(591-600) Family TURRITELLIDAE.
Ten species are recorded, all under the genus name Turritella, though when
Miss Donald wrote her essay she had provided two special names for some Aus-
tral forms, thus: Colpospira Donald (Proc. Malac. Soe. Lond., iv., pt. 2, Aug.
1900, p. 51: Type, by original designation, Twrritella runcinata Watson, and
(p. 53) Platycolpus, type, by original designation, Turritella (Colpospira 7)
quadrata, nsp. (Pl. v., fig. 8-8b), from Bass Straits, 45 F. In that essay
only a few specimens were studied, but the results were good. I have received
BY TOM IREDALE. 247
thousands of specimens of many species from various depths. From these I
would urge the recognition of the above names, as Turritella is widespread and
of great antiquity, and none of the Australian species is closely related to the
typical species. Moreover, I find that the Austral forms can be separated into
distinct series so that more than one generic name is necessary.
Probably these things are rare, but otherwise they have been badly treated.
Watson’s determinations are particularly wretched, as he was really not a good
conchologist, and his painstaking results are peculiarly unreliable. Hedley has
pointed out that he named wretched fragments of juvenile specimens as novelties,
and in the present group his results are amazing. I have just examined the
whole of the Challenger material named by him, and find a dead shapeless item
soberly named and allotted a number and registered as a mojluscan specimen in
the British Museum. This has often occurred, and little reliance can be placed
upon any of his records, and many of his ‘new species” are scarcely recognis-
able. It would serve little good purpose to controvert all his identifications,
one will suffice. Hedley noted two species were on the tablet named Turritella
carlottae, and concluded they represented the two localities cited by Watson for
this species, Bass Straits and New Zealand. Smith (Brit. Mus. (Terra Nova)
Exped., 1910, Zool. Vol. u., No. 4, 27 Mar., 1915, p. 80) pointed out that Hedley
was mistaken, though two distinct species were on the tablet, and wrote: “The
shell from East Moncoeur Island, Bass Strait, quoted by Watson, is preserved
in a box by itself, and is distinct. It evidently was not seen by Mr. Hedley.”
However, Smith did not determine it: the “shell” is a broken tip of tasmanica
Ten.-Woods, a species quite unlike Hutton’s vittata, so that in this ease alone
Watson confused three species. More interesting to the student is the extreme
localisation of the species and the geographical variation. After collecting many
species in Twofold Bay and Disaster Bay, in depths from 5-25 fathoms, a singie
dredging in 12 fathoms off Gabo Island, only a few miles further south, showed
a very distinct species.
When Miss Donald wrote, twenty years ago, she noted the difficulty of identi-
fying two Australian species Turritella sophiae Brazier and Turritella higginst
Petterd, neither of which had been figured. I have not found figures of these
yet, and Tate and May cite the latter as a synonym of TJ. accisa Watson, and
the former as not known to them.
(593) TURRITELLA GUNNII Reeve, 1849. (Plate xxxvi., figs. 3, 12, 13.)
Hundreds of specimens were dredged by Roy Bell in Twofold Bay in from
15-25 fathoms. Variation in sculpture and form could be well studied and
radular characters easily investigated. The opercular features showed this to
be quite distinct from that of Colpospira, while, similarly, the quadrata series
were proved to belong to that genus, only subgeneric status being permissibie
for Platycolpus. The recognition of the gunnii group as a distinct genus is thus
necessary, aS in the characters of the protoeconch, due to their viviparous habit,
it also differs,
I propose for the species T. gunnii Reeve the new generic name Gazameda,
and conclude this name should be used for the Australian Turritellids with long
spires, sinuate mouth, peculiar protoconch, viviparous habits, simple opereulum,
as distinct from Colpospira, of ‘shorter growth, more sinuate mouth, different
protoconch, non-viviparous habits and complex operculum.
Watson’s T. philippensis, described trom one young dead shell from 33
248 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
fathoms in Bass Straits, has been rightly regarded as synonymous with the pre-
sent species. It may be, however, that it represents a geographic or bathymetric
form. The specimens from 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape all tend to emphasize
“the ante-sutural roll (Plate xxxvi., f. 13) seen in the picture of philippensis, and
generally absent or obsolete in the shallow water shells (Plate xxxvi., f. 12).
Again, the shells dredged in 18-25 fathoms in Disaster Bay appear a little
broader on the average and more strongly sculptured (Plate xxxvi., f. 3), though
I have thousands from Twofold Bay shallow water for comparison, and, further,
_the deepwater shells above noted are narrower. Moreover, I observe that the
females containing young are broader shells than others which have no young,
and which I take to be males. It may be, however, that the ones without young
are simply immature and that they do not produce young until a certain age.
Against this may be noted the fact that very large shells were found to possess
no young, but such cases should be dissected on the spot and sex noted.
(594) TURRITELLA OPULENTA Hedley, 1907.
It was obvious from the figure and description that this was not referable to
Turritella, as commonly understood, and study of these had suggested the genus
Argyropeza Melvill, which I had recognised from dredgings elsewhere.
Specimens turned up in the 50-70 fathom dredging off Green Cape, N.S.W.,
and these were seen to differ in features of the shell not easily determined from
a description. I propose the new generic name Glyptozaria for this species alone,
‘and this will distinguish it and draw attention to it. All the Australian mem-
bers of the family Turritellidae have a sinus in the outer lip, more or less deeply
marked, and in this species there is no sign of such a sinus.
I note that a fossil relative of this form exists among the Muddy Creek
‘fossils in the British Museum, confused with Tate’s gemmulata, and this adds
to the very close alliance of the recent deepwater shells of southern New South
Wales and the Muddy Creek series.
(595) TURRITELLA PARVA (Angas, 1877).
This species, described as a Torcula, has been recognised by Hedley, and, as
in other cases, a reconsideration seems necessary, as the type in the British
Museum does not seem to belong to the family Turritellidae at all. The mouth
is broken, but the columella shows a basal point which suggests a canal, and thus
Seila, but the whorls are a little pagodoid, and definite identity with any species
known to me could not be established.
I have again re-examined this shell, and note that, as well as the outer lip
being broken, the apical whorls are missing and the columella is slightly twisted,
but the presence of a canal seems definite, and certainly the shell is not a Turri-
tellid.
(596 A) COLPOSPIRA GUILLAUMEI, n.sp. (Plate xxxvi., figs. 4, 15).
Small for the genus, attenuately subulate, periphery keeled on later whorls,
mouth nearly circular, outer lp deeply broadly sinuate (fig. 15). Colour
pinkish-white suffused with fulvous and irregularly blotched with darker patches
of the same colour. Apical whorls smooth and whitish, sutures deeply impressed,
whorls flattened, periphery keeled, base rounded. The adult sculpture consists of
a few transverse ridges, but mainly of growth lines, sinuate longitudinals following
the mouth, more marked anteriorly. Columella nearly straight, faintly twisted
anteriorly. Operculum typical. Length of type 15 mm.; breadth 5 mm.
BY TOM IREDALE. 249
Abundant in 5-15 fathoms in Twofold Bay, N.S.W.
This well-marked little species differs from C. quadrata (Donald), its ap-
parent nearest relative, in its lack of transverse sculpture, and the quadrate
whorling, as well as size.
(596 B) Coupospira QuapRATA (Donald, 1900). (Plate xxxvi., f. 5.)
Turritella (Colpospira ?) quadrata Donald, Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., 1iv.,
Aug. 1900, p. 53, Pl. v., figs. 8-8b: Bass Strait.
This occurs in most of the deeper water dredgings from 25-70 fathoms, and,
upon reference to the Muddy Creek fossils, I was surprised to find so much
distinction, that, with the few specimens here, little could be definitely ascertained
as to the ancestry of the recent species. A large species, Turritella cons picabilis
Tate, was seen to have “quadrate’ whorls when juvenile, but with different
sculpture from the present species, and to grow to a much larger size than any
recent shells I have seen. It might, however, bear the same kind of relationship
to the recent shell as the huge C. runcinata recorded by Vereo from South Aus-
tralian seas does to the small C. sinuata from the Port Jackson area.
(597 A) COLPOSPIRA RUNCINATA (Watson, 1881).
When Watson wrote his preliminary descriptions (Journ. Linn. Soce., Zool.
xv., 1881, p. 218) he described Turritella runcinata from the 38/40 fathom dredg-
ing off East Moncoeur Island, Bass Straits.. Two pages later (p. 220), from
the same locality, he added Twrritella accisa, and on p. 224 he introduced Turri-
tella cordismei, also from the same dredging. The series in the first two cases
consists of three shells each, while in the last, four specimens were included.
Miss Donald drew attention to the great similarity between the first two, and
noted that the last named were juvenile. The three runcinata are larger and
broader than the three accisa, but I conclude they are absolutely identical. The
sculpture varies, and each set contains finer and coarsely sculptured shells. The
four cordismeit are really only two, as two unrecognisable dead tips are included:
the other two are young, rather narrower shells, but almost certainly the same
species: the larger is more smoothly, but the smaller is more coarsely, sculptured.
Then what is the shell recorded by Verco from South Australia under the
name T. accisa?
A few specimens of C. sinwata (Reeve) were picked out of the shallow water
dredgings, but mostly in the deeper series, about 20 fathoms, in Twofold Bay,
and sometimes were accompanied by C. runcinata (Watson), and the variation
in each makes it difficult'to determine their validity without long series. My first
conclusion was that runcinata was the southern form of sinuata, and this may
be the correct one, but their occurrence together suggests their specific distinction,
in which case Watson’s T. cordismei might be referred to sinuata, and would
represent the southern stage of the species.
Examination of the few Muddy Creek fossils available here, suggested that
platyspira Ten.-Woods was the fossil relative of sinwata, and that the latter
may be preserved as a distinct species, but I hope that this species or group of
Species will be studied with a view to the variation existent, as Vereo has pro-
claimed himself puzzled with his large series from deepwater, and I think they
are very variable.
Miss Donald noted (p. 50) “Murchisonia sutoris as a manuscript name given
by Dunker to specimens in the Godeffroy Museum, collected by Captains Schultze,
250 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Pohl and Witt in Bass Strait, the best being probably obtained by the last
named.” As this indicates uncertainty and error, some facts may be here re-
corded. In the Museum Godeffroy Catalogue (iv., May, 1869), a preface dated
18 May, 1869, by J. Schmeltz, Jr., states that the shells have been determined
by Dunker. A “Topographische und Zoologische Notizen” gives excellent details
of the collectors for that once famous Museum with an account of their collecting
grounds. On p. xix. it is noted that Captain Wendt (not Witt as Miss Donald
quoted from Pfeffer’s letter), in the Gulf of St. Vincent near Adelaide and on
the south coast of Australia, dredged new species of shells, as well as known
but rare species as Myadora pandoriformis Stutchb. Captaim Wendt also dredged
in Bass Strait, but later Captain Schultze dredged also in Bass Strait and in his
collection there were specimens of the genus Murchisonia, hitherto only known
in the fossil state, but the specimens were poor. Captain Schultze also eol-
lected, at the same time, Crassatella castanea Reeve, Myochama keppelliana Reeve
and Pectunculus laticostatus Quoy and Gaimard. Digressing, it may be noted
that the Crassatella were typical kingicola Lamarck, and that the Pectunculus
referred to the New Zealand laticostatus Q. and G. was the one I have written
about under the name Glycymeris flabellatus Ten.-Woods, and is the earliest re-
cord of this species. In the Catalogue iv., no Murchisonia is included, but on.
p. 77 “No. 3483 Torcula tenuilirata Dkr., n.sp. B(ass) S(tr.)” appears without
any description. In Catalogue v., published Feb. 1874, there is “p. 148, No. 3433
Murchisonia sutoris Dkr. = Torcula tenuilirata Dkr. i. 1. Mus. Godeffroy Cat. iv.
Bassstrasse,”’” and in the Corrigenda, p. 212, a note “ist eine Turritellide zum
Genus Zaria gehbrend (O. Semper).”
(600) TuRRITELLA SUBSQUAMOSA Dunker, 1871. (Plate xxxvi., figs. 11, 14.)
A remarkable shell was found in the 15-25 fathom dredgings, in that 1t was
only about halfgrown, with the mouth always broken; in no specimen did I find
a perfect mouth, the outer edge being extraordinarily thin, and fractures could
be traced along the shell. Three magnificent shells were dredged in a single
haul at 25 fathoms, and upon comparison these proved to be the long-lost Turri-
tella tasmanica Reeve (Conch. Iceon., Vol. V., June, 1849, Pl. ix., sp. 42), deseribed
from Van Diemen’s Land, from Dr. Sinelair’s collecting, the type in the British
Museum. Tate and May recorded the name and wrote “= 7. lamellosa (?).”
Hedley tegarded the latter as a synonym of Dunker’s species and the description
given by Dunker agrees very well with that of Reeve. Specimens from Bass
Strait, the types of Watson’s lamellosa, differed from Reeve’s type only in the
suppression of the spirals and the greater prominence of the longitudinal threads.
South Australian shells, labelled oxyacris Tate, a name also regarded as synonym-
ous, showed a still further advance, the longitudinals overriding the almost ob-
solete spirals. Im the most northern shells the latticing between the spirals is
scarcely noticeable, and the form then looks quite distinct, and, moreover, looks
hike a form of gunnii with coarse spirals, but it is always a narrower shell.
Contrariwise, a fossil from the Muddy Creek beds, labelled Turritella murrayana
Tate, showed a complete lamellose sculpture with very subjunctive spirals, re-
calling the South Australan oxyacris above noted, but was very much broader
and was ranked as a variant of other shells showing no lamellose striations but
simply very close spiral sculpture, much closer than any form of gunnii, though
that species varies in breadth as well as sculpture.
BY TOM IREDALE. 251
(605) CrossEA CONCINNA Angas, 1868.
This species was commonly found as dead shells in shell grit from a few
feet of water at low tide, but a living specimen revealed a multi-spiral operculum
of rather thick horny texture. This necessitates the transference of the species
to the family Liotiidae and the proposition of a new genus, a view previously
held from a criticism of the shell features alone. I propose Crosseola, with
this species as type, and would temporarily range along with this the other
globular Australian species classed as Crossea, e.g. carinata Hedley, naticoides
Hedley, cancellata Ten.-Woods and consobrina May, and the fossils Crossea
princeps Tate and C. semiornata Tate. The species (606) Crossea labiata
Ten.-Woods, which Bell sent also, is a different group altogether, and its family
location must remain doubtful until live specimens are examined. It has, how-
ever, still less apparent relationship with typical Crossea, and cannot be included
with the above, so | introduce the new generic name Dolicrossea, naming C.
labiata Ten.-Woods as type. The fossil Crossea sublabiata Tate seems only tri-
nomially separable, while the fossil C. lauta Tate has no living representative
yet on record (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xi., 1890, pp. 220-2, figs. on plate
Vi. ).
(608) Lippistes ToRcULARIS (Ten.-Woods, 1878).
Only one well acquainted with the literature of Australian marine molluses
would have recognized the shell under this name, as nothing much more unlike
the type of Lippustes could be found to bear that generic name.
I herewith propose /cuncula, with Cingulina torcularis Ten.-Woods as type,
and question the matter of variability. Hedley allows two species, torcularis
Ten.-Woods and zodiacus Hedley, and May has since deseribed another, L. con-
sobrina, comparing it with Brazier’s gracilenta. Probably some ot these will be
lumped when series are available, as, allowing the same standard, Lironoba australis
might be split into half a dozen.
Only one specimen was found in a dredging from 15 fathoms in Twofold
Bay, and this I refer to the present species.
Referring to Lippistes, this generic name is older than T'richotropis and the
family name would be Lippistidae. As to the name of the Victorian and South
Australian species, the more writers, apparently, the more confusion. Hedley
gave a note, based upon British information, and his nomination is incorrect.
Pritchard and Gatlhff (Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xvili., n.s., pt. 2, 1906, p. 55) ac-
_ cepting blainvilleanus Petit in place of their own gabrieli stated that Hedley then
accepted the distinction between ZL. separatista Dillwyn and L. blainvilleanus Petit.
At the same time, Verco reported upon these forms and accepted L. séparatista
upon E. A. Smith’s assistance and recommendation. Since then, Smith altered
his opinion and recorded Lippistes helicoides Gmelin, which is the correct name
for Dillwyn’s separatista, from Cape Colony, South Africa. This leaves the
South Australian shell to bear Pritchard and Gatliff’s name gabrieki as the only
certain one, until actual comparison is made with the type of blainvilleanus.
There appears to be little variation individually, and the named forms appear
to be geographic representatives of full specific rank. In any ease, the South
African shell is clearly and constantly distinct from the South Australian species,
and also from the Philippine shell studied by Verco, and now separated by Smith.
252 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
(623) STRUTHIOLARIA SCUTULATA (Martyn, 1784).
The recognition of the genus Tylospira seems necessary, inasmuch as fossil
representatives of this form are known living alongside fossil forms of Struthio-
laria s.str., thus proving the antiquity of the separation and, consequently, its
generic value.
Under No. 30 Arca trapezia, | have quoted Dall’s views, and here add his
further conclusion “The estimation of values in such eases is liable to a large
personal equation.” I absolutely agree, and point out that as in this case, an
ancient difference should have more value allotted to it than a recent one.
Tylospira was proposed by Harris (Cat. Tert. Moll. Brit. Mus., part i., 25
Mar. 1897, p. 222) with the present species named as type. The radula of
Tylos pira differs appreciably from that of Struthiolaria, and I hope to figure it
later in conjunction with other comparisons of the fossil and recent OEMS of
this group.
(624) ZEMIRA AUSTRALIS (Sowerby, 1841).
One of the greatest puzzles of Australian systematic malacology has not
been solved by study of the radula. Dr. A. H. Cooke has published an account
(Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., xui., Aug., 1918, p. 12), wherein he states that
the radular characters of this strange molluse are only comparable with those
of Oliva and Murex, and suggests placing the species near the latter with generic
(not subgeneric) rank. Of course he should have said Family rank, as ob-
viously that was the correct value, on account of the abnormal shell and opercular
characters.
Specimens from Disaster Bay, 10-20 fathoms, were a little larger with a
lower spire than the ones from Twofold Bay in the same depths. I note this,
as the Muddy Creek fossil Z. praecursior Tate is differentiated by that feature,
and there is no series of the fossil available. A family Zemiridae, next to the
family Olividae, would best express our present knowledge of this form.
(628 A) NARICAVA VINCENTIANA (Angas, 1880).
Adeorbis vincentiana Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 417, Pl. xl, £. 9:
Aldinga Bay, Gulf St. Vincent, S.A.—Vanikoro Caneel Wena, Teel Roy.
Soe. S. Aust., xxxiii., 1909, p. 334, Pl. xxix., figs. 1-3: Gulf St. Vincent, S.A—
V. vineentiana, Verco, ibid., xxxiv., 1910, p. 118 (full account and SAMI) -
This is an aden to the N.S.W. List, specimens having been sorted out of the
Twofold Bay shallow-water dredgings.
(645) EprronruM GRANOSUM (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834).
Hedley (These Proc., 1901, 20 May 1902, p. 701) recognised Scalaria ballin-
ensis Smith (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, Vol vii., 1891, p. 139) from Ballina,
N.S.W., as a synonym of Scala granosa (Q. and G.) which he considered ‘“‘com-
mon, widespread and variable.” He gave a figure of Smith’s species (Pl. xxxiv.,
ity PAL
I have received shells from Port Fairy, Vic., which are all broader than a
series from Cape Naturaliste, W. Aus., which may be regarded as typical of
granosa, described from King George Sound. Roy Bell’s collections frora Two-
fold Bay included specimens which were determined as ballinensis from Smith's
types, and these are constantly separable from either of the other sets. I
BY TOM IREDALE. 253
advise, therefore, the reinstatement of ballinensis in the N.S.W. List in place of
granosum.
As “granulosa Q. and G.,’ this species is the type of Granuliscala Boury,
1909, which will come into use, when work is undertaken on this group again.
(660) AUSTROTRITON PARKINSONIUS (Perry, 1811). (Plate xxxv., f. 4.)
When Kesteven wrote upon Lotorium (These Proe., 1902, p. 443 et seq.) he
grouped with parkinsonianum, radiale Tate, abbotti Ten.-Wds., textile Tate,
woodsi Tate and tortirostris Tate, Australian Tertiary fossils. He later gave
figures (These Proc., xxxvui., 1912, p. 49 et seq. Pl. 1) of tortirostris, abbotti
‘and parkinsonianum, dwelling upon their close relationship, concluding C. par-
kinsonianum is apparently the recent form of C. tortirostris. This is indisput-
able, but the examination of specimens from 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape provided
an interesting complication. Obviously related to parkinsonianum, they differed
a little in shape, narrower, longer spire, longer canal (Pl. xxxv., f. 4), and ap-
_proximated more in sculpture to the fossil form. The series could be well named
im the manner I am suggesting for such cases thus:
Austrotriton parkinsonius Perry. The shallow water coastal species. A. [par-
kinsonius| basilicus n. subsp. Deeper water relation. A. [parkinsonius| tortirostris
“Tate. The fossil form.
(667) CYMATIUM SPENGLERI (Perry, 1811).
As a synonym must be added Triton (Cabestana) boltenianus A. Adams
(Proce. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1854 (8 May 1855), p. 311): Australia. This species
was named from a specimen in the Mus. Cuming, now in the British Museum,
and Angas recorded it in 1867 from Long Bay, Port Jackson, and presented
specimens to the British Museum. When Hedley studied the British Museum
Collection, he concluded that these were all extra-lmital, as the species was
unknown to Australian malacologists, and that some confusion of localities had
‘taken place. From Port Fairy, Vic., Roy Bell sent a small dead shell and then
from Mallacoota, Vic., another one came, but from Twofold Bay he sent a fine
large shell, alive, which agreed exactly with the type of boltenianum, and I in-
tended to reinstate it, when I found I could not easily distinguish the smal] ones
from the admitted juveniles of spengleri. Hedley at once recognised the large
‘shell as an aberration of spengleri, and I agree. The type of barthelemyi Ber-
nard is in the British Museum and is another variation of this species.
(667 A) CYMATIELLA QuOYI (Reeve, 1844).
Triton quoyi Reeve, Conch. Icon., June 1844, Triton Pl. xix., f. 93: New
Holland, Mus. Cuming.— T. verrucosus Reeve, ib., xvil., f. 71: Hab? Mus Cum-
“ing.—T. eburneus Reeve, ib., xvil., f. 69: I. Ticao, Mus. Cuming.
These three appear as distinct species in Tate & May’s Census for Tasmania,
while Pritchard and Gatliff lump the first two under the name verrucosus, and
also accept eburneus as Victorian. The type of eburneus seems to me to be
Philippine, as given by Reeve, and the other two represent two forms of one
species, in which case verrucosus is the name for the species. As the slender
‘form has been recognised as distinct, and I cannot determine the point, | am
’ using the name quoyi for the form I now add to the N.S.W. List from Twofold
Bay, dredged in shallow water, as my specimen is especially slender, but not as
254 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
slender as the deep water form. J am introducing the new generic name Cyma-
tiella, with quoyi as type, for these peculiar little Australian forms.
(682 A) PHauium pyrum (Lamarck, 1822).
Cassis pyrum Lamarck, Hist. Anim. s. Vert., Vol. vii., 1822, p. 226: New
Holland, i.e., East Tasmania; Kiener, Coquilles Vivants Casque, 1835, p. 39, Pl. 13,
f. 25.—Semicassis paucirugis Angas (not Menke), Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877, p. 183.
Twofold Bay.
The species of Phalium inhabiting extra-tropical Australia are of great in-
terest, and I hope to monograph them shortly, as so many diverse views have
been held as to the species and nomination. Roy Bell sent from Mallacoota
many specimens of the present species and C. semigranosum Lamarck (named
at the same time by Lamarck and probably collected by Peron in the same place
simultaneously). From Twofold Bay he sent the present species and P. labiatwm
Perry (typically coloured, but a little more globose, apparently its southern
limit) as shore and shallow water shells; from 25 F. a specimen of P. stadiale
Hedley not quite typical, and from 50-70 F., off Green Cape, a young typical
specimen of P. stadiale Hedley. The recent trawling expeditions have brought
up many C. thomsoni Brazier, C. sophiae Braz., and C. stadiale Hedley, showing
all these to be constant geographically and bathymetrically. I have collected a
number of shore specimens, on the Sydney beaches, of P. labiatum Perry, all
agreeing in coloration and form.
The present species was recorded as S. paucirugis by Angas from Twofold
Bay; Hedley also collected it there, and now Bell has got it, and all the specimens.
are alike, showing little variation from the Mallacoota and eastern Tasmanian
shells. From Kiener’s figure of C. pyrum Lamarck, I should conclade the species
was collected by Peron in eastern or southern Tasmania.
(691 A) Narica SHOREHAMI Pritchard and Gatliff, 1900.
Natica shorehami Pritchard and Gatliff, Proce. Roy. Soc. Vict., xi. (n.s.),
Aug. 1900, p. 131, Pl. xx., f. 4: Port Phillip, Victoria. A few small shells were
sorted out of shallow water dredgings in Twofold Bay, N.S.W., along with WV.
subcostata Ten.-Woods (which ranged in size to 13 x 11 mm.), each with the
operculum, that of the former being as yet undescribed, and is here stated to be
solid, shelly, smooth, showing a slight prominence following the initial whorling,
while there is a very obscure suleus near the edge. This would place the species
in the genus Cochlis Bolten, Museum Bolten, 1798, p. 146, accepting C. albule
Bolten as type, the typical Natica having the suleate operculum like that of W
subcostata Ten.-Woods.
(702) SinumM PLANULATUM (Recluz, 1843).
This is referable to Sinum, but the specific name is not acceptable. Sigaretus
planulatus was published by Recluz in Illustr. Conchyl. (Chenu), in his Mon.
Sigaret (p. 21) and figured (Pl. 3, fig. 4). His specimen came from “Hes
Séchelles, au port Mahé,’ and he attached to it “Gualt., Index test., 1742, Pl. 69,
fig.. F. inferior,” as depicting his species. On p. 1 of his Monograph, he had
introduced Sigaretus planatus for the Gualtierian species. Chenu’s Illustrations
appeared piecemeal, and a collation has been prepared by Sherborn and Smith,
and published in the Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., ix., Mar., 1911, p. 264 et seq. -
From this we get the information
BY TOM IREDALE. 255
Sigaretus, pp. 1-4 Pls. 1-2 in part 5 ~~ reed. British Museum 11. 5.1843
5-8 8-10 10. 8.1843
9-12 16 77.12.1843
13-20 22 7. 3.1844
21-24 25 apparently 5. 6.1844
From this it would be concluded that the name must be planatus, and if the
Seychelles shell is different from Gualtier’s species, another name must be used
for it.
Later in his “Catalogue” of the species of Sigaretus (Journ. de Conceh.,
u., 1851, .p. 163, et seq.) Recluz records his planulatus from the Philippines, and
adds his gualterianus olim as a synonym.
For the species named zonalis by Quoy and Gaimard, Tryon used Lamarck’s
Sigaretus laevigatus (Hist. Anim. s. Verteb. Vol. vi. pt. 2, Apr., 1822, p. 208)
from the seas of Java, and adds as synonym Sicaretus (sic) australis Hanley
(Conchologist’s Book of Species, 1840, p. 57, frontispiece plate, f. 3). In the
2nd revised edition, Hanley added an Index with names of authorities and
loealities, and there (p. 153) this name is credited to Gray and South Seas is
given. Shells in the British Museum labelled “australis Hanley” from the I. of
Luzon, which may be the types, are easily separable from zonalis Q. and G.,
but belong to that group, which differs from the planulatus series, also shown
from the I. of Luzon. It is interesting to note that Recluz, the monographer of
this group, always separated the shells into two series, and at first sight this
seemed splitting, but upon fuller knowledge it shows great insight, and a de-
tailed investigation of the anatomy of these two groups would be interesting.
The radula of the whole series is peculiar, but there are too few specimens in
the Gwatkin Collection to make any comparison of value. I have, however, a
few shells sent by Roy Bell with their animals, and [ will later report upon their
radulae.
Since this was written, Robson has given a short account of the external
characters of Sinum planulatum (Recluz) (Proc. Malae. Soc. Lond., xv., 1923,
p. 268-269), but appears to be ignorant of Quoy and Gaimard’s figures of their
C. zonalis (see post), nor does he quote Recluz’ excellent figures (loc. cit.).
(702 A) Sinum ZONALE (Quoy and Gaimard, 1833).
Crysptotoma (sic) zonalis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de l’Astrol., Zool. Vol.
i., 1833, p. 221, Pl. 66 bis, figs. 1-3: Garden Island, King George Sound, W.
Aust.
This Adelaidean species has drifted round the corner, occurring in shallow
water dredgings from Twofold Bay, and being an addition to the N.S.W. List.
(703) Sinust umpBimnicarum (Quoy and Gaimard, 1833).
The more common shells give the most trouble and the present species is @
good instance. Recently a lumping policy has been adopted, but a revision seems
necessary. WVereo has described a deepwater representative of this species from
South Australia, and the shells from 60-70 fathoms off Green Cape, N.S.W., are
distinguishable from the shore and shallow water specimens by being depressed
and flatter. However, shallow water South Australian shells seem more conical,
with a smaller mouth and smaller umbilicus than Tasmanian shells, while these
are much larger than any of the N.S.W. specimens. There are four names at
present available, umbilicata, globosa, picta and albosutura, the last named being
256 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
regarded as very distinct. The type locality of wmbilicata has not yet been
fixed, but I here designate Tasmania, where Quoy and Gaimard collected, and
where it is a common shell.
The name pictus can then be used for the South Australian form, and { pro-
pose to differentiate the Peronian forms. However, the generic name must be
first fixed. In the Check List, Hedley has placed the species under Sinwm, which
is obviously undesirable, as the animal is retractile, while that of Sinwm, is not;
moreover, this species is “umbilicata,’ whereas Sinum shows the very opposite.
Pritchard and Gatliff and Vereo have used Hunaticina, which is conchologically
preferable, but the shell features still do not agree. I therefore concluded that a
new generic name was necessary, but thought examination of the radulae in the
Gwatkin Collection might prove interesting. The species of Polinices I examined,
such as conica, plumbea, melastoma, all showed a rhachidian tooth, with three
large practically even cusps. The radula of Sinwm, as shown by zonalis, has a
tricuspid rhachidian, but, while the two side cusps are long, the central cusp is
short, only about half the length: this is characteristic of Sinum. The radula
of picta sent by Vereo from St. Vincent’s Gulf, 8S. Aust., at once showed a
notable distinction as, though the rhachidian might still be termed tricuspid, only
the central tooth was strongly developed, the side cusps only showing as minor
projections near the base. The radula of papilla, the type of Hunaticina, is
nearest this, but is recognisable and well differentiated by means of its unicuspid
rhachidian. I have just indicated the above differences, but they are supported
by the shape of the base of the rhachidian tooth, the size and shape of the
laterals and marginals.
Consequently, the necessity of distinguishing the present species generically
is proven, and I propose the new generic name Propesinum, and would name the
New South Wales sub-littoral form Propesinum umbilicatum minusculum, n. subsp.,
as being smaller, with less elevated spire, columella more reflected, umbilical cavity
narrower, and the deepwater form, from 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape, P. (wu)
mimicum, n. subsp., as being still less, more flattened, umbilical cavity wider, ete.
This might be contrasted with albosutura, thus P. (albosuturwm) mimicum.
(706) CYPRAEA ANGUSTATA COMPTONI (Gray, 1847).
(706 A) CYPRAEA ANGUSTATA PIPERATA (Gray, 1825).
Specimens were received in numbers, as dead shells, from Tellaburga Island,
Vic., and a few from Twofold Bay, N.S.W. Confirmation of the data given for
the name necessitates the absolute rejection of angustata in any sense. Verco
(Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., xlii., 1918, pp. 140-144) has given an excellent review
of the forms of the species, but he did not discuss the determination of Gmelin’s
name. I find that Gmelin’s sole basis of his Cypraea angustata (Syst. Nat., Vol.
1., pt. vi., 1791, p. 3421) was “Gualt. test. t. 13 f. QQ” from unknown habitat.
Gualtier’s figure does not represent our shell, and it was published in 1742, long
before any South Australian shells reached Europe. Its acceptance is apparently
due to J. KE. Gray, who added the locality “New Holland,” and noted it had been
ignored by the French writers, at the same time as he correctly described Cypraea .
piperita (Zool. Journ., 1., Jan., 1825, p. 498), also from New Holland. Sowerby -
(Conch. Illus., 1832, sp. 100, p. 10, f. 24) when he figured piperita gave New -
South Wales, and at the same time referred angustata Gmelin to South Africa.
The specific name will then be Cypraea piperita Gray, 1825. Hidalgo
(Monog. Gen. Cypraea, Mem. Real Acad. Cien. Madrid, 1907, pt. 2): used (p-.
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254) Gmelin’s Cypraeca angustata for the Australian shell, citing Cypraea macu-
lata Perry (Conchology, 1811, Pl. xx., f. 5) as a synonym. Perry’s shell was
sunply localised as Eastern seas, the coloration is poor, the size is too big, and
there is apparently a prior C. maculata (Encyel. Metrop., Pl. 14) published in
1810. Gray’s C. comptoni was described from Port Essington and, if that locality
‘be incorrect, it came from southern Tasmania, and would be applicable to the
form living there, which has several varietal names, correctly recorded by Verco.
(709) CYpRAkA ARMENIACA Verco, 1912.
Verco fully discussed the species wmbilicata, with its western representative,.
when he varietally proposed the above name. Since then the eastern species has
been trawled in numbers, so that a better idea of its variation can be gauged.
After examining a large series, I would allow C. armeniaca Verco specific rank,
as it appears more distinct from the eastern hesitata (1.e., wmbilicata olim) than
some of the fossil relations from the Muddy Creek beds. The variation used for
the separation of such fossils as C. eximia Sowerby, C. toxorhyncha Tate and
C. sphaerodoma Tate may be due to their receipt from different horizons, or
even simply individual variation. The recent hesitata varies in size and shape,
but I have not seen one which showed so much altitude as Verco’s measurements,
or with so obscure a “snout” for the size. Tate regarded the fossils as scarcely
referable to Jousseaume’s Umbilia, founded on the recent wmbilicata, but I would
regard the series as closely related, and, further, that they would come into a
larger group centring in scotti, which Jousseaume named Zoila, and I would use
Zotla generically and Umbilia subgenerically for these strange coldwater umbili-
eate “living’’ and “dead” fossils. In their latest Alterations, Gatliff and Gabriel
(Proe. Roy. Soe. Vict., xxxiv. (n.s.), May, 1922, p. 141) have correctly separated
armeniaca specifically, but have used, for the eastern form, Cypraea alba ex Cox
with a var. hesitata. Cox’s name was only proposed varietally, and in this sense
was preoccupied in the earliest illustrated Monograph of Cypraea three times,
viz., Cypraea spurca var. alba Sowerby, Conch. Illus., 1832 and 1837, p. 6, p.
ii.; C. turdus var. alba Sow., ibid.; C. lamarckii var. alba Sow., ib., p. iv.
(735) Trivia AUSTRALIS (Lamarck, 1822).
Introduced as Cypraea australis, I find Lamarck had been anticipated by
Sehroeter (Archiv. Zool. (Wiedeman), iv., pt. 1., 1804, p. 10), and I also note no
synonyms. Cypraea rosea is sometimes noted as of Duclos, cited by Potrez and
Michaud (Galerie des Mollusques Douai Vol. i., Oct., 1838, p. 477), where it ap-
pears as a synonym of (. australis Lam., but it is antedated by Cypraea rosea
Wood (Index Test., Suppl., 1828, p. 9). I am describing as a new species:
TRIVIELLA MERCES. (Plate xxxv., f. 16-17).
Well known under the name Trivia australis (Lamarck).
Shell of medium size for the genus, mouth fairly wide, aperture longer than
the spire and body whorl; spire noticeable as an obsolete bump overlaid by the
spiral body sculpture which consists of narrow ridges about one-third the width
of the interspaces, which are smooth or only slightly transversely scratched; a
smooth patch exists on the back until senile. Twenty-four ribs denticulate the
outer lip and about sixteen the inner lip. Length 14 mm.; breadth 9.5 mm.;.
height 8 mm.
Common on the littoral of New South Wales.
258 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
(754-765) Family VOLUTIDAE.
Roy Bell sent me specimens of the species No. 755 and 761 only, but, as I
have a few notes on the nomination of the group, I take this opportunity of re-
cording them. Lamarck wrote in error Voluta ondulata when describing his
species from Bass Straits and Ile Marie, Eastern Tasmania. Bell’s specimens
from Twofold Bay are consequently typical and V. angasi Brazier is an absolute
synonym, the wrong form being named, that from Port Lincoln and the Great
Australian Bight requiring a varietal designation. It may be of interest to note
that Peron called this species Voluta undulosa, and, peculiarly, the same change
in the ending of the name given by Solander appears in literature, his name be-
ing given sometimes as fluctuata, and at others as fluctuosa, but in each case no
description was offered.
Voluta maculata Swainson (Appendix to Bligh Cat. Shells, 1822, p. 11), re-
garded as the type of Scapkella by Hedley, must be renamed, as there is a prior
Voluta maculata Menschen (Zoophyl. Gronov., fase. iv., aden 1781). I propose
to rename it Scaphella carol.
No. 757.—An earlier reference for Voluta magnifica is Shaw (Nat. Miscell.,
xix., 1808, Pl. 812).
No. 759.—Voluta punctata Swainson, 1823, was anticipated by Allan (Trans.
Roy. Soe. Edinb., viii., 1818, p. 461, ex T. Brown MSS.) for a Nice fossil. This
recent shell I rename Cymbiola compleza.
An extralimital form must also have a name-change, viz., Lyria mitracformis
ex Voluta mitraeformis Lamarck, a northern Tasmanian and Victorian shell, as
Lamarck in his choice had been anticipated by Brocchi in 1814, but Porta ately
there is an excellent alternative in Voluta multicostata Broderip (Zool. Journ.,
i., 1827, p. 82) from unknown locality, the excellent figure (Pl. 3, f. 2) being
unmistakable.
(768) OLIVELLA LEUCOZoNA A. Adams and Angas, 1864.
Many specimens were collected in the shallow water dredgings in Twofold Bay,
and, though showing variation in size and shape, agreed with the types of brazteri
Angas, which Hedley regarded as a variety. The type locality of leucozona was
Port Jackson, while brazieri was named from Neweastle, and, if these were geo-
graphical variants, my shells should have been nearer the type series. While
puzzled, I secured Brazier’s copy of his reprints of Angas’s papers and found
therein the information “Jervis Bay, 10 Fathoms, Angas wrong with locality’? in
Brazier’s handwriting, the name Neweastle being crossed out. Brazier apparently
also told Whitelegge this, as the latter simply wrote Jervis Bay in his List, but
without any remark. The species exquisita Angas was not found by Bell, but
described from Coogee Bay, I find it in shell sand from this place, and it ap-
pears strictly congeneric with the present species.
-As regards the generic name, Olivella cannot be maintained. This was pro-
posed for American shells, and Dall has discussed the groups (U.S. Geol. Survey,
Prof. Paper, No. 59) without mentioning the Austral forms. At sight these
differ from American shells, the name of the type, biplicata, referring to the
columella, recording an obvious difference. Unfortunately, the Australian species,
though so few in number, do not constitute a homogeneous assembly, the small,
thin, unicoloured shells, conchologically, being generically separable from larger
solid coloured ones. To determine this matter definitely, I handed specimens to
my friend, Lieut.-Col. Peile, who found such great differences that he recorded -
them (Proc. Malac. Soc, Lond., xv., 1922, p. 18), making a few remarks, while
BY TOM IREDALE. 259
proposing the new genus Belloliva for Angas’s brazieri. Thus the conclusions
formed by study of geographical factors and shell features are confirmed by this
radular examination, and the latter in its turn furnishes a clue to the affinities of
one form, while inviting further research as to the relationship and reason of the
other. The teeth of brazieri may be compared with those of Oliva, whereas the
general features of the radula of nympha are those observed in Olivella. There
are minor differences, but the obvious distinction is in the form of the central
tooth or rhachidian. In brazieri this is tricuspid like that of Oliva, while that of
nympha is multicuspid, recalling that of the American Olivella. Oliva has, how-
ever, no operculum, whereas Olivella possesses a well-formed operculum, which is
seen in both brazieri and nympha. It is here suggested that Oliva has evolved
from an Olivelloid ancestor, the tricuspid rhachidian being of later origin than
the multicuspid form, while the loss of the operculum is also due to specialization.
Then we may regard the present Olivellas as remnants of a large family, per-
sisting only on the outskirts of the range, and retaining the more primitive
radula and operculum. We then see in Belloliva an Olivella, which, retaining its
operculum, has developed an Oliva radula. As noted above, exquisita, from shell
characters, may be placed in Belloliva, but pardalis A. Ad. and Ang. = triticea
Duclos, differs a little in shell characters, as also in radular features, though
generally agreeing with Belloliva, and the differences may be indicated by a sub-
generic name Gemmoliva. Uowever, nympha, which Peile showed to have the
general radular features of the American Olivella, is conchologically very different
from the type of Olivella, and must be named generically, the genus Cupidoliva
being proposed for it as type. This species apparently shows great variation in
size and shape, and my series suggests that Vereo’s Olivella solidula may be the
Adelaidean representative of nympha, though it was not compared with that
species.
(771) ANCILLA CINGULATA (Sowerby, 1830). (Plate xxxvi.).
This species apparently is included in Hedley’s Cheek List from a northern
locality, as I collected it at Caloundra, Queensland, and it is not included in Roy
Bell’s collections. I have been puzzled in the determination of the series sent by
him, as no fewer than six different forms appear, and Hedley had only ad-
mitted three. After much trouble I have arrived at somewhat different con-
clusions from those generally accepted, but I am not satisfied that the truth is
known regarding these molluses. Some years ago, I considered the generic name
to be used for these Austral species and here give my results. In the British
Museum eases the species are arranged under four genera as follows, Ancilla
Lamarck, Sandella Gray, Hburna Lamarck and Sparella Gray. To the former
were allotted all the southern Australian species such as cingulata Sow., oblonga
Sow. and australis Sow. I found that the type of Ancilla was a species placed
under Sparella, and consequently a transference of names was necessary. I also
noted that Amalda had been proposed prior to Sandella and must be used. I
have already recorded this point in connection with tropical Australian molluscs.
I then consulted Fischer’s Manuel, and noted that he had provided Baryspira
as a sectional name for A. australis Sowerby and A. glandiformis Lamarck,
Miocene. In order to avoid confusion, I here designate A. australis Sowerby
as the type of Baryspira. The Neozelanic series certainly show slight con-
chological differences from the Australian groups now under discussion, but at
present I would advise the use of Baryspira generically for the Austral species
commonly ascribed to Ancilla. The shells are quite easily separable by con-
260 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
chological characters, and I have examined the Gwatkin Collection of Kadulae,
now in the British Museum, and find that the observed differences are confirmed
by separative features in that item. I was able to class the radulae in groups
which agreed with the shell groupings. The complete quotation of the generic
name Baryspira is Fischer, Manuel de Conchyl., fase. vi., 20 Dec., 1883, p. 600.
Type (by subs. desig., Ive., 1924) A. australis Sow. I now pass on to the con-
sideration of the determination of the specific names. From New South Wales
Hedley has recorded only A. cingulata Sow., A. edithae Prit. and Gat., and A.
oblonga Sow. The Victorian List reads A. lineata Kiener, A. marginata Lam.,
A. oblonga Sow., A. petterdi Tate, and A. edithae P. and G. Tate and May in-
cluded from Tasmania, A. marginata Lam., A. oblonga Sow., and A. petterdi
Tate. What each has meant by these names I cannot exactly determine from
the British Museum collection and literature. A. edithae seems plain, as there
are specimens in the British Museum so named, presented by the authors, but I
did not get this species in the collections sent by Roy Bell, though Hedley has
recently recorded it from very near this place. <A. petterdi Tate, I have identified
from Tate and May’s figure as a species sent from Port Fairy, Vic. A shell
found washed up on the shore at Port Fairy, Lakes Entrance, and Mallacoota,
Vic., and dredged in shallow water in Twofold and Disaster Bays, N.S.W., was
identical with a series which has been named by Hedley A. marginata var. tas-
manica Ten.-Woods. These came from Port Phillip, Vic., and I accept this name
upon this identification.
The next point was the recognition of Ancillaria oblonga Sowerby (Spee.
Conch., Vol. i., pt. i., Nov., 1830, p. 7, figs. 38, 39, on Pl. 3) from New Holland,
received from Port Jackson. The very good description and figure quickly deter-
mined this species as the one of which I had a very narrow form from 15-20
fathoms, Twofold Bay, but probably as quite different from current acceptance in
Tasmania and southern Victoria. Pritchard and Gatliff included it on Watson’s
identification of Challenger shells (which I have examined) which are from
Sydney Harbour, as given at the place quoted, and not Victoria. Tate and May
cited it as equivalent and prior to A. fusiformis Petterd (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm.,
1885 (1886), p. 342), which, according to the description, has little affinity. Sowerby
definitely stated “no carinations on the spire,” while Petterd wrote “spire spirally
striated above and below the suture.” Vereo recorded oblonga from 100 fathoms
90 miles west of Eucla, W.A., adding “Mr. Gabriel has sent me two examples
dredged in Western Port.” As he gives, fide Tate and May, A. fusiformis Pet-
terd in his synonymy, no certainty can be arrived at in this case even. Upon
this record Hedley included A. oblonga Sow. in his W.A. List, but also included
A. lineata Kiener, citing A. monilifera Reeve as a synonym. Kiener’s shell
closely resembles Sowerby’s oblonga, and apparently came from Western Aus-
tralia, whence many specimens are in the Australian Museum. In the British
Museum, I accepted Reeve’s types of his A. monilifera from Swan River as a dis-
tinct species from Sowerby’s A. oblonga, and, as Kiener’s name A. lineata had
been used previously by Perry (Conchology, 1811, Pl. xxxi.), Reeve’s name may
be used. Sowerby’s species A. oblonga should be crossed off the W. A. List, as
I regard it as the eastern representative of Reeve’s species only. Verco’s beach-
portensis appears to be a deepwater form of petterdi, while Hedley’s A. coccinea
is a deepwater shell from Western Australian waters very different from any
other species. These resolve themselves thus: A. tasmanica Ten.-Woods, a form
which seems constantly separable from A. marginata Lamarck and apparently
frequents very shallow water, as dead shells appear on the beaches and were sent
BY TOM IREDALE. 261
from the Victorian localities as picked up on shore, as well as from Twofold Bay,
where specimens were also found in the shallowest dredgings, 5-10 fathoms, and
Disaster Bay in 10-20 fathoms. <Ancilla fusiformis Petterd (Plate xxxvyi., f. 10)
appears to be the name of the commonest form in the dredgings, occurring in 10-
20 fathoms off Gabo Island, and in Disaster and Twofold Bays in the same
depths, while one live and some dead ones occurred in the deepwater dredgings
50-70 fathoms off Green Cape, N.S.W., together with a fragment of a more
heavily seulptured spire. A peculiarly elongate form (Plate xxxvi., f. 9) was
dredged in 18 fathoms off Merimbula, and this agrees with the Challenger shell
from Station 163B (Port Jackson 30-35 F.), recorded by Watson as A. oblonga
Sow. This I am not describing as a new species, though I find the Muddy Creek
fossils in the British Museum named Ancilla papillata Tate are very like the shell
I have determined as fustformis, but differ a little in shape. The difference be-
tween the two recent forms above recognised is much more marked than between
the recent and fossil forms from practically the same locality, as this species
(fusiformis) apparently occurs also in Bass Straits; I have received it in a
single dredging of 12 fathoms depth off Gabo Island, Vic. I here name the
Merimbula shell figured (Plate xxxvi., fig. 9) Baryspira fusiformis gaza, n. subsp.
In looking up these species in the Monographs I noted Reeve’s remark: ‘Mr.
Cuming never met with the genus in all his dredgings, except in the form of a
single small species at the Philippine Islands.” In the present instance these
animals occur in very many dredgings, but never numerously, and often dead.
Apparently they are generally buried in the sand as this is their custom when the
dredge passes over, and they may feed at stated intervals. Upon recomparison,
the deepwater shells above mentioned approximate more nearly to the fossils than
the shallow water ones do.
More study of more material has suggested the separation of the Australian
Species subgenerically as Alocospira Cossmann (Hssais de Paleoconch. comp.,
3rd livr., 1899, p. 92) which has the fossil A. papillata Tate, as type, including
therein the smooth species, such as marginata Lam. ‘These appear to inter-
erade, though both are represented in the Muddy Creek and Table Cape fossil
series, with many so-called species, which must be studied in conjunction with
- these recent forms.
(774-800) Family MARGINELLIDAE.
As usual, many species of this family turned up, about twenty-five species
having been already separated. These were submitted to my friend Mr. J. R.
fe B. Tomlin, and I had hoped to have included here a rearrangement of the
Austral species into groups, so that someone, save a Marginella specialist, might
attempt to determine the species without considering every Marginellid name. In
the meanwhile, I can add to the N.S.W. List five species:
Marginella tasmanica Ten.-Woods, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1875 (21
Mar., 1876), p. 28: Long Bay, Tasmania. This was found below dead low-water
mark at Twofold Bay, N.S.W., associated with M. muscaria Lam., while from 50-70
fathoms off Green Cape were sorted:
Marginella dentiens May, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1910, p. 384, PL
xi., ft. 6: 100 F. off Cape Pillar, Tasmania.
Marginella gabrieli May, ib., p. 386, Pl. xiii., f. 9: Same loc.
Marginella gatliffi May, ib., p. 385, Pl. xiii., f. 8: 40 F. off Schouten L., Tas.
Marginella caducocincta May, ib., 1915 (24 Feb., 1916), p. 88, Pl. i, f. 11:
40 F. off Thouin Bay.
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262 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
(802) CANCELLARIA AUSTRALIS Sowerby, 1832.
The name given in the synonymy, Cancellaria wndulata Sowerby, must be
used, as May has already pointed out’ (Illustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Ap-
pendix, Ref. to Pl. xxxiv., No. 1). Sowerby’s name was given to a Tasmanian
shell, but the Sydney form: does not appear to differ muchi from the specimens so
far studied.
I hope to review the species of this family admitted in the southern Aus-
tralian fauna, but in the meanwhile No. 805 must be removed from Admete back
to Cancellaria sensu lato, and it must be given specific rank, as quite distinct
from the fossil micra; the small specimens, compared by Hedley with the type of
micra, may not be conspecific with the type of scobina, and I do not regard them
as conspecific with the fossil micra, but very close to exigua Smith, which would
be placed next to stricta Hedley, and arranged alongside some of the small fossils
such as micra.
(813 A) TEREBRA UsTULATA Deshayes, 1857.
Terebra ustulata Deshayes, Journ. de Conch., 1857 (July), p. 97, Pl. ii.
f. 12: Van Diemen’s Land. Mus. Cuming.
From Twofold Bay four species of Terebra were dredged in varying depths,
but a single dredging in 10-20 fathoms in Disaster Bay brought up a hundred
specimens of a different species, which has been determined as above and which
is an addition to the New South Wales fauna. Later, an odd dead shell was
found in Twofold Bay dredgings, so that it does reach that bay.
The species has been placed by May, following Hedley, under the genus Dupli-
caria. Dall (Nautilus, 21, Mar., 1908, pp. 124, 125), provided for Terebra duplicata
Lam. Dall later noted that Rafinesque had long previously proposed Duplicaria
(Atlantic Journal, No. 5, 1833, p. 165) for a different object, so amended his -
name to Diplomeriza (Nautilus, 33, July, 1919, p. 32). Bartsch has recently
shown (Nautilus, 37, 1923, pp. 60-64) that some of the so-called Diplomeriza
have two folds on the columella, and has proposed to separate these under Hind’s
name Mywurella, introducing Myurellisca for the species confused with Lamarck’s
duplicata, which he distinguished as Myurella (Myurellisca) duplicatoides (p. 64)
from Ceylon.
Bartsch has written “Considerable time was required running down references
to names and verifying type designations. To save future students of this task
a chronologically arranged list of names supplying this information is here ap-
pended.” Such a statement would suggest accuracy which is belied by the pub-
lished conclusions. Thus Dall wrote Acuminia and Oxymeris, but Bartsch quotes
Acuminea and Oxomeris, and on p. 63 he named, as type of his new subgenus
Myurellisca, “Terebra (Myurellisca) duplicatoides Bartsch described below” but
on the next page “Myurella (Myurellisca) duplicatoides” is described. Probably
also this new (?) species has been named previously, as there are several synonyms.
Again, Bartsch cites names as of Lamarck which had been described before
Lamarck’s time: this is confusing, but when he writes that the type of Mazatlania
Dall is “Terebra aciculata Lamarck” and there is no such species, it seems un-
necessary to continue this note, and simply to ignore Bartsch’s Key, and make
an independent review. This is not my purpose, but, in order to stabilise some
Australian forms, I propose to separate the species grouped round wustulata
Deshayes as a new genus Pervicacia, using that well-known species as type. There
is only the basal twist of the columella to represent a fold.
The species 7. brazieri Angas was represented at Twofold Bay by a longer
BY TOM IREDALE. 263
narrower form which varied from almost smooth to well ribbed (Plate xxxvi., f.
6-7), and would fall, according to Bartsch’s Key, under Hastula, whereas the
species has been suggested to be a variety only of T. lanceota Linné, the type of
Acuminia Dall (Nautilus, 21, Mar., 1908, pp. 124-125), which name may be used
generically for the Austral species. I note Terebra leptospira Tate (Trans. Roy.
Soe. S. Aust., 1888, p. 163, Pl. viil., f. 15a, b) from Muddy Creek appears very
close to A. brazieri Angas, while Terebra subspectabilis Tate (loc. cit., p. 162,
Pl. ix., f. 11) seems closely related to P. ustulata Deshayes. Comparisons should
be made.
(813 B) PERVICACIA ASSECLA, n.sp. (Plate xxxvi., f. 16).
Shell elongately subulate, rather thin, glossy, last whorl about one-third the
length of the shell, mouth oval, canal short and open. Colour pinkish-white with
fulvous spots below suture and darker fulvous on basal part of last whorl: some-
times suffused with fulvous throughout. Apical whorls two, smooth; adult whorls
ten, sutures impressed, longitudinally ribbed, the ribs being interrupted by a
smooth coneave depression, sinuous and eighteen in number on the penultimate
whorl: on the last whorl the ribs are prominent on the periphery, continuing, but
fading, on the base which is rounded. The mouth has the outer lip thin, sinuate
through the lack of sculpture below the sutuce, the columella straight, anteriorly
a little bent but showing no folds. Length of type 28 mm., breadth 9 mm.
Dredged in Twofold Bay, N.S.W., in from 10-25 fathoms.
Superficially resembles P. ustulata (Deshayes), but I have seen no other
Australian Terebrid that. can be compared.
(823) Conus macuLosus Sowerby, 1859.
A perplexing complex is here exposed, as Roy Bell sent a fine lot of so-called
anemone from Port Fairy, Vic., where I have since collected it. Previously he
had sent a similar species from Lord Howe Island and later sent a few specimens
from Twofold Bay, N.S.W. I have collected specimens at Long Reef, near Manly,
but these all differed notably and suggest to me a distinet species, though Hedley
has only allowed them varietal rank. In any case the name to be used must be
revised, and I find that Conus maculosus Sowerby dates from the Conchological
Illustration, Pl. 3 and 3*, published 29 Mar., 1833, where it is said to have come
from the Island of Capul in the Philippines, and the figures are not like. either
the Port Fairy or Sydney shells. It is needless to pursue this item further, as
the name is preoccupied by Bolten (Mus. Bolten, pt. 11., 1798). The next name
cited by. Hedley, viz., C. gukesui Reeve (Conch. Icon., Vol. i., Apr., 1848, Conus
suppl. Pl. 2, f. 278) though localised as from North Australia is undoubtedly the
Sydney shell, and would be available were it not that Sowerby had figured (Con-
chological Illustrations, pt. 56, 30 Apr., 1834, fig. 79) a shell (the figure num-
bered 70 in error) which is easily recognizable as the same species. In the Lists
issued with the plates, Sowerby named this Conus papilliferus, and the name
would have been lost, save that in the Catalogue issued when the Monograph was
completed, he had noted that this name had been given, as he there concluded the
figured shell was “C. maculosus, test. jun.?” In 1859, at the place cited by
Hedley, Sowerby used the name maculatus for his previously named maculosus,
whether intentionally or not is unknown. The majority of the specimens from
Botany Bay to Port Stephens in the Australian Museum are typically C. papilli-
ferus, but there is one set presented by Miss L. Parkes from Middle Harbour,
264 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
which are lke the Twofold Bay shells. These agree with the Port Fairy series
in general appearance and have lower spires and are smoother than the typical
anemone Lamarck. Since Hedley wrote his account of this species, the Aus-
tralian Museum has received specimens from Kangaroo Island, which agree most
exactly with Kiener’s figure (Coquilles Vivants, Conus Pl. 46, fig. 3) of Lamarck’s
shell. This leaves the name Conus novaehollandiae A. Adams for the Western
Australian shell, as Monte Bello Island specimens agree very closely in shape
and sculpture with the figures in Thes. Conch., sp. 268, f. 298-299.
May has figured (Illus. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. xxxiv., f. 16), under the
name Conus anemone as “common all round the coast,’ a shell which does not
agree exactly with typical anemone and which may bear Tenison-Woods’s name of
carmeli (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1876 (1877), p. 134: North Coast Tasm.) given
to a coronate variety.
Brazier named Conus remo (These Proc., xxii., 1898, p. 271) from San
Remo, Vic., and Conus flindersi (loc. cit., xxii, 1897, p. 780) from Flinders,
Vie., which Pritchard and Gatliff declare to be synonyms of this species, the latter
being described as coronate and therefore like carmeli, the former being a deeply
suleated variation approaching typical anemone.
(885 B) TELEOCHILUS ROYANUS, n.sp. (Plate xxxiv., figs. 6-7).
This genus was proposed by Harris (Cat. Tert. Moll. Brit. Mus., Part I.
(Austral Tert. Moll.), (publd. ante 25 Mar.) 1897, p. 64) for the fossil species,
named by Tenison-Woods, Daphnella gracillima (Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm.,
1876 (27 Feb., 1877), p. 106) from Table Cape, Tasmania. This was figured by
Ten.-Woods (These Proe., u1., pt. 3, 1878 (1879), p. 226, Pl. xx., f. 10) and also
by Harris (loe. cit., Pl. iii., figs. 12c, d). I picked out two dead shells inhabited
by hermit-crabs, which attracted by their strange facies, ‘“Conomitroid without
any plaits.” These are smaller than the fossil shells, but are obviously the re-
cent representatives, in which the longitudinal ribbing is more pronounced and
the spirals are more depressed, while they are less regular.
The apical whorls are minutely punctate (f. 7) as shown in Harris’s figure,
and the succeeding whorls are obsoletely longitudinally ribbed and transversely
scratched, a couple of transverse ridges being more prominent below the suture,
which is slightly canaliculate; the aperture is longer than the spire. Length 16
mm.; breadth 6.5 mm.
Dredged in 10-25 fathoms in Twofold Bay, N.S.W.
This is the most interesting species found by Roy Bell, and, until the animal
is examined, its classification must remain obscure. As noted above, the only
specimens I have seen were dead, but this may be the same thing as recorded
by Gatliff and Gabriel from Bass Straits as Daphnobela sp., in which ease live
Specimens may soon turn up.
The genus Teleochilus was subordinated by Cossmann, who was followed by
Tate, to Daphnobela, a genus proposed for a Bartonian Eocene fossil, which
seems to have no relationship. Hedley recently proposed to use Teleochilus for
a different series of shells, about which I will write later. Teleochilus is here
placed at the end of the family Turridae.
(886) FASCIOLARIA AUSTRALASIA (Perry, 1811).
This is a difficult species. Hedley has allowed three varieties, typical, bakeri
and coronata. A series from Port Fairy, Vic., is of the smooth typical form,
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and shows no variation, while a lot from Twofold and Disaster Bays, N.S.W.,
are all larger and coronata, but with these from Disaster Bay came a specimen
quite different, and which I thought might be bakeri, but it does not agree
exactly with shells sent to the British Museum by the authors as that form. I
have since more carefully examined these series and give my conclusions as a
basis for future work.
All the shells from Twofold and Disaster Bays were dredged in from 10-20
fathoms of water. No shore shells were sent, and the previous records of this
species from New South Wales also refer to dredged specimens. All these are
coronata save the bakeri specimen. From Lakes Entrance, Vic., a few dead shells
were sent which prove to be also coronata. From Port Fairy many shells were
sent, all secured living about low water mark and these are all obviously different,
being non-coronate. In the British Museum, Tasmanian shells are shown as
coronate, South Australian shells as non-coronate. Verco has stated that both
coronate and non-coronate forms occur in South Australian waters, but as he
did not discriminate between shore shells and dredged specimens, it may be that
the former were like the Port Fairy shore shells, non-coronate, while all the
eoronate forms were dredged. Investigation of the subject from the point of
view here presented is suggested. It should be noted that Lamarck’s coronata,
from Kiener’s figure, is like the dredged New South Wales specimens, but is
more like the Tasmanian shells, and while Perry’s figure of australasia agrees
fairly with the Port Fairy shore shells. Perry’s localities read “A native of New
Holland and Van Diemen’s Land” while Lamarck recorded “prés des iles King et
des Kanguroos.” I suggest a reconsideration of the forms should be undertaken
in connection with the radular characters. Typical Fasciolaria is the North
American tulipa, conchologically dissimilar from the present species. More like
the Australian coronata is the tropical trapezium, for which Fischer proposed
the sectional name Plewroploca.
Over twenty years ago, Verco gave figures of the radulae of South Australian
Fusoid shells, and recently Claude Torr figured the radulae of Fasciolaria austra-
lasia and fusiformis from South Australian material. These figures do not agree
exactly with radulae in the Gwatkin Collection from Victoria and Tasmania, nor
with specimens from the present collection. There is no series of such prepara-
tions to determine the variation and decide whether it be individual or geo-
graphic. All the Australian radulae agree in showing fewer cusps on the laterals
than the typical Fasciolaria or Pleuroploca. As there is so little difference in the
radulae seen in this group, that cf true Fusinus being almost as little differen-
tiated from typical Fasciolaria as the Australian species are, I am collecting in-
formation as to other species and hope to report in my next essay. I have also
noted that there is a fossil Fasciolaria decipiens, a form not unlke bakeri, show-
ing the plications very obscurely, so much so that the specimens here have been
more than once variously determined.
My friend, Mr. J. R. Le B. Tomlin, has drawn my attention to a monograph
of the genus Fasciolaria by Strebel in Jahrb. Hamburg Wissensch. Anstalten,
xxvill., 1910, 2 Beiheft, (1911), pp. 1-58, Pls. i.-xv. Although Strebel apparently
collected all the specimens he could find, there is nothing like the so-called bakert
in his series, nor does he figure a shell like the Port Fairy australasia.
Mr. Hedley has told me that apparently many of Perry’s Australian shells
came from Patterson (hence Voluta pattersonia), and that Patterson once lived
at Dalrymple in northern Tasmania. This locality would agree with Perry’s
australasia and also his Pyrula undulata (see post, 891 A), as I find that the
266 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Port Fairy shore shells are practically inseparable from King Island and northern
Tasmanian shore shells.
South Australian shore shells of coronata are not exactly like the Tasmanian
forms, and are unlike the smooth Port Fairy australasia.
(888) VERCONELLA MAXIMA (Tryon, 1881).
A fine series of this lovely shell from Twofold Bay and off Green Cape,
N.S.W., showed it to be the Australian representative of the Neozelanic dilatata,
and consequently suggested the invalidity of the record of maxima from New
Zealand. I investigated this matter as far as the material here available per-
mitted, and then Hedley recorded results from recognition of the same facts in
New Zealand. In the N.Z. Journ. Sei. and Techn., i1., Feb., 1920, p. 54, he
stated that Suter’s maxima was the true dilatata, and that the species Suter had
described under the name dilatata should be called adusta Philippi (Abbil.
Besehr., 11., 1845, p. 21, Pl. i1., fig. 7). On p. 170 (Sept., 1920), he gave photo-
graphs of the species, but, unfortunately, the names in connection were trans-
posed, but the correction was made on p. 222. The series here had previously
enabled me to recognise the true dilatata, but I had concluded that the false
dilatata was merely a shallower water form of the same species, being not so
acutely angled, with a shorter spire and shorter canal. Vereo has synonymised
with dilatata, tasmaniensis Adams and Angas, maxima Tryon, and oligostira Tate.
Hedley, in the. note quoted, stated that dilatata did not extend to South Aus-
tralia, the species there being oligostira Tate.
Two entirely different molluscs appear to be here confused as Tate’s
oligostira is not angled like dilatata and maxima, yet Verco has recorded, under
the name dilatata, from the Great Australian Bight, specimens “with marked
angulation, valid sharp transverse coronating tubercles” which suggests to me a
form of maxima. The series of maxima I have studied vary in size from 20 mm.
to 250 mm., and came from depths varying from 15 to 70 fathoms, yet all are
quite constant.
Hedley inadvertently placed Verconella in the family Fasciolariidae, as the
radula and animal characters separate it quite widely from the Fusinoid series.
(889) FusINUS NOVAPHOLLANDIAB (Reeve, 1848). (Plate xxxiv., f. 9.)
Two very large specimens trawled in about 50 fathoms off Green Cape were
typical, save that the inner lip was enamelled into a distinet ridge separated
from the body-whorl and showing a small but distinct. posterior canal. Both
measured 225 mm. in length (one was broader, and the apex and canal were
both slightly broken), and dead, so that alive it must have been larger. On the
last three whorls of both the longitudinals were very weak, almost missing, and -
the whorls were all regularly rounded.
Many specimens were found with the animal in, on the shore at Disaster
Bay, recently washed up, and many were dredged up to 20 fathoms in both this
and Twofold Bay. The largest of these shallow water shells measured 180 mm.
in length and none had the inner lip thickened, but the larger ones showed the
thickening beginning anteriorly. This series showed variation in the _ longi-
tudinals, some having these well marked almost throughout, others practically
showing none throughout, but every one had regularly rounded whorls.
This suggests the reconsideration of Verco’s record of this species from the
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Great Australian Bight, as he states of his example: “67 mm. long .
shoulder is median and sharply angled with nine pliciform axial ribs.”
Mr. Hedley has suggested that the large deepwater shells deserve a varietal
name, and from examination of the series in the Australian Museum, which all
agree with my specimens, I propose to name this Colus novaehollandiae grandi-
culus, n. subsp.
The generic name Colus was published by Humphrey (Museum Calonnianum,
1797, p. 34), the Linnean Murex colus being the type by tautonymy.
The legitimacy of Humphrey’s names cannot be denied, by whatever rules
we abide, as they are published as genera by a binomial author with a biblio-
graphical reference. Anonymity is no bar to usage, and Humphrey’s names were
used for many years until quite recently.
(891) Fustnus waiter (Hedley, 1903).
A single specimen was forwarded from 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape,
N.S.W., but it was obviously not a Fusinus, as it was accompanied by typical
Fusinoid shells, determined as F’. novaehollandiae Reeve, and showed more re-
lationship with Verconella maxima (Tryon), but still representing quite a dis-
tinct group. As, at the same time as he proposed this as a species of Fusus,
Hedley discussed Verconella under a different generic name, ! ean see little
objection to my introducing the new generic name Berylsma, with Hedley’s
species Fusus waitet as type. My specimen contained a hermit crab, but Mr. J.
R. Le B. Tomlin has showed me a smaller specimen from Bass Straits (off Vic-
toria), named /’. waitei. It shows the operculum, which agrees with that of
Verconella, and differs from that of Fusinus, and apparently was dredged in
fairly deep water, as it is rather thin and pure white, covered with a thin silky
periostracum, and bolder sculpture than my shell. I have concluded, from pro-
longed study, that this is merely a deeper water representative of the shell
described by Adams and Angas as Fusus tasmaniensis (Proce. Zool. Soe. Lond.,
1863 (1864), p. 424, Pl. xxxvii., fig. 1) from Tasmania. The type is in the
British Museum and agrees very closely with Hedley’s species, save that it is
shorter in the spire and has a shorter canal. Alongside were placed specimens
which seemed conspecific, but which were labelled “grandis Gray” and ‘“Tas-
mania.” This meant they were from unknown locality, but had been determined
by Smith from comparison as grandis Gray, and that he had seen specimens
from Tasmania. I was fortunate in tracing the Tasmanian shell sent by Roland
Gunn, and still more so in finding, in a drawer of duplicates, a shell with a
paper inside stating “This is the type of Fusus grandis Gray” in Smith’s hand-
writing. Inside the mouth of the shell in Gray’s handwriting is the identification.
“EF. grandis Gray Coll.” The photograph, natural size, I had at once taken
shows«that this species is certainly tasmaniensis and differs from waitei only in
the shorter spire and canal. Otherwise the photo of grandis (Plate xxxv., f. 10)
agrees in detail with my specimen of waitei as to breadth and ornamentation.
Fusus grandis was described by Gray (Zool. Beechey’s Voyage, (after June), 1839,
p. 116) from unknown locality, and does not seem to have been used since, save
in the cases in the British Museum.
I find that Mr. Hedley has recognised the affinity of his species with the
Verconellids, beautiful specimens recently acquired being labelled in the Aus-
tralian Museum, Verconella waitei. The specimens from deeper water, say 70
fathoms, agree with the type, which was secured at a depth of 79-80 fathoms,
268 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
while shells from less depths, say 40-50 fathoms, agree better with my shell, that
is, they are broader, with a slightly shorter spire and canal, more solid, sculpture
less pronounced and are tinged with colour of a yellowish tone. These are quite
comparable with both grandis and waitei, and strongly support my conclusions
recorded above.
(891 A) PROPEFUSUS PYRULATUS (Reeve, 1847).
When Hedley reviewed Perry’s Conchology (These Proc., 1902, p. 24 et seq.)
he recorded (p. 27) “Pyrula undulatus, Perry (Pl. liv., f. 1), is Fusus pyrulatus,
Reeve, 1847.”
Pritchard and Gatliff, under the latter name, had lumped Fusus ustulatus
Reeve, writing “Making the same variation allowances as have been found neces-
sary in the case of many of our other species, we find that we cannot do other-
wise than regard F’. ustulatus, Reeve, as but a variation of F'. pyrulatus, Reeve,
and F. legrandi, T. Woods, must also be included in the synonymy.”
Verco had previously recorded F. pyrulatus Reeve as dredged in about 15
fathoms in South Australian waters, and F’. ustulatus Reeve as from three beaches
and also dredged, small, in 19-24 fathoms. Tate and May later recorded F.
pyrulatus Reeve from Cireular Head, common, and I’. ustulatus Reeve, of which
they regarded F. legrandi Ten.-Woods as a synonym, from N. Coast and E.
Coast of Tasmania. Pritchard and Gatliff admitted Hedley’s recognition of
Perry’s name. Hedley does not quote either from Western Australia, nor have
I seen it recorded from New South Wales.
Shore shells sent by Roy Bell from Port Fairy, Vic., were determined as
F. ustulatus Reeve from the type specimens, but these appeared distinct from
F. pyrulatus Reeve, as shown by the types. Later, Bell dredged specimens from
10-20 fathoms in Disaster Bay, N.S.W., and later some young ones in Twofold
Bay, about the latter depth. These obviously differed from the Port Fairy ones,
and agreed with the types of pyrulatus Reeve. I then referred to Perry’s Con-
chology, and found that his Pyrula undulata (Pl. liv., No. 1) was exactly like the
Port Fairy shells, and was not the New South Wales form. The differences in
the types and in my shells are clear, the dredged shell being larger and thinner
and having a longer bent canal. The radula has been recorded as Fusoid, so I
propose for the species Fusus pyrulatus Reeve, the new generic name Prope-
fusus, as the shell-characters are unlike those of the true Fusus, 1.e., Fusinus =
Colus.
(904) Microvotuta AusTRALIS Angas, 1877.
A common shell in shallow water dredgings appeared in two colour varia-
tions, one dark red-brown monochrome, the other pale fawn with brown zig-
zag streaks. A third distinct form had a longer spire and stronger sculpture,
though similarly coloured to the latter. This was dredged in the deeper shallow
water of Twofold Bay, say from 15-25 fathoms, and dead shells in the 50-70
fathoms, off Green Cape.
Hedley and May (Rec. Austr. Mus., vii., 11 Sep., 1908, p. 120, Pl. xxiu.,
figs. 20, 21) named as a new species, from 100 fathoms, 7 miles east of Cape
Pillar, Tasmania, Microvoluta purpureostoma, “Distinguished by lack of colour,
feebler plaits, smaller size and less breadth. Two specimens, one 6 x 3 mm.,
the other 8 x 3.5 mm.” They added “The characters seem to us to incline to the
Mitridae rather than to the Volutidae.’ The majority of the monochrome
specimens would answer to this as regards shape and size, ete., and probably the
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Tasmanian specimens were dead and were pallid deeper water shells. From
shell-characters, I agreed with Hedley’s reference to the Mitridae, and could not
understand the reference to the Volutidae. The only fear I had in connection
with the new species I am describing, is, that it might have been described as a
species of Mitra. As all the specimens of the common form were live shells, I
handed some to my friend, Lt.-Col. Peile, for radular examination. There is no
operculum, but the radula turns out to be typically Volutoid, practically a minia-
ture of that of Scaphella undulata, which was examined at the same time.
Smith deseribed a Mitra miranda (Proce. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1891) from
Challenger Station 164 B, which, from the description and figure, is a Microvo-
luta, but is not my new species. I have examined the figures and descriptions
of the Muddy Creek Mitra, but cannot recognise anything like this species, but
some of these figures suggest Microvoluta, and actual comparison is necessary.
(904 A) MicrovoLtuTA ROYANA, n.sp. (Plate xxxv., f. 13.)
A deeper water relation of M. australis, differing in the longer spire and
complex sculpture.
Shell small, solid, shining, fusiform, spire a little attenuate, longer than
aperture, outer lip sinuate, contracted anteriorly. Colour pale fawn with un-
dulating zigzag streaks of pale red, and scattered darker red spots arranged
linearly, and a paler zone marking the periphery. The apical whorls are un-
sculptured, one and a half in number, but can searcely be said to be papillary, as
in the type. The sculpture consists of curved, longitudinal, ill-defined ribs with
shallow grooves between, about twenty-four on the penultimate whorl, and more
on the last whorl, becoming obsolete and crowded towards the outer lip: they are
less clearly differentiated on the earlier whorls, only showing as impressed lines
on first whorl succeeding apical one and a half. All the whorls are completely
crossed by thin incising lines almost as irregularly spaced as the longitudinals,
about seven on penultimate whorl, those succeeding suture closer together, more
separated towards base, about twenty-four lines on last whorl. There are about
six and a half sculptured whorls, convex, with sutures distinct. Outer lip thin
and sinuous, but solid, a shallow depression posteriorly, succeeded by a forward
curve below the middle and sharply retracting anteriorly into a shallow spout.
There are four well marked plications, regularly transverse, the first and third
prominent, the second more so, and the fourth least and anteriorly sloping.
Length of type 9.5 mm.; breadth 4 mm.; length of aperture 4.5 mm.
Dredged in the deeper water in Twofold Bay, N.S.W., 20-25 fathoms, and
also in 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape, N.S.W.
Compared with numerous specimens of M. australis Angas from 5-15 fathoms
in Twofold Bay, the coloration is similar, but the aperture in the type species
is equal to the spire, which is a little compressed, the whorls less convex, sutures
only impressed; the plications in the shallow water form are less marked, fourth
obsolete, the outer lip almost straight, no posterior depression, and the anterior
contraction not so pronounced. The genotype shows no sculpture, but really there
is a couple of incised lines just below the suture, and in the earlier whorls faint
indications of the lines longitudinally can be traced.
(904 B) PECULATOR VERCONIS, n. gen. et sp. (Plate xxxiv., f. 5.)
A close ally of Imbricaria porphyria Vereo, and probably the Peronian re-
presentative of that species, differing in the higher spire and stronger sculpture.
270 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
May (lllustr. Index Tasm. Shells, 1923, Pl. xxxvu., fig. 23), under Verco’s name,
has figured a species very similar to, if not the same as mine. Verco’s detailed
description agrees generally as regards shape and form. Shell ovate, spire short,
aperture long and linear, more than twice the length of the spire. First two
whorls smooth and rounded; rest sculptured with longitudinal ribs, of which
twenty-three can be counted on the penultimate whorl, a transverse sculpture of
closely-packed incised lines being observed between the ribs; the same sculpture
is seen on the last whorl, but the transverse sculpture becomes obsolete below
the periphery, while the ribs also become weaker as they approach the anterior
canal, where the transverse sculpture becomes more prominent again. Coloration
pinkish-white with orange spots below the suture and below the periphery, the
intervening space being marked with yellow arrow-head markings. Length 11
mm.; breadth 6 mm. :
Dredged in Twofold Bay, 15-25 fathoms; and also in Disaster Bay, N.S.W.,
10-20 F.
(910 A) RADULPHUS ROYANUS, n. gen. et sp. (Plate xxxiv., f. 8.)
Nearest Cyllene lactea Angas, but different at sight in sculpture and colour.
Shell small, buccinoid in shape, aperture about as long as spire, aperture
oval, open, canal shallow, spire narrowly triangular. Coloration pinkish-fulvous,
rather regularly spotted with white, the spots most noticeable on the last whorl.
Apical whorls two, mamillate, smooth; adult whorls six, sculptured on the earlier
whorls with longitudinal ribs, faintly at first, then strengthening to the ante-
penultimate whorl, where they decrease at the suture and develop into nodules
peripherally; on the last whorl the seulpture appears to consist of a peripheral
row of nodules extending a little anteriorly, succeeded by eight transverse lines;
a shoulder shows only growth lines, but on the earlier whorls a few transverse
lines may be observed. The inner lip is coneave, appressed on the columella
anteriorly and showing about eight transverse wrinkles; the outer lip is white,
sharp edged but thickened interiorly, a few wrinkles anteriorly only, sinuate a
little past the middle and advancing posteriorly. Operculum leaf-shaped. Length
15 mm.; breadth 7 mm.
Dredged in 15-25 fathoms in Twofold Bay, N.S.W., also in Disaster Bay,
10-20 fathoms.
(929) NAssARIUS SEMIGRANOSUS (Dunker, 1846).
Dunker deseribed this under the genus Buccinwm, and previously Wood (In-
dex Testac., 1828, Suppl. p. 11) had proposed the same name, so that Dunker’s
name must be rejected. The next name seems to be nigella Reeve (accepted by
Hedley for a variety). This species was common in the shallow water dredgings,
varying appreciably, and the form named mumnieriana Crosse and Fischer was
plentiful. This was ranked as a monstrosity by Hedley in his review of this
species, but it seems to be a normal state, produced by growth after a long
rest period.
The species does not seem distantly related to the Victorian shell I named
victorianus, and I was inclined to refer some specimens to that species at first
sight. Among the Muddy Creek fossils in the British Museum, I saw a series
labelled Nassa crassigranosa Tate, which suggested themselves as ancestral re-
latives of both these recent species.
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(929 B) NAssarius TAsMANIcUS (Ten.-Woods, 1876).
According to Hedley’s figure, and more recent autoptic examination of
typical specimens, Tenison-Woods’s Nassa tasmanica occurs. This was described
(Proe. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1875 (1876), p. 150) from the northern and eastern
coasts of Tasmania, and was figured by Hedley (These Proc., xxxix., pt. 4, 1914
(26 Feb., 1915), p. 737, Pl. Ixxxiv., f. 91). In the very shallow rock scoopings,
many specimens were found from Twofold Bay, mixed with the preceding, but
the latter was only dredged very commonly in depths from five fathoms down
to the 50-70 fathom dredgings. In the latter a number of specimens was found,
and as some were alive, nigella apparently lives down to that depth. The series
showed that it was rapidly decreasing in size, the largest specimens being only
equal to the average of the smaller of the shallow water series, being about half
the size of the larger ones.
(935) PYRENE BEDDOMEI (Petterd, 1884).
This species was described as a Terebra, while it had been otherwise named
Columbella attenuata. The attenuate form amply distinguishes the species from
Pyrene, while the shape of the mouth is very different, the inner lip being crenu-
late and the outer lip sinuate; operculum irregularly oval, apex terminal, con-
centric striae fairly well marked. I propose the new generic name Zella for this
species.
(971) CRASPEDOTRITON spPECcIOsUS (Angas, 1871).
It seems correct to propose a new generic name, Galfridus, for this species,
as it 1s obviously not congeneric with the type of Craspedotriton, Triton con-
volutus Broderip, when a careful examination of the shelis is made. The latter
has a long spire, which is commonly decollate, and a closed canal, and the re-
semblance is quite superficial. Moreover, we have knowledge of the radula and
opereular features of the Australian shell, while we do not yet know details of
Craspedotriton. The operculum and radula of speciosus Angas were figured by
Kesteven (These Proe., 1902, p. 479, fig. 3 in text). Further, prior to Dall’s
proposal of Craspedotriton, Canefri had introduced (Ann. Soc. Malac. Belg.,
xv., 1880 (1881), p. 44) the name Phyllocoma for convolutus alone. This is
antedated by Phyllocomus, proposed by Grube in 1877, and, according to our
usage, invalid, but Bartsch, e.g., might not at present accept our views.
(974) LaraxIENA IMBRICATA (Smith, 1876).
Smith called this species Fusus imbricatus, and an earlier Smith had used
the same name (Geol. Trans., vi., 1841, p. 156) for a different fossil. Ap-
parently the unlovely name, Lataxiena lataxiena Jousseaume, 1883, must be used.
(975) Typuis PHILIPPENSIS Watson, 1886. (Plate xxxiv., fig. 10.)
This species was dredged as a very fine form in all depths from 15-25
fathoms in Twofold Bay, Disaster Bay and off Merimbula, N.S.W. It was
described from Port Phillip, Vie., and Pritchard and Gatliff record, from that
locality also, yatesi Crosse. From specimens in the British Museum sent by
Verco, I conclude that the latter is the Adelaidean representative of the Peronian
philippensis, and, if both should occur, it would be most interesting, but I think
it will be found that only one species lives there. The opereulum and radula
are normal.
In the Rev. Mag. Zool., 1879, Jousseaume published a division of the Muri-
272 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
cidae, and I recorded the names (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xlvi., 1914 (12 July, 1915),
p- 469), but only those of Murex sensu latissimo, and not those of Typhis. I
here give the latter, and make correction as follows: The number of the Rev.
Mag. Zool., 1879, did not appear until 1882, so Jousseaume published a digest
in Le Naturaliste, 2nd Yr., No. 42, 15 Dec., 1880, simply giving the names of the
divisions and designating a type. As a coincidence leading to confusion, the
pagination in Le Naturaliste is 335-6, while in the Rev. Mag. Zool., 1879, the
pages number from 322 to 339. The Muricoid names in Le Naturaliste all
appear on p. 335, as they are given in my paper quoted, with the same types,
but two names are mis-spelled, Gracilipurpura and Pterochilus.
The names relating to the subdivision of Typhis read in Le Naturaliste as
follows:
p. 335 Typhis Montfort. Type Murex tubifer Brug.
Typhinellus nov. Typlis sowerbyi Brod,
Typhina nov. belchert Brod.
Siphonochelus nov. avenatus Hinds.
Typlisopsis nov. coronatus Brod.
Haustellotyphis nov. cumingi Brod.
336 Perotyphis nov. pinnatus Brod.
Lyrotyphis (ex Bayle MS.) nov. Typhis cuniculosus Diichstel (fossil).
Hirtotyphis (ex Bayle MS.) noy. horridus Broechi (fossil).
In the Rev. Mag. Zool., 1879, which appeared in 1882, I find
p- 337 Cyphonochelus nov. Type Typhis arcuatus Hinds.
338 Pterotyphis nov. pinnatus Brod,
as corrections for Siphonochelus and Perotyphis.
Then are added
p. 338 Talityphis Type Typhis expansus Sow.
339 Trigonotyphis fimbriatus A. Ad.
Typhisala grandis A. Ad.
Examination of the series in the British Museum shows that the Australian
philippensis is so like belcheri, i.e., cleryi, that the specific name has been used
for it and is therefore referable to Typhina, but these are very close to the fossil,
which is the type of Typhis. In the same way sowerbyi, grandis, fimbriatus,
probably with pinnatus and coronatus (shown only by imperfect specimens)
group together, though their distribution is eccentric. However, the generic dis-
tinction of the arcuatus group cannot be denied, and apparently Cyphonochelus
must be used; the name Siphonochelus can only be construed as a nomen nudum
as the type name was mis-spelled avenatus, and could not be recognised. The
Muddy Creek fossil Typhis mecoyi Ten.-Woods seems to differ only by being
larger than my series, while these are larger than the type. Verco has also re-
corded large specimens of yatesi, so that we have here an interesting series. A
deepwater dead shell from 50-70 fathoms, off Green Cape, N.S.W. (it may have
washed down) proved very close to the fossil form, as shown here by a smaller
specimen than the type. Typhis hebetatus Hutton, a Neo-zelanie fossil, has even
been regarded as synonymous with T. mccoyi, but this determination should be
re-investigated.
I here name the large form I have figured (Plate xxxiv., f. 10) Typhis
philippensis interpres, n. subsp., though it might as well be named Typhis
[mecoyi| interpres, either nomination suggesting its relationship.
BY TOM IREDALE. 273
(976) TypHis syrinaiaANus Hedley, 1903.
The generic name Cyphonochelus should be used for this species, as cited in
the preceding note. This beautiful little shell was dredged alive in small num-
bers in the shallower waters of Twofold Bay, from 6 to 12 fathoms, and achieved
a length of 11 mm., and is of a red-brown colour when alive, sometimes with a
paler zone circling the body-whorl. The opereulum and radula are normal.
Dead specimens from 50-70 fathoms off Green Cape are smaller.
(978) XYMENE HANLEYI (Angas, 1867).
This species ranges into Victoria, having been sent from Mallacoota by Roy
Bell. It is not uncommon in the shallow water dredgings from Twofold Bay,
and is always easily separable from paivae, with which it was confused until
Hedley separated them comparatively recently. The Mallacoota shells are some-
times broader, but from Port Fairy, Vic., paivae was sent as a shore shell, and
with it an elate similar-looking shell which was quite distinct, and may be one
of the named forms commonly ranked as synonyms, such as assisi Ten.-Woods.
The genus Xymene cannot include these Muricoid forms, so I again propose
a new genus, Bedeva, and name Angas’s Trophon hanleyi as type.
I note that the dredged Twofold Bay shells have a longer, more recurved
canal than the more littoral ones from Mallacoota, and this suggests that paivae
is only the Adelaidean shore representative of the shallow water Peronian hanleyi,
while assisi is the shallow water Adelaidean form. A pretty problem is here
revealed.
(980) THats succincta (Martyn, 1784).
Some of the commonest species of marine molluscs give the most trouble.
For a century the question of the variability of the present species has been dis-
cussed, and the matter to-day cannot be regarded as definitely settled. Recently,
Australian malacologrsts have accepted the specific identity of the two forms
commonly known as succincta and textihosa. I have collated the following ex-
pressions of published opinion in the known range of southern extra-tropical
Australia and New Zealand. Tate and May included P. succincta and var.
textiliosa without comment: years later, when May recorded Thais succincta Mart.
from the Furneaux Group he noted “A smoothish form was seen.” Pritchard and
Gatliff wrote “There seems to be no doubt whatever, that P. succincta and P.
textiliosa are but variations of the one species. The nature of their habitat pro-
bably controlling their variations to a great extent. The finer ornamented form
is the commoner with us.” Years ago, Vereo wrote “the form... . having
strong revolving ribs with excavated sides, is very rare on the South Australian
COAST Uetits P. textiliosa Lam. is only a variety of P. succincta, and this is a
very common shell here. From a large number of specimens we have been able
to obtain complete series of gradations between P. succincta and P. textiliosa,
and between P. textiliosa and P. aegrota, proving them all to be but variations
of a common species.”
At Sunday Island in the Kermadee Group, this form was probably living,
but was only met with as a huge dead shell, which has since been considered
as a distinct species. In New Zealand, both forms appear to live in the North
Island and Suter states that the smoother form is the more common, with the
suggestion that the differences are due to habitat. At Caloundra, Queensland, I
collected a series which showed both forms, under the same conditions, and the
succincta form was constantly a thinner shell with the outer lip thin, the texti-
274 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
liosa form being much heavier and thicker and having a thickened lip, lirate
within. Roy Bell sent me, from Norfolk Island, a long series from the same
reef showing similar differences, and, moreover, very constantly so. Dr. A. H.
Cooke got together a large series of shells from Australia, confirming Verco’s
suggestion, but emphasized the fact that the succincta form was the preponderating
eastern Australian shell, the textiliosa the South Australian and the aegrota form
Western Australian. He showed these at a meeting of the Malacological Society
of London, when IJ confronted them with the above-mentioned facts and speci-
mens, and he allowed that these created a difficulty. I suggested that only two
solutions seemed possible, sexual dimorphism, or that there were two distinct
species. He then studied the radulae of the whole of the species referred to
Thais and published his results (Proce. Malac. Soc. Lond., xiu., Apr., 1919, pp.
91-109) wherein he showed that two types of radula were seen in the Gwatkin
collection under the name of textiliosa and succincta, and that these suggested
two species. (
Roy Bell sent a nice series from Port Fairy, Vic., which were at once re-
cognised as distinct from the Caloundra shells, as they were all smoothish tezti-
liosa, but with lower spires and indistinct noduling at the shoulders, recalling
aégrota. I have noted such a specimen in the British Museum, labelled ventricosa
Tate. From Mallacoota, a good lot was sent, but these were nearly all typical
succincta, a couple of odd shells like the Port Fairy series standing out at once.
From Twofold Bay, a long selection was forwarded, every one of which was
typical succoncta. I then examined the radulae in the Gwatkin collection, and
found that all those referred to as textiliosa were from Western Australia and
Victoria, while the succincta specimens were from New South Wales. From this
it is seen that the exact status of the New South Wales textiliosa is still un-
determined, but that aegrota and its var. ventricosa are readily separable, either
by shell characters or by radular features. I have studied this species on the
Sydney beaches, with the result that, so far, all the specimens are easily referable
to succincta alone, no textiosa occurring, any apparently smoothish shell being
traceable to fracture. From southern Tasmania, a series has been examined, all
being textiliosa, and suggesting that the type of Lamarck’s textiliosa may have
been collected in that locality. The Port Fairy shells, which should geographically
agree with Kangaroo Island ones, are not so well in agreement with the
Lamarckian figure.
The New Zealand shells, regarded as suecincta, are easily separable, and
should bear the name scalaris Menke (Verz. Conch. Samml. Mals., 1829, p. 33),
unless that name be preoccupied, which I have not yet determined. Since I re-
cognised this fact and name, I find that Mr. Hedley had named the specimens
in the Study Collection in the Australian Museum, selecting Menke’s choice, as
of varietal rank, so that the radula should be examined comparatively.
(981) AGNEWIA PSEUDAMYGDALA (Hedley, 1903).
The reference of this species to Agnewia is a pure error, as Cronia had
been introduced earlier by H. and A. Adams (Gen. Recent Moll., Vol. i, Aug.,
1853, p. 128) for amygdala Kiener alone. The shell from the eastern coast of
Australia was separated as a distinct species from amygdala Wiener, from
Western Australia, under the name pseudamygdala by Hedley. When I collected
the shell known as Drupa chaidea Duclos at the Kermadec Islands, its close re-
semblance to the Australian shell impressed me, and I worked out the affinities
of these shells from conchological characters, and accepted Morula for the chaidea
BY TOM IREDALE. 275
series. Cooke investigated the radula of these groups and published his con-
clusions (Proc. Malac. Soe. Lond., xiii., Apl., 1919, p. 91 et seq). Some of his
statements are not exactly well-written, as in this ease, dealing with the radula
of the present species, he writes under the name “Cronia amygdalus, WKien.:
Torres Str., Port Jackson. . . . . Mr. Hedley, I am told by Mr. Iredale, names
Cronia from these localities pseudamygdalus, restricting amygdalus to Sydney and
the east coast.” This last sentence is ridiculous.
However, Cooke pointed out that the radula was “markedly that of
Morula. Ctroma is a searcely modified Morula,’ thus absolutely confirming my
conclusions achieved from conechological studies. In the same place, Cooke figured
the radula of Agnewia tritonzformis (Blainville), which is of an entirely different
pattern, being very close to that of the swecincta series, for which I proposed the
genus Neothais. Cooke further showed that the peculiar radular characters of
Lepsiella were to be seen in the Australian species I ranged therein from shell
features.
As noted above, I studied this group so may here note that the shell named
by Hedley Thais ambustulata was collected by myself at Caloundra, Queensland,
and seems to be closely allied to margariticola Broderip, a widespread tropical
Morula of Muricoid facies.
In this family I suggest a renomination thus:
No. 979 Thais ambustulata to be Morula ambustulata
980 succincta Neothais succincta
981 Agnewia pseudamygdala Cronia pseudamygdala
988 Drupa chaidea Morula nodulifera
989 marginalba Morula marginalba
In the Proc. Malae. Soe. Lond., xii., 1918, pp. 38-39, I noted that Duclos’
P. ehaidea was regarded by Martens, from study of the type, as identical with
P. nodulifera Menke. This was briefly described (Verz. Conch. Samml. Malsburg,
p- 33 (pref. May 18) 1829) without definite locality, but as the species is un-
mistakable, Menke’s name may be accepted. At the same time, I recorded that
Purpura granulata Duclos (Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, xxvi., May, 1832) was equi-
valent to and earlier than P. twberculata Blainville (after June, 1832), and this
chronological item was overlooked by Hedley (These Proe., xlviil., 3 Oct., 1923,
p- 314) when he gave a definite Australian locality for Drupa tuberculata, recte
Morula granulata Duclos, a common shel] at Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands,
whence Bell sent it.
(1000) SrpHonarta vircuLATA Hedley, 1915.
Hedley described this species from Terrigal, Sydney, and Twofold Bay,
citing as equivalent Siphonaria funiculata Angas, not Reeve. His type measure-
ments read: Length 21; breadth 19; height 9 mm. His comparison with funi-
culata reads “the Tasmanian species differs in being more solid, narrower, taller,
with sharper contrast between light and dark stripes, and fewer coarser radials.”
He regarded blainvilley Hanley as an elevated form of S. virgulata. I have re-
peatedly criticised the British Museum types named, and agree in the above
differential features, and have concluded that virgulata is simply the Peronian
form of funiculata Reeve. Shells from Long Reef, Sydney, sent by Hedley as
“Co-types” are seaworn and apparently smoother than shells from Victoria
. labelled “inculta Gould,” which, of course, they are not. A very fine lot from
Twofold Bay, sent by Roy Bell, are all very clean beautiful shells and agree
generally with the description given by Hedley, and are undoubtedly his species.
From Mallacoota and Lakes Entrance, Vie., Bell had previously sent the
276 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
same species in the same clean condition, but a slightly rougher form. From the
latter place, three large beautiful shells were sent, narrower and taller, and
proving the exact relationship of virgulata and fumiculata, as they agreed exactly
with the types of the latter species save in solidity and less coarse radials.
Hedley, however, also wrote “Nearer to our novelty than funiculata is 8.
sonata Ten.-Woods (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1877 (1879), pp. 47, 99), which is
taller, narrower, darker in colour, more coarsely and evenly sculptured, and
ranging from Tasmania to Victoria, and South Australia, being the Adelaidean
correspondent of the Peronian wirgulata.” This statement has continually
puzzled me, as from Port Fairy, Vic., Roy Bell had sent a beautiful series of
probably the most pleasing Siphonaria I have seen. This was named in the
British Museum Collection “zonata Ten.-Woods,” and I found, at the reference
above cited, that Tenison-Woods had previously described the shell as Siphonaria
denticula var. tasmanica. This was pointed out by Hardy (Papers and Proe.
Roy. Soe. Tasm., 1915, p. 62) in a paper I did not see until after I had traced
this myself. Tenison-Woods described his species as “with 40 to 50 fine flattened
and diminishing ribs,” which agrees with Hedley’s “seulpture,’ but the Port
Fairy shells do not show “coarse” sculpture, being comparatively the “smoothest”
form of Siphonaria, while the Lakes Entrance she!l is even smoother. The name
of the species known as Siphonaria zonata must become Siphonaria tasmanica,
both of Tenison-Woods, an item overlooked by May (Check List; and also Iustr.
Index Tasmanian Shells).
(1001) SrpHonarta zErra Reeve, 1856.
Hedley has admitted this name, apparently on account of the recognition
of shells, apparently types, so named in the British Museum. These were
localised as from “Port Jackson” and placed next to a set of “bifurcata Reeve,”
also apparently types, and also with locality “Port Jackson.” As Reeve’s species
zebra was described from the Philippine Islands, I examined these in connection
with the description and figure. Only a figure of the inside was given, and the
description of zebra states “depressly conical . . . . white with one or two
blotches,” whilst of bifurcata was written “very depressly conical . . . yellowish
white, interstices between the ribs rayed with black.” The latter account agrees
with the shells labelled zebra, while the set labelled bifurcata disagree entirely, as
their outer surface is nearly unicoloured white, and they are comparatively very
tall. I did not recognise them as the types of zebra, which I did not absolutely
find. It will be noted that the figures have the numbers transposed, or it may
even be that it was the deserip‘ions which were mixed up. However, though it
is certain that the two shells have been confused, I cannoti recognise in anything
I have seen, such a shell as Hedley might have determined as bifurcata. The
real bifurcata (i.e., zebra Hedley), I conelude, is the Peronian representative of
the Western Australian baconi.
(1002) KERGUELENIA STOWAE (Verco, 1906).
Many dead shells occurred in shell-sand sent me by Dr. Torr from South
Australia, and the shells I sorted out of the shell-sand and shallow water dredgings
from Twofold Bay, N.S.W., showed appreciable differences. The latter were
more regularly elongate and smooth, and with the apex more anterior. I find
these to be common and constant on the Sydney beaches, and I separate them
subspecifically, but the genus Kerguelenia should first be rejected. The radula is
very different, consisting of 120 rows with a formula of 44.1.44 in the ease of
BY TOM IR#DALE. BHT
Kerguelenia lateralis from New Zealand, i.e., K. innominata Iredale; in S. stowae
Verco, the rows are given as 94 with a formula of 22.1.22, a very different
style. I introduce the new generic name Pugillaria for S. stowae Vereo, and
name the Peronian form Pugiliaria stowae comita, n. subsp.
(1003) Gapinia conica Angas, 1867.
Some years ago, discussing the occurrence of a Gadinia at the Kermadecs,
from a study of shell characters, | was compelled to lump all the Neozelanic
and Austral forms into one species. Lumping is notoriously a bad policy, and
in the few instances { have hitherto adopted such I have later been forced to
alter my conclusions and this case points a special moral. Dr. Torr sent me
some shell-sand from Port Lincoin, 8. Aust., and from it I sorted some young
dead shells of a Gadinia: these attracted me by their regular elongate shell, the
shells I had previously studied being more or less cireuiar with only slight
eccentricity. 1, therefore, reviewed the matter and concluded that the only way
to eriticise these molluscs was geographically, and, therefore, | contrasted my
own series collected at Sydney, with the South Australian shells, and found them
abundantly distinct, the former always being more rounded and flatter. Knowing
the individual variation well, I was still certain that these were separable. Con-
trasting the former with Neozelanic specimens, the differences were not so
striking, but still there were some. fecourse to the radular features showed
great distinction: thus, Claude Torr counted thirty laterals in connection with
that of the South Australian form, while Hutton found sixty in the New Zealand
form. The radula in the Gwatkin Collection from Port Jackson shows about
forty, but as I collected the Sydney shell alive myself,.I am having some more
preparations made, and will refer again. The anatomy of the Neozelanic species
was dealt with by Hutton (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xv., 1882 (1883), 144).
Stphonaria albida Angas (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 314, Pl. xviii.,
figs. 14, 15), described from St. Vincent’s Gulf, S. Aust., is undoubtedly only a
fine clean regular Gadinia; no such shape would be found in New South Wales.
(1123 A) PHiINE copumMNaARIA Hedley and May, 1908.
Philine columnaria Hedley and May, Ree. Austr. Mus. vu., No. 2, 11 Sep.,
1908, p. 123, Pl. xxiv., figs. 25, 26: 100 fathoms, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania.
Specimens agreeing well with the description and figure of this species were
found in the 50-70 fathom dredgings off Green Cape, N.S.W., and this species
may be added to the N.S.W. List.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXXIII-XXXVLI.
Plate xxxiii.
1. Neotrigonia gemma Iredale, Type.
2. N. margaritacea (Lamarck), juv.
3, 4. Myadora subalbida Gatliff and Gabriel. 3. left valve; 4. right valve.
5, 6. M. royana Iredale, Type. 5. left valve; 6. right valve.
7, 8. Fluctiger royanus Iredale, Type. 7. right valve; 8. left valve.
9, 10. Myadora complexa Iredale, Type. 9. right valve; 10. left valve.
11, 12. Bathycardita raowk Angas. 11. adult; 12. interior view.
13, 14. Myadora albida Ten.-Woods. 13. left valve; 14. right valve.
15. Solamen rex Iredale, Type.
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278 RESULTS FROM ROY BELL’S MOLLUSCAN COLLECTIONS,
Plate xxxiv.
1-4. Lima nimbifer Iredale. 1. narrowed right valve, inside; 2. Type, side view;
3. full left valve, interior; 4. Type, outside of left dale,
5. Peculator verconis Iredale, Type.
6, 7. Teleochilus royanus Iredale, Type. 7. protoconch.
8. Radulphus royanus Iredale, Type.
9. Colus novaehollandiae grandiculus Iredale, protoconeh.
10. Typhis philippensis interpres Iredale, Type.
11. Stiva royana Iredale, Type.
Plate xxxv.
1. Neotrigonia gemma Iredale.
2. Solamen rex Iredale.
3. Glycymeris striatularis suspectus Iredale, Type.
4. Austrotriton parkinsonius basilicus Iredale, Type.
5, 6. Hligidion audax Iredale, Type. 5. side view; 6. from above.
7-9. Ethminolia probabilis Iredale, Type. 7. from above; 8. from side; 9. trom
below.
10. Fusus grandis Gray, Type.
11. Spectamen philippensis Watson.
12. Minolia pulcherrima emendata Iredale, Type.
13. Microvoluta royana Iredale, Type.
14. Nuculana dohrnii (Hanley).
15. Nuculana (dohrnu) tragulata Iredale.
16, 17. Triviella merces Iredale, Type. 16. from above; 17. from below.
18, 19. Glycymeris flammeus Reeve. 18. hinge; 19. hinge of young.
20. G. hedleyi Lamy.
21. Amygdalum beddomei Iredale, Type.
Plate xxxvi.
1, 17. Letopyrga lineolaris Gould. 1. variation; 17. normal.
2. L. octona problematica Iredale, Type.
3, 12, 13. Gazameda gunnii Reeve. 3. Disaster Bay form; 12. normal; 13. trom
deepwater.
4, 15. Colpospira guilleaumet Iredale, Type. 15. side view of mouth showing sinus.
5. C. quadrata Donald.
6, 7. Terebra braziert Angas. 6. sculptured form; 7. smooth form.
8. Baryspira oblonga Sowerby.
9. B. fusiformis gaza Iredale. Type from off Merimbula.
10. B. fusiformis Petterd.
11. Gazameda tasmanica Reeve, adult.
14. G. tasmanica Reeve, young.
16. Pervicacia assecla Iredale, Type.
Note added 16 Sept., 1924.—I find that some years ago Cossman designated
Ancilla australis Sowerby as the type of Baryspira. This should be noted in 5th
line from bottom of page 259 and also line 6 on page 260.
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TWO NEW THRIPS-GALLS AND THEIR INHABITANTS, FROM
NEW SOUTH WALES.
By W. Docters van LEEUWEN and H. H. Karny, Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg.
(Communicated by J. H. Maiden, I.R.S.)
(Three Text-figyres.)
[Read 25th June, 1924.]
On one of the excursions which followed the second Pan-Pacific Science
Congress (Australia, 1923) one of us (the former) had an opportunity of
collecting galls in an almost tropical vegetation. In the territory of the Northern
Rivers, especially round Lismore, almost the whole of the old vegetation has been
cut or burned down in order to make pasture land. Only a very small spot was
still left untouched at the time of this visit, and they were just beginning to cut
also the trees of this last sma!l reservation.
This forest gave the same impression as a forest on dry ridges in Java:
some old tall trees and a dense underbrush. A thrips-gall was collected there, on
Randia chartacea ¥.v.M., which is not mentioned in the recently published valu-
able work on galls from the Old World by Houard*, and which, therefore,
appears to be new. Another thrips-gall was found on Smilax australis R.Br. in
the remnant of a forest near Murwillumbah. Now, a thrips-gall on Smilax
zeylanica L. is known to us from Java, Celebes and the islands of the Saleier-
group {, and on Smilax leucophylla Bl. from Java and Sumatra. The new gall
on Smilax australis R.Br. is identical with the one from the Malayan Regions
and the gall-former is the same.
It is a remarkable fact that the same gall, or almost the same gall, is found .
in places so far from each other, and it proves that a more thorough study of
the galls occurring in forests in the tropical parts of Australia should be of high
value from a zoogeographical point of view. In this connection it may be of
* C. Houard. Les Zoocécidies des Plantes d’Afrique, d’Asie et d’Océanie. Tome
1. et nu. Paris, chez Hermann, 1922-1923.
tT J. und W. Docters van Leeuwen-Reijnvaan. EHinige Gallen aus Java. Vierter
Beitrag. Marcellia. Tome ix., 1910, p. 191, No. 196, fig. 80.
H. Karny und J. und W. Docters van Leeuwen-Reijnvaan. Ueber die Javan-
ischen Thysanoptero-Cecidien und deren Bewohner. Bulletin du
Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg. Série i, No. x., 1913, p. 19, fig.
UG edall
J. und W. Docters van Leeuwen-Reijnvaan. Beschreibungen von Gallen aus
Celebes und aus den Inseln siidlich von Celebes. Bulletin du Jardin
botanique de Buitenzorg. Série ii., No. xxi., 1916, p. 43, N: 62.
280 TWO NEW THRIPS-GALLS AND THEIR INHABITANTS FROM N.S.W.,
interest that one of us (W.D.v.L.) collected a psyllid-gall on Mallotus philip-
pinensis Muell. Arg. on Susan Island, Clarence River, which is the same as the
one occurring in Sumatra, Java and Celebes +t, and which has not yet been re-
corded from Australia.
Here follow the descriptions of the galls and of the gall-formers. Mr.
Cheel, of the Herbarium of the Botanic Gardens in Sydney, has been so kind
as to determine the material, for which kindness we are very much indebted to
him.
1. Randia chartacea F.v.M.
Inhabitant: Euoplothrips bagnalli Hood.
The borders of the leaf are folded upwards so as to form a narrow roll
Fig. 1—Thrips gall on Randia chartacea F.v.M. (Nat. size).
(figure 1). Moreover, strong and young infected leaves are totally changed
into the gall, and often spirally contorted round their longitudinal axis. The
surface of the gall is more or less rough and, when old, of a yellow-green colour.
In this gall were found only two macromerous (2) specimens of Huoplothrips
bagnalli Hood. It is, therefore, impossible to state whether this species is the
true gall-former or merely an inquiline, as seems to be the case in the following
gall.
¢ J. und W. Docters van Leeuwen-Reijnvaan. Einige gallen aus Java. Sechster
Beitrag. Bulletin du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg, Série i, No.
i., 1912, p. 33, N: 307.
BY W. D. VAN LEEUWEN AND H. H. KIARNY. 281
Type gall: 20922. Lismore. Part of a virgin forest. 11 Sept., 1923.
Field N: 7344.
2. Smilax australis R.Br.
Inhabitants: Cryptothrips (?) intorquens Karny; Euoplothrips bagnall
Hood.
The thrips attack those parts of the leafblade that adjoin the midrib of the
leaf and the two strong longitudinal veins that traverse the leaf from the base
to the apex. The infected parts curl upwards so as to form three narrow cases
in which the creatures live.. In case of strong infection, the whole leaf is formed
into a roll (fignre 2). The infected parts of the lamina are, moreover, rough,
Fig. 2.—Thrips gall on Smilax australis R.Br. (Nat. size).
and dotted with irregular pustules. Besides, the leaf often twists i'self once or
twice round its longitudinal axis.
When, as sometimes happens, only one of the side-veins is affected, ‘he other
half of the leaf remains flat. The anatomy of the Javanese galls was investi-
gated and described by us. It is a striking fact thet a great number of tracheids
282: TWO NEW THRIPS-GALLS AND THEIR INHABITANTS FROM N.S.wW.
develop from the mesophyll-cells. These often form thick clubs or bunches’ in
the vicinity of the larval-cavity.
In these galls were found two species of Tubuliferous Thysanoptera, both
about equal in number of individuals, viz., Cryptothrips intorquens Karny and
Euoplothrips bagnalli Hood. As to the former species, the Australian specimens
which are in our possession agree very well with the Javanese types. Only the
tooth of the fore-tarsal of the d (always absent in the @) is less developed here,
in general, than in the specimens from Java; in some of the Australian material
even entirely wanting. According to this character, the species could perhaps be
rather placed in the genus Hothrips Hood (1915), especially as the length of
head is also somewhat shorter than in the true Cryptothrips and the fore-femora
of the ¢ are scarcely larger than in the ¢. It is a matter of fact that the generic
position of many Tubulifera is somewhat, doubtful, and a matter of subjective
decision, in consequence of the very unsatisfactory generie characters used by
Uzel, such as relative length of head, armature of the fore-tarsi, ete. It is much
to be hoped that more useful differences may be detected in future. Perhaps
they may be found in some larval characters, the study of which has recently
been inaugurated by Priesner and promises important results systematically.
Euoplothrips bagnalli was described by Hood (Mem. Q’land Mus., vi., 1918,
121-150) from one female “Taken by sweeping in a jungle at Nelson, N.Q.,
x
SS
Fig. 3.—Fore-legs of a macromerous (left) and a micromerous (right) ¢ of
Euoplothrips bagnalli Hood.
May 30th, 1912, by Mr. A. A. Girault.”’ As this author stated, this species is, in
fact, very closely related to the genus Androthrips. Though nothing was known
as to the life-history of the type specimen, Mr. Hood supposed, from its syste-
matic position, that it was “without doubt a gall-making genus.” It is, however,
not yet certain whether it is a true gall-former. At all events Mr. Hood was
really right in expecting it to be a gall-inhabitant.
From the material in our possession we ean complete Hood’s description by
the following additions: the 6th antennal segment is in seme specimens paler at
base as described by Hood, being in others entirely dark. The number of ac-
cessory fringe hairs on fore-wings is, in our material 12-18, being in Hood’s
type specimen “about ten.” The 3d (hitherto unknown) differs from the 2 by
no means except the genitalia. As to the shape of the fore-legs, there is a
considerable variation (fig. 3) in the d, some being macromerous, others micro-
merous, as in Thaumatothrips froggatti Karny, described some time ago (These
Proce., xlii., 1922, 266-274). The micromerous ¢ has also the armature of the
fore-legs less developed than the macromerous specimens, as may be seen from
the figures. All the females in our possession are macromerous.
Type gall: 20921. Murwillumbah. Remnant of a forest. Shrubbery. 12
Sept., 1923. Field N: 7369.
ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAE (COLEOPTERA).
By Artuur M. Lea, F.E.S.
(Nineteen Text-figures. )
[Read 30th July, 1924.]
When Masters’ Catalogue of Australian Coleoptera was compiled, slightly
more than 600 species of Scarabaeidae were recorded; at the present time nearly
2,000 are known; and these include many of our showiest beetles and others of
great economic importance. It is probable, however, that our Melolonthides
alone exceed 2,000 in number, as hundreds of unnamed species of the immense
genus Heteronyx alone are known to me, and of many other genera of small
species many remain to be named. The Rutelides and Cetonides are better known
than the other subfamilies, but even to these many species have still to be added.
COPRIDES.
ONTHOPHAGUS QUADRINODIOOLLIS, n.sp.
3. Black, shining; antennae, palpi, and tarsi reddish, club paler. Under
surface and legs with rusty-red hairs; the wide lateral interstice of elytra, and
pygidium with rather short setae.
Head wide, sides strongly dilated in front of eyes, a flat space between eyes
quadrilobed in front, the two median lobes smaller than the others and feebly
upturned; space between lobes and eclypeal suture with very feeble, but not very
small, punctures, becoming subvermiculate on sides. Clypeus with outlines con-
tinuous with those before them, and almost equally elevated, but truneated and
slightly higher in front, surface closely transversely vermiculate; suture rather
acutely carinated, in three parts, the median part almost straight (as seen from
directly above) and about three-fifths of the whole. Eyes large, facets indistinct.
Prothorax slightly wider than elytra, sides strongly rounded, front angles pro-
duced but rounded, a distinct gutter near each side, sides rather strongly mar-
gined, apex moderately margined, base depressed and scarcely margined, front
fifth retuse in middle, the retuse portion shining and surmounted by four obtuse
tubereles, of which the median ones are rather distant; between each of these
and the one nearer the side a shallow depression to apex, a rather shallow median
line from near summit of retuse portion to base; with minute and rather sparse
punctures in middle, becoming larger, but somewhat obsolete, towards and on
sides; sublateral foveae rather large. Elytra with geminate striae, containing
distant punctures; interstices separately convex, very finely shagreened, with dis-
tinct punetures only on sides. Metasternum with dense asperate punctures on
284 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAE,
sides, becoming larger, sparser, and more sharply defined elsewhere. Apical seg-
ment of abdomen moderately narrowed in middle; pygidium with large pune-
tures. Length, 10 mm.
Hab.—Northern Territory: Darwin (N. Davies).
The flat quadrilobed interocular space distinguishes this species from all
others before me.
ONTHOPHAGUS GRANICOLLIS, n.sp.
3. Black, opaque; under surface and legs with rather long whitish-grey
hairs, almost as long on head but somewhat darker; prothorax with rather dense,
rusty-brown, upright setae; elytra with shorter and darker setae, confined to two
rows on each interstice.
Head with a short, erect horn near each eye, the space between these and
elypeal suture with numerous granules. Clypeus wide, deeply notched, each
side of apex conspicuously produced, margins conspicuously elevated; surface
densely granulate-punctate, suture trisimuate, median portion feebly arched, and
about three-fifths of. the total. Eyes narrow, facets very distinct. Prothorax
large, sides strongly rounded, front angles obtuscly produced, hind ones very
wide, margins conspicuous on sides, less so at apex and feeble at base; middle
near apex with a small curved ridge, forming, with the two cephalic horns, the
corners of an equilateral triangle; with small, dense, round, setiferous granules,
absent from base of median line (which otherwise is but feebly defined), and,
from parts near sublateral foveae, these rather deep. Elytra with very narrow
striae, interstices moderately convex, very finely shagreened, and mostly with two
rows of small, setiferous punctures. Under surface opaque and punctures not
sharply defined, four apical segments of abdomen narrowed to middle. Length,
7 mm.
Hab.—Wes‘ern Australia: Mount Barker (S. Macsorley).
An isolated species, a‘ first glance somewhat resembling the female of O.
haagi, but the head, prothorax and elytra are all very differently sculptured; the
elytra are somewhat as on O. jubatus, but the head and prothorax are very dif-
ferent; O. granulatus has the head and elytra verv different and the prothorax
with much sparser granules. The antennas are black. except that the second and
third joints are obscurely reddish. The elytral setae are indistinct from some
directions, but abundantly distinct from the sides.
GEOTRUPIDES.
The Australian genera of this subfamily may be thus tabulated :—
Klytra with more than five striae between suture and each shoulder. Bolboceras
(in part).
HKilytra with five striae between suture and each shoulder.
Scutellum much longer than wide .. .. -. .. ..':. .. .. Stenaspidvus.
Scutellum about as long as wide.
Middle coxae almost touching .. .. .. .. . .. Hucanthus.
Middle coxae widely separated .. .. .. Bolboceras, subg. Bolbapium.
BOLBOCERAS TRICAVICOLLE, n.sp.
3. Castaneous; some margining and projecting parts darker. Under sur-
face and legs with rusty-red hair.
Head with a somewhat pyramidal mass between apex to near base, its sum-
mit with an elongate projection on each side, its front with two subconical
BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 285
tubercles projecting forward. Mandibles large, notched before and at apex.
Prothorax almost vertical and with three large excavations in front, the larger
one separated from the summit by an obtuse ridge, the others frontal and each
scarcely half the size of the large one, and shallowly connected with it; basal
portion in middle about one-fourth the length of the segment, and with a median
line; with a few large punctures and fairly numerous minute ones; with minute
granules irregularly distributed, but becoming dense about sublateral foveae.
Seutellum with sub-obsolete granules. Elytra with seven striae, containing dis-
tinct but not very large punctures, between suture and each shoulder. Front
tibiae with six teeth, hind tibiae bicarinate. Length, 20 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Swan River (J. Clark).
Belongs to Subgroup 1, of Group 2, of Blackburn’s revision of the genus,
and would be there associated with B. frontale, which has the prothorax armed
in the male, and is otherwise very different. The almost vertical front of pro-
thorax, with three large cavities, and the curiously armed head are very different
from any other species before me. On the type the projection on each side of
the raised mass is about as long as the distance from its base to the front of the
clypeus, the smaller frontal projections are about one-fourth more distant from
each other than from the front of the clypeus.
BOLBOCERAS CORRUGATUM, n.sp.
Black; parts of legs obscurely diluted with red. Under surface and legs
with rather dense, greyish hair.
Head with frontal elevation in the form of a narrow curved ridge, extending
half-way between the eyes, outer corner of each frontal wing slightly elevated;
elypeus small, its middle subconical, behind it a transverse space divided into
two irregularly four-sided areolets by carinae, the hind outer corner of each
areolet elevated; with irregularly distributed punctures of various sizes. Pro-
thorax large, evenly convex, sides strongly rounded and widest near base, base
strongly rounded in middle; with fairly numerous, large, irregularly distributed
punctures, and some small ones; sublateral foveae represented by clusters of
punctures. Scutellum triangular, distinctly longer than wide, and with large and
rather dense punctures. Elytra with large approximate punctures in wide
striae, of which there are seven between suture and each shoulder; interstices,
except at base and on apical slope, narrower than striae. Front tibiae with ten
teeth, middle coxae widely separated. Length, 8 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Cairns district (F. P. Dodd).
At first glance somewhat like Stenaspidius nigricornis, but with seven striae
between suture and each shoulder. The scutellum is decidedly longer than is
usual in Bolboceras; possibly a new genus may be considered necessary for it,
but failing this it could, by Boucomont’s table (Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr., 1910, p.
337), only be referred to Bolboceras. The first elytral stria is narrowed and de-
flected by the scutellum, but it attains the base. Regarding the species as be-
longing to Group 3, of Blackburn’s revision, it is distinet from all of them by
the wide and deep elytral striae, with comparatively narrow interstices, and by
the rather long scutellum; to the naked eye the elytra appear finely corrugated.
A. second specimen, from Cairns (H. Hacker), differs from the type in being
smaller (6 mm.), the sides, suture and shoulders of elytra, and sides of prothorax
obseurely reddish, and the legs paler; its prothorax has no small punctures, and
286 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAB,
much sparser large ones (about thirty altogether, excluding the submarginal
ones) and its front tibiae have but six teeth.
Var. FLAVOCASTANEUM, n. var. Three specimens from southern Queensland
(Buderim Mountain, Mapleton and Brisbane, H. Hacker) are flavo-castaneous,
with basal two-thirds of head and most of under surface black or blackish, and
the seutellum infuscated; the antennae, palpi and legs (except some projecting
parts of the latter) are also decidedly pale; the prothoracic punctures are as
on the type, the teeth of the front tibiae vary in number from, six to nine (on
one specimen there are eight on one, and nine on the other).
HUCANTHUS TRICARINATICEPS, N.Sp.
Dark castaneous; some marginal and projecting parts darker, antennae,
palpi and parts of legs paler. Under surface and legs with rusty-red hair.
Head with irregularly distributed and rather large punctures, fairly numer-
ous, but not dense, at base, becoming crowded in front; with three transverse
carinae: one connecting the eyes, one connecting the front edges of the ocular
canthi, and one at base of clypeus. Prothorax about twice as wide as the median
length, front angles acute, hind ones rounded off; with large punctures, mostly
confined to the depressed parts, and with minute ones more evenly distributed.
Seutellum about as long as wide, with sparse and small punctures. Elytra with
large punctures in deep striae, of which there are five between suture and each
shoulder; interstices with minute punctures, separately convex, the even ones
wider than -the others, the second and the sixth (at shoulders) widest of all.
Hront tibiae with four teeth; middle coxae slightly separated. Length, 7-9 mm.
Hab.—South Australia: Ooldea, Barton (A. M. Lea); Western Australia:
Geraldton (J. Clark).
The seutellum is much shorter than in Stenaspidius, and the middle coxae
are almost touching, so it seems desirable to refer this species to Hucanthus ;
from the description of EH. felschei it differs in having the head tricarinated,
prothorax with coarse punctures, and scutellum with sparse ones. At first glance
it appears to belong to Blackburn’s Group 3, of Bolboceras, but the elytra have
only five striae between the suture and each shoulder, and the cephalic structure
is different. The prothorax has an obtuse ridge, scarcely a carina, across the
median fourth at the apical third, and around it numerous large punctures, be-
tween it and the base there is a conspicuous median line containing two rows
(conjoined at the base) of punctures, towards each side there are two irregular
transverse impressions containing large punctures, and all the gutters contain
large punctures.
MELOLONTHIDES.
LIPARETRUS CRIBRICEPS, n.sp.
Black, shining, some parts with a slight opalescent gloss; elytra obscurely
flavous, suture, sides, base and apex more or less infuseated, four joints of an-
tennae, tibial teeth and claws more or less reddish. Clothed with whitish hair,
dense on under surface and hind parts, elytra glabrous.
Head obliquely flattened and with crowded and sharply defined punctures
between eyes. Clypeus concave, with larger punctures than on rest of head,
becoming larger and sparser in front, sides evenly decreasing in width to apex,
which is gently ineurved to middle. Antennae nine-jointed. Prothorax with
front angles acutely produced, hind ones almost rounded off, median line well
defined; punctures about as large as on head, with some larger ones scattered
BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 287
about: Elytra each with three pairs of striae, containing fairly large punctures,
elsewhere with smaller but well defined punctures, a few oblique _ strigosities
towards sides. Pygidium and propygidium with punctures of two sizes as on
prothorax. Front tibiae with three teeth, the second acute and nearer the third
(which is very feeble) than the first; basal joint of hind tarsi shghtly shorter
than second. Length, 8.5-9 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Kellerberrin.
Belongs to Group 2; as the clypeus, however, is somewhat ineurved at the
apex it is distinct from all the species referred to that Group by Blackburn;
regarding the two basal joints of the hind tarsi as of equal length, it would be
referred to Group 5, and there associated with L. glabripennis, from the descrip-
tion of which it differs in being considerably larger, and in the elypeus not
rounded in front. To a certain extent it resembles L. luridipennis (of Group
12) on an enlarged scale. The hair on the prothorax is fairly dense on the
apical third, and fringes the base and sides, the intervening part (as viewed
from the sides) being glabrous; the upper surface of the head on the two
specimens examined fg, almost glabrous, but may have been abraded. The clypeus
is slightly more upturned in front (and consequently more largely coneave) on
one than on the other, but they are probably both males.
LIPARETRUS TARSALIS, 1.sp.
36. Black, somewhat shining; antennae (club infuseated), palpi, front tibiae
and tarsi, and middle tarsi more or less reddish. Under surface with rather
dense, greyish-white hair, becoming sparser on hind parts.
Head with crowded and rather small but sharply defined punctures, an
obtuse elevation on each side of middle, with a gentle depression to eclypeal
suture. Clypeus with somewhat larger, less crowded, and better defined pune-
tures, suture gently arched forward, sides strongly diminishing to near apex,
“with the front angles oblique and very acute, front evenly and rather strongly
aineurved. Antennae nine-jointed. Prothorax with surface somewhat uneven,
front angles acute, hind ones rounded off, median line seareely traceable; punc-
tures dense but not crowded, somewhat as on elypeus, but less regular. Elytra
‘with fairly large and dense punctures, and some slightly larger ones in geminate
‘striae. Hind parts with punctures slightly smaller and denser than on elytra.
‘Front tibiae strongly tridentate; front tarsi with a longitudinal impression on
‘the outer side of each joint, basal joint acutely ridged on its lower edge; front
claws rather stout, and with an obtuse basal process; basal jomt of hind tarsi
slightly shorter than second. Length, 10 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Grenfell (Dr. EK. W. Ferguson).
There are some long hairs on the apex of prothorax, and the sides and base
are distinctly fringed; there appear also to be stumps of hairs near the apex,
so the type has probably been partly abraded; if non-abraded, it belongs to
Group 4, in which it certainly seems out of place; if abraded, it might be as-
‘sociated with L. kreuslerae, from which it differs in the acutely angled clypeus
and ridged basal joint of front tarsi; its tarsi associate it with L. ater and L.
phoenicopterus; from the description of the former it should be distinct by its
head and size, from the latter it differs in its colour of elytra and in the clypeus;
from L. niger and L. insignis, it is distinct by the elypeus more strongly narrowed,
with the front angles more acutely projecting, and by the feeble tubercles of
head. In Macleay’s grouping it would belong to Subseetion 1 of Section 1, and
288 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAE,
it is the first large black species with acutely angular clypeus to be recorded
from New South Wales.
LIPARETRUS BILOBUS, n.sp.
Flavous; head, prothorax and parts of legs somewhat darker than other
parts. Under surface and hind parts with short clothing, upper surface glabrous,
except for marginal fringes, and a few submarginal hairs on elytra.
Head moderately convex, with small and ill-defined punctures. Clypeus
rather short and concave, with somewhat larger punctures than on rest of head,
front distinctly bilobed, suture gently bisinuate. Antennae nine-jointed. Pro-
thorax strongly convex, with a wide apical membrane, front angles acutely pro-
duced, hind ones almost rounded off, median line absent; punctures fairly dense,
but small and ill-defined. Elytra each with four slightly convex ridges bounded
by geminate rows of small punctures, the interstices wide and also with small
punctures. ‘Hind parts with rather dense and small punctures. Front tibiae
obtusely tridentate; hind tarsi with basal joint slightly shorter than second.
Length, 7.5 mm.
Hab.—Northern Territory: Daly River (H. Wesselman).
The first and second joints of the hind tarsi are almost equal, the first
being a trifle the shorter; regarding it as such it would belong to Blackburn’s
Group 4, and there associated with L. aridus, which in general it strikingly re-
sembles, but from which it is at once distinguished by tke bilobed clypeus; it
also closely resembles L. flavus (of Group 14), but the elypeus and front tibiae
are different. If referred to Group 7 it would be associated with species with
which it has few details in common.
LIPARETRUS LONGIPILIS, n.Sp.
Black, in parts with a faint opalescent gloss; parts of elytra obscurely
diluted with red, antennae (except club), palpi, and tarsi reddish. Under sur-
face and legs with rather dense, whitish hair, becoming sparser, but still fairly
dense, on hind parts; prothorax and head (except clypeus) with fairly dense,
erect, black or blackish hair.
Head obliquely flattened and with densely crowded punctures. Clypeus
rather short, moderately concave; with shghtly larger and less crowded punctures
than on rest of head, front angles strongly rounded off. Antennae nine-jointed.
Prothorax with a fairly long apical membrane, front angles acutely produced,
hind ones rounded off, median line feeble; punctures fairly dense and of several
sizes. Elytra with geminate rows of fairly large punctures, those on the inter-
stices almost as large, but not as close together; each side with a partial fringe
of setiferous granules, the setae short and stiff. Hind parts with punctures
much as on clypeus. Front tibiae acutely tridentate. Length, 7 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Busselton (Kdgar R. Waite).
From some directions the first joint of the hind tarsi appears to be slightly
shorter than the second, but when examined so that its extreme base is visible,
it appears to be the length of the second, or even a trifle longer; it is certainly
not “distinctly longer’ (as in Group 8), hence it might be referred to either
Group 2 or 5. If to Group 2, it would be associated with L. dispar, which is
a much larger species, with coarser prothoracic punctures and less of elytra
dark; if to Group 5, it would go with L. erythropterus and L. amabilis; from
the description of the former it differs in its darker and pilose hind parts, and
BY ARTHUR M. LBA. 289
from that of the latter in being larger, and hind half of body darker. The en-
tirely black club and simple clothing of hind parts distinguish it from the
darker specimens of L. vestitus and L. nigroumbratus; it has the general appear-
ance of some of the darker specimens referred by Blackburn to L. vestitus; it
also resembles some of the darker specimens of L. picipennis, and of L. incertus
(of Group 4).
LIPARETRUS ORTHODOXUS, n.sp.
Black; elytra (base infuscated), hind parts (base of propygidium in-
fuscated), and most of legs red or reddish, antennae and palpi flavous. Under
surface moderately clothed with whitish hair, becoming sparser on abdomen and
absent from hind parts, prothorax with erect discal hairs and apical and lateral
fringes, elytra glabrous.
Head with crowded and rather coarse punctures, the interspaces with minute
ones. Clypeus rather short, slightly concave, suture distinctly bisinuate, sides
oblique to apex, which is truncated, with the angles but slightly rounded off.
Antennae nine-jointed. Prothorax with front angles acutely produced, hind
enes rounded off, median line conspicuous near base, but scarcely traceable else-
where; with large scattered punctures and fairly numerous smaller ones. Elytra
rather short, with fairly large punctures in geminate series, the interstices with
almost equally large ones. Hind parts with fairly large, dense punctures, on the
pygidium mixed with some larger ones. Front tibiae tridentate, the third tooth
rather obtuse; basal joint of hind tarsi conspicuously longer than second. Length,
8 mm.
Hab Queensland: Bowen (Aug. Simson).
In Blackburn’s table would be referred to FF, of Group 8, from all the
previously described species of which if is distinguished by the clypeus not be-
ing tridentate. It is quite an ordinary-looking species, resembling more or less
closely bicoloured specimens of other groups, from which it is at once dis-
tinguished by the long basal joint of the hind tarsi. The upper surface of the
head of the type is glabrous, but may have been abraded; the geminate rows of
punctures on the elytra are sharply defined, but are contained in very feeble
striae. I
LIPARETRUS PILICEPS, n.Sp.
Black, subopaque; elytra of a dingy flavous-brown; base, suture, sides, and
apex more or less infuscated, antennae, palpi, and most of legs reddish or flavous.
Sterna with moderately dense, whitish hair, sparser on abdomen, still sparser
and shorter on hind parts, head with flavous hairs between eyes, prothorax with
side fringes only, elytra glabrous.
Head with crowded and rather small punctures, with some larger ones (each
containing a hair) scattered about. Clypeus moderately concave, sides rather
strongly narrowed from base to apex, apex slightly incurved to middle, suture
strongly bisinuate; punctures slightly larger and less crowded than on rest of
head. Antennae nine-jointed. Prothorax with front angles subacutely pro-
duced, hind ones completely rounded off, median line distinct near base and
traceable almost to apex; punctures rather small and numerous, but not crowded.
Elytra short, with distinct geminate striae containing fairly large punctures,
interstices with somewhat similar, but more distant, punctures. Hind parts with
punctures much as on clypeus. Front tibiae acutely tridentate; hind tarsi with
first joint distinctly longer than second. Length, 5.5 mm.
Hab—South Australia: Murray River (F. R. Zietz).
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A rather small, dingy species, in general appearance fairly close to L. bi-
tuberculatus, but apex of clypeus gently curved instead of tridentate; in Black-
burn’s table of its Group (10), it would be associated with Z. convexior and L.
laeticulus; the latter is a much smaller species with sharply defined punctures on.
prothorax and elytra, etc.; from the description of the former (which is hardly
more than a comparison with L. rotwndipennis), it differs in having the prothorax
opaque, and elytra of two colours; L. rotundipennis has the clypeus rounded in
front and, with L. converior, was placed in Macleay’s Subsection 3, having the
“Clypeus more or less rounded in both sexes; it also resembles some of the
moderately dark specimens of L. rubefactus (Group 4). Parts of the under sur-
face and legs have a slight pruinose gloss.”
LIPARETRUS CRIBRIPENNIS, n.Sp.
Black, shining; prothorax subopaque, antennae (parts of club infuseated)
and palpi reddish. Sterna and parts of abdomen with fairly dense, whitish hair;
upper surface glabrous.
Head moderately convex, with rather small and numerous, but not gehen
punctures. Clypeus almost semi-circular, sides almost evenly elevated, suture
fairly deep; punctures Sparse and minute. Antennae nine-jointed. Prothorax
with apical membrane rather wide, front angles moderately produced, hind ones
completely rounded off, median line absent; with fairly large and dense, but
shallow, obsolete punctures. Elytra short, sides and tips strongly rounded; with .
large and fairly dense punctures, the geminate rows very ill-defined. Hind parts
with dense, sharply defined punctures, obtusely ridged along middle. Front
tibiae unidentate, apical process long and acute, basal joint of hind tarsi longer
than second. Length, 8 mm.
Hab.—South Australia: Ooldea (A. M. Lea).
In Blackburn’s table belongs to EE, of Group 13, and from all the species
there noted it differs in the black elytra; L. caviceps and L. rotundipennis have
the front tibiae bidentate, and differ in other details; there are many black
species of other Groups, but the characters noted in the table are ample to dis-
tinguish the present from all of them. The base of the clypeus, as seen from
behind, appears to be traversed by a conspicuous ridge, with distinct punctures
(the only distinet ones on the clypeus) on its posterior end; from direcily above,
it appears to slope evenly downwards to the base of the elevated margin. On
the type, the base of the propygidium is exposed, has a bluish-white gloss, and
is densely clothed with white pubescence, but it would probably be concealed on
most specimens.
LAIPARETRUS GEMINATUS, 1.Sp.
Castaneo-flavous; head (including clypeus, or not), sterna, and base of
abdomen black, club infuseated. Sterna with moderately dense white hair,
abdomen more sparingly clothed, hind parts and upper surface glabrous.
Head with dense and sharply defined punctures, but base impunctate; a
vague depression in middle at celypeal suture. Clypeus with sides feebly elevated
and oblique to apex, which is evenly rounded, two distinct sub-conjoined eleva-
tions in middle of base,.suture deep and bisinuate; punctures slightly sparser’
and larger than between eyes. Antennae nine-jointed. Prothorax very short,
front angles almost rectangular, hind ones rounded off; punctures rather shallow
and ill defined, but not very small. Elytra with geminate rows of punctures of
BY ARTHUR M. LEA, 291
moderate size, the interstices with somewhat smaller ones. Hind parts with
crowded punctures of moderate size, and with an obtuse interrupted ridge. Front
tibiae unidentate, apical process long and very acute, hind tarsi with basal joint
distinctly longer than second. Length, 4.5-5 mm.
Hab.—South Australia: Barton (A. M. Lea).
A small species, very distinct from all others known to me by the two pro-
Jjections at base of clypeus; of seven specimens obtained, three have the clypeus
as pale as the prothorax; on the others it is black. In Blackburn’s table of
Group 13, it would be associated with L. modestus, from the type of which it
differs in the deep black head, with clypeal projections, and in the even sweep
of the front tibiae (on the type of L. modestus there is a feeble projection near
the outer base of the left front tibia—the right one is missing); L. minor, which
is about the same size, has the hind parts darker, and is without clypeal pro-
jections.
LIPARETRUS TIBIALIS, n.Sp.
Castanco-fiavous; elytra flavous, head and sterna black or blackish, club and
scutellum infuscated. Sterna moderately clothed with white hair, becoming
sparser on abdomen; hind parts with white pubescence, except on tip of
pygidium, where there are a few hairs, head with a few short erect hairs, sides
ef prothorax with long fringes, rest of upper surface glabrous.
Head with crowded and somewhat coarse punctures, slightly larger on clypeus
than elsewhere. Clypeus almost semi-circular, margins moderately elevated,
suture deep. Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax with front angles moderately
produced, hind ones rounded off, median line very distinct at base and traceable
throughout; punctures about as large as on head, but less crowded. Elytra with
moderately large and dense punctures, geminate rows ill defined. Hind parts
with dense, but partially concealed, punctures. Front tibiae unidentate, apical
process long and acute; basal joint of hind tibiae decidedly longer than second.
Length, 4-4.25 mm.
Hab.—South Australia: Ooldea (A. M. Lea).
Of the two species referred by Blackburn to Group 18 (to which this species
belongs) it differs from L. laevatus (from Queensland) in having the elypeus
evenly rounded in front, and the hind parts pale and moderately clothed; and
from the deseription of L. laetus in its much smaller size, and by the front
tibiae; these at first appear to be unidentate, but the even sweep of the outer
edge is feebly interrupted near the middle on two specimens, although the inter-
ruption is certainly not a distinet tooth, and from one specimen it is altogether
absent. If Blackburn’s surmise that L. gagaticeps (from [King’s Sound) be-
longed to Group 18, is correct, that species should be distinct from the present
one by very different punctures on the head and prothorax. The antennae were
examined under the microscope to make sure that they were but eight-jointed.
LIPARETRUS CLYPEALIS, n-sp.
Castaneous; elytra (which are shining) paler than prothorax (which is
opaque), head, edges of prothorax, seutellum, and sterna black, antennae flavous,
parts of club infuscated. Sterna with moderately dense white hair, becoming
sparser, shorter, and mostly depressed on abdomen (including the hind parts).
Head with dense and sharply defined. but rather small, punctures, a feeble
transverse median elevation in middle. Clypeus with sides strongly narrowed to
292 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAE,
apex, front moderately elevated, truncated across middle, but with angles strongly
rounded, suture distinct towards sides, but interrupted in middle; punctures
somewhat larger and less crowded than on the rest of head. Antennae seven-
jointed. Prothorax with several vague transverse impressions, front angles
acutely produced, hind ones very obtuse, median line feeble near base, and
searcely traceable elsewhere; punctures rather small and fairly dense, but not
crowded. Elytra with geminate rows of fairly large and mostly transverse
punctures; interstices with punctures of about the same size, but not transverse.
Hind parts shagreened and with dense punctures, about as large as on clypeus,
but less sharply defined. Front tibiae strongly tridentate, basal joint of hind
tarsi conspicuously longer than second. Length, 8-8.5 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Mullewa (Miss J. F. May), Kellerberrin,
Northam.
The antennae with but seven joints, and prothorax entirely glabrous, except
for lateral fringes, can only associate this species in Blackburn’s table with L.
opacicollis, from the description of which it differs in having but one small
tuberosity in the middle of the clypeal suture, an obtuse swelling on the fore-
head, head with rather coarse punctures, thorax only partly infuscated, and hind
parts not black; the colour differences, however, are probably immaterial; struc-
turally it is fairly close to L. laevis (a variable species in colour), but the pro-
thorax is not fringed across the apex. A second specimen is coloured as_ the
type; on a third, the apical third of the prothorax, the shoulders, and base of
elytra are blackish; on a fourth, the prothorax is black, except for an obscurely
reddish transverse space near the base, but the elytra are blackish only at the
extreme base. The clothing of the hind parts appears to be easily abraded,
but is almost perfect on two of the specimens; on most of the abdominal seg-
ments there is a transverse row of long yellowish hairs, but they are easily lost.
The clypeal suture is not very deeply impressed, but is very distinct by a narrow,
polished, impunetate space on each side behind it; the interruption in its middle,
on three specimens, appears as a short longitudinal ridge.
MAECHIDIUS PUNCTICOLLIS, n.sp.
Black or blackish-brown, and shining; legs and parts of under surface
obscurely reddish, antennae and palpi paler.
Head with coarse punctures, many semi-double; front with a deep and
almost U-shaped notch, sides obliquely and almost evenly increasing in width to
base, where they are suddenly narrowed to touch the eyes at about their middle.
Club three-jointed. Prothorax with front angles acutely produced, sides obtusely
erenulated, regularly inereasing in width to near base, and then strongly in-
curved (or notched) to base; with rather large, round punctures, each containing
a flattened granule, but no setae, becoming crowded and irregular near sides;
base with a fringe of short setae. Elytra slightly dilated to beyond the middle,
striae very narrow, interstices wide, each with an inner and an outer row of
shallow punctures with elliptic outlines, and each with a thin depressed pale seta.
Front tibiae with three teeth, the second tooth much nearer the first than the
third; each claw with a basal quill. Length, 9-10 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Coen River (W. D. Dodd).
In Blackburn’s table would be associated with M. excisicollis, from which it
differs in being shining, in the very different sculpture of elytra, and absence of
setae from the discal punctures of prothorax; the sides of the head are some-
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what as on WM. sordidus, but the prothorax is notched at the sides, and with
sharply defined punctures, each with a granule which does not rise above the
general level.
MAECHIDIUS EUTERMIPHILUS, n.sp.
Dark reddish-brown or piceous-brown, some parts almest black; antennae and
palpi paler. Upper surface with short, pale setae on the elytra in regular rows,
except on the sides, where there are some long’ ones.
Head with rough, crowded punctures; in front with a large semi-double
excavation; front widely and rather deeply emarginate, with a triangular pre-
jection on each side of the emargination, sides then slightly increasing in width
to middle, and then triangularly dilated. Prothorax not twiee as wide as long,
rather strongly convex, sides strongly and almost evenly rounded and strongly
erenulated, considerably wider at base than at apex; with large punctures, nearly
all of which have a shining granule on the anterior edge. Elytra with rows of
long punctures, many of which are separated by transverse shining granules.
Front tibiae with two obtuse conjoined teeth in front, and a larger sub-obtuse
one in middle; claws without basal quills. Length, 7-8 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Townsville, from nests of Eutermes sp. (G. F. Hill).
In Blackburn’s table would be associated with M. major and M. gibbicollis ;
frem the former it differs in being much smaller, prothorax more convex, with
its sides conspicuously crenulated and more rounded; from the description of
the latter in the front tibiae and sides of head; M. tibialis, also from nests of
white ants, has the head and prothorax very differently sculptured, and abnormal
hind tibiae. On one specimen, the space between the lateral notch and the apex
on each side of the head is evenly oblique, but on three others there is a feeble
rounded projection on each side there. The outlines of the head are very different
from all those given in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Austraha
for 1917 (Pl. xxxvii., figs. 88-107). From some directions the prothorax appears
to be covered with large, flattened granules.
DIPHUCEPHALA PARVICEPS, N.Sp.
3. Metallic coppery-green, elytra reddish, with a greenish gloss; antennae
(club infuseated), palpi, and legs (knees greenish, parts of tarsi purplish) red-
dish. Moderately densely clothed with depressed, whitish pubescence.
Head with crowded, round, and rather shallow punctures. Clypeus with
front angles elevated and filled with hair, the notch widely U-shaped. Prothorax
with median line conspicuous throughout, but not very wide, each transverse
suleus rather deep, not traceable to middle, the side adjacent to it angularly
dilated; punctures much as on head, but sparser adjacent to the median line.
Seutellum highly polished and impunctate. Elytra with dense, asperate punc-
tures, rather large, but not sharply defined, several interstices feebly elevated.
Pygidium with dense and rather small punctures, an almost impunctate median
line, the tip with a coppery gloss. Front tibiae bidentate, three basal joints of
front tarsi much wider than long, and densely padded on under surface. Length,
8-8.5 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: National Park in December (H. Hacker and R. Illidge).
The median line of the pronotum is neither narrow nor shallow, being much as
on the species identified by Blackburn as D. ignota, which, however, he referred
to A.B, in his table of the genus; from that species it differs in having the head
smaller, clothing slightly longer and paler, hind tarsi darker, and elytra reddish;
294 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAE,
the head is smaller than in D. richmondia, and is without the deep sub-basal de-
pression of that species; the head is also smaller than in D. nitidicollis, and the
median line of the prothorax is narrower. The elytra, from some directions, ap-
pear to be densely and finely granulate-punctate or rather coarsely shagreened,
so that the seriate punctures are not sharply defined. Of eight specimens under
examination, seven have the elytra distinctly reddish (as they occasionally are in
D. richmondia), but on the eighth they appear at most to be obscurely diluted
with red. :
DIPHUCEPHALA CRIBRIPENNIS, n.sp.
6. Bright metallic coppery-green; antennae (club blackish), palpi, and legs
(knees slightly greenish, most of tarsi infuscated) reddish. Moderately densely
clothed with pubescence, stramineous on upper surface, white on lower surface.
Head with crowded punctures. Clypeus with front angles strongly produced
and filled with hair. Prothorax with median line shallow and rather feeble in
front, almost disappearing posteriorly, transverse groove on each side fairly
deep, not traceable to middle, side near each subangularly dilated; punctures
large, shallow and mostly well defined near median line, crowded elsewhere.
Seutellum with a few distinct punctures near apex. Elytra with deep and large,
subquadrate punctures, close together; with several feeble longitudinal elevations.
Pygidium with dense and small punctures, mostly concealed, except at apex.
Front tibiae bidentate, tarsi long, second and third joint of front pair strongly
transverse. Length, 5-5.5 mm.
?. Differs in having the head smaller, with an obtuse swelling in middle,
near clypeal suture, front angles of clypeus scarcely produced, abdomen larger
and more convex, and legs much shorter, with no joint of front tarsi transverse.
Hab Queensland: Crow’s Nest (R. [hdge).
In Blackburn’s table would be associated with D. rufipes, but on that species
the clothing of the upper surface is considerably stouter (nearer scales than
pubescence), the clypeus is less dilated in front, and the legs of the male are
longer, with wider front tarsi; it 1s also close to D. tarsalis, but the median
line of the prothorax almost vanishes posteriorly, instead of being deep and
wide near base, the tarsi are also darker; D. puberula is slightly larger, with very
different clothing; D. nitens is highly polished; all the other red-legged species
are considerably larger.
DIPHUCEPHALA MACROPS, n.Sp.
Purple; median line of prothorax, seutellum, pygidinm, parts of under sur-
face, hind femora, and most of middle ones green or coppery-green; elytra, an-
tennae (except club), palpi (except apical joint), and most of legs reddish,
parts of tarsi somewhat purplish. Upper surface with rather sparse hairs or
long pubescence, becoming longer on sides, clothing of under surface shorter and
paler.
Head rather small, with large irregular punctures. Clypeus almost thrice
as wide as long, sides evenly rounded, front almost truncated; punctures much
as on inter-ocular space. Wyes very large, extending from clypeal suture almost
to prothorax, less than half on upper surface. Antennae eight, club three-jointed
and small. Prothorax about two-thirds as long as wide, strongly convex, each
side angularly dilated near a large and almost round sub-lateral fovea, from
dilated part incurved to base and rounded to apex, median line deep and narrow;
punctures large, irregularly distributed and rather sparse. Seutellum polished
and almost impunctate. Elytra with large and irregular punctures, in places in
BY ARTHUR M. LBA. 295
irregular striae. Pygidium with dense punctures. Hind femora muebh stouter
than the others; front tibiae strongly bidentate, basal joint of front tarsi as long
as three following combined, each of these longer than wide, claws each with a
large, acute appendix. Length, 7 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales (W. Du Boulay).
The very large eyes and short and wide clypeus, truncated in front, are
very different from all previously described species of Diphucephala; but as the
type (judging by its front tarsi) is presumably a female, it seems undesirable
to propose a new genus for it; in the allied genus, Cunderdinia, the antennae are
nine-jointed.
NEOHETERONYX.
The monotypic species of Neoheteronyx (N. lividus) was characterised as
distinct from Heteronyx by the mentum being strongly convex and narrower,
maxillary palpi long and thin, and front and middle tarsi of the male rather
strongly dilated. It was also noted as having the antennae composed of eight
joints (three forming the club); labrum altogether below the clypeus; eyes large
and entire, hind coxae on sides shorter than second ventral segment, front tibiae
of male bidentate and of female simple, and claws appendiculate. Also “The
general facies is very similar to Heteronyx though the head looks disproportion-
ately large.” In the table given (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1898, p. 34) it
was distinguished from Heteronyx by “Anterior four tarsi of male strongly
dilated,” and it was stated (ib., 1908, p. 367) that “The four anterior tarsi of
the male in the unique known species of this genus are most remarkable, re-
sembling those of a Harpalus.” It will be seen, therefore, that the main feature
relied upon for its generic distinction was a sexual one, and that this was so,
is proved by the fact that when first revising Heteronyx (Proce. Linn. Soe. N.S.
Wales, 1888, p. 1338) he [Blackburn] referred a closely allied species (H. brevi-
collis) to it, without expressed doubts as to its generic position; still later (Trans.
Roy. Soe. 8. Aust., 1910, p. 221) he described H. coralis (which, as will be
noted, I consider a synonym of brevicollis) as a Heteronyx and said “I was
disposed to consider it generically distinct from Heteronyx, but on further con-
sideration its peculiar characters appear to me to be only exaggerations of what
is to be found in species that certainly must not be separated trom Heteronyzx.”
I think that NV. lividus should be regarded as belonging to a section of Group 2
ot Heteronyx to which brevicollis and coxalis were referred. There are before
me ten other species, with the same large eyes and curious appearance of head
as in WN. lividus, with the front tibiae uni-, bi-, or tridentate, with the front and
middle tarsi strongly or moderately inflated (or at least longer than usual) and
densely clothed in the male, and quite clearly leading up to Group 2. Moreover,
some of the characters mentioned by Blackburn are not quite in accordance with
the facts: on the type female of N. lividus the front tibiae are not simple, but
are bidentate (see figure 2) although the teeth are evidently worn; on two other
females, the second tooth is sharp and quite well defined, although rather small,
the part in front of it, the first tooth, is slightly longer than the basal joint of
tarsi. The eyes also are not entire, as the sides of the clypeus are produced
backwards over about one-fourth of their length (see figure 3), the produced
parts being so directed that if continued they would meet the front angles of
the prothorax. The species of the group have a distinct resemblance, usually on
a smaller scale, to those of Ocnodus, some species of which also have dilated
tarsi; but their middle and hind claws, although not always the front ones, are
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sunple; their tibial teeth also vary in number. Although, as noted by Black-
burn, the front tibiae of Heteronyx are nearly always tridentate, the third tooth
is frequently very small, in some it is quite absent, and in a few they are dis-
tinctly unidentate. In H. unidentatus, from Groote Eylandt, in which the sexual
differences of the front and middle tarsi are strongly pronounced, the front
tibiae are unidentate in both sexes. Some species of Heteronyx have the mentum
quite as convex, and the palpi as long and as thin. Unfortunately, in the same
publication, and in the same year, he had previously given a Heteronya the same
specific name (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1889, p. 437 and p. 1255) so that
on referring N. lividus to Hetéronyx it becomes necessary to alter its name.
HETERONYX HARPALINUS, n. nom,
H. (Neoheteronyx) lividus Blackb., n.pr.
This new name is proposed for Neoheteronyx lividus, for. which a change is
necessary; see note (above) on Neoheteronyx.
HETERONYX BREVICOLLIS Blackb.
H. coxalis Blackb.
Closely allied to the preceding species, but with sides of clypeus differently
curved about eyes, its median projection (viewed from behind) slightly more
prominent, prothorax and elytra with somewhat coarser punctures, and elytral
interstices feebly but moderately distinctly elevated. The type was from New
South Wales, and other specimens from the same State agree closely with it;
two specimens in the National Museum from the Howitt collection (without
locality labels) differ from the type in being smaller, and with the median pro-
jection of the clypeus searcely visible; a specimen Jabelled as from Tasmania (in
the Macleay Museum) has the ridged appearance of the elytral interstices more
conspicuous than usual; one from Bowen is slightly wider than the others, and
has the elytral interstices without a ridged appearance, owing to the greater
irregularity of their punctures; other Queensland specimens are from Mackay
and Gayndah, the latter one was found amongst the duplicates in the Macleay
Museum, but the species was certainly not described by Macleay when dealing
with the Gayndah beetles.
I believe, that H. coxalis was founded upon the same species (the type of
H. brevicollis was in the Macleay Museum when coxalis was described), the
strongly transverse prothorax, short hind coxae and long basal joint of hind tarsi
are features common to N. lividus (now H. harpalinus) and all its close allies,
and (in combination) found in no others of Group 2, or, in fact, elsewhere in
the genus. In examining the type of H. coxalis, prior to its despatch to the
British Museum, it was noted as being a small, short, coarsely punctured species,
but at the time no specimen of H. brevicollis was available for comparison. The
type of H. brevicollis is now before me (on loan), the basal angles of its pro-
thorax, seen perpendicularly to themselves, are certainly slightly more than right
angles, and are very feebly rounded off, but from the same point of view “superne
visis,” as noted for coxalis, they appear to be “sharply right angles.” In the
original description they were noted as “obtuse (somewhat roundly)” but the type
now (as it probably was when described) has the basal angles pressed closely
against the elytra so as to be partially concealed. The type is a female; the
male has the front and middle tarsi shghtly longer, wider, and more densely
BY ARTHUR M. LEA, 297
clothed, and the hind femora subangularly dilated and with a few setae on the
middle of its under surface (somewhat as on H. noctivagus).
_. H. setifer, with which H. coralis was compared on account of the long basal
joint of its hind tarsi, belongs to Group 4; on the type of H. brevicollis the
basal joint is certainly not as long and as thin as in H. setifer, but it is at least
half as long again as the second; and in all the allied species it is decidedly
longer than the second.
Text-figures 1-19. Parts of Heteronyx.
1. H. harpalinus Lea (H. lividus Blackb.), front tibia; 2. front. tibia of
type female, worn; 3. eye. 4,5. H. brevicollis Blackb., clypeus from two points
of view; 6. front tibia. 7. H. cribifrons Lea, front tibia and basal joint of
tarsus. 8. H. tridentatus Lea, elypeus with portion of labrum and of mentum
showing; 9. clypeus with suture invisible from behind; 10. front tibia. 11, 12.
H. clypealis Lea, clypeus from two points of view; 13. front tibia. 14, 15. A.
inconstans Lea, clypeus from two points of view; 16. hind claw. 17. H. nocti-
vagus Lea, clypeus; 18. clypeus with suture invisible from behind. 19. H. uni-
dentatus Lea, front tibia.
The following table deals only with H. harpalinus, H. brevicollis and other
closely allied species, all having a characteristic appearance of the head and pro-
thorax; in them the inflation of the front tarsi of the males varies from very
pronounced to but little more than in the females, but, as with other sexual
characters, has not been used in the table.
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A. Front tibiae tridentate
AA. Front tibiae unidentate.
a. A polished strip immediately behind a suture .. .. .. unidentatus.
aa. Without such a strip.
AAAI tridentatus.
cribrifrons.
AAA. Front tibiae bidentate.
B. Without a polished strip behind elypeal suture.
b. Clypeal margin strongly elevated in front. clypealis.
bb. Clypeal margin slightly elevated throughout. .. .. .. phanophilus.
BB. A polished strip immediately behind clypeal suture.
C. Seutellum with fairly numerous punctures.
c. Pale castaneous, approaching flavous. .. .. .. .. .. harpalinus.
ec. Dark castaneous or blackish... .. ... .. .. nconstans.
CC. Seutellum at most with sparse marginal punetures,
D. Prothoracic punctures smaller fae on all others of AAA.
transverso politus.
DD. Prothoracie punctures of at least moderate size.
K. Front of clypeus (viewed from ey feebly and evenly
trilobed. ais -. .. noctivagus.
EE. Front (so viewed) ‘slightly advanced in ‘middle.
IF. Median length of LG ey greater than that
of sides. .. .. .. .- brevicollis.
FF. Median length notably loreater | oe ee oe ~6DbKeVicoxis.
HETERONYX CRIBRIFRONS, n.sp.
Reddish-castaneous; parts of under surface and of legs somewhat paler, an-
tennae flavous.
Head large, with rather dense punctures of moderate size on frons, be-
coming denser and slightly larger on clypeus; eclypeus with margins gently
rounded and feebly upturned. Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax about thrice
as wide as the median length, front angles moderately produced, the hind ones
shghtly more than right angles, and not rounded off; punctures intermediate in
density and size between those of frons and clypeus. Seutellum impunctate.
Klytra with rather closely placed and mostly uneven rows of large punctures
(about twenty rows on each elytron), the interspaces with a few minute punc-
tures. Metasternum with crowded and coarse punctures on sides, almost im-
punctate in middle, sides more than twice the length of sides of hind coxae.*
Pygidium with coarse, crowded punctures. Front tibiae unidentate, basal joint
of front tarsi thin, and about as long as three following combined, basal joint
of hind tarsi almost as long as two following combined. Length, 7.25 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Bowen (Aug. Simson).
Belongs to Blackburn’s Group 2, and to the section represented by H. brevi-
collis; of the other closely allied species only H. unidentatus has unidentate front
tibiae, and from that species it is distinet by its larger size, more parallel out-
lines, much denser punctures on pronotum and frons, larger elytral punctures,
ete. The upper surface of the type (except for the lateral fringes) is now quite
glabrous, and was probably never distinctly clothed, the pygidium has numerous
hairs. The frons, immediately behind the clypeal suture, is without a shining
impunctate strip, as on many of the closely allied species; the elypeus, from no
direction appears to have a frontal elevation; the elytral punctures are decidedly
large, so that the rows, of which there are about twenty on each elytron, are
rather close together, but on the apical slope they are smaller, sparser, and ir-
regular; the under surface of the front femora is finely serrated near the base;
BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 299
the front tibiae are possibly somewhat worn, but they are now certainly uniden-
tate.
HETERONYX TRIDENTATUS, D.Sp-
Pale reddish-castaneous; elytra, abdomen, antennag, and parts of legs still
paler.
Head rather large, frons and clypeus not on separate planes; frons with
fairly large punctures near the base, becoming crowded at clypeal suture; clypeus
itself with densely crowded punctures, its margin gently elevated, the middle
lightly incurved. Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax about thrice as wide as the
median length, front angles moderately produced, hind ones rounded and obtuse
(from above appearing sharply rectangular), punctures fairly large and numer-
ous, although not dense, becoming smaller and sparser on sides. Scutellum
densely punctate. Elytra with rather large and asperate (or squamose) punc-
tures towards base, becoming smaller and sparser, but still fairly large posteriorly,
sub-sutural and lateral striae distinct, the others feeble or absent. Metasternum
with dense and moderately large punctures, becoming sparser and smaller in
middle, sides about twice as long as sides of hind coxae. Pygidium with pune-
tures much as on hind coxae, becoming smaller about apex; with a rather large
shallow depression on each side of base, middle ridged posteriorly. Front tibiae
strongly tridentate, hind tooth rather small but acute, the others long and sharp,
the apical rather short and thin; front tarsi long and thin, especially the claw
joint, claws each with a large basal appendix. Length, 7 mm.
Hab.—Central Australia: Macdonnell Ranges (Capt. S. A. White).
In Blackburn’s table of Group 2 would be placed with H. torvus and H.
hispidulus, to neither of which is it at all close, being allied to H. brevicollis,
despite its tridentate front tibiae. The pubescence of the upper surface is very
short, sparse and inconspicuous, but even so is more distinct than on others of
the close allies of H. brevicollis, the fringes are rather feeble; the metasternum
has some long pale hairs in front, the pygidium, except for the marginal fringe,
is glabrous. The front of the clypeus, from a right angle, is seen to be slightly
incurved, from behind the middle appears to be obtusely projecting; its front
face is densely punctate, as is also the labrum; the mentum is strongly convex,
but its front face is conspicuously concave. The apical membrane of the pro-
thorax is extremely short behind the eyes and scarcely visible elsewhere, the one
at the apex of the elytra is well defined, although rather short. The hind tarsi
are missing but are probably similar to the middle ones, in which the basal joint
is decidedly longer than the seeond.
HETERONYX CLYPEALIS, 0.sp.
Reddish-castaneous; antennae and parts of under surface and of legs paler.
Head large, with fairly large and dense punctures, becoming crowded on
clypeus; clypeus rather long, front truncated and strongly upturned, sides
moderately upturned and deflected at eyes. Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax
about twice and one half as wide as the median length, sides sub-angularly
dilated in middle, front angles acutely produced, hind ones not at all rounded
off and slightly more than right angles (from above appearing sharply rectangular),
base and apex bisinuate; with large and dense, but not crowded, punctures.
Seutellum with a few punctures. Elytra with large punctures, mostly in irregular
series (about twenty on each elytron), but somewhat smaller and crowded about
suture and apex. Metasternum with dense and large punctures, becoming’ sparse
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in middle, sides fully thrice the length of sides of hind coxae.. Pygidium with
coarse crowded punctures. Front tibiae bidentate, front tarsi dilated and rather
densely padded on under surtace; hind femora subangularly dilated in middle of
under surface, basal joit of hind tarsi almost twice the length of second claws,
appendiculate. Length, 7 mm.
Hab-=—Tasmania. Type in Macleay Museum.
Belongs to Blackburn’s Group 2, and has the large globular eyes, short hind
eoxae and long basal joint of hind tarsi of H. brevicollis and its close allies;
the clypeus is more strongly upturned in front than on the closely allied species;
from the usual point of view it appears to have the apex truncated; changing
the point of view to a more forward one it appears feebly incurved to the middle
and in consequence feebly bilobed (fig. 11); passing backwards, the view alters,
so that the middle appears slightly projecting (fig. 12), somewhat as on brewi-
collis, or with the apex trilobed; on the present species the second tooth of the
front tibia, seen at right angles, appears to be due mostly to the sudden notching
of the tibia near the apex; on H. brevicollis it appears as a conspicuous pro-
jection. The hind femora could scarcely be regarded as dentate, although the
subangulate appearance of its middle is quite distinct, and is somewhat enhanced
by a few setae; the middle tarsi are rather strongly inflated, but less so than
the front ones, the hind claws are missing, but each of the others has a large,
obtuse, basal appendix; on this, as on others of the close allies of H. brevicollis,
the clothing of the onychium on each claw joint is rather dense, so that it is not
always easy to see the shape of the claws, but they are always appendiculate, ©
the appendix large and mempraneous. The upper surface of the type (except
for the lateral fringes) is now entirely glabrous; it is evidently a male, probably
the female has simple hind femora and less strongly dilated tarsi.
HETERONYX PHANOPHILUS, n.sp.
Castaneous; elytra, under surface, and legs slightly paler than prothorax,
antennae flavous. Upper surface glabrous, except for marginal fringes, lower
surface sparsely clothed.
Head rather large, with dense punctures of moderate size and individually
distinct, slightly larger and denser, but otherwise much the same, on clypeus;
elypeus on an even convexity with frons, margin slightly upturned and gently
rounded. Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax almost thrice as wide as_ the
median length, front angles produced, hind ones obtuse, but not rounded (from
above appearing sharply rectangular); punctures as large and almost as dense
as on frons. Scutellum impunctate. Elytra with large punctures,, mostly ir-
regular, but in places with a distinctly lineate arrangement, about twenty-five
irregular rows on each elytron. Metasternum with dense punctures, becoming
sparse in middle; sides more than twice the length of sides of hind coxae. Pygi-
dium with crowded punctures, about as large as on pronotum. Front femora
finely serrated on part of under surface; front tibiae bidentate; basal joint of
hind and middle tarsi about once and one half the length of the second, of the
front tarsi thin and more than twice the length of the second; claws appendiculate.
Length, 5.5-7 mm. .
Hab.—Queensland: Cairns district, abundant at lights (H. Hacker, Dr. J.
F. Illingworth and A. M. Lea), Kuranda (R. W. Armitage, in National Museum).
Allied to H. brevicollis, of Group 2, and at first glance looking like small
specimens of Ocnodus, but the claws not simple. The front and middle tarsi are
BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 301
not conspicuously inflated and padded as on several of the® close allies of H.
brevicollis, but they are slightly larger and rather more densely clothed than on
the female; the club of the antennae is also shghtly the larger on the male. The
serrations of the front femora average about six, with a seta between each pair,
but some manipulation is necessary for them to be seen clearly. The clypeus,
perpendicularly to itself, appears to have the front truneated and the sides
oblique, but from the usual point of view its margin appears to be gently rounded;
immediately behind its suture the frons is without a narrow polished impunctate
strip; although the punctures on the bead are very dense they are scarcely
erowded, as each is individually distinct and not confluent with any of the ad-
jacent ones; there is a feeble transverse impression on each side of the pro-
thorax of most of the specimens, but it could be easily overlooked. The pro-
thoracic membrane is very sbort behind the eyes, and not traceable elsewhere;
the elytra are without an apical one. The general colour is of a rather bright
reddish-castaneous; some specimens are of a rather dark brown, on one of the
larger specimens the head and prothorax are almost black, a few small ones are
pale castaneous, but the elytra are always paler than the prothorax.
HETERONYX BREVICOXIS, n.sp.
Almost black; elytra blackish-brown, parts of under surface and of legs
obseurely paler, antennae and palpi pale castaneous, club flavous. Upper surface
glabrous, except for straggling lateral fringes.
Head rather large and convex, with sharply defined and moderately dense
punctures, becoming larger and crowded on clypeus, a narrow shining and almost
impunctate strip immediately behind clypeal suture. Clypeus with outer margin
founded and slightly upturned. Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax about thrice
as wide as the median length, front angles moderately produced, hind ones
shehtly obtuse, but not rounded off (from above appearing sharply rectangular) ;
punctures about as large as on back part of head, and moderately dense, but
not crowded, becoming sparser on sides. Seutellum impunctate. Elytra with
Jarge punctures in more or less regular rows (about twenty on each elytron), but
becoming irregular about apex. Metasternum with dense punctures, becoming
Sparse in middle, sides thrice the length of sides of hind coxae. Pygidium with
larger and somewhat denser punctures than on pronotum. Front femora finely
serrated on under surface; front tibiae bidentate; basal joint of hind tarsi about
twice as long as second; claws appendiculate. Length, 7-8 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Cairns and Kuranda (H. Hacker), Mossman (Dr. J. F.
Illingworth).
Allied to H. brevicollis, of Group 2, and in general appearance quite close
to Ocnodus unidentatus, but claws not simple; from the larger and darker speci-
mens of the preceding species it is distinguished by the shining strip behind the
clypeal suture; the punctures on the pronotum and frons are denser than usual,
but not as dense as on that species. The base of the prothorax is but feebly
bisinuate, but the median lobe projects backwards more than is usual in the
close allies of H. brevicollis. Viewed perpendicularly, the clypeus appears to be
truncated across the apex, with oblique sides, but from behind its slightly raised
margin appears almost semi-circular, with the middle feebly produced; although
the lineate arrangement of the elytral punctures is quite distinct, and some-
times two rows seem almost regularly geminate, no row.is even throughout. The
elytra are without an apical membrane; on the pronotum the membrane is very
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short behind the eyes, and not traceable elsewhere. Two specimens, from Kur-
anda, are rather smaller and paler (dark reddish-castaneous) than the type, and
have a few small punctures on the sides of the seutellum, but otherwise they
agree well with it.
UETERONYX INCONSTANS, n.sp.
Black or blackish; parts of under surface paler, legs pale castaneous, an-
tennae flavous. Upper surface glabrous, except for feeble lateral fringes, meta
sternum glabrous, except for a few median setae.
Head rather large and convex, with sharply defined punctures of moderate
size and fairly dense, but evenly spaced, a polished impunctate strip behing
clypeal suture; clypeus with outer margin slightly upturned and semi-circular,
punctures larger and closer together than on frons, although not confluent.
Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax fully thrice as wide as the median length,
front angles acute, hind ones shghtly more than right angles, but appearing
acutely rectangular from above, punctures slightly larger, sparser and less evenly
spaced than on frons. Scutellum with fairly numerous and small sharply defined
punctures. Elytra with more or less regular rows (less than twenty on each
elytron) of fairly large punctures, smaller close to suture than elsewhere, and
irregular on apical slope. Metasternum with dense punctures, becoming sparse
‘in middle; sides almost thrice the length of sides of hind coxae. Pygidium with
crowded punctures. Front femora feebly serrated on part of lower surface; front
tibiae bidentate; hind tarsi with basal joint about once and one half the length
of second; claws each with a large basal appendix. Length, 6-7 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Coen River (W. D. Dodd and H. Hacker), Stewart
River (Dodd).
A black or blackish species, allied to H. brevicollis, of Group 2; from the
preceding species it differs in being smaller, with sparser punctures, and elytra
less parallel-sided. The male has more numerous setae on the under surface of
the front tarsi, but otherwise there appear to be no external distinctions of sex
on the eight specimens under examination. Seen from behind, the front of the
clypeus appears to be very feebly trilobed, the median lobe sometimes slightly
advanced. One specimen has the upper surface entirely black, on one only the
scutellum is obscurely reddish, on another the seutellum and a spot on each side
of pronotum are obscurely reddish, on one the upper surface is dark piceous-
brown, but the prothoracic margins, shoulders, and seutellum are reddish; one
has the upper surface entirely bright castaneous; the metasternum and_ elytral
epipleurae are usually paler than the abdomen.
HETERONYX NOCTIVAGUS, n.sp.
Bright castaneous, under surface and legs somewhat paler than upper sur-
face, antennae flavous. Upper surtace glabrous, except for loose marginal
fringes.
Head rather large and convex, with fairly large, evenly spaced, and moder:
ately dense punctures, but absent from a narrow shining’ strip immediately be-
hind clypeal suture; elypeus with margins feebly elevated, truncated across apex;
punctures denser and somewhat larger than on frons, but not confluent. An-
tennae eight-jointed. Prothorax thrice as wide as long, front angles acute, hind
ones somewhat obtuse (appearing sharply rectangular from above); punctures
about as large as on frons, but less numerous, an impunctate median line on
basal half. Seutellum impunctate or almost so. Elytra with larger punctures
than on pronotum, and mostly in rows (about twenty on each elytron), which
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in places are quite regular, but very irregular about sides, apex and_ suture.
Metasternum with crowded sub-asperate punctures, becoming sparse in middle;
sides more than twice as long as sides of hind coxae. Pygidium with rather
large and dense punctures. Front femora slightly serrated on middle of under
surface, front tibiae bidentate; hind femora sub-angulate at middle of under
surface and with a loose fascicle there; basal joint of each tarsus distinctly
longer than second, each claw with a large basal appendix. Length, 5.5-6 mm.
Hab.— Queensland: Cairns, to lights (Dr. J. F. Hlmgworth).
Allied to H. brevicollis, of Group 2; that species is a consistently paler
one, with the median projection of the clypeus (viewed from behind) more con-
spicuous and in advance of the lateral ones, the punctures coarser and more
irregular, and the second tooth of the front tibiae larger and more projecting;
H. harpalinus has also the median projection (viewed from behind) more ad-
vanced, and with coarser punctures on the pronotum and elytra. The clypeus,
as viewed frem behind, appears feebly trilobed, but the lateral lobes not posterior
to the median one, as on H. inconstans when so viewed, its base (ocular canthus)
on each side also projects distinctly outwards on a separate curve. The feeble
angulation of the hind femora (a masculine feature) is rendered quite con-
spicuous by the loose fascicle and is somewhat suggestive of H. clypeéalis, but
the clypeus is very different; on the present species its marginal elevation 1s
nowhere very high, but is distinctly higher at the front angles than in the middle;
on that species the elevation is greatest at the middle, and the elevated part
averages almost thrice that of the present species; there are numerous other
differences in the outlines, punctures, etc. Three specimens, all males, are under
examination; thei front and middle tarsi are slightly dilated and are rather
densely padded, but much Jess so than on the males of H. wunidentatus.
HETERONYX TRANSVERSOPOLITUS, n. Sp.
Dark castaneous-brown; under surface and legs somewhat paler, antennae
flavous. Upper surface glabrous, except for straggling lateral fringes.
Head rather large and convex; frons with rather sparse and not very large,
but sharply defined, punctures, a narrow polished impunetate strip immediately
behind elypeal suture; clypeus with larger and crowded punctures, margin slightly
elevated. Antennae eight-jomted. Prothorax thrice as wide as the median
length, front angles produced and acute, hind ones obtuse (from above, appear-
ing sharply rectangular); punctures sparser and smaller than on frons. Seutel-
lum with marginal punctures. Elytra somewhat dilated posteriorly, with large
punctures in places in fairly regular rows (about twenty on each elytron}.
Metasternum with crowded punctures, becoming sparse in middle, sides thrice as
long as sides of hind coxae. Pygidium with dense and rather large punctures.
Front femora with a serrated, sub-dentiform projection in middle of under sur-
face; front tibiae bidentate, the second tooth close to the first; front tarsi longer
and thinner than the others; basal joint of each tarsus much longer than the
second; each claw with a large, obtuse appendix. Length, 7-8 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Innisfail (Dr. J. F. Illingworth), Cairns (H. Hacker).
Allied to H. brevicollis, of Group 2, and, of the closely allied species with
_bidentate front tibiae, it is distinguished by the comparatively sparse and small,
although sharply defined, punctures on the frons, and the still smaller and sparser
ones on the pronotum; it is rather more dilated posteriorly than the others, ex-
cept H. inconstans, which is a smaller species, with larger punctures on the dise
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of pronotum. Perpendieularly to itself the margin of the ¢lypeus appears trun-
cated across the middle, and rounded on thé sides; from behind it appears almost
semi-circular, with the middle feebly produced; the polished space behind its
suture is very conspicuous. To the naked eye the upper surface appears almost
black.
HETERONYX UNIDENTATUS, n.sp.
3. Of a more or less bright castaneous; antennae and parts of legs paler
(sometimes flavous).
Head large; frons with fairly large and sharply defined, but not very dense,
punctures, immediately behind clypeal suture a narrow shining impunctate space;
elypeus with margins slightly upturned and gently rounded, punetures coarser
than on frons and crowded. Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax almost thrice
as wide as the median length, front angles slightly produced, hind ones slightly
more than right angles and not rounded off; punctures numerous, but not crowded,
and about as large as on clypeus; apical membrane very short, even behind eyes.
Seutellum with a few punctures. Elytra with more or less irregular, but fairly
well defined, rows of large punctures. Metasternum with fairly numerous coarse
punctures on sides, sparse in middle; sides about twice the length of sides of
hind coxae. Pygidium with coarse crowded punctures, and a short median carina.
Front tibiae unidentate, the apical projection long and acute, the inner spur with
a hoeked tip; front tarsi with four basal joints conspicuously inflated, and (as
also the fifth) densely padded on the under surface; middle tarsi slightly smaller,
but otherwise much the same; basal joint of hind tarsi distinctly longer than
second. Claws each with a large appendix. Length, 5-6.25 mm.
2. Differs in having front and middle tarsi not dilated, and but sparsety
clothed on the under surface.
Hab.—Northern Territory: Groote Eylandt (N. B. Tindale).
A remarkable species, belonging to Blackburn’s Group 2, where it could be
placed with H. brevicollis, but which has the front tibiae bidentate; the inflated
tarsi of the male associate the species with H. harpalinus, whose front tibiae are
bidentate %n both sexes, although described (in error) as unidentate in the
female. The front of the clypeus, from above, appears to be truncated across
the middle or gently rounded, but, from behind, its middle is seen to be slightly
projecting (somewhat as on H. inconstans). At first glance the elytra, except
for the lateral fringes, appear to be glabrous, but on close examination very
minute sparse depressed pubescence may be seen. Nearly fifty specimens were
obtained.
HapitonycHa FACETA Blackb.
Three specimens from the Swan River probably belong to this species. In
Blackburn’s table of Group 7 the type, now in the British Museum, is noted as
having “Pronotum strongly and considerably less closely punctulate” than in H.
testaceipennis; the three specimens have the prothoracic punctures larger and
sparser than on that species, but they are certainly not coarse; the species is
wider, the inter-ocular punctures are considerably larger and the apical slope of
elytra is different; on, H. testaceipennis the subsutural stria on each elytron is
sharply defined to the apex, with the space between it and the suture distinctly
convex; on the present species each subsutural stria practically vanishes on the
apical slope, and the space between its position there and the suture is concave.
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HAPLONYCHA FIMBRICOLLIS, n.sp.
3. Reddish-eastaneous; elytra (suture and margins excepted) paler and
moderately iridescent. Sterna and base of abdomen with ‘dense, pale hair, pro-
thorax fringed all round with long erect pale hairs; pygidium with rather sparse
and short hairs on disc, the tip with a long reddish fringe, propygidium with
dense short setae or pubescence, and a few stiff hairs. es
Head somewhat flattened between eyes; with rather dense and moderately
large punctures. Clypeus somewhat swollen immediately in front of its suture;
punctures there dense and rather large, rapidly becoming sparser and smaller in
front. Antennae nine-, club three-jointed, joints of the club extending to abeut
the middle of basal joint. Palpi with apical joint somewhat depressed and punc-
tate in middle, penultimate joint distinctly shorter than ante-penultimate. Pro-
thorax about four times as wide as long, sides strongly rounded posteriorly, front
angles sub-acute, hind ones rounded off; with small, sparsely distributed pune-
tures, gutters wide and filled with small piliferous granules; apical membrane
long. Elytra widest at about the middle, with rather sparse punctures, small and
rather sharp ones, and larger and shallower ones; with feeble longitudinal ele-
vations marking the positions of geminate rows of punctures, but these feeble
and in places absent. Pygidium with small scattered punctures; propygidium
opaque and densely punctate. Basal joint of hind tibiae slightly shorter than
second. Length, 24-25 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Busselton, Kellerberrin (J. Clark).
In Blackburn’s table would be associated with H. trichopyga, of Group 2,
but is at once distinguished by the apical joint of the maxillary palpi; on that
species it is long, thin, subcylindrical in section, and no part is opaque; on the
present species it is shorter, with a sub-opaque punctate depression representing”
a remnant of the conspicuous groove of species of Group 3. The erect hairs on
the margins of the prothorax are unusually long, and the basal fringe is some-
what obscured by long hairs protruding from the base of the. mesonotum; the
elytra have a downward projecting fringe of very short golden setae, distinct
across apex, and traceable to base; in addition, each side has a fringe of out-
wardly projecting stiff, reddish setae, fairly long at the base, becoming shorter
posteriorly, and not traceable across apex. The third and fourth joints of an-
tennae are of equal length, the sixth is very short; the sublateral foveae of the
pronotum are wide but shallow, and on each specimen have the appearance as of
being irregularly impressed. The specimen from Kellerberrin has the palpi
broken off, and most of the hairs missing from the apex of prothorax, but evi-
dently belongs to the same species.
HAPLONYCHA FIMBRIPENNIS, n.sp.
Reddish-castaneous; elytra (suture and margins excepted) and most of
abdomen flavous. Sterna densely pilose, a fringe of rather distantly placed hairs
on each side of prothorax, pygidium with fairly numerous short hairs.
Head with punctures of moderate size, somewhat crowded near eyes and
elypeal suture, sparser elsewhere. Antennae nine-, club four-jointed, fifth joimt
triangularly produced on one side, first joint of club three-fourths the length of
second, and almost as long as four preceding joints combined. Apical joint of
palpi rather thin, with an oblique punctate depression, extending for about two-
thirds the length on its upper surface, penultimate joint distinctly shorter than
ante-penultimate. Prothorax about thrice as wide as the median length, sides
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evenly rounded, front angles produced and acute, hind ones rounded off, punc-
tures rather sparse and small. Elytra widest at about basal two-fifths, each with
four feebly elevated but distinct longitudinal ridges, marking geminate striae;
punctures not very closely placed (even in striae), with numerous feeble oblique
impressions. Pygidium large, with a feeble but almost continuous median ridge,
surface somewhat rugose, especially about base, where the punctures are some-
what crowded. Basal joint of hind tarsi slightly shorter than second. Length,
30 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Northam.
Each side gutter of the pronotum with but a single row of rather distant,
piliferous punctures, excludes this species from Blackburn’s Group 2, so by its
palpi it must be referred to Group 3; it is much larger than any other species
of the latter group, and in general appearance is strikingly close to H. latebricola,
and H. longipalpis (Group 2), H. colossa (Group 4), and H. gigantea (Group
5). In addition to the very short downward projecting fringe, each margin of
the elytra has a fringe of outwardly projecting setae, becoming irregular and
more numerous (not in a single row) about base. The type is probably a male.
HAPLONYCHA TARSALIS, n.Sp.
3d. Flavous; head reddish-castaneous, its base, base and apex of prothorax
very narrowly, scutellum, elytra (wholly or in part), most of abdomen and parts
of legs black, or deeply infuscated. Sterna moderately pilose, parts of upper
surface with a few hairs.
Head with sharply defined punctures of moderate size, denser about clypeal
suture than elsewhere; clypeus with sides less narrowed to apex than usual.
Antennae nine-, club four-jointed. Palpi with apical joint moderately long, with
a conspicuous elliptic depression on its upper surface; two preceding joints
shorter than usual. Prothorax between three and four times as wide as its
median length, strongly convex, base rather strongly sloped, sides strongly rounded,
front angles slightly produced and almost rectangular, hind ones rounded off;
with fairly numerous punctures of moderate size. Hlytra widest at about basal
third; punctures denser and larger than on prothorax, with feeble remnants only
of longitudinal elevations and geminate striae. Pygidium moderately large; with
numerous. shallow, rugose punctures of moderate sizes or small. Front tarsi with
elaw joint large, and each claw suddenly bent backwards at the middle, and with
a large sub-basal appendix; basal jomt of hind tarsi slightly longer than second.
Length, 12-13 mm.
Hab.—North-western Australia: Wyndham, Forrest River.
The smallest known species of Group 3; in Blackburn’s table it would be
associated with H. setosa, which has denser punctures and is very ditferently
coloured; in its abnormal front claws it approaches H. marginata, of the same
group, in which they are still more abnormal in the male; they somewhat resemble
those of Macropocopris, the species of which live in the fur about the anus of
wallabies. The dark parts of the elytra vary considerably in extent; on one
specimen most of its elytra is pale, on the type the elytra are entirely dark, al-
though the median parts show a faint decrease of colour, the third specimen 1s
intermediate; the hind tibiae also vary in colour. Probably on fresh specimens
the base, apex and sides of pronotum are all sparsely fringed with hairs, as
remnants of fringes are to be seen on all three specimens; there are a few long
hairs on the elytra near the scutellum, and some shorter ones posteriorly; tbere
BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 307
are also a few hairs on the pygidium. The outward projecting fringe of elytral
setae is distinct on each side almost to the apex; but the downward projecting
fringe is composed of such extremely short setae that it appears as a scarcely
visible whitish rim.
HAPLONYCHA PALLIDA, n.sp.
Pale flavous; part of head, elytral suture and parts of appendages faintly
tinged with red. Sterna and base of abdomen moderately pilose; prothorax with
feeble fringes of hair on sides, base, and apex; elytra with a few short scattered
hairs, each side with a fringe of hairs or reddish setae from near apex to base.
where they are longest; pygidium fringed with hairs, four segments of abdomen
each with an interrupted row of hairs.
Head with dense and well defined punctures, rapidly becoming ewllee on
elypeus. Antennae nine-, club four-jointed. Apical joint of palpi moderately
long and subeylindrical, an elongate, narrower, slightly depressed, opaque space
on upper surface. Prothorax between three and four times as wide as head,
sides evenly rounded, front angles feebly produced and almost rectangular, hind
ones rounded off, punctures fairly numerous but not dense (more numerous close
behind sub-apical furrow than elsewhere) and sharply defined although rather
small; apical membrane moderately long close to sides, but very short elsewhere.
Elytra almost parallel-sided to near apex, surface in places slightly rugose; and
hence causing the punctures to appear irregular, ridges marking the geminate
rows of punctures feeble, the rows also feeble; suture briefly mucronate. Pygi-
dium subtriangular, with sparse and small punctures, but becoming crowded at
base; propygidium opaque and densely punctate, but apex shining. Basal] joint
of hind tarsi longer than second. Length, 13-14 mm.
Hab.—South Australia: Ooldea.
The depression on the apical joint of palpi is too feeble (although from
certain points of view it is quite distinct) to be regarded as associating the
species with the members of Group 3; the penultimate joint on two specimens
appears to be slightly longer than the ante-penultimate, but on the type and an-
other specimen the palpi are clearly visible, and the penultimate one is seen to
be the longer, the species, therefore, belongs to Blackburn’s Group 5, the sides
and base of pronotum are very feebly fringed, so it could hardly be associated
with H. mauricei (on one specimen the basal fringe cannot be traced), which is
a larger and darker species, with much coarser punctures on clypeus, with well
defined geminate rows of punctures on elytral and conspicuous prothoracic
fringes; passing that species, it would be associated with H. arvicola, from the
description of which it differs in its much smaller size, pale colour, ete. Had
but one specimen been taken, it would probably have been considered immature.
but the four specimens agree perfectly in colour.
HAPLONYCHA PULCHRIPENNIS, n.sp.
Bright reddish-castaneous, elytra somewhat paler and with a slight pruinose
iridescence. Sterna with dense pale hair, prothorax with a thin fringe of hairs
on each side, continued for a short distance only around base and apex; pygidium
with a thin fringe of setae, and a few shorter ones on disc.
Head with sharply defined punctures of moderate size, becoming denser and
larger about clypeal suture, the intervening spaces with minute punctures; front
face of elypeus with an irregular row of piliferous punctures close to labrum.
208 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAE,
and some irregular ones elsewhere. Antennae nine-, club three-jointed, joints of
club about as long as three basal joints combined. Apical joint of palpi slightly
curved, its upper surface with an oblique, flat (scarcely depressed), opaque,
punctate space; penultimate joint slightly shorter than ante-penultimate. - Pro-
thorax about three and one half times as wide as the median length, sides
strongly rounded, front angles produced and rectangular, hind ones strongly
rounded off, apical furrow strong throughout, but especially near sides; punctures
rather sparse and small, but sharply defined; apical membrane long behind eyes,
short elsewhere. Elytra rather strongly dilated posteriorly; punctures rather
numerous and of moderate size, becoming smaller and denser about tips, geminate
rows well defined, the ridge between each pair feebly elevated and distinct, and
with few or no punctures; suture unarmed. Pygidium strongly convex, base with
dense and small punctures, sparse elsewhere. Basal joint of hind tarsi slightly
longer than second. Length, 24 mm.
Hab.—Victoria: Wangaratta (Aug. Simson).
It is somewhat dubious whether this beautiful species should be referred to
Blackburn’s Group 6 or Group 7; if to the former, it could scarcely be placed
with H. clara (which is a considerably smaller and paler species), as the fringe
of long hairs on each side of the prothorax stops abruptly a short distance
within the base, so it would probably be associated with H. thoracica, from the
description of which it differs in being much larger, with small prothoracic
punctures, ete.; if referred to Group 7, it would be associated with H. testa-
ceipennits (although I cannot regard the pronotum of that species as “closely
punctulate”), from which it differs in being much larger, more ecastaneous, head
with coarser punctures, etc.; in size and general appearance it is more or less
close to H. dubia, H. campestris, H. pilosa (Group 2) and H. gouldi (Group 4).
The sixth joint of the antennae is unusually thin and, from certain directions,
can searcely be seen. Each front angle of the prothorax, from above, appears
to be decidedly acute, but, from a point perpendicular to itself, is seen to be
rectangular. Hach elytron has a fringe of very short, downward projecting,
golden setae, from the suture (where the tip of an internal fringe of longer
setae is visible) around the side to the hind coxa; it then changes to longer and
soft hairs, and shortly after passing the coxa abruptly ends; the outward pro-
jecting fringe of reddish bristles is fairly long at the base, becomes short pos-
teriorly and terminates level with the pygidium. Judged by its long elub the
type appears to be a male.
HAPLONYCHA FIMBRIATA, n.Sp.
Castaneous-red; elytra (suture and margins excepted) flavous, prothorax and
seutellum opaque, rest of upper surface slightly shining. Sterna with dense pale
hair; prothorax completely fringed with short upright hair, each side, in addition,
with a thin fringe of longer hairs; elytra with very short hairs or sparse pubes-
cence about the sides and tips; abdomen with dense and rather long reddish setae
on sides, sparse and short in middle; pygidium with numerous short setae on
dise, and fringed with longer ones; propygidium with a rather dense, but nor-
mally concealed, fringe.
Head with dense and comparatively small, but sharply defined, punctures,
becoming larger about clypeal suture; clypeus rather longer than usual, its suture
bisinuate. Antennae nine-, club three-jointed, jomts of club about as long as
two basal joints of antennae combined. Apical joint of palpi moderately long
and rather thin, penultimate joint shorter than ante-penultimate. Prothorax fully
BY ARTHUR M. LBA. 309
four times as wide as long, sides strongly rounded (almost sub-angularly dilated),
front angles produced and sub-acute, hind ones not rounded off; punctures small
and rather sparse; apical membrane rather long behind eyes, short elsewhere.
Elytra moderately dilated posteriorly; suture very feebly mucronate. Basal joint
of hind tarsi longer than second. Length, 17-18 mm.
Hab.—Western Australia: Swan River (J. Clark).
The large piliferous punctures across the front face of the clypeus, im-
mediately above the labrum, are very distinct, but they are not quite regular, and,
seen from the sides, there are other setae or hairs as well, so it is somewhat
doubtful whether the species should be referred to Group 6 or Group 7; if to the
latter, in Blackburn’s table, it would be associated with H. testaceipennis, from
which it is distinct by its opaque prothorax (much as on H. opaca), much denser
punctures on head and less sharply defined elytral punctures; if referred to
Group 6, it might be placed with H. clara, although the hairs in the basal gutter
are short; that species has somewhat similar outlines, but its elytra are darker
than on the present species, its prothorax is not opaque, and it has crowded
punctures. On the type the elytral fringes are in perfect condition; on each
side the outward projecting one at the base consists of rather long, sparse, red-
dish bristles; these soon change to shorter and denser ones, and are so continued
to about the abdomen, when they begin to turn downwards, till on the apex they
are vertical, but for a short distance after and before the sub-apical segment,
they also change in thickness, so as to resemble rather elongate scales; the down-
ward projecting fringe of very short setae is concealed by the longer fringe at
and near the apex, but elsewhere appears as a very short whitish margin. On
a second specimen, the fringes have been partly disarranged and abraded, dis-
closing the fact that the true edge of each elytron is minutely serrated almost
throughout. On the type the elytral punctures (including the geminate rows)
and longitudinal elevations appear to be very feeble; but on parts of the other
specimen, the punctures appear to be fairly large and quite sharply defined;
but it is slightly greasy, the grease causing the disappearance of the natural
“hloom” that more or less conceals the punctures and causes the opaque appear-
ance of parts of the upper surface.
LEPIDIOTA TRICHOSTERNA, N.sp.
Bright castaneous; some marginal and projecting parts (especially on the
legs) darker, tibial teeth black. Rather sparsely clothed with thin, depressed,
elongate, white scales or stout setae, denser on head and seutellum than else-
where, thinner on pygidium and still thinner on propygidium; sterna and hind
coxae with long and dense pale hair; longer, stouter and sparse on legs, but
mixed there with stout setae-like seales, as on prothorax.
Head with coarse punctures, an obtuse longitudinal ridge in middle. Clypeus
well elevated in front and searcely bilobed, punctures evenly distributed. An-
tennae with club rather small. Apical joint of palpi elongate, sub-elliptic, on
outer side with a narrow, flat or feebly concave, sub-opaque space. Prothorax
with all angles somewhat acute, sides widest near middle; with wide, but obtuse,
erenulations, front and hind margins not beaded; punctures about as large as
on head, but somewhat unevenly distributed. Elytra moderately dilated to be-
yond the middle, each with five feeble, longitudinal elevations, of which the
fourth (counting from the suture) is very feeble; punctures smaller than on
prothorax, but quite as deep, larger about tips than elsewhere. Propygidium with
erowded and small punetures about base, becoming sparser and larger posteriorly,
310 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAE,
and somewhat larger on pygidium. Front tibiae strongly tridentate, median tooth
- slightly nearer first than third. Length, 23 mm.
Hab.— Queensland: Gin Gin (Easterby).
In general appearance nearer the species of Paralepidiota and Pararhopaea,
than Lepidiota, but club three-jointed. In Blackburn’s table, it would be placed
in A, BB, from all the species of which it is very distinct. There are no round
seales on any part of the body.
LEPIDIOTA PLATYURA, D.Sp.
Blackish-brown and sub-opaque; elytra pale castaneous-brown, becoming
much darker on basal third; antennae, palpi, and tarsi castaneous. Upper sur-
face with cireular or briefly elliptic, snowy scales, closely applied to derm, be-
coming less rounded, but quite as flat, on abdomen and hind parts; sterna and
hind coxae with dense, pale hair. ;
Head from half-way between eyes to apex with dense round punctures, but
not encroaching upon each other, near eclypeal suture not as dense ag elsewhere.
Clypeus strongly bilobed, margins moderately upturned. Antennae with joints
of club almost the length of funicle. Apical joint of palpi elongate, sub-elliptic,
with a fairly deep narrow impression. Prothorax widest at about basal third,
sides obtusely crenulated, front gently incurved and with a narrowly raised margin,
front angles almost rectangular; hind angles very obtuse, angles with round
crowded punctures, becoming sparser and smaller towards middle, but even there
fairly numerous. Elytra slightly dilated about middle; with punctures much as
on dise of pronotum, without distinct longitudinal lines. Abdomen and _ pro-
pygidium with small, crowded punctures, becoming somewhat sparser, but still
dense, on pygidium, the latter unusually large and wide (9 x 6 mm.). Front
tibiae strongly tridentate, the median tooth equidistant from the others. Length,
25 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Cape York (C. French).
In Blackburn’s table, this species would be associated with L. negatoria, from
the description of which it is distinguished by the obtuse hind angles of prono-
tum; the pygidium is much wider than in L. frenchi and L. perkinsi, and decided-
ly wider than is usual in the genus. The upper surface, to the naked eye, has
a curious mealy appearance. On the head, from between the middle of the eyes
to the front, the scales are quite cireular, and each is contained in a puncture;
on the type, the base of the head is exposed and highly polished, but would
normally be concealed; at the place where the apparent base would normally be
exposed the seales are smaller and denser than elsewhere, so that the surface,
especially close to the eyes, is completely plated; they almost. completely fill the
angles of the pronotum and become sparser and smaller in the middle, but still
quite circular; on the elytra they are almost evenly distributed, but vary some-
what in size and slightly in outlines; they almost completely cover the abdomen
and propygidium, and are dense on the pygidium. The hair on the under parts
is depressed on the type, but this may be due to improper. treatment; there are
long pale hairs and stout white scales on the legs.
LEPIDIOTA RUGOSIPENNIS, n.sp.
Dark castaneous-brown; parts of head, extreme base of prothorax, elytral
suture very narrowly, and tibial teeth black or blackish. Moderately clothed with
small snow-white seales, cireular or almost so on head and prothorax, pointed on
BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 311
elytra and scutellum; under surface and hind parts densely clothed with elliptie
or pointed scales, front portion only of metasternum with yellowish hair; legs
with straggling hairs and white scales.
Head with dense, round punctures, smaller and denser close to eyes than
elsewhere. Clypeus strongly bilobed, margins moderately upturned; punctures
dense and evenly distributed. Antennae with basal joint of club extending to
apex of first joint of funicle. Apical joint of palpi moderately stout, tip in-
curved; on upper surface with an elongate, depressed or flattened opaque space.
Prothorax moderately long, widest at about basal two-fifths, sides obtusely crenu-
lated, front angles slightly produced and almost rectangular, hind ones rounded
and obtuse, front and hind margins not elevated; with fairly large, but somewhat
unevenly distributed, punctures; median line shining and distinct throughout.
Elytra very feebly dilated about middle; punctures mostly larger than on pro-
thorax, and many of them connected by transverse or oblique wrinklings of the
derm. Hind parts with smaller and denser punctures than on upper surface.
Front tibiae strongly tridentate, median tooth slightly nearer first than third.
Length, 25 mm.
Hab.—Queensland: Cairns (E. Allen).
Structurally fairly close to L. frenchi, but scales of hind parts not circular,
pygidium somewhat smaller and less transverse, hind coxae with true scales only,
and punctures and palpi different. On parts of the under surface and of the
pronotum of the type, many of the scales are slaty or yellowish, but such scales
have probably been stained.
PACHYTRICHA MINOR Sharp.
Miss J. F. May took several specimens of this species washed up on the
beach at Cottesloe (near the Swan River).
SYSTELLOPUS ATER Lea.
Mr. J. Clark writes that the locality given for the type (Chillagoe) was wrong,
and that it was obtained at the Chapman River, near Geraldton (Western Aus-
tralia).
ENAMILLUS MAURICEI Blackb.
A male, from Ooldea, agrees so perfectly in structure with normal males of
this species that I cannot regard it as other than a variety; it differs, however,
in having the elypeus, labrum, prothorax (an obscure spot on each side infus-
cated), secutellum (tip obscurely infuscated) elytra and most of under surface
and of legs reddish.
' DYNASTIDES.
PSEUDORYCTES VALIDUS Lea.
Four males from Broome (N. W. Australia) belong to this species; they have
the prothoracic cavity glabrous and the medio-apical process of the prothorax
notched at the tip, thus differing from the description of P. dispar, and from a
specimen that agrees well with that description.
CETONIDES.
CACOCHROA GYMNOPLEURA Fisch., var. FUSCOSUTURALIS, N.var.
Mr. R. Ulidge has, from Gympie (Queensland), a male that agrees so per-
teetly in structure with the typical form of this species that I cannot regard it
312 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN SCARABAEIDAB,
as more than a variety; it differs, however, in having the head and prothorax
black, with a faint coppery or bluish gloss, and the elytra flavous, with the suture
widely infuscated from the base to the summit of the apical slope and narrowly
on this to the apex itself, the shoulders are distinctly and the sides very faintly
infuscated.
KUPOECILA AUSTRALASIAE Don., var. InTRICATA Lea.
This variety was named from a female, now in the National Museum, Mel-
bourne. Mr. R. Illidge has recently taken, in the Queensland National Park, a
male that agrees well with the figure (Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Aust., 1914, Pl. vii., fig.
22) except that the medio-basal markings on the pronotum are slightly larger.
DILOCHROSIS BROWNI Kirby.
A female from Darnley Island, received from Dr. E. W. Ferguson, evidently
represents a variety of this species. Its prothorax is black, with the thickened
margin pale from apex to near base, then the pale part on each side is turned
inwards as a narrow line for about one-third of the width, the sides of the apex
are also narrowly and irregularly pale; on the elytra an irregular basal space
about equal to the length of the scutellum is black, and the sterna and abdomen
are black.
METALLESTHES METALLESCENS Westw.
Messrs. R. J. Burton and A. H. Elston saw this species in abundance, on
the flowering stems of a species of Xanthorrhoea, at Barossa (South Australia)
in December. era
313
ENTOMOSTRACA COLLECTED IN THE VICINITY OF AUCKLAND,
NEW ZEALAND.
By Marcurrite Henry, B.Se., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology.
(Five Text-figures. )
[Read 380th July, 1924.]
Introduction.
This collection of Crustacea was obtained by Mr. T. Steel in May, 1917;
he has very kindly allowed the writer to examine the specimens and has also
provided some notes on the four localities from which they were obtained, Lake
Takapuna, Onehunga Springs, a tarn on Mt. St. John and Duck Creek. Mr.
Steel’s notes are as follows :—
“Lake Takapuna is a freshwater lake about two miles north of Auck-
land, it is half a mile in diameter and of considerable depth, since tt
occupies the crater of an extinct voleano of recent geological age. The
material was obtained by the use of a fine hand-net round the margins
where there is a plentiful growth of freshwater sponge.
“Onehunga Springs are the outcome of seepage water from rain falling
on the extensive lava plains between Auckland and Onehunga. The water
bubbles up in a powerful stream at different points in an area of a quarter
of a square mile; it is exceedingly clear and cool and water cress grows
abundantly.
“Mt. St. John is close to Auckland. It is an extinct volcano of reeent
geological age; in the centre of the crater is a permanent freshwater tarn
about thirty feet in diameter. Bulrushes grow round the margin and the
water contains immense numbers of Volvox.
“Dam at the Duck Creek sugar works, Auckland Harbour, is formed
in a gully and is about ten feet deep.”
Various fixatives were employed by Mr. Steel; formalin, corrosive sublimate,
Carl’s fixative and chrome acetic, but the results did not differ to any appreciable
extent. None of these fixatives are as satisfactory for the smaller Crustacea as
glycerine alcohol.
In addition to Crustacea, the collection contained the larvae of numerous
insects, pond snails, mites and Protozoa, a species of Ceratiwm predominating.
The Entomostraca were well represented, but, though the number of in-
dividuals was large, they only comprised ten species. Brady noted the same fact
in 1906, “such a small number of species were found in so extensive a series of
nettings from so many different lakes.”
The literature on the New Zealand freshwater Entomostraca is not very ex-
314 ENTOMOSTRACA COLLECTED IN THE VICINITY OF AUCKLAND, N.Z.,
tensive, the most important papers on the subject are those of Thomson, Sars
and Brady. In 1878 and 1882, Thomson published two papers in the Proceed-
ings of the New Zealand Institute, in which he described thirteen Entomostraca,
several of which were new, collected in the vicinity of Dunedin and in the Canter-
bury district. In 1894, Sars described several species that had been raised from
dried mud collected from the same localities, and also from Kaitaia in the North
Island. In 1903, the same writer described a number of species from Lake
Wakatipu and D’Urville Island. Brady’s paper “On the Entomostracan fauna
of the New Zealand Lakes’ was published in 1906; his specimens were from
more widely distributed localities, Lakes Waikare, Taupo, Rotoiti and Waikare
Moana in the North Island, and Wakatipu and Manapouri in the South Island.
In 1914, Archey recorded the presence of Daphnia carinata King at Christchurch .
and Oamaru.
The writer wishes to thank Mr. Steel for the opportunity of examining the
collection, and also for his help and advice.
One species is described as new and the type specimen has been deposited
in the Australian Museum, Sydney. The text-figures were drawn with the aid
of a camera lucida; the finished drawings were prepared by Miss D. Harrison.
The following species were represented in the collection :—
CLADOCERA.
Family Daphnidae.—Simocephalus obtusatus (Thomson), Ceriodaphnia sublaevis
Sars.
Family Bosminidae——Bosmina meridicnalis Sars.
Family Chydoridae.—Chydorus barroisi Richard, Pleuroxus hastirostris Sars.
COPEPODA.
Family Centropagidae.—Boeckella triarticulata (Thomson), Brunella steeli, n.sp.
Family Cyclopidae.—Mesocyclops obsoleius (Koch).
OSTRACODA.
Family Cyprididae.
Subfamily Cypridinae.—Cypretta globulus Sars.
Subfamily Herpetocypridinae——Candonocypris candonoides King.
CLADOCERA.
Genus SIMOCEPHALUS Schoedler, 1858.
SIMOCEPHALUS OBTUSATUS (Thomson).
Daphnia obtusata Thomson, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1878, p. 261.—Simocephalus
obtusatus Sars, 1894.
Both males and females were present in the collection from Lake Takapuna.
This species has not been recorded outside New Zealand; both Thomson’s and
Sars’ specimens came from Dunedin in the South Island. Brady records it from
Lakes Waikare and Rotoiti.
Genus CERIODAPHNIA Dana, 1853.
CERIODAPHNIA SUBLAEVIS Sars.
Sars, Contributions to the knowledge of the Freshwater Entomostraca of
New Zealand, 1894.
A few specimens of this species were present in the collection taken from
the dam at Duck Creek; they were below the average in size, but otherwise
ad
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 315
corresponded with Sars’ description. This is another species unrecorded outside
New Zealand.
Distribuiion.—New Zealand: North Island, Duck Creek near Auckland;
South Island, Dunedin.
Genus Bosmina Baird, 1845.
BOSMINA MERIDIONALIS Sars.
Sars, Pacifische Plankton—Crustaceen, 1903, p. 631.
This species was present in great abundance in the collections from Lake
Takapuna and the dam at Duck Creek. Its distribution is widespread through-
out New Zealand. Sars’ specimens were from Lake Wakatipu and Brady has
recorded it from Lakes Waikare, Taupo, Rotoiti and Waikare Moana in the North
Island, and Wakatipu and Manapouri in the South. It has not been recorded
outside New Zealand.
Genus PiEuRoxus Baird, 1843.
PLEUROXUS HASTIROSTRIS Sars.
Sars, Pacifische Plankton—Crustaceen, 1903, p. 635.
The collections from Onebunga Springs, Lake Takapuna and Duck Creek
contained many specimens of this species. Hitherto it has only been recorded
from D’Urville Island, New Zealand.
Genus Cuyporus Leach, 1843.
CHYDORUS BARROISI (Richard) var. LAEVIS Sars.
Pleuroxus barroisi Richard, “Cladocére recueilles en Syrie et en Egypt,”
1894, p. 16.—Var. laevis Sars, Pacifische Planktui—Crustaceen, 1903, p. 636.
A single specimen of this species was present in the collection from One
hunga Springs.
Distribution—New Zealand: D’Urville Island, Onehunga Springs. North
and South America, Africa, Palestine.
COPEPODA.
Genus BorcKELLA De Guerne and Richard, 1889.
BOECKELLA TRIARTICULATA (Thomson).
Boeckia triarticulata Thomson, “On the New Zealand Copepoda,” 1882, p. 94.
This species was abundant in the collections from Lake Takapuna, One-
hunga Springs, Duck Creek and the tarn on Mt. St. John. It oceurs throughout
the North and South Islands of New Zealand and also in Australia.
Genus BruNELLA Smith, 1909.
BRUNELLA STEELI, n.sp. (Text-Figs. 1-5.)
Female (Fig. 1): Body slender, cephalothorax narrowly oval, the greatest
width occurring immediately in front of the middle, tapering anteriorly and pos-
teriorly. Head narrowly rounded in front, with a small rostral prominence.
Lateral expansions of the last pedigerous segment of moderate size, tips blunt,
tight expansion broader than the left. Urosome (Fig. 3) comparatively short,
not attaining half the length of the cephalothorax; genital segment asymmetrical,
bearing a large protuberance on the ventral surface; second segment larger than
the third, but not as long as the genital segment. Caudal rami long and slender,
316 ENTOMOSTRACA COLLECTED IN THE VICINITY OF AUCKLAND, N.Z.,
not quite attaining the length of the two preceding segments combined; each
ramus bearing five feathered setae at its slightly dilated extremity, setae of al-
most equal length. Antennules composed of twenty-five segments, elongated and
slender, extending, when reflexed, beyond the tips of the caudal setae. Antennae
with the inner ramus equal in length to the outer, the latter composed of six
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Text-figs. 1-5—Brunella steeli.
1. Female (x 85). 2. Right antennule of male (x 70). 3. Urosome, female
(x 70). 4. Right leg of 5th pair, male (x 200). 5. Left leg of 5th pair, male
(x 200).
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 317
segments, the last being very long. Oral parts of normal structure for the
genus. First pair of legs smaller than the succeeding ones; outer ramus con-
sisting of three segments; inner ramus small, one-segmented. Next four pairs
with an outer ramus of three and an inner ramus of two segments; fifth pair
with a stout curved process on the middle segment of the outer ramus. Length,
0.81 mm. ,
Male slightly smaller than the female and differmg from it in having a
hinged right antennule (Fig. 2) with a slightly swollen middle portion; a slender
urosome composed of five segments and in the structure of the last pair of legs.
Fifth pair of legs with the left leg (Fig. 5) shorter than the right, its outer
ramus composed of three segments, the last being rounded and armed with a
shorf spine; inner ramus longer, composed of two segments, the terminal one
bearing long feathered setae. Right leg (Fig. 4) with an outer ramus composed
of two broad segments, the second segment bemg twice as long as the first, and
bearing a long curved spine, its end pointing towards the base of the leg; imner
ramus composed of three segments, the terminal one bearmg setae of unequal
length.
Distribution—New Zealand: North Island, Dueck Creek and Lake Takapuna.
The species is a comparatively small one and is the first member of the genus
Brunella to be recorded from New Zealand. The writer has much pleasure in
naming it after its collector, Mr. Steel. .
Genus Mesocyciors Sars, 1914.
MESOCYCLOPS OBSOLETUS (Koeh).
Koeh, “Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden,” 1835.
This species was abundant in the collections from Lake Takapuna, Mt. St.
John and Duck Creek. It is of world wide distribution and is a common form
in Australia.
OSTRACODA.
Genus CypreTra Vavra 1895.
CYPRETTA GLOBULUS (Sars).
Cypridopsis globulus Sars, “On some Freshwater Ostracoda and Copepoda
raised from Dried Australian mud,” 1889.
Many specimens of this species were present in the collections from the
tarn on Mt. St. John, but none were found in those from the other localities.
Distribution.New Zealand, Australia.
Genus CanpoNnocypris Sars, 1894.
CANDONOCYPRIS CANDONOWES (King).
Cypris candonoides King, “On Australian Entomostracans,” 1855, p. 66.—
Herpetocypris stanleyana Sars, 1889.—Candonocypris candonoides Sars, 1894.
A few specimens were present in the collections from Mt. St. John; these
agreed with Sars’ description, except that their valve margins were fringed with
hairs throughout their length, instead of having them confined to the extremities.
Distribution—New Zealand: Dunedin and Eyreton in the South Island, Mt.
St. John in the North. Australia; South Africa.
318 ENTOMOSTRACA COLLEOTED IN THE VICINITY OF AUCKLAND, N.zZ.
Inst of Works referred to.
ARCHEY, G., 1914.—A species of Daphnia new to New Zealand. Trans. N.Z.
Inst., xlvi., p. 124.
Brapy, G. 8., 1906.—On the Entomostracan Fauna of the New Zealand Lakes.
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, ii., p. 692.
Kine, R. L., 1855.—On Australian Hntomostracans. Proc. Roy. Soe. Van Dre-
men’s Land, u1., Part 1., p. 56.
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318
NOTES ON BREEDING ENTOMOSTRACA FROM DRIED MUD AND
THEIR HABITS IN AQUARIA.
By Marguerite Henry, B.Sc., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology.
[Read 30th July, 1924.]
Introduction.
This series of experiments was commenced, partly as a means of studying
the habits of various Entomostraca, but principally to obtain specimens from
localities whence it was impossible to collect them except in the form of eggs.
It is well known that the eggs of most Entomostraca ean resist prolonged desic-
cation, the longest case on record being that of eggs sent from Jerusalem to
England and hatched after twenty-four to thirty years had elpased since the
mud containing them had been dried. Many of our Australian Entomostraca
were first described from specimens raised from dried mud that had been col-
lected in Australia and sent to Professor Sars in Norway.
The experiments were carried on from June, 1921, until the end of March,
1924, and the following notes give the dates of appearance of the various species,
the length of time they remained in the aquaria, and their relative prevalence.
The author wishes to thank many friends for samples of dried mud with
which aquaria weve prepared, and especially Sir Baldwin Spencer for much in-
teresting material from Central Australia.
Preparation of Aquaria.
The aquaria were all prepared in the same way, the largest used were nine
imches high and six inches across, but the majority were slightly smaller. The
dried mud was placed at the bottom and the aquarium was then filled to within
an inch from the top wifh tap water. A small piece of some water plant was
then thoroughly washed and examined under the microscope, to prevent the eggs
of local Entomostraca being introduced into the aquarium; the plant, Hlodea,
Chara or Nitella, was then placed in the mud or, if Lemna was used, on the
surface of the water, and in most cases grew quickly; sometimes, however, the
mud contained a large proportion of salt, which in time rendered the water so
highly saline that the plants died. The presence of plants is necessary to aerate
the water and prevent putrefaction, but they are apt to grow too vigorously and
fill the aquarium; to regulate their growth, two or three pond snails were placed
in each aquarium. In order to accelerate the hatching process, the aquaria were
placed where they could receive the maximum amount. of sunlight. They were
always kept covered and, as a rule, only required additional water two or three
times a year.
320 ON BREEDING ENTOMOSTRACA FROM DRIED MUD,
Résumé of the results obtained.
Only one specimen of Phyilopoda was bred out during these experiments.
This scarcity is the more remarkable, since many of the samples of mud were
taken from dried claypans and water holes where Phyllopoda had been abundant
and in one ease the mud contained numerous E'stheria shells.
The Cladocera were well represented, especially the family Daphnidae; the
species of this family showed a tendency to increase suddenly, with great rapidity,
until the aquarium would be swarming with males and ephippial females. Shortly
atter this stage, a heavy mortality would occur, and sometimes the species would
not again appear in the aquarium. Some Cladocera may apparently continue
reproducing parthenogenetically for an unlimited period, so long as the con-
ditions of their environment are favourable, but the Daphnidae in the aquaria
invariably produced the sexual forms comparatively soon after their first ap-
pearance.
This may have been due to the large numbers, since Grosvenor and Smith
have shown that crowding leads to the production of sexual forms, while, by
isolating the parthenogenetic females at birth, at a temperature of 25°-30° C.,
the production of sexual forms may be entirely suppressed (Quart. Journ. Mie.
Soec., 58, Part 3, 1913). There were never large numbers of Copepoda present,
although several different species were represented. In some cases, numerous
Calanoids appeared, but they were never the dominant feature and were not
persistent.
One of the most noteworthy features of these experiments was the pre-
dominance of the Ostracod group. In nearly every case the first specimens to
appear were Ostracods, in the exceptional cases a few Copepods appeared slightly
earlier. The Ostracods also persisted after the other groups had disappeared
from the aquaria, and could apparently be kept, under artificial conditions, for
an unlimited period. The aquarium life may more closely resemble their natural
environment than it does that of the other groups, and this is especially true im
the case of the Copepoda.
Details of the experiments.
Aquarium No. £.
Mud collected at Drummond, Scuth Island, New Zealand, by Dr. C. Chilton in
1914.
Species bred out: Cypretia viridis (Thomson).
Aquarium started 15th June, 1921.
The first Ostracods appeared early in August, and rapidly increased in
number until the end of September, when they were literally swarming; the
number then gradually decreased until March, 1922, when only four or five were
present; another rapid inerease followed, and the maximum number was reached
by the end of May, 1922; in June the number decreased to about twenty speci-
mens, and this has been an average number ever since. During the two and a
half years, only females have appeared, and this supports the theory that the
genus Cypretta is exclusively parthenogenetic. It is noteworthy that this sample
of mud, which had (been in a dry condition for seven years, only produced
Ostracods.
Aquarium No. 11.
Mud collected on Corona station, north of Broken Hill.
Species bred out: Macrothrix spinosa King, Ceriodaphmia spinata Henry, Daph-
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 321,
wia carinata King, Cypris lateraria King, Cypris bennelong King, Pachycyclops
annulicornis (Koch), Boeckella coronaria Henry.
Aquarium started November, 1921.
The first life to appear was three specimens of Cypris lateraria, which were
mature by the end of January, 1922. On the 15th February, the first Cladoceran,
Macrothriz spinosa, was noted, and on the 21st, two female Boeckella coronaria.
By 30th March another species of Ostracod was identified as Cypris bennelong;
at this date Macrothriz spinosa was the dominant species, and both male and
female Boeckella were numerous. A single Cyclops was identified, on 3rd April,
as Pachycyclops annulicornis, and this was the only Cyclops hatched in the
aquarium. On 20ih April, a specimen of Ceriodaphnia spinata was noted, and
this species increased in numbers until it predominated; towards the end of the
month several specimens of Daphnia carinata appeared. The numbers of Cerio-
daphnia increased enormously, and on 14th June, the majority were bearing
ephippia, and the other species were only represented by a few specimens; to-
wards the end of the month there was a heavy mortality among the Ceriodaphnia,
and by Ist September almost equal numbers of Daphnia, Boeckella, Macrothrix,°
and Cypiris were present, and one or two Ceriodaphnia, Daphnia then rapidly
increased in numbers and, by 21st September, they were very abundant, the
females bearing ephippia, they also suffered a heavy mortality and, during October
and November, Ostracods were the dominant feature. From December, 1922, to
June, 1923, all forms were present, but none exceptionally numerous; then the
Ostracods again increased and very few Cladocera and no Copepoda appeared
until November, when all forms were again abundant. In February, 1924, Ostra-
cods were alone present, but early in March Boeckella, Macrothriz and Certo-
daphnia had again appeared and the two latter were increasing in numbers.
Aquarium No. III.
Mud from Macumba, 35 miles north of Oodnadatta.
Species bred out: Artemia salina Linn.
Mud very fine, reddish in colour, containing smooth white pebbles.
Aquarium started 3rd April, 1922.
No life was seen until 24th September, when an immature Anostracan was
noted. The specimen was identified on 5th October, when it appeared mature;
on 9th October, it was seen to be bearing eggs; it died on 25th October, and no
further life appeared.
Aquarium No. IV.
Mud collected at Bringagee.
Species bred out: Macrothriz spinosa King, Moinodaphnia macleayii (King),
Alona laevissima Sars, Cypris lateraria King, Boeckella manuta Sars.
Aquarium started 19th April, 1922.
First appearance of life on 12th May, when several Ostracods were noted,
and, from that date, Ostracods were always present in varymg numbers. A
single Moinodaphnia and two females of Boeckella minuta appeared on 15th
May; Macrothrix and Alona were not present until September. For some months
Ostracods largely predominated but in March, 1923, they were displaced by an
immense number of Macrothrix spinosa which formed ephippia and, shortly after-
wards, entirely disappeared. Ostracods have remained alone in the aquarium for
the past year.
322 ON BREEDING ENTOMOSTRACA FROM DRIED MUD,
Aquarium No. V.
Mud from Meryula Station near Cobar.
Species bred out: Leptocyclops agilis (Koch), Cypretta minna (King), Cypri-
dopsis australis Henry.
Aquarium started 14th June, 1922.
Within five days two minute Leptocyclops appeared; the first Ostracod was
not noted until Ist September, but by November, the aquarium was swarming
with both species of Ostracods. Shortly after this, the mud had an offensive
smell and the aquarium was turned out.
Aquarium No. VI.
Mud from the same loeality as V.
Species bred out: Cypretta minna (King), Ceriodaphnia spinata Henry, Moina
tenuicornis Sars, Cypridopsis australis Henry.
Aquarium started 30th June, 1922.
The first Ostracod, Cypretta minna, appeared on 16th August, and by the
end of the month there were many Ostracods of both species and a few specimens
of Ceriodaphnia. The Ostracods rapidly increased in numbers and were very
abundant early in October. In November, Moina predominated for a short time,
the females became heavily laden with eggs, there was a heavy mortality, and by
the end of the month not one remained. In March, 1923, there was a sudden
inerease of Ceriodaphnia. From April to June all forms were well represented,
but after that date the Ostracods steadily increased and soon were the sole
occupants of the aquarium.
Aquarium No. VII,
Mud from Buckanbe Station in the Darling River district.
Species bred out: Cypretta minna (King), Candonocypris candonoides (King),
Boeckella fluvialis Henry.
Aquarium started 11th July, 1922.
Boeckella appeared first on 16th August, and then both Ostracod species
towards the end of the month.
Boeckella fluvialis was moderately abundant at first, but none were seen after
November. The Ostracods increased and were swarming in 1923, when the ex-
periment had to be discontinued.
Aquarium No. VIII.
Mud from Kosciusko.
Species bred out: Cypris reticulata Zaddach, Cypretta hirsuta Henry.
Aquarium started 15th February, 1923.
Both species of Ostracods appeared early in March, but the mud, which
contained a large amount of vegetable matter, smelt offensive and the aquarium
was turned out.
Aquarium No. IX.
Mud collected near Brisbane, Queensland.
Species bred out: Leptocyclops agilis (Koch), Ilyodromus viridulus (Brady).
Aquarium started 2nd May, 1923.
A few specimens of Leptocyclops appeared early in June and were present
in varying numbers until the end of August. No life was present from then
until December, when the Ostracods appeared, and they have remained the sole
occupants of the aquarium.
BY MARGUERITE HENRY. 323
Aquarium No. X.
Mud from Central Australia, water hole on Boggy flat.
Species bred out: Daphnia carinata King var. intermedia Sars, Cypris bennelong
King, Cypretta globulus Sars, Cypridopsis australis Henry.
Aquarium started 11th June, 1923.
Two species of Ostracod, Cypris bennelong and Cypretta giobulus, appeared
early in August, and were abundant by November. In December a few Daphnia
appeared, and, in February, 1924, they were the predominant species; towards
the end of February all the females carried ephippia and early in March they
entirely disappeared. The Ostracods then rapidly increased, and all three species
were present in great numbers.
Aquarium No. XI.
Mud from Federal water hole, Central Australia.
Species bred out: Cypretta globulus Sars.
Aquarium started 11th June, 1923.
First Cypretta appeared on 19th September, and this species beeame very
numerous by the end of December, since then no life has appeared.
Aquarium No. XII.
Mud from Palm Creek, James Range, Central Australia.
Species bred out: Cypris lateraria King.
The mud consisted of loose scrapings containing leaves and dried Estheréa shells.
Aquarium started 21st August, 1923.
Ostracods appeared early in September and rapidly increased, but the ex-
periment had to be discontinued towards the end of October.
Aquarium No. XIII.
Mund eollected at Nyngan.
Species bred out: Dunhevedia crassa King, Cypris laterarta King, Cypris benne-
long King.
Aquarium started 27th September, 1923.
Both species of Ostracod appeared early in November, and quickly increased
in numbers. Dunhevedia crassa was noted in February, 1924. Towards the end
of March, all three species were plentiful, Cypris bennelong predominating.
Material from which Entomostraca were not obtained.
ie Dried scum from a pond near the sea, Chatham Island, New Zealand.
IJ. Surface material from Lake Hyre.
Tit. Mud from the Frome River entrance to Lake Eyre.
IV. Mud from Garah, near Mungindi, N.S.W.
V. Mud from clay pans on Boggy flat, Central Australia.
VI. Clay pans near Alice Well, Hugh River, Central Australia.
VII. Mud from a clay pan on Budda Station, near the Darling River.
324
THE NECTAR OF FLOWERS.
By Tuos. STHKEx.
[Read 27th August, 1924.]
The first precise information regarding the amount of sugar contained in
the nectaries of flowers with which I am acquainted, occurs in a paper by Alex.
S. Wilson (Chem. News, 38, 1878, 93; Rep. Brit. Assn. Adv. Sc., 1878, Trans.,
504, 564, 567; Jour. Chem. Soc., 34, 1878, 997; Pharm. Jour. Trans. [3], ix.,
225). The weights of cane and fruit sugars found in individual blossoms or in
heads of composite plants are stated, together with some very interesting specu-
lations on the number of visits which a bee must make in order to collect a given
weight of honey. From time to time references occur in literature to the abund-
ance or otherwise of floral nectar. Roscoe and Schorlemmer (Treatise on
Chemistry, ui., part u., 498), after remarking that nectar contains cane sugar
usually accompanied by fruit sugar, state that the cane sugar had even been found
in erystals in Rhododendron ponticum. This latter statement I am unable to
verify, as I have never met with such a case in the course of observations on
numerous flowers, extending over many years. The above authors also state that
Braconnot found 0.1 gram (100 mg.) sugar in a single flower of Cactus Acker-
manni.
Maiden (Forest Flora, viu., part 4, 1920, 177) gives numerous references to
nectar secretion in Hucalyptus, but no chemical data.
A. von Planta (Chem. News, 54, 1886, 237, quoted from Comp. rendus) re-
ports the finding of 70.08 per cent. glucose and 1.31 cane sugar in the nectar of
Protea mellifera, also 35.65 of cane sugar and 4.99 of glucose (stated glycerine
in error) in that of Hoya carnosa and 14.84 glucose and 0.437 cane sugar in
that of Bignonia radicans. The term glucose is now usually reserved for dex-
trose, particularly that prepared by the acid hydrolysis of starch.
Roth (Proce. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xvii., 1903, 49) mentions the sucking of
nectar from Banksia flower cones by aborigines of Western Australia, and the
preparation of a fermented drink “mangaitch’” from water impregnated with the
cones.
Carne (Aust. Naturalist, ii, 1913, 198) describes observations on the secretion
of nectar by extra-floral nectaries in Acacia, and remarks on the uselessness of
these glands for fertilization purposes by insects, when, as is frequently the ease,
they are situated at a distance from the flowers. He suggests that the attrac-
‘ion of insects by the nectar and consequent cross fertilization of the plant is a
secondary, and not the original cause of nectar secretion.
As is to be expected there is extreme variation in the quantity of nectar
contained in different flowers. Apart from the difference in size of blossoms and
BY T. STEEL. 325
their consequent capacity, some large flowers contain but little, while other com
paratively small blossoms contain a relatively large amount. My general obser-
vation is that plants visited by nectar-feeding birds have large supplies, whilst
those frequented by insects find a smaller supply adequate.
Again, the amount of nectar found in flowers will depend to an uncertain
extent on how far they have been rifled by birds or insects.
There is another factor controlling the amount of nectar, the use by the
plant itself of the secreted material. Prolonged observation has convinced me
that unless removed by insects or birds, the nectar is soon absorbed by the plant,
probably going to nourish the growing ovary. This may be the use of the secre-
tion produced by the extra-floral nectaries noted by Carne (loc. cit.), and perhaps
was the original purpose of nectar secretion in general. In such case profound
changes in the structure of the floral organs and of their insect visitors, would
be gradually brought about through mutual adaptation. The sweet secretion
would thus form a convenient food supply for the use of the plant, analagous to
that laid up by many plants in the form of sugar, starch, inulin, ete. The
method of observation followed by me was. to protect the blossom by tying a
paper bag over it, using a collar of cotton wool to exclude ants. The disappear-
ance of the nectar in the course of a day or two, could thus be readily demon-
strated.
From time to time | have examined flowers for the sugar contents of the
nectar and the results may conveniently. be stated here along with those obtained
by Wilson (loc. cit.) for comparison.
The method of examination followed was to wash out with water a definite
number of blossoms to a known volume and determine the copper reducing power
before and after inversion with hydrochloric acid, the surplus reducing power after
inversion being calculated to cane sugar. The absence of starch, which would
yield reducing sugar on treatment with hydrochloric acid, was demonstrated.
Sugar in flowers. A. S. Wilson. (Chem. News, 38, 1878, 93).
Milhgrammes.
Cane sugar. Fruit sugar. Total.
eenehsia. | per, Tower! .. 357 & lise oe 5.61 1.69 7.30
2. Claytonia alsinoides.. per flower .. 0.23 0.18 0.41
3. Everlasting pea. per flower .... .. 1.52 8.33 9.85
4, Vetch. Vicia cracca. per raceme .. .. 0.01 8} 15) 3.16
5. Vetch. Vicia cracca. per single flower 0.16 0.16
Gumpried) clover.) per ead 70.) 1.89 5.95 7.84
ffeevedvelover perimiloret, 42 3/5 hei. . i 0.03 0.10 0.13
8. Monkshood. per flower .. .. 1.69 4.63 6.32
Wilson shows cane sugar in its Veuit sugar equivalence. I have calculated it
back to cane sugar, so as to permit of comparison with other results.
Sugar in flowers. T. Steel.
Mg. per flower.
————
Cane Fruit Total
Sugar. Sugar. Total. 9% on
flower
I. Leonotis leonurus .. .. .. . 23.1.85 4.00 3.90 7.90 5.4
PA a 5 ASAT, GHG A285 2.90 4.50 7.40 4.8
3, 53 i ANAS te tee 19.2.85 3.10 3.00 6.10 ALT
AAMC LUCOGGLUS) sae) eee 9.2.85 120) 7.30 8.50 2.4
5. Metrosideros tomentosa .. .. 26.1.85 1.60 = — --
326 THE NECTAR OF FLOWERS,
6. Lamberiia formosa .. .. .. MOO 2.10 7.50 9.60 ThE
% (Grevillea robusta 2... .: . — 0.50 Dally 0.67 0.1
The last column shows % total sugar on weight of flower. JL. leonurus, a
South African shrub, cultivated in gardens, Auckland, New Zealand. V. litoralis,
the N.Z. Puriri, Auckland. M. tomentosa, N.Z. Christmas tree, Auckland. L.
formosa and G. robusta, Australian plants, near Sydney. The corolla tubes of
Lambertia are commonly found to be split, evidently by birds.
It will be seen that my figures are of the same order as those of Wilson.
It has long been obvious to me that there is a great difference in the con-
centration of nectar as it occurs in flowers and of honey as stored in the comb
by bees. The nectar can readily be shaken out of most flowers, which could not
be done were it as dense as honey. It thus becomes evident that the bee con-
centrates the nectar by abstraction of water, probably while it is in the honey
sac. At this time also the bee secretes an enzyme which causes gradual inversion
of most of the cane sugar present. In order to investigate this matter of inerease
in density, I have examined a number of nectars. Through the courtesy of the
Government Botanist and with the assistance of Mr. W. F. Blakely and Mr. E.
N. Ward, I was enabled to secure flowers from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and
by the kindness of Dr. Tom Guthrie was able to examine these in the laboratory
of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. The examination was carried out by
means of the very fine Abbé refractometers belonging to the laboratory and with
the help of Dr. Guthrie’s skilled assistants. To all these gentlemen I record my
gratitude. ,
For an accurate determination of density a few drops of nectar are all that
is required, and from the refractive index so obtained, the sugar and water can
be ascertained with a high degree of refinement. Using a slender glass pipette
it was easy to withdraw sufficient nectar from most blossoms, to permit of
examination, while with others the nectar could be squeezed or dropped direct
onto the glass observation wedge of the instrument. The results obtained are de-
_ tailed below. I have added a column showing the percentage weight of water
to be removed in order to bring the nectar to the same degree of concentration
“as honey of 21.54% water. This shows the amount of removal of water effected
by the bee, and it is seen to be a very considerable proportion of the weight of
the nectar, ranging from 88.5% in the weakest to 47.8% in the most concen-
trated nectar examined.
% Water
Refractive % % to be
Date. index. Sugar. Water. removed.
1. Barringtonia alba .. .. .. 21.12.23 1.3455 oO) QOcOD. | Cad
2. Quisqualis indica ...... . A AN ASAT (3 MORASS 9h bo mS Old
3. Eucalyptus alophylla .. .. 21.12.23 1.3505 12.30 87.70 84.3
FA ms D5 bo) Lee eey Meso) IS). SOLO) 2
eS i BAN ne Ave 24 1.3484 00) 89200) 8650
4. Crinum latifoium .. -. . V3.l:23 1.355ll 15.30 84.70 80-5
5. Bouvardia triphylla .. .. . 21.12.23 1.3559 15.75 84.25 79.9
6. Dfetrosideros tomentosa... 21.12.23 1.3568 16.35 83.65) 79-2
7. Erythrina Christi-galli .. . 21.12.23 1.3636 20.50 79.50 73.9
5 - fs 44 8 PSUR BORY ae SL W900 © lOO, Woks
8. Pterospermum acerifolium . 17.11.23 1.3654 21.65 78.35 72.4
9. Jacobina magnifica .. .. . ae RAE OUMB eG). PAL) Telly | 122
% ih ee een 28e02. 23) ae 5 1 ZO On aio nOU my mOOR
VO iGéerbera Langhin) 22) se ee) ale 2223/0 le 366i 22200 ese OO maian0)
BY T. STEEL. 327
en Campis grandiflora) 54) 0) tod 23) 13676.) 2259095 77.10) 70.5
a i ee ee ele 2 HAS aeons ec OUR mir a0n un dele O
of ef a A OA eles O92 EZ ono U mm wo. 20) KOO il
12. Stenolobium stans .. a Ae 24 3695) 24500 76.00) 69.4
GRC VULeEG BAaNKsiG, save.) sere L223) ae 369%. 624.10) 875.90 69.3
14, Castanospermum australe Avs 24° 13708 24575 75.25 68.5
15: Juanulloa aurantica .. ..- 11.12.23 1.3862 33.45 66.55 57.4
MOseAL DONG NULANS 6. 95... |e Ale 24 le AO Ogee 20 D8 80n 4028
The following are the countries of origin of the plants enumerated :—
N.S. Wales 14, Queensland 138, W. Australia 3, New Zealand 6, N. America
11, 12, Brazil 7, 9, Mexico, 5, 15, HE. India 2, 4, 8, 16, Madagascar 10, Molucea 1.
The figures for samples of nectar from the same plant, taken on different
vecasions, disclose a very fair uniformity in density, and it seems probable that
each plant has its critical density, which is maintained by osmotic action between
the nectary and the surrounding tissues, and any evaporation thus compensated.
The small amounts of ash, and organie matter other than sugar, present in
the nectar are insufficient to make any notable difference in the figures.
In no ease does the concentration of the nectar remotely approach a point
at which it would be possible for sugar to erystallize out.
Acting on a suggestion of Mr. Blakely, I have arranged the plants examined,
in families, in the order of concentration of nectar, with the following results.
Average
per cent. sugar
Family ~ in nectar.
POA META COAG TERM etal) Mera Se ela erees Nit nt, eles ete be Gl legs Zl ))
Sallarmnargenel agian ae ae ACIS GED ie phatase WE en TO eae Oa 33.4 5 Very sweet
ENG ATG MACE D Cem ei mares Mart Menu c nutes Tail semmianse LN i My We ee ina 24.1
Proteaceae Merrett cewek earn re MIAME ICE Vb; 24.1
Sioa ome Cece me mmmirs em uh ask tel mnt ikasjuay Aiken ate en AAG LS 23.6
eo pMMMOSAC a eet Erne tee mile lasek valsia a be 22.2 See:
PAN OGM CEA Clann Near nay tits een aA) Sys era aCe Meee ure, EUAN Ae 0) 1 22.0
PORCH CO ACE Rie nba wre tuiekranin lela coe ila a ssinsautan mere aN Catia tales ci) 21.7
TERTE SH VEGANS LOLS ie VASE ne os ec aeet Og TE LA A 15.8 .
ANTTMG WE DIG ey GEE entre alee Un PU VE a 15.3 + Medium
i ACC CMC MR TE Mite iota mer en mada, dace Suan meU ml tl et Ld WIL 6G 1) 2
Wome iAacerenvemeGn mca met eco a dt aKa Maman a na 5 foe
Classified in this way the families arrange themselves into four groups which
I have termed as above. A considerably greater number of observations, embrac-
ing other families, would be required in order to arrive at a generalization.
Little has been published regarding the composition of separated nectar, it
being in most eases difficult or impracticable to get sufficient material for a de-
tailed analysis. On two occasions Mr. A. G. Hamilton supplied me with flower
spikes of Doryanthes excelsa collected in the South Coast district of N.S. Wales.
D. excelsa is a large amaryllid plant, bearing a tall spear-like flower-stem crowned
with a bulky panicle of red flowers in which abundance of nectar is secreted.
From these I was able to extract sufficient for analysis. For comparison I have
inserted an analysis of a sample of pure honey, given to me by the late Mr.
Albert Gale, apiarist to the N.S. Wales Department of Agriculture, and have
3528 THE NECTAR OF FLOWERS.
caleulated the Doryanthes nectars to the same degree of concentration as the
honey. The granulation of ordinary honey is due to the separation of dextrose in
crystals.
Nectar of Doryanthes.
Natural State Calculated.
a. b. a. b. Pure Honey
Date. TO Oe 2 AO Oly sO 2. O Ol ommer segs:
Caney Suvari eins) os) Nil. Nil. Nil. Nil. Pe
Dextrose ven Mniennniil: Ana, CS HOS 39.80 41.78 37.80
Tgevmlose 0 oe i cd 4.10 2.97 36.11 33.74 37.00
Other Organic Matter . 0.15 0.13 1.32 1.47 0.89
PASSA Pe eat nb 0.14 0.13 523) 1.47 0.07
IV icibemee aman escent 91.09 93.09 21.54 21.54 21.54
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 ~ 100.00
Dextrose and levulose together, constitute fruit sugar. The Doryanthes nec-
tar contained no cane sugar. At equal densities there is a remarkably close re-
semblance in composition between it and honey. In degree of concentration the
nectar is a thin one, in this respect being much like that of Barringtonia alba.
In examining the nectar of Doryanthes it was noticed that the admixed pollen
grains had sent out extremely long pollen tubes, very interesting under the
microscope.
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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA. No. iii.
By J. R. Manuocu.
(Communicated by Dr. E. W. Ferguson).
(Four Text-figures) .
[Read 30th July, 1924.]
Because of the paucity of material available at this time, the notes presented
in this paper are printed merely as a guide to the forms before me, and in the
hope that they may prove an incentive to the collector and student of Diptera to
take more interest in this much neglected group. Should the publication of this
paper result in accessions of sania sufficient to justify such a course, it is my
intention to present later generic and specific keys for the identification of the
known Australian forms whenever a fairly representative series has been studied.
The great majority of the specimens have been sent to me by Dr. Eustace
W. Ferguson, but a few have been obtained from Dr. C. F. Baker, Los Banos,
Philippine Islands.
Family CHLOROPIDAE.
I have, in another paper, listed the characters for the recognition of this
family, and described three species of the genus Parahippelates Becker. Since
the completion of that paper, I have obtained from Dr. Ferguson a series of
specimens of this genus, amongst which are several that are new. Some of these
are described herein, and some records are presented of other species, but it is
highly probable that an intensive effort to obtain material will result in con-
siderable accessions to the list, as the genus is essentially Australasian, being
known only from Australia and New Guinea.
PARAHIPPELATES COSTOMACULATA, I.Sp.
Male—Head yellow, upper occiput and frontal triangle fuscous, the latter
shining, face and cheeks almost white, the latter browned below middle of eye;
third antennal segment brown at. insertiori of arista; arista and its hairs fuscous,
palpi and proboscis yellow. Thorax and abdomen black, slightly shining, and with
thin greyish pruinescence. Legs entirely yellow. Wings hyaline, with a large
black spot on costa from a little beyond apex of first vein to just beyond apex
of second and extending on dise to third vein. Halteres whitish.
Frons as in the other species of the genus; face almost flat; cheek about as
high as width of third antennal segment, and one-fourth as high as eye; vibrissal
angle with two bristles; aristal hairs about as long as basal diameter of arista.
330 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, lii.,
Thoracic chaetotaxy as in brunneicosta Malloch. Hind tibial spur about as long
as tibial diameter. Section of costa in front of apex of second vein as com-
pared with the one beyond it as 7:5; veins 3 and 4 parallel, last section of
latter about three times as long as preceding section; outer cross-vein at fully
twice its own length from apex of fifth. Length, 2 mm.
Type and paratype, Sydney, N.S.W., 31 Dec., 1922.
PARAHIPPELATES ALBISETA, N.Sp.
Male and female—Head pale yellow, darker on occiput and upper half of
trons; ocellar spot, second antennal segment, and entire proboscis black; third
antennal segment brownish above; arista brown at base, the remainder and its
hairs white. Thorax tawny yellow, brownish in places, with whitish pruinescence,
most distinct on middle of dorsum when seen from behind, the lateral margins
of mesonotum and some patches on pleurae blackish, a central vitta of brownish
colour on mesonotum more or less distinct. Abdomen fuscous, apices of the ter-
gites yellowish; male hypopygium tawny yellow. Legs pitchy brown, trochanters
and basal three segments of all tarsi yellowish. Wings greyish hyaline, veins
blackish. Halteres fuscous or dark brown.
Head much as in brunneicosta Malloch, but the arista differently coloured,
and the hairs more dense, the longest distinctly longer than its basal diameter;
the vibrissal angle is slightly produced and the cheek at middle is fully one-
third of the eye-height. Thorax as in brunneicosta; scutellum flattened on disc,
with two discal hairs, the basal pair of bristles noticeably shorter than the apical
pair. Hypopygium of male knob-like. Legs normal. apical spur of hind tibia
curved, as long as tibial diameter. Last section of fourth vein fully as long as
preceding section; outer cross-vein at about 1.75 its own length from apex of
fifth. Length, 3-3.5 mm.
Type, male, allotype, 4 male and 1 female paratypes, Hidsvold, Queensland.
PARAHIPPELATES FUSCIPES, n.sp.
Maie and female—Head yellow, frons brownish, paler in front, triangle
brown, grey pruinescent; cheeks and face whitish pruinescent, upper occiput
fuseous, yellowish in middle behind ocelli; antennae yellow, brownish on upper
side of third segment; arista brown at base, yellowish beyond; palpi yellow; pro-
boseis black. Thorax black, dorsum shining, brownish-grey pruinescent, with a
shght olive tinge and more or less distinetly trivittate with fuseous; propleura
yellowish, the spiracle noticeably so; apex of scutellum slightly darkened. Abdo-
men rufous-brown, usually with the bases of the tergites darker; hypopygium
of male tawny yellow. Legs tawny, all femora and usually the hind tibiae broad-
ly fuscous; apical two tarsal segments fuscous. Wings greyish hyaline, veins
very conspicuous. Halteres pale yellow.
Head as in nudiseta Becker, the arista with its longest hairs not as long as
its basal diameter; cheek nearly two-thirds of the eye-height. Thorax as in
nudiseta, but the seutellum more convex on dise. Outer cross-vein at about its
own length, from apex of fifth vein; wing broader than in nudiseta. Length, 4-5
mm.
Type, male, allotype, two male and two female paratypes, Sydney; two para-
types, Milson Is., Hawkesbury River. One female from Sydney has the femora,
except a small part of the fore pair, yellow.
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 331
PARAHIPPELATES NUDISETA Becker.
I quoted the description of this species in the paper already referred to on
this genus. It agrees very closely with fuscipes, but the legs are entirely yellow,
with the exception of the apical two tarsal segments, the scutellum is not dark
at apex, the wings are yellowish hyaline, the outer ecross-vein is at much more
than its own length from apex of fifth, and the size is less. Length, 3-4 mm.
Two specimens, National Park, Sydney, 28 October, 1922. Originally des-
cribed from Botany Bay; type in Hungarian National Museum, Budapest.
PARAHIPPELATES AEQUALIS Becker.
Very similar to nudiseta in colour, but the wings are greyish hyaline, the
cheek is about half as high as the eye, the arista has its longest hairs distinetly
longer than its basal diameter, and the outer cross-vein is distinctly more than
its own length from apex of fifth. Length, 3-4 mm.
One specimen, Sydney, and one Coramba-Dorrigo Rd., N.S.W.
Originally described from New Guinea; type in same collection as that of
nudiseta.
Genus EPHYDROSCINIS novum.
Generic characters Belongs to the subfamily Oscininae, the costa extending
to apex of fourth vein, and the hind tibia having a long narrow sensory area at
middle on its postero-dorsal surface which is covered with microscopic hairs.
The male may be distinguished from that of any other genus by the peculiar
geniculated arista (Fig. 1), but in the female the arista is of the usual type in
this family. In both sexes there are two long bristles on each humeral angle, as
in Parahippelates, one incurved, the other outwardly directed or sloping back-
wards; the sternopleura has a weak upper setula and fine pale discal hairs;
scutellum normal; thorax with about three pairs of dorsocentrals; head as in
Parahippelates. Legs normal, hind tibia without an apical spur; wings as in
Parahippelates.
Genotype, the following species.
EXPHYDROSCINIS AUSTRALIS, n.sp.
Male and female——Black, opaque, with dense pale grey pruinescence. Frons
dark brown, yellow on anterior margin, grey on sides of triangle; face and
cheeks yellowish, densely whitish pruinescent; antennae fuscous, third segment
orange-yellow, except on upper margin; arista pale brown; palpi yellow, proboscis
and inner mouth-margin black. Thorax with the dise largely fuscous, showing
traces of darker vittae, with the lateral margins yellow-grey pruinescent, and the
bases of the bristles set in grey pruinose spots; pleura grey; scutellum black on
dise, grey on margins. Abdomen with the dorsum blackish-brown, hind margins
of the tergites pale grey, a pair of grey spots on hind margin of first visible ter-
gite. Legs fuscous, trochanters, apices of femora, bases and apices of tibiae, and
basal two or three tarsal segments tawny yellow. Wings hyaline, veins black.
Halteres whitish.
Vertical, post-ocellar, and ocellar bristles distinet, each orbit with about
three distinct setulae; interfrontalia setulose; triangle extending almost three-
fourths of the way to anterior margin; face slightly coneave, vertical; cheek at
middle about half as high as eye; two bristles on each anterior angle in male,
one above the other, only one in female; arista of male and female as in Figure
322 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, iil,
1; eyes bare. Acrostichals very short; scutellum with four bristles. Apical three
segments of mid tarsi broadened. Second division of costa about 1.25 as long as
third; first posterior cell very slightly narrowed apically; outer cross-vein at a
little over its own length from apex of fifth; last section of fourth vein fully
twice as long as preceding section. Length, 3 mm.
Type, male, and allotype, Woy Woy, 2 September, 1923 (Mackerras).
$
Fig. 1—Antennae of Hphydroscinis australis.
Genus CHLOROMERIS Becker.
This genus belongs to the subfamily Chloropinae, the costa extending only
to the apex of third vein, and the hind tibiae being simple, without a sensory
area above. From other genera in the subfamily, it may be readily distinguished
by the very thick hind femora which are furnished with minute black spines on
apical half below.
There are two known species, both from Australia, which may be distinguished
as below.
Pleura with five black spots, one on each of the following parts: mesopleura,
propleura, pteropleura, sternopleura, and hypopleura; upper inner’
mouth-margin — black; mesonotum with five shining black vittae
. purus Becker.
Pleura with three blacks spots, those | on | pter opie and propleara: absent; mouth-
opening entirely yellow; mesonotum with three shining black vittae, the
lateral joanntmsed janie saci. ..... .. pallidior Becker.
I have seen only pallidior. One specimen nee North ae March 30,
1923. This species was originally described from Queensland, the other from
New South Wales. I now designate purus as the genotype. Types are in the
Hungarian National Museum.
Genus CHLOROPSINA Becker.
Becker erected this genus for the reception of two small species from New
Guinea. He distinguished it from Chlorops by the unicoloured black thorax and
scutellum, the head being wider than the thorax, and the short second costal
division of the wing. The eyes are stated to be very large, covering almost the
entire side of the head, and the scutellum is convex. In other respects as
Chlorops.
I have before me a specimen which runs to this genus in Becker’s key, but
the eyes do not cover more of the side of the head than is usual in Chlorops,
the scutellum is flattened above, and the second costal division is a little longer
than the third. I was inclined to consider the species as referable to Chlorops,
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 333
but it differs from typical members of that genus in having the vertical and
ocellar setulae almost indistinguishable, the frontal triangle long and glossy, and
the prescutellar bristles indistinct.
CHLOROPSINA NIGROHALTERATA, 1.Sp.
Female.—Glossy black. Frons anteriorly, face, cheeks, and antennae rufous,
third antennal segment dark above, arista brown; palpi and upper mouth-margin
brown. Humeri and pleura anteriorly brownish-red. Legs black, bases of fore
tibiae and basal two or three segments of all tarsi rufous-yellow. Wings clear.
Halteres blackish.
Head very little wider than anterior margin of thorax, frons fully half the
head width, triangle glossy, not entirely filling vertex, its sides almost straight,
the apex almost filling width of space between bases of antennae; the latter of
- average size, third segment round; arista sub-nude; frons protruded beyond eye
about one-third of the length of latter; face concave in profile; cheek about
as high as width of third antennal segment. Thoracic dorsum not punctate, with
rather dense, short, decumbent, fuscous hairs; scutellum flattened on dise and
haired as dise of thorax, with two short apical bristles. Abdomen broad, rather
abruptly pointed at apex. Legs normal. First and second sections of costa sub-
equal, either a little longer than third; fourth vein curved upward beyond outer
cross-vein, then deflected at apex; third vein ending a little in front of apex
of wing; inner cross-vein well in front of apex of first vem. Length, 3.25 mm.
| Type, Milson Id., 20 November, 1914. Distinguished by the black halteres.
Family EPHYDRIDAE.
Subfamily CANACEINAE.
The usual definitions of this family contain a statement, to the effect that
the costal vein is twice broken, once just beyond the humeral vein, where the
break is not very obvious, consisting of a weakened part of the vein instead
of a distinct break, and again in front of the apex of first vein. The anal cell
is normally absent. In Canaceinae, however, there is no appreciable break or
weakening of the vein just beyond the humeral vein and the break at apex of
the first vein is small, while the anal cell is quite distinet.. In some respects, e.g.,
the bristling of the frons, there is a resemblance to the genus Hphydra, and this
is strengthened by the shape of the head, though in Canaceinae the labrum is
exposed in an emargination of the lower margin of the mouth, which is not the
case in EHphydra. In the latter there are distinct spiracles in the tergites some
distance from their inner margins, while in Canaceinae there are none.
There are some characters in Canaceinae which are found in Tethinae, but
probably the group is more appropriately placed in Hphydridae than in Agromy-
zidae. A definite decision on its true affinities must await a knowledge of the
immature stages.
Hendel is responsible for breaking the old genus Canace Haliday into four
genera which may be identified by means of the following key.
Key to genera.
1. Frontal triangle extending to about middle of frons, its apex prolonged
shghtly; pleura bare; dorsocentral bristles in four pairs. Procanace Hendel.
Frontal triangle extending to anterior margin of frons .. .. paras
2. Cheeks and pleura bare; scutellum with two pear Jomsoug ele in four
POGUES sy Legamiciey Fela) ciate sie) fobamete ees wea pratele ts hae spe ye Oaetocamace tendel.
334 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, iil.,
Cheeks and pleura with setulae or bristles; scutellum with more than two
bristles . Se Nea META Ca sao Marin eae (Ma [TU UCR Caer Ra cD eR aS
3. Mesonotum with four pairs of dorsocentral bristles, the anterior pair in front
Ol) Sumube Neel ie icy.) Ve) ene ene ei en ere nC arace malalidays
Mesonotum with two pairs of dorsocentrals, both behind suture.
. Xanthocanace Hendel.
Genus XANTHOCANACE Hendel.
In this genus there are, so far as I can discover from the literature, only
three species, ranula Loew, orientalis Hendel, and magna Hendel, the first being
the genotype.
I have before me a male specimen which does not agree very well in wing
characters with the generic diagnosis given by Hendel, but I consider it better to
stress a point in relegating it to this genus, rather than to add another genus
to a group already more than sufficiently subdivided. The difference in wing
venation lies in the almost straight fourth vein on its apical two sections, whereas
Hendel states that in his three included species, the “Vierte Langsader jenseits
der hintern Querader mehr oder weniger stark aufgebogen.”’
XANTHOCANACE NIGRIFRONS, n.Sp.
Male.—Black, densely pale grey pruinescent, more white on the head, the
frontal triangle almost glossy black; dorsum of thorax brown on dise; scutellum
2. 3.
Figs. 2, 3.—Xanthocanace nigrtfrons. 2. Head from side; 3. Head from above.
faintly so; abdomen with a faint brownish tinge basally on dorsum. Antennae
and arista black, apex of proboscis and the entire palpi yellow. All hairs and
bristles yellowish. Wings hyaline, veins brown, yellow at bases. Legs yellow,
coxae and femora, except apices, greyish fuscous. Halteres lemon-yellow.
Head in profile as in Figure 2, dorsum as in Figure 3; arista bare. Dorsum
of thorax with four series of intradorsocentral hairs; propleural bristle absent; no
strong bristles, only hairs, on meso- and sternopleura; dise of scutellum with
numerous long hairs which are about as long as the four fine marginal bristles.
Abdomen tapered apically, genital segment rufous below. Legs slender, fore
femur without strong ventral bristles; tarsi slightly widened apically. Inner
eross-vein a little before middle of discal cell; last section of fourth vein parallel
with third, slightly arcuate; outer cross-vein at nearly its own length from apex
of fifth vei. Length, 2.5 mm.
Type, Woy Woy, 2 September, 1923 (Mackerras).
Subfamily EPHYDRINAE.
Genus BracHypruTRA Loew.
This genus is distinguished from its allies by the short second wing-vein which
connects with the costa about as far from apex of first vein as the latter is from
BY J. R. MALLOOH. 335
the humeral vein, the third costal section nearly three times as long as second;
fourth vein evanescent beyond the outer cross-vein; costa ending at apex of third
vein and almost exactly in wing tip. Frons with a pair of bristles in front of
ocelli that are as long as the ocellar pair; arista long’ haired above; genal bristle
absent; sides of face with a few setulae or hairs, centre with a blunt carina;
mesopleura and sternopleura with some fine hairs or setulae; mid tibia without
median bristles. The abdominal spiracles are situated on the tergites some dis-
tance from their lateral margins.
There are two species already known, one, argentata Walker, occurring in
North America and Northern Africa, and the other, longipes Hendel, in Formosa.
BRACHYDEUTRA SYDNEYENSIS, n.Sp.
Male and female.—Black, densely silvery grey pruinescent below and on sides,
largely opaque brown above. Antennae black; facial keel brown; palpi yellow;
hairs on sides of face white. Thoracic dorsum with five dark-brown vittae an-
teriorly, the median one replaced by a paler stripe behind suture; dise of seutellum
brown, greyish at base in middle; upper margin of pleura brownish. Anterior
and posterior margins of abdominal tergites and a central line dark brown on a
greyish ground. Legs tawny yellow, femora usually darker in middle, apices of
tibiae and of tarsi dark brown. Wings hyaline. Halteres yellow.
Facial keel not sharper than in argentata; arista with about 12 rays. Last
section of fourth vein very little longer than preceding section. Length, 3.5
mm.
Type, male, and one male paratype, Collaroy; allotype and 4 paratypes,
Belaringar.
In addition to the foregoing, I have before me species belonging to the
genera Paralimna Loew and Notiphila Fallen, but await the accession of more
material before writing up the species.
Family AGROMYZIDAE.
The members of this family are distinguished by the presence of the anal
eell of the wing, the rudimentary mediastinal vein, which is either fused with
first some distance from its apex or indistinct on apieal third. The great
majority of the genera have distinct vibrissae, the post-vertical bristles divergent
‘er parallel, no distinct pre-apical tibial bristle, either the mesopleura or sterno-
pleura or both with distinct bristles, and the thorax with at least one distinct
pair of pre-scutellar dorsocentral bristles. Many species in the genus Agromyza
have a pair of posterior setulae on mid tibia.
I have representatives of four subfamilies of this group from Australia.
Subfamily MILICHIINAE.
All the genera of this subfamily have the frons with two series of fine hairs
~ or setulae on the interfrontalia, and the postvertical bristles not divergent.
I give below a key to the three genera which I have from Australia.
Key to genera.
1. An angular incision at middle of hind margin of eye; wing with a very deep
Incision at apex of first vein .. ........ .. .. Milichiella Giglio-Tos.
Eye entire on hind margin, not incised; costa broken but not deeply incised
at apex of first vein .. at Tueleepheen) eee a Sy area
336 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, iil.,
2. Pteropleura bare; interfrontalia with the series of hairs on differentiated
stripes which are usually more or less pruinescent .. Desmometopa Loew.
Pteropleura with some setulose hairs; interfrontalia with the setulose stripes
not differentiated from rest of surface .. .. .. Hypaspistomyia Hendel.
(Prodesmometopa Hendel)
Genus MiLicHiELLA Giglio-Tos.
MILICHIELLA LACTEIPENNIS Loew.
A glossy-black species with whitish wings and entirely black legs. Very
widely distributed, occurring in Java, North, Central, and South America, Hawaii,
Canary Islands, New Guinea and Australia.
Four specimens, Hidsvold, Queensland.
Genus Desmomertora Loew.
DESMOMETOPA CILIATA Hendel.
This species was described from Sydney by Hendel. I have one specimen
that agrees with his description very closely, and three that. appear to be in-
separable from m-nigrum Meigen. I suspect that the Australian specimens may
really be the latter, as the only structural character separating ciliata from that
species consists of the longer hairs proximad of the apex of first vein in ciliata,
and in only one of my specimens is this noticeable, the others having the hairs
short as in North American specimens of m-nigrum.
Locality, Sydney. I have another species of the genus from South Australia,
but defer naming it.
Genus Hypaspistomy1a Hendel.
This genus is represented in the material before me by one species, which
J believe is undescribed. The genotype occurs in Arabia, one species occurs in
EKurope and North America, one in North America, and one in the East Indies.
HYPASPISTOMYIA ALBIPENNIS, D.sp.
Male.—Black. Frons opaque, triangle and upper half of orbits glossy, an-
terior half of orbits silvery white; cheeks silvery; palpi and proboscis. fuscous.
Mesonotum with thin white pruinescence on sides, shining over all, dorsum of
seuteilum slightly bronzy. Abdomen subopaque fuscous, apical two segments and
sides glossy black. Legs black, mid and hind metatarsi yellowish at bases.
Wings and knobs of halteres white.
Post-vertical bristles convergent; upper two pairs of orbitals outwardly
directed, anterior two pairs incurved; orbits linear; ocellar bristles short; an-
tennae small, arista not longer than anterior width of frons; cheek at highest
point over one-third of eye-height; proboscis slender, geniculated; palpi dilated.
Thorax with one long and one very short pair of pre-scutellar dorsocentrals;
basal seutellar bristles short. Hind tibia very much broadened. Wings as in
latipes Meigen. Length, 1.5 mm.
Type and one paratype, Belaringar, 9 September, 1923.
Subfamily TETHINAE.
Thoracic chaetotaxy and wing venation similar to Agromyzinae. The frons,
however, has the orbital bristles directed outward over eye, and though there is a
small pair of divergent bristles behind the ocelli, what appear to be the true
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 337
postvertical bristles are convergent or subparallel and rather widely placed, either
on the extreme hind margin of frons or slightly below it.
The other subfamilies have the anterior orbital bristles, when present, in-
curved or erect, never curved over eye.
There are several genera of the subfamily, but so far I have seen only
one specimen from Australia. It does not agree with the description of any
species known to me so I describe it as new.
TETHINA NIGRISETA, n.Sp.
_ Male.—Head yellow, cheeks whitish pruinescent, occiput grey except on lower
margin. Thorax black, densely grey pruinescent. Abdomen lIuteous, first tergite
greyish in middle, the other broadly grey basally. Legs yellow, apical tarsal seg-
ment fuscous. Wings hyaline. Halteres whitish yellow.
Hach orbit with four bristles; interfrontalia with two or three cruciate pairs;
post-ocellar bristles pronounced; cheek at highest point about one-fourth of the
eye height; arista yellow, microscopically pubescent, not much longer than an-
tennae; eye a little higher than long; frontal bristles black, those on cheeks
Fig. 4.—Fergusonina merocera. Head from the side and in front.
yellow. Thorax with four series of setulae between the four pairs of strong
dorsocentrals; basal pair of scutellar bristles about half as long as apical pair;
all thoracic hairs and bris‘les black. Abdominal hairs black. Strong bristles and
hairs on legs black, the fine hairs yellow. Inner cross-vein very little proximad
of middle of discal cell, the section of fourth vein between the cross-veins sub-
equal in length to apical section of fifth, and a little less than half as long as
apical section of fourth. Length, 1.75 mm.
Type, Woolgoolga, N.S.W., 27 January, 1923.
Subfamily AGROMYZINAE.
I have a number of representatives of the Agromyzinae from Australia, but
it is very probable that many more will be forthcoming, so I defer dealing with
those belonging to Agromyza and Phytomyza until later.
Genus FERGUSONINA, novum.
Generic characters—Antennae inserted close to lower margin of eye in pro-
file; head as in Figure 4, the antennae small and in distinct pits. Thorax as in
Agromyza, the mesopleura and sternopleura bristled. Female with a chitinous
tube-like ovipositor. Fore femur with rather long postero-ventral bristles. Cos-
tal vein ending a little beyond apex of second vein, third vein distinct, ending in
358 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, Ii.
apex of wing, fourth and fifth veins less distinet on apical portions than third,
outer cross-vein evanescent or absent.
Genotype, the following species.
FERGUSONINA MICROCERA, n.sp.
Female—Yellow, narrow rings surrounding ocelli, and the arista black.
Dorsum of basal four visible abdominal tergites fuscous, ovipositor glossy black.
Wines hyaline.
Ocellar and post-vertical bristles equal; each orbit with one bristle; arista
subnude; mouth-parts small. Mesonotum with two pairs of dorsocentrals and
one pair of acrostichals on hind margin; scutellum with four bristles, basal pair
short. Legs strong, tarsi stout. Inner cross-vein below apex of first vein and
nearly two-thirds from base of discal cell, last section of fourth vein over four
times as long as preceding section. Length, 1.5 mm.
Type, North Harbour, 30 March, 1923.
Named in honour of Dr. EK. W. Ferguson.
Family ASTEIIDAE.
Related to Drosophilidae, as a subfamily of which it is sometimes placed.
Frons without forwardly-directed orbital bristles, the vibrissae short or almost
invisible, costal vein weakened, but not broken, at apex of first vein, first pos-
terior cell of wing distinctly narrowed at apex.
There is one specimen before me which appears to be undescribed.
Genus Le1iomyza Macquart.
This genus differs from its allies in having the outer ecross-vein of wing pre-
sent, the second vein not abnormally shortened, the second costal division being
two or three times as long as first, and the arista bare or pubescent. There are
the following bristles on the thorax: dorsocentrals, 1 pair; scutellars, 1 strong
pair; notopleurals, 1. I can detect no sternopleural bristle on this species,
though other species have one.
LEIOMYZA NITIDULA, n.sp.
Female.—Frons glossy brown, ocellar triangle black; face, cheeks, and an-
tennae brown, upper half of third antennal segment and the lower margin of
cheek blackish; oceiput black; palpi yellow. Thorax and abdomen glossy black.
Legs yellow, basal half of all femora black, apical segment of all tarsi brown.
Wings hyaline, veins brown. UHalteres pale yellow.
Frontal triangle extending three-fourths of the way to anterior margin;
orbits with two or three short hairs, but no distinct bristle; ocellar and post-
vertical bristles microscopic; face coneave in profile, the parafacial invisible
from side. Thoracic dorsum with short sparse black hairs, the dorsocentral
bristles well in front of posterior margin; a fine hair in front of each scutellar
bristle. Abdominal hairs very sparse and short. Legs slender. Second costal
division fully three times as long as first and about 1.5 as long as third; imner
eross-vein a little before middle of discal cell and below apex of first vein.
Length, 2 mm.
Type, Sydney 15 July, 1923.
339
AN AUSTRALIAN CARYOPHYLLAEID CESTODE.
By Prorsssor T. Harvey Jounsron, University of Adelaide.
(Seventeen Text-figures).
[Read 27th August, 1924]
On several occasions Dr. T. L. and Dr. M. J. Bancroft collected a number
of smali cestodes from the duodenum of a widely distributed Australian Siluroid,
the common freshwater jewfish or catfish, Tandanus tandanus Mitchell, caugut
in the Burnett River near Hidsvold, Queensland. These parasites have provid to
be the first Caryophyllaeid cestodes recorded as occurring beyond Europe, Asia
and North America, and the first members of the family collected from fish other
than Cyprinoids. If the genus Caryophyllaeus be used in a wide sense, then
the name, C. bancrofti, n.sp., may be used to designate the new species, but as
will be shown below, the worm possesses marked charac-ers which, in the writer’s
opinion, justify the erection of a new genus to receive it.
The length of preserved specimens measured in formalin, varied from 1.1
to 4.7 mm.; breadth .4 to1.1 mm. The largest were 4.7 by .8 mm.; 4.6 x 1.0;
4.7 by .9 mm.; and the smallest 1.1 by .4 mm. Worms which were immature,
but which possessed complete though small genital organs and vitellaria, measured
1.15 by .45 mm. A few eggs were detected in specimens as small as 2.5 mm.
in length, so that considerable growth mus? occur after sexual maturity has been
reached. The dimensions of the parasites depend to some extent on the degree
of contraction of the highly muscular body and scolex. The worms are elliptical
in eross-section, the transverse diameter being about twice the dorsoventral,
though in the posterior region, in the vicinity of the ovary and cirrus sac, the
body is rather more rounded in section, the dorsoventral diameter then being
about two-thirds of the transverse.
The body surface of preserved material is traversed by many more or less
transverse folds or grooves owing to the contraction of the longi udinal muscu-
lature. There may also be a more or less prominent lengitudinal groove exten d-
ing backwardly from the scolex-for a varying distance, bu! it is not a constant
feature.
. The seolex is generally markedly broader than the succeeding neck region,
and is usually a little wider than the broadest part of the body, which is in ‘he
posterior half. No definite sucking grooves, like those of Archigetes or Glaridacris,
occur, nor is the organ leaf-like as in Caryophyllacus. The an’erior part is 2
short rounded cone and is succeeded (in preserved specimens) by a prominent
“fill,” constituting the widest region of the scolex. The latter at the “frill”
340 AN AUSTRALIAN CARYOPHYLLAEID CESTODE,
Figs. 1-8. Balanotaenia banerofti, n.gen. et. sp.
1. Lateral view of adult with extruded cirrus. 2. Ventral view of adult. 3.
Smallest specimen observed, 1.1mm. by .4mm. (in formalin). 4, 5. End views of
scolices (in formalin). 6. General view (dorsal); stained preparation, somewhat
compressed. 7. Transverse section of anterior part of scolex in region of brain.
8. Transverse section in region of “frill”; note deeply folded surface.
Figs. 1 to 5 have been drawn to the scale indicated beside Fig. 1.
Figs. 7 and 8 drawn to scale beside Vig. 8.
All figures have been drawn with the aid of a camera lucida.
References to Lettering:—vr., brain; c.s., cirrus sac; cu., cuticle; e., egg;
e.v., excretory vessel; ex.v., excretory vesicle; f., “frill”; g.a., genital atrium;
g.u., glandular uterus; U.m-., longitudinal muscles; m., muscles; »., nerve; od.,
oviduct; o.7., ovarian isthmus; ov., ovary; r.s., receptaculum seminis; s.c., sub-
cuticula; s.g., shell gland; t., testis; t.m., transverse muscle fibres; w., uterus; w.a.,
uterine opening into genital atrium; w.c., uterine cavity; u.d., uterine duct; v.,
vagina; v.d., vas deferens or vesicula seminalis; vit., vitelline follicle; vwif.d..
vitelline duct.
BY T, HARVEY JOHNSTON. 341
may vary in size as the following measurements of large parasites show :—.7 mm.
across by .5 mm. in thickness; 1.1 by .75; .85 by .85 mm. .In life this part
is probably highly mobile, but in the material examined it appeared as a thick
muscular projecting fold exhibiting an undulating edge, the depressions or grooves
between the rounded. edges being sometimes comparatively deep and extending
anteriorly as well as posteriorly into the neck. These ridges are variable in
number, though in most specimens examined about ten were present. This ex-
panded portion is abundantly supplied with muscle fibres inserted into it. The
scolex narrows somewhat posteriorly, but a distinct neck region is hardly recog-
nisable since the most anterior vitelline follicles lie very close behind the “frill.”
The position of the sex openings seems to vary with the degree of con-
traction of the parasite, but is always near the posterior end. The genital atrium,
into which the vagina and uterus open, is a more or less narrow transversely
elongate slit, commonly crescentic, situated ventrally in the vicinity of the ovarian
isthmus. The male aperture is included within the atrium when the cirrus is at
rest. In a worm 4.5 mm. long the atrium was situated at .5 mm. from the
posterior end, i.e., at one-ninth the body length; in another (4 mm. long) at
one-seventh; in another (2.7 mm. long) at one-eighth; in another (2.4 mm. long)
at one-seventh; and in another (3 mm. long) at one-twelfth the total body length
from the posterior extremity.
The smooth cuticle, 4 to 7 » thick, is sueceeded by a definite basement mem-
brane. The subcuticula occupies a wide zone and consists of rather closely ar-
ranged narrow elongate cells with prominent muclei situated at different levels.
There is a ring of delicate longitudinal muscle fibres just below the basement
membrane. Caleareous corpuscles are absent.
The main longitudinal series of muscle fibres is almost central, forming a
well-defined zone inwardly from the testes and vitellaria, but in the posterior
recion of the worm the system is feebly developed. ‘The central portion of the
zone is occupied hy parenchyma traversed by comparatively few transverse fibres
and by very few :.orsc.entral fibres. There is no tendency for the longitudinal
fibres to become «¢gregated into bundles, except in the anterior part of the
scolex, where such are very small and numerous. Passing outwardly from the
main musculature, there are seen in sections abundant fibres. traversing the re-
gion between the testes and between the vitellaria to reach the subcuticula. In
the posterior part of the scolex, the longitudinal muscles occupy a very consider-
able region of the parenchyma, forming a wide elliptieal zone within which are
transverse fibres. The arrangement of the longitudinal musculature is thus
characteristic in that it occupies a well-defined region between the dorsal and
ventral testes, instead of the position usually met with, outwardly from the |
vitelline region.
The nervous system is generally ill-defined. The main longitudinal nerve
lies in the parenchyma near the inner ends of the laterally placed vitellaria. In
the region of the ovary it is dorsolateral to the corresponding ovarian lobe. In
the anterior part of the scolex there is a bilobed (perhaps ring-like) mass of
nervous tissue, from which fibres radiate into the cortex. The second ring com-
missure in the scolex and the commissure in the vieinity of the exeretory vesicle,
deseribed as occurring in some Caryophyllaeids, were not observed.
The exeretory system comprises about eight chef longitudinal canals lying
within the testicular and vitelline zones, but outwardly from the ovary, uterus
and cirrus sac. Two laterals on each side are the largest. Numerous connecting
342 AN AUSTRALIAN CARYOPHYLLAEID CESTODE,
vessels having a sinuous course are to be seen exteriorly from the longitudinal
musculature. The canals apparently form four trunks which terminate in the
rather large excretory vesicle lined by cuticle and extending inwards from the
extremity of the worm for from .07 to .1 mm. The outer portion is more or
less tubular, while the part into which the canals empty, is expanded, measuring
from .05 to .075 mm. in diameter. The vesicle may extend anteriorly to lie be-
low the most posteriorly directed loop of the uterus.
The testes are very numerous, .10 to .07 mm. by .04 to .07 mm. in size,
lying in the parenchyma at a deeper level than the vitellaria. Five or six are
commonly seen both dorsally and ventrally in each trans-section of the body, but
they do not extend laterally beyond the main longitudinal nerves, though vitelline
follicles are abundant in ‘that zone, as well as above and below the testes. The
present species thus differs from most of the described Caryophyllaeids in that
the median zone 1s not free, or comparatively free, from vitellaria. They do not
extend as far posteriorly as the latter, though they may reach the vicinity of the
cirrus sac, where they may be seen laterally to it as well as to the uterus; nor
do they extend quite so far anteriorly, though both testes and vitellaria occur
very close behind the broadened portion of the scolex. The testes stain less deep-
ly than the vitelline follicles, and each appears as an elliptical organ with a
narrow lining of sperm mother e¢ells, while in the cavity there may be seen litle
rounded masses of developing sperms.
In mature specimens a large coiled vesicula seminalis is to be seen lying
in the middle of the medulla and bounded by the longitudinal musculature im-
mediately anteriorly to the cirrus sac. Its diameter may reach .04 mm. The
cirrus sac, which measures about .3 by .23 mm. in a fully retracted condition,
occupies a large part of the medulla and is surrounded by the vitellaria, while
laterally to its proximal part there may be testes. The organ is overlain dis-
tally by the uterus. The wall of the sae contains a comparatively small amount
of muscle fibres, as also does the wall of the contained male duct. Fibres
traverse the loose parenchyma of the organ. Within the sac, the duct is thrown
into a number of coils which are very wide in the middle and proximal thirds
of the organ, narrowing in the distal third, this portion being the eversible cirrus.
The latter was quite smooth. The male opening, as already stated, may open
into the anterior part of the genital atrium, but when the cirrus is more or less
everted, the female portion of the atrium comes to open immediately behind its
base.
In several specimens the cirrus was seen more or less extended and directed
ventro-posteriorly. An everted organ projected .55 mm. from the ventral surface
of a worm measuring 4.75 mm. in length, the width in its basal half being .2
mm., at the tip .05 mm. The organ was obviously not completely protruded, its
full length being probably .67 mm., about one-seventh as long as the parasite.
The basal portion enclosed the cirrus sae with its contained swollen and coiled
vesicula, while in the narrower tapering distal half (evidently the true cirrus)
the duct was smaller and merely sinuous.
In another instance where the cirrus was partly protruded posteroventrally
(.44 mm. long) the barrel-shaped base measured .35 mm. in width, and con-
tained the wide coiled male duct. The genital atrium was displaced posteriorly
so as to lie well behind the ovarian isthmus, while the cirrus sac occupied prac-
tically all the region ventrally between the ovarian lobes.
The most anterior vitelline follicles lie almost immediately behind the widest
BY T. HARVEY JOHNSTON.
Figs. 9-12. Balanotaenia bancrofti, n.gen. et sp.
9. Posterior end, showing anatomy, viewed ventrally and slightly obliquely:
shell gland, vitelline duct, oviduct and also the testes and vitellaria in the vicinity
of uterus and cirrus sac are omitted. 10. Lateral views of posterior region, ex-
amined in clove oil; showing partly extruded c’rrus; outline of ovary and position
of commencement of oviduct indicated by broken lines: position of shell gland
marked by dots surround’ng a shaded area: the thick walls and sinuous lumen
of the uterus are indicated. Most of the vitellaria have been omitted. 11. Pos-
terior end of a specimen examined in clove oil: cirrus and sac almost fully ex-
tended. Lateral view. 12. Extruded c’rrus and sac of specimen figured in Fig.
11—drawn to same scale as Fig. 10.
(For lettering see page 340).
344 AN AUSTRALIAN CARYOPHYLLAEID CESTODE,
part of the scolex, whereas in other described species of Caryophyllaeus, as well
as Glaridaeris, there is a considerable interval behind the scolex free from them.
They are very numerous, measure .02 to .035 by .035 to .09 by .04 to .08 mm.,
and are not restricted to the lateral parts of the parasite, but are also distributed
along the median regions ventrally and dorsally. They extend as far back as the
anterior part of the ovary, which they may overlie and underlie. They are found
above and below, as well as laterally to, parts of the retracted cirrus sac, and
also above the preovarian portion of the uterus. The species is characterised by
the entire absence of follicles in the postovarian region of the body, thus differ-
ing in this respect from every other described species belonging to the Caryo-
phyllaeidae.
Vitellaria at first sight resemble the testes, but usually become more deeply
stained. They are, however, readily distinguishable from them, since the con-
stituent cells lying in the middle of the mature follicle are large and contain
abundant small deeply-staining rounded granules, more or less peripherally
situated, while surrounding the nucleus is a comparatively wide clear zone. The
peripheral cells are smaller, and the contents less obviously granular, though the
cytoplasm stains more deeply than in the large cells which represent subsequent
stages in the development of these yolk cells.
The vitelline ducts were not traceable in front of the ovary, but immediately
behind the isthmus they form a fairly wide tubular common yolk duct or re-
servoir, lying somewhat transversely between the isthmus and the vagina, and
immediately below and in front of the shell gland which it penetrates somewhat
ventrally and on the left side. In one instance the reservoir measured .1 by
.04 mm., but is generally much shorter. It joins the ootype within the shell
gland.
The ovary lies in the vicinity of the genital openings, whereas in all other
described members of the family it is situated at varying distances between the
atrium and the posterior end of the worm. The opening of the atrium in C. ban-
crofti generally lies immediately in front of the isthmus and between the anterior
ovarian lobes, while the atrium itself (the vaginal portion of it) passes below the
ovary and at times the openings of the uterus and vagina into the atrium may
be below the isthmus. The ovary is compact, each lobe being rounded or slightly
lobulate and rather narrow, measuring .14 to .4 mm. in length. The general ap-
pearance is like that in C. tuba. The isthmus is approximately tubular, arched
slightly, with the concavity directed dorsally and somewhat anteriorly, and lying
in the middle of the worm between the atrium or vagina and the uterus. Above
it, or just in front of it, is the receptaculum seminis, while the shell gland is
dorsoposterior. An extremely short oviduct arises from it posteriorly and travels -
slightly dorsally towards the right to become joined by the vagina. This ootype
still proceeds posterodorsally, becoming narrow, thin-walled, and surrounded by the
cells of the shell gland, and is then joined by the vitelline duct. The ootype is
now a narrow uterine duct which travels to the right and posteriorly, becoming
thrown into a series of loops lying between the shell gland and the larger suc-
ceeding part of the uterus. The shell gland is rounded and comparatively large,
measuring about .1 by .1 mm. with a dorsoventral diameter of .07 mm.
The greater part of the uterus hes behind the isthmus, and most of-this por-
tion, together with part of the preovarian region, is characterised by the presence
of very thick walls composed chiefly of large cells with readily staining cytoplasm.
It has been suggested that these are probably glandular. The thickness of the
BY T. HARVEY JOHNSTON. 345
Figs. 13-17. Balanotaenia bancrofti, n.gen. et sp.
13. Transverse section of mid-region—ventral surface towards right.
15. Part of section, behind Fig. 14, showing
16.
17. Section behind 16, drawn to larger scale, showing open-
ing of genital atrium, also shell gland complex.
Figs. 14, 15 and 16 drawn to scale indicated beside Fig. 15.
14. Sec-
tion across uterus and cirrus sac.
relation of sex ducts, also junction of vagina and uterus with genital atrium.
Section behind 15.
346 AN AUSTRALIAN CARYOPHYLLAEID CESTODE,
wall is often equal to that of the lumen in this region of the organ. Within this
thickened tissue the caviity may be thrown into a series of gentle undulations. The
uterine duct proceeds posteroventrally to become the “glandular uterus,” which,
in the vicinity of the excreiory vesicle, forms a large loop and then traveis for-
ward as a spacious tube dorsally to the shell gland, vagina, ovary and recepta-
culum seminis. Sometimes this portion lies rather to one side, especially when it
contains a few eggs. The tube now becomes thin-walled and widened, assuming
@ sinuous course and extending forward above the distal portions of the cirrus
sac. When the cirrus is extruded the u-erus may extend considerably in front of
and above the entire sac and above portion of the swollen vas deferens or vesicula.
It eventualiy narrows, bends downwardly and posteriorly between its own ascend-
ing limb and the cirrus sac. Is terminal portion is a narrow thin-walled duct,
little wider than the breadth of a ripe egg, and ending in the genital atrium
which it enters to the left of the vaginal aperture. The uterus thus has a position
in the animal quite different from that described as cecurring in any other
member of the family, and this is correlated with the posterior location of the
genital apertures, so that the whole organ has become pushed posteriorly, ap-
parently at the expense of the pos‘ovarian vitelline follicles which, as already
mentioned, are not represented in this species. The course of the vagina has also
become greatiy modified for the same reason. The openings of the uterus and
vagina into the atrium are both on the left of the median line, the junction oc-
curring in the medulla below the level of the isthmus but above the levels of the
distal portions of the cirrus sac, and, as already mentioned, the junction may
occur in front of or even behind the isthmus.
The walls of the atrium are thick and lined by cuticle, there being no marked
change as it becomes the vagina, while the same kind of tissue surrounds the male
aperture as well. The atrium resembles thai described for C. laticeps.
The vagina travels backwardly, more or less in line with the genital atrium,
and lies on the left of the midline, below the level of the ovarian isthmus, turning
upwards just in front of the latter, and curving over it near the left lobe. It
then becomes thrown into wide loops between the shell gland and the uterus,
crossing to the right and then travelling forwards above the isthmus, in the
vieini'y of which it is sharply bent to enter the rather large receptaculum seminis.
The duct is a well-defined tube with relatively thick walls and chitinous lning.
The receptaculum is a more or less elliptical organ lying adjacent to the right
ovarian lobe and partly or wholly in front of the isthmus and above its level, but
below the uterus. It measures .17 by .07 mm., with a maximum diameter of
about .08 mm. From its outer end, i.e., on the right side, there passes inwards
the narrowed short vagina which joins with the oviduct and soon enters the shell
gland. Practically the whele of the course of the vagina is thus behind the
ovarian isthmus. In other known Caryophyllaeidae most of its course lies in
front of that organ and the tube is not thrown into a pronounced transverse
course, but has a longitudinal sinuous one. The presence of a receptaculum has
been reported as oceurring in only one species of Caryophyllaeus, C. laticeps.
Kees are oval to elliptical, measuring .03 to .042 by .025 to .03 mm. The
operculate shell is moderately ‘hick and abundantly stippled, probably owing to the
presence of a great number of minute processes on its surface. The larval stages
are prohably passed theouch in *reshwat
The family Caryophyllaeidae at present contains three genera, Caryophyllaeus,
Archigetes and Glaridacris. Four valid species of the first are recognised, all of
LAW oleaehantas
BY T. HARVEY JOHNSTON. 347
them occurring as parasites of Cyprinidae; C. laticeps Pall. (syn. mutabilis Rud.)
from many genera of Cyprinoid fish in Central Europe; C. tuba Wag. from a
Huropean Tinca; C. fennicus Schn. from Leuciscus from Northern Europe; and
C. syrdarjensis Skrjabin from a carp, Schizothorax intermedius Gnthr. from
Central Asia.
The two species of Archigetes, A. appendiculatus Ratzel and A. brachyurus
Mrazek, are both from Central Huropean freshwater oligochaetes. In America
the only known member of the family is Glaridacris catostomi Cooper of which
Caryophyllaeus larvei Lamont from the same host species, Catostomus commersoni
Lep. (also a Cyprinoid) is evidently a synonym. Its locality is Michigan, U.S.A.
The Australian representative which occurs in a Siluroid belonging to the
Plotosidae, differs in its anatomy more widely from Caryophyllaeus than does
Glaridacris, so that it seems advisable to separate C. bancrofti generically as the
type of a fourth genus within the family. The characters of the latter as defined
by Luhe and by Cooper require amendment in order to receive the new species,
since the presence of a postovarian group of vitelline follicles is not universal in
the group.
BALANOTAENIA, n.g. (Text-figs. 1-17).
The new genus, for which the name Balanotaenia is proposed, may be charac-
terised as follows:—Caryophyllaeidae; small parasites with anterior end modified
to form a scolex devoid of suckers but surrounded by a powerful muscular frill-
like expansion thrown into a series of short folds when at rest; genital openings
in the vicinity of the ovarian isthmus; vagina largely transverse and mainly post-
ovarian in position; uterus largely postovarian; postovarian vitelline follicles ab-
sent. Type B. bancrofti, n.sp. from Tandanus tandanus Mitchell, Burnett River,
Queensland. The type has been deposited in the Australian Museum, Sydney,
and paratypes have been donated to the Adelaide Museum.
References.
Cooprr, A. R.—Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc., 39 (1.), 1920, 5-24.
Lamont, M. K.—Occas. Papers Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 93, Jan., 1921, 4 pp.
LuHE, M.—Parasitische Plattwurmer, IJ, Cestodes. Die Susswasserfauna Deut-
schlands. Heft 15, 1910.
Monticenui, F. §.—Atti R. Accad. Set. fis. mat. Napoli (2), 5 (6), 1892.
WiLL, T.—Zeitschr. wiss. Zool., 56, 1893, 1-39.
Addendum (1/9/1924). The writer has just had access to an excellent paper
by Woodland (Q.J.M.S., 67, 1923, 435-472) deseribing new Caryophyllaeids from
the Nile (Sudan) and containing a revision of the families of Cestodaria. He
has redefined the genus Caryophyllaeus, using it in a very broad sense, including
Glaridacris within it. As defined by him, it would also include Balanotaenia as
a synonym. It is considered advisable, however, to retain the latter generic name
for such species as are devoid of postovarian vitellaria and have a transverse
disposition of the vagina. Into this genus would probably fall the immature
Caryophyllaeid briefly described (but not named) from a Siluroid, Auchenoglanis.
His C. filiformis from Mormyrus also lacks the posterior group of vitellaria and
may perhaps also be included. He has erected a new genus Wenyonia to receive
three new species occurring in the Nile Siluroids, Synodontis and Chrysichthys.
348
NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA. No. iv.
By J. R. Mauwocu.
(Communicated by Dr. E. W. Ferguson.)
(Five Text-figures).
[Read 27th August, 1924.]
Family DROSOPHILIDAE.
Since the completion of the manuscript of my paper in which I dealt with
this family (These Proe., xlvii., 1923, 611) and before its appearance in print
there appeared another paper, by Dr. O. Duda (Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungar., 20,
1923, 24), * dealing with Oriental and Australian Drosophilidae represented in the
collection of the Hungarian National Museum. In this paper there are three
species described from Australia, Paradrosophila interrupta, Drosophila biradiata,
and D. australica. The first-named genus is not known to me, the second species
appears to be a Scaptomyza, and the third is close to inornata Malloch, but has
darker antennae and palpi.
In connection with the above-mentioned paper, it may be pertinent to indicate
that, in the opinion of many students, there is too great a tendency on the part of
some continental European specialists to split into a multitude of poorly differen-
tiated genera larger groups which have very close structural and biological af-
finities. This rapid erection of new nomenclatorial units based upon minor struc-
tural characters that are appreciable only by the ultra-specialist tends to bring the
whole systematic fabric into disrepute. I believe that it is only by the use of
characters that one can swear by that the study of entomology, or any other
branch of zoology, can enlist the number and the class of students that are essen-
tial to the development of a classification that will stand the test of time and
biological co-ordination. The splitting and resplitting of generic concepts, unless
on outstanding structural or fundamentally distinct biological characteristics, shows
frequently neither good science nor good sense, and appears to me to warrant the
statement, so often made, that a genus is merely a matter of opinion, whereas it
ought to be just as much a matter susceptible to proof as the specific concept.
Most frequently the worker who indulges in these nomenclatorial calisthenics
is one who confines his systematic work to one order, suborder, or even to one
family, and the narrower the scope of the work, the more indulgence in generic
and subgeneric differentiations there is, as a rule. It appears probable that the
worker who confines his efforts to a certain group, or to a few small groups, in
his enthusiasm for differentiation, forgets the relations of that zoological unit to
* This paper is in the Society’s library —Ed.
BY J. R. MALLOCH. : 349
]
the whole. If all the others were judged by the same criteria, and the system
carried to its logical conclusion, it would ultimately result in the erection of a
genus for each species and the consequent elimination of relationship indices,
which the present generic concepts really are.
In presenting the descriptions of new species in this paper, I do not give an
extended key to the genera already so treated by me but in all cases I append
‘data which may be used by anyone to locate the species in their proper places in
the keys. Later on it may be possible to present a complete key to the species.
Types will in every case be returned to Dr. Ferguson, so that future students
may have them available for reference when such is essential.
Genus GITONIDES Knab.
This genus is distinguished from all of those in my previously published key
to genera of Australian Drosophilidae by the almost bare arista, all the others
having long hairs both above and below. There is a vein separating the discal
and second basal cells as in Amiota, the face has a low central ridge, there are
rather long orbitals on each side which are about equally spaced, the anterior one
proclinate, the other two reclinate, there are two sternopleurals, both near upper
margin, and the prescutellar pair of acrostichals is well developed.
GITONIDES PERSPICAX Knab.
This is the only species, and it superficially resembles Drosophila repleta
Wollaston, being marked on dorsum of head and thorax in similar manner. There
is a distinct longitudinal band across middle of eye even in dead specimens, the
pleura have two or three dark linear vittae, the apex of first vein is not blackened,
and the legs are entirely yellow. Length, 3-4 mm.
One female, Sydney. Known from Hawaii and India. Larvae feed amongst
mealy aphids, but there is no definite record of their feeding upon them.
Genus LEUCcOPHENGA Mik.
Dr. E. W. Ferguson has drawn my attention to the omission of Drosophila
albofasciata Macquart from my previous paper on this family. This species is
evidently a Leucophenga and, though described from New South Wales, it is still
unknown to me except from Macquart’s brief description, a copy of which I give
below to facilitate its identification, if possible.
LEUCOPHENGA ALBOFASCIATA (Macquart).
Drosophila albo fasciata Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Suppl. iv., Part 2, 1851, 277.
“Thorace testaceo. Abdomine fusco fascia alba. Capite rufis. | Pedibus
flavis.”
“Long. 11. b?. Palpes jaunes. Face fauve, & duvet blanc. Front fauve.
Antennes jaunes: style 4 longs poils. Thorax testacé. Abdomen d’un brun
noiratre; base testacée; troisiéme segment & bande de duvet blane au bord pos-
térieur. Pieds jaunes. Ailes claires, 4 base un peu jaunatre.”
New South Wales.
The description does not fit any of the species in my previous key, nor does
it agree with one now before me, which I received from Dr. Ferguson after my
paper had gone to press. This last species I describe herein. Leucophenga leuco-
zona Duda is closely related to Macquart’s species, if not the same as it.
350 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, iv.,
LEUCOPHENGA CONJUNCTA, n.sp.
Male.—Tawny yellow, pleura, apex of scutellum, and the legs paler. Scutellum
with a large black spot on each side at base. First sbdominal tergite yellow;
second blackish-brown, the anterior margin narrowly yellow, the posterior margin
with a silvery white line; third tergite blackish-brown, with a yellow mark in centre
of anterior margin and the same margin in type narrowly silvery white; fourth
tergite blackish-brown, with four large yellowish spots, two on dise and the other
two between these and the lateral margins; fifth tergite coloured as fourth, but
with a large central yellow spot only. Wings hyaline. Halteres yellow, with a
large blackish spot on outer side.
Frons about one-fifth of the head width; ocellar bristles long, the anterior
_ two close together; palpi slightly dilated; cheek linear. Thorax normal; pre-
seutellar acrostichals large. Legs normal. Veins 3 and 4 subparallel apically;
second vein approaching costa gradually to apex. Length, 3 mm.
Type and one paratype, reared from mushroom, 3.4.1912, no locality given on
label.
This species belongs to the same group as scutellata and poeciliventris des-
cribed in my previous paper, but the second (first visible) tergite is bipunctate
in the former and tripunctate in the latter, instead of having a broad complete
blackish band. There are also some other differences in the markings-of the
abdomen which distinguish them.
Genus DrosopHita Meigen.
The key to the species of this genus, which I previously published, may be
elaborated as noted below to include the additional species. Preliminary captions
may be added before Caption 1 as follows:
A. Wings with conspicuous fuscous markings in addition to that over the
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Wings without distinct dark markings, at most slightly suffused with dark
colour and rarely with the outer cross-vein clouded .. .. .. .. .. IL.
AA. Wing with a large brownish or fuscous spot at apex of second vein, the
dark cloud at tip consisting of a brownish suffusion along the apices of
third and fourth veins, more or less coalescent in first posterior cell;
mesonotum dark brown, with three linear yellow vittae, the median one
not reaching anterior margin; scutellum yellow in centre, dark brown on
sides of dise; pleura whitish-yellow, contrasting sharply with the dark
brown mesonotum .. .. .. .. .. ..).. .. «+ «+ .. mycetophaga, usp.
Wing without a dark spot at apex of second vein, the dark cloud at tip
consisting of a broad curved brown patch which extends from middle of
third section of costa to just over third vein, and over dise of wing to
beyond fourth vein, but leaves a hyaline spot in apex of first posterior
cell; mesonotum brown, with two poorly defined paler vittae which are
carried over the lateral margins of scutellum, the centre of latter brown;
pleura not noticeably paler than mesonotum .. .. .. .. polypori, nsp.
Except in the matter of possessing two pairs of dorsocentral bristles, these
two species might well be referred to the genus Mycodrosophila. In fact, there
is a reduction in the size of the anterior pair of bristles in some specimens
which rather suggests to me that the discovery of more species may yet obliterate
this line of distinction and cause a fusion of the two genera under Drosophila.
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 351
DROSOPHILA MYCETOPHAGA, n.sp.
Male and female.—F rons and face brown, paler on sides and in centre, mouth
margin and clypeus blackish, cheeks whitish-yellow; antennae yellow, third seg-
ment brown; palpi yellow. Thorax as described in diagnosis, upper anterior
angle of propleura, and metanotum brown. Abdomen dark brown on dorsum, a
yellow spot in centre of anterior margin of second tergite, one on each side of
dise of fifth, and the lateral margins of all yellow. Legs pale yellow. In addi-
tion to the wing markings mentioned in the diagnosis both the cross-veins and
the apex of first vein are clouded.
Eyes haired; proclinate and upper reclinate bristle long, the anterior reclinate
one minute. Whgnen: with at least six series of intradorsocentral setulae; pre-
seutellar acrostichals absent; scutellum slightly flattened on disc, as long as wide,
with four equal marginal bristles. Second vein curved forward to costa apically;
last section of fourth vein about 1.5 as long as preceding section; second section
of costa about twice as long as third. Length, 2.5-3 mm.
Type, male, and allotype, Ourimbah, N.S.W., November, 1911, on Polyporus
fungus.
DROSOPHILA POLYPORI, n.sp.
Female.—In addition to the distinctions between the two species listed in
the diagnosis the following are noted: Margin of mouth and clypeus yellow like
the remainder of face; scutellum shorter and more convex; dorsum of abdomen
with two pairs of large yellow spots, one on the fourth and one on the fifth
tergite, the lateral margins of tergites not yellow; second vein of wing ap-
proaching costa much more gradually. Halteres yellow in both species. Length,
2.5-3 mm.
Type and two paratypes, same data as preceding species.
DROSOPHILA SETIFEMUR, N.sp.
Female.—Shining yellowish-brown. Frons brownish-orange, orbits and ocellar
triangle darker and slightly shining; third antennal segment brownish. Thorax
not vittate. Abdomen glossy, brownish, paler basally, becoming black apically.
Legs obscure yellow. Wings slightly greyish. Halteres yellow.
Lower reclinate bristle small; facial carina sharp and high, not broadened
nor flattened below, extending nearly to lower margin of face; cheek linear; eyes
hairy; vibrissae duplicated. About eight series of intradorsocentral setulae pre-
sent; one long and two short sternopleurals. Fore femur with rather closely
placed fine setulae beginning a little before middle and extending to apex on
posteroventral surface, only the apical setula bristle-like, but not as long as
diameter of femur, the anteroventral surface with a similar series of more closely
placed and more regular setulae. Inner eross-vein at not less than two-fifths
from base of discal cell; third section of costa fully one-third as long as second;
outer eross-vein fully 1.5 its own length from apex of fifth vem. Length, 2.5
mm.
Type and three female paratypes, Sydney.
This species runs to Caption 1 in my key already published, but differs from
immigrans, the only other species with fore femoral setulae, as follows:
352 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, iv.,
Fore femur with short closely placed fine setulae on more than the apical half
of posteroventral surface, the longest one, at apex, not longer than the
femoral diameter; third section ae costa not less than one-third as long
as second ; facial carina narrow .. . . .. setifemur, n.sp.
Fore femur with four or five widely spaced bristles < on the entire length of
posteroventral surface, the longest one, at middle, as long as or “longer
than femoral diameter; third section of costa about Goeitannth as long
as second; facial carina much broadened below .. immigrans Sturtevant.
The new species averages smaller in size and is paler in colour than
ammigrans.
DROSOPHILA NIGROVITTATA, n.Sp.
Male.—F rons, when seen from behind, with a broad deep black stripe he-
tween the triangle and the narrow pale orbit on each side, the central portion,
ineluding ocellar region, grey pruinescent; face tawny yellow, with the antennal
foveae darker, and a blackish mark in middle below earina, the vibrissal angles
and lower part of cheeks greyish; antennae black, apex of second segment
yellowish. Thoracic dorsum black, with four pale grey vittae, with the appear-
ance of having five black vittae; scutellum in type too much damaged to make
cut clearly how it is marked, but apparently black, with the tip and lateral
areas greyish. Abdomen black, markings not evident in type. Legs black, each
tibia with a yellow ring at base and another beyond middle; tarsi brownish-
yellow. Wings hyaline, with a rather distinct black mark on costa at apex of
auxiliary vein. Halteres brownish-yellow.
Upper reclinate bristle long, lower one minute, in line with reclinate one;
facial carina high, broadly rounded, extending to lower third of face, ceasing
abruptly; eyes short-haired; cheek over one-third of the eye height; vibrissa
single. ‘Acrostichal setulae in about four series, confined to the black central
vitta; anterior pair of dorsocentral bristles very close to suture. Bristles on
posteroventral surface of fore femur confined to apical half, long. Incision at
apex of auxiliary vein quite deep, the costa at this point with two long fine
setulae; second costal division but little longer than third; second vein running
obliquely into costa; last section of fourth vein about 2.5 as long as preceding
section, the latter subequal to last section of fifth vein. Length, 1.5 mm.
Type, Sydney, 28 August, 1921.
This species is apparently referable to the genus Spuriostyloptera Duda,
but I do not consider that genus is entitled to separation from Drosophila. The
deep incision at apex of the auxiliary vein and the attendant black spot are
tc some extent present in Drosophila repleta and its allies, and this species Duda
still retains in Drosophila.
In my key to the Australian species, nigrovittata will run to buscki, having
five vittae, but these are broad and black instead of slender and brown. The
annulate tibiae and differently coloured frons will readily separate the species
so far as colour is concerned. Structurally they differ in buscki having no facial
carina, and, though the latter also has a very evident notch at apex of the
auxiliary vein, there is no black mark present, and the venation is different.
DROSOPHILA ALBOSTRIATA, n.Sp.
Female.—Black, slightly shining. Sides of face and frontal orbits white,
second antennal segment yellowish, third missing. Thorax with two narrow
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 353
white pruinescent dorsal vittae which extend from anterior margin over entire
length and on to lateral basal angles of seutellum; humeri yellowish; lateral
margins of the mesonotum greyish; pleura brown; tip of scutellum whitish
pruinescent. Abdomen more shining than the thorax, basal tergite yellowish,
second usually yellow in middle anteriorly, the others with a narrow pale hind
margin and a yellow spot on each side anteriorly, the latter visible only when
abdomen is distended. Legs pitchy, knees, apices of tibiae, and the tarsi paler.
Wings hyaline. Halteres yellow.
Lower reclinate bristle and the postvertical bristles minute; eyes hairy; facial
carina broad, rounded, quite prominent; third antennal segment and arista miss-
ing in all specimens before me; cheeks narrow. Humerals two; sternopleurals
‘two; six series of intradorsocentrals present, only four of them between the
vittae, the other two almost in line with the dorsocentrals, the median two series
longer than usual; prescutellar acrostichals small; basal pair of scutellars dis-
tinetly shorter than apical pair. Legs normal. Inner eross-vein a little beyond
middle of discal cell and apex of first vein; outer cross-vein about 1.5 its own
length from apex of fifth; last section of fourth vein about three times as long
as preceding section; section of costa beyond apex of second vein nearly half as
long as the one in front of it; second vein approaching costa gradually. Length,
2 mm.
Type and eight paratypes, apparently all females, Eidsvold, Queensland.
Type and two paratypes mounted on same pin.
It is possible, but improbable, that the antennae will furnish characters that
will justify the removal of this species from Drosophila, but there are no other
characters evident to me which suggest that the species is not properly placed
in this genus.
The conspicuous white dorsal lines extending from mouth margin over dorsum
of head and thorax to base of scutellum readily distinguish this species from any
in my previously published key. Paradrosophila interrupta Duda has the thorax
marked as in this species, allowing for the oily condition of his type specimen,
but is otherwise different.
DROSOPHILA FUSCITHORAX, N.sp.
Female.—Fuscous, thorax subopaque, with very slight greyish pruinescence;
abdomen more shining, also slightly grey pruinescent. Frons brown, darker
posteriorly, orbits, ocellar region, face, and cheeks greyish pruinescent; antennae
_ brown, third segment black; palpi yellow. Thorax not vittate. Abdomen in
type without obvious markings. Legs dirty yellow, bases of coxae darker. Wings
slightly greyish. Halteres brownish-yellow.
Eyes with extremely short hairs, only visible against reflected light with a
high power lens; facial carina obsolete even between bases of antennae; para-
facial invisible from side; cheek linear; no outstanding bristle below vibrissa;
lower reclinate orbital bristle minute, in line with proclinate one; arista with
3+ 2 rays. Thorax with two humerals, eight series of intradorsocentral setulae,
a short but distinct pair of prescutellar acrostichals, and three sternopleurals,
the lower one longest; basal pair of scutellar bristles a little shorter than apical
pair. Legs normal. Last section of fifth vein distinctly longer than penultimate
section of fourth, and about three times as long as outer cross-vein; last section
of fourth vein fully three times as long as penultimate; section of costa before
304 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, iv.,
apex of second vein a little less than three times as long as the one beyond it.
Length, 2.75 mm.
Type, Sydney, 13 September, 1923.
This species will run in my key to the first section of Caption 5, but is
readily distinguished from imornata by its much darker colour, and different
venation.
DROSOPHILA FLAVOHIRTA, n.sp.
Female-——Tawny yellow. Orbits and ocellar region slightly shining; face
paler than frons. Thorax shining, rarely with traces of four darker, reddish
vittae. Abdomen unicoloured. Legs concolorous with body. Wings hyaline.
Halteres yellow. All hairs and bristles luteous.
Hiyes hairy; lower reclinate bristle small; facial carina sharp only at upper
extremity, becoming gradually broader below and very much. flattened, sloping
off imperceptibly into mouth margin; cheek narrow; one short bristle below
viorissa; palpi rather broad. Thorax with eight series of intradorsocentral setu-
lae; the prescutellar pair of acrostichals not differentiated; scutellars subequal;
sternopleurals two; humerals two. Inner cross-vein at middle of discal cell and
distinctly beyond apex of first vein; second section of costa about 2.5 as long
as third; outer cross-vein about twice its own length from apex of fifth vein,
the last section of latter a little shorter than penultimate section of fourth; veins
3 and 4 a little convergent at apices. Legs normal. Length 1.5-2 mm.
Type and ten paratypes, December, 1923, collected on flowers, Como, N.S.W.
(H. Petersen).
This species will run to Caption 5 in my key, but may be distinguished
from any subsequent species by the entirely yellowish hairs, the hairs and bristles
on all the others being largely or entirely black or fuscous.
Its most closely related allies are to be found in the ampelophila group.
In my last paper I recorded this last species as melanogaster Meigen. Duda,
who has apparently examined Meigen’s type, states that the species are distinct,
so that the name ampelophila will stand for the Australian species.
Family CHLOROPIDAE.
Since the completion of my last paper dealing with some genera of this
family, I have received some additional material from Dr. E. W. Ferguson,
and from Dr. C. F. Baker. This material contains some undescribed species,
some of which are dealt with herein.
Genus GAauRAx Loew.
Becker considers that Batrachomyia Skuse is a synonym of this genus. I
have not seen the genotype of the former, but I believe Becker has stretched the
definition of the genus beyond reasonable limits to accommodate this view.
Gaurax is a very poorly differentiated genus, being distinguished from Oscinis
Auct., and Siphonella only by the distinctly short-haired arista. To this character
Becker has added, in his paper on the Australian Chloropidae, another, the shape
of the third antennal segment, which is not borne out by the genotype. This
variation in the definition of a genus in different faunal regions is not per-
missible, the only criteria being the characters possessed by the genotype. Based
upon the latter dictum, we have a genus which is, as already s‘ated, distinguished
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 355
from Oscinis only by the more distinctly haired arista, that of the latter being
at most pubescent, while in Gauraz it is short haired. That this character is
not a reliable one is clearly shown by the fact, that Loew placed one or more
species in Oscinis, which later Becker removed to Gauraz.
The genus Siphonella is yet more closely related to Oscinis, though the geno-
type appears to be abundantly distinguished by its long geniculated proboscis
and angulated vibrissal angle. The degree of elongation and geniculation, as
well as the chitinization of the proboscis, is quite variable within this particular
group and it is extremely difficult to place some of the species, or individuals
of some species, in one or the other genus. This will be evident when it is ex-
plained that Becker described one North American species in Siphonella and
Oscinella (Oscinis), under different specific names.
Possibly the three genera ought to be associated under one generic name.
This paper is, however, not the proper place to consider this matter so I leave
it for future consideration, possibly by another worker.
GAURAX ATRISETA, D.SD.
Female.—Head ferruginous, upper half of occiput and frontal triangle shin-
ing black; antennae yellow; arista black and black haired. Thorax ferruginous,
dorsum with three slender blackish lines which are connected at anterior and
posterior extremities, the lateral lines less distinct than the central one in type;
base of scutellum blackened; centre of postnotum broadly black, shining. Abdo-
men shining black, basal segment yellowish. Legs tawny yellow. Wings slightly
brownish, veins black. Halteres yellow. Cephalic and thoracic hairs black,
those on legs paler.
Frons distinctly wider than either eye, and about as long as its greatest
width, the hairs quite long, almost bristle-like and not very numerous; triangle
extending four-fifths of the distance to anterior margin of frons, the ocellar and
postvertical bristles cruciate; longest hairs on arista about twice as long as its
basal diameter; eyes hairy; cheek almost linear. Mesonotum with the hairs sub-
erect and moderately long; scutellum subtriangular, with four marginal bristles
and some erect discal hairs. Legs normal, rather longer haired than usual. Last
section of fifth vein over three times as long as outer cross-vein and a little
longer than penultimate section of fourth. Length, 3 mm.
Type, Sydney, 31 December, 1923.
Of the yellow species from Australasia, which Becker puts in this genus,
the new one comes closest to quadrilineatus Skuse and mnigritarsis Skuse. The
former has the arista bare, and the latter has the antennae and some paris of
the legs black. He lists no other species from Australia though there are some
from New Guinea.
Genus CAVICEPS, nov.
Generic characters.—Frons without a differentiated triangle extending be-
yond ocellar region; postvertical bristles distinct, slightly incurved; face deeply
concave, with two rounded antennal pits separated by a slight ridge, most con-
spicuous above; mouth margin slightly produced (Fig. 1); palpi long, slender,
slightly curved; one short vibrissal setula present. Thorax with four bristles on
hind margin in front of scutellum, the latter slightly longer than usual, flattened A _
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above and with numerous short stiff setulae, except on median line. In other
respects similar to Oscinis.
Genotype, the following species.
CAVICEPS FLAVIPES, 0.Sp. (dived aly)
Female——Head whitish-yellow, upper occiput and ocellar region grey; an-
tennae and palpi yellow; clypeus blackish. Thorax opaque black, densely pale
grey pruinescent, with three poorly defined dark dorsal vittae; scutellum yellow-
ish apically. Abdomen pale tawny yellow, with a darker dorsocentral vitta which
tapers apically, the apices of tergites whitish, and their bases darkened laterally.
Legs yellow, mid tibia with a faint brown spot at middle. Wings hyaline. Calyp-
trae yellow. All hairs and bristles yellowish.
Frons a little wider than one eye, about one-third longer than wide, covered
with short hairs, except on a median line posteriorly; eyes densely haired, dis-
tinetly higher than long; parafacial almost linear; cheek about as high as third
antennal segment, the latter rounded; arista sub-nude. Dorsum of thorax rather
densely covered with short stiff sub-decumbent hairs; scutellum with two apical
bristles. Legs rather stout, normal, hind tibial sensory area pale. Inner cross-
vein about middle of discal cell and well proximad of apex of first vein; outer
eross-vein nearly twice its own length from inner; last section of fifth vein about
twice as long as penultimate section of fourth ma two-thirds as long as last
section of that vein; section of costa beyond apex of second vein about one-third
as long as preceding section. Length, 2.25 mm.
Type, Sydney 19 February, 1924.
This species appears to find its closest ally in Oscinella (Oscimis auct.)
defecta Becker, described from Java, but that species has the face shining black
in the antennal foveae, and the hind femora and tibiae indistinetly browned in
middle. I consider defecta belongs io this genus.
Genus TricimBa Lioy.
This genus is similar to Caviceps in some respects, but differs in having
the frontal triangle distinct, the thorax with three deeply impressed lines of
punctures, the prescutellar acrostichals lacking, and the postseutellum minute in-
stead of well developed. Notonaulax Becker is a synonym.
TRICIMBA CARINATA, n.sp.
Female.—Head blackish-grey, anterior margin of frons, face, antennae,
cheeks, and palpi yellowish. Thorax black, densely grey pruinescent, shining
only where it is rubbed. Abdomen black, shining, lightly grey pruinescent. Legs
yellow, all femora and the hind tibiae broadly fuscous at middle. Wings hyaline.
Halteres yellow.
Frons nearly one-half of head width, slightly protuberant in profile; face
concave, with a short blunt carina in middle, which does not extend to mouth;
vibrissal angle slight; cheek about two-thirds as high as third antennal segment;
arista pubescent; eyes hairy. Thorax with pale microscopic hairs, the central
furrow single, the lateral pair broadened posteriorly; scutellum flat above, with
numerous depressed pale setulae on dise, and four short apical setulae. Third
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 357
section of costa nearly one-half as long as second; inner cross-vein almost below
apex of first. Length, 1.5 mm.
Type, Como, N.S.W., December, 1923, on flowers (H. Petersen).
Tricimba marina Becker, from Formosa, has the frons not wider than either
eye and the halteres black-brown; 7. fascipes Becker, also from Formosa, has the
thoracic dorsum and lower part of pleura shining black, with the dise of the
former opaque brown. The face in the new species is more distinctly carinate
than in the genotype, cincta Meigen, from Europe and North America; and
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Fig. 1. Head of Caviceps flavipes from the side.
Fig. 2. Head of Thyridula atroapicata from the side.
Fig. 3. Scutellum of Thyridula atroapicata from above.
Fig. 4. Head of Deltastoma unipunctata from the side.
Fig. 5. Outline of anterior margin of head of Deltastoma unipunctata from below.
spinigera Malloch, from North America, has the seutellum armed with setigerous
tubercles and the face almost without a carina. The South American species,
palpalis Becker, has the legs entirely yellow, and similis Enderlein, from the
same region, has the abdomen brown with the basal two segments yellow.
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Genus THyriputa Becker.
This genus was erected for the reception of a species from-New Guinea. It
is close to Rhodesiella Adams (Meroscinis de Meijere), described from Africa,
and well distributed over the Orient. It is distinguished from it by the hairy
eyes, very small, poorly defined frontal triangle, and produced vibrissal angles
(Fig. 2). The elongated scutellum with its setigerous tubercles distinguishes
these genera from others already dealt with by me in this series of papers.
They belong to the subfamily Oscininae.
THYRIDULA ATROAPICATA, n.sp. (Figs. 2, 3).
Male ?.—Head tawny yellow, frons a little brownish, ocellar region and upper
half of occiput, except a postvertical triangle, black; antennae and palpi yellow.
Thorax yellow, with three broad black vittae and a lateral postsutural spot on
dorsum; sternopleura, mesopleura, pteropleura, and hypopleura each with a large
shining black mark; scutellum paler than mesonotum, black at apex. Abdomen
tawny yellow, infuscated on sides of each tergite. Legs tawny yellow, hind tibia
browned at middle anteriorly. Wings clear. Halteres yellow.
Frons subquadrate, a little wider than either eye, with rather abundant
short pale hairs, ocellar and postvertical bristles erect, minute, convergent; profile
as in Figure 2; arista nearly bare. Mesonotum granulose, depressed on pale
areas, the hairs short, numerous, decumbent and pale; scutellum as in Figure 3,
the setulae along sides black, the hairs pale; mesopleura with microscopic pale
pile. Abdomen short and broad. Legs stout, hind tibia stouter than mid. Inner
cross-vein much proximad of apex of first vein; outer cross-vein oblique; veins
3 and 4 not convergent apically. Length, 3 mm.
Type, Bowral, February, 23.
The only other species, breviventris Becker, has the thorax black instead of
yellow in ground colour, and differs in some other respects.
Genus SIPHUNCULINA Rondani.
This genus is distinguished from its allies by the very short second vein
of the wing, the second costal division being about as long as first and not over
half as long as third. In other respects the genus is similar to Oscinis auct.
SIPHUNCULINA BREVISETA, n.sp.
Female——Shining black, without grey pruinescence. Antennae brownish-
yellow, third segment darker on upper and apical margins; palpi and legs
brownish-yellow, coxae, femora, except extreme apices, and a median annulus on
hind tibiae black, fore and mid tibiae sometimes faintly darker at middle. Wings
hyaline. Knobs of halteres brownish-yellow, darker apically.
Frons microscopically longitudinally strigose laterad of the triangle, and with
some very short stiff setulae inserted in punctures, most distinct along sides of
the triangle, a pair of short stout bristles on vertex behind oeelli and another at
anterior ocellus; antennae normal in size, but sunk in cavities on each side of a
broad median elevation which occupies at upper margin fully one-third of the
space between eyes, becomes narrower at middle of face, where the upper half
is differentiated from the lower by a shght depression of the latter; arista bare;
labrum elevated in middle; cheek narrow. Disc of mesonotum and of scutellum
BY J. R. MALLOCH. 359
microscopically shagreened and with rather closely placed slight elevations which
are surmounted by short decumbent hairs; notopleural bristles very short and
stout, 1:1; margin of scutellum with about 8 very short stout setulae or thorns,
which are situated on slightly elevated bases; mesopleura rugose posteriorly and
with a few short hairs on hind margin. Abdomen microscopically shagreened.
Legs normal. First and second sections of costa subequal in length. Length, 2
mom.
Type and 8 paratypes, Como, N.S.W., on flowers (H. Petersen).
The facial carina is more distinct than in the genotype, and the very short
marginal setulae on the scutellum distinguish it from almost all species of the
genus, only one having these similar, but it has the frons largely opaque.
Genus DELTASTOMA, nov.
Generic characters.—Similar to Siphonella, but the face with a conspicuous
carina on lower half and a groove on either side in which the antennae lie, the
anterior mouth margin not transverse, but produced V-shaped (Figs. 4 and 5).
Eyes hairy; arista pubescent; vibrissae undeveloped; orbital hairs weak; noto-
pleurals 1+ 3; dorsocentrals confined to one prescutellar pair, with a number of
setulae between them transversely; scutellum normal. Legs and wing venation
normal.
Genotype, the following species.
DELTASTOMA UNIPUNOTATA, n.sp. (Figs. 4, 5).
Female——Tawny yellow, ocellar spot, arista, and a spot between apices of
second and third wing-veins black; abdomen browned on dorsum apieally.
Head as in Figures 4 and 5. Dorsum of thorax with rather dense short
black setulose hairs; scutellum with two long and some shorter bristles, the dise
with some short hairs. Legs stout. Third vein of wing a little concave below
the black spot, fourth ending almost in wing tip, a little deflected apically; inner
eross-vein almost below middle of first costal division and distinctly before middle
of discal cell; outer cross-vein over three times its own length from apex of
fifth vein; second section of costa about 2.5 as long as third. Length, 3 mm.
Type, Sydney, N.S.W., 2.11.23.
The peculiar shape of the mouth opening when viewed from below dis-
tinguishes this genus from any in either the Oscininae, to which it belongs, or the
Chloropinae.
360
A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHIROMYZINI
(STRATIOMYIIDAR. DIPTERA).
By G. H. Harpy.
(Seventeen Text-figures).
[Read 30th July, 1924.]
Introductory Note. (Written January, 1924) —When this paper was nearly
completed, Dr. E. W. Ferguson received for publication from Professor M.
Bezzi, a criticism of Enderlein’s genera and species. In view of the early
publication of my larger paper dealing with the same subject, Professor Bezzi
has since decided to withdraw his contribution. Nevertheless he had expressed
views and made eritical remarks which forestall some opinions and synonymy
here recorded, and, as I have been guided in more than one point by opinions
expressed in the manuscript, I publish the following extracts :—
Referring to Enderlein’s system of using wing venation, a variable character,
in dividing the group into subfamilies and tribes, Professor Bezzi rightly points
out that different specimens of “the same species may be enclosed in different
subfamilies and tribes.”
In view of the possibility of separating the Australian from the South
American species of Chiromyza, he suggests “the generic name Archimyza may
thus be used for the Australian species of Chiromyza if they are not congeneric
with the American ones.’
Dealing with Enderlein’s tribe Xylophagini he says, “But in this same tribe
Dr. Enderlein has erected a new genus Psegmoptera for some subapterous females
from Australia distinguished in two species, aurifrons the type species and
machiliformis. From the description it is evident that this genus is the same as
Boreoides Hardy, the type species aurifrons being equal to the type species
subulatus.”
“Tt is not clear why Dr. Enderlein has placed his genus Psegmoptera with
the Xylophagini, in as much as the winged males, unknown to him, have a two
branched media and thus belong to his tribe Metoponiini.”
My first paper revising the Tribe Chiromyzini (These Proc., 1920) dealt
chiefly with the synonymy of the genera of the world. At that ‘time, unknown
to me, Dr. Gunther Enderlein and Professor M. Bezzi were also engaged upon
revisional studies in this tribe. Dr. Bezzi received my paper before the publica-
tion of his and he has disagreed with some of my suggestions regarding the
synonymy of certain genera. The most important matter which Dr. Bezzi would
amend regarding the Australian material is the utilisation of the name Chiromyza
BY G. H. HARDY. 361
for Australian species, and he considered all the Australian forms other than
those of Metoponia might have to be placed under the genus Boreoides (see intro-
ductory note above for a modification of this view).
Enderlein, on the other hand, has placed every species known to him, in-
cluding Metoponia, numbering five in all, in different genera, and, moreover, he
does not recognise their position in the tribe Chiromyzini, but distributes the five
species among three other tribes. The material studied by Enderlein, consisting
of one or two specimens in each ease, was too small for him to have realised
the great variation in venation that is found in a series of most species,—a
variation that is maintained in those he described as new, according to the more
abundant material before me. The structures he used in forming his elaborate
system of classification prove to be very unstable and unsuitable, for it is possible
to find, within a series of one species, characters that would make the different
individue!s fit, not only Enderlein’s different genera, but also his different
tribes.
Unfortunately, neither Bezzi nor Enderlein has given a character or a com-
bination of characters that would be adequate to separate completely the Aus-
tralian from the South American forms of the genus Chiromyza, nor have I been
able to detect any, so, until they are available, it seems advisable to retain the
better-known generic names and to await further evidence before introducing new
ones.
It is impossible to determine definitely, from examination of pinned speci-
mens, the exact number of annulations in the antennae. Even when they are
examined under the microscope the number may appear different from that
shown by prepared micro-slides. For instance, Macquart and Enderlein both give
eight annulations to the third segment of the antennae in Metoponia, and this is
apparently correct; nevertheless, all micro-preparations which I have examined
indicate seven at the most.
Amongst the new features of this paper, which must be regarded as an ap-
pendix to the former one, I have introduced the proportional length of the first
segment of the posterior tarsi in relation to the second segment and the tibia of.
the same limb; this affords a reliable clue to the identification of specimens.
Many specimens were measured for the purpose, but only one of each sex (the
types when available) are given in the accompanying table (p. 362). Other speci-
mens vary widely in actual measurements but the proportions remain constant.
The references and synonymy given here are limited to additional ones re-
lating to Australian material only, and with regard to the synonymy given in my
original revision the following may be adjusted :—
Inopus despectus Walker may have to be removed from the synonymy of
Metoponia. Bezzi gives this species (originally described without a locality) as
from South America, but I do not know his reasons for so doing.
Hylorus Philippi may be removed from the synonymy of Chiromyza, as this
South American genus is considered by both Enderlein and Bezzi to be distinct.
Enderlein gives characters for the genus Nonacris that would prohibit its in-
clusion under Chiromyza (sensu stricto), but Bezzi considers the typical species
to be identical with a recognised Chiromyza.
By the courtesy of Dr. Bezzi, and Dr. C. P. Alexander, both of whom have
supplied specimens, I have found that the typical species of Allognosta belongs
to the tribe Beridini, despite the absence of scutellar spines. The normal mouth
parts are situated on a normal unsunken face and are without the tubercle; alse
362 A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHIROMYZINI,
the female has the typical Beridini abdomen and not that of the characteristic
Chiromyzini.
The following table shows the lengths of the tibiae and first two joints of the
tarsi on the posterior legs of Australian Chiromyzini:—
Metopoma
rubriceps Macq.
gemina Hardy .. ..
Boreoides
subulata Hardy
tasmaniensis Bezzi .. .
Chiromyza
grandicorms Hardy ..
longicornis Hardy .. .
australis Macq. ..
stemmaticalis Enderl.
matruelis Enderl. ..
ava Enderl.
prisca Walk. ..
Tibia Tars1
——~
1st jomt 2nd joint
io) 3 Q 3 2 ef Specimens measured.
mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm.
Qe EAS dle 2emilenlic .Olcne\Oull pals wane wAnTS tralian
Museum
220. e2a) ale Ove 2 Sie 0) nolonypecands allobypeiun
BS hacer PA Seeman hal WA pant be holotype and a para-
type male in Na-
tional Mus. (allo-
type damaged) -
2560254) MES 2 someon ls. female and _ allotype
male in National
Museum
a i) OW an holotype
See i eo) | holotye
on ae OS On apain in) Australian
Museum
2A 2a Gls Wo. 8). (| temalel in) @ueensland
Museum and _allo-
type
3. 2.2) 2 1.2). 9.6) | female!) ‘and! ( allotyme
male
BABY AGS) PATE Vey 174 9) allotype and female in
Queensland Musem
OE eaantoee Neato} i luarey ea Le -6 | allotype female and
male in Australian
Museum
Since the publication of my earlier paper, and greatly owing to the interest
taken in Miss V. Irwin Smith’s studies in the biology and anatomy of Metoponia
rubriceps, the tribe has become well known to Australian entomologists. In con-
sequence, there is scarcely a collection of Diptera from a mountain area that does
not bring to light an undescribed species of this group, but, unfortunately, in
these collections only one sex is represented.
On this account, only one new
species is described and it is selected for the purpose because it forms a con-
necting link between the typical Chiromyza and that form originally described as
Xenomorpha grandicornis, which is also only known from the male.
1. Abdomen with seven visible segments
Abdomen with five or six visible segments ..
Key to the tribes of the Beridinae.
Subfam. Beridinae .. .. .. 2
Other subfamilies.
2. Mouth parts very small, but nevertheless developed; mouth situated on a
tubercle placed on a much sunken face. Seutellum without spines.
Apical segments of the abdomen exserted and usually rather ovipositor-
like in the female ..
Tribe Chiromyzini ..
ba |
e
10.
12,
BY G. H. HARDY. 363
Mouth parts normal. not situated on a tubercle nor is the face sunken.
Scutellum always with spines in Australian forms, but absent in
Allognosta and perhaps other non-Australian forms.
Tribe Beridini.
Key to genera and species of the Chiromyzini.
Sexes dimorphic with regard to colour, the head of the female red, thorax
and abdomen black; the male brown, eyes contiguous. First tarsal
segment of posterior legs twice the length of the second and three-fifths
tiatinomathentibiayeiny.) seis ween Metoponia aes tet 4
Sexes similar in colour, head never red. One species with a " metallic
EHO AK re es this 5 aS SD
First antennal ceoment Nant Hoan fee an ens of the peconds. si
rubriceps Maca.
First antennal segment only a little longer than the second ..
gemina Hardy.
Female apterous or with vestigial wings. Eyes in the male separate .
LEN ONCOTAES Irs a MEAN ee noun O
Female never apterous, wings fully developed Ae
gen. Chiromyza .. . Gi
Female with vestigial wings. Discal cell of male open. In male ‘the first
segment of the posterior tarsi about as long as the tibia .. ..
tasmamiensis Bezzi.
Female entirely apterous. Discal cell of male closed. In male the, first seg-
ment of the posterior tarsi two-thirds the length of the tibia .. .. ..
subulatus Hardy.
Kyes very widely separated in the male and more hairy than usual. Thorax
metallic. Third segment of the antennae very swollen ..
grandicornis Hardy.
Eyes of male approximate, contiguous, or. if separated, never with a swollen
Piurdeanhennalmseomental Never metallicity esr seni Glen inn eaten eS
Antennae with the third segment swollen, rather lene! Kyes in the male
approximate for a short distance .. ai
Noregiisior it. n. US.
Antennae with the third poet more or less conical, with or without traces
of annulations .. .. see 9
Kyes in the male separated. First tarsal seement of post terior legs in female
two-thirds, in male about half the length of the tibia ..
australis Maeq.
Eyes in the male contiguous or approximating for a long distance .. .. . 10
Hind tarsi of male considerably swollen. First tarsal segment in male about
three-fifths, in female two-thirds the length of the tibia .. ..
prisca. Walk.
Hind tarsi of male ordinary, Slender, -= 2): eed
. Third antennal segment in female containine nee. conspicuous "Shamans Mane
First seoment of ee tarsi in both sexes two-thirds the length of
therabiaiee: eee .. .- s+ Stemmaticalis Ender.
Third antennal segment more or less obscurely marked with more than two
annulations .. .. salts
Hind tarsi with first Seemed Gude finde ‘ihe ileaeth oe ine ‘fi, in “pomalle and
about half in me i. «. «- ..matruelis Wnderl.
Hind tarsi with first seginent f our- fifths the length of the tibia in female, and
less than two- Pele in male .. ava vatalerik
364 A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHIROMYZINI,
Genus Meroponta Macquart.
Macquart, Dipt. Exot. suppl. 2, 1847, 28; Hardy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales,
xlv., 1920, 54; Enderlein, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921, 181.
Character.—Both sexes of both species have the proportions of the posterior
legs identical, namely the first tarsal joint is twice the length of the second and
three-fifths that of the tibia.
METOPONIA RUBRICEPS Macquart.
Macquart, Dipt. Exot. suppl. 2, 1847, Pl. 1, fig. 4; Hardy, Proc. Linn. Soe.
N.S. Wales, xlv., 1920, 534, Pl. xxix., figs. 5 and 6; Irwin-Smith, Proc. Linn.
Soe. N.S. Wales, xlv., 1920, 505-530, Pl. xxvii. and xxviii., 23 text-figs.; xlvi.,
1921, 252-255, 8 text-figs.; xlviil., 1923, 49-81, 50 text-figs.; Enderlein, Mitt. Zool.
Mus. Berl., x., 1921,. 181. :
Hab.—Enderlein adds Adelaide to the distribution of this species, therefore
it is now known to range from Queensland to South Australia.
METOPONIA GEMINA Hardy.
Hardy, Proce. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlv., 1920, 535, Pl. xxix., figs. 1-4.
Hab.—South Australia must be added to the distribution. A female in Dr.
Ferguson’s collection, from Adelaide, collected by A. H. Elston, agrees fairly
well with this species.
Genus Boreorpes Hardy.
Hardy, Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S. Wales, xlv., 1920, 539.—Psegmoptera Ender-
lem, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921, 177.
There can be little doubt concerning the above synonymy, as Enderlein’s
characters agree with those of Boreoides, and the typical species in each case is
undoubtedly identical.
The families in which various Australian entomologists have placed the
-species of Boreoides in collections are very wide. Bezzi records that specimens
were sent to Dr. C. P. Alexander as Tipulidae. Another position was that of a
female of a species of Apioceridae, and it was so placed under the conviction
that it was captured in cop. with one of that family. The MS. name Boreomyia
was responsible for its position as an Empid: Coquillet published the name
Boreomyia for Boreodromyia, and the misprint was copied into Aldrich’s catalogue,
in which was found a generic name the same as that of Walker’s MS.
BOREOIDES SUBULATUS Hardy.
Hardy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlv., 1920, 540, Pl. xxx., f. 17-22.—
Psegmoptera aurifrons Enderlein, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921, 178.
There can be little doubt regarding the above synonymy. Enderlein’s des-
eription comes well within the variations of the species as at present recognised.
The first segment of the posterior tarsi is one and two-fifths the length of
the second and two-thirds that of the tibia on the holotype female. The allotype
male is damaged, but a paratype shows the proportions to be twice and about
two-thirds respectively.
BOREOIDES MACHILIFORMIS Enderlein.
Psegmoptera machiliformis Enderlein, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921, 178.
The determination of the specific identity of this, the second of Enderlein’s
species, is left till more material from Adelaide, the type locality, becomes avail-
BY G. H. HARDY. 365
able for study. It will be observed that Enderlein had only two specimens of
the genus under consideration, and the species is very variable in size, coloration
and other characters. Moreover, all Australian specimens examined by me show
that the proportional lengths of the segments on the posterior legs are similar,
and some of these specimens show greater differences in other respects than has
been indicated in KEnderlein’s descriptions. Despite these differences, I have
been unable to establish a second species, owing to gradations between the various
forms. The amount of pubescence and its colour on the front, and also the
distinctness of the median longitudinal furrow on the thorax (two of Enderlein’s
chief differences) are most certainly variable characters that cannot be used for
specific determination.
BOREOIDES TASMANIENSIS Bezzi.
Bezzi, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), ix., 1922, 323-328, fig.
Male.—Cubital vein forked, the vein that should close the discal cell not
indicated, first and second postical veins branched, third postical absent. First
tarsal segment of the posterior legs two and one-third times the length of the
second and about as long as the tibia; the proportions on the female are two
and one-fourth, and two-thirds respectively.
Bezzi divided the Tasmanian female specimens from those of the mainland,
chiefly on account of their possession of vestigial wings, a character borne out
by a re-examination of that specimen collected by C. E. Cole near Hobart and
referred to in my previous paper. A male from Mt. Wellington undoubtedly be-
longs to this genus and species.
Hab.—Tasmania. One male allotype, Mt. Wellington, 5.1.18 and a female,
Hobart, both taken by C. E. Cole, are in the National Museum, Melbourne.
Genus CHIroMyzA Wiedemann.
Wiedemann, Nova Dipt. Gen., 1820, 19; Hardy, Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S. Wales,
xlv., 1920, 536.—Archimyza Enderlein, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921, 157.—
Stenimas Enderlein, ibid., 175.—Hylorops Enderlein, ibid., p. 179.
Despite the fact that Enderlein would place the species known to him in
different subfamilies and tribes, all his genera contain species very closely allied
and undoubtedly congeneric.
All the species described below, except the first two, conform to the de-
finition given in my previous paper. Of those two, the second is described as
being a form intermediate between the first and the more typical species of
Chiromyza. Into this now complex group come all species of the Chiromyzini
in which the females are provided with fully developed wings and the head is
not red.
(C. grandicornis and C. longicornis are appended here, as it is assumed that
the unknown female of each species has the wings developed. That both could
be separated from all other species of Chiromyza on account of the nature of the
antennae is recognised, but the following objections render such treatment in-
.advisable:—(1) The females are unknown; (2) The two species are probably
not congeneric, as they differ from each other in every respect but the nature of
the third antennal segment; (3) Many allied genera have been proposed during
recent years and there is nothing to indicate that, when these are defined on a
more satisfactory system than at present, one or more of them will not become
available for one or both species under discussion).
366 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN DIPTERA, lV.,
CHIROMYZA GRANDICORNIS Hardy. (Figs. 1, 2).
Xenomorpha grandicornis Hardy, Proe. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1920, 39, f. 3;
Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S. Wales, xlv., 1920, 539.
Male.—Agreeing with the genus Barbiellinia Bezzi, in respect to the broadly
separated eyes, which are more hairy than in the typical Chiromyza, this species
disagrees with characters given for that genus in every other respect.
In the original description it is stated that the face ‘does not recede as” in
C. australis, which should have read “recedes to a less extent than’; this character
makes the tubercle on which the mouth is situated also less marked, though de-
finitely present.
Figs. 1, 2. Chiromyza grandicornis Hardy, male.
1. Head seen dorsally; 2. Head, anterior view.
Figs. 3-5. Chiromyza longicornis, n.sp., male.
3. Head seen dorsally; 4. Head, anterior view; 5. Antenna.
The first segment of the posterior tarsi is about three times the length of
the second and over one-third that of the tibiae.
Unfortunately since the unique type was originally described, both of the
antennae have been lost; a diagram was given when the description was made
and here further figures of the head are added.
CHIROMYZA LONGICORNIS, n.sp. (Figs. 3-5).
Male.—Eyes very sparsely pubescent, contiguous for a short distance near
ocelli, then separating abruptly well above the antennae. Antennae rather long,
second segment half the length of the first, and the third, like that of C. grandi-
BY G. H. HARDY. 367
cornis, swollen, without annulations and more than twice the length of the two
basal ones united. The colour agrees with that of the typical form of the genus
and the markings of the thorax are indicated. In all three specimens examined
the upper branch of the cubital fork is present and the third postical vein is
absent. First segment sf the posterior tarsi twice the length of the second and
three-fifths that of the tibiae. Length: 3. 6 mm.
Hab.—Queensland, National Park, March, 1921. Holotype and two para-
type males. Although searched for, the females were not discovered; two other
species, both males, were found, one being C. stemmaticals, the other a new form
referred to under C’. australis.
CHIROMYZA AUSTRALIS Macquart.
Xenomorpha australis Macquart, Dipt. Exot. suppl. 4, 1850, 54, Pl. iii, f.
7.—Chiromyza australis Hardy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlv., 1920, 538, PI.
xxx., f. 12-16.—Hylorops australis Enderlein, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921,
180.
7
Figs. 6-9. Chiromyza stemmaticalis Enderlein.
6. Head of male; 7. Antenna of male; 8. Head of female; 9.
Antenna of female.
Macquart described both sexes under the name Xenomorpha australis, and,
although I believe the females identified by me are identical with Macquart’s,
the males do not conform to the original description. The thick posterior tarsi
referred to by Macquart occur on a male found in the National Park, Queensland,
and also on another from Biackheath, N.S.W., but in neither of these are the
eyes separate as recorded by Macquart.
Bigot’s description of the female of C@. vicina also seems to apply to the
females referred here, as at least one of the specimens described agrees in the
main colour markings given for that species, and is the only species so far
examined having the central stripe of the thorax divided, making two central
stripes with two large trapezoidal spots on each side. The remainder of the
insect also agrees fairly well with Bigot’s description.
368 A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHIROMYZINI,
The first segment of the posterior tarsi is twice the length of the second
and more than one-half that of the tibiae in the male, whilst the proportions in
the female are two and a half times, and two-thirds respectively.
CHIROMYZA STEMMATICALIS Emderlein. (Figs. 6-9).
Stenimas stemmaticalis Enderlein, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921, 175.
Male.—Kyes approximate for a long distance. Upper branch of the cubital
vein absent in all the males, but present in the female; third postical vein strongly
indicated; antennae very short, third segment very little longer than the two basal
ones united. First segment of the posterior tarsi slightly more than two and a
half times the length of the second and two-thirds that of the tibiae; in the
female these proportions are slightly less than two, and two-thirds respectively.
Hab.—Queensland. In the Queensland Museum there are three paratype
males and one female taken in the National Park, Dec., 1921, by H. Hacker. A
male from the same locality, Mar., 1921, taken by myself, is chosen for the allo-
type of this species.
CHIROMYZA MATRUELIS Enderlein. (Figs. 10-13).
Hylorops matruelis Enderlein, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921, 180.
Enderlein does not give a locality for this species other than “Australia,”
” 13
Figs. 10-13. Chiromyza matruelis Knderlein.
10. Head of male; 11. Antenna of male; 12. Head of female;
13. Antenna of female.
but his description refers to a dark brown median line on the central stripe of
the thorax. This character appears to be unique in the female of the species
here described under Enderlein’s name.
Male.—Kyes contiguous near ocelli, approximate near antennae; very sparse-
ly pubescent. Antennae rather long, first segment short, the second about the
same length but much broader, the third tapering to a black apex and with at
least six obscure annulations. Thorax with one median and two lateral stripes
discernible. Posterior tarsi with very slight indications of the swollen character
found in the males of C. prisca; the first segment twice the length of the second
and about half the length of the tibiae. The wings have the upper branch of the
BY G. H. HARDY. 369
cubital vein present, the third postical vein absent. The colour is the typical
yellowish-brown. :
Female.—Eyes widely separated, posterior tarsi with the first. segment two
‘and one-third times the length of the second and two-thirds that of the tibiae.
The upper branch of the cubital vein is absent. Other characters as in the male.
Length: Male 8 mm., female 15 mm.
Hab.—South Australia: Mt. Lofty, Mylor, April and May, 1921, collected by
Mr. John Formby.
Types.—Male allotype and one female in my collection; three paratype males
and four females in that of Dr. Ferguson; these specimens were originally sent
to Dr. Ferguson by Mr. G. H. Dutton. One female in the Australian Museum.
‘CHIROMYZA AVA Enderlein. (Figs. 14-17).
Archimyza ava Enderlein, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl., x., 1921, 157.
Eyes in the male contiguous for a long distance. Third segment of the an-
15 17
Figs. 14-17. Chiromyza ava Enderlein.
14. Head of male; 15. Antenna of male; 16. Head of female;
17. Antenna of female.
tennae longer than the two basal ones united and conspicuously annulated; six
annulations are definitely present. Upper branch of the cubital vein present in
all specimens examined, the third postical vein absent or indicated by a stump.
The first segment of the posterior tarsi in the male is one and two-thirds the
length of the second and less than two-thirds that of the tibiae; in the female
these proportions are two and a quarter, and more than four-fifths respectively.
There is a slight tendency towards the formation of the male tarsi referred to
as swollen, found on C. prisca.
Hab.—Queensland. Tambourine Mt., April, 1911. (H. Hacker).
Types.—Allotype male and six male paratypes, together with two females,
in the Queensland Museum.
370 A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHIROMYZINI,
CHIROMYZA PRISCA Walker.
Walker, Ins. Saund. Dipt., 1852, 162; Hardy, Proce. Linn. Soc. N.S. ‘Wales,
xlv., 1920, 539, Pl. xxix., f. 7-11.
The first segment of the posterior tarsi in the male is twice the length of the
second and three-fifths that of the tibiae; in the female these proportions are
one and four-fifths, and two-thirds respectively.
Literature dealing with Australian Chiromyzini.
Bezzi.— Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), ix., 1922, 321-328. (The first Eremochoetous
Dipteron with Vestigial wings).
Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., xv., 1922, 117-124. (On the South American
species of the Dipterous genus Chiromyza Wied.).
Bicot.—Ann. Soc, Ent. France (5), ix., 1879, 200.
ENDERLEIN.—Mitt. Zool. Mus, Berlin, x., 1921, 153-214. (Ueber die phyletisch
alteren Stratiomyiiden-subfamilien).
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371
THE MOTOR NERVE-ENDINGS OF THE LIMB MUSCLES OF THE FROG
(RANA TEMPORARIA) AND OF THE MUSCLES OF THE PECTORAL
FIN OF THE DOG-FISH (SQUALUS ACANTHIAS).
By P. D. F. Murray, B.Se., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology.
(Plates xxxvil.-xlii. )
[Read 27th August, 1924.]
The material investigated in this paper consisted of two muscles of the limb
of the common frog (Rana temporaria) and of the muscles of the pectoral fin
of Squalus acanthias.
The technique was based on the silver impregnation method of Bielschowsky.
In the case of the frog, I followed more closely the modification of Agduhr
(1917) and in the ease of the fish that of Boeke (1913,\1917).
As a counterstain to show up the nuclei, which are usually only very feebly
stained: in a successful preparation, I have used chiefly Mayer’s alum carmine.
In the case of the material from Squalus the process was essentially similar,
but differed in a few respects.
The material was fixed by Professor Goodrich, to whom I am indebted for
permission to use the material, at Plymouth.
The Merits of the Bielschowsky Technique.
The main merit of the Bielschowsky technique is the clarity of the neuro-
fibrils. A sharp black colouring of the nerve-fibres and loops is obtained, which
is very much clearer than the less sharp appearance obtained by means of methods
using methylene-blue or gold chloride. The knob-like endings to fibres and the
varicosities on the course of fibres seen by these methods are seen in Bielschowsky
preparations as loops or networks of black stained neurofibrils, while the vari-
cosities of the fibres are seen to be loosenings of the neurofibrils composing the
nerve-strand. These advantages are to some extent shared by the Cajal and
Golgi methods, but the Bielsechowsky method has an advantage over them, in
that it is the only technique which has so far revealed the periterminal network
of Boeke. The question, whether this is to be regarded as a virtue or a vice,
depends on our decision as to the nature of this network, which will be discussed
ata later stage.
The most serious defect of the Bielschowsky method is perhaps the difficulty
of seeing the medullary sheath and other membranes of the nerve fibre. It cer-
tainly seems that the medullary sheath is more clearly seen in gold-chloride
preparations than in Bielschowsky preparations. The bearing of this on reeent
32 MOTOR NERVE-ENDINGS IN THE FROG AND THE DOG-FISH,
work by Boeke and Agdukr on the alleged sympathetic innervation of striated
muscle is clear. A large part of their work is dependent on the possibility of
seeing whether or not a very fine fibre has a medullary sheath. It has always
been my experience that the medullary sheath is harder to see the smaller the
fibre, and it seems quite possible that the very fine fibres considered by them
to be non-medullate may really have a very fine medullary sheath which is not
visible in Bielschowsky preparations. On the other hand, the experimental work
advanced in support of the sympathetic innervation seems to be conclusive.
It should also be pointed out that the heavy treatment with formalin must
have serious shrinkage effects (notice the shrinkage of the nuclei or of the
muscle substance, as revealed by their lying in clear spaces, Pl. xli., fig. 16) and
this may well be supposed to lead to artefacts. This point will be referred to
again in dealing with the periterminal network.
A very serious impediment associated with the use of the Bielschowsky
methods is the empirical nature of the process and its very capricious character.
Two pieces of the same tissue, or even different regions of the same piece, which
have been treated throughout the process in exactly the same way, and which
have lain side by side in the same solutions, may show very different results,
one being a success, the other a failure.
We shall now proceed to diseuss the motor endorgans in the limb muscles
of the frog.
The Motor Nerve Endings in the Frog (Rana temporaria).
Owing to the great amount of work that has been done on the motor end-
ings in the frog, it seems unnecessary to describe them in great detail here.
The principal workers in this field have been, among others, Kuhne, Dogiel
(1890), Sihler, Cuceati (1888, 1889), Cecherelli (1904), Bremer (1882, 1883),
Retzius (1892), ete.
In general, the endings are described as coming from large, coarse, medul-
Jated fibres, which branch several times, so forming a brush-like arrangement,
the branches themselves branching again several times. After losing the medul-
lary sheath, the axon penetrates under the sarcolemma. The naked axon then
runs along as a more or less winding, varicose fibre, which often ends in a large
or small expansion. The axon may branch several times, and these branches
may branch again, often forming a very complicated end-brush. There is usual-
ly no end-plate with a large accumulation of sarcoplasm, forming a definite and
restricted locus for the ending, such as occurs in reptiles, birds, and mammals,
and which, as we shall see, is approached in Squalus acanthias. The ending as
a whole is large and diffuse, the spreading terminal and subterminal fibres cover-
ing a large area of the muscle fibre. Four endings of this typical form are
shown (Pl. xxxvii.; Pl. xxxviil, fig. 4). With this general description I am en-
tirely in accord, and the description is confirmed by my preparations.
Usually these fibres spreading about under the sarcolemma are all that has
been seen of the ending, end-loops not having been generally observed. Fre-
quently, however, as may be seen by reference to the figures of earlier authors
(e.g., Retzius), these fibres have been seen to end in expansions, and to have
given off as branches other very fine, usually short fibres, which likewise end in
expansions or knobs. Now, in my preparations, where the fibres can be traced
far enough, they become finer and finer, but ultimately one can sometimes see
fd
BY P. D. F. MURRAY. 373
a very small, hardly visible, loop at the end, and at the ends of very fine
branches.
Plate xxxviii., fig. 5, for example, shows the end of a terminal fibre, which
breaks up into two exceedingly fine branches, of which one ends in a loop and
the other in what appears to be a loop with its end cut off. Plate xxxviil., fig.
6 shows a fibre which ends in an extremely small loop, and two branches, of which
one has its ending in some other section, and the other, after bifurcating, goes
beyond the sphere of the figure. Plate xxxviii., fig. 7 shows what looks like the
ending of a fibre in a polygonal loop. As this loop has somewhat the appear-
ance of the loops which are sometimes met with in the course of a fibre, | am
not sure that it really is an ending.
On Pl. xxxviii., fig. 8 is shown a short branch given off laterally from a
fairly thick fibre. It forms a rather complicated loop ending, with four little
subsidiary loops associated with it. This is rather unusual, other end-loops I
have seen being quite simple. :
Plate xxxviii., fig. 9 is a simple loop ending of a lateral branch of a rather
thick fibre.
The question now arises, are these loops which I see identical with the knobs
and expansions of those writers who have used the gold chloride or methylene-
blue techniques, or are we to suppose that these authors, by reason of their
technique, failed to see the true endings? I think the former is the truth, for,
if one examines their figures, those, for instance of Retzius, one is much struck
with the resemblance in position and size of their terminal knobs and expansions
to my loops.
This raises another question, which of the two pictures is the correct one?
It is a question which is at present impossible to settle for certain, but one must
bear in mind the fact that the Bielschowsky technique is one which may very well
be expected to form artefacts. Formalin is the necessary fixative and is never a
very good fixative. Further, the long and complicated treatment with silver
nitrate and the ammoniacal solution cannot but tend in the same direction. In
view of this, one must admit the considerable possibility of the loops and nets
seen in Bielschowsky preparations being artefacts. On the other hand, one must
remember the great accuracy and precision of outline, and the constancy of
form of these structures. This is not what one would expect in an artefact.
Rather one would expect something less precise and less constant in form. It
also seems possible that the loops may really be present in methylene-blue and
other preparations but may be masked by the stain colouring some other con-
stituent of the ending as well. Thus, while the question must remain open, there
is no good reason for definitely regarding the loops and nets seen in Bielschow-
sky preparations as artefacts. At the same time, one must remember the possi-
bility.
As in other endings, there is a very marked accumulation of nuclei in the
region of the muscle fibre involved in the ending (Plate xxxvii; xxxvill.. fig. 4).
The accumulation of nuclei is very much greater than in other parts of the same
muscle fibre. Most of the nuclei are of an oblong form and have their axis of .
greatest length parallel to the length of the muscle fibre.
Besides this type of ending which has just been described, I have also
found in this material another type. The general characteristics of this kind of
ending as compared with the previous type, are as follows:—The parent fibre
or fibres approaching the muscle fibre are very fine, finer than all but the finest
374 MOTOR NERVE-ENDINGS IN THE FROG AND THE DOG-FISH,
of the terminal fibres of the coarse type of ending, and nothing can be dis-
tinguished of a neurofibrillar structure, except at endings or varicosities. The
parent fibres frequently appear to run in groups, four or five fibres together,
and all of them may have endings on the same muscle fibre. The parent fibres
in the fine type of ending do not undergo the extensive branching into sub-
terminal and terminal branches which we have seen in the endings of the coarse
fibres, but may end by simple loops or nets without any branching, or may have
little side branches bearing small loops or nets. The fibres forming the endings
do not show any particular orientation as regards the length of the muscle fibre,
such as we have seen in the terminal branches of the coarse fibres. There is no
medullary sheath distinguishable. As we lave seen, this is not by any means a
proof that it does not exist.
This type of ending is very rare, far rarer than the endings of the coarse
fibres. I have only been able to find four eases sufficiently perfect to figure,
but I have seen a number of others which cannot be figured on account of im-
perfect impregnation or some other fault. The. fine fibres from which these end-
ings come are common enough sometimes, but it is very difficult to trace them
to their terminations, because the smaller the fibre the greater the difficulty ex-
perienced in getting it impregnated, and in following it through a series of
sections.
I shall now proceed to describe these four endings in turn.
(1). Plate xxxix., fig. 10—There are four very fine fibres, two slightly
thicker than the others. At least three of these figures show clearly points at
which they are in connection with the muscle substance.
The points of distinction between this type of ending and the type from the
coarse fibres, as indicated above, will all be noticed here. The fibres are very fine,
there is no branching, except in one place to form a net-like ending, fibres are
not parallel to the length of the muscle fibre, and there is no medullary sheath
distinguishable. (This also apples to the very last branches of the other type
of ending).
Fibre (a) appears to have some sort of end-apparatus at the point (1),
but I have not been able to determine the nature of this. Possibly the fibre
merely takes a rather sudden twist. From (1), the fibre passes between the two
nuclei marked (2) and (3). This can be determined by careful focussing
when, on focussing downward, the one nucleus comes into focus, then the nerve
fibre, and then the other nucleus. This point is important, as a fibre passing
between two nuclei cannot be anything but hypolemmal. The fibre then takes a
turn to the left, where it undergoes an expansion (4), in which the neurofibrillar
structure becomes visible, but which may or may not be an actual point of
functional connection with the muscle fibre. It is noticeable, in this respect,
that this expansion occurs in close proximity to a loop of another fibre around
which “periterminal network” (see below) and an accumulation of sarecoplasm
is visible. Just in the neighbourhood of this expansion the precise relation of
this fibre to others is difficult to determine precisely. It appears, however, that
this fibre (a) continues from the expansion just mentioned, crosses two nuclei,
and then, becoming rather thicker, takes a loop turn (5) and ends in a small
loop (6). The loop (5) is almost a network as its angle is crossed by several
very fine neurofibrillar strands. The final loop (6) is not quite a plain loop, |
but presents rather the appearance of a loop within a loop. This end apparatus
BY P. D. F. MURRAY. 375
is situated in an accumulation of granular sarcoplasm, through which the stria-
tions of the muscle cannot be traced. This fibre (a) 1s somewhat thicker than
fibres (¢) or (d), but is of about the same thickness as (b).
Fibre (0), as just stated, is of about the same thickness as fibre (a).
At the point marked (7) it gives off a side branch which expands into a
kind of network in which the neurofibrillar structure becomes visible. This net-
work lies very close to a nucleus and one end of the network actually lies in an
indentation of the nucleus. This certainly can be taken as an indication that
the position of the network is hypolemmal. Careful focussing reveals that there
is, as shown in the figure, a very delicate network in the sarcoplasm, partially
surrounding the nerve-net and suggesting that it is some sort of connecting
structure between the nerve-net and the sarcoplasm of the muscle fibre. It is
very small, and it is difficult to be sure that one is looking at a net work,
as it also looks something like a collection of little vesicles. This structure is
the periterminal network of Boeke, which will be discussed more in detail
later.
From the point (7), where it gives off the side branch to the nerve-network,
the fibre proceeds to the point (8), up against the nucleus marked (2). Here it
appears to end in a little expansion, which one sees in profile, either quite or
very nearly in contact with the nucleus. It is impossible to make out more
of this than is shown in the figure. I have not been able to trace the fibre be-
yond this point.
Fibre (¢) is thinner than either (a) or (b), but of about the same thick-
ness as (d). This fibre runs across the muscle-fibre to the point (9), where it
has a loop. This is not, however, the ending of the fibre, which goes on some
distance beyond. The loop is surrounded by an accumulation of sarcoplasm,
but is situated eccentrically at the edge of this accumulation. There is some
periterminal network on one side of the loop. Beyond this point, the fibre con-
tinues for some distance and then disappears.
Fibre (d) is of much the same thickness as (c). At the point (10) there
is a loop, whose connection with the fibre has been cut. Since, however, it has
a stalk curving in the direction of the fibre and very nearly reaching it, it seems
reasonable to suppose that it is a branch of the fibre. On the side of the loop
remote from its stalk there is a small branch coming off from the fibre in the
direction of the loop, which suggests that the loop may perhaps have been
developed on a collateral branch of the fibre, which, having formed the loop,
immediately joined the fibre again. The loop is not quite a simple loop, as it
has a fine neurofibrillar strand crossing’ it.
From this point the fibre continues to the point marked (11), where it
appears to be in connection with the small somewhat thick-walled loop at this
point. Its fate subsequently to this is hard to determine; it appears to join
fibre (c), but of this I am very doubtful indeed. The relation of this fibre to
the net-hke expansion on fibre (a) is also difficult to determine, but I do not
think it is in any way connected with it.
The general orientation of the nuclei is for them to have their long axes
parallel to the long axis of the muscle fibre.
An idea of the size of the fibre forming this ending, as compared with
those forming the larger type of ending, can be attained by comparing the
376 MOTOR NERVE-ENDINGS IN THE FROG AND THE DOG-FISH,
fibres concerned in the ending with the large thick fibres running in the nerve
bundle between the muscle fibres, from which these thin fibres are derived.
(2). Plate xxxix., fig. 11—This figure shows five very fine fibres, of which
two have end-loops, while at one point there is a periterminal network. Fibre
(a) leads to the tiny loop at the point (1). Fibre (b) leads to the larger loop
at the point (2). The fibre (c) leads to a position very close to the loop at
(1), and is here in some way concerned with some periterminal network. The
remaining two fibres have no ending in the preparation.
There is an accumulation of some seven nuclei round the actual positions
of the ending and several others at the edge of the muscle fibre. The orien-
tation is, as usual, roughly parallel to the length of the muscle fibre.
(3). Plate xl., fig. 12—In this figure we see a doubtful number of very
fine fibres, doubtful because unfortunately the ending is not a complete one and
some cf the strands of fibre seen are possibly pieces of one fibre which has been
eut more than once. There are some six very small loop endings, of which at
least two are not final end-loops as the fibre continues on beyond them. One
of these two is broken, and so we cannot be certain that it is really a loop at
all, it may have been a branch. The three terminal loops are simple loops, not
having any cross fibrils or other complications. One of them (1) seems to have
at one side of it a very slight development of periterminal network. The broken
loop is not so simple, having two cross bars.
At (2), (3), and (4), there are three rather peculiar net formations con-
sisting apparently of neurofibrillar expansions of fibres which, beyond the net-
works, continue on again as ordinary fibres. There is periterminal network on
both sides of (3), but especially on one side, as shown in the figure.
As usual, there is an accumulation of nuclei whose orientation is only very
roughly parallel to the length of the muscle fibre, and there are a number of
small nuclei at the edge of the muscle fibre.
' Plate xl., fig. 13.—In this figure we see what appears to be a single fibre
which, leaving a small nerve group at the base of the picture, goes to the
neighbourhood of a small group of nuclei at the top. Here it turns through
90 degrees, forms three loops, turns through 90 degrees again, and returns to
the nerve bundle. At the top left hand corner there is a very complicated
series of fibrils, which twist and turn so as to make it impossible to determine
with precision the nature of their relations to the main fibre.
There is a certain amount of periterminal network just beneath this area
and rather more above the right hand angle of the main fibre (point X). It
is very clear in this area and fades away-into the substance of the muscle
fibre.
At the base of the figure there is a nerve bundle containing some fibres of
the coarse type. A comparison of the relative size of the two fibres will show
the striking difference between them.
Discussion of the nature of these fine fibres.
The question now arises, what is the nature of these fine fibres which form
endorgans of the type just described?
There are two possibilities which must first be settled. They may be motor
or they may be sensory.
It may be said at once, that it is impossible to say whether any nerye-
BY P. D. F. MURRAY. 377
ending is motor or sensory until experiments have been made. In the absence
of experiments, however, one can, by a study of certain histological points,
reach a conclusion with a considerable degree of probability in favour of its
correctness.
The most helpful point here is a determination of the position of the
endorgan with regard to the sarcolemma. It seems to be generally accepted,
though J am not aware that it has been experimentally proved, that motor end-
organs are hypolemmal and sensory epilemmal. Since it is known that both
epilemmal and hypolemmal end-organs exist, one would certainly expect the
former to be sensory and the latter motor. There seems to be every reason
why a motor nerve should be in close and intimate contact with the substance
of the muscle fibre, while a sensory nerve, if it required to be informed of
nothing but the degree of contraction of the muscle fibre, might well be efficient
if merely in close contact with the surface of the muscle fibre. It must be ad-
mitted, however, that this line of reasoning is not sufficiently trustworthy to
give any certainty. It will remain impossible without experimental proof to
say, with certainty, whether any given nerve-ending is sensory or motor, until
it has been established without doubt that motor nerve-endings are always
hypolemmal and sensory nerve-endings always epilemmal. It is therefore neces-
sary, before we can form any opinion as to whether these endings are sensory
or motor, to decide whether they are epilemmal or hypolemmal.
In the first one described, (Pl. xxxix., fig. 10) we have seen that it is un-
doubtedly hypolemmal. As regards the other three (Pl. xxxix., fig. 11; xl., figs.
12, 13) we have seen that all have periterminal network in very close relation
to some part of the ending. Now, whether the periterminal network be artefact
or not, there is no doubt that it hes in the sarcoplasm. There is also no doubt
that if is in the closest connection with the ending. The presence of peri-
terminal network may, therefore, be taken as showing that the ending having it
is hypolemmal.
We, therefore, come to the provisional conclusion that these endings are of
a motor nature.
Having settled that they are probably motor, we have to decide a further
question :—Are they fibres of the same morphological and physiological series as
the coarse fibres described first, or do they belong to the accessory (sympathetic)
innervation demonstrated, experimentally, to exist in mammals by Boeke (1910;
1911, 1912, 1913, 1917) and Agduhr (1919, 1920)?
Here again we are faced with a question which we cannot settle, for certain,
without experiments. It may be that these fibres do belong to this accessory in-
nervation, but it is quite impossible to get any more purely histological evidence
bearing in favour of this conclusion in the frog (and the same applies to rep-
tiles and birds) because of the known existence of non-medullate, very fine,
branches of ordinary medullate coarse motor fibres (Bremer, 1882, 1883; Retzius,
1892; Ceccherelli, 1904). It is at least equally as probable that the fibres we
are discussing belong to this series of branches of ordinary motor fibres, as
that they belong to the accessory series known to exist in the mammal. In
favour of the latter conclusion is the fact, that I have occasionally noticed
fibres and endings which appeared to be more or less intermediate between the
coarse type and the fine type. Provisionally, then, these fine fibres must be re-
378 MOTOR NERVE-ENDINGS IN THE FROG AND THE DOG-FISH,
garded as motor, and as perhaps being branches of the ordinary motor fibres,
while remembering that they may possibly belong to the sympathetic supply.
The Motor Nerve-endings in the Pectoral Fin of Squalus acanthias.
Previous work.—Very little work has been done on nerve-endings in fish.
Of the papers which I have been able to discover, the most important is perhaps
that of Retzius (1892), who has described the motor nerve-endings of Raja
clavata and Acanthias vulgaris (Squalus acanthias), using the methylene-blue
method. In both he found that the motor fibres were very coarse. In R. clavata
the nerve fibres gave off branches which formed a brush-like ending of varying
complexity on the muscle fibre, and these endings usually had a more or less
definite and restricted locus, somewhat lke that of a mammalian ending, but
some were more elongate and straggling like those in the frog. The fibres
forming the ending usually had terminal dises at their ends, but in some eases
the endings of the fibres were in the form of bands. Acanthias vulgaris was
similar to this, but the endings were simpler, i.e., the branching was less com-
pleated.
Poloumordwinoft (1899) described sensory endings, which, he says, consist
of a great number of fine varicose fibrils lying on the sarcolemma (epilemmal).
Hach fibril ended in a little swelling. He described the sheath of Henle as
enveloping the ending and, beyond it, joing the sarcolemma. He agrees that
the endings have a definite locus, not being spread about the muscle fibre like
those of a frog.
Cavalié (1902), using Torpedo marmorata, gave a method for distinguishing
between motor and sensory fibres. According to him, in a sensory ending, the
striations of the muscle are visible beneath the ending itself, while in a motor
ending, they are not. Unless I have never seen a sensory ending in Squalus
(which is quite possible), this criterion is not effective in Bielschowsky pre-
parations. Since the material is in section, one is not looking at the surface
of the muscle fibre, but at a section of it, and the slightest change of focus will
show striations. On the other hand, I have frequently found it difficult or im-
possible to see striation at all, either beneath the ending or anywhere else. In
the figures, I have usually omitted the striations over the greater part of the
fieure for the sake of clearness, while including it over a small area for the
sake of comparison of its size with that of the ending.
As regards the form of the motor ending, Cavalié is in agreement with
Retzius and Poloumordwinoff. He describes the fibre as losing its myelin, and
then making a “pseudo-plate” rich in nuclei, having formed five, six, seven or
more branches. The fibrils end in little swellings which he describes as having
frilled extremities, suggesting that perhaps he just missed seeing the periterminal
network. He ealled this type of ending “Terminaison en ombelle.”
There is also a paper by Belousov (1909), in Russian. It concerns Teleosts.
Comparison of the Endings of Squalus with those in the Frog.
With the description quoted above, I find myself in agreement in most re-
spects, except that the endings I have observed seem generally to have a smaller
number of terminal branches than those of the earlier authors. This may very
possibly be due to the fact that my preparations are in section, and so one
BY P. D. F. MURRAY. . 379
does not always get a whole ending on one section. One ending I have seen
extended over at least three sections.
The main distinction between the endings I have found in the pectoral fin
muscles of Squalus and those above described in the frog is that the endings
in the case of the fish are confined to a very much smaller area of the muscle
fibre than is the case with the frog. In the frog, as we have seen, the endings
do not lie in small and definitely outlined end-plates, as they do in the mammal,
in a heap of accumulated sarcoplasm, but are scattered over the muscle fibre
as a series of fibres having very small terminal loops, ete., with only a very
small sarcoplasm accumulation, or perhaps none. In the fish, on the other hand,
the form of the ending is very much more like that in a mammal. The end
ramification is restricted to a small area, and, if the impossibility of seemg
striations is any criterion, there is a fairly large accumulation of sarcoplasm.
But this point must remain uncertain as the sarcoplasm accumulation is nothing
like as clear as it is in the mammal. There is, however, a definite restricted
end-plate, absent in the frog, but present in the mammal.
Another distinction from the endings I have studied in the frog is the
much coarser character of the end-loops and end-nets, and of the terminal fibres.
A comparison of the figures will show this.
The form of these nerve-endings will be best understood by a description
of a particular case, e.g., Pl. xl., fig. 14—The nerve fibre, as it approaches the
muscle, is very coarse and its neurofibrillar structure is clearly visible. It is
contained in a colourless sheath (X), which is only visible in its outline. The
nature of this sheath is very difficult to determine, as remarked in the dis-
eussion of the merits of this technique. At the point marked (Y) the fibre be-
comes more compact, the stain is jet-black, and it is impossible to see the neuro-
fibrils. Here the fibre branches into two and each fibre branches again, and
then these branches give off several fine side branches. The main branches also
divide again several times.
At the ends of the fine side branches are a number of examples of the
actual method of termination of these fibres. These terminations are difficult
to deseribe in words, and a reference to the figures is the best description. The
general plan is that of the loop, but the form varies from the simple, uncom-
plicated loop (PI. xl, fig. 14 at Z) to the complicated networks seen on PI.
xli., fig. 18. The form is often bizarre in the extreme. The various forms will
be best understood by references to figures 14 to 23 (PI. xl-xliii.). These end-
plates are not necessarily at the terminations of fibres, as is shown in figures 16
(Pl. xli.) and 20 (PI. xlii.), both of which are from short branches of fibres
which appear to continue on elsewhere.
The Periterminal Structure.
The most interesting outcome of the investigation of these endings has
been the discovery of a complicated structure or series of structures, more or
less corresponding to the periterminal network of Boeke.
Plate xli., fig. 16 shows a nerve-ending (unfortunately not complete) in
which there are several terminal loops or nets, and in which there is a very
prominent network, apparently consisting of fine fibrils, surrounding the ter-
minal nervous loops, especially in the area designated (X). This network has
meshes of much larger and coarser dimensions than those, described above, in
380 MOTOR NERVE-ENDINGS IN THE FROG AND THE DOG-FISH,
the frog. I have not been able to detect any particular relation between this
network and the striations of the muscle fibres, although it seemed to me that
the network and the striation were in continuity. This was clearer on PI. xli.,
fig. 15 at (X). It is, however, very doubtful.
As regards the relation between this network and the end-loops, there ap-
pears to be a definite and perhaps important divergence from the condition
described by Boeke, Agduhr, and others for the periterminal network in the
mammal. In the mammal, according to these workers, the meshes of the net-
work start from the end-loops and nets of the nerve. In the fish, on the other
hand, I seem generally to find that the end-loop lies within the meshes, merely
surrounded by them, as shown on Pl. xl, fig. 16. Sometimes, on the other
hand, as at the point (Y) on Pl. xli., fig. 15, a fine branch of the nerve seems
to be actually continued into the mesh of the network, so that in this ease,
and in a few others where it shows less clearly, the network and the nerve itself
seem to be quite continuous with one another.
This structure has been described above as a network. In some cases the
appearance is really more that of a collection of vesicles, of a spherical shape,
which, being in section, look like a network. This is especially so at the two
points A and B (Pl. xh., fig. 15). I have been quite unable to decide which
it really is.
The appearance of a sphere is somewhat heightened by such appearances
as that at Z (Pl. xli., fig. 15), where a fibre seems to break up into a brush of
fibrils which run out over the sphere.
There is another type of “network,” shown in figures 17 and 18 (Pl. xli.).
In figure 17 (PI. xlii.) there is to be seen around the endings, especially around
certain very fine fibrils which seem merely to fade away into invisibility, with-
out loops or nets, a network of much smaller mesh than that last described in
figures 15 and 16 (Pl. xli.), but much more resembling that described in figures
10, 11 and 13 (PI. xxxix. and xl.), of the finer type of ending in the frog.
In this case, the appearance of an accumulation of little spheres is still greater
than in figures 15 and 16 (Pl. xli.). Once again, however, it is quite im-
possible to be sure which is the true interpretation. Somewhat against the
theory of spheres is the appearance in figure 15 at (C), where three strands of
network seem to pass off into the sarecoplasm, without completion of the mesh,
one side remaining open. It will be remembered that the network in the frog
(Pl. xxxix.; xl., figs. 12, 13) also suggests an accumulation of spheres.
There is another appearance frequently seen, as in figures 16 (Y), 17 (X),
18 (X), 19 (X), 22 (everywhere). Here, in the absence of any periterminal
network or other similar structure, the end-loop or net appears to be contained
in a little sac, which seems to arise at the base of the individual end-loop or
net and completely to enclose it. This sac is very like a single mesh of the
coarse type of periterminal network. It will be remembered that the end-loop
is usually enclosed within a mesh of this network, just as the end-loop is en-
closed in the sac-like structure under discussion. This suggests that the latter
is perhaps the same thing as that mesh of the coarse type of periterminal net-
work which encloses the end-loop, but that the remainder of the network is
either undeveloped or unstained. This is a point on which light would be thrown
by the discovery of conditions intermediate between the two. I have not seen
any very satisfactory intermediate condition, but figures 19 and 20 seem to
BY P. D. F. MURRAY, 381
show something of the kind. In figure 19 at (X) are seen small aggregations
of several loops resembling the meshes of the coarse type of periterminal net-
work, but not involving a sufficient number of loops to warrant their inclusion
under that title. Individual loops of this character enclose the end-organs just
like the sac structures described above (figures 16, 17, 18, 19, 22), and these
loops are associated with two or three others forming a small aggregation. At
(Y) there are a number of these loops or meshes in a row along one side of a
fibre. In figure 20 at (X) somewhat similar conditions are to be seen. Whether
one is justified in regarding these structures as intermediate between the coarse
type of periterminal network and the sac-like structure is hard to say, but it
certainly looks very like it.
There remains to be mentioned what appears to be something quite new in
this or any other nerve-ending known to me. I have not seen anything like it
mentioned in the literature; and I have only seen it in preparations in the two
endings to be described.
This structure is to be seen in figures 20, 21 and 23. Beneath some of the
-end-loops of figure 20 (at Y) and of figure 23 (at X) are to be seen distinct
reddish masses with well defined edges, and over this mass can be distinguished
very fine fibrils running off from the end-loops, and, further, the surface of this
peculiar body can be seen to be reticulate.
In figure 21 the terminal part of the branch (Z) of figure 20 is shown
under a higher power. At the point (X) are two end-loops close together, and
beneath the two of them is an oblong oval dark body. This body has well de-
fined edges. Radiating out from the end-loops are a number of fine fibrils,
and these fibrils run over the surface of this peculiar body. At the point (Y)
there is a loop, and beneath it a similar body to that at (X). In this case a
distinct reticulum ean be seen on the surface of this peculiar body and the
reticulum seems to be connected with, and to centre round, the end-loop of the
nerve. Similarly, at (Z) there is a small side branch which seems to end in
two or three small branches, but without loops, and beneath these branchlets is
another example of this same body, and here again there is very delicate net-
work over its surface, arising from the branchlets of the nerve.
The general characteristics of this structure are that it is found apparently
-beneath the terminal loops or other terminal organs, that it usually has a fairly
definite outline, that it appears generally to have a reticulate surface, and that
this reticulum seems to be in definite relation to the end-organ. Its form varies
fairly considerably and sometimes it lacks the definite outline seen in figure 21.
In figure 23 it can be seen at (X). The outlines in this figure are not so sharp
as in figure 20 or 21.
Beyond describing the general position and appearance of these structures,
nothing can be said beyond pointing out that they somewhat resemble small
nuclei, having a somewhat similar colour and granulate-vacuolate texture. If
they prove to be nuclei they are certainly a distinct kind from the ordinary
nuclei of the ending, being very much smaller, and their close association with
the end-organs would strongly suggest some special function eonnected with the
transmission of the stimulus. Somewhat against the hypothesis that they are
nuclei is the appearance seen in 20 at (Z’), where the organ extends as a long,
more or less oblong mass, along the greater part of the fibril. This would not
be a usual shape for a nucleus.
382 MOTOR NERVE-ENDINGS IN THE FROG AND THE DOG-FISH,
If these organs are not nuclei, it is impossible to suggest what they may
be, beyond the obvious conclusion that they are either of nervous or muscular
origin,—unless, indeed, they have a quite different origin!
If they are not nuclei, even, perhaps, if they are, one is reminded of the
hypothetical substance of Langley and others. Before, however, any trust-
worthy conclusions can be drawn, a great deal of further investigation will be
necessary.
Discussion of these periterminal structures.
The periterminal network was first seen by Boeke (1910, 1911, 1912,
1913, 1916-17), and it is, therefore, generally associated with his name. His
descriptions have been confirmed by Ehrlacher, Stefannelli, and Agduhr (1919,
1920).
According to Boeke, who has observed it especially in mammals, but also
in reptiles, the periterminal network appears as a very fine network, extending
from the end-rings and end-nets out into the sarcoplasm. It is always less
strongly coloured than the nerve ending itself, and the transition from one to
the other is sometimes sudden, sometimes gradual. This also I can confirm as
regards Squalus (if the structure I see is identical with the network described
by him) for, while in the great number of cases it is easy to say where true
nerve tissue ends and periterminal network begins, it is frequently not so easy,
and sometimes I have been in doubt as to whether to draw some object as the
one or the other. Jn figure 15 (Pl. xl.) (Y), further, the fibril indicated seems
to turn downwards, and its prolongation becomes one of the strands of the net-
work.
Boeke’s descriptions and figures clearly indicate a structure having an
obvious net formation, with polygonal meshes. As stated above, however, the
appearance in my preparations is somewhat like that of a number of spheres
or droplets pressed together, while also resembling a network. Of course, drop-
lets or spheres under pressure would assume the appearance of a network, and
would be more like a network the closer together they were pressed. It remains,
therefore, impossible to say, at least as regards my preparations, which of these
two is nearer to the truth.
Boeke finds the network above all in relation to the end nets and loops,
but also in relation to the fibrils along their course as they approach their end-
ing. This statement is quite in accord with my experience as regards the coarse
type in Squalus, but I am not able to confirm it as regards the fine type of end-
ing in the frog. This fact, however, carries no weight in view of the small
number of specimens of this type that I have observed. As regards the fine
type of network in the fish, I seem to find the network associated rather with
fine fibrils, which fade into invisibility, than with the clear end-loops, ete.
An important point of difference between my observations and those of
Boeke, as regards at least the coarse type of network in Squalus, is that, while
he finds a definite connection between the strands of the network and the fibrils
of the nerve ending, I find that the end- loops seem rather to be enclosed plea
the meshes than actually joined to them.
The question as to whether the networks observed by me in the fish and
frog are identical with those observed by Boeke is difficult to settle for certain.
As regards the frog, however, the resemblance seems sufficiently close to justify
a conclusion that they are the same thing, while, as regards Squalus, there are
BY P. D. F. MURRAY. 383
points of difference which cause one to hesitate before arriving at the same con-
clusion. | Nevertheless, when one remembers the striking general resemblances
between them, together with the fact that absolute identity is hardly to be ex-
pected in such very different animals as fish and mammals, or even fish and
reptiles, one seems justified in coming to the same conclusion here too.
The other terminal structure observed in my preparations has already been
discussed.
In all discussions of the structures seen after the Bielschowsky treatment
there is one important point to remember, the considerable probability of the
ereation of artefacts. But even if these structures are to some extent artefacts,
and although one be forced to admit that the network is not such in life, still
the conclusion cannot be avoided, that there is something present in this position
which is absent in other parts of the muscle fibre, and that this something is
intimately associated with the nerve-ending.
This is not the place for a discussion of the possible physiological signi-
ficance or embryonic origin of the periterminal network. This has already been
discussed by Boeke (see esp. 1911, 1916-17). There are, however, two points
brought forward by Boeke which throw some light on the latter problem and
which may be mentioned. In the first place, he finds, in preparations of de-
generating endings, that the periterminal networks degenerate with the degenera-
tion of the ending and then regenerate when the nerve-endings regenerate. In
the second place, when the network is regenerating, it develops first in connec-
tion with the nerve-loops, etc., and then spreads out from here through the
sarcoplasm. Apparently, then, the network is dependent on the nerve-ending
for its continued existence, and develops, at least in regeneration, in close re-
lation with the nerve-ending. Beyond these facts, it is impossible as yet to go.
In conclusion, I have to thank Professor E. 8. Goodrich, F.R.S., for sug-
gesting this work to me, and for much helpful advice and eriticism while it
was in progress. I have also to thank Mr. H. M. Carleton, of Oxford, Professor
Da Fano, of Kings College, London, but above all Professor J. Boeke, of
Utrecht. During three weeks when I was working in his laboratory at Utrecht,
Professor Boeke showed the greatest kindness, allowing me all the facilities in
his power, and was most helpful in every way.
SUMMARY.
(1). The ordinary motor nerve-endings of the limb museles of the frog
are described.
(2). Another and very much finer type of nerve-ending of the limb muscles
of the frog is described. This may possibly be the accessory (sympathetic) in-
nervation. The periterminal network in connection with these nerve-endings is
described, thus showing the existence of this structure in the frog.
(3). The nerve-endings of the pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias are des-
eribed, with two types of periterminal network and another hitherto undescribed
structure. The latter is a small mass of some substance found in two) cases be-
neath the terminal loops, ete. The terminal loops appear to give off very fine
branches which run over this structure forming a network.
(4). The nature of these periterminal structures is discussed.
4 (5). Nothing resembling a sympathetic innervation was found in the
sh.
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EXPLANATION. OF PLATES XXXVII.-XLILI.
Plate xxxvil.
Motor nerve-ending in limb muscle of frog. Coarse type. 1. (x 500); 2.
(x 400); 3. (x 500).
Plate xxxviil.
4. Motor nerve-ending in limb muscle of frog. Coarse type. (x 500).
5-7. Termination of nerve fibre. Coarse type of motor nerve-ending in
limb muscle of frog. (x 2,300).
8-9. Termination of small branch nerve fibre. Coarse type of motor nerve-
ending in lim) muscle of frog. (x 2,300).
(O02)
De
20.
Plate xxxix.
Motor nerve-ending in limb muscle of frog. Fine type. 10. (x 1,400); 11.
300).
Plate xl.
12, 13. Motor nerve-ending in limb muscle of frog. Fine type.
14. Motor nerve-ending in muscles of pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias.
Plate xh.
15, 16. Motor nerve-ending in museles of pectoral fin of Squalus acanthéas.’
(x 1,500).
Plate xl.
17-19. Motor nerve-ending in muscles of pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias.
(300) 192) (1300).
Plate xliii.
20-23. Motor nerve-ending in muscles of pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias.
(x 1,450); 21. higher power figure of part of Fig. 20. (x 2,300); 22.
(= 16300) :=) 235 (1,300).
STUDIES IN PLANT PIGMENTS.
Parr u.—THE RED PIGMENT INDUCED By INSECT INJURY IN HKUCALYPTUS
STRICTA.
By James M. Perri, D.Se., F.1-C., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in
Biochemistry.
(From the Physiological Laboratory of the University of Sydney.)
(Plate xliv.)
[Read 27th August, 1924. |
It is a generally accepted view that among the many brilliant colours of
the plant-world there are recognised, chemically, a very few fundamental struc-
tures on which the pigments are built up. In the three groups of anthocyanin
pigments the compounds forming their chemical basis are predominantly red
in colour, and one is naturally led to associate all bright red colours of flowers
with the anthocyanin group.
Yet are there to be found at times examples of fine red pigments not as-
sociated with flowers at all, nor belonging to the anthocyanins. Such an ex-
ample was found on the Blue Mountains, near Mt. Victoria, where Hucalyptus
stricta grows in dense societies in the Hucalyptus eugenioides forest of the
sandstone plateau. The small trees of Hucalyptus stricta varied the uniform
green of their foliage by large areas of red coloured leaves. The red coloration
presented quite a different appearance from the purple red of the young foliage
of the Eucalyptus in general, and was accompanied by extensive fasciation.
A closer examination revealed the fact that these phenomena were due to
an injury caused by some insect, whose wide-spread depredations had resulted in
the modification of the form of both leaf and twig. In many places the leaves
were consumed and the malformation of twigs gave evidence that the cells of
the growing tips had been attacked in the meristematic condition. Fusion of
parts and also prolifie branching of the twigs were observed; all the fasciated
organs were coloured bright red; the whole indicated a general interference in
the metabolism, and a profound disturbance of the normal growth of the plant.
The insect causing this malformation has been identified by Mr. W. B.
Gurney, Government Entomologist, as a new species of microscopic mite, and
2 note describing it is appended to this paper. The author is greatly indebted
to Mr. Gurney for this valuable addition, and for the photograph of the affected
foliage (Plate xliv.). ‘
This paper contains (1) an account of the isolation of the pigment from
BY J. M. PETRIE, 387
-the red fasciated leaves, and the chemical examination of its properties, (2) a
description of some recorded cases of similar phenomena, and (3) a discussion
of the physiology and biochemistry of the mechanism of red pigment formation.
EXPERIMENTAL.
The material, consisting of greatly fasciated masses of red leaves, stalks,
and short red twigs, weighed 1,300 grams in the air-dried state. This was
macerated in alcohol for some weeks, after which it was drained and pressed,
and the operations repeated a number of times. The extract consisted of about
7 litres of a very dark red-coloured fluid, which was concentrated under dimin-
ished pressure to 1 litre, and allowed to stand for some time to settle. In this
way were obtained :—
A. A deep red fluid.
B. A light coloured deposit, which settled quickly, on cooling, as a semi-
erystalline mass.
Cc. <A brick-red deposit of phlobaphene, after standing for some days.
Examination of the red liquid A.
(1). A portion of the alcoholic solution was precipitated by the addition
of 4 volumes of ether. The bright yellow ethereal solution was distilled and
the residue carefully examined for flavones which may have been present in the
non-glucosidal state. No flavones were obtained, but the yellow substance, when
redissolved and purified with charcoal, was obtained in white crystals. These
exhibited the properties and reactions of gallic acid, which was therefore pro-
bably present in the tissues of the injured plant.
(2). The whole of the red solution was treated with lead acetate, which
deposited a yellowish-brown solid, but left the filtrate still red in colour (7).
This red filtrate was not create by the subsequent addition of basic ieee
acetate.
The brown precipitate, after removing the lead, was submitted to fearoleeie!
by boiling for a few hours each day with sulphurie acid until no further deposit
formed on standing. This was complete on the fifth day, and the fluid was still
of a deep red colour (8).
Since anthocyanins are rendered insoluble under these conditions the deposits
were next examined.
These deposits, after separation from the red fluid, weighed 46 grams, and
appeared to consist of two different substances—a heavy flaky deposit of an
Indian-red colour (3), weighing 33 grams, and a fine amorphous yellowish powder
(4), weighing 13 grams. The separation of these was readily accomplished by
washing with water and decanting the light yellow powder.
Examination of the indian-red deposit obtained by hydrolysing the red fluid.
(3). Just 50% of this substance was soluble in alcohol, the insoluble por-
tion being reserved (5).
The concentrated alcoholic solution was very bright red in colour; on stand-
ing a few days a light grey substance separated, which possessed properties
similar to deposit- B obtained at the beginning. The red fluid was poured into
a large volume of ether, from which there soon separated a bulky precipitate
of a purple-brown colour. This substance was repeatedly purified and dried;
388 STUDIES IN PLANT PIGMENT, il.,
after which its properties were studied in detail. The ethereal fluids were re-
served (6).
Properties of the red pigment.
The substance was in the form of dark red flakes, and even after slow
evaporation was entirely devoid of crystalline form. When warmed with water,
or dilute hydrochloric acid, the substance was quite insoluble, but dissolved rapid-
ly and completely in water with a drop of ammonia, forming a red liquid. It
was also soluble in alcohol to a red solution. When poured into a large volume
of water this alcoholic solution was not precipitated, but on the addition of a
drop of acid instant precipitation occurred, as a buff coloured flocculent deposit,
and the fluid lost its red colour.
When the solution in aleohol was made extremely dilute so that the colour
was the faintest yellow, and to this a drop of ammonia or potash was added,
a deep red colour instantly appeared, whereas sodium carbonate precipitated the
red pigment.
When shaken with amyl alcohol, the colour was distributed evenly between
the aqueous solution and the alcohol.
Ferric alum gave a bluish-black colour and precipitate.
The pigment was precipitated by lead acetate, bromine, formaldehyde and
hydrochloric acid, and potassium bichromate.
The red pigment was decomposed by fusion with potassium hydroxide at
200° C. The products of decomposition were isolated and identified as phloro-
glucinol, protocatechuic acid, and gallic acid.
Examination of the amorphous yellow deposit.
(4). This very fine yellowish-brown powder, formed during hydrolysis, was
quite insoluble in water, alcohol, ether, or dilute acids. It was soluble, however,
in water containing a few drops of ammonia, and formed a greenish-yellow fluid
from which a heavy sulphur-yellow precipitate gradually separated. This yellow
substance was carefully washed, dried, and examined :—
When shaken up with dilute hydrochloric acid, ferric alum produced in it,
after 5 minutes, a navy-blue coloration and then a blue-black precipitate.
Concentrated sulphuric acid dissolved it to a bright yellow solution.
Concentrated nitric acid formed a very brilliant red liquid.
Glacial acetic acid did not dissolve the substance, but removed the yellow
colour, and deposited a light grey precipitate.
Potassium hydroxide gave a bright yellow solution. The yellow powder
heated to 200° C. darkened, but did not melt below 250°.
Some of these reactions recall the properties of Mr. H. G. Smith’s aroma-
dendron, obtained from eucalyptus exudations (Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xxx.,
1896): the colours obtained above with the strong acids and alkali are the same,
but all the other properties are different.
Examination of the insoluble portion of the indian-red deposit.
(5). This substance was an amorphous dark red powder, insoluble in water,
dilute acids, alcohol, and the ordinary organic solvents. It was, however, rapidly
acted on by water containing a few drops of ammonia, in which it partially dis-
solved, but the fluid soon became milky and a light yellowish-green precipitate
settled. When this coloured substance was warmed with hydrochloric acid, it was
BY J. M. PETRIE. 389
changed to a white insoluble compound. In concentrated sulphuric acid, it formed
a yellow solution and, when this was poured into water, the white compound
was again obtained. The latter was rapidly dissolved by alkalies to a deep
yellow solution. When suspended in dilute acid and treated with ferric alum,
it yielded a blue-black solution and precipitate. The yellowish-green powder
was fused with alkali at 200° C. and its decomposition products separated.
Phloroglucinol was identified, and also catechol, protocatechuic acid, and gallic
acid.
Examination olf the ethereal extracts.
(6). The ether from the precipitation of the red pigment (3) was com-
bined with that obtained by shaking out the red fluid (2). The ether was re-
moved by distillation and the residue was tested for flavones.
Although the ethereal solution was bright yellow in colour, the residue
was red and granular. The greater portion of this residue dissolved in cold
water to a red solution, and left a small amount of a yellowish-brown flaky
substance. Both portions, when treated with ferric alum, gave a_ blue-black
colour, and the flaky substance, after purifying, produced long white crystals
with a melting-point of 220° C. This was subsequently proved by its reactions
to be gallic acid. No flavones were present.
Examination of the residual red fluids.
(7). The red filtrate from the lead acetate precipitation—This solution
possessed the same brilliant red colour as the original. When boiled it de-
posited a brown precipitate. After removing the lead with sulphuric acid, the
superfluid was colourless, and the latter when further heated with hydrochloric
acid still remained colourless. The belief was thus confirmed, that the colour-
less solution did not contain the pseudo base of an anthocyanin, since under
these conditions the original colour of the solution would have been restored.
(8). The red solution after hydrolysis—When the insoluble deposits were
removed from the acid fluid after hydrolysis the remaining liquid was still red
in colour. This red solution differed from the previous one (7) in that pro-
longed boiling caused no precipitation or change in colour. The red pigment,
however, was completely precipitated by formaldehyde and hydrochloric acid,
and after some hours the colour of the fluid was but a pale brown. Complete
precipitation and disappearance of the red colour was brought about also by
potassium bichromate, and by bromine. Ferric alum produced a_ blue-black
coloration and precipitate, which in certain concentrations exhibited a purple
tinge.
The white deposit B.
This substance presented some remarkable characters, and was reserved for
a later investigation. It appeared to be a very inert compound, and burned on
platinum foil with a strong odour of burning rubber. It was a derivative of
caoutchoue.
The phlobaphene deposit C.
The red extract, which was obtained in the beginning by steeping the red
plant material in alcohol, when allowed to stand for some days, deposited in-
soluble phlobaphenes or anhydrides of the tannins. These were found to possess
all the general properties of the catechol tannin anhydrides.
390 STUDIES IN PLANT PIGMENT, iL,
Tannin Estimations.
The British official method with chromated hide-powder was used in the
determination of the amount of tannin in the powdered leaves.
Equal weights of normal green leaves and of red fasciated leaves of
Eucalyptus stricta, air-dried and treated under exactly similar conditions, yielded
the following results :—
Greenileavests 3) 4s cihs aise een meen tans 18.8 % tannin.
Red a SPE SAE Bier ei Nea ess Nee 24.5 us
RECORDS OF THE REDDENING OF PLANTS AFTER INJURY.
Historical—Parkin (1903), who studied the red pigments in a large number
of different plants, has classified those occurring in leaves in the following four
groups :—
(1). The transitory red of young foliage leaves.
(2). The autumnal tints.
(3). The permanent red of mature leaves.
(4). The accidental colouring due to exceptional conditions.
In the last group we find the red pigments that are developed by such con-
ditions as excessive insolation in high mountain regions, lightning, raised tem-
peratures, and again always as a result of injury.
Mer (1877) was one of the earliest observers of the formation, in plants, of
pigment resulting from the injury caused by animal and vegetable parasites.
He also made the important statement that oxygen was necessary for the pro-
duction of red pigment. i
An important study of the stimulation of cells was made by Hauptfleisch
(1892), when he observed that the movement of protoplasm was greatly ac-
celerated by injury to the adjoining cells, and in some plants, where no motion
was observed under ordinary conditions, marked streaming of the protoplasm
occurred.
In the red disease of vines, Zacharewicz (1905) observed that the leaves
turned red when attacked by the red spider, Tetranychus telarius.
Parkin (1905) deseribed a brilliant red pigment which could be produced
on a species of Jacobinia by injuring the plant; and oxygen was found to be
essential to its formation.
Mirande (1906) studied the ravages of a caterpillar on the leaves of Gale-
opsis, and the resulting formation of red pigment. The production of antho-
eyanin in this case was thought to be due to the formation of excess of tannin
and glucose in the presence of oxidases.
It was shown by Gautier (1906) that wounds in the vine produced antho-
cyanin, and imitated the autumnal colouring in the leaves. He stated that the
pigments were produced from coloured phenolic acids of the nature of tannins.
Mirande (1907) examined larval shelters built on sixty different plants.
The conclusions that he drew were that the conditions necessary for the for-
mation of red pigment are, firstly, the local interruption of the free current
which brings about the accumulation of certain compounds in the tissues, such
as phloroglucinol, tannin, glucose, etce.; and the presence of an oxidase enzyme.
When one of these factors is wanting, no red pigment is formed.
From a great many observations of the flora of Japan, Miyoshi (1909) has
recorded the formation of red pigment as a result of injury. He stated that
BY J. M. PETRIE. 391
the colour first appears in the parts bitten by insects or in other ways injured,
and from this position the pigment spreads till the whole of the leaf surfaces
are coloured red.
In Pfeffer’s “Physiology of Plants” (p. 495) it is stated that the red and
blue anthocyanin pigments of cell-sap seem to be tannins or compounds allied
to phenols. These old authors believed in the origin of anthocyanins from
tannins. More recently this view has appeared again; for we have Politis (1911,
1923) who, from his microchemical investigations, concludes that anthocyanins
are produced by special bodies, called cyanoplasts, which contain tannin; and
Chodat (1912) who conducted certain experiments which suggested to him also
their origin in the tannins.
The Role of the Oxidising Enzymes——One notes that most of these in-
vestigators, whose work has been referred to above, have recognised the essential
role of oxygen in the formation of leaf-pigment. The special study of this fac-
tor in plant-diseases has been carried out in the U.S. Bureau of Plant In-
dustry. The mosaic disease of tobacco was explained by Woods (1902) on the
basis of disturbance in the oxidase mechanism; there was invariably a greater
quantity of oxidase in the pigmented than in the normal leaves.
In “leaf curl” of the potato, Sorauer found that the colour changes ac-
companying the disease were due to disturbance in the enzymatic equilibrium,
and observed great intensity of the peroxidase reaction.
Bunzel (1913), studying the “curly top” of sugar-beets, found in the in-
jured leaves an oxidase content two or three times as great as in normal plants.
It may be stated that, in general, most abnormal plants which have been
examined, suffermg from injury of any kind or whose growth has been stunted
by adverse conditions, show this great increase in oxidase activity.
THe PuHysi0oLocgicaL MECHANISM oF RED PIGMENT FoRMATION IN INJURED
PLANTS.
Biophysical.—tlIt is well recognised that plants in their own way, as well
as animals, can respond to various injuries received, by increasing their vital
activities. They react in a definite manner towards regaining their normal con-
dition. We have instances of this in the formation of callus and cork after
injury, and the irritation caused by parasites is often attended by abnormal
growth. One gathers with interest, from recently recorded experimental work,
that the plant, in rallying from the shock of injury, exhibits symptoms resem-
bling those of injured animal tissues, such as increased respiration, rise of tem-
perature, and local reddening. The stimulation of plant or animal tissues is
followed by an accelerated respiration, and particularly after the stimulus of
wounding.
Richards (1897) made the assumption that the extra work performed under
the stimulus would necessitate a rise in temperature of the parts affected, and
in his experimental work used a very efficient thermo-electric element and mirror
galvanometer. By this means he measured the potential difference of temper-
ature between injured and uninjured plants and obtained differences of three to
four degrees centigrade. This rise of temperature after injury of the plant,
and corresponding to the fever following the wounding of animal tissues, is the
extra work due to the exertion of the vital forces of the organism in its at-
tempt to recover; the vitality of the plant being, of course, on a much lower
392 STUDIES IN PLANT PIGMENT, ii.,
level. The intensity of respiration is thus found to be the best measure of the
increased activity of the injured plant.
Biochemical.—In normal respiration, or gaseous exchange in the plant tissue,
the carbon dioxide evolved is of complex origin. Between the processes of
absorption of oxygen and evolution of carbon dioxide, there is a close relationship
under normal conditions, in which enzymes are known to take a large part.
Much experimental work in this field has been carried out in the Cambridge
School of Botany, and also by the French investigators. Their results have
established the facts that the stimulus of respiration after injury produces rise
of temperature of the adjacent tissues, an increased intake of oxygen, and an
inereased production of carbon dioxide; but that if the stimulus is great and
the injury extensive, the evolution of carbon dioxide goes down, and the absorp-
tion of oxygen is no longer correlated with it. In non-tannin leaves the oxygen
absorbed was very much lower than the carbon dioxide evolved, while in tannin-
rich plants the oxygen intake was rapid, and remained at a high level, much
greater than the carbon dioxide produced. The absorption of oxygen is in some
way connected with the cell contents, and especially the tannins (Thoday).
The hypothesis of the role of oxygen in the formation of red pigments re-
ceived the first evidence from the experiments of Molliard (1907). Certain
plants growing in nutritive solutions of different composition showed that the
parts below the water surface were unpigmented. All the conditions being the
same, he concluded that lack of oxygen was the factor inhibiting the red pigment
formation.
The work of Mirande, Laborde, Palladin, and Wheldale has confirmed that
the formation of red pigment in leaves is always accompanied by increased oxi-
dation, and occurs in a medium more oxidising than the normal medium; and
that red leaves take in and fix more oxygen than green leaves.
Coombes (1910) showed experimentally that respiration of red leaves was
much more active than of green leaves. The intake and fixation of oxygen 1s
closely associated in some way with the action of oxidase enzymes. These are
responsible for the discoloration of tissues, and the formation of red pigments
after injury.
Onslow (1919) observed that the oxidase of potato is able to oxidise catechol
and protocatechuic acid. This suggests that the red-brown pigments are due to
the action of oxidase enzymes upon some such substances contained in the in-
jured tissue. The catechol group present in the substrate is activated by the
enzyme, and gives rise to the formation of red pigments.
Recapitulation—The general effect of injury to a plant is told increase the
intensity of its respiration. This comprehends rise of temperature above the
normal, and great increase in the amount of oxygen fixed, especially in plants
containing tannins. This increase is maintained after the injury, and the eell-
contents are acted upon by oxidase enzymes which cause the formation of
coloured compounds.
The balanced reactions are destroyed by mechanical injury, and then pro-
ceed always in the direction of hydrolysis, or the breaking up into simpler sub-
stances. The protoplasm of the injured cells loses its semi-permeability, and
the pigments diffuse outwards, permeating the whole tissue and staining the
protoplasm and the cell walls.
BY J. M. PETRIE. 393
Conclusions drawn from the experimental work,
The plant extract, exhibiting a brilliant red colour, was examined in the
special way to detect anthocyanins. Now much controversy has taken place,
especially among French investigators, as to the real nature of the red pig-
ments: the anthocyanin researches of certain authors were suspected by others
of being concerned with tannins. There is no doubt that many of the con-
Spicuous properties are held in common by these two groups, which are both
sources of red pigment; and one must have had considerable experience to de-
cide with certainty the group to which a pigment belongs. For this reason it
was necessary to isolate the pigment, and identify its decomposition products.
The following characteristic reactions show decisively that the red pigment is
formed from a catechol tannin, which has undergone decomposition as a result
of injury to the plant.
The pigment was obtained in red flakes, and was non-crystalline, insoluble
in dilute acids, but soluble in alkalies. It was precipitated by water from its
alcoholic solution when made slightly acid, completely precipitated by bromine,
formaldehyde, etc., and contained phloroglucinol, and gallic and protocatechuie
acids. Anthocyanins were thus shown to be absent.
By simple extraction and shaking with ether, gallic acid was obtained. It
was probably present as free acid in the tissues of the injured plant. It was
likewise obtained after boiling with acid, in which case, however, the acid was
liberated from combination as a constituent of some tannin glucoside.
In conclusion, the writer expresses his indebtedness to Professor Chapman
for laboratory facilities.
SUMMARY.
Leaves of Eucalyptus stricta were found to be injured by a microscopic
mite, Eriophyes eucalypti, and, as a result, great fasciation had taken place, and
a bright red colour had been produced.
The colouring matter of these red fasciated leaves was isolated and ex-
amined. chemically. No trace of authoeyanin could be identified, but instead, the
pigment was proved to be a catechol tannin red. It was obtained in red non-
erystalline flakes, and soluble in alcohol and alkalies. The reactions are given
whereby it is distinguished from anthocyanins, many of the properties of which
are held in common.
The red pigment is probably one of the first anhydrides, or soluble phloba-
phenes, of a catechol tannin.
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Comps, 1910.—Compt. nend., 150, 1532.
GAUTIER, 1906.—Compt. rend., 143, 490.
Mer, 1877.—Bull. Soc. bot. Paris, 24, 105.
Miranve, 1906.—Compt. rend., 143, 413.
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MiyosuHt, 1909.—Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokio, 27.
MoutiarD, 1907.—Rev. gen. bot. Paris, 19, 241.
OnsLow, 1919.—Biochem. Journ., 13, 1.
394 STUDIES IN PLANT PIGMENT, il.
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Potitis, 1911.—Rend. accad. Lincei, Roma, 20, 828.
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THopay, 1913.—Annals Bot., 27, 697.
Woops, 1902.—Bur. of Plant Ind. U.S.A., No. 18.
ZACHAREWICZ, 1905.—thro. Wheldale—“Anthocyanin pigments.”
395
MITE OF GENUS ERIOPHYES ASSOCIATED WITH MALFORMATION
OF LEAVES OF HUCALYPTUS STRICTA.
By W. B. Gurney, F.E.S.
(One Text-figure).
[Read 27th August, 1924.]
This note contains the description of the mite which caused a red coloration
in leaves and twigs of Eucalyptus stricta; the chemistry of the pigment produced
has been investigated by Dr. J. M. Petrie (see pp. 386-394).
On the terminals of branches of Eucalyptus stricta at Mount Wilson on the
Blue Mountains, distortion of the twigs and young leaves occurs frequently.
This consists of thickening of the young terminal leaves and general reddening
of the tissue, especially of the aborted leaves. The whole effect seems to be to
stultify the growth and cause dense clusters or tufts of small, narrow, deep red-
dish leaves, giving a ‘“Witch’s Broom” appearance to the terminals. These mal-
formations are at once noticeable at a distance on the saplings of this species
of Eucalyptus (see Plate xliv.).
I gather from Mr. W. F. Blakely, of the Botanic Gardens, that other species
of Hucalyptus, both on the Blue Mountains and near Sydney, have been noticed
with somewhat similar reddish tufts of discoloured and distorted tips.
Examination of these reddish tufts collected for me from JL. stricta in
December, 1923, and in March, 1924, at Mount Wilson revealed the presence, in
great numbers, of extremely small mites of the Family Eriophyidae, apparently
of a new species of the genus Hriophyes. The immature stages were much
smaller and exhibited fewer annular rings on the abdomen. The normal shape
is elongate, cylindrical, and gradually tapering to both extremities.
The mouth parts include a pair of minute bristle-like mandibles and there
is a pair of 3-jointed palpi. The species of this family of mites are minute,
varying, according to Dr. Nalepa, from 80 to 280, and they characteristically
cause déformities on the plants they infest. Their attacks often cause furry-
looking spots called an erineum, and sometimes definite dimple, blister-like, or
even elongate galls are found. This particular species frequents the bases and
the surface of the leaves, especially the inner faces of the young leaves, affect-
ing their growth and causing unnatural thickening and reddening of those
leaves.
Eriophyes pyri, the Pear Leaf Blister mite, and ZL. vitis, causing “Hrinose’’
of the grape vine, are well known pests of these hosts. I can find no reference
to a species of this genus infesting Eucalyptus. Dr. Nalepa records one species
396 NEW MITE OF THE GENUS ERIOPHYES.
only of the Myrtaceae, viz., Prunica granatuwm, as being affected by an Hriophyes
out of 144 species of this genus described by him.
I have to acknowledge gratefully the excellent figure of this minute form
which Mr. E. H. Zeck has drawn to illustrate this description.
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HRIOPHYES EUCALYPTI, n.Sp.
The body elongate, cylindrical, tapering. Thoracie shield inconspicuous.
Striae punctate, 42 to 52. Setae all present (except accessory setae, not noticed).
Ventral seta 1 twice length of ventral seta 2. Legs medium size, basal segments
relatively thick, segments 3 to 5 relatively thin. Claw longer than feathered
hair which is 4-rayed. Length about 170 p.
References.
Banks, Nathan.—The Acarina or Mites. Report U.S. Dept. Agric., No. 108,
1915.
Hopexiss, H. E.—New Species of Maple Mites. Journ. Econ. Ent., vi., 1913,
420-424.
Nanepa, A.—Eriophyidae (Phytoptidae). Das Tierreich, 4 Lief., 1898.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XXXIII.
Mollusca from Roy Bell’s Collections.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XXXIV.
Mollusca from Roy Bell’s Collections.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XXXV.
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Mollusca from Roy Bell’s Collections.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE xXxXxVI.
Mollusca from Roy Bell’s Collections.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
PLATE XxXxXVII.
48 BENS ;
Motor nerve-endings in limb muscle of frog. Coarse Type.
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XXXVIII-
Pouare
Soo. N.S.W., 1924.
Proc. Linn,
Motor nerve-endings in limb muscle of frog.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
PLATE XXXIx.
Motor nerve-ending in limb muscle of frog.
Fine type.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XL.
Sorta erp aime A oa
12, 13. Motor nerve-ending in limb muscle of frog,
14. Motor nerve-ending in muscles of pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias.
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Motor nerve-endings in museles of pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XLII.
Motor nerve-endings in muscles of pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XLII.
Motor nerve-endings in muscles of pectoral fin of Squalus acanthias.
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397 SRT,
REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE.
By A. Jerreris Turner, M.D., F.E.S.
{Read 24th September, 1924.]
In the preparation of this revision, together with some corrections and ad-
ditions to the families previously treated, I have been much assisted by the
loan of specimens from the South Australian Museum, The National Museum,
Melbourne, the Australian Museum, Sydney, and from Mr. G. Lyell, Mr. G. M.
Goldfinch and other entomologists. Specially helpful has been the loan of some
types from the Lucas Collection recently acquired by the South Australian
Museum. Unfortunately some of the Lucasian types have not yet been dis-
covered in this Collection.
Family LYMANTRIADAE.
Dr. Starr Jordan of California informs me that the generic name Liparis
was used for a fish by Scopoli in 1777, antedating its use in the Lepidoptera.
It seems, therefore, that we must use the name Lymantriadae for the family,
Liparidae being inadmissible.
PORTHESIA XUTHOSTERNA, 0.Sp.
£ov0éaTepvos tawny-breasted.
3. 28-30 mm. Head and thorax white, more or less suffused with orange-
ochreous; pectus orange-ochreous. Palpi white. Antennae whitish; pectinations
grey. Abdomen white, with two, three, or four blackish median dorsal spots.
Legs white; anterior pair, except tarsi, suffused in front with orange-ochreous.
Forewings oval-triangular, costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen
bowed, moderately oblique; white; cilia white. Hindwings with termen rounded;
white; cilia white.
Not unlike P. euthysana Turn., but there are no long spathulate ochreous
seales on dorsal margin of forewings.
Queensland: National Park (2,000-4,000 ft.) in February and March.
New South Wales: Mt. Wilson (3,500 ft.) in November. Eight specimens.
PORTHESIA SEMIFUSCA.
Orgyia semifusca Wlk., Char. Undeser. Lep. Het., 1869, 65; Porthesia ?
irrorata Luc., Proce. Roy. Soc. Q’ld., 1892, 77; Ocybola semifusca Turn., Mem.
Nat. Mus., Melb., iv., 1912, 5; Porthesia melambaphes Turn., Proe. Linn. Soe.
N.S.W., 1920, 480.
398 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
According to Mr. J. A. Kershaw the ? has narrow rudimentary wings, but
this character by itself scarcely justifies generic separation.
Victoria: Sale, Melbourne.
HABROPHYLLA EURYZONA.
Mr. J. D. Wilson has kindly sent me two females reared from larvae. They
are completely apterous and the legs and antennae are much reduced. Although
apterous females are not uncommon in this family, this is the first instance that
I know of in the Euproctis group.
AXIOLOGA PURA.
There are two @ examples in the Lucas Collection labelled as this species
in Mr. R. Illidge’s handwriting. Neither of them corresponds with Lucas’s
description; his type, which cannot be found, was smaller, and had two dentate
black lines. I think it may have been the d of this species, though stated to be
2. Until the ¢ has been rediscovered this must remain a conjecture.
DURA MARGINEPUNCTATA.
Previously known only from New Guinea and North Queensland, the range
of this species has been recently discovered to extend much further south.
Queensland: Bunya Mountains (W. B. Barnard); New South Wales: Lis-
more (V. J. Robinson), Tuneurry (G. M. Goldfinch).
Genus OLENE.
A character of this genus which I have not previously noted is that, while
the ¢ has two pairs of spurs on the posterior tibiae, in the ? the median spurs
are absent.
OLENE OSTRACINA Turn.
The receipt, from Mr. W. B. Barnard, of an example of this species in
much better condition than the type enables me to refer it to its right. genus
and to give a more accurate description.
9. 45 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs whitish. A
small ochreous posterior thoracic crest, and a larger ochreous crest on dorsum
of second abdominal segment. Posterior tibiae with terminal spurs only. Fore-
wings with costa strongly arched, apex rounded, termen nearly straight, moderate-
ly oblique; whitish; markings fuscous mixed with brown; a basal dot followed
by a fine incomplete outwardly oblique line; a median, large, longitudinally
oval, sub-basal spot; a finely dentate transverse line at one-third; a dentate and
sinuate transverse line at two-thirds, preceded by a short transverse streak
beneath costa; immediately followed by a large post-median blotch with a large
truncate posterior process beneath costa, and another in middle, narrowing
rapidly below middle, and not reaching dorsum; an interrupted crenulate sub-
marginal line; cilia whitish. Hindwings and cilia whitish.
North Queensland: Cooktown in April.
Species wrongly referred.
Artaxa usta Luec., Proc. Roy. Soc. Q’ld., 1894, 106, belongs to the Drepanidae.
BY A. J, TURNER. ~ / 399
Family ANTHELIDAE. Pk eae
Genus ANTHELA.
An examination of the types in the Lucas Collection has shown me that
the species I have previously described as A. magnifica is really A. asciscens
Lue. It is a larger species than the true A. magnifica Luc. which I have hitherto
called asciscens. The latter has two white discal spots on the forewings, and the
hindwings are fuscous without ochreous tinge.
ANTHELA CALLICESTA, 0.Sp.
xahAlkeorés , beautifully figured.
g. 58mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark-fuscous; pectus ochreous.
Abdomen dark-fuscous; under surface ochreous. Legs dark-fuscous with a few
whitish scales; coxae ochreous. J orewings triangular, costa straight to near
apex, apex pointed, termen bowed, only slightly oblique; dark-fuscous with
slight grey-whitish irroration; two very obscure, suffused, darker transverse lines;
first from one-third costa to dorsum before middle, outwardly-curved; second
from two-thirds costa to dorsum beyond middle, approximated to dorsal end of
first line; a whitish discal dot at one-third before and touching first line; a
targer, transversely-elongate, whitish discal spot before two-thirds, touching second
line; a more slender, obscure, dark, subterminal line; a grey-whitish, rather
narrow, terminal band, anteriorly sharply defined by a strongly crenated border;
cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded; as forewings, but without
discal spots. Underside similar but ochreous-tinged, basal half of dise mostly
dark-fuscous; terminal half mostly greyish-ochreous; without discal spots, or
with second spot on forewings just indicated. Very distinct by the scalloped
grey border of wings.
New South Wales: Sydney in October; one specimen, which forms part of
@ general collection made entirely from within the boundaries of his own home
by Dr. G. A. Waterhouse, who proposes to donate the type to the Australian
Museum.
Species wrongly referred.
Darala rosea Luc., Proce. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1891, 291, belongs to the Lima-
codidae.
Darala consuta Luc., Proc. Roy. Soc. Q’ld., 1899, 139, is a synonym of Cotana
serranotata Lue. (Eupterotidae).
Family SATURNIADAE.
Dr. R. J. Tillyard has kindly sent me particulars of the pupal tracheation
of Antheraea eucalypti. The areole is absent (as I expected), but previous con-
jectures as to the missing veins of the forewings are disproved. In the pupa
Ri separates from Rs near the base, Rs is three-branched, and M is two-
branched, instead of four and three-branched respectively as in normal Hetero-
cera.
Translating this into the usual notation, the definition should be amended
thus—veins 5 and 6 coincident, 10 absent (rarely present and separating just
before apex).
Genus ANTHERAEA.
: Vein 11 of forewings, which usually separates towards apex, may be absent.
It is so sometimes in A. astrophela, so also in the species here described.
400 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
ANTHERAEA SACCOPOEA, 0.Sp.
cakkorroos, making bags or sacks.
3. 84-94 mm. Head purple-reddish. Palpi very short; purple-reddish;
upper surface and apex ochreous. Antennae ochreous. Thorax and abdomen
purple-reddish. Legs purple-reddish tinged with ochreous. Forewings _ tri-
angular, costa straight to beyond middle, thence strongly arched, apex rounded-
rectangular, termen straight, slightly oblique; purple-reddish; suffused with grey
on costa; ocellus post-median, small, circular, faintly outlined with purplish, a
narrow white curved line on inner aspect followed by a crimson meniscus, re-
mainder ochreous with a narrow, transverse, slit-like hyaline centre; a whitish
subterminal line edged on both fidles with purplish, nearly straight, from costa
shortly before apex to two-thirds dorsum; an obscure purple-crimson apical
patch; cilia concolorous, apices whitish. i: andra with termen very slightly
rounded, tornus prominent; colour as forewings; ocellus as forewings, but out-
lined with fuscous and without hyaline centre; subterminal line similar but
curved and wavy; a darker suffused antemedian transverse line. Underside
similar but duller; ocelli encircled with whitish.
2. 104 mm. Similar but wings grey; hindwings with termen more rounded
and tornus less prominent.
North Queensland: Cooktown; two specimens received from Mr. W. B.
Barnard. The larvae pupate in large irregularly shaped bags of loose brown
silk, in which each spins a separate loose cocoon. These bags are spun among
the twigs and leaves of a shrub locally known as “wild guava” or “wild pear”
in the bush within thirty miles of Cooktown. Twenty or thirty may emerge
from a single bag; they emerged in Toowoomba in March, but unfortunately
nearly all failed to expand their wings, and were badly crippled. This may
have been due to the drier atmosphere of that place.
Family BOMBYCIDAE.
On reconsideration, I have come to the conclusion that the Eupterotidae
cannot be separated from this family. It may be noted that my definitions of
these two families previously given are practically identical, and it is unneces-
sary to repeat them. Even after this amalgamation the family is only of
moderate size. The few Australian genera may be separated by the following
key :-—
1. Both wings Waa Gr iwroren hope eave Gi Gall os co 05 06.66 50 06 4 Pep
Both wings with 5 from beneath upper angle .. .. .. 4,
2. Forewings with 9, 10 closely approximated to 11 in aastenion neal of wing,
and usually connected with it by a crossbar .. .. .. .. .. .. -.. Cotana
Forewings not so .. Se OA ere EN as Ai eon e 3.
3. Both wings with 3 sad) 4 ‘Siilked Reholi l aun fevcontdlanelan. 6 tay pea alereme este is cules mE ONACELO
Both wings with 8 and 4 separate .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ., «=. -» Mallodeta
4 Bewley wares smh Wei Il Alo Go ao od 65 Gh 60 o5 60 00 66 col be Eupterote
Bothy wines = with wenplusonesent) eminent ae eee east Ta TOhG
GASTRIDIOTA ADOXIMA.
3. 26-31 mm. Head, thorax, and antennae dark chocolate-brown; face
sometimes paler. Abdomen dark chocolate-brown; tuft with spreading hairs,
which have fuscous apices. Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex,
apex pointed, termen nearly straight, slightly oblique; dark chocolate-brown; a
triangular costal area with whitish or ochreous-whitish irroration, from one-
BY A. J. TURNER. 401
fourth gradually increasing in breadth to middle, where it ends abruptly; in this
is a small darker discal spot with pale centre; a short transverse mark of
similar colour on costa before three-fourths; an ochreous mark on dorsum be-
yond middle, followed by a dark line, and this by some ochreous irroration;
cilia concolorous. Hindwings with termen rounded, tornus prominent; dark
chocolate-brown; a slight ochreous irroration on termen above middle; a paler
irroration on dorsum from one-fourth to three-fourths, followed by a dark line,
and this by a pale mark; cilia ochreous, on dorsum chocolate-brown mixed with
ochreous-whitish on dorsal markings.
I have received two males from Mr. V. J. Robinson, who has bred the species
from larvae feeding on Ficus at Rous, near Lismore, N.S.W.
Family NOTODONTIDAE.
Subfamily CNETHOCAMPINAE.
Genus MESODREPTA nov.
feco-dperros, picked out from the middle.
Palpi obsolete. Posterior tibiae without middle spurs. Forewings with 5
from about middle of cell, 6 from upper angle, areole present but rather small,
7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 connate with them. Huindwings with 3 and 4 separate, 5 from
middle of cell, 6 and 7 stalked, 12 approximated to cell to beyond middle, not
connected.
An interesting discovery intermediate between Cynosarga, with which it
agrees in neuration, and Hpicoma, with which it agrees in the absence of palpi
and middle spurs. It clearly indicates the ancestry of the latter genus.
MESODREPTA HARPOTOMA, n.sp.
amérouos, divided by a sickle.
62. 38-45 mm. Head grey-whitish; face ochreous. Antennae whitish;
pectinations in d 10, in 2 5, ochreous-tinged. Thorax white, anteriorly greyish-
tinged. Abdomen ochreous; in 2 annulated with dark-fuscous; tuft and under-
side white. Legs white; anterior pair ochreous mixed with blackish on dorsum.
Forewings triangular, costa straight, in 2 slightly arched, apex round-pointed,
termen bowed, slightly oblique; a narrow, outwardly curved, sickle-shaped fascia
from mid-dorsum to costa shortly before apex, broadest on dorsum, thence
gradually narrowing, blackish, crossed by short ochreous streaks on veins; cilia
white. Hindwings with termen rounded, white, cilia white. Underside wholly
white. The sexes are similar.
Queensland: Toowoomba in December. I have received two examples of this
very distinct species from Mr. W. B. Barnard, who has generously given me
the type.
Subfamily NOTODONTINAE.
OMICHLIS HADROMENES.
In Mr. W. B. Barnard’s Collection is a striking ¢ aberration in which a
fuscous median streak extends from base to termen. It is from Kuranda (F.
ee Wodd)):
Family LASIOCAMPIDAE.
Tongue absent. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Labial palpi moderate or long,
porrect. Eyes often small, usually hairy. Thorax and abdomen stout, densely
hairy. Legs densely hairy; posterior tibiae without middle spurs, all terminal
Spurs very short. Forewings with cell small, areole never present; anal vein
402 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
not fureate at base; 1 absent, or rarely weakly developed towards termen; 2
from near base, 3 usually from about middle of cell, 4 and 5 approximated
from angle, 6 from upper angle, 9 and 10 always stalked. Hindwings with two
anal veins, 1 absent, 7 from well before angle of cell, usually from near base
(except in Perna and Neurochyta), 11 running into 12, or replaced by an
anastomosis of 12, with 7 near its base, or more rarely with cell; from the
subcostal cell so formed arise usually one or more pseudoneuria, which are often
branched in an irregular and sometimes arborescent fashion. Frenulum and
retinaculum absent in both sexes; hindwings with a strong basal costal ex-
pansion.
The Lasiocampidae are found in all continental areas, and are no doubt an
ancient group which specialised early (1) by the loss of the interradial cross-
vein or anastomosis between 8 and 9 and consequently of the areole, (2) by the
loss of frenulum and strong costal expansion of hindwing leading in these
heavy-bodied moths to connections of the subcostal and radial veins in that re-
gion, with the development of pseudoneuria. They are an isolated group and
whether there are any exotic families which should be grouped with them in the
same superfamily is doubtful.
The subcostal cell of the hindwing appears to have been formed originally
by vein 11 (the first radial) running into 12 (the subcostal). This is a struc-
ture that occurs in many families, but the Lasiocampidae were peculiar in having
11 arising from near the upper angle of the cell, sometimes even stalked with 7.
Two lines of development followed, firstly, the loss of 11 and its replacement by
an anastomosis and, secondly, a displacement of the origin of 7 along the costal
edge of the cell, until it arose from near the base. Accordingly the genera ap-
pear to fall into three natural groups: (1) those in which 11 is retained, such
as Perna, in which the subcostal cell is unusually large, and the Kuropean
Odonestis, in which it is more moderate; to this section I refer also the African
genus Anadiasa; (2) those in which 7 still arises from near the angle of cell,
but the subcostal cell is much smaller and 12 anastomoses with the cell before
the origin to 7; of these Newrochyta, the European Clisiocampa, and the African
Bombycomorpha are examples; (3) those in which 12 anastomoses with 7 close
to its origin from near the base of the cell; these comprise the bulk of the
family, and all the Australian genera except the two already mentioned.
This revision contains 54 species referred to 1p genera. In number of
species this exceeds Europe (31 species) and North America (24 species), and
equals India (54 species). The family is most numerous in Africa, and the
South African list comprises 88 species. The species of Lasiocampidae, at least
the females, are mostly sluggish in their habits and do not appear to range
very widely. So far as known, all our genera are confined to the Australian
region; but until those of other regions have been critically examined, this
cannot be affirmed with certainty. In any ease the proportion of endemic genera
is probably large.
Key to genera.
1. Hindwings with 11 absent, 12 anastomosing with cell, or with 7 near its
baseyeeee RD cnr Oaila TNvatts MLAS Oca Dea ce as aaa 2.
Hindwings with 1 resent ST Ace 3 a0 00 oedZ Orn
2. Hindwings with 12 anastomosing =n) cn near » ats ese PRs re 3.
Hindwings with 12 anastomosing with cell before origin of 7 .. .Newrochyta
3. Palpi shert or moderate, not exceeding frontal tuft .. i :
Paipr long mache xceediinoencomtal et ities ern eener een enema (0
BY A, J. TURNER. 403
Ameriindwinesiwith® celleexceeding: sis 125 ae se) GN aes wel ae. te 5.
Eaaclhynimese withe celle sOneleSSmen- ea ecuis ak veh totbela. «obits ale 6.
PELOLe Wile Sm Withie Oude omstalixe dsm. pean ns ciel Me cleniee Ween hoOand
Forewings with 8 separate .. . Ste ricten tate eRe ite tha cate OO NEDO
6. Forewings with 7, 8 stalked, 6 ee Basie Set sacra Bee ne DNA LOKAT
Forewings with 6, 7 stalked or rarely Roe. TOONS Mh teeter te
7. Hindwings with subcostal cell minute or obsolete .. .. .. .. ..Hremonoma
- Hindwings with subcostal cell well developed .. .. .. ...... 8.
& lEtinéhimes smn <4) exool B swllleecl 55 66,50 66 65 oo es oo 60 co 9,
Hindwings with 4 and 5 ey URE et ee aA tuactemennelerkins tts MOTEL
J, JBSVeS GaN@Ot [ode oe debe oo co co Gb 64 co seco colbo oo oo CUMMING IE
Enyesienainys sere. See ona ts eaten ss SOY EG
10. Hindwings when 4 ema. 5 staked Oa Ths Eee peepee coie oul
Hindwings with 4 and 5 separate. Pe eee tea dere at 2 O,0SUER ING
ILL, TSA7VES Soawwowatage Go no oo coc OG) cen bo. coen ko sncd Ge 0 Cio AG Aa ei UN THON OCARE|
IVES WANA? “Goiba c6 Tee. oo go 660 Db seesbn ope die lon wominsice! Ue fl sK03
1. Genus PINARA.
Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., iii, 761. Type, P. cana Wk.
Eyes small, hairy. Palpi short, not exceeding frontal tuft. Forewings
elongate; 6, 7, 8 stalked, 8 separating before or opposite 6. Hindwings in d
more or less produced at tornus; cell exceeding 4, 11 absent, 12 anastomosing
with 7 near its base, subcostal cell moderate, giving origin to a single pseu-
doneurium near its base.
This genus, like the two following, has very dissimilar sexes. The males
are considerably smaller than the females, with narrower forewings, hindwings
more prominent at tornus, coloration much darker and more pronounced. The
species require careful discrimination, the females especially being closely similar.
Key to males.
1. Forewings very narrow, termen strongly sinuate .. .. .. .. .. .. sesioides
' Forewings broader, termen not or only slightly sinuate .. .. . 2.
2. Forewings with large pale tornal blotch extending along dorsi te base ..
cana
OREM Vyihlooen wool Joleen 36-3 65 ceo no ob 4d 60 bo co Ge 3.
2, POTS RNES WUOSCOUS II Bol loci og do Jar) co oe! be Gol ons Holoe o0 seen OLACT:
Horewinesexeddish- brown fe ocr eel pete a fae i siolilnlias) se) ce Metaphace
Key to females.
Neeemiclirachwarleskawiaitishytai ce! asians 2 uel ee wehbe se oe Thee eee eee obliqua
NCW OSHC etn tn cimaetiee SS Vee sce Mic GUI ead cere nam lee eta CONG
ELUTACH WAC SER RUS COUSH Mey Maurier tere sees = Shag Ne Aaya e Cee Cea er 2.
2. Hindwings wholly Feemens Ruths ai Rire \ eeei e Ne aNeES Aa EC NISC SLO THES
i Hindwings with whitish semmmaaall bend ba) 60 BOL Bs Go dd ium oa big WDAMHOOUIAL
1. PINARA SESIOIDES.
Eumeta sesioides, Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxv., 1924.
3. 38-40 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi grey. Antennae grey;
pectinations dark-fuscous. Abdomen grey, tuft tipped with dark-erimson. Legs
grey. Forewings narrowly triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded,
termen very long, strongly oblique, strongly sinuate; grey, towards base and
costa suffused with dark-crimson, extreme base ochreous-tinged; a whitish trans-
verse line near base; a whitish transverse median discal mark; a whitish line
from four-fifths costa to four-fifths dorsum, slightly outwardly curved or sinuate;
404 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
posterior to this a wavy series of subterminal dots, their inner halves ochreous,
outer halves blackish; cilia grey. Hindwings small, costa short, tornus rounded,
projecting; dorsal area grey; a dark-fuscous costal blotch; a triangular ochreous-
brown terminal blotch; cilia dark-grey, apices whitish.
Described from two examples, including the type, in the British Museum.
The locality labels are “Moreton Bay.” There is a pair in the Queensland
Museum obtained from Brisbane pupae by Mr. H. Hacker. The ¢ is 35 mm,
the 2 50 mm. Head, thorax, and forewings pale-grey; the latter without mark-
ings except the usual dichroic subterminal spots. Abdomen and hindwings pale-
fuscous.
This species is near P. metaphaea, but the forewings of 3 are narrower,
termen strongly sinuate, and ochreous blotch on hindwing triangular; while in
2 the hindwings have no pale margin.
2. PINARA CANA.
9. Wik. Cat. Brit. Mus., ii, 761—d. Entometa divisa Whk., ibid., iv.,
973.—O psirhina punctilinea Wlk., Char. Undese. Lep., p. 67.
3. 36-38 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark-grey. Antennae
fuscous, stalk grey. Legs grey; tarsi fuscous annulated with whitish. Fore-
wings elongate-triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex round-pointed, ter-
men slightly bowed, very oblique; fuscous; a large tornal grey blotch, curved
upwards to reach discal spot, and prolonged to base between dorsum and vein
1, sharply defined from fuscous area, from which it is sometimes separated by a
fine whitish line towards base; sometimes a pale transverse line traverses fuscous
area near base, but this is usually absent; a transversely constricted, whitish,
discal spot on end of cell; a fine whitish line from three-fourths costa very seldom
traceable to dorsum before tornus, followed in dorsal half by a series of spots,
anteriorly orange, posteriorly blackish; cilia fuscous. Hindwings produced at
tornus, termen rounded; grey or fuscous; sometimes a large orange blotch in
centre extending from termen nearly to base, but this may be wholly absent.
An aberrant 5 from Mt. Lofty lacks the pale dorsal blotch on forewings.
2. 43-68 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey. Palpi fuscous, grey
above and beneath. Antennae blackish. Legs grey; tarsi fuscous with whitish
annulations. Forewings oval-triangular, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed,
termen bowed, oblique; grey; sometimes paler ante-median and post-median
transverse lines; the latter followed by a doubly sinuous line of dots, anteriorly
orange, posteriorly blackish; cilia grey. Hindwings with termen rounded; grey;
sometimes a suffused fuscous subtornal spot; cilia grey.
North Queensland: Prince of Wales Island, Herberton; Queensland: Rock-
hampton, Duaringa, Brisbane, Stanthorpe; New South Wales: Glen Innes; Vic-
toria: Melbourne, Gisborne, Bamawm; Tasmania: Launceston; South Australia:
Adelaide, Mt. Lofty; Western Australia: Perth.
3. PINARA OBLIQUA.
3. Entometa obliqua Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., iv., 973; Rhinogyne calliigama
Feld., Reise Nov., Pl. 84, f. 9, 10.
3. 43-44 mm. Head, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs fuscous. Palpi
fuscous, beneath grey-whitish. Forewings narrowly triangular, costa nearly
straight, apex rounded, termen sinuate, strongly oblique; fuscous with general
sparse whitish irroration, rather more pronounced in median area; a darker
basal patch; sometimes a curved transverse fuscous line at one-fourth; some-
BY A. J. TURNER. 405
times a minute whitish transverse discal mark at end of cell; a doubly sinuate,
subterminal line of spots, dark-fuscous edged anteriorly with orange; cilia fus-
cous. Hindwings with termen rounded, flattened er sinuate in middle; dark-
fuscous; a large orange terminal blotch extending from apex to tornus; cilia
orange, on costa and dorsum fuscous.
2. 58-68 mm. Head and thorax grey-whitish. Palpi grey-whitish, external
surface narrowly dark-fuscous. Antennae dark-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous
(rarely grey); tuft whitish. Legs grey-whitish; tarsi_dark-fuscous with whitish
annulations. Forewings elongate, but broader than in 6, termen slightly bowed;
grey-whitish; an outwardly curved grey line from one-third costa to three-
fourths dorsum, rarely obsolete; a second similar line precedes subterminal series
of spots, which are as in @; cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded;
whitish; a suffused grey spot above tornus.
A dwarf ¢ from Launceston expands only 34 mm.
New South Wales: Neweastle, Mt. Kosciusko; Victoria: Melbourne, Lilydale, -
Gisborne; Tasmania: Launceston; South Australia: Adelaide, Mt. Lofty.
4, PINARA METAPHARA.
2. Opsirrhina metaphaea Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxii., 556.—d. Entometa
adusta Wlk., Char. Undese. Lep., p. 16—d. Pinara rufescens Butl., Trans. Ent.
Soe., 1886, 387.
3. 34-42 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen reddish-brown. Antennae
fuscous, stalk paler. Legs reddish-brown; tarsi fuscous with whitish annulations.
Forewings narrowly triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex round-pointed, ter-
men slightly bowed, very oblique; reddish-brown; a dark-red basal suffusion
more or less prolonged beneath costa; a curved, whitish, sub-basal transverse
line; a whitish, constricted, discal spot om end of cell; a fine, sinuate, whitish
line from four-fifths costa to dorsum before tornus, followed by a doubly sinuate
line of spots, anteriorly orange, posteriorly blackish; cilia reddish-brown. Hind-
wings strongly produced at tornus, termen rounded; dark-reddish-fuscous; a
rather narrow, orange, terminal band, partly interrupted on veins; scarcely
reaching apex and tornus; cilia pale-ochreous, on tornus and dorsum brownish.
$. 56-64 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi grey; fuscous towards apex.
Antennae blackish. Abdomen fuscous; the two terminal segments and tuft pale-
grey. Legs grey; tarsi fuscous with whitish annulations. Forewings elongate-
oval; costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen bowed oblique; grey, paler
towards termen; a darker grey, outwardly-curved line from one-third costa to
one-third dorsum; a similar sinuate line from two-thirds costa to two-thirds
dorsum, followed by a doubly sinuate line of spots, anteriorly orange, posteriorly
blackish; cilia pale grey. Hindwings with termen rounded; fuscous; a grey-
whitish, terminal band; cilia grey-whitish, on dorsum fuscous.
P. rufescens Butl. is an aberrant ¢ with the hindwings uniform pale brownish-
grey without orange, terminal band.
Queensland: Rockhampton, Nambour, Brisbane; Victoria: Warburton; New
South Wales.
2. Genus CREXA.
Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxv., 1927. Type, C. punctigera Wk.
Eyes rather small, hairy. Palpi short or very short. Forewings elongate;
6 and 7 stalked, 8 separate. Hindwings in ¢ produced at tornus; cell exceeding
406 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
4, 11 absent, 12 anastomosing with 7 near its base, subcostal cell moderate, giv-
ing origin to a single pseudoneurium near its base.
Closely corresponding in structure to Pinara, but 8 of forewings not stalked;
though this character varies in some genera, in this instance it appears reliable,
and separates two natural genera. Like Pimara it has usually dissimilar sexes,
the males much smaller and with the forewings partly hyaline; the females,
however, differ more from each other than the males of the several species. But
in acedesta and fola the sexes are similar.
; Key to males.
deulorewines camostlyMhyaline) pyseeiieoy mice tek oe cine shice hier na ae er 2.
Forewings not mostly hyaline .. .. 4,
2. Forewings with pretornal blotch and ene qasenestion: ae aie - 5B 06
Prada
Forewings without these markings .. .. .. .. .. .. ss es ss ee ee 3.
3. Forewings with double fuscous discal spots 59 60 9,50 60 06°00 00 JOVINOMGONT
Horewings) with singlet discal? spot iq sass .s ee ee ee ee -isabnotata
ep Elind wingse tulvous brows ied) cies che eae ene enaerOptila
Hindwings grey .. .. Bh ab iesese haze: Uehel be neensnement es 5.
5. Forewings with broad anesbann ‘Gpoumigin ined Be Cha Bicos Ne Ollie, oe = ION
Porewingsywithout) median bard 224i.)0s see Weenie ee ae ektaee deste
Key to ae
1. Hindwings without whitish lines .. .. ree ey WENA tats es GARE CHG D
Hindwings with whitish lines .. .. 3.
2. Forewings with discal spot large, Greuian ‘triangularly edged won plackion both
anteriorly and posteriorly .. .. se oe se ee ee ee punctigera
Forewings with discal Saou rach or Gapsolctes 56 08 00 95° 40 05 06 jon
3. Forewings with defined white postmedian fascia .. .. .. .. .. .. dianipha
Forewings without defined white fascia .. Ne Sacha ei
4. Forewings with large postmedian whitish suftusion: SoMoomoa Bese POOGGs
Forewings without large whitish suffusion .. .. ae 5.
5. Forewings with discal spot ochreous-brown cafittn “oginntish icone edged with
blackishWanteriorly, and@posteniorlyaa aera.) acute ene mRaCeCe st
Forewings with discal spot not so ,, .. .. «.. .. «- «2 «2 es «s ++ SUbnOtata
5. CREXA PUNCTIGERA.
3. Entometa punctigera Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., iv., 974.—2. Mecytha tri-
macula Wk., ibid., v., 1122.—d. Crexa anthraxoides W1k., ibid., xxxv., p. 1926.—
2. Dichromosoma majus Feld., Reise Nov., Pl. 83, f. 26—d. Bombyx picta
Luc., Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Q’ld., 1894, 105.
6. 32-34 mm. Head whitish. Palpi, antennae, and thorax dark-fuscous.
Abdomen fuscous-brown. Legs fuscous; hairs on middle tibiae whitish; tarsi
sometimes with fine whitish annulations. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa
straight to near apex, apex round-pointed, termen nearly straight, oblique; pale-
fuscous but very thinly scaled, nearly hyaline; markings dark-fuscous; a broad
dorsal suffusion from base to termen; two discal dots, one before, and one be-
yond end of cell; an apical suffusion; a subterminal series of spots; cilia fuscous.
Hindwings produced at tornus, termen rounded; fuscous, rather thinly sealed;
cilia fuscous.
?. 40-52 mm. Head white. Palpi dark-fuscous with a white spot on middle
of under surface of second joint. Antennae dark-fuscous. Thorax white with
three fuscous spots, one anterior, two median. Abdomen fuscous; tuft white.
Legs fuscous; hairs on middle tibiae white; tibiae and tarsi annulated with white.
BY A. J. TURNER. 407
Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen bowed,
oblique; fuscous; some transverse white strigulae towards base, and slight whitish
irroration towards termen; a fine white dentate transverse line at one-fifth; two
triangular blackish discal marks enclosing between them a circular fuscous area
with a central white dot; a blackish mark above mid-dorsum; a white spot on #
costa giving rise to a finely dentate, sinuate, white line to two-thirds dorsum; a
submarginal series of dark-fuscous spots, margined with white; cilia fuscous.
Hindwings with termen rounded; fuscous; cilia fuscous.
North Queensland: Cape York, Cairns; Queensland: Brisbane; New South
Wales: Sydney; Victoria: Melbourne, Gisborne; Tasmania: Launceston, Ulver-
stone, Hobart, Geeveston; South Australia: Mt. Lofty.
6. CREXA SUBNOTATA.
?. Tolype subnotata Wlk., Char. Undeser. Lep. Het., 1869, 67.—2. Sitina
albicans Swin., Cat. Oxf. Mus., i., 1892, 268, Pl. vi. f. 10—%. Bombyzx pinnalis
Lue., Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Q’ld., 1894, 103—d. Crexa hyaloessa Turn., Trans.
Roy. Soe. S. Aust., 1902, 184.
6. 25-30 mm. Head whitish. Palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs
fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa sinuate, apex rounded, termen
slightly bowed, strongly oblique; mostly hyaline and very sparingly scaled; dorsal
area beneath cell and vein 2 fuscous, with an oval blackish spot above mid-
dorsum, and crossed before and beyond this by slender whitish lines, some whitish
irroration between lines; a suffused fuscous streak along costa from middle to
and around apex, interrupted by a white dot at three-fourths; three or four sub-
apical blackish dots edged posteriorly by a slender whitish line; cilia fuscous.
Hindwings strongly produced at tornus; hyaline with large dorsal and smaller
costal fuscous areas.
2. 35-55 mm. Head white. Palpi and antennae fuscous. Thorax white;
a large postmedian fuscous blotch, crossed near its anterior extremity by a fine
transverse white line. Abdomen fuscous, sometimes partly mixed with white;
three apical segments white, but apex of tuft fuscous. Legs whitish; tibiae and
tarsi fuscous with whitish annulations. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa very
slightly arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, oblique; white suffused, except near
base, with pale-grey; several grey spots near base; a wavy transverse white line,
edged with grey, from one-third costa to one-third dorsum; a minute, white,
median, discal mark; a white line from two-thirds costa, at first transverse then
bent inwards and dentate to two-thirds dorsum; a fuscous blotch on dorsum be-
tween lines, rounded above; a submarginal series of dark-grey spots, edged
posteriorly by a white line; terminal edge and cilia dark-grey. Hindwings with
termen rounded; whitish; a transverse median grey line, broader on costa; a
subterminal grey fascia interrupted on veins; cilia whitish.
Queensland: Clermont, Brisbane, Charleville; Victoria: Melbourne, Gisborne,
Leopold; South Australia: Quorn; Western Australia: Perth, Geraldton.
7. CREXA RHODA.
Sitina rhoda, Swin., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), ix., 1902, 82.
3. 26-27 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi 14; whitish. Antennae and
thorax fuscous. Abdomen brown, towards apex fuscous, tuft whitish. Legs
whitish-ochreous; tibiae with fuscous sub-basal and subapical spots on external
surface. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa sinuate, apex rounded, termen
408 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
very long, very slightly bowed, oblique; the greater part of dise very thinly
scaled and translucent; a fuscous basal patch prolonged along costa to apex,
and from thence narrowly along termen, where it becomes ochreous-brown; a
slender wavy transverse line from one-third costa to mid-dorsum; an ochreous-
whitish discal spot beneath midcosta; a similar spot on costa at three-fourths
giving’ rise to a fine dentate line to tornus; a pretornal whitish blotch not reach-
ing dorsum; a fine whitish dentate subterminal line; veins in posterior part of
dise ochreous-brown; cilia ochreous-brown. Hindwings elongate, dorsum very
long, tornus prominent, termen slightly rounded; pale-ochreous with a large
fuscous-brown terminal blotch; cilia brown.
2. 36-40 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish. Palpi 24; terminal joint
longer than second, with appressed hairs; whitish. Antennae whitish, pectina-
tions brownish. Abdomen pale ochreous-brown, towards apex ochreous-whitish.
Legs whitish; tibiae and tarsi spotted with fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa
straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen bowed, oblique; pale-ochreous-
brown; near base suffused or spotted with whitish; a slender whitish dentate
transverse line from one-third costa to one-third dorsum; a slight whitish irroration
posterior to this; a whitish discal spot beneath midcosta; a whitish mark on
four-fifths costa running into a large post-median whitish suffusion extending to
dorsum and nearly to termen; a dentate whitish subterminal line; cilia pale
ochreous-brown. Hindwings with termen rounded; pale-ochreous-brown; a broad
median whitish transverse line; an interrupted whitish subterminal line; cilia
pale ochreous-brown.
There is a series including the type in the British Museum. The ? palpi are
unusually long for this genus, those of the 6 are normal.
N.W. A.: Sherlock River.
8. CREXA MACROPTILA.
Go Wpwn, uns OMiGh Were. s<, Teil op
North Queensland: Chillagoe.
9. (CREXA DIANIPHA.
2°. Turn., Ann. Q’ld. Mus., x., 1911, 92.
North Queensland: Cape York.
10. CREXA ACEDESTA.
Turn., Ann. Q’ld. Mus., x., 1911, 94.—Sitina cinyra Swin., Ann. Mag. Nat.
liste. (8) xaxs, LOI, 333:
Victoria: Melbourne, Birchip; South Australia: Adelaide; Western Aus-
tralia: Perth.
11. CREXA FOLA.
Clathe fola, Swin., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), ix., 1902, 82.
3. 21-22 mm. 9. 26-27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale-grey. An-
tennae pale-grey; pectinations in 5 10, in 2 23. Abdomen grey. Legs grey.
Forewings triangular, costa straight nearly to apex, apex rounded, termen slightly
bowed, scarcely oblique; pale-grey; a broad median brownish band occupies
nearly half of wing, and is edged by slender whitish lines; in 2 this may be
obsolete, its edges being represented by slender grey lines; sometimes a faintly
darker discal spot; a subterminal series of fuscous dots, sometimes indistinct;
cilia grey. Hindwings with termen rounded; grey; cilia grey.
There is a series including the type in the British Museum. In the fore-
BY A. J. TURNER. 409
wings vein 8 usually arises separately from the cell, but in the d may be con-
nate or short-stalked with 9, 10.
N.W.A.: Roeburne, Sherlock River.
3. Genus HREMAEBA.
Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1915, 803. (€pymuatos living in the desert)
Type, E. zonospila Low.
Eyes moderate, smooth. Palpi short. Thorax and abdomen very densely
hairy. Forewings with 6 separate, 7 and 8 stalked. Hindwings with disco-
cellular not developed leaving cell open, occasionally a slight indication of dorsal
end of discocellular is present, and 4 and 5 are seen to be stalked, 11 absent,
12 anastomosing with 7 near base, subcostal cell small, pseudoneuria scarcely or
not developed.
An isolated genus.
12. HREMAEA ZONOSPILA.
Bombyx zonospila Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. §. Aust., 1893, 150.
6. 34-40 mm. Head and thorax whitish. Palpi fuscous. Antennae
ochreous-brown, stalk grey. Abdomen ochreous or ochreous-fuscous; beneath
whitish. Legs whitish. Forewings triangular, costa ‘straight, apex rounded, ter-
men strongly bowed, slightly oblique; whitish or grey-whitish; two finely dentate,
dark-fuscous, oblique lines, first from one-fourth dorsum to beneath one-third
costa, edged posteriorly with ochreous, second from mid-dorsum to beneath two-
thirds costa, edged anteriorly with ochreous; cilia whitish. Hindwings with ter-
men rounded; densely hairy towards base; fuscous; cilia whitish.
2. 42-62 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs whitish-
ochreous or fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded,
termen bowed, oblique; whitish-ochreous or fuscous with some whitish irroration ;
sometimes indistinct oblique antemedian and postmedian darker lines; cilia con-
colorous. Hindwings with termen rounded; colour and cilia as forewings.
The sexes are so dissimilar that I should not have suspected them to be the
same species, if Mrs. Williams of Cairns Station near Charleville had not for-
warded me four males and six females. The peculiar neuration is the same in
both, so that there is little room for doubt.
Queensland: Charleville; South Australia: Ooldea, Eucla, Musgrave Ranges;
Western Australia: Kalgoorlie.
This is an inhabitant of the arid interior.
Genus EREMONOMA nov.
épnud-vouos, an inhabitant of the desert.
Hyes moderate or rather large, smooth or hairy. Palpi short, not reaching
beyond frontal tuft. Forewings with 2 from one-third, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 con-
nate or short-stalked with them; 11 from two-thirds. Hindwings with 4 and 5
separate or short-stalked, 7 from about middle of cell, 11 absent, 12 anastomosing
with cell from near base to origin of 7, and with basal part of 7, subcostal cell
minute or absent, a large and usually branching pseudoneurium from base; cell
one-fourth or one-third.
Type, EH. apasta. This genus affects dry country. It is specialised by the
loss or extreme reduction of the subcostal cell by coalescence. In the first two
species the eyes are smooth, in the last two hairy. Possibly when more material
is available it may be advisable to divide the genus.
2
410 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
Key to species.
1. Forewings reddish .. .. oe apasta
INO MUN WMI Gi odo OG gal od 06100 64 G0 60 09°06 00 55 bo 60 BOMSHD
OMehON. Ah So. oo om ea oo be 0600 BG oo Go 00 BO.5000 06 Go 2.
2. Forewings with fuscous transverse lines .. .. .. .. ., .. .. -- -- nephelodes
OREN ONES ypleaUOTKY OVEN) G4 146 55 6a 60 be 60 a5 50 bo G0 oo oo MMollonaosa)
13. HREMONOMA APASTA, 2.Sp.
dmacros, unsprinkled.
3S. 25 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs dull-reddish. Antennae
reddish; pectinations whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, costa straight to
near apex, apex round-pointed, termen nearly straight, slightly oblique; dull-
reddish; cilia dull-reddish. Hindwings with termen rounded; dull-reddish, or
ochreous-whitish with slight reddish suffusion towards margins; cilia reddish, on
dorsum sometimes ochreous-whitish.
Queensland: Charleville in November; North-west Australia: Sherlock River
(type in British Museum). Two specimens.
14. EREMONOMA ZORISTIS, n.sp.
6. 30 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs whitish. Antennae
whitish; pectinations fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex,
apex round-pointed, termen scarcely bowed, scarcely oblique; uniformly whitish;
cilia whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded; whitish; cilia whitish.
Type in Coll. Goldfinch.
South Australia: Port Augusta in October; one specimen.
15. HREMONOMA NEPHELODES, n.sp.
vepedwdys, cloudy.
3. 24 mm. Head and thorax grey mixed with whitish. Palpi 23; grey.
Antennae whitish; pectinations in d 6, grey. Abdomen pale-grey. Legs grey.
Forewings triangular, costa straight, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, slightly
oblique; whitish-grey, median area grey; an oblique fuscous line from one-sixth
costa to one-third dorsum; a dark-fuscous discal spot just beyond middle; a
fuscous line from three-fourths costa to two-thirds termen, ill-defined anteriorly;
a fine, fuscous, dentate, wavy line from costa near apex, bent inward in dise
and continued close to postmedian line to dorsum; cilia whitish-grey. Hindwings
with termen rounded; whitish; cilia whitish obscurely barred with grey.
Mr. W. H. T. Tams, who has kindly examined, at my request, the type in
the British Museum, informs me that the eyes are densely hairy.
Western Australia: Yallingup; one specimen taken by Mr. R. E. Turner.
16. HREMONOMA HOLOPOLIA, n.sp.
édorodos , wholly grey.
2. 42 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs grey. Fore-
wings triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen scarcely
bowed, oblique; uniformly grey; cilia grey. Hindwings with termen rounded,
grey; cilia grey.
Queensland: Clermont in November; one specimen received from Mr. E. J.
Dumigan.
BY A. J. TURNER. 411
5. Genus PoRELA.
Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., ii., 772. Type, P. vetusta Wk.
Eyes hairy. Palpi short or moderate, not exceeding frontal tuft. Fore-
wings with 2 from before middle of cell, 6 and 7 stalked (rarely connate), 8
separate, connate, or short-stalked, 11 from about middle of cell. Hindwings
with cell less than 3; 4 and 5 separate or connate (very rarely short-stalked),
7 from about middle, 11 absent; 12 anastomosing with 7 near its base, sub-
costal cell moderate, with usually two pseudoneuria, one from near its base, one
from beyond middle, but the second may be absent, and rarely there are more
than two.
This is a genus of some size with some range of variation in structure,
pattern, and coloration.
Key to species.
1. Forewings with veins more or less ochreous-tinged . Hamone 2.
Forewings with veins not ochreous-tinged ., .. .. .. .2 «2 oo oe 5.
R. JabinGh AES ESCONS ao 456 55 bo 45 oo Oo od 66 0d a6) 65 Ho 60 Uo du OaWar
Hindwings not fuscous . ct DUE a het Tin cee Bia nie lar eter aR ar s
8. Forewings without discal See - Sea edt aR re eee asaya 2 OA OD TUS
Forewings with discal spot .. .. .. MT AA) decree te 4,
4. Head and thorax white; antennal aeeiiiatone Maan .. .. +s - delineata
Head and thorax ochreous-whitish or grey-whitish; ancrenmnel pectinations
OCIRSOUS OF OCMMBGUESIEEOUS 56 56 00 do 60.06 50 66 Go 00 60 60 oo bITRIOG
Depcacdeancd thorax wilitel vse si aie tae) el ele GIN clei aus ttetat satel cere tadae 6.
Head and thorax not white .. .. .. Sine ve haba Bevatee RAL Ly ae 8.
6. Forewings white with suffused fuscous eninge Sac Us Pebeatees os trene ets QIUELbLOTOG
Forewings brown with white markings .. .. ., .. .. «2 ss es wes Ue
7. Forew:ngs with blackish subterminal spots .. .. . . .. .subfasciata
Forewings with brown subterminal spots edged aantiesteniey ‘with white .. .
contermina
Ge nchwines eiiscOus at) ASE =e.) secs) sel 1 se sie eee oe -Galactodes
Hindwings not fuscous at base .. .. .. a its as iedonel oat Neko vo are cose ats 9.
9. Forewings with postmedian line Gea Grecores Tel MMeveneosieh Meret emits hee es MOLBOLLES
Forewings with postmedian line not dark-fuscous .. ,., .. ......
10. Forewings without antemedian line... .. .. .. .. .. .. «2 os «+ »» - amathodes
HoTrewinesm with amtemedianmlines sey seinem cen Sou oer eiiein sere ee tes - albifinis
17. PORELA VETUSTA.
Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., ii., 772.—Perna varia Whlk., ibid., v., 1128.—Clathe
anthracica Turn., Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., 1902, 186.
3. 34-36 mm. 9. 45-54 mm. Head white; face more or less mixed with
ochreous and fuscous. Palpi ochreous mixed with fuscous. Antennae dark-
fuscous, stalk ochreous. Thorax dark-fuscous; in @ tegulae and patagia white.
Abdomen dark-fuscous; tuft white. Legs dark-fuscous; anterior pair barred
with ochreous above, clothed with white hair beneath. Forewings elongate-
triangular, costa straight in d, gently arched in 2, apex round-pointed, termen
slightly bowed, slightly oblique in 3, more so in 2; dark-fuscous; in ¢ a small
variable white blotch below middle, sometimes nearly obsolete; in @ this is much
larger and extends from base to postmedian line, where it is acutely angled; a
transverse dentate sub-basal line, fuscous edged anteriorly with white; a white
median discal dot, sometimes obsolete in d; postmedian veins partly outlined
with ochreous; a finely dentate, curved line from 2 costa to mid-dorsum, usually
not very distinct; cilia white barred with fuscous, bases sometimes ochreous.
412 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAEg,
Hindwings with termen rounded; in ¢ dark-fuscous, in $ fuscous; cilia as fore-
wings.
Queensland: Rosewood; New South Wales: Ebor, Barrington Tops, Sydney,
Katoomba, Jervis Bay, Mt. Kosciusko; Victoria: Healesville, Dandenong, Moe,
Wandin, Gembrook; South Australia: Mt. Lofty, Port Lincoln.
18. PORELA OBTUSA.
Pinara obtusa Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxi., 315.—Opsirhina metastigma WIk.,
ibid., xxxii., 556.—Mecytha antiqua Wlk., Char. Undese. Lep., p. 20.
6. 34mm. §. 37-40 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi grey mixed with
fuscous. Antennae fuscous, stalk grey. Abdomen grey; in 6 suffused with
fuscous towards base of dorsum. Legs grey; tarsi fuscous with whitish an-
nulations. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa in d straight, in 2 arched, apex
rounded, termen slightly bowed, in gd slightly oblique, in 2 more strongly so;
grey-whitish mixed with grey; a subterminal series of blackish dots, preceded
on dorsum by an irregular patch chequered with blackish, and traversed by two
short ochreous streaks on veins; cilia pale-grey. Hindwings with termen
rounded; grey; cilia grey-whitish.
New South Wales: Sydney.
19. PORELA DELINEATA.
Tacillia delineata Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1490.
6. 3438 mm. §. 40-46 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi dark-fuscous
mixed with pale-ochreous. Antennal stalk whitish with some fuscous scales, or
wholly fuscous; pectinations blackish. Abdomen whitish; on dorsum mostly
fuscous, less so in &. Legs usually whitish; tarsi dark-fuscous annulated with
pale-ochreous. Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex in d, gently
arched in %, apex rounded, termen slightly bowed, slightly oblique; whitish
irrorated and suffused with fuscous, darker towards costa and base; veins more
or less outlined with ochreous; a transverse dentate line from one-third costa to
two-fifths dorsum, fuscous edged anteriorly with whitish; a finely denticulate
line from two-thirds costa, at first outwardly oblique, then bent strongly in-
wards ending on mid-dorsum, fuscous, edged posteriorly with whitish; a white
discal spot before middle; space between lines suffusedly white towards dorsum;
a subterminal series of blackish dots near and parallel to second line; cilia
whitish barred with fuscous opposite veins. Hindwings with termen rounded;
pale-fuscous, usually with a transverse whitish median band, sometimes almost
wholly waitish; cilia as forewings.
Very similar to P. arida, but without reddish coloration in hindwings and
abdomen, markings of forewings more distinct, head and thorax white, antennal
pectinations blackish.
Victoria: Melbourne; South Australia: Port Lincoln.
20. PORELA ARIDA.
Clathe arida Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., v., 994.—Listoca lignaria Wlk., ibid.,
v., 1021.—Sorema nubila Wlk., ibid., v., 1065——Perna metastigma Wlk., ibid.,
Xxx, 477.
3. 36-42 mm. 9. 46-60 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish or grey-
whitish. Palpi fuscous. Antennal stalk whitish irrorated with fuscous; pectin-
ations ochreous or ochreous-fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish; in ¢ basal
three-fourths of dorsum fuscous-red. Legs ochreous-whitish; tarsi whitish or
pale-ochreous barred with blackish. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched,
BY A. J. TURNER. 413
apex rounded, termen bowed, slightly oblique in d, more so in 9, ochreous-
whitish, more or less suffused with brownish-ochreous and grey; veins in ter-
minal area more or less ochreous-tinged; a strongly dentate tuscous transverse
line from one-third costa to one-third dorsum, sometimes obsolete; a white,
median, discal dot; a tuscous line from three-fourths costa, at first very acutely
dentate and transverse, then bent sharply inwards and shortly dentate to mid-
dorsum, usually distinct, sometimes faint; a fuscous suffused patch on dorsum
posterior to this line; a subterminal series of fuscous dots suffusedly edged
with whitish, sometimes elongate, sometimes nearly obsolete; cilia ochreous-
whitish with fuscous bars, but these are sometimes obsolete in &. Hindwings
with termen rounded; in d fuscous-reddish, in 2 ochreous-whitish with slight
brownish or- grey suffusion; cilia as forewings.
Northern Territory: Stapleton; North Queensland: Prince of Wales Is.,
Cairns, Ingham, Townsville; Queensland: Duaringa, Brisbane; New South Wales:
Lismore, Sydney, Jervis Bay.
21. PORELA VITULINA.
Bombyx vitulina Don., Ins. New Holl., Pl. 35.
3. 48-50 mm. §. 64mm. Head white; face ochreous-tinged with a median
transverse fuscous line. Palpi dark-fuscous, apical third ochreous. Antennae
ochreous-fuscous, stalk whitish irrorated with fuscous. Thorax white; a central
fuscous longitudinal line diverging into a broad V at each extremity. Legs
fuscous annulated with ochreous; anterior tibiae with ventral hairs white. Fore-
wines triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen slightly
bowed, in ¢ slightly oblique, in 2 more strongly so; white with some patchy
fuscous suffusion and fuscous markings; a basal patch; a broad, outwardly-
eurved, transverse line at +; a median, white-centred, discal spot; a broad line
from beyond mid-costa, at first transverse, then oblique to mid-dorsum, with a
posterior tooth above and another below middle; a twice-sinuate, dentate, sub-
terminal line; a terminal suffusion; cilia white with fuscous bars. Hindwings
with termen rounded; fuscous with suffused, transverse, median and subterminal,
paler fasciae; cilia as forewings.
Queensland: Brisbane, Southport, Coolangatta; New South Wales: New-
castle; Victoria: Melbourne.
22. PORELA SUBFASCIATA.
Sinaga subfasciata Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., iv., 855.—Bombyx barnardi Luc.,
Trans. Nat. Hist. Soe. Q’ld., i., 104.
3. 34 mm. %. 44-50 mm. Head and thorax white, more or less suffused
with brown. Palpi white with dark-fusecous hairs from base. Antennae dark-
fuscous. Abdomen fuscous-brown; tuft paler. Legs brown-whitish; tarsi dark-
fuscous annulated with white. Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex,
apex rounded, termen straight, in d not oblique, in 2 slightly so; fuscous-brown;
an outwardly-curved, broad, white, sub-basal, transverse line to near dorsum,
where it curves inwards towards base; a white median discal spot; a sinuate line
from ? costa to mid-dorsum; a suffused white subterminal fascia preceded below
costa and on dorsum, interrupted in middle, and partly edged posteriorly, by
blackish spots; cilia fuscous brown. Hindwings with termen rounded; fuscous:—-~~~
brown, in @ paler; cilia white. C
New South Wales: Bathurst; Tasmania: Ulverstone, Georgetown.
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414 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
23. PORELA GALACTODES.
Bombyx galactodes Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1893, 151.
3d. 4446 mm. 9%. 68 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen in ¢ dark-
fuscous, in 2 fuseous. Antennae brownish, stalk fuscous. Legs fuscous; tarsi
annulated with white. Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex
rounded, termen bowed, oblique; white generally suffused or irrorated with
fuscous, more densely so towards base and between first and second lines, whiter
in costal area between second and third lines; an outwardly-curved, dark-fuscous
sub-basal line curved inwards towards base of dorsum; an antemedian, pale-
centred discal spot; a dark-fuscous line irregularly dentate with a posterior
tooth above middle, from or from beyond mid-eosta to mid-dorsum; a finely
dentate subterminal line indented beneath costa; cilia fuscous. Hindwings with
termen rounded; in ¢ dark-fuscous with a white terminal band, interrupted on
veins, and not quite reaching tornus; in 2 whitish, basal area and a postmedian °
line fuseous; cilia fusecous.
Queensland: Duaringa, Clermont; Victoria: Kewell, Birchip. In a ¢
example from the last locality the terminal white band of hindwings is broader
and more suffused, and the apices of palpi are whitish. In the 2 from Kewell
the hindwings are almost wholly grey-whitish. This form is a local race of
galactodes; it has been known as homospila Meyr., but I do not think that
name has been published. :
24. PORELA NOTAPILIS.
Teara notabilis Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., iv., 852.—Cosmotricha notodontina
Feld., Reise Nov., Pl. 84, f. 11—Bombyx mioleuca Meyr., Trans. Roy. Soe. S.
Aust., 1891, 190.
3. 43 mm. &. 56 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous or grey. An-
tennae fuscous or grey; pectinations ochreous-tinged, in d 12, in 2 23. Abdomen
grey. Legs fuscous or grey. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa straight
nearly to apex in d, straight to two-thirds in @, apex rounded, termen slightly
bowed, oblique; grey; a basal fuscous patch in d; a dark-fuscous, straight, sub-
basal, transverse line, edged anteriorly with whitish; a whitish discal spot before
middle, edged with fuscous, slightly reniform; a thick dark fuseous line from
three-fifths costa obtusely angled outwards in disc, then eurved inwards, bent
outwards again to end on three-fifths dorsum, edged posteriorly with whitish; a
subterminal series of whitish spots, or in 2 a subterminal whitish suffusion con-
taining a suffused wavy dark line; cilia grey, apices whitish, with fuscous bars
opposite veins. Hindwings with termen strongly rounded; whitish; cilia whitish.
Described from two examples including the type in the British Museum.
Three examples in my own collection have the discoidal spot almost cireular.
New South Wales: Bourke; Victoria: Birchip, Kewell; South Australia:
Adelaide; Western Australia: Northam, Kalgoorlie.
25. PoRELA AMATHODES, n.sp.
apadwons, sandy.
3. 32 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish. Antennae
brown-whitish; pectinations in d 12. Legs pale brownish. Forewings elongate-
triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen bowed, scarcely
oblique; pale brownish with slight fuseous irroration in eell and on veins; a
pale discal spot before middle in darker area; a double fuscous line with a
contained pale line from ? costa to mid-dorsum, rcunded in dise, sinuate above
RY A. J. TURNER. 415.
dorsum; cilia brownish mixed with fuscous. Hindwings with termen strongly
rounded; ochreous-whitish; cilia ochreous-whitish.
Differs from other species of Porela in having 6 and 7 of the forewings
connate not stalked.
N.W.A.: Sherlock River; one specimen in the British Museum.
26. PORELA ALBIIINIS.
Caliia albifinis Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1483.
S. 3242 mm. 2. 48 mm. Head, palpi, brown. Antennae brown mixed
with whitish; pectinations pale-ochreous, in ¢ 12, in 2 2. Thorax brown, tips
of hairs whitish; posteriorly fuscous. Abdomen white; basal segments fuscous
on dorsum. Legs brown. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa straight nearly
to apex, apex rounded, termen bowed, slightly oblique; brown, somewhat reddish
tinged or fuscous-brown; a whitish transverse line near base with a sharp pos-
terior tooth beneath costa; a white median discal spot, outlined with blackish,
more or less reniform; a wavy whitish line from two-thirds costa to two-thirds
dorsum; a whitish subterminal shade containing a dentate dark line; cilia brown
or fuscous-brown. Hindwings with termen strongly rounded; whitish; cilia
whitish.
Described from three examples including the type in the British Museum.
New South Wales: Sydney; Victoria: Melbourne; Tasmania: Hobart,
Launceston.
27. PORELA CONTERMINA.
Callia albifinis 2. Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1483.—Callia contermina Wlk.,
Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxii., 572.
2. 39 mm. Head whitish; sides of face dark-fuscous. Palpi 3; dark-
fuseous. Antennae dark-fuscous; pectinations in 2 1. Thorax whitish. Abdo-
men brown, tuft whitish. Legs fuscous with long whitish hairs; tarsi fuscous:
annulated with whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa straight to two-
thirds, thence gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique; brown;
markings white; a median basal spot; a fine, wavy, slightly outwardly-curved
line from one-sixth costa to one-sixth dorsum; a median discal spot; a finely
dentate, outwardly-curved line from two-thirds costa to dorsum beyond middle;
a series of rather large dark-brown spots from apex to tornus, finely edged
posteriorly with white; cilia white, apices and bars opposite veins brown. Hind-
wings with termen strongly rounded; brown, paler near base; cilia brown, bases
partly whitish.
Allied to P. albifinis, but structurally peculiar in having four pseudoneuria
from subcostal cell, two before and two after middle. The description is taken
from the British Museum type, which is from Tasmania.
6. Genus SympHymTas.
Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1902, 187. Type, S. psaropis Turn.
Kyes hairy. Palpi short, not extending beyond frontal tuft. | Forewings
with 2 from one-third, 3 from two-thirds, 6, 7, 8 stalked. Hindwings with cell
z to one-third; 2 from shortly before angle, 4 and 5 stalked from angle, 3
Separate, connate, or short-stalked, 7 from near base, 11 absent, 12 anastomosing
with 7 near its base; subcostal cell small, with two strong sometimes branching
pseudoneuria, one from base, the other from middle.
416 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
Key to species.
1. Forewings with an oblique postmedian line .. .. .. .. .. .. «. «. orygramma
Forewings without postmedian line .. .. ert Re Co Me aioe rey IRE Zp
2 Forewings with termen strongly sinuate in ey G40 5D oo, 00. 26 GOlFIOMES
Forewings with termen not SI WATE orton) Oh ah seo tay I es Een ce es 3.
By AWATNES TENS co 45 04 0 0060, 9605 a6 do oF a0 39 09 96 50 wo WMCIOIUS
\iyatayas: wylovisisinicotN oe Sol on 55. 65 60 56. 45 05 95 59 do 46 on RMIMOIDUS
28. SYMPHYTA OXYGRAMMA,
Bombyx oxygramma Low., Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., 1902, 213.
3S. 34-36 mm. 2. 42 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen fuscous or
grey. Antennae dark-fuscous. Legs fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular,
costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen slightly bowed, oblique; whitish
with general dense fuscous irroration, appearing grey; a fuscous discal dot be-
fore middle on end of cell; a finely dentate fuscous line from beneath apex to
two-thirds dorsum, more or less edged with whitish anteriorly; cilia grey-whitish
barred with fusecous. Hindwings with termen rounded; grey-whitish; cilia as
forewings.
An inland species.
Queensland: Jandowae; New South Wales: Bourke, Broken Hill; South
Australia: MeDouall Peak; Western Australia: Quairading, Merredin.
29. SYMPHYTA COLPODES, n.Sp.
KoATwOons, Sinuate.
6. 36 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen and legs fuscous.
Forewings elongate- ‘aicvasllans costa straight to near apex, there strongly arched,
apex pointed, termen strongly sinuate, oblique; fuscous with general whitish
irroration, appearing dark-grey; a whitish median discal spot; most veins out-
lined with fuscous; cilia fuscous, apices white except opposite veins. Hindwings
with termen rounded; fuscous; cilia as forewings.
Western Australia: Cunderdin in November; one specimen received from Mr.
R. Llidge.
30. SYMPHYTA NYCTOPIS.
urn. “branss wove SOc.) Ss Aste. 902. Sie
North Queensland: Townsville; Queensland: Emerald, Jandowae; Victoria:
Sea Lake. Apparently confined to dry districts.
31. SYMPHYTA PSAROPIS.
Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1902, 187.
North Queensland: Cairns, Townsville; Queensland: Gayndah.
7. Genus CYCLOPHRAGMA.
Turn., Ann. Q’ld. Mus., x., 1911, 94. Type, C. cyclomela Low.
Eyes smooth. Palpi short, not reaching beyond frontal tuft. | Forewings
with 2 from one-third, 3 from two-thirds, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 separate, 11 from
two-thirds. Hindwings in 6 elongate; cell about 4; 2 from shortly before angle,
4 and 5 stalked, 7 from about middle, 11 absent, 12 anastomosing very shortly
with 7 after its origin; subcostal cell moderately large, a strong pseudoneurium
from its base, and some very weak indications of additional pseudoneuria.
BY A. J. TURNER. AUT
32. CYCLOPHRAGMA CYCLOMELA.
Opsirhina cyclomela Low., Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., 1903, 183.
3. 60-66 mm. Head and thorax pale-ochreous-grey. Palpi fuscous irro-
rated with grey. Antennae greyish ochreous with some fuscous scales. Abdomen
ochreous with lateral series of large blackish marks on each segment, approxi-
mated but not meeting dorsally; tuft and underside grey. Legs grey; anterior
pair fuscous; tarsi annulated with whitish. Forewings suboval, costa strongly
arched, apex rounded, termen nearly straight, oblique; pale-ochreous-grey with
some fuscous irroration; a small ochreous tuft of hairs on base of dorsum; five,
wavy, or crenulate, fuscous, transverse lines; first slender, sub-basal; second at
one-sixth; third at one-third, stronger towards costa; fourth beyond middle
stronger towards costa; fifth at two-thirds, faintly marked; a minute white
discal dot posterior to third line; a subterminal series of blackish dots; cilia
erey. Hindwings strongly elongate, termen rounded; grey, almost wholly suf-
fused with fuscous, but apical area free from suffusion and crossed by two
fuscous lines; extreme base with ochreous hairs; cilia fuscous-grey, apices
whitish.
2. 90-110 mm. Forewings similar, but transverse lines very faintly in-
dicated; no basal tuft on dorsum. Hindwings not elongate; uniformly grey,
except for a slight ochreous tinge at base. Abdomen uniformly grey.
North Queensland: Cooktown, Townsville, Mackay.
8. Genus ENTOMETA.
Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., iv., 972. Type, H. marginata W1k.
Hyes smooth, large, rather smaller in &. Palpi very long, porrect, much
exceeding frontal tuft. Forewings elongate; 2 from one-third; 3 from two-
thirds, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 connate or separate, 11 from middle. Hindwings
with cell less than 4; 2 from before angle, 4 and 5 stalked, 3 connate or short-
stalked, 7 from one-third, 11 absent, 12 anastomosing very shortly with 7 near
its origin; subcostal cell moderate, with basal and median pseudoneuria, the
former often obsolete.
Distinguished from the following genus by its large smooth eyes. The
species are closely allied and require careful discrimination.
Key to males.
1. Hindwings blackish with orange term'nal band .. .. .. .. .. .. .. marginata
' Hindwings not so .. .. ALVA S Wate teaties Sch Uh ahah Ute Sen ROTEL A cy ed De
2. Hindwings fuscous or dark reddish er rie cas SR Mea ONTOS
Hindwings orange .. .. 3 oc oe
3. Hindwings with more or less. fuscous siaitiasiom in basal fe: thirds apicalis
Hindwings without basal fuscous suffusion .. .. 4.
4. Forewings with transverse lines and dark Saonertlon more or » ieee develonad ee
oF
Forewings pale, without lI'nes and irroration .. .. .. .. .... .. albida
5. Forewings with conspicuous, broad, suffused lines .. .. .. .. .. .. guttularis
Forewings with lines very slender, inconspicuous, not suffused .. . 6.
6. Forewings narrowly triangular, apex po’nted .: .. .. .. .. .. -- sobria
Borewings sbroad) sapex amore; rounded,|). 4. 4. +. )..).. 2. 446 ehlorosacce
It does not seem possible to construct a satisfactory key for the females,
but the following characters will be found helpful. The female albida is very
418 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
similar to the d, and has no irroration nor markings except a discal dot on the
forewings. The female marginata I have not seen. E. fervens has sometimes a
dusky suffusion, which is never present in other species, and very often a dark
suffusion across hindwings, which is absent in sobria and chiorosacca. It is
smaller than sobria, the forewings have the ground colour more whitish, and the
transverse lines are more distinct; a@picalis is very lke sobria; but often larger,
the hindwings more deeply orange, and with a suffused median transverse darker
shade; guttularis is readily distinguished by the broad dark transverse lines on
forewings; chlorosacca has the lines on forewings very slightly, if at all, deve-
loped, contrasting with the well-marked discal spot.
E. sobria and probably other species spin an oval whitish cocoon, as found
in other genera; chlorosacca is conspicuously distinct by its oval cocoon of a
bright green colour, which is unique, so far as I know, in the Lepidoptera. The
cocoon of apicalis is brown, and quadrangular from the longitudinally arranged
narrow leaves, which are incorporated with it. |More knowledge of the early
stages of these and other species is needed. The possibility cannot at present be
excluded, that guttularis may be a varietal] form of sobria, and that both may be
a local race of fervens; I think, however, they are good species.
33. ENTOMETA MARGINATA.
Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., iv., 972.
3. 55-60 mm. Head and thorax brown with fine orange irroration. Palpi
24; brown. Antennae fuscous-brown. Abdomen blackish. Legs brown. Fore-
wings narrowly triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen
sinuate, strongly excavated in middle, strongly oblique; brown densely irrorated
with orange; three transverse fuscous lines; first from one-fifth costa to one-
fifth dorsum, outwardly curved and dentate; an obseure fuscous dot on end of
cell at +4; second line from two-thirds costa to dorsum before middle, finely
waved; third from ? dorsum, parallel to termen, wavy, becoming obsolete towards
eosta; cilia brown. Hindwings with termen rounded; 4 and 5 short-stalked;
blackish; an orange terminal band not quite reaching apex and tornus, sharply
defined, its anterior border dentate; cilia orange, on apex and dorsum blackish.
I do not know the 2 of this species.
Victoria: Melbourne, Gisborne; Tasmania: — ——.
34. ENTOMETA FERVENS.
2. Opsirhina fervens Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi. 1419.—d. Lebeda obscura
WIk., ibid., vi., 1464—¢. Lebeda saturata Whk., ibid., xxxii., 569.—d. Entometa
despecta Wlk., Char. Undese. Lep., p. 66.
3. 44-64 mm. Head and thorax pale-ochreous usually finely irrorated with
reddish or fuscous. Palpi 23 to 3; fuscous with more or less pale-ochreous
irroration. Antennae fuscous; pectinations ochreous-tinged. Abdomen fuscous
or fuscous-reddish; paler beneath. Legs brownish. Forewings narrowly tri-
angular, costa straight to near apex, apex pointed, termen sinuate, oblique; pale-
ochreous with more or less fine reddish or fuscous irroration, sometimes dense;
lines slender, fuscous; first from + costa, slightly angled posteriorly beneath
costa, not reaching dorsum; a fuscous diseal mark on end of cell before middle;
second line from # costa to mid-dorsum, nearly straight, obscurely denticulate;
third from beneath costa near apex to about 2? dorsum, interrupted to form a
series of inter-neural dots; cilia concolorous. Hindwings with termen rounded;
BY A. J. TURNER. 419
3 connate or shori-stalked; dark-fusecus, usually reddish-tinged towards dorsum
and base, or wholly madi: cilia concolorous. Underside of forewings reddish-
ochreous; towards apex and termen ochreous-grey; first and third lines obsolete,
second developed; of hindwings ochreous-grey with a large dorsal fuscous or
reddish suffusion, from which two fusecus lines proceed to costa beyond middle.
2 66-75 mm. Palpi 5. Forewings broader, costa arched, apex more
rounded, termen bowed; whitish-ochreous, occasionally with fuscous irroration
towards termen; lines as in 6, but more distinet and sometimes reddish. Hind-
wings orange; often with a fuscous or reddish, transverse, median suffusion.
Walker’s type is a @ from Sydney, with an indistinct darker band across
forewings. One 2 from Melbourne has the hindwings fuscous-brown.
New South Wales: Neweastle, Sydney, Broken Hull; Victoria: Melbourne;
Tasmania: Launceston; South Australia: Adelaide, Mt. Lofty.
35. ENTOMETA APICALIS.
3. Lebeda apicalis Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1464.
6. 66-75 mm. Head and thorax ochreous or reddish-ochreous. Palpi 23;
brown. Abdomen fuscous or brown; paler beneath. Legs fuscous or brown.
Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen slightly
sinuate oblique; pale-ochreous with more or less fine reddish-brown irroration ;
markings fuscous-brown; first line from one-fifth costa, angled outwards above
and below middle, obsolete towards dorsum; a discal dot at one-third; second
line from two-thirds costa to mid-dorsum, denticulate; third line from beneath
costa near apex to ? dorsum, interrupted on veins to form a series of anteriorly
eurved lunules; cilia concolorous. Hindwings with termen strongly rounded; 3
connate with 4, 5; orange, basal two-thirds more or less suffused with fuscous-
brown; cilia ochreous or orange. Underside of forewings with second and
third lines developed; of hindwings ochreous-grey with a transverse fusecous ante-
median line.
?. 80-122 mm. Palpi 5. Coloration as in d, but abdomen pale-ochreous;
hindwings with 3 separate or connate; orange with usually a faint, darker,
median, transverse shade. Forewings with costa arched, termen slightly bowed;
markings similar but less distinct.
The ¢ is easily recognised by its larger size, broader, pale forewings with
distinct but slender lines and dichroic hindwings. The @ is very similar to
E. fervens.
Queensland: Mt. Tambourine; New South Wales: Sydney; Victoria: Mel-
bourne, Gisborne, Birehip; Tasmania: Launceston; South Australia: Murray
Bridge.
36. ENTOMETA GUTTULARIS.
¢. Amydona guttularis Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1413.—9. O psirhina
decorata Whk., ibid., xxxil., 555.
3S. 55 mm. Head and thorax brownish-ochreous. Palpi 3; fuscous-brown.
Antennae dark-fuscous; pectinations ochreous. Abdomen brownish-ochreous.
Legs brown. Forewings narrow, triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex
roundpointed, termen slightly sinuate, oblique; pale-ochreous with brown irro-
ration and markings; a basal costal spot; three stout transverse lines very dis-
tinetly geygloned; suffused and more or less confluent towards dorsum; first from
4 costa to } dorsum, acutely angled posteriorly beneath costa; a ime oee mark
on end of cell at two-fifths; second line from two-thirds costa to before mid-
420 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
dorsum, nearly straight, wavy; third line from beneath costa near apex to two-
thirds dorsum, broadly suffused and confluent with second line in dorsal half,
posterior edge sinuate and subdentate; a narrow terminal suffusion; cilia brown.
Hindwings with termen strongly rounded; 3 stalked with 4, 5 or separate;
orange; a small brown costal suffusion; cilia brown. Underside paler; forewings
with second and third lines only; hindwings with two short lines from costa be-
yond middle.
?. 170-172 mm. Coloration similar but paler. Palpi 4. Forewings broader,
termen slightly bowed; markings strongly developed, but first line does not reach
dorsum, discal mark at one-third; second and third lines much less suffused.
Hindwings with 3 separate or connate.
This species is easily recognised, but, until the early stages are known, its
distinctness from EH. fervens will not be established. Walker erroneously gave
the locality of his type of guttularis as South Afriea.
Queensland: Brisbane.
37. ENTOMETA SOBRIA.
2. Opsirhina sobria Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxii., 556—d. O. flexicosta
Feld., Reise Nov., Pl. 84, f. 4, 5.
3. 52-58 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-reddish, usually finely irrorated
with pale-ochreous. Palpi 3 to 34; fuscous, irrorated with pale-ochreous. An-
tennae fuscous; pectinations ochreous-tinged. | Abdomen pale-ochreous more or
less suffused with fuscous-brown. Legs brown. Forewings rather narrow, tri-
angular, costa straight to near apex, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, oblique;
pale-ochreous, more or less irrorated with reddish-fuscous, or rarely reddish with
sight pale-ochreous irroration; transverse lines fuscous, very slender, often
obscure or partly obsolete; first line from + costa, angled posteriorly beneath
costa, not reaching dorsum, sometimes obsolete; sometimes a slight discal mark
at two-fifths; second line from ~ costa to mid-dorsum, sometimes denticulate; third
line obsolete, or represented by a few spots only; cilia concolorous. Hindwings
with termen strongly rounded; 3 connate or short-stalked; orange; a reddish-grey
costal blotch; at base, dorsum, and sometimes termen narrowly pale-ochreous;
cilia ochreous, sometimes mixed with brown. Underside of forewings grey, more
or less orange-tinged in centre, second line well-developed, but not reaching dorsum;
of hindwings grey, with a large whitish-ochreous dorsal bloteh connected with
mid-costa by a short fuscous line.
2 CBOs wit ~ Iellol 3 to Be Forewings broader, costa arched, apex
rounded, termen bowed; whitish-ochreous with very slight brownish irroration;
lines very slender, but better marked than in d; third line represented by a series:
of spots. Hindwings pale-orange.
Walker’s type is a 2 from Brisbane.
North Queensland: Cardwell; Queensland: Brisbane, Toowoomba; New
South Wales: Lismore; Victoria: Melbourne, Brentwood, Kewell; Western Aus-
tralia: Albany, Perth.
38. ENTOMETA CHLOROSACCA, n.sp.
XAwposaxkos, with green sack.
3. 60-75 mm. Head and thorax pale-ochreous, sometimes reddish-tinged.
Palpi 23 to 3; fuseous with some pale-ochreous irroration. Antennae fuscous;
pectinations sometimes ochreous-tinged. Abdomen ochreous-grey or ochreous-
whitish. Legs brownish or grey. Forewings moderately broad, triangular, costa
BY A. J. TURNER. 421.
straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen slightly sinuate, oblique; whitish,
more or less densely irrorated with reddish-brown; lines fuscous or reddish,
sometimes distinct, sometimes very slender, partly obsolete; first line from 4
costa, slightly angled posteriorly beneath costa, not reaching dorsum; a small
discal dot or mark; second line from ? costa to mid-dorsum, sometimes denti-
culate; third line obsolete; cilia concolorous. Hindwings with termen rounded;
3 connate; orange; sometimes grey on costa and part of termen, and pale-
ochreous on base and dorsum; cilia orange or brownish, apices whitish. Under-
side grey; of forewings orange-tinged; second line of forewings developed;
hindwings with a short transverse fuscous line from mid-costa.
2. 66-98 mm. Forewings rather paler, costa arched, termen bowed; all
lines obsolete, or with second line faintly indicated, sometimes also an interrupted
third line and very rarely any first line, but a well-marked reddish discal spot.
Hindwings pale-orange.
Northern Territory: Darwin; New South Wales: Neweastle; Victoria: Mel-
bourne, Kewell, Inglewood; South Australia: Adelaide; Western Australia:
Cunderdin; North West Australia: Derby.
The type is a 2 in the South Australian Museum. I have seen only three
examples certainly bred from green cocoons, and all of this sex.
39. ENTOMETA ALBIDA.
Opsirhina albida Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxii., 557.—Pinara erubescens Low.,
Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Aust., 1894, 77.
3. 54 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale-ochreous. Palpi 24; fuscous,
inner surface pale-ochreous. Antennae fuscous. Legs purple-fuscous; coxae
pale-ochreous. Forewings narrowly triangular, costa straight, slightly arched
beyond middle, apex round-pointed, termen doubly sinuate, concave in middle,
strongly oblique; pale-ochreous becoming paler towards termen; a fuscous-brown
diseal dot on end of cell; cilia concolorous. Hindwings rather elongate, termen
strongly rounded; pale-ochreous, paler near termen; cilia concolorous.
2. 80 mm. Similar to d, but considerably paler. Forewings broader, costa
moderately arched, termen slightly bowed. Palpi 23.
Queensland: Duaringa, two specimens from the Miskin Collection in the
Queensland Museum; New South Wales: Warangesda.
9. Genus DIGGLESIA.
Turn., Ann. Q’ld. Mus., x., 1911, 86. Type, D. crocota Turn.
Eyes hairy. Palpi long or very long, porrect, exceeding frontal tuft. Fore-
wings with 2 from or from before middle, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 separate, connate,
or rarely stalked, 11 from middle; cell one-third to 3. Hindwings with cell
about one-third; 2 from before angle, 4 and 5 stalked, 3 separate, connate, or
stalked with them, 7 from before middle, 11 absent, 12 anastomosing shortly
with 7 near its origin, subcostal cell moderate, with one or two pseudoneuria
from near its middle.
A natural genus with some variability in its neuration.
Key to species.
1. Forewings white with fuscous markings .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ..ecnoma
Forewings not white .... .. BE, Sich MERA ee ions Coane ee D)
2. Cilia of forewings with whitish apices .. SATA Ate NG eR RS at
422 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
Cilia of forewings with apices not whitish .. .. sa Hoar NYE ee 4.
3. Forewings with discal spot; hindwings wholly « or oan © ochreous dasymalla
Forewings without discal spot; hindwings reddish or fuscous .. .. rufescens
AVON NV GINES RO TOV MMII E Tate [ris ga o-crer cue han Leeres MAG master D alete fmt REN Ey apetstys Reamtcr eA rege 5.
Navas eelChisls 6540 8a 6 ites Sader Abie baer ies 3k eis teu La Lk 6.
5. Wings ochreous- crest ene beet 50) bo O08 go, 00 Ob 06) nasyDOCLOV IG
Wings darker grey without Gonncons nee PEER A 3 . .. -- tephropsis
6. Forewings with first and second lines confluent on 1 Corsa ese) CrOCota
Forewings with first and second lines separate or obsolete .. .. .. his
7. Size small; colour dark-reddish .. .. .. .. 2. WANA
Size moderately large; colour pale- redciene or Roe Sitone i 8.
8. do with palpi 4, hindwings elongate; 2 with apex of forewings rounded ..
cycloloma
6 with palpi 6, hindwings not elongate; 2 with apex of forewings pointed ..
australasiae
40. DIGGLESIA ECNOMA, n.sp.
éxvowos. unusual.
2. 55 mm. Head whitish. Palpi and antennae blackish. Thorax dark-
fuscous mixed with reddish-ochreous and crossed by a transverse line of whitish
hairs. Abdomen on dorsum ochreous, sides and under surface fusecous with
apices of segments whitish. Legs fuscous; dorsal hairs whitish. | Forewings
elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen slightly bowed,
oblique; cell one-third, 8 connate; white with well-defined dark-fuscous markings;
a narrow basal fascia; a second fascia at one-fifth, connected with preceding on
dorsum; a large discal spot at one-third; a narrow fascia from three-fifths costa
to mid-dorsum sinuate, anteriorly crenated, connected with preceding by a sub-
median bar, a broader fascia also sinuate, but interrupted by veins, at four-fifths;
a terminal series of large spots; cilia dark-fuscous, interrupted by whitish op-
posite veins. Hindwings with termen rounded; 3 connate; colour as forewings;
broadly suffused, transverse, fuscous fasciae at + and middle; a terminal series
of fuseous spots; cilia whitish.
Very different from any other known species.
Western Australia: Cunderdin, one specimen reared from the larva in March,
received from Mr. W. B. Alexander.
41. DIGGLESIA DASYMALLA, n.sp.
dacv-waddos, thick-fleeced.
3. 4448 mm. Head,. palpi, and thorax ochreous-brown. Antennae fuscous-
brown, stalk ochreous brown. Abdomen and legs brownish-ochreous. Forewings
broadly triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded-rectangular, termen
straight, scarcely oblique; cell one-third, 8 separate; rather dark ochreous-brown; .
a small fuscous diseal spot at one-third on end of cell; cilia ochreous-brown,
apices except opposite veins whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded; 3 separate;
brownish-ochreous; cilia brownish-ochreous, apices partly whitish.
2. 64 mm. Neuration as in 6. Colour uniformly fuscous, slightly ochreous-
suffused only on bases of hindwings. Abdomen with terminal and lateral tufts
extremely dense. Forewings broadly triangular, costa arched, termen slightly
bowed, slightly oblique; discal spot very obscure. Hindwings with veins narrowly
ochreous.
Type in Coll. Goldfinch. This and the following have the abdomen very
hairy laterally as well as posteriorly.
BY A. J. TURNER, 423
New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko (5000 ft.) in December; three specimens
received from Mr. G. M. Goldfinch. The males were taken flying swiftly in bright
sunshine, the female at light at the hotel. The sexual dichroism, exceptional in
this genus, is probably correlated with the day flying habit.
42. DIGGLESIA RUFESCENS.
Gastropacha rufescens Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi. 1395.—Megasoma rubida
Wik., ibid., xxxii., 566—Bombyxz crenuiata Lue., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1893,
137.
¢. 38-46 mm. ¢. 55-66 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, usually
more cr less reddish-tinged. Palpi 4 to 5; grey or reddish-grey. Antennae grey;
pectinations in d ochreous-tinged. Legs grey. Forewmgs triangular, costa
slightly arched, apex rounded-rectangular, termen slightly sinuate, slightly waved,
in ¢ scarcely oblique, in 2 more distinctly so; cell one-third, 8 separate (1 ¢),
connate (4 6d, 5 2) or short-stalked (1 2); grey, usually more or less reddish-
tinged; sometimes a fuscous dot on end of cell at one-third; cilia concolorous,
apices whitish between veins. Hindwings with termen strongly rounded; 3
separate, 4 and 5 stalked; colour and cilia as forewings.
Queensland: Brisbane, Stradbroke Island, Mt. Tambourine; New South
Wales: Sydney, Jervis Bay, Mt. Kosciusko; Victoria: Melbourne, Beaconsfield,
Gisborne, Mt. St. Bernard; Tasmania: Hobart; South Austraha: Mt. Lofty.
43. DIGGLESIA SPODOPA.
Entometa spodopa Turn., Trans. Roy. Soe. 8. Aust., 1904, 239.
Forewings with cell nearly 4, 8 connate or stalked. Hindwings with 3
eonnate or stalked.
Queensland: Brisbane.
44, DIGGLESIA TEPHROPSIS, 1.Sp.
TEPPOXES , ash-coloured.
2. 50mm. Head and thorax pale-grey. Palpi 8; expanded at apices; pale-
grey. Antennae, abdomen, and legs pale-grey. Forewings elongate-triangular,
eosta arched, apex rectangular, termen bowed, strongly oblique; cell nearly 4, 8
connate; pale-grey; a fuscous discal dot at two-fifths; a faintly-marked sub-
terminal series of interneural fuscous dots; cilia grey. Hindwings with
termen rounded; cell one-third, 3 connate; dark-grey becoming paler towards
base; cilia grey. :
Allied to D. spodopa, but darker grey without ochreous tinge, and without
first and second lines on forewings.
Queensland: Emerald in September; one specimen received from Mr. W. B.
Barnard.
45. DIGGLESIA CROCOTA.
Turn., Ann. Q’ld. Mus., x., 1911, 86.
9. 5456 mm. Head and thorax orange-brown. Palpi 6; somewhat ex-
panded at apex; grey. Antennae pale-ochreous. Abdomen ochreous-brown;
underside darker. Legs brown. Forewings suboval, costa strongly arched, apex
rectangular, termen nearly straight, moderately oblique; cell two-fifths,.6, 7, 8
stalked (2 2); reddish-ochreous; markings fuscous; a nearly straight, wavy line
from one-third costa to one-third dorsum; a diseal dot at one-third between lines;
second line wavy, from mid-costa, curved inwards to join first line on dorsum;
424 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
an interrupted line, or chain of dots, from costa near apex to two-thirds dorsum,
angled obtusely outwards below middle; cilia orange-brown. Hindwings with
termen strongly rounded; 3, 4, 5 stalked; pale-reddish; cilia rather paler. Under-
side of hindwings with a very large dark blotch bisected by a darker line.
North Queensland: Kuranda near Cairns, Cardwell.
46. DIGGLESIA NANA.
Opsirhina nana Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1421.
3. 25-28 mm. Head and thorax reddish. Palpi 6; reddish. Antennae
pale-grey, reddish-tinged; pectinations fuscous. Abdomen fuscous; underside
ochreous-reddish. Legs reddish. Forewings triangular, costa straight nearly to
apex, apex pointed, termen straight, oblique; cell 4, 8 connate; uniformly red-
dish; a fuscous discal dot at 4; a slender, oblique, dark line from two-thirds
costa to dorsum beyond middle; traces of a similar subterminal line; cilia red-
dish. Hindwings with termen rounded; cell 4 to one-third, 3 connate or stalked;
dark-reddish with a fuscous subdorsal suffusion; cilia dark-reddish.
2. Unknown.
Much smaller than any other species.
Tasmania: Launceston, Lefroy.
47. DIGGLESIA CYCLOLOMA.
Entometa cycloloma Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1902, 186.—H. plin-
thopa Turn., ibid., 1904, 239.
Forewings with cell nearly 3, 8 connate or stalked. Hindwings with 3 con-
nate or stalked. :
Northern Territory: Darwin; North Queensland: Cooktown, Cairns, Towns-
ville; Queensland: Nambour, Mt. Tambourine, National Park (4000 ft.); New
South Wales: Lismore; Victoria: Moe.
. 48. DIGGLESIA AUSTRALASIAE.
Bombyx australasiae Fab., Syst. Ent., i. (1), 422—Opsirhina nasuta Wks;
Cat. Brit. Mus., vi, £420.—O. intemerata W1k., ibid., xxxil., 557.—O. cinereata
WIk., ibid., xxxii., 558.—O,. pudorina WIk., ibid., xxxii., 558.—Bombyzx frugalis
Lue., Proce. Roy. Soe. Q’ld., 1901, 74—Pinara pervicax Lue., ibid., 1901, 76.
3. 32-36 mm. Byes small. Palpi very long, more than twice length of
frontal tuft. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs ochreous-reddish.
Forewings oval-triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen
bowed, oblique; cell 4, 8 connate or stalked; reddish-ochreous; two faintly marked
transverse lines, darker than ground colour, but edged with paler ochreous; first
from one-third costa, strongly outwardly curved to near base of dorsum, pale
anteriorly; second from two-thirds costa, curved outwardly beneath costa, thence
straight to about mid-dorsum, pale posteriorly; a minute dark discal dot before
middle; a subterminal series of dark dots forming a nearly straight line; cilia
concolorous. Hindwings with termen rounded; 3 connate or stalked; reddish,
rather darker than forewings; cilia concolorous.
9. 42-52 mm. Wings much more elongate; forewings narrow, apex toler-
ably pointed; markings sometimes distinct, but often obsolete.
Queensland: Clermont, Brisbane, Rosewood, Toowoomba; New South Wales:
Lismore, Sydney, Jervis Bay, Mt. Kosciusko; Victoria: Melbourne, Beaconsfield,
BY A. J. TURNER. A425
Gisborne, Castlemaine; Tasmania: Launceston, Ulverstone, Hobart, Bothwell;
South Australia: Adelaide, Mt. Lofty, Mt. Gambier; Western Australia: Perth.
10. Genus OPpsIRHINA.
Wik., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1418; Turn., Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., 1904,
240. Type, O. albigutta W1k.
Hyes hairy. Palpi long, porrect, exceeding frontal tuft. Forewings with
cell 4 or less; 2 from one-third, 3 from two-thirds, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 sometimes
stalked with them, 11 from middle. Hindwings with eell less than 4; 2 from
middle, 3 from 3, 4 and 5 separate, 7 from one-third or from before one-third,
11 absent, 12 anastomosing shortly with 7 soon after its origin; subcostal cell
moderate or rather small, with a basal and sometimes also a median pseudo-
neurium.
Key to species.
1. Forewings with first and second lines whitish .. .. -. .. .albigutta
Forewings with first and second lines fuscous, very sle des denticulate .,
pyrsocoma
49. OPSIRHINA ALBIGUTTA.
$2. Opsirhina albigutta Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1419.—@. Rhathymodes
Jechriodes Turn., Ann. Q’ld. Mus., x., 89.
6. 22-26 mm. Head and thorax brown; face ochreous-whitish. Palpi 23
to 3; fuscous-brown; upper edge ochreous-whitish. Antennae fuscous-brown ;
stalk partly whitish. Abdomen brown; tuft large, with some whitish hairs.
Legs fuscous-brown; tarsi fuscous with whitish annulations. Forewings tri-
angular, costa straight to middle, then gently arched, apex rounded, termen
slightly bowed, scarcely oblique; 8 connate or short-stalked; dark-chestnut-brown,
broadly suffused with whitish-grey towards termen and dorsum; a conspicuous
white, obliquely transverse, discal mark at two-fifths; two very slender whitish
transverse lines; first from 4} costa to one-third dorsum; second from two-thirds
costa to mid-dorsum, sinuate; a series of fuscous subterminal dots nearly
parallel to second line, obsolete in middle of dise; cilia brown, apices whitish.
‘Hindwings with termen rounded; subcostal cell with one or two pseudoneuria, 4
and 5 connate or separate; brown; cilia brown. Underside brown without
markings.
?. 58-60 mm. Palpi 6. Forewings broader than in 6, costa more arched,
apex more pointed, termen more oblique; coloration similar, but much paler and
grey suffusion more variable; markings similar, but diseal monk obsolete or very
faintly indicated. Etindhataee as in S, but paler.
One or two pseudoneuria arise from the subcostal cell, one from base, the
second, which is often absent, from about middle.
Queensland: Southport; New South Wales: -Mt. Kosciusko; Victoria:
Beaconsfield, Gisborne, Inverloch; Tasmania: Launceston, Hobart.
50. OPSIRHINA PYRSOCOMA,
Clathe pyrsocoma Turn., Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., 1902, 185.
Palpi in 3 4, in 2 5. Forewings with 8 separate, connate, or short-stalked.
Hindwings with a single pseudoneurium, sometimes branched, from ase of sub-
costal cell; 4 and 5 separate.
Narhern Territory: Darwin; North Queensland: Thursday Island, Cook-
town, Herberton, Townsville; Queensland: Gayndah, Brisbane.
426 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
11. Genus NeurocuytTa.
Turn., Trans. Ent. Soe., 1918, 181. Type, N. edna Swin.
Palpi moderately long, porrect, reaching beyond frontal tuft, densely hairy.
Forewings with 2 from one-third, 3 from two-thirds, 4 and 5 approximated at
origin from angle of cell, 6 from upper angle of cell, connate or stalked with 7
and 8, which are puke, 11 from two-thirds, free, Et running close under 12.
Hindwines with 2 from middle of cell, 3 from shortly before angle, 4 and 5
stalked from anale, 6 from upper angle, 7 from shortly before angle, 12
anastomosing with cell from near base to one-third; subcostal cell small, two
pseudoneuria arising together near base and diverging.
Differs from all other Australian genera in 7 of hindwings arising from
near end of cell, and 12 anastomosing with cell near base. Mr. W. H. T. Tams.
of the British Museum informs me that the eyes are smooth.
51. NEUROCHYTA EDNA.
Clathe edna Swin., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), ix., 1902, 166.
3. 21-22 mm. ?. 36 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous; in 2 grey-
whitish. Palpi whitish-ochreous; pectinations in d 9, in 2 3. Abdomen whitish-
ochreous tinged with reddish. Legs whitish-ochreous; anterior pair reddish-
tinged. Forewings triangular, costa straight, apex round-pointed, termen scarcely
bowed, slightly oblique; ochreous-whitish irrorated with reddish-brown, more
densely in 6; cilia ochreous-whitish, in d tinged with reddish-brown. Hindwings
with termen rounded; ochreous-whitish, in d reddish-tinged; cilia concolorous.
Described from four examples, including the type, in the British Museum.
North West Austraha: Sherlock River.
12. Genus Perna.
Wik., Cat. Brit.. Mus., v., 1127. Type, P. exposita Lewin.
Kiyes hairy; sometimes snl Palpi short, not extending beyond frontal
tuft. Forewings with 2 from about one-third, 3 from about two-thirds, 6 and 7
stalked, 11 from middle. Hindwings with cell 4 or less; 2 from middle, 7 from
before or beyond middle, stalked with 11, which runs into 12; subcostal cell
large, with a strong pseudoneurium from its base.
Key to species.
1EHrindwings swihhrtes sete, Pde 7) oe ele et A oe Awe rk RC Freeh 2,
Hindwings fuscous or ane DPE . eee. eaposita
2. Forewings with discal spot pearecentcdl ee a ituccoue ipa -- .. -chlorophragma
Borewings awithidiscaluspote winter a met cain cece neces brevipennis
52. PsRNA CHLOROPHRAGMA.
Bombyx chlorophragma Meyr. (ined?).
3. 35-37 mm. Head white; sides of face sometimes ochreous. Palpi dark-
fuscous; towards apex ochreous. Antennae ochreous-fuscous, stalk white. Thorax
and abdomen white. Legs white; tarsi grey. Forewings triangular, costa
straight, apex rounded, termen nearly straight, oblique; white; markings grey,
clearly defined; a spot on base of costa; a sub-basal spot; a broad line from
one-third eo to one-third dorsum, sharply angled posteriorly beneath costa;
from this angle a longitudinal bar connects it with a similarly angled line from
two-thirds costa to two-thirds dorsum; and this longitudinal bar is sometimes.
BY A. J. TURNER. 427
prolonged to connect with a submarginal line, angled first anteriorly then pos-
teriorly beneath costa, thence wavy to before tornus; cilia white. Hindwings
with termen rounded; white; cilia white.
Victoria: Kewell, Birchip; Western Australia: Beverley, Dowerin.
53. PERNA BREVIPENNIS.
Teara brevipennis Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxil., 353—Bombyx figurata Lue.,
Proc. Roy. Soc. Q’ld., 1901, 74.
3S. 34-36 mm. 2. 46 mm. Head brownish; lower part of face ochreous.
Palpi dark-fuseous, towards apex ochreous. Antennae brownish, stalk grey.
Thorax fuscous-brown; patagia of 3 white except in centre. Abdomen whitish,
in 2 grey. Legs whitish-ochreous; in 2 grey; tarsi fuscous. Forewings oval-
triangular, costa arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, oblique; fuscous-brown, in
2 grey; markings partly darker, partly white; a white basal patch containing a
dark spot on costa; a transverse sub-basal dark line, followed by a whitish line,
and this again by a dark line from one-third costa to one-third dorsum; similar
three lines from two-thirds costa to two-thirds dorsum; median area between
lines crossed by a dark-fusecous patch above middle, containing a central white
spot, area between patch and dorsum white; in ¢ these markings are less dis-
tinct; a broad white subterminal line, not reaching costa, interrupted above
middle; a subapical dark costal blotch giving rise to a broad dark submarginal
line, posteriorly edged with whitish; a terminal series of white spots; cilia
fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded; white, in 2 grey; cilia concolorous.
North Queensland: Cairns; Queensland: Brisbane; New South Wales: New-
castle.
54. PERNA EXPOSITA.
Bombyx exposita Lewin, Prodr. Ent., 8, 1805, Pl. vii—B. pusilla Don.,
Ins. New Holl. Lep., 1805, Pl. xxxv.—d. Perna combinata Wlk., Cat. Brit.
Mus., vii., 1757.—9. LEriogaster lignosa Wlk., ibid., vii., 1767—d. E. hebes
Wilk., ibid., xxxii., 571.—@. Cosmotriche indistincta Butl., Trans. Ent. Soce.,
1886, 387.—2. Poecilocampa brevis Wik., ibid., xxxii., 571.—%. Tacillia rufo-
cinerea Wlk., ibid., xxx, 573.
3. 28-32 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brown or grey, tips of hairs whitish.
Antennae brownish. Abdomen and legs brown or grey. Forewings triangular,
costa straight to near apex, apex round-pointed, termen slightly bowed, slightly
oblique; brown or grey with some whitish irroration, median band rather darker;
an irregularly dentate dark-fuscous line from one-third costa to one-third dorsum;
a similar line from two-thirds costa to two-thirds dorsum, bent first inwards.
beneath costa, then strongly outwards, inwards again above dorsum, posteriorly
edged with whitish; a white median discal dot; a dentate fuscous subterminal
line, edged anteriorly with whitish; cilia congolorous. Hindwings with termen
rounded; brownish-fuscous or grey; cilia concolorous.
2. 3440 mm. Forewings more elongate, termen more oblique; markings
usually as in d but much fainter, sometimes obsolete; coloration brownish-grey.
North Queensland: Cairns, Herberton; Queensland: Clermont, Brisbane,
Stradbreke Is., Coolangatta, Toowoomba; New South Wales: Sydney, Jervis
Bay; Victoria: Melbourne, Lilydale, Gisborne, Kewell; Tasmania: Hobart; South
Australia: Adelaide.
a
428 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. LASIOCAMPIDAE,
Species unrecognised or wrongly referred to ths family.
55. Nadiasa parvigutta Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., v., 1015 is a 2 Pinara, which
I have not identified.
56. Perna ? flavescens Wlk., ibid., v., 1128 belongs to the Anthelidae.
57. Eriogaster ? simplex Wh1k., ibid., vi., 1473.
58. Poecilocampa leucopyga WIk., ibid., vi., 1477 1s a synonym of Ochrogaster
contraria (Notodontidae).
59. Entometa ignobilis Wlk., Char. Undese. Lep., p. 67 belongs to the Psychidae.
60. Poecilocampa simplex Swin., Cat. Oxf. Mus., 1., 1892, 267 is not Australian.
It is probably Metanastria psidi Salle from Mexico.
61. Bombyx fumosa Luc., Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Q’ld., 1894, 104.
62. Bombyx ocularis Lue., ibid., 1894, 104 belongs to the Limacodidae. ~
63. Bombyx muris-olens Luc., ibid., 1894, 105 belongs to the Psychidae.
64. Bombyx effusa Luc., Proc. Roy. Soc. Q’ld., 1901, 75 is a synonym of Cyno-
sarga ornata (Notodontidae).
Index to Genera.
Orexamer et erro tM ncomera 8 Neurochyta .. .. 11 Pimara ..
Cyclophragma . 7 Eremaea . 3 Opsirhina LO} Borelageer
Digglesia 9 Kremonoma . 4 Perna -. . 12 Symphyta
Synonyms and wrongly referred or unrecognised species
acedesta .. . 10 ‘cycloloma :-.. . 47% lechriodes 49 psaropis .
adusta 4 cyclomela .. ... 32 leucopyga 58 pudorina ..
albicans .. . 6 dasymalla .. 41 liguaria . 20 punctigera ..
albida .. » Om deconatae. .. 36 lignosa . 54 punctilinea .
albifinis . . 26 delineata .. - 19 macroptila 8 pusilla
albigutta .. . 49 despecta - 34 majus . 5 pyrsocoma
amathodes 25 dianipha .. 9 marginata . 33 rhoda
anthracica 17 divisa 2 metaphaea .. 4 rubida ..
anthraxoides .. . 5 ecnoma .. . 40 metastigma. 18, 20 rufescens ..
antiqua , 13 edna, .. . 51 mioleuca .. .. . 24 Yufescens .
apasta .. 13 effusa . 64 muris-olens . 63° rufocinerea
apicalis 35 erubescens ¢ GY) nema 54) . 46 saturata ..
arida . . . 20 exposita - 54 nasuta .. .. 48 sesioides ..
australasiae .. . 48 fervens . 34 nephelodes oye 15 simplex
barnardi . . 22 figurata - 53 notabilis .. .. . 24 simpler
brevipennis 53 flavescens -- 56 notodontina .. . 24 sobria ,
brevis 54 fleaicosta -. 37 nubila 20 spodopa ..
calligama 8 fola .. ea lal nyetopis . 30 subfasciata .
eana .. S. 2h fnugalis . 48 obliqua 3 subnotata
chlorophragma . 52 fumosa .. . 61 obscura .. 34 tephropsis ..
chlorosacca . 38 galactodes . 23 obtusa 18 trimacula
cinereata . 48 guttularis . . 36 ocularis 62 varia ..
cinyra 10 hebes .. . 54 oxygramma .. . 28 vetusta ..
colpodes . 29 holopolia . 16 parvigutta .. 55 vitulina ..
combinata 54 hyaloessa .. ... 6 xervicax .. . 48 Zonospila
contermina 27 ignobilis...... 59 picta .. 5 zoristis ..
erenulata . 42 indistincta .. .. 54 pinnalis 6
erocota .. . 45 intemerata . 48 plinthopa Aq
Index to Species.
in italics.
> Orr
429
UPPER PERMIAN COLEOPTERA AND A NEW ORDER FROM THE
BELMONT BEDS, NEW SOUTH WALES.
By R. J. Tinuyarp, M.A., Sc.D. (Cantab.), D.Se. (Sydney), F.N.Z. Inst., F.L.8.,
F.E.S., Entomologist and Chief of the Biological Department,
Cawthron Institute, Nelson, N.Z.
(Plates xlv.-xlvi. and three Text-figures).
[Read 24th September, 1924.]
Up to the present, the earliest known fossil beetle elytra have been those
of the Trias. In the Upper Trias of Ipswich, the Order Coleoptera is dominant,
nearly half the total number of insect fossils so far discovered there belonging
to this Order.
M. D. Zalessky recently described (Mém. Com. Geol., exxxix., New Series)
an alleged fossil beetle (not an elytron) of Permian age, naming it Microcan-
tharis minutus, and assigning it to the family Ptiliidae (Trichopterygidae). The
total length of this peculiar impression is only 20, 1e., about one-twentieth
that of the smallest beetles known to exist! Neither in the excellent photo-
micrographs (x 900) nor in the deseription of this specimen can I find any-
thing which proves it to be even an insect, much less a beetle, and I do not
think further notice need be taken of it.
The assemblage of Upper Permian insect wings discovered at Belmont by
Mr. John Mitchell some years back consists of the most highly specialized
Palaeozoic types yet discovered anywhere in the world. The Orders so far
brought to light there are the Hemiptera-Homoptera, Mecoptera, Paramecoptera
and Neuroptera-Planipennia. Such an assemblage is one amongst which there
would be a high probability of the occurrence of Coleoptera, since these latter
are morphologically more archaic in most respects than any of the Orders just
mentioned, except the Homoptera. This being so, both Mr. Mitchell and _ his
more recent co-workers, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Pincombe, have kept a careful
watch for the possible occurrence of beetle elytra during their explorations of
the Belmont Beds, and both have been well rewarded. Of a total of thirty
Specimens discovered (excluding numerous fragments not complete enough to
name), no less than six are Coleopterous elytra, and four of them are ex-
cellently preserved, so that almost every detail of structure can be made out.
Four of these are small elytra which appear to be ancestral to the Upper
Triassic genus Ademosyne and allies; another (a large elytron with only faint
traces of sculpturing, but with a well preserved alula exactly like that of the
recent genus Hydrophilus itself) may be considered, without any reasonable
doubt, to be one of the direct ancestors of the existing Hydrophilidae.
430 UPPER PERMIAN COLEOPTERA,
In addition to these, it has fallen to Mr. Mitchell himself to make the
finest discovery of all, viz, an almost complete elytron, of large size and
beautiful preservation, which differs from all known Coleopterous elytra in be-
ing exceedingly flat, with a straight sutural margin, and in having a complete
system of venation clearly marked upon it. As this fossil exists side by side
with true beetle elytra, it cannot itself be one of the ancestors of the Order
Coleoptera. Nevertheless it is clear that it belongs to the Order from which the
Coleoptera themselves arose, just as the Protodonata belong to the Order an-
cestral to the true Odonata, though now known to have existed for a consider-
able period side by side with them. For this fossil, then, the new Order Pro-
tocoleoptera is proposed, and its position will be intermediate between the Car-
boniferous Protoblattoidea (with whose venation it is in rather close agree-
ment) and the true Coleoptera.
Order COLEOPTERA.
PERMOPHILIDAH, fam. nov.
Elytra resembling those of recent Hydrophilidae in general form and pos-
sessing a well developed alula (text-fig. 1, al), but without the angulation of the
sutural and lateral margins near base, found in recent Hydrophilidae; sutural
and lateral margins both very narrow; convexity slight; sculpture slight or
absent.
PERMOPHILUS, n.g. (Text-fig. 1).
Medium to large elytra, about one-third as broad as long, with pointed
apex; alula well rounded, attached close to base on posterior side, as in Hydro-
philidae.
Genotype, Permophilus pincombei, n.sp. (Upper Permian of Belmont,
N.S.W.).
PERMOPHILUS PINCOMBEI, n.sp. (Text-fig. 1, a).
Total length of elytron, 21.5 mm., being the full length except for the ex-
treme tip, which is missing; greatest breadth, 7 mm. Alula almost circular,
diameter 1.8 mm. Sutural margin exceedingly narrow, strongly curved for
about 4 mm. from base (this portion forms the scutellar margin), then running
fairly straight to half-way, finally inclining inwards very slightly. Lateral
margin (costa) with basal portion missing for 4 mm., thence running nearly
straight and subparallel to sutural margin to half-way, thence curving markedly
inwards and finally converging strongly towards sutural margin; although the
actual apex is missing, it was evidently strongly pointed, as in Hydrophilus
(Text-fig. 1, b).
No definite longitudinal striae are present, but here and there are to be seen
very faint traces of a delicate, branching venation; in several places the area
between two more or less parallel veins appears to be furnished with very
weakly formed, flattened tubercles of considerable size (diameter 0.2 to 0.3
mm.), either more or less cireular or slightly hexagonal. Along the internal
edge of the thickened sutural margin near base, running out from the hinge of
the alula, is a series of four more strongly marked tubercles of much smaller
diameter; probably these are the impressions left by a row of four deeply
marked punetae in the original elytron, while the weak, flattened tubercles above
mentioned may have been shallow depressions between the obsolescent veins.
Type, Specimen No. 23 T. in Mr. Pincombe’s Collection.
BY R. J. TILLYARD. 431
Horizon: Upper Permian of Belmont, N.S.W.
This species is dedicated to its discoverer, Mr. T. H. Pincombe of New
Lambton, near Newcastle.
PERMOPHILUS (?) MINOR, n.Sp.
A poorly preserved but complete elytron; total length, 10 mm., greatest
breadth, 3.6 mm. Alula not preserved. Shape somewhat similar to the pre-
vious species, but the apex not quite so sharp. No signs of sculpture or vena-
tion except, here and there, slight indications of faint longitudinal striae.
Type, Unnumbered specimen in Mr. J. Mitchell’s Collection.
Horizon: Upper Permian of Belmont, N.S.W.
PERMOSYNIDAH, fam. nov.
Small elytra without any definite humeral or scutellar angle; more or less
strongly convex, about one-third as wide as long, or a little over, with apex
moderately pointed. Sculpture consisting of nine longitudinal striae, of which
the first * (counting from lateral margin or costa) is continued nearly to apex,
receiving two or more of the succeeding striae upon itself distally.
PERMOSYNE, n.g. (Text-fig. 2).
Elytra about 3 mm. in length, with lateral margin not thickened, sutural
margin well-formed but narrow, and both margins considerably curved. Striae
either plain or punctate, the second, third and fourth striae ending on the
first, the eighth ending on the ninth; ninth stria (next to sutural margin) arising
basally considerably further from margin than from eighth stria; usually a
vestige of a short tenth stria in basal part of interval between ninth stria and
margin.
Genotype, Permosyne belmontensis, n.sp. (Upper Permian of Belmont).
This genus contains elytra very similar in general appearance to those of
the Upper Triassic genus Ademosyne Handl., found at Ipswich, Q., and Narellan,
N.S.W., but distinguished from them by the very typical arrangement of the
striae.
Key to the Species of Permosyne.
Pee blyira withe simple! longitudinal: striae .4)s) i. 22 .. kee ae te es ee
EKlytra punctate-striate .. .. 3
2. Longitudinal striae very soul “placed, none of them “sinuate “except the
second, which is only slightly so; lateral and sutural margins distinctly
curved when approaching apex .. .. P. belmontensis, n.sp.
Longitudinal striae not so evenly placed, “the second, third, eighth and ninth
slightly sinuate; lateral and sutural margins nearly ‘straight when approach-
ing apex, SO that the elytron is narrower and more rey distally than
im previous species .. .. . P. affinis, n.sp.
3. Breadth distinctly greater her one- third ‘of length; punctate striae very
strongly marked .. .. the P. mitchelli, n.sp.
Breadth ee one-third of f length; punctate striae only weakly markede meyer
; . P. pincombeae, rsp.
* Most Coleopterists appear to number the striae from the sutural margin
outwards; but this is proceeding from the posterior border of the wing towards
the anterior border, and appears to me to be illogical: I therefore number them
from the anterior border backwards or inwards.
A432 UPPER PERMIAN COLEOPTERA,
ALOE
(|
NAAN
1. a, Permophilus pincombei, nu.g. et sp., elytron (x 2.7), with missing
portions restored by dotted lines; sutural margin to right, lateral margin (costa)
to left; al, alula. b, Hydrophilus latipalpus Cast., Recent, fam. Hydrophilidae,
elytron for comparison with a, (x 2.7).
2. Permosyne belmontensis, n.g. et sp., elytron (x 20); drawn from type-
counterpart, sutural margin to right, lateral margin (costa) to left, and slightly
broken basal portion restored.
3. Protocoleus mitchelli, n.g. et sp., elytron (x 6), sutural margin (sm) to
right, lateral margin (C) to left, missing apical portion restored by dotted lines.
Venational notation (Comstock-Needham) :—1A, 2A, 3A, the three anal veins;
C, costa; Cui, first cubitus, with branches Cui,, Cuin; Cuz, second eubitus; M,
media, with branches M1-2, Ms, M4; Ria, main stem of radius; Ra-3, Ra-s, the
two principal branches of the radial sector; Se, subecosta.
BY R. J. TILLYARD. 433
PERMOSYNE BELMONTENSIS, n.sp. (Plate xlv., fig. 1; text-fig. 2.)
Total length of elytron, 3.1 mm.; greatest breadth, 1.3 mm. Sutural margin
narrow but strongly marked, well curved. Basal third of lateral (costal) margin
apparently with a marked thickening, from the inner edge of which the first
three striae appear to arise; second stria ending on first a short distance from
its end, third stria ending on first almost at its end; fourth to seventh striae
ending on lateral margin not far from apex, eighth almost at apex, ninth on
sutural margin at one-fourth from apex. Slght indications of the beginning of
a short stria at base of elytron, in the rather wide space between ninth stria and
sutural margin.
Type, Specimen 13a T., and type-counterpart Specimen 13b T., in Mr. T.
H. Pinecombe’s Collection.
Horizon: Upper Permian of Belmont, N.S.W.
PERMOSYNE AFFINIS, n.sp. (Plate xlv., fig. 2).
Total length of elytron, 2.9 mm.; greatest breadth, 1.1 mm. Differs from
the previous species in its more pointed shape apically, in the more evenly
rounded humeral margin, and in having the lateral margin apparently strongly
thickened at its extreme base. Third and fourth striae apparently arising from
a common stalk at about one-fifth from base; seventh to ninth striae more
sinuate basally; space between ninth stria and sutural margin wider basally than
in previous species, with indications of a short tenth stria on it; eighth stria
as well as ninth ending on sutural margin.
Type, Specimen No. 92 in Mr. J. Mitchell’s Collection.
Horizon: Upper Permian of Belmont, N.S.W.
PERMOSYNE MITCHELLI, n.sp. (Plate xlv., fig. 3).
Total length of elytron, 3.0 mm.; greatest breadth, 1.2 mm. The elytron
is perfect except for the extreme apex and base, which are jaggedly broken off,
and the sutural margin, of which only the middle third is preserved. Punctae
strongly marked throughout, the distances between successive punctae being de-
finitely less than the distances between successive striae in the middle of the
elytron. Second stria very sinuate basally, arising close to third; the other
striae very regularly arranged, not sinuate.
Type, Specimen No. 79 in Mr. J. Mitchell’s Collection.
Horizon: Upper Permian of Belmont, N.S.W.
This species is dedicated to its discoverer, Mr. John Mitchell.
PERMOSYNE PINCOMBEAR, n.sp. (Plate xlv., fig. 4).
Total length of elytron, 3.3 mm.; greatest breadth, 1.1 mm. Differs from
the previous species in being longer and narrower, much more pointed apically,
and having the punctate striae more weakly marked, the distances between suc-
cessive punctae being about the same as those between successive striae in the
middle of the elytron. The elytron is completely preserved, but, unlike the
previous three species, it is strongly carbonized, and the impression is not as
clear as in the others.
Type, Specimen No. 14 T. in Mr. Pincombe’s Collection.
Horizon: Upper Permian of Belmont, N.S.W.
This specimen is dedicated to Mrs. T. H. Pincombe, who has done valuable
work with her husband in exploring the Belmont Beds.
434 UPPER PERMIAN COLEOPTERA,
PROTOCOLEOPTERA, ordo nova.
Primitive insects resembling Coleoptera but having flattened, tegminous
elytra with straight sutural margin and a complete system of wing-veins deve-
loped. Costal margin greatly curved. Membrane strongly punctate between the
veins.
PROTOCOLEIDAH, fam. nov. (Plate xlvi.).
Large, broad elytra having all the veins from Rs to Cuz strongly branched,
one branch of the radius curving round subparallel to costa and junctioning with
the successive branches of Rs and M in turn. Cuz a long vein marking off a
definite anal area, ending more than half-way from base; on this area, 1A lies
just below Cuz while 2A and 3A arise in a group by themselves from the curved
basal portion of the sutural margin.
PROTOCOLEUS, n.g. (Plate xlvi., fig. 5; text-fig. 3).
Elytron broad, flat and fairly strongly chitinized, with strongly curved
costal margin. Se arising as a deep furrow vein, close to costal margin at base,
then diverging slightly from it, but approaching it again distally. Ri a strong,
slightly curved vein ending distally on Re; Rs arising close to base and branch-
ing at about one-fifth of the wing-length from base; Re-3 branches again at
about half-way along the wing, Re running into Ri but Rs continuing to run
sub-parallel with the margin and receiving the ends of Ra4-5 and the branches
of M upon itself, finally ending up close to the apex. M developed basally as
a weakly chitinized and rather broad, flat vein, with its first anterior branch at
about one-fourth of wing-length; from this point onwards it becomes a strongly
marked but narrow vein, with its main stem approximately along the mid-
longitudinal axis of the elytron, though slightly arching between successive
branches; four anterior branches are given off in succession, the first three of
which end up on Ri (extreme apex missing). Cu a broad, flattish, rather weakly
chitinized vein, branching into Cui and Cuz very close to base; each of these
veins is again branched more or less dichotomically, the upper part of Cui
running below and subparallel to the main stem of M. 1A arises as a broad,
flat vein just below Cuz, and runs with a slight curve below it to end, without
branching, at about two-thirds of the wing-length. The other two anal veins
arise far from 1A on the curved basal portion of the sutural margin, 2A being
simple, 3A branched; the anterior branch of 3A junctions with 2A to form a
Y-vein. Sutural margin broad and nearly straight except at base, where it is
stouter, narrower and much curved.
Genotype, Protocoleus mitchelli, n.sp. (Upper Permian of Belmont,
N.S.W.).
PROTOCOLEUS MITCHELLI, n.sp. (Plate xlvi., fig. 5; text-fig. 3).
Total length of preserved portion of elytron, 21.5 mm., indicating a com-
plete elytron of total length about 24 mm.; greatest breadth, 7 mm. The elytron
is ochreous in colour on the usual pale-greyish, cherty shale of the Belmont
Beds, and is impressed with the underside uppermost, so that the veins are all
grooves of varying depths, with the exception of the deeply concave base of Se,
which stands up as a strong ridge; the strongly formed base of R appears as a
deeply impressed groove below the raised Se. Apart from these inequalities,
the rest of the elytron is very flat. The extreme base of the elytron is of
peculiar form, the attachment to the thorax having been apparently effected
by means of a single large callus at the base of the subcosta and radius; this
BY R. J. TILLYARD. 435
swelling perhaps represents a fusion of originally separate anterior and posterior
calli. From below this callus the posterior margin arches strongly away in a
direction almost exactly opposite to that of the costa, and then curves strongly
round into the sutural margin; hence the extreme basal posterior part of the
tegmen lies actually at a level anterior to the origins of the veins Se, R, M
and Cu. This is in strong contrast with the condition seen in Blattoidea, where
the base of the costal margin projects more or less anteriorly to the rest.
Venation as given in the generic definition. Sculpture consisting of very
numerous, minute pits or punctae, scattered for the most part irregularly over
the whole of the membrane between the veins, but showing a marked tendency
to become arranged in lines along each side of the veins. The spaces between
successive veins contain these pits from two to four deep, according to their
width.
By turning the photograph in Plate xlvi., fig. 5, upside down, so as to re-
verse the lighting, the elytron will appear with raised veins and sunken pits;
this is the appearance which it would have had in life if viewed from above.
In the actual impression, the pits show as tiny raised tubercles, the veins as
grooves or channels.
Type, Specimen No. 81 in Mr. J. Mitchell’s Collection (date on label,
1922).
Horizon: Upper Permian of Belmont, N.S.W.
This species is dedicated to its discoverer, Mr. John Mitehell, to whom also
the first discovery of true Coleoptera in these beds is due.
In conclusion, I desire to express my thanks to Mr. W. C. Davies, Curator
of the Cawthron Institute, for the excellent photographs from which the Plates
have been made.
Explanation of Plates xlv.-xlvi.
Plate xlv.
Fig. 1. Permosyne belmontensis n.g. et sp. (x 18.5).
Fig. 2. Permosyne affinis n.g. et sp. (x 21).
Fig. 3. Permosyne mitchelli n.g. et sp. (x 21.5).
Fig. 4. Permosyne pincombeae n.g. et sp. (x 17).
Plate xlvi.
Fig. 5. Protocoleus mitchelli n.g. et sp. (x 8).
436
THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN COLLOIDS UPON FEI3MENTATION.
5 Parr i, ;
By R. Greic-Smiru, D.Se., Macleay Bacteriologist to the Society.
(Six Text-figures.)
[Read 29th October, 1924.]
While testing the fermentative activities of the high temperature organism,
an experiment was made with powdered charcoal suspended in a fluid containing
ammonium sulphate, potassium citrate, sodium phosphate and magnesium sul-
phate. A quantity of carbon dioxide was given off and it was thought that
the charcoal had been fermented. Soot prepared by allcwing the smoky flame
of a bunsen burner to play against a vessel containing water also seemed to be
fermented. The same appled to soot purified by ignition followed by treatment
with alcohol and ether.
Following up the matter, it was discovered that it was neither the soot nor
the charcoal, but the citrate of potash in the medium that had been attacked.
In the absence of carbon, the citrate was not fermented, a fact which was
ultimately traced to the conditions that obtained in the experiments. The
bacteria had been chilled and in this state were powerless either to increase in
numbers or to utilise citrate.
Not only did charcoal and soot overcome this inertness of the microbes, but
kieseleuhr and fuller’s earth had the same effect. These substances are colloids
and it would appear that this group of bodies is capable of overcoming certain
conditions inimicable to fermentation.
The action of colloidal bodies is of considerable importance and little has
been done with regard to their influence upon fermentation.
As this organism seemed to be very well adapted for the elucidation of
questions of this nature, chiefly on account of the fact that it grows at 60° and
the fluids are automatically purified, it was decided to investigate the action of
some of the ordinary mineral and other colloids.
Among the latest works upon the action of colloids in hastening bacterial
fermentation is that of Sohngen (Centr. f. Bakt. 2te Abt., 38, 1913, 621). The
paper bears upon the kind of phenomena that are likely to be met with in work
upon the fermentative activity of the high temperature organism, and some of
the points may be noted. He found that bacteria such as B. fluorescens lique-
faciens and B. phosphorescens agglomerated around the colloid particles. In the
case of Azotobacter, he found that certain colloids, such as filter paper, increased
the fixation of nitrogen, fivefold. Incidentally it was shown that suspensions of
BY R. GREIG-SMITH. 437
colloidal silica and hydrated ferric oxide absorbed twice as much oxygen from
the air as plain water. Fluids containing these colloids will therefore be more
oxygenated than colloid-free liquids.
B. ochraceus has the power ot dissolving starch and this is increased in the
presence of electro-negative humus and colloidal silica and decreased by electro-
positive colloidal ferric and aluminium oxides. The colloids scarcely increased
the numbers of bacteria but considerably enhanced or diminished the enzymic
action.
The fermentation of urea by M. wreae was increased by about 30% in the
presence of electro-negative colloids and especially by animal charcoal.
The alcoholic fermentation was peculiar. Alkaline humates depressed the
fermentation, while colloidal ferric oxide, aluminium oxide, silica and humic acid
were indifferent. The bio-colloids, such as peat, filter-paper, blood charcoal and
garden soil, accelerated the fermentation by about 50% and this seemed to be
due to the facility afforded to the escape of the carbon dioxide from the fibres
and angles of the colloids.
The general impression gathered from the paper is that the colloids play a
mechanical and a bio-chemical part. The mechanical was shown in the influence
of cotton and paper projecting from the fermenting liquids in the case of strong
aerobes such as Azotobacter and B. phosphorescens and of the bio-colloids in the
alcoholic fermentation. The bio-chemical part was demonstrated by the in-
creased enzymic action in the case of B. ochraceus.
The nutritive solution employed in most of the subsequent tests consisted
of a mixture of salts* adjusted to give a good buffer effect in order that a
minute droplet of fluid could be abstracted for the determination of the active
acidity that is the pH value.
Thirty e.c. of the ammonium phosphate fluid were generally put into a 100
c.c. distillation flask, together with 0.1 gram of lactose, a sugar which fermented
more slowly than the other commonly occurring carbohydrates (These Proceed-
ings, 1923, 478). Before the addition of the lactose the fluid was brought to
pH 6.8 or 7.0 with drops of dilute ammonia and the colloid was afterwards
added. The flasks were inserted into the fermentation apparatus and when
their temperature rose to 60°, the fluids were seeded with two or three drops of
a warm suspension of bacterial cells made by taking half of a 20 hours agar
slope and distributing it in 5 e.c. of warm water with the aid of a pipette
having a capillary nozzle. In each set of tests, the same number of drops of
suspension was added to each flask.
The first tests that are being recorded were made with kieselguhr, silica and
kaolin. Along with them are tabulated the results obtained from the fermentation
of lactose with powdered willow-charcoal and with hydrocellulose prepared by
the action of alkaline permanganate upon cotton wool.
The numbers in the tables that follow represent the milligrams of carbon
dioxide caught by the baryta solution through which the air coming from the
fermentation flask had to pass. The fermentation apparatus has been described
in a former paper (These Proceedings, 1921, 84).
* Ammonium phosphate 38, potassium dihydrogen phosphate 1, magnesium
sulphate anhyd. 0.5, sodium chloride 0.25, calcium chloride 0.25 grams, brom-
thymol blue 20 c.c. and water to 1000 c.c.
438 THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN COLLOIDS UPON FERMENTATION, i.,
Table i——The Influence of various Colloids upon Fermentation.
Carbon dioxide in mg.; aggregate amounts.
Days. 1 2 3 4
30 «.c. of nutritive fluid
containing
Set 1 lactose and kieselguhr 0.1 gm. .. .. 13 33 64
ie 3 te oO i, bo 10 49 38
5 and silica 0.1 gm 16 58 85
oe 4 a 1.0 gm 21 79 90
90 and kaolin 0.1 gm 11 29 57
res a ns Wo Osis “oia Gi 17 51 91 :
i only (control) cena uate 4 19 46 70
Set 2 lactose and charcoal 0.2 gm. .. .. .. 13 42 94 99
: lactose only Bane Rene Foch uae 17 42 69
charcoal only .. i Sn Weae tan ene Bees 1 : x
lactose and hydrocellulose 0.2 gm. .. 2 22 54 76
hydrocellulose only es al
100
CHARCOAL
/
SILICA
MILLIGRAMS
KIESELGUHR
KAOLIN
Q
5 CONTROL
10
1 2 3 DAYS
The most active of the colloids was silica. The sample came from the stock
bottle bearing the label “Silica, pure precipitated”: it had been bought many
years ago and probably had not been purposely “activated.” All the colloids
accelerated the fermentation, the larger quantities more than the smaller but the
increases were not proportional to colloid present. .
Fuller’s earth had in the preliminary experiments acted as an accelerating
colloid and a test was made with increasing quantities of it.
Table ii—Fuller’s Earth; carbon dioxide in mg.; aggregate amounts.
Days 1 2 3 4
30 ¢.c. of nutritive fluid with 0.1 grm. lactose and
nothing: (controll) py wan ees mee ee seh ceed ep omaene ae Roe 5 19 41 67
fulller7:sise ar thie Oca Rrowrmiaty sin ete Ue Rec Am lata o/s ime Oran live dle emamtt oie 8 43 87 97
” a O.A2 eM Aeeecte yy aye ete mele: [ee ee asad he ers eer trata: 57 89 100
50 A Off DHE TI aul cacti stoi Use litals Tose oce stemeerc nes econ Gren awe 9 74 90 98
” ro A ROAME EIAs beter Tee) aise cee orem ect ae ace 2 92 100
BY R. GREIG-SMITH. i 439
MILLIGRAMS
50
1 2 3 DAYS 4
The lactose which was used in all these tests was the ordinary commercial
powder and 0.1 gram was capable of yielding from 100 to 105 mg. of carbon
dioxide. For this reason the curves of the numbers from 80 to 100 generally
become depressed as they near the limit.
The experiment with the fuller’s earth showed a considerable increase in
the speed of the fermentation with the smallest quantity and the speed increased
with the colloid. The amounts obtained on the second day gave an idea of the
relative activity.
A preliminary test with 0.5 gram of asbestos fibre had shown that it was
an accelerating agent. Further tests corroborated the fact. When varying
quantities were added to the flasks it was found that the first decigram of
colloid had the most influence; with more the acceleration was relatively slower.
Many tests were made and the results have been grouped together and the
averages taken.*
Table iiii—The Influence of Asbestos. Carbon dioxide in mg.
Days 1 2 3
30 c¢.c. of nutritive fluid containing Number
0.1 gram of lactose and of tests.
ASINXS, Opoitachel 6 Souls yo lac es 27 88 99 4
5 OVS 2 Gacy sears Reeataire arise ecomiewad sore 25 78 92 2
3 Oecd Sa tale eM ete eee 18 76 90 2
3 0.01 MERA emetset ayer delee ou cE 8 34 62 il
control (no colloid) oe MERC Leos 8 34 58 5
French chalk, 0.2 gram. .. .. .. .. «. 12 44. 59 2
*The probable error of the mean was calculated in each case and when taken
to the nearest whole number, it varied from two to three.
440) THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN COLLOIDS UPON FERMENTATION, 1,
The accelerating influence is clearly seen and a perusal of the graph in-
dicates the efficiency of quantities of asbestos greater than 0.1 gram per portion.
Two tests with French chalk are included. These show that the substance
accelerated the fermentation at the beginning but fell away by the third day.
The influence of agar was tested on several occasions. It was used both in
the powdered form and the ordinary commercial fibre.
In some eases the agar, at the temperature of fermentation, slowly softened
and it was noted that in these the short lengths of the fibre had, at the end of
the experiment, a rectangular section with rounded corners in strong contrast to
the H-shaped section of the raw wetted fibre. In other cases the section was like
a podgy H, as if the centre of the H had swollen and the ends of the uprights
had. dissolved.
Agar was tested by itself but there was no fermentation. It was also com-
pletely dissolved in the autoclave and maintained in the fluid condition. On the
whole the agar in the solid state was more effective than that in the liquid state.
One test with varying quantities of the fibre showed that 0.1 gram was as active
as a larger quantity.
Table iv—The Influence of Agar. Carbon dioxide in mg. Mean results.
Days 1 2 3 i
80 ¢.c. of nutritive fluid with 0.1 gram. of lactose Number
and of tests.
0.1 to 0.3 gram, agar in powder or fibre form .. .. 16 63 95 8
0.2 gram. of fibre dissolved .. .. .. .. ., Baie sede 13 47 82 4
iYt) PERIP Yo oo 00 00.0 FATE GAS wacOs Se ORO 9 30 52 9
100 .
SOLID
0)
2
< FLUID
cc)
a
2
2
60
CONTROL
1 2 DAYS 3
BY R. GREIG-SMITH. 441
It is obvious that agar acts as a stimulant, accelerating the activity of the
organism. The relative effects are clearly brought out in the graph where it is
seen that the solid colloid is more effective than the liquid. ;
Working with a very dilute saline solution (0.06%), Sdhngen noted that
the cells of B. fluorescens liquefactens agglomerated around the particles of col-
loid. He considered that this occurred because the potassium, sodium and am-
monium ions were condensed on the surfaces of the colloid particles and that
therefore more nutriment was offered there than at places in the body of the
fluid. In the experiments with agar which have been described an agglomeration
of bacteria on the solid particles did not occur; they were distributed uniformly
throughout the fluid. With the other colloids, particles of precipitated calcium
phosphate were seen adhering to the fragments, but an excess of bacterial rods
was not seen on or near the surfaces of the fragments. It should be remem-
bered that the fluids were comparatively rich in saline matter (0.6%) and there
would not be the same inducement for the bacteria to seek the colloid particles as
in Sohngen’s experiments.
The colloids that had so far been tested were electro-negative. The particles
of most colloids carry a negative charge* but a few, such as the hydroxides of
iron and alumina, carry a positive charge. It was considered advisable to test
these hydroxides to see how far the charge carried by the particles might be
responsible for the acceleration produced by the presence of the colloids in the
fermenting fluids.
Aluminium hydrate chanced to be in stock and was tested. It depressed the
fermentation. Then ferric hydrate was prepared and its addition to the nutritive
fluid accelerated the fermentation. Thus these two electro-positive colloids were
at variance. While the work was in progress, the stock of ferric hydroxide ran
out and a fresh lot was prepared. This gave a faster fermentation than the
older lot and suggested that the hydroxides might be more effective when freshly
prepared than when they had been kept for some time.
A new lot of aluminium hydrate was prepared and compared with the
stock.
It seemed possible that in the presence of the phosphates of ammonia and
potash of the nutritive fluid, the hydroxides might be converted to phosphates
and the subsequent action would be that of the phosphate rather than the
hydroxide. Accordingly suspensions of the phosphates of iron and alumina were
prepared and tested when recently made and when about a month old.
In the table it is shown that aluminium hydroxide caused a retardation in
the evolution of the carbon dioxide as compared with control fluids. It acted
* Colloid particles such as most powders, silica, charcoal, kaolin, starch, quartz,
felspar, cotton, paper, clay, and asbestos are electro-negative when suspended in
water. The hydroxides of iron and aluminium are electro-positive. (See Bayliss,
Principles of Physiology, 1921, 92, and Burton, Fourth Report on Colloidal
Chemistry, Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci.). Young actively growing bacteria and vege-
table cells in general are positively electrified and move to the negative pole,
i.e. they are electro-negative, when suspended in neutral solutions. Protozoa and
animal cells in general carry a negative charge and move towards the positive
pole. But old or poorly growing bacteria are electro-positive. Dale found that
the protozoa of the frog were negatively charged when in slightly alkaline fluids
as in the frog’s blood but, when in acid fluids, the charge was reversed. (Thornton,
Proc. Roy. Soc., 82B, 1910, 638.)
442 THE INFLUENCE OF OERTAIN COLLOIDS UPON FERMENTATION, 1.,
Table vy.—The Influence of the Hydroxides and Phosphates of Iron and Aluminium.
Carbon dioxide in mg.; aggregate amounts.
Days iL 2 3
80 ¢.c. of nutritive saline fluid with 0.1 gram Number
of lactose and 100 mg. of of tests.
AMiuirnphookoion, TACbOPACle) Go go 40°50 09 gon DO O8 6 28 48 13
Alumina .. BIR eee OO. AIG NG OF NG ts EHO 6 25 55 4
Ferric hydroxide 36 100 DO. 00 6.0 91000 66 24 | 63 84 6
Aluminium phosphate .. .. «- .. «+ ++ =: 11 AT 71 4
INET TNGONMEES 5G 6 po 60 bo oo oH a0 | 33 82 92 4
Control (no colloid) . RAE ae ayes) zen aus " 29 55 13
Aluminium hydroxide (old). Seah aT CAPRI ee 4 20 44 6
Ferric hydroxide (old) .. Bi ler TAS Ros waeee LEE RSI, 11 35 69 3
Aluminium phosphate (old) Leaw ys 2058 ie tee te tre 11 41 70 7
Herric) phosphate Cold)) i.) yay coeeien ely eo 10 30 53 4
'00 100
o
=: $
< q
bs ied
g G
a 3
= AL PO, Fs
v4 CONTROL 7
60 50
CONTROL
10
10
\ 2 DAYS 3 ; A Oona 9
as a depressant.t The old hydroxide which had been prepared for some years
and had been stored as alumina cream was more active in this negative way
than the freshly prepared material. Ignited alumina was practically indifferent.
* Four weeks later the ferric phosphate was sterilised previous to being used
in some experiments with yeast. It curdled during the heating but this did not
affect its efficiency, for two tests with lactose had an average of 38—77—86 and
four controls had an average of 9—29—49 for 1, 2 and 3 days. The phosphate
had originally been prepared by adding an excess of sodium phosphate to a
solution of acidified ferric chloride, neutralising with dilute ammonia and wash-
ing by suspension and filtration. There was a considerable loss as the phosphate
began to “milk” and much passed through the filter.
+ The use of artificial colloidal precipitates (e.g. alumina cream) as a surface
on which B. aceti can develop is not advantageous—Fowler and Subramaniam
(through Chem. and Ind., 42, 1923, 1146).
BY R. GREIG-SMITH. 443,
Since the actions of aluminium hydroxide and ferric hydroxide are at
variance, the one depressing and the other accelerating the fermentation of
lactose, it is clear that the nature of the electric charge on the colloidal particles
has no influence upon their activities during fermentation.
The phosphates of these metals acted as accelerating colloids. The old and
freshly prepared phosphates of alumina were quite active. The old phosphate
of iron was indifferent but the recently prepared specimen was very active in-
deed. It was the most active colloid that had been examined.
The acids formed during the fermentation may have dissolved some of the
metallic hydrates but it would appear that even if this did occur, the metallic
salt had no influence upon the course of the fermentation. In some cases the
acidity rose from pH 7.0 to pH 6.4 but when some of the tests were neutra-
lised, the curves did not differ in character from those which were not neu-
tralised.
It is probable that the metallic hydroxides were not converted to phosphate,
at least to any considerable extent, for the fluids made neutral (pH, 7.0) at
the start before the addition of the hydroxide, never. became alkaline. Nor was
the quantity of ammonia caught in the baryta water in excess of that found in
the control flasks. Although there was enough aluminium hydroxide added to
absorb all the phosphate as aluminium phosphate, the evidence did not justify
the assumption that the reaction had occurred.*
The main object of the experiment was to see if the electric charge on the
colloidal particle influenced its activity, and the answer to the question seems
to be in the negative.
Kaserer found that the silicates and phosphates of iron and alumina
favoured the growth of Azotobacter. These tests confirm this so far as the
phosphates are concerned, for they certainly have a distinctly favourable in-
fluence upon fermentation (and upon growth, for the fluids which showed a
slow fermentation were not so turbid as those which showed a rapid fermen-
tation). Alumina has a slightly depressing action and it is shown elsewhere
that silicate of aluminium (kaolin) accelerates the fermentation. It is therefore
probable that gelatinous aluminium silicate is also an accelerating agent.
Remy and Rosing found that colloidal ferric hydroxide increased the growth
of Azotobacter and Granulobacter and this is in keeping with these experiments.
Séhngen, on the other hand, found that the enzymic activity of B. ochraceus was
checked by colloidal ferric hydroxide as well as by aluminium hydroxide.
So far in this research the colloids were used in the insoluble condition,
while the other investigators used the silicic acid and the ferric and aluminium
hydrates in the dissolved or sol condition. Sometimes the sol became converted
to the gel by the other constituents of the medium or solution as in Sdhngen’s
experiment (pp. 625-6) with B. fluorescens liquefaciens. He notes that colloidal
ferric hydrate and silicic acid were flocculated upon their addition to the culture
fluid which contained 0.06% of saline matter including 0.02% of sodium-
* Judging from the experiments of Lichtenwalner, Flenner and Gordon upon
the adsorption of phosphate by alumina gels (Soil Science, xv., 1923, 157), it
would seem that the 0.1 gram of aluminium hydrate in these experiments would
adsorb approximately 7 mg. of PO, in three days from the culture fluid contain-
ing 0.006 N phosphate. This represents an adsorption of 8 % of the phosphate
added.
d44 THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN COLLOIDS UPON FERMENTATION, i.,
potassium tartrate. With the larger proportion of buffer salts used in the
experiments in this paper, it was expected that a soluble colloid would become
precipitated and accordingly only the precipitated colloids were employed. It
was subsequently found that colloidal ferric hydrate was coagulated, but that
colloidal silicic acid was not.
Gelatin is a colloid and, as we have seen, it is fermented by the bacterium.
Judging by the effect of liquefied as against non-liquefied agar, the solubility
of the gelatin in the fermenting fluid at 60° should diminish any accelerating
action it might have, but it should not bring it down to the vanishing point.
Acting as a colloid, and all the colloids, with the exception of aluminium hydrate
and French chalk, that have been tested in this research have been accelerating
agents, it should accelerate its own fermentation, especially in the beginning,
before it has had time to become destroyed.
How far this oceurs was the object of a few tests. In these 0.2 gram of
gelatin was added to 30 ee. portions of ammonium phosphate nutritive fluid
together with 0.1 gram of lactose or of agar or of asbestos fibre. The idea
of adding these colloids was to see the effect of superimposing substances with
a known accelerating action upon the unknown gelatin.
Table vii—The Action of Gelatin. Carbon dioxide in mg.; aggregate amounts.
Days . 1 2 3 4
Number
30 c¢.c. of nutritive fluid containing . of tests.
te Celbinha Omlbylsis) 5's “Go G0 G00 66 Oo) O80 3 25 56 80 6
DE TGA CLOSC TOMY: cree ocean eae oan eens 9 34 62 91 4
8}, > Ee@leinhn aynl IeewOSO bi 66 oo pd oo 46 16 68 119 161 4
Ue Cleleyaby gael Leee bo 56° Go ye clo 66) oe 6 41 72 94 4
5. Gelatin and asbestos .. .... .... .. 9 57 106 126 3
AO above ps aurae: eva tae mien mee mao 12 59 118 171
150
GELATIN & ASBESTOS
JID GELATIN & AGAR
F
7
7 GELATIN ONLY
MILLIGRAMS
BY R. GREIG-SMITH. 445
As before, the average of the tests are alone recorded.
The addition of the results of Nos. 1 and 2 is so near the result of the
combined lactose and gelatin (No. 3) that it may safely be said that, under the
conditions, gelatin did not accelerate the fermentation. When the known ac-
-eelerating colloids, agar and especially asbestos (Nos. 4 and 5), were added to
the gelatin, the fermentation was considerably increased. Their behaviour seems
to confirm the finding that gelatin does not function as an accelerating colloid.
The nutrient medium used throughout these experiments contained a small
quantity of calcium chloride (0.025%) and, as it had been noted in some sub-
sidiary tests that the absence of this small quantity seemed to give a speedier
fermentation, the matter was definitely tested in the following. A nutrient
medium was prepared containing (NH4)2eHPO«4 0.4%, KH2POs« 0.15%, and
MgSO4 0.05%. One half of a set of flasks received this medium while another -
half received the same plus 0.025% of calcium chloride. All received 0.2 gram
of. lactose. On neutralising the fluids, which had previously been coloured with
brom-thymol blue, a precipitate of calcium phosphate was thrown down in those
flasks containing the calcium salt but there seemed to be enough calcium left in
solution to influence the results.
Table vii—The Influence of Calcium in the Medium. Carbon dioxide in mg.;
aggregate amounts.
Days 1 2 3 4
30 ¢. ee of nutrient fluid with lactose
Fee ctoa. 0.1 eu. a8 Bk Sa in 8 aot | YOUR GLO Rin DNRC tacos 12 39 80 99
Fuller’s earth, 0.1 gm. CMR G St OM C RU SRN ERIC RCN ana 16 48 89 109
Activated silica, 0.1 om SPR ieee ok a oie Suche ene iwer a ener ese 14 60 92 103
No colloid .. . din Sol oon OM ouene! moron noO ji2 34 55 79
\ 10 32 53 75
Calcium chloride and Asbestos 0.lgm. .. .. ., .. .. «. 14 42 68 88
5 29 » fuller’s earth, 0. iL SAI) oe aoe Mo 11 32 71 103
i rs » ‘activated silica, @pal wey Ga chieoecersoee Ap ce 12 41 93 106
of ; » no colloid ., Rides eucie Pasa cne cecil ces j 9 23 43 64
\1e 24 46 66
As in the previous experiments, the colloids accelerated the fermentation of
the lactose in the presence of calcium chloride and they also accelerated the
fermentation in its absence. It is evident from the results that calcium chloride
unfavourably influences the speed of fermentation.*
One point that may be mentioned is that at the end of the third day the
fluids in the flasks were quite acid. They were neutralised, but this did not
seem to have any effect. To make quite sure, a test was made with the medium
containing the calcium chloride and a small quantity of silica was added to each
fiask. Two flasks were not neutralised after the start while two were neutralised
at the end of the second day and one of these again at the end of the third
day. The pH values at the end of each day are recorded.
It is clear that the neutralisation of the fermenting fluids made no difference
in the production of the carbon dioxide. This is in contrast with the fermen-
tation of dextrose and saccharose, the acids developed from which had a marked
influence in retarding the fermentation (These Proceedings, 1923, 476).
*Calcium acetate exerts an inhibitory action on acetification by PB. acett.
which is ascribed to the calcium ion. Fowler and Subramaniam (through Chem.
and Ind., 42, 1923, 1146).
446 THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN COLLOIDS UPON FERMENTATION, 1.
Table viii.The Influence of Neutralisation cn the Fermentation of Lactose.
Days 1 2 i 4 1 2 3 4
30 ¢.c. of nutritive fluid
with 0.2 gram lactose and pH value.
Silica, 0.1 gram; not neutralised .. .. .. 13 60 87 100 6.8 6.4 6.2 6.2
n 5 2: * PLD Aree tl 64 91 97 6.9 Gs Gon. Call
2: 2 neutralised* .. ., .. 16 67 91 100 6.8 6.2* 6.8 6.8
ie % a WTS i Bore Beats 54° 89 102 6.8 6.4% 6.6* 6.8
Control (no silica); not neutralised .. .. 14 42 71 99 6.8 6.6 6.4 6.2
It is difficult to understand why the new sample of commercial lactose should,
when using double the quantity, give approximately the same amount of carbon
dioxide as the old sample. A test with increasing amounts of lactose showed
that the fermentation proceeded very steadily during the first three days,
irrespective of the variation in the amount of sugar present.
Days 1 2 3 4 5
ILACHOSS, O©.7 Gem oo ca oo oo on 20 46 73 » 104 120
5 Opes ppeeyils Gig. Ga Hautala. 21 50 75 123 165
x ORG RAMs ot aie auemden ponte 20 52 77 118 158
Conclusions.
The mineral colloids such as kieselguhr, fuller’s earth, asbestos, precipitated
silica, kaolin, the organic colloid agar-agar and charcoal all acted as accelerating
agents in hastening the fermentation of the slowly fermenting sugar, lactose, by
the high-temperature organism.
These belong to the class of electro-negative colloids, but the electric charge
does not appear to be responsible for the accelerating effect. The electro-positive
colloid, precipitated ferric hydrate, accelerated the fermentation, while aluminium
hydrate retarded it.
The acceleration was greater with a larger amount of colloid but it was not
proportional; 0.2% of colloid was not twice as effective as 0.1%.
Judging by the behaviour of agar-agar, the colloids in the insoluble or gel
state are more effective than when in the dissolved or sol condition. Gelatine,
a typical colloid, neither hastened the fermentation of lactose nor of itself.
The precipitated phosphates of iron and aluminium acted as accelerating
colloids; one lot of ferric phosphate was exceedingly active.
The presence of soluble salts of calcium in the fermenting fiuid retarded
the fermentation.
I am indebted to Mr. W. W. L’Estrange for much kindly assistance.
447
AUSTRALIAN NEMESTRINIDAE. (DIPTERA).
By G. H. Harpy.
(Thirteen text-figures. )
[Read 29th October, 1924.]
The key to the species of the genus Trichophthalma given below, was found
amongst the manuscript papers of the late Arthur White,* now in the pos-
session of Dr. E. W. Ferguson. The information derived from this source has
afforded considerable assistance in identifying species of the family, as the
identity of some may not have been readily discovered from the descriptions
alone. In White’s original manuscript the order of the various lines is not in
accordance with the more simplified form given here, but the wording is the
same.
White’s key to the species of the genus Trichophthalma, based upon types and
other specimens in the British Museum Collection.
1. Abdomen spotted .. ... Re ae Ae ek
Abdomen with two longitudinal stripes SP Meee uss Reem
Abdomen with one longitudinal alas downers
Abdomen with cross bands . , sat call
Abdomen with both dorsal lines and cross bands are
Abdomen without either bands or stripes .. . :
2. Abdomen with from two to six white spots; little species Si ‘albimacula Walk.
ID) OUP Go bo
Abdomen with a row of dark central spots .. .. .. .. novae-hollandiae Macq.
3. Abdomen brown, thorax and abdomen each with two yellow stripes; rather
small species .. . . .. leucophaea Walk.
4. Abdomen pale yellow < or “grey with a “broad black central stripe and black
side margins .. . - .. Omitia Walk.
Abdomen yellow with ¢ a very broad black stripe; thorax black, fringed with
yellow hairs; a very small slender species .. .. .. .. Danan Westw.
Abdomen bright OSES with black dorsal stripe; thorax with a median
Sime) sc) a) . fulva Walk.
Abdomen red- brown, with ; an “indistinct black dorsal ‘stripe; wings with the
costal half brownish .. .. .. . .. .. costalis Westw.
5. Abdomen covered with pale grey pubescence, “crossed by two narrow black
bands; wings hyaline .. .. -. primitiva Walk.
Abdomen Tle with two narrow salar bands: “Thome with two distinct
yellow stripes 50,00 09 66 66 66 of bu oe Boo0 oo oa Unaionan \WWallite:
*For particulars of this MS., see Notes on Australian Bombyhidae, Hardy,
Proc. Roy Soc. Tasmania, 1923, p. 72.
448 AUSTRALIAN NEMESTRINIDAE,
Resembles laetilinea, but much smaller, markings distinct and wings much
paler; in one specimen the abdominal bands are replaced by yellow
SPOts ren .. .. richardoae Licht.
6. Wings remarkably short. “Abdomen yellow with ‘four black cross-bands and
Dlack dorsal stripe .. .. . .- variolosa Licht.
7. Uniformly red-brown; wings hyaline with costa suffused red-brown .. .
funesta Walk.
Uniform ‘dark black; thorax “with pale yellow ‘hairs « on sides; wings hyaline
with base dark brown; large species .. .. . .. nmgripes Macq.
Uniform dull black; sides of thorax, seutellum ‘and apex of abdomen with
fulvous hairs; large species (unknown to me) .. .. .. scapularis Big.
Entirely dull brownish; wae ee with costa narrowly brown; median-
sized species .. .. Sheeertise obscura Westw.
Small dark species with wings “suffused dark brown (the identification of
this species is queried in the B. M. collection) .. .. fuscipennis Thoms.
The types of the following species are not to be — i the British Museum
Collection: albitarsis, aurora and degener Walker.
Acknowledgements. The material studied for the purpose of this paper in-
cludes the specimens in the collections of Dr. E. W. Ferguson, Miss V. Irwin
Smith, Mr. A. J. Nicholson, and the Macleay, Australian, National and Queens-
land Museums. Specimens in my own collection have been kindly supplied by
Dr. R. J. Tillyard, Dr. A. J. Turner, Mr. R. Illidge, and Mr. G. Lyell; from
the last-named the only species described here as new was received. Specimens
of my own collecting come from Western Australia, Tasmania and New South
Wales.
Family NEMESTRINIDAE.
The characters that most readily distinguish this family are to be found in
the venation, a detailed account of which is given under each genus, where it
will be noted the one outstanding feature in common to all genera, and unique
to the family, consists of a secondary diagonal vein composed of portions of
various veins. The anal vein is free. The epodium is pulvilliform.
Key to the genera of Australian Nemestrinidae.
1. Proboscis well developed, long. Cubital vein forked and independent of the
madialevenae. eae : .. .. Trichophthalma
Proboscis small or <oasal ie ihe feabiEale vein is forked, then ion
directly to, or by a cross-vein with the radial .
2. Cubital vein forked; the upper branch may be obsolete, ‘but if s SO “his can
be recognised by the Dee of the cross-vein between the cubital and
radial veins .. . Beal We aS bine)
Cubital vein never forked or joined iby a cross-vein “with the maddie Bey oer
3. Upper branch of the cubital vein complete and joined at nearly half its
length with the radial vein by a Cross-vein .. .. . .. Exeretoneura
Upper ‘branch of the cubital vein vestigial and fotnall iby a eross-vein with
the radial at its base .. .. . .. Trichopsidea
4. Cubital vein united with the first “postical, aml also ie fourth and fifth
posticals united before reaching the wing margin .. .. .. Nycterimorpha
Cubital and fourth postical veins free, or at most the latter meets the third
Posticallaty ithe: wwaneymarconny is. See ua eRe OOS
BY G. H. HARDY. 449
Genus TRICHOPHTHALMA Westwood. (Figs. 1, 6 and 7.)
Westwood, Lond. Edin. Phil. Mag., vi., 1835, 448; Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent.
Zeit., 1910, 371; White, Proc. Roy. Soe. Tasmania, 1914, 65.
Characters.—Proboscis long, well developed. Antennae with three segments
An. Pars:
Figs. 1-5. Diagram of the wing venation.
af _ Prichophthalma; 2. Atriatops; 3. Trichopsidea; 4. Exeretoneura; 5.
Nyeterimorpha. h. humeral vein; m. mediastinal vein; Sc. subcostal; R. radial;
Cu. cubital; P1 first postical vein (second and subsequent postical veins are de-
noted by suitable figures, P2, ete. and when two of these run together they are
denoted as Ps+s, ete.); An. anal vein; d.c. discal cell.
450 AUSTRALIAN NEMESTRINIDAE,
and a conspicuously jointed arista. Wings with long mediastinal and subcostal
veins; radial vein free; the cubital forked; the first and second postical veins
reaching the wing margin anterior to the apex; third postical branching from
the second and anastomosing with the fourth. The complex diagonal vein is
composed of the extreme base of the radial, the basal half of the cubital, the
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7
6 Cr 8 9 4O
ee 4,
Figs. 6-11. Diagram of the antennae.
6, 7. The two forms of the antennae found in genus Trichophthalma; 8.
Atriatops; 9. Trichopsidea; 10. Exeretoneura; 11. Nycterimorpha.
vein at the apex of the discal cell, the base of the second postical, the whole of
the third and the tip of the fourth posticals. The fourth and fifth posticals
rise close together at the apex of the second basal cell.
Type, 7. costalis Westwood. Australia.
Key to the species of the genus Trichophthalma.
{. Third segment of the antennae short and conical, simple .. 2
Third segment of the antennae longer, with a Gonstricted base that appears
like another segment in the antennae .. .. reat)
2. Abdomen without stripes, at most with a median line ‘of ‘spots ieee eee
Abdomen with distinctly one median and a pair of lateral stripes which are
usually not interrupted .. .. . Eeablet
3. <A brown were ner ate with a median ine Of abdominal ‘spots 2s
: punctata Macq.
A brown species “with very conspicuous: Jong “white “pubescence at base of
the abdomen .. .. .. .. costalis Westw.
A large uniformly brown species, without fonpeccence of a contrasting
Colour Rise eee .. .. novae-hollandiae Maeq.
A large slate-grey species “with ‘yellow Pubescence at sides of the thorax and
fringing the scutellum .. .- . 54 66 oo oo oo TUOUOGS WikeC,
4. A species with brown or brownish ‘abdomen Beier: : fulva Walk.
A grey species with three broad black or brown stripes on " thorax as well as
on the abdomen .. .. . .. degener Walk.
5. Abdomen grey with three black longitudinal ‘stripes and at least a little red
pubescence .. .. . .. rosea Macq.
Abdomen grey with three black longitudinal stripes and ‘also with narrow
black bands at eas thus dividing the grey area into spots.
.. .. albimacula Walk.
Abdomen with two or three narrow bands ‘of ‘golden pubescence situated at
the apex of the segments .. .. .. .. laetilinea Walk.
Abdomen grey, with at ‘least two narrow Nags bands on abdomen and with-
out longitudinal stripes .. .. . .. .. primitiva Walk.
Note.——As far as yet ascertained, those ispecies ‘that have a superficial re-
semblance to each other (i., not one of affinity), can be separated by means of
BY G. H. HARDY. 451
the third antennal segment. In one this is short and conical (see fig. 6), in
the other it is not only much longer than broad, but is also constricted near the
base, which character gives the antennae the appearance of containing four joints
and an arista (see fig. 7). There are no known structural characters, other than
those of the antennae, suitable for the determination of the species and on this
account the means of identification still depends chiefly upon the outstanding
characters of colour and colour-markings. The described forms readily fall into
six groups, each of which contains species of allied characters.
Group 1.—costalis, punctata and fulvus.
Group 2.—novae-hollandiae and nigripes.
Group 3.—degener, heydenii and probably leucophaea.
Group 4.—rosea, bivittata, variosa, eques and albimacula.
Group 5.—laetilinea and probably richardoae.
Group 6.—primitiva.
The first three groups have a conical third antennal segment; the last three
have this segment more elongate and constricted at the base. The third and
fourth groups have very similar colour pattern but they differ in shape as well
as in the antennae; moreover, the proboscis is often much longer in the former.
Lichtwardt refers to two species for which short descriptions are given but
no names. Several further and apparently new species are represented in
various collections, but it is not considered expedient to describe these at the
present time.
TRICHOPHTHALMA COSTALIS Westwood.
Westwood, Lond. Edin. Phil. Mag., vi., 1835, 448, and Isis, ii., 1838, 86;
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 372.—Rhyncocephalus costalis Newman, Entom.,
i., 1841, 220.—? T. obscura Westwood, l.c., 1835, 448, and 1838, 86.—T7. albitarsis
Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., iv., 1857, 134; Schiner, Reise Novara Dipt.,
1868, 112; Lichtwardt, l.c., 1910, 381—T. fusctpennis Thomson, Eugenies Resa
Dipt., 1869, 447; Lichtwardt, l.c., 1910, 385.
Synonymy.—T. obscura Westwood was described without a locality, but a
specimen in Dr. Ferguson’s collection was identified as such by White; un-
fortunately, this specimen is now in very bad repair (the head and abdomen are
missing), but it appears to be identical with some specimens independently
identified by me from the description as TJ. albitarsis Walker. I believe T.
costalis and T. fuscipennis also belong here.
Note.—Readily recognised by the soft, white and long pubescence at the
base of the abdomen. The indistinct black dorsal stripe of the abdomen, re-
ferred to by White in his key, is perceptible on specimens which are inferior in
condition; one specimen in Dr. Ferguson’s collection has a median line of ab-
dominal spots.
Hab.—New South Wales: Kendall, Leura and Blackheath. From the last-
named locality there are five males and one female in my collection taken on the
23rd and 24th November, 1919, all hovering under the same tree. The specimen
identified by White as T. obscura is from Long Bay, near Sydney, taken on the
17th November, 1913. Como and Wentworth Falls (A. J. Nicholson). Victoria:
Oakley, March, 1919 (C. E. Cole), in the National Museum. Queensland: Large
specimens from Stradbroke and Bribie Islands, Tambourine Mt. and Brisbane
are in the Queensland Museum. Western Australia: A specimen from Hamel in
the Queensland Museum.
452 AUSTRALIAN NEMESTRINIDAE,
TRICHOPHTHALMA ALES Newman.
Rhyncocephalus ales Newman, Entom., 1., 1841, 220—Trichophthalma ales
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 375.
From the description it is not possible to determine the identity of this
species; nevertheless, the name is placed here as it may belong to either T. costals
or a closely allied form.
TRICHOPHTHALMA PUNOTATA Macquart.
Hirmoneura punctata Macquart, Dipt. Exot. suppl. 1, 1846, 101—Tricho-
phthalma punctata Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 376.—Hirmoneura nigri-
ventris Macquart, Dipt. Exot. suppl. 4, 1850, 98, Pl. ix., fig. 9.—Trichophthalma
quadricolor Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus., ii., 1849, 234; Lichtwardt, l.c., 380.—
Hirmoneura novae-hollandiae Macquart, Dipt. Exot. suppl. 4, 1850, 99 (nec
Macquart, 1840).—Trichophthalma novae-hollandiae White, Proce. Roy. Soe.
Tasm., 1914, 65 (nec Macquart, 1840).
Synonymy.—Under Trichophthalma novae-hollandiae, there will be found
some remarks indicating a confusion caused by Macquart, who referred two
species under one name. One, a male from Tasmania, is undoubtedly the same
as a species described under the same specific name by White. As all the above
species are attributed to specimens from Tasmania, where only one species be-
longing to the genus is known, doubtless the synonymy is correct.
Note.—As already pointed out by White, this species is somewhat variable
and the colour markings differ in the two sexes; the brownish colour on the
male is rather obscure. _
Hab.—Apparently restricted to Tasmania, T. punctata has a wide distri-
bution over the island and is abundant during the summer months. Twenty-one
males and twelve females, also a pair taken in copula are in my collection; they
are from South Bruni Island, Garden Island, Hobart, Wedge Bay, Dunalley, Mt.
Maria and Wynyard; the dates range from December to March. At Strahan, in
the west, a specimen was seen by me on two occasions during February, 1924.
White referred to the species as occurring on the mainland of Australia, but he
was evidently misled by the resemblance to the species now known as T. fulva.
TRICHOPHTHALMA FULVA Walker.
Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus., i1., 1849, 235; Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit.,
1910, 380.—T. ochropa Thompson, Eugenies Resa Dipt., 1869, 477; Lichtwardt,
Le., 384.
Synonymy.—White, who has evidently examined Walker’s type, has identified
a specimen in Dr. Ferguson’s collection as being this species. I believe Thomp-
son’s name refers to the same. A dark greyish-brown female in the National
Museum is identified by Miss Ricardo as “probably Tr. quadricola Walker.”
Note.—The male is readily distinguishable from the Tasmanian 7. punctata
by the decidedly red-brown abdomen. The black median abdominal stripe is
about half the width of the brown stripes on each side of it. In both sexes the
narrow black lateral stripes as well as the median stripe may be interrupted to
form spots.
Hab.—Western Australia (Walker), New South Wales, Victoria and
Queensland.
BY G. H. HARDY. 453
TRICHOPHTHALMA NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE Macquart.
Hirmoneura novae-hollandiae Macquart, Dipt. Exot., 1., 1840, 19, Pl. in,
fig. 7; also ? suppl. i., 1846, 101 (nec suppl. 4, 1850) —Trichophthalma novae-
hollandiae Schiner, Reise Novara Dipt., 1868, 110; Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit.,
1910, 373 (nec White, 1917).—T. funesta Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus., ii,
1849, 231; Lichtwardt, ibid., 377—Rhyncophalus gigas Newman, Entom., 1,
1841, 220.—Trichophthalma gigas Lichtwardt, ibid, 375.
Synonymy.—tThere is a considerable amount of confusion with regard to
this species, which appears to have been described by Macquart from the same
form, named later T. funesta by Walker. In 1846 Macquart described a smaller
specimen, without locality, recording it as a male, the original being a female,
and in 1850 he duplicated this action, describing the male from Tasmania. It
is certain that neither of the males belong to the same species as the female,
and the Tasmanian male is referable to T. punctata. From the description I be-
lheve Rhyncophalus gigas Newman is this species.
Note.—This is a large species of uniform reddish-brown colour.
Hab.—Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Stradbroke Island, Torres
Straits and Western Australia; December and January. ‘This species is re-
presented in most collections, and a female in mine is from Barrington Tops,
December, 1921.
TRICHOPHTHALMA NIGRIPES Macquart.
Hirmoneura nigripes Macquart, Dipt. Exot., ii., 1840, 20.—Trichophthalma
nigripes Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 374.—T. scapularis Bigot, Ann. Soe.
Ent. France (6), i., 1881, 18.
Synonymy.—Macquart’s species was described without a locality, but Licht-
wardt records it from» Australia and adds Bigot’s name as a synonym.
Note.—A species resembling T. novae-hollandiae but of a slate-like colour
and containing yellow hair at the sides of the thorax and base of the abdomen.
Hab.—New South Wales: Hecleston, Kendall, 1 gd, 3 2 in Dr. Ferguson’s
collection. Queensland: Bribie Island, November, 1918, Stradbroke Island, De-
cember, 1913, 1 5 and 2 2 with colour intermediate between the typical form of
this species and 7. novae-hollandiae.
TRICHOPHTHALMA DEGENER Walker.
Trichophthalma degener Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus., ii., 1849, 233; Licht-
wardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 379.
Note—tThis species belongs to a group that has a superficial resemblance to
the T. rosea series, but it can be readily distinguished by the conical third an-
tennal joint, and usually the proboscis is longer. On the thorax there are three
very broad brown or black stripes that occupy nearly the whole surface; the
intermediate grey stripes are very narrow and not interrupted. The scutellum
and abdomen are brown or black, the latter has a pair of very narrow grey
Stripes. The eyes are separated in both sexes.
Hab.—Western Australia: Perth, 9th November, 1912, a pair taken in
copula; also a male in Dr. Ferguson’s collection.
TRICHOPHTHALMA HEYDENII Jaennicke.
_ Hirmoneura heydenii Jaennicke, Abh. Senck. Nat. Ges., vi., 1867, 336, Pl.
xlii., fig. 7.
454 AUSTRALIAN NEMESTRINIDAE,
Note—Very similar to 7. degener, but the outer thoracic stripes are inter-
rupted.
Hab.—Western Australia; two specimens in the Australian Museum appar-
ently belong to this species and are labelled “K.G.S.” (King George Sound).
TRICHOPHTHALMA LEUCOPHAEA Walker.
Trichophthalma leucophaea Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus., 11, 1849, 233;
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 379.
Note.—Distinguished from the two previous species by having the brown
thoracic stripes considerably narrower.
Hab.—Western Australia; three faded specimens in the National Museum.
TRICHOPHTHALMA ROSEA Macquart.
Hirmoneura rosea Macquart, Dipt. Exot., suppl. 1, 1846, 100.—Trichoph-
thalma rosea Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 376—TZ. aurora Walker, List
Dipt. Brit. Mus., ii., 1849, 232; Lichtwardt, ibid, 381.—7. montanea Schiner,
Reise Novara Dipt., 1868, 110.—? 7. bivitta Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1857, 135; Lichtwardt, ibid, 381.
Synonymy.—H. rosea Macquart, T. aurora Walker and T. montanea Schiner
undoubtedly refer to one species, which is readily distinguished from its allies by
red or rosy pubescence that is invariably abundant on the male and occurs to a
limited extent on the female. A male specimen was identified by White as 7.
bivitta Walker, but it is uncertain whether this identification can be correct, as
the occurrence of red pubescence is omitted from the description of that species.
The figure in Froggatt’s “Australian Insects” named 7. outs appears to re-
present this species.
Note.—This is one of a series of closely allied aa that are apparently
quite distinet species; it occurs abundantly at La Perouse, Botany Bay, and is
the commonest Nemestrinid around Sydney; it has not been seen from elsewhere.
Moreover, none of the other species of the series has been seen from this
locality.
Hab.—New South Wales: Sydney, La Perouse; a series of eighteen males
and four females were taken by me during the months of August and September
in 1919 and 1920; the species occurs on the wing for four or five weeks only.
Specimens are in various collections.
TRICHOPHTHALMA BIVITTATA Westwood.
Westwood, Phil. Mag. Lond. and Edinb., vi., 1835, 448; Isis, ii., 1838, 86;
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 371.
Note.—From the description this species appears to belong to the T. rosea
series, but I am not able to place it with certainty. According to Lichtwardt
the type is in inferior condition and he suggests that it is the same as 7. bivittata
Thomson; I do not think this suggestion can be correct as Westwood states the
thorax is cinereous and on Thompson’s species the grey is restricted to two lines.
Possibly it was described from a specimen very close to 7. rosea Macquart but
differing in little more than the absence of red pubescence.
TRICHOPHTHALMA VARIOLOSA Lichtwardt.
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 386.
BY G. H. HARDY. 455
Note.—A specimen in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, has been
tentatively identified by me as this species, but it is not available for study at
the time of writing this paper. This species is closely allied to T. rosea Mac-
quart.
TRICHOPHTHALMA EQUES Schiner.
Schiner, Reise Novara Dipt., 1868, 110.
Note.—A species closely allied to T. rosea Macquart, from which it differs
apparently only in the markings of the thorax and the absence of red pubescence.
A single female specimen in Dr. Ferguson’s collection conforms most closely to
Schiner’s description, and a series of eight specimens in the Queensland Museum
from Brisbane (November) probably belongs to the same form. These contain
on the thorax a median black stripe, a pair of lateral stripes interrupted by the
transverse suture and extending to only half the length of the thorax, and on the
extreme lateral border, lying along the post-alar callus, there is another pair of
black stripes. Dr. Ferguson’s specimen is from North Queensland, but Schiner’s
was described from Sydney.
TRICHOPHTHALMA ALBIMACULA Walker.
Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus., u1., 1894, 234; Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit.,
1910, 380—T. bivittata Thomson (nec Westwood), Eugenies Resa Dipt., 1869,
476; Lichtwardt, ibid, 382.
Synonymy.—Judging from the original description and White’s notes on the
type, it seems probable that Walker and Thompson described the same species,
Walker’s specimen being of an unusually small size.
Note.—A male in my collection and a female in Dr. Ferguson’s, apparently
belong to this species which differs from T. rosea by having the light portions
of the thorax limited to two narrow stripes which converge slightly towards the
scutellum; the abdomen has narrow bands at the segmentations thus dividing the
lighter portions into large, more or less rectangular spots; there is no red
pubescence.
Hab.—New South Wales: Murrumbidgee, August, 1921, female; Waterfall,
September, 1914, a male taken by Dr. R. J. Tillyard.
TRICHOPHTHALMA LAETILINEA Walker.
Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., iv., 1857, 134; Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit.,
1910, 381.
Note.—A handsome black species with a pair of median grey stripes which
converge and are confluent towards the scutellum; also with a converging pair of
light lateral fringes composed of long pubescence. The abdomen has a narrow
transverse band of yellow pubescence at the apex of three segments. In Dr.
Ferguson’s collection there is a pair of very small specimens that differ in minor
details from the larger ones.
Hab.—New South Wales: Waterfall, a female taken by Dr. R. J. Tillyard,
15th September, 1914. Further specimens are from Blue Mountains and Sydney.
Victoria: Mallee Serub, Western District, 1884, and Narracan, November, 1896
(W. Kershaw), 1 d, 2 &.
TRICHOPHTHALMA RICHARDOAE Lichtwardt.
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 385.
Note.—This species, described from Adelaide, is unknown to me.
456 AUSTRALIAN NEMESTRINIDAE,
TRICHOPHTHALMA PRIMITIVA Walker.
Walker, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond., iv., 1857, 134; Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit.,
1910, 381.—Z. tabanina Thomson, Eugenies Resa Dipt., 1869, 476; Lichtwardt,
ibid, 384.
Synonymy.—This synonymy is probably correct; Walker’s description is
traceable to a species well known to me and Thomson’s description conforms
rather well to the same.
Note——A small grey species with rather obscure brownish elongate spots on
the thorax arranged like interrupted stripes; there are, however, more spots than
would be indicated by Thompson’s description. The abdomen has two definite
transverse bands of black pubescence and a third more or less obscure one.
Hab.—New South Wales: La Perouse, two males taken respectively on the
17th August, 1919, and 21st August, 1920, in association with TF. rosea, visiting
the early spring flowering shrubs; Woy Woy, 8 3, 3 ¢ (Nicholson collection).
Genus Arriatops Wandolleck. (Figs. 2, 8.)
Colax Wiedeman, Analecta Entom., 1824, 18, Pl. 1., fig. 8; also Auss, Zweifl.
Ins., ii., 1830, 260, Pl. ix., fig. 11 (Name preoccupied by Hubner, 1816, and
Curtis, 1827).—Atriatops Wandolleck, Entom. Nachrichten, xxiii., 1897, 245;
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 649.
Characters—The mouth parts are vestigial, or at least very.small. Antennae
very small, three-jointed and with a long arista. Wings with long mediastinal
and subcostal veins, radial vein free, the cubital not forked, the two first postical
veins terminate at the apex of the wing, the third and fourth posticals terminate
together at the wing margin. The complex diagonal vein is composed of the
base of the radial, a considerable length of the cubital which is fused for a short
distance with the vein bordering the discal cell, the vein at the apex of the discal
cell, the base of the second, the whole of the third and the extreme apex of the
fourth postical veins. The fourth and fifth postical veins rise from the second
basal cell. This venation differs from that of the genus Trichophthalma chiefly
in the cubital vein not being forked.
Type, C. javana Wiedemann. Java.
ATRIATOPS JAVANA Wiedemann.
Colax javana Wiedemann, Anal. Entom., 1824, 18, Pl. i., fig. 8; also Auss.
Zweifl. Ins., 11., 1830, 26, Pl. ix., fig. 11.—Atriatops javana Wandolleck, Entom.
Nachrichten, xxiil., 1897, 246, fig. 1; Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1909, 649.
Note.—Lichtwardt records this species from Cape York, Townsville and
Palmerston; there are specimens undoubtedly belonging to this genus from various
parts of Queensland in several collections and these are attributed to this species.
They agree better with the illustration by Westwood (Walker, Ins. Saund. Dipt.,
Pl. v., fig. 4) for which the name A. westwoodi was proposed by Lichtwardt who,
however, based his description upon a New Guinea specimen. Until further
material and information are available it cannot be ascertained if the specimens
referred here are A. javana, A. westwoodi or yet a third species; they are dated
November.
Genus TRICHOPSIDEA Westwood. (Figs. 3, 9.)
Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., ii., 1839, 151, Pl. xiv., fig. 9; Wandolleck,
Entom. Nachrichten, xxiii., 1879, 250, fig. 6.
BY G. H. HARDY. 457
Characters—The mouth parts contain a very short proboscis which scarcely
protrudes beyond the abundant long hair of the face. The antennae are minute
and terminate in a short, apparently jointed style. The wings have long media-
stinal and subcostal veins; the radial vein is joined to or near the base of the
vestigial (sometimes obsolete) upper branch of the cubital fork by a cross-vein;
the first and second postical veins anastomose apically for a considerable dis-
tance and terminate at about the apex of the wing; the third postical vein joins
the apex of the fourth; the complex diagonal vein is composed of the base of
the radial and cubital veins (the latter is partly coincident with a portion of the
vein bordering the discal cell), the base of the first and second, the whole of the
third and apex of the fourth postical veins; the fourth postical vein rises from
the discal cell; the fifth postical and anal veins are approximate at the margin
of the wing. The four outstanding features of this venation consist of the cross-
vein between the radial and cubital veins, the closed second posterior cell, the
fourth postical vein rising from the discal cell, and the almost closed anal cell.
Type, T. oestracea Westwood. Australia.
TRICHOPSIDEA OESTRACEA Westwood.
Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond., 11., 1835, 152, Pl. xiv., fig. 9; Macquart,
Dipt. Exot. suppl. 1, 1846, 107; Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus., ii., 1849, 235;
Wandolleck, Ent. Nachrichten, xxili., 1897, 250, fig. 6; Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent.
Zeit., 1909, 647; and 1910, 387; White, Proc. Roy. Soe. Tas., 1916, 260; Licht-
wardt, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung., xvu., 1919, 277.
Hab.— Queensland: Toowoomba; 15.3.21, 2 females (collected by Barnard),
and another without a label, in the Queensland Museum; Victoria: Bunyip, 2
females; Western Australia, 3 females in the National Museum. Macquart,
Walker and White give Tasmania as a locality, from which State White says
there are specimens in the British Museum.
Genus ExXERETONEURA Macquart. (Figs. 4, 10.)
Macquart, Dipt. Exot. suppl. 1, 1846, 105; White, Proce. Roy. Soc. Tas.,
1914, 63, text-fig. 8.
Characters——Mouth parts short and with a thickened extremity, in which
they differ from all other genera of the family. Antennae with the third joint
composed of several compact segments and without the differentiated style or
arista that is in other genera. Wings with a venation consisting of the media-
stinal and subcostal veins, which do not reach so far towards the apex as in the
other genera; the radial vein joined to about the middle of the upper branch of
the cubital by a cross-vein; the first postical vein runs to about the apex of the
wing; the second postical forms the apex of the complex diagonal vein which
also consists of the base of the radial and cubital veins (the latter being coin-
cident with a portion of the vein bordering the discal cell) and the vein at
the apex of the discal cell. The third and fourth postical veins anastomose be-
fore reaching the wing-border. The third postical vein rises from the discal
cell and the fourth from the second basal cell. The fifth postical is free.
Many of the above characters are considered to be of a primitive nature;
the most conspicuous being the composition of the diagonal vein which ends in
the second postical vein. The veins that reach the wing-border anterior to the
apex are more widely distributed than in the preceding genera. Moreover, the
458 AUSTRALIAN NEMESTRINIDAE,
antennae and proboscis are generalized in structure, a statement that may also
be applied to the abdomen, which is longer than that in the other genera, and
is more or less parallel-sided.
Type, EH. maculipennis Macquart. Tasmania.
EXERETONEURA MACULIPENNIS Macquart. (Fig. 12.)
Macquart, Dipt. Exot. suppl. 1, 1846, 106, Pl. ix., fig. 6; Lichtwardt, Deut.
Ent. Zeit., 1909, 651; White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1914, 63, fig. 8.
Note—Distinguishable from E. angustifrons, n.sp., by the width of the head
between the eyes; the front near the antennae is about as wide as long.
Hab.—Tasmania: Bellerive, 3 ¢ taken by sweeping in long grass on the
sand-dunes at Bellerive beach on the 14th March, 1917; 1 4d, 1 ¢ from the same
locality in the National Museum (C. H. Cole) ; Cradle Mt., Pencil Pine Creek,
1 3g, 17th January, 1917. New South Wales: Mt. Kosciusko, February and
March, 1920, 1 6 and 3 @ in Dr. Ferguson's collection; other specimens have also
been taken on this Mountain; Barrington Tops, 1 d, 12 (A. J. Nicholson).
Figs. 12-13. Diagram of the heads in the genus Eaeretoneura. 12. HE.
maculipennis Macquart; 13. E. angustifrons, n.sp.
EXERETONEURA ANGUSTIFRONS, n.sp. (Fig. 13.)
Differs from EH. maculipennis Macquart by having a very narrow front,
which, near the antennae, does not exceed half its length. Head black, two
tufts of yellow hairs above the antennae and the hair on the face also yellowish.
Thorax blackish-brown and with three black median stripes; the majority of the
hairs are yellowish. Scutellum brownish-black. Abdomen black, which colour
merges into yellowish-brown at the apex on the female only; pubescence yellow-
ish and white; venter yellow-brown. Legs and veins of the wing yellowish. Male
considerably more pubescent than the female, and its front narrower. Length:
6. 15 mm.; ¢. 19 mm.
Hab.—Victoria: Gisborne, holotype 3 and allotype 2, a pair taken in copula,
by Mr. G. Lyell, 11.3.1917; Gippsland, 1 ¢, 1 @, paratypes in the National
Museum. New South Wales: 1 ¢ paratype from Ebor, taken by Dr. A. J.
Turner, 8.1.1914, in the Queensland Museum.
BY G. H. HARDY. 459
NyctertmmorpHa Lichtwardt. (Figs. 5, 11.)
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1909, 648, fig. 6.
Characters.—Proboscis not apparent, palpi conspicuous. Antennae with two
equally short basal segments and a slender long third segment which is apparently
but very obscurely segmented. Wings with the mediastinal vein reaching to
about the middle of the costa; subcostal vein not quite reaching the wing margin;
radial vein free, but branching from the subcostal near the humeral cross-vein;
cubital vein not forked and apically anastomosing with the first postical vein
thus closing the first posterior cell. The second postical vein reaches the margin
just before the apex of the wing and the third postical branches from the second.
The complex diagonal vein is composed of the base of the cubital vein, the
median transverse vein, part of the vein bordering the discal cell, the base of
the second and the whole of the third postical veins. The fourth postical rising
from the discal cell runs into the fifth.
Type, NV. speiseri Lichtwardt. Queensland.
NYCTERIMORPHA SPEISERI Lichtwardt.
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1909, 648, fig. 6.
Hab.—Queensland: Cairns (Lichtwardt); Tambourine Mt. (W. H. David-
son) in the Queensland Museum. This is a single specimen that was originally
preserved in spirit.
Genus Nyctrertmyi1a Lichtwardt.
Lichtwardt, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1909, 648.
Nycterimyia has been recorded from Queensland and is apparently not re-
presented in any Australian collection; it should be readily recognised by the
presence of a cross-vein between the subcostal and radial, in addition to the one
between the radial and cubital veins. The cubital vein is simple, not branched,
the first postical apparently is absent and the fourth joins the third to form the
apex of the complex diagonal vein. These characters are deduced from Licht-
wardt’s figure.
Type, Trichopsidea dohrni Wandolleck. Sumatra.
NYCTERIMYIA HORNI Lichtwardt.
Lichtwardt, Ent. Mitt., i., 1912, 27, fig. 1.
Hab.—Queensland: Kuranda (Lichtwardt).
List of Works.
Bigot, 1881.—Ann. Soc. ent. France, series 6, Vol. i.
JAENNICKE, 1867.—Abh. Senck. Naturf. Ges., vi.
Licurwarpt, 1909-10—Deut. entom. Zeitsch., 1909-1910.
, 1912.—Entom. Mitt., i.
, 1919.—Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarict, xvii.
MAcquart, 1838-54.—Diptera Exotique nouveau ou peu connus. (Republished
from Mém. Soc. roy. Sci. de VAgric. et Arts, Lille.).
Newman, 1841.—The Entomologist, i.
ScuHiner, 1868.—Reise der Oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara un die Erde, ete.,
Zoologischer Theil, ii., Diptera.
THomson, 1869.—K. Sven. Fregattem Hugenies Resa omkring jorden. Diptera.
460 AUSTRALIAN NEMESTRINIDAE.
WALKER, 1849.—List of the Dipterous insects in the British Museum. Diptera,
il.
, 1857.—Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., iv.
WANDOLLECK, 1897.—Entomologische Nachrichten, xxiii.
Westwoop, 1835.—London and Edin. Phil. Mag., vi.
—_—___—_—_——., 1838.—sis, u.
, 1839.—Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., ii.
Waits, 1914, 1916—Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania.
WIEDEMANN, 1824.—Analecta entomologica ex museo regio Havniensi maximo
congesta, etc.
, 1828-30.—Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Inseckten.
461
Br TWO NEW HEMIPTERA FROM NEW SOUTH WALES.
By Hersert M. Hate.
(Communicated by A. J. Nicholson, I1.Sc.)
(Plates xlvii.-xlviil.)
[Read 26th November. 1924.]
A Notonectid for which it is necessary to erect a new genus, and a Saldid
from the Blue Mountains, are herein dealt with. These two species were 1n-
cluded in a series of aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera taken in New South
Wales by Mr. A. J. Nicholson, to whom I am indebted for the opportunity of
examining these bugs.
Family NOTONECTIDAKE.
Subfamily NOTONECTINAE.
The backswimmer is of special interest for, although only a few specimens.
were taken, two distinct forms are represented. The one is a melanochroic form
with completely developed hemelytra and metathoracic wings, and a large scutel-
lum. The other variety is degenerate; the dorsum is largely luteous, the heme-
lytra are for the most part devoid of pigment, show no trace of claval or mem-
branal suture, and have a greatly reduced “membrane,” while metathoracie
wings are entirely wanting and the scutellum is very small.
The absence, or partial abortion, of the metawings, accompanied by an im-
perfect development of the hemelytra, occurs in several other Cryptocerate
genera. For instance, all specimens of a large series of Sphaerodema rusticum
collected at Murray Bridge, South Australia, have a stunted hemelytral mem-
brane, and non-functional alae; these were taken from permanent water. Some
individuals of the semi-aquatic Matinus have well-developed alae and hemelytra;
others have a small hemelytral membrane and no metawings. A backswimmer
recently described by me (Mjdberg’s Swed. Sci. Exped. Aust.) belongs to the
genus Nychia, but the wings and hemelytra are normal and well developed, un-
like the condition described for the genus. Dr. Hungerford (1919, 178) men-
tions that the American Plea striola usually has aborted alae, but that appar-
ently they are occasionally developed; the Neotropical Corixid genus Palmacorixa
is said to have aborted metawings, but the same author (1919, p. 212 and 224)
adds that they are sometimes present. Therefore, it seems that, in the case
of the Cryptocerate bugs, the more or less constant degeneration of the wings.
in certain species cannot in itself be regarded as a character of much taxonomic
value. Nevertheless, it is of interest in that it indicates a tendeney to further
specialization of insects already much modified for an aquatie habit.
462 TWO NEW HEMIPTERA FROM NEW SOUTH WALES,
According to our present knowledge of the Notonectinae, the species of
four genera—Martarega, Signoretiella, Nychia and Paramsops, ng. may ee
degenerate hemelytra and no metathoracic wings, but it has been shown tha
normal individuals occur in at least the two last-named genera.
An observation by Kirkaldy (1897, 398) indicates that, in some species of
Notonecta, leucochroism may be associated with some slight abnormality of the
hemelytra. This author writes “Melanochroism and leucochroism are more
marked in this genus than in any other of the Rhynchota _with which I am
acquainted. . . . . A noteworthy fact is that, with the exception of NV. undulata,
N. americana, one or two N. shooterii and the luteous form of N. maculata (which,
strictly speaking, is not leucochroic), all the luteous specimens, some forty or
fifty, that I have seen, have unequal-lobed membranes. — Dr. Bergroth kindly
pointed out this peculiarity in N. lutea. I was at first inclined to regard it as
a specific character, but found this view to be premature on meeting with
luteous examples of N. shooteru . . . . some with ordinary, some with semi-
developed lobes.” Many, if not all, Notonectids are dorsally pale immediately
after passing the final ecdysis, although pronounced pigmentation may be deve-
loped later. Immature coloration is not to be confused with permanent leuco-
chroism.
Stal, Walker, Distant, Kirkaldy and other writers state that the antennae
are four-segmentate in members of this subfamily. In Anisops and Paranisops
there are but three true joints and, as noted by Champion (1901), this is also
the case with Buenoa. Scott (1872) describes the antennae of Nychia as “four-
jointed . . . . third minute.” Kirkaldy (1897, 396) questions the presence
of a tiny jointlet which Berg (1883) states is situated at the base of the third
segment in Notonecta and Signoretiella; if this were regarded as a true segment,
the antennae of these two genera would be five-jointed, consisting of scape,
pedicel and three-joited flagellum. In some genera this minute jointlet is
moderately distinct, but in others it seems to be coalesced with the-third segment ;
in either case it is of little importance, and has not been recognised in the
following key. The antennae are irregular, and in general the scape is short,
subglobular and somewhat bent, while the pedicel is conically-oval or irregular in
outline, and is the stoutest of the antennal segments. (PI. diate, site, IL).
Key to Genera.
A. Antennae three-jointed.
B. Anterior and intermediate legs short: posterior femora, tibiae and _ tarsi
subequal in length. Eyes basally contiguous. .. .. .. .. wee te
BB. Anterior and intermediate legs long; posterior femora, tibiae a
not subequal in length. Eyes rarely basally contiguous.
C. Ventral keel extending to tip of abdomen. Anterior tibiae of male with
a stridulatory comb on a basal spur. Ovipositor of female with a pair
of elongate, sub-spatulate and strongly chitinized gonapophyses,
D. Anterior tarsi of male single-jointed. ,_,
DD. Anterior tarsi of male two-jointed. Sioiuc atin lane rages
CC. Ventral keel not extending on to last abdominal segment. Anterior
tibiae of male without stridulatory comb or basal spur. Ovipositor of
femalemnotssopmnociitie chmenmnen yan rain ial oe ss +e ee oe «. Paranisops.
4\A. Antennae four-jointed.
E. Intermediate tarsi single-jointed.
Nychia.
nd tarsi
-. Anisops.
Buenoa.
- Martarega.
BY H. M. HALE. 463
EE. Intermediate tarsi two-jointed.
F. Anterior angles of pronotum excavate. .. .. .. -- «+ «+ .. Emithares.
FF. Anterior angles of pronotum not excavate.
GL ld\was lonely Comeau, 4. 56 65 so co oc . Signoretiella.
GG. Eyes basaliy widely separated. .. .. .. .. .. -.- -- Notonecta.
In the genera under section A the antennal flagellum consists of a single,
more or less lunate segment, which is a little longer than the pedicel. In those
under section AA the flagellum is bi-segmentate, with the proximal segment
shorter than the pedicel in Notonecta and Enithares. The second segment of the
flagellum is almost as long as the first in Martarega, slightly longer in Emthares,
and much shorter than the first in Notonecta and Signoretiella; the aforemen-
tioned basal jointlet is included in the length of the first segment of the flagellum.
A basal contiguity of the eyes is not confined to Nychia and Signoretiella,
for in Anisops (?) breddini Kirk., this character is conspicuous.
Five of the known genera, viz., Notonecta, Anisops, Enithares, Nychia and
Paranisops must now be listed as occurring in Australia. Of the others, Buenoa
is confined to North and South America, and Hawaii, Martarega and Signore-
tiella to South America.
PARANISOPS, n.gen. ej
Form slender. Eyes large and prominent. Notocephalon narrow, with the
sides sub-parallel, slightly divergent. Rostrum four-jointed, the first and second
segments subequal in length, the second shorter on sides; fourth a little longer
than third, which is seareely longer than the first. Labrum triangular, the sides
concave, the subacute apex not reaching quite to middle of second rostral seg-
ment. Antennae three-segmentate, the single-jointed, lunate flagellum one-fourth
longer than the pedicel. Scutellum large in melanochroic form, almost as long
as the metathorax; very small in leucochroic form. Metathoracic wings present
or absent. Hemelytra with or without claval and membranal sutures. Ventral
keel of abdomen not extending on to last visible segment (anal plate) ; ovipositor
of female short and weak. ‘Tarsi of all legs two-jointed in both sexes; hind
femora not extending to apex of hemelytra; inner edges of anterior and inter-
mediate tibiae and tarsi closely set with short hairs, the outer edges with long
spines.
Type, P. inconstans, n.sp.
The armature of the legs resembles that of Anisops and not of Notonecta
and Enithares. In both Ansops and its near ally Buenoa the labrum is con-
vexly-triangulate and extends to or beyond the end of the second rostral seg-
ment, the rostral joints are of different proportions and the ventral keel ex-
tends to the termination of the abdomen. Furthermore, pronounced pigmen-
tation of the hemelytra is not developed in either of these genera. These
characters, together with those given in the key, serve readily to distinguish
Paranisops.
PARANISOPS INCONSTANS, n.sp. (PI. xlvit., fig. 2).
3. Head, including eyes, distinctly narrower than greatest width of pro-
notum. Notocephalon testaceous; basal third with an obsolete, median carina;
beyond this is a median groove, not extending to vertex and having on each side
a swelling; some long and silky, white hairs emanate from the posterior ends of
these tumidities and from the inner margins of the eyes; vertex one and three-
fourths times wider than the synthlipsis, which is three and one-half times in
464 TWO NEW HEMIPTERA FROM NEW SOUTH WALES,
the width of an eye. Pronotum shining, ochraceous anteriorly, merging into.
black posteriorly; width at humeral angles almost one and two-third times medial
length; surface with some seattered punctures and a few silky hairs; a distinct,
longitudinal median carina, not reaching to apex of anterior margin, which 1s
well produced forwards between inner-posterior angles of eyes; lateral margins
very oblique; posterior margin evenly convex, a little incrassate. Seutellum
dull, black, two-thirds as long as pronotum; medial length one-half the basal
width, which is five-sixths the greatest width of the pronotum, and equal to
width of head including eyes. Metanotum and dorsum of abdomen black,
polished. Hemelytra sub-nitid, closely and shallowly punctate and clothed with
short pubescence; clavus: blackish-brown; corium blackish-brown with an inter-
rupted sub-hyaline stripe on anterior half; embolium ochraceous, almost as long
as the corium; membrane brownish-black. Metawings largely sooty. | Clypeus
greenish-ochraceous suffused with blackish near apex; labrum _ brownish-black;
third segment of rostrum suffused with brown, fourth segment black. Underside
dull, brownish-black, paler on middle of sternum and near apex of abdomen.
Anal plate brown, convex, not keeled. Anterior and intermediate femora
ochraceous, marked with brown; tibiae and tarsi ochraceous, their outer surfaces
with a broad, brown stripe. Posterior legs ochraceous, the femora with two
longitudinal brown stripes, and tibiae and tarsi brown on outer edges. Anterior
tibiae about one-fourth longer than tarsi and intermediate tibiae one-third longer
than tarsi. Anterior and intermediate tarsi each with the first joint two-thirds
longer than second; claws subequal in length, curved, acute and tipped with black,
the longer of each pair more than half as long as the last segment of its tarsus.
Posterior femora a little longer than tibiae, which are more than one-third
longer than tarsi; first tarsal segment about twice as long as second. Length, 7
mm.; width, 2.1 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Berowra Creek (type loc., Nicholson), Epping
(Gallard). Type male in South Australian Museum.
The sub-hyaline stripe of the corium is more extensive in the example figured
than in the holotype.
PARANISOPS INCONSTANS var. LUTEA, n. var. (Pl. xlviii., fig. 3).
Differs from the perfect variety in the following characters:—Form of
slightly different shape, narrowed anteriorly and widest across metathorax. Head,
including eyes, not much narrower than pronotum. Notocephalon testaceous.
Pronotum sub-hyaline, suffused with testaceous anteriorly; lateral margins not
very oblique. Scutellum luteous, very small, about one-fifth as long as prono-
tum. Hemelytra sub-hyaline excepting for an apical pateh of brown pigment
and a faint brownish marking near embolium; without claval or membranal
suture, and scarcely overlapping posteriorly; embolium long. Abdomen dorsally
luteous, marked with brownish along sutures. Hairs of underside black. Sternum
ochraceous, and abdomen ochraceous, in parts blackish. Length, ¢ 6.9 mm.;
width, 2mm. @ length, 7 mm.; width, 2.25 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Epping (type loc.) and Berowra Creek (Nichol-
son). Type male in South Australian Museum.
The above descriptions are made from specimens preserved in alcohol; a
hemelytron of beth forms is figured as flattened on a plane surface.
There is no marked dimorphism of the sexes. The anterior femora of the
BY H. M. HALE. 465
male are slightly stouter, the eyes a little more prominent, the anal plate nar-
rower and the form rather more slender than in the female.
It has been shown that in some other Cryptocerates the same species may,
more or less constantly, produce a form with incompletely developed wings, as
well as a form with perfect wings, and also that, in the Notonectinae, such
deterioration may be assoeiated with leucochroism. Admittedly, modification is
extreme in the Iuteous examples described above, and involves the scutellum and,
to some extent, the pronotum also. Nevertheless, the two varieties are specifically
connected by the structure of the legs, shape of the notoeephalon, ete.,—in fact,
the pale form, which is obviously degenerate, can only be separated by struc-
tural differences which may be ascribed to degeneration. In some of the semi-
aquatic Gymnocerata the differences between the apterous and macropterous
forms of the species are very marked.
It will be noted that the two forms were taken in the same localities. An
investigation of the life-cycle of this species may show that both varieties occur
in the same brood. Mr. Nicholson supplies the following note concerning the
situation in which the bugs were taken: “The backswimmer was taken in typical
ereeks of the Hawkesbury Sandstone country which surrounds Sydney. These
ereeks often cease to run for considerable periods during the summer, but water
always remains in deep, scattered ‘potholes’ in the sandstone bed of the creeks.
These ‘potholes’ usually contain a considerable number of insects and crustacea
of various kinds.” :
Some characters mentioned by Kirkaldy (1904, 114) in his description of
Amsops endymion suggest that this species possibly belongs to Paranisops. The
pronotum is described as being much more distorted between the eyes than in
other species, while the hemelytra are apparently pigmented, a condition, as
previously mentioned, unusual for Anisops. In P. inconstans, however, the
tarsal segments are of different proportions, the syfthlipsis is much narrower,
the size smaller and the form more slender than in Kirkaldy’s species. A. endy-
mion was described from a single female from the Swan River, and the type
reposes in the Perth Museum, Scotland.
Family SALDIDAKE.
Satpa Fabricius, 1803.
Type, Acanthia littoralis Linnaeus.
SALDA NICHOLSONI, n.sp. (PI. xlviti., fig. 4.)
3. Form somewhat narrowly sub-oval. Notocephalon black, shining, with
a yellow spot near middle of length of inner margin of each eye and another
on each side near apex of head; very finely punctate, and clothed with short,
forwardly-directed yellow pubescence and a few long, stiff, black hairs; as long
as medial length of pronotum and with a distinct neck. Ocelli yellow, almost
€ontiguous. Hyes very prominent, their inner margins markedly converging
apically. Face and labrum ochraceous, in parts suffused with brown. Rostrum
testaceous on proximal half, the remainder dark brown; reaching almost to middle
of posterior coxae. Throat black. Antennae black, with proximal half of basal
segment brown; long and slender, rather thickly clothed with short, stiff
pubescence intermixed with a few longer hairs; second segment two and one-
fifth times as long as the first and one and three-fifths times as long as third;
fourth segment slightly thickened, its length (including a minute basal jointlet)
one and one-tenth times that of third. Pronotum black, with a yellow dash near
466 TWO NEW HEMIPTERA FROM NEW SOUTH WALES,
each humeral angle; surface shinmg, very finely punctate, and clothed with
golden pubescence a little longer than that of head; on callus intermixed with a
few longer, black hairs; width at anterior margin much less, and width at
humeral angles much greater, than width of head including eyes; hinder margin
broadly emarginate and lateral margins distinctly sinuate; callus large, convex,
occupying three-fourths of the medial length of pronotum, extending almost to
lateral margins and with a small fovea, placed slightly in advance of the centre
of the disc. Seutellum black, finely punctate and clothed with backwardly-
directed golden pubescence, excepting near anterior angles; one-fifth wider than
long, with a distinct impression, situated at about middle of disc; apex tumid.
Hemelytra reaching well beyond termination of abdomen; in parts sub-nitid, the
remainder of a velvety appearance; clothed with golden pubescence, sparse on
sub-nitid areas. Clavus black, with a median dull, yellow streak opposite apex
of scutellum. Corium black, with an obscure whitish streak near anterior angle,
a spot of the same colour near outer margin at the first third of the length, a
dull, yellow line parallel to posterior end of outer margin and a yellow spot
near middle of posterior margin. EHmbolium black, with a greyish spot near
middle of inner edge and another larger marking near apex; outer margin yellow,.
incrassate. Membrane with four distinct areoles; veins black; each areole with
two large, pale yellowish, sub-hyaline areas, delineated with sooty-brown. Under-
side black, shining, clothed with golden pubescence, which is longest and thickest
laterally. Legs and ambulacra largely ochraceous; femora and tibiae marked
with brown, the latter almost black at apex; spines and tarsi brownish-black.
Anterior and intermediate femora longer than tibiae. Posterior tibiae very
long, a little curved, one-half as long again as femora and three times as long
as tarsi; third and fourth segments of tarsi equal in length. Length, 4.3 mm.;
width, 1.9 mm. to 2 mm.
2. Form stouter, distinctly wider across middle of hemelytra. Hemelytra
extending well beyond termination of abdomen. Underside of abdomen sordid
ochraceous, infuseated with black; terminal ventral segment produced, angularly-
rounded at apex; ovipositor prominent (cf. Pl. xlvii., fig. 4, ¢ and d). Length,
&mm.; width, 2.2 mm.
Hab.—New South Wales: Wentworth Falls, 2844 ft. (Nicholson). Type
male and allotype female, in South Australian Museum.
A yellow spot is sometimes present at postero-lateral angles of underside of
head; the hemelytral membrane in some specimens is mostly black, with the
pale areas reduced or absent. In certain respects this graceful species appears
to be intermediate between Teloleuca Reuter, and Salda as diagnosed by Reuter
(1912).
The insects were found “at the base of a waterfall, on a small rock which
was constantly subjected to fairly heavy spray. They moved freely and rapidly
over the surface of the rock in spite of the spray.”
Three other species of the family—S. reuteriella Kirk., S. cygni Kirk., and
S. salina Bergroth—have been previously recorded from Australia; the first two
are from Western Australia, the last from salt-water pools, Admiralty Gulf,
N.W. Australia. Of these, S. reuteriella most nearly approaches S. nicholsoni,
which may be separated by the different proportions of the antennal and tarsal
segments, and by the longer rostrum.
BY H. M. HALE. 467
References.
- BerG, 1883.—Anales Soe. cient. Argentina, xvi., p. 122.
, 1904.—Wien ent. Zeit. 20-4, jd_ TUE
CmunEEo, 1901 ——Biol. Cent. Amer., 11., p. 371.
HALE, 1923. —Ree. 8. Aust. Mus., ii, pp. 399-419.
——_—_——. Res. Dr. Mjoberg’s Swedish Sci. Exped. to Aust. (in press).
Huncerrorp, 1919.—Bull. Univ. Kansas, xxi.
KirKatpy, 1897.—Trans. Ent. Soe., 1897, pp. 396, 398.
Reuter, 1912.—Ofyv. af Finska Vet.-Soce. Forh., liv., pp. 7-8.
Scorr, 1872.—Ent. Month. Mag., vii., p. 244.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES XLVII.-XLVIII.
Plate xlvii.
1. Antennae of Notonectinae. a, Nychia (scape not shown); b, Parani-
sops; c, Anisops; d, Enithares; e, Notonecta. (All enlarged 50 diams.).
2. Paranisops inconstans, male. a, head and thorax; b, hemelytron; ¢ and
d, anterior and intermediate legs.
Plate xlvii.
3. Paranisops inconstans var. lutea, male and female. a, head and thorax
of male; b, hemelytron.
4. Salda nicholsoni. a and b, antenna and posterior leg of male; ¢ and d,
ventral view of abdomen of male and female.
468
ELEVEN NEW SPECIES OF AVICULOPECTEN FROM CARBONIFEROUS
ROCKS, MYALL LAKES, N.S.W.
By Joun MircuHe tt, late Principal of the Neweastle Technical College and
School of Mines, N.S.W.
(Plates xlix.-li.)
[Read 24th September, 1924.]
The eleven new species of Aviculopecten described and figured below are
divisible into three or more distinct specific groups, which appear in recently
discovered fossiliferous beds on the shores of one of the Myall lakes for the first
time in New South Wales. Two of the most characteristic of these groups in-
clude: (1) Aviculopecten leggei, A. andrewsi, A. sparteus and A. perobliquatus ;
(2) A. argutus, A. fleaicostatus and A. articulosus. From Carboniferous rocks
of the Burindi and Kuttung Series, no Aviculopecten closely allied to the species
included in either of these two groups has been recorded. This, together with
the advanced structural features displayed by the fossils in question, affords
reasonable grounds for assuming that the geologic horizon of the Myall lake
beds, from which the fossils now being dealt with were secured, is more recent
than either of these two series. The Myall beds, therefore, may belong to the
upper part of the Lower Carboniferous, or to the lower portion of the Middle
Carboniferous system. On the evidence presented by the fossils these beds have
yielded, it seems safe to place them as above. The following are some of the
genera obtained: Brachiopoda: Productus, Chonetes, Spirifer (many new species) ; .
Lamellibranchiata: Edmondia, Streblopteria (2), Aviculopecten (described! in this
paper); Trilobita: Cordania gardneri.
All the Aviculopectens described in the present paper are from the beds
referred to above outcropping on Brambles farm, Parish of EKurenderee, County
of Gloucester, New South Wales. These beds have been tilted 2 an intrusion
of igneous roel of diabasiec appearance.
The species included in group (2) referred to above, have a closer general
resemblance to the Viséan Aviculopectens described by the late Prof. de evita
(Ann. Mus. Roy. d’Hist. Nat. Belg., t. xi.) than to any others it has been found
possible to compare them with.
AVICULOPECTEN LEGGEI, n.sp. (PI. xlix., fig. 1; Pl. 1, fig. 12.)
Whole shell plano-convex, inequilateral, triangular, or fan-like. Left valve
strongly convex near the umbo, and from there slopes steeply to the ventral
margin. Radials consist of about twelve primaries, an equal number of secondary
interpolations which begin near the umbo; towards the ventral margin a pair of
BY JOHN MITCHELL. 469
tertiaries is introduced, one on each side of a secondary; all are triangular in
section and separated by concave spaces; umbonal ridges prominent and ‘meet
the cardinal margin at angles of 30°; beak prominent, pointed and _ slightly
ineurved. Anterior auricle slightly convex, triangular, bears about six or seven
radials; byssal sinus distinct. Hinge plate straight and shows three or more
ligamental furrows. Posterior auricle missing. Neither on the body or auricle
of this valve are concentric striae visible. A fragment of the right valve is
present in apposition with the left, partly joined by the hinge; it is practically
flat, smaller than the left one; radials dichotomous and not prominent. Dimen-
sions of the left valve: length, 32.0; width, 25.0; depth, 4.0 mm.
This species, with A. sparteus, A. perobliquatus and A. andrewsi, forms a
distinct and closely allied group, which as far as the present evidence shows,
appears in these Myall lake beds for the first time in New South Wales, and
seems not to have persisted through any great length of geologic time.
Dedicated to Mr. H. Legge of Legge’s Camp, Myall lakes, N.S.W., who gave
valuable help to the writer when collecting the fossils described in this paper.
AVICULOPECTEN FUSIFORMIS, n.sp. (Pl. xlix., fig. 2.)
Left valve fusiform, convex, medially ridged. Radials increased chiefly by
interpolation, prominent, straight with a shght and gradually increasing curve
towards the lateral margins from the medial longitudinal line; concentric striae
very fine and numerous, but indistinct on testless valves; umbo prominent, pointed
and reaches the cardinal margin. Anterior umbonal ridge prominent, falls
steeply to the auricle and is short; posterior ridge long and ill-defined; with the
cardinal line they form angles of 45° and 60° respectively. Both auricles are
nearly perfect, the posterior one being much the larger; they are flat, triangular
and crowded with almost microscopic transverse striae; the anterior one meets
the cardinal line at an angle greater than a right angle, and its lateral margin
is oblique; the latero-cardinal angle of the posterior one is about a right angle
and its lateral margin mildly sinuate. Dimensions of a small left valve: length,
21.0; width, 31.0 mm.
Right valve unknown.
The species forms quite a singular type of the genus Aviculopecten as far
as known Australian species are concerned. The distinguishing features of the
species are (1) fusiform outline, (2) shoulder-like aspect of the anterior um-
bonal ridge, (3) almost microscopic fineness of the striae on the auricles, (4)
pronounced dorso-ventral ridge, (5) disparity of the auricles in size.
AVICULOPECTEN. PYRIFORMIS, n.sp. (Pl. xlix., fig. 3.)
Left valve pyriform, strongly convex, subequilateral, dorso-laterally sub-
ridged, slopes more rapidly to the anterior lateral margin than to the posterior
one. Radials numerous, slender, slightly interrupted in their course at one or
more of the lati-concentrie growth lines, consist of three orders. Lateral and
ventral margins together form about two-thirds of an ellipse. Beak prominent,
pointed and reaches the cardinal margin; umbonal ridges prominent and make
with the cardinal margin angles of about 45°. Anterior auricle missing from the
type specimen, but in another appears to be triangular with an oblique outer
margin; posterior auricle larger than the anterior one, triangular, radials not
visible, but traces of fine cross striae are plainly discernible, flat, lateral margin
mildly sinuous. Hinge plate bears several ligamental furrows. Right valve un-
470 NEW SPECIES OF AVICULOPECTEN FROM CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS, N.S.W.,
known. Cardinal margin about half as long as the length of the valve. On the
body of the valve concentric striae are numerous. Dimensions of the type valve:
Length, 50.0; width, 63.0 mm.
This species has some resemblance to the species just described (.4. fusiformis),
to which it is without doubt closely related; in dimensions the two forms differ
widely and on this account they have been separated; but it may be pointed out
also that on the hinge plate of A. pyriformis several ligamental furrows are dis-
tinetly visible; none such have yet been noticed on the hinge plate of A. fusi-
formis.
AVICULOPECTEN ANDREWSI, n.sp. (PI. xlix., figs. 4-6.)
Shell of moderate size, valves very unequal.
Left valve very transverse, both posteriorly and anteriorly, strongly convex.
Radials about twenty-eight in number, moderately prominent, ridged, apparently
simple, and separated by concave spaces about twice as wide as themselves; con-
centric striae numerous, and on crossing the radials form distinct nodes. Beak
prominent, pointed, and reaches the cardinal margin. Auricles over moderate
size, wing-like, the anterior one smaller than the posterior and traversed by four
or more indistinct oblique radials and numerous concentric striae, convex, clearly
separated from the body, its outer border sinuate; posterior one depressed, of
similar shape to the other, definitely separated from the body. Anterior um-
bonal ridge prominent, strongly curved or bow-shaped; posterior one long and
less definite. Cardinal margin and hinge much shorter than the greatest length
of the valve.
Right valve much shorter than the left one, very mildly convex; ribs numer-
ous, indistinct, of two orders at least; concentric striae numerous but indistinct,
ventral margin evenly rounded; auricles similar in shape to those of the other
valve, but less definite, their radials and concentric striae similar in number and
character to those of the opposing. valve, but only faintly defined; anterior ear
mildly convex, definitely separated from the body of the valve; latera] margin
sinuous; posterior ear depressed, larger than the anterior one, radials and striae
faintly defined; umbonal ridges low; beak not prominent. Dimensions of left
valve: Length, 55.0; width, 45.0; hinge, 35.0 mm. Dimensions of right valve:
Length, 30.0; width, 30.0 mm.
This is a well-marked species. Dedicated to E. C. Andrews, Esq., B.A.,
Government Geologist of New South Wales.
AVICULOPECTEN SPARTEUS, n-sp. (PI. 1, fig. 7; Pl. lii, fig. 23.)
Left valve obliquely transverse, inequilateral, strongly convex, outline like
that of a yard broom which has been in use for some time, laterally produced
anteriorly and posteriorly; ribs prominent, increased by several interpolations,
strongly directed towards the lateral margins, bear traces of nodes; concentrically
sub-wrinkled. Anterior umbonal ridge prominent and subcurved, posterior one
indefinite; umbo absent, but was evidently prominent; auricles absent? What is
taken to be the right valve of the species is sub-equilateral, very mildly convex,
much smaller than the left valve; ribs faint, apparently of two orders, sub-
concentrically wrinkled. Umbonal ridges moderately prominent, enclosing an
angle of about 105°, anterior one slightly curved; ventral margin evenly moundeds
Auricles triangular, of about equal size, posterior one flat, shows faint traces of
very fine cross striae, but no radials visible, meets the cardinal line at nearly
BY. JOHN MITCHELL, ; 471
-a right angle; anterior ear damaged, very mildly convex, clearly separated by a
suleus from the body. Cardinal margin approximately half as long as the length
of the valve. Hinge plate narrow, exhibits one ligamental furrow and a small
resiliifer. Beak prominent and barely reaches the cardinal margin. Dimensions:
Right valve, length, 30.0; width, 20.0 mm.; left valve, length, 40.0; width, 28
mm.
If the right valve here assumed to belong to this species, proves really to
be so, it will become a question whether it should be placed in the genus Delto-
pecten Etheridge and Dun; but when determining this question it must not be
overlooked that some American palaeontologists have so amended MeCoy’s
original description of the genus Aviculopecten as to include the presence of a
resiliifer (Grabau and Shimer, North Am. Ind. Foss., 1909, Vol. I).
This species and perobliquatus bear some resemblance to each other, but are
easily distinguished one from the other.
AVICULOPECTEN PEROBLIQUATUS, n.Sp. (Rl ties8. 95)
Whole shell very oblique, subplanoconvex, very inequilateral. Left valve
larger than the right, strongly convex, obliquely subtrapezoidal ; ribs numerous,
‘apparently of three orders, separated by narrow interspaces; concentric striae
numerous, but indistinct on the testless specimens, which alone are available, but
show an imbricate pattern. Anterior auricle absent; posterior one imperfect,
large, triangular, radials. and concentric striae indistinct; beak absent, but ap-
pears to have been prominent. A medial umbonal ridge obliquely traverses the
medial part of the valve. Right valve only mildly convex, oblique, much smaller
than the left, bears several ill-defined concentric folds, ribs and concentric striae
faint, the former seem to be simple. Anterior auricle imperfect, small, clearly
separated from the body by the byssal sinus; outer margin rounded; posterior
ear large, depressed, and faintly radiated. Umbonal ridges prominent; beak
prominent, reaches the cardinal margin, which is much shorter than the length
of the shell. Some ribs of the right valve as they approach the latero-ventral
margin, assume a zig-zag course. This feature is present in several of the
species of Aviculopecten from the Myall Lakes, and is one that has not been
observed by me in any species of the genus from elsewhere. The valves, des-
eribed above, are conjoined by the hinges, but are widely agape ventrally. Dimen-
sions: Left valve, length, 47.0; ae 30.0 mm.; right valve, length, 35.0;
width, 25.0 mm. Length of hinge, 22 0 mm. The mined ridges of the men
valve diverge from the beak at angles of about. 30° and 45° and include an angle
105° approximately.
This is one of the most oblique of Avieulopectens and in that respect sur-
passes all others which have come under my notice.
AVICULOPECTEN ARGUTUS, n.sp. (PI. 1. figs. 10 and 11.)
Outline of the shell suborbicular, mildly biconvex and of moderate size.
Left valve mildly and evenly convex. Radials numerous, consist of primaries and
an interpolation of a secondary between each pair of primaries, except in one
case where two secondaries are interpolated between a pair of primaries, con-
centric striae numerous and form nodules on the radials; beak and auricles
absent. Right valve mildly convex, smaller than the left, almost smooth for the
radials are only faintiy visible on testless valves. Beak slightly defective, but
472 NEW SPECIES OF AVICULOPECTEN FROM CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS, N.S.W.,
prominent and pointed. Auricles only partly preserved; the anterior one clearly
separated from the body by the byssal groove; umbonal ridges moderately dis-
tinct. Dimensions of the right valve: Length, 37.0; width, 35.0 mm. approx.
The distinetive features of the species are (1) the single interpolation be-
tween each pair of primaries; (2) stoutness of the primaries; (3) slight con-
vexity of the right valve and its relative smoothness; (4) flexuring of the radials
from their normal course at one or more of the laticoncentric striae, in this re-
spect resembling A. flexicostatus, also described in the present paper.
The two valves described above are in apposition.
AVICULOPECTEN FLEXICOSTATUS, n.sp. (PI. 1., figs. 13-16; Pl. lin, figs. 21 and 22.)
Left valve orbicular, mildly and evenly convex, slightly inequilateral. Radials
very numerous, of three orders, distinct, but not prominent; concentric striae very
numerous, fine, regularly spaced, and produce with the radials a neat cancellate
pattern. Umbo depressed, pointed, barely reaching the cardinal margin. An-
terior umbonal ridge short, falls vertically to the ear, and makes with the ecar-
dinal line an angle of about 45°. Posterior ridge less prominent and longer than
the other; makes with the cardinal line an angle of about 30°. Ears of nearly
equal size, triangular, bear six radials, and crowded concentric striae. Cardinal
margin and hinge plate straight, less than half as long as the greatest length of
the shell. Right valve, or what is assumed to be such, less convex than the
other, nearly flat towards the ventral margin, but in other respects resembles the
left valve. Dimensions of left valves: Length, 50.0, 40.0, 37.0; width, 46.0,
36.0, 34.0 mm. The measurements are approximate in each ease.
This Aviculopecten bears a general resemblance to A. caelatus McCoy, and
also to A. plagiostomus de Koninck, both of which are found in the Carboni-
ferous Limestone of Visé (étage III.) of Belgium.
AVICULOPECTEN PINCOMBEI, n.sp. (PI. li, fig. 18; Pl. ln., figs. 19, 20.)
Shell moderately large. Left valve convex, tumid near the umbo, sub-
depressed adjacent to the postero-lateral margin; ribs thirty to thirty-three, ac-
cording to size, simple except for an odd interpolation in some specimens, mildly
ridged, and separated from each other by wide slightly concave spaces. Concen-
tric striae very numerous, distinct, produce mild echination or imbrication of the
ribs as these are crossed by them. The anterior and ventral margins are neatly
rounded, the latter one forming a semicircle; posterior margin from the ear to
the ventral one straight and oblique; umbo prominent, blunt, and just reaches to
the cardinal border. Anterior auricle triangular, very mildly convex, emar-
ginate at its junction with the body, rounded at the cardinal angle, bears some
four or five gently oblique indistinct radials; and numerous fine concentric striae ;
byssal sinus distinct. Posterior auricle much larger than the anterior one, sub-
wing-shaped, openly emarginate, ornamentation similar to that of the anterior
one, rounded at the cardinal angle, outer margin mildly sinuate, indefinitely
separated from the body. Anterior umbonal ridge prominent and makes an
angle of 45° with the cardinal border; posterior umbonal ridge indefinite.
Cardinal border and hinge plate straight, more than half as long as the
length of the valve. A specimen with the valves in apposition shows the hinge
plates slightly agape, indicating the presence of a strong ligament.
An indifferently preserved cast of the two valves of this shell in apposition
BY JOHN MITCHELL, 473
shows the right valve to be very mildly convex in the vicinity of the large
muscular area, and towards the lateral and ventral margins to be slightly con-
cave; ribs indistinct, apparently simple and secondary, and on the muscular area
they are not visible. Outline of the two valves conjoined. is that of a segment
about equal to five-sixths of a complete circle. Dimensions of left valves: Length,
80.0, 60.0, 60.0; width, 65.0, 55.0, 55.0 mm; depth, 15.0 mm.
The description above was made from testless specimens, except in the case
of one left valve. This Aviculopecten is quite a conspicuous one. In some
features it resembles A. granosus J. de C. Sowerby, from the Middle Carboni-
ferous Limestone of Ireland and Belgium, but is specifically far removed from
it.
Dedicated to T. H. Pincombe, Esq., B.A., who, with Mrs. Pincombe, was
associated with the writer when the specimens here described were collected.
AVICULOPECTEN PLICATILIS, n.sp. (PI. li, fig. 25.)
Right valve mildly convex, sides subparallel, ventral. margin rounded; radials
indistinct, dichotomous, almost invisible towards the posterior margin; beak sub-
prominent; anterior auricle triangular, clearly separated from the body of the
shell by the byssal sinus; posterior auricle aliform, pointed, very indefinitely
separated from the body; both auricles bear fine curved eoncentric striae, but
are otherwise smooth; cardinal margin long and straight; hinge plate long, nar-
row and bears one distinct ligamental furrow; the cardinal margin and hinge
plate are much longer than the shell. Left valve unknown. Dimensions of the
right valve: Length, 15; width, 16 mm.
This Aviculopecten resembles in outline and ornamentation, some Pterineas
(P. brisa for instance). Among Australian Aviculopectens, as far as I am
aware, it is singular.
It may be noted further that this form is very near to Aviculopecten (Pecten)
-megalotis McCoy. The ornamentation of the two is alike as far as their radials
and concentric striae are concerned; but the local form has a more pointed and
aliform posterior auricle and a larger anterior auricle than are possessed by the
Trish form, and is also mueh larger.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES XLIX.-LII.
Plate xlix.
1. Aviculopecten leggei Mitchell. A left valve minus the posterior auricle
and hinge plate. Portion of the right valve is attached to it by the hinge. On
the anterior part of the hinge plate of the latter, two or three ligamental furrows
are visible (x 2 nearly).
2. Aviculopecten fusiformis Mitehell. A nearly perfect left valve (x 2).
3. Aviculopecten pyriformis Mitchell. A large left valve, minus the anterior
ear, and having the postero-lateral margin slightly defective (slightly enlarged).
4. Aviculopecten andrewsi Mitchell, showing the two valves conjoined, but
widely gaping ventrally ( x 14).
5. Left valve of the above (x 14). An almost perfect specimen exhibiting
the ornamentation clearly.
6. A photo of a right valve, taken under a strong oblique light to show
up the faint radials (slightly enlarged).
474 NEW SPECIES OF AVICULOPECTEN FROM CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS, N.S.W.
Plate 1.
7. Aviculopecten sparteus Mitchell. <A left valve of which the figure is a
good one; the auricles and beak, are absent; the nodes on the radials are clearly
‘visible (x 2 approx.). —
8. Aviculopecten perobliquatus Mitchell. An almost perfect right valve
(x 1.4).
9. The left valve of the above, with which it is in apposition. The whole
of the anterior auricle, part OL the posterior auricle and part of the ventral
margin are missing (x 1.6).
10. Aviculopecten BY res Mitchell. A good. photo of a defective left
valve (slightly enlarged).
11. The right valve of. the above with which it is in apposition; both
auricles and the anterior lateral margin are defective (x 1.6).
12. The right valve of A. leggei. It is joined by the hinge to the left
valve (Pl. xlix., fig. Os (x 2 nearly).
Plate li.
-13, 14. Aviculopecten flexicostatus Mitchell. Two photos from an intaglio
(cover) of a left valve, and wrongly represent the radials, in part at least, to
he dichotomous. This happens because in such a specimen the interspaces of
the radials, are in relief instead of the radials themselves. The photos other-
wise show the external SERENE OO of an immature valve very distinctly ce
2.3 and 1 respectively).
15, 16. Left valves of the same species, showing the radials correctly; 15
represents a mature specimen (x 1.6 and 2 respectively).
17. Aviculopecten articulosus Mitchell. A view of the valves in apposition,
from the left side; about half of the left is broken away and exposes the right
one in part. The ‘peculiar jointing of the radials of the left valve at the lati-
coneentric growth lines is ¢learly visible.
18. Apne eagheD pincombet Mitchell. Side view of a cover of a left valve
(nat.size).
Plate: 1
19. A very fine left -valve of the same, partly testiferous (x 8/7).
20. A east of a right valve in apposition with its left valve; the hinge
plates are shown agape, and the muscular area subcentral. The cireular object
towards the posterior margin is a foreign body which pierces both yalves (x 1.3).
21. What is assumed to be the right valve of A. flexicostatus. The margins
are defective (x 2).
22. A fragment of the cover of a left valve of A. flexicostatus, clearly
showing the ornamentation and the flexuring of the radials (x 2 approx.).
23. The right valve of A,.sparteus.
24. <A small left valve of A. perobliquatus (enlarged). a
25. A right valve of Aviculopecten ee Mitchell showing the features
of a testless specimen fairly well (x 12).
AN ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON.
Part i. THE VEGETATION OF THE BASALT.
By Parrick Broueu, M.A., B.Se., B.Se. Agr., Lecturer in Botany,
JoHN McLucxiz, M.A., D.Se., Lecturer in Plant Physiology, and
Artuur H. K. Perri, Demonstrator in Botany, The University of Sydney.
(Plates lviu.-lx.; and five Text-figures.)
[Read 26th November, 1924.]
Contents.
. Introduction.
. General Features of the Australian Flora.
. Origin of the Flora of the Mt. Wilson region.
. Geology and Physiography.
. The Vegetation of Mt. Wilson as a whole.
. The Associations of the Basalt Caps.
. The Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Association.
. The Eucalyptus-Doryphora Association.
. The Eucalyptus-Alsophila Association.
10. The Eucalyptus-Pteridium Association.
11. The Flora of the Roadside.
12. The Stability of the Associations.
13. Summary.
co CON OD Ore Co Ne
Introduction.
During the last decade the study of Plant Ecology has developed with
great rapidity in Britain, on the Continent, and in America; and from time to
time the record has been enriched by a contribution from some far-off field.
But little Ecology, however, has been carried out so far in New South Wales,
despite the fact that innumerable fascinating and important problems await
solution.
It was, therefore, with the view of stimulating the advance of ecological
work in this country that the Sydney University Botanical Society in 1923
initiated a study of the vegetation of Mount Wilson. The Society has organised
expeditions for field observations from time to time, and the present paper
embodies some of the results obtained. These results are largely of the nature
of primary survey, which has been earried out for the purpose of studying
the relationships and distribution of the various plant communities, and also
to lay a foundation for future intensive investigation.
The authors desire to express their indebtedness to Professor Lawson for
Suggestions in regard to the institution of the work, and to those members of
the Botanical Society who gave valuable assistance in collecting and charting
‘in the field.
476 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
Hamilton (1899) has already published a list of the plants occurring in
the Mt. Wilson area, but the present paper will deal with the structure and
physiognomy of the associations on the basalt rather than with the enumeration
of the species.
GENERAL FEATURES OF THE AUSTRALIAN FLORA.
The flora of Australia possesses many interesting and peculiar features,.
and early systematists considered that it belonged to a different geological period
of the earth’s history from that in which existing plants of other lands have
been produced, or that it represents a separate creative effort, or that the in-
fluence exerted by the Australian climate in the past differed from that of the
climate on the floras of other lands.
Hooker (1860) in his essay on the Australian Flora, points out that it
does not differ fundamentally from other floras and, “whether viewed under the
aspect of its morphology and structure, as exhibited by its natural classification,
or its numerical proportions, or geographical distribution, it presents essentially
the same primary features as do those of the other great continents.”
The outstanding peculiarities of the Australian flora are:
(1) Its high percentage of endemism, as “it contains more genera and
species peculiar to its own area and fewer plants belonging to other parts of
the world, than any other country of equal extent. About two-fifths of the
genera and upwards of seven-eighths of its species are entirely confined to
Australia.” But this high endemism is also a feature of other world floras,
for isolation from neighbouring land masses tends to induce endemism in plastie
forms. Long isolation from the surrounding lands probably explains the high
percentage of endemism in Australia.
(2) The peculiar habit and physiognomy of many of its constituents, e.g.,
the species of Hucalyptus with pendulous leaves, the Casuarinas with switeh-
like branches, the Xanthorrhoeas or Grass-trees, the phyllodineous Acacias, the
Banksias with their cone-like inflorescences, Telopea, Doryanthes excelsa, the
conspicuous and characteristic Gymnosperms (species of Callitris and Macro-
zamia), the large variety of flowering trees, the dull greyish-green of the
Hucalyptus Forest, the scraggy foliage of the Proteaceae, and many of the
Leguminosae and Goodeniaceae of the xerophytic habitats.
(3) The many interesting structural peculiarities, e.g., the calyptra of the
flowers of Hucalyptus, the irritable gynostemium of Stylidiwm, the hard woody
seeds and fruits of many Proteaceae and Leguminosae, the irritable labellum
of species of Pterostylis, the deciduous character and large chlorophyll-content
of the bark of species of Hucalyptus and Angophora, the stomata of the Pro-
teaceae, the phyllodes of Acacia, the fleshy peduncle of Hxocarpus and the
pitchers of Cephalotus, ete.
But features of this nature are not important enough to stamp the Aus-
tralian Flora as belonging to a different geological epoch from that of other
floras, or as being fundamentally different. This is clearly borne out by Hooker’s
observations, viz. (1) that the relative proportions of Dicotyledons to Mono-
cotyledons, of genera to orders, of species to genera, are the same as in other
floras of equal extent; (2) that the Thalamiflorae, Calyciflorae, Corolliflorae,
ete., are in the same relative proportions as in other floras; (3) that the pro-
portion of Gymnosperms to other Dicotyledons is about the same; (4) that
only two orders (with three genera and few species) are peculiarly Australian,
BY P. BROUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K. PETRIE. 477
viz., the Brunoniaceae and the Tremandraceae; (5) that the remaining Aus-
tralian orders are found in other countries, and some are amongst the most
widely distributed over the globe (e.g., Compositae, Leguminosae, Ranunculaceae) ;
(6) that the families Goodeniaceae, Candolleaceae, Casuarinaceae, which are
abundant in Australia and rare elsewhere, have a close affinity with the Cam-
panulaceae, Lobeliaceae, and Myricaceae, which are widely distributed over the
globe; (7) that most of the Australian orders and genera which are also found
in other countries around Australia have their maximum development in points
approximating in geographical position towards these neighbouring countries,
e.g., the Malayan element in north-eastern, the South African in south-western
Australia; (8) that the peculiarities of the Australian Flora do not disturb the
natural system derived from the study of the flora of the earth, apart from that
of Australia; (9) that the changes in vegetation in passing from tropics to
colder latitudes, from dry to moist regions, from lowlands to mountains, are
in every respect analogous to those which occur in other parts of the earth;
and (10) that the Australian families and genera fall into their places in the
natural system well enough, though that system was developed before Australia
was known botanically.
ORIGIN OF THE FLORA OF Mt. WItson.
The Flora of New South Wales is probably the most interesting of the
whole continent on account of the complexity of its composition. It not only
contains a dominant endemic element, represented principally by highly xero-
philous forms, but also a strong representation of the Polynesian-Malayan Flora,
and of the Fuegian or Antarctic types. Probably also in the western parts of
the State an African element is present. The distribution and constitution of
these exotic floras wiil be described in later papers, but for the present the
writers are concerned mainly with the structure and inter-relationship of the
Malayan and autochthonous floras as they occur in the Mount Wilson region.
The Polynesian-Malayan or the Indo-Malayan element is represented in
Eastern Australia by a typical Rain-Forest, which is best developed in eastern
Queensland and New South Wales. Representatives of this flora occur at the
present time in Victoria and Tasmania, but there is a distinct decrease in the
richness of this Malayan Rain-Forest on passing from north to south, which
fact may be attributed to the increasing severity of the climate as the southern
parts of the continent are approached, and also to the greater distance from the
original centre of distribution to the northward. The Malayan element pro-
bably reached the Australian continent while it was still connected to the New
Guinea region, as its types (if we except the purely shore vegetation such as
Seaweeds, mangroves, and dune vegetation) produce seeds and spores which are
not specially adapted for dissemination through the ageney of water. The
seeds and fruits are not even particularly efficient for wind dissemination, al-
though many of the Pteridophytic and Bryophytie forms characteristic of the
Rain-Forest may have reached Australia through the ageney of wind, over an
intervening belt of sea; but it is more probable that much of this fern flora
migrated along with the larger elements of the Rain-Forest over a land bridge.
Angiosperm remains have not been found in the Cretaceous strata of New
South Wales, but groves of Coniferous tree stumps have been found in section
in the Desert Sandstone Formation (Cretaceous) of the De Grey Ranges (Siiss-
mileh, 1922, 184), thus showing that preservation was possible. These facts
478 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
might indicate that Angiosperms did not occur in New South Wales during
Cretaceous times. J ossil leaves of a considerable number of genera ot UDico-
tyledons have been found in freshwater beds in Queensland; but there is some
doubt whether these beds are Cretaceous (Siissmilch, 1922, 184); with one pos-
sible exception (Walkom, 1919) they are probably of Tertiary age. If this view
be correct, then it is probable that Australia was connected with the land to the
northward (New Guinea Region) into the Tertiary period, and that the Indo-
Malayan Angiosperm Flora reached this continent in the early Tertiary.
ossil prints and leaves have been found in Tertiary strata, especially im
the upper beds; and silicified wood has been obtained from the lower beds. The
fossil prints most commonly found are Plesiocapparis, Spondylostrobus, and
Penteune, while fossil Dicotyledonous leaves have been obtained from Gulgong
and Forest Reefs beds (Siissmilch, 1922, 202). These leaves are stated to be-
long to such genera as Quercus, Fagus, Cinnamomum, Laurus, Magnolia, Bombax,
Pittosporum, Banksia, Eucalyptus and Grevillea, which are practically all con-
stituents of the present day sub-tropical Rain-Forest of Eastern Australia, and
which is chiefly Malayan in origin. The autochthonous types, Hucalyptus,
Banksia and Grevillea, which are typical representatives of the xerophilous flora
of the sandstone, are here found in association with the Malayan forms. If
the identification be correct—and it must be conceded that the evidence of leaf
impressions is not too reliable—we have endemic and Malayan forms occurring
contemporaneously as the oldest known Angiosperm flora of New South Wales,
very much as they exist in close proximity in the richer soil regions of the
State at the present day.
In the upper Tertiary period this Rain-Forest apparently had a mueh
more extensive distribution, as Tertiary fossil plants very similar to the living —
Rain-Forest types have been found at Orange, in the far western districts of
New South Wales and Queensland (Horn Expedition, Tate and Watt, 1896),
and on the high tablelands which have now a cold dry climate. The present
range, especially from east to west, is comparatively restricted, but from the
fossil evidence it is highly probable that the physiography of the country and
the climate were such as to support a more luxuriant, almost tropical flora.
Moreover, the animal life of the Tertiary period throws interesting light upon
the plant life (Siissmilch, 1922, 213). The Tertiary vertebrates, as indicated by
the fossils, were larger than any living to-day, and great numbers inhabited
what are at present the more arid regions of the State. They were not adapted
for travelling long distances in search of food, and it is extremely probable
that a luxuriant flora existed in the extreme western districts of the State, and
this implies abundant rainfall and high temperature, in short, a_ tiopical
climate.
The present tablelands or plateau regions of Eastern Australia were
preceded by an extensive peneplain of low elevation with isolated hills and
ridges about 1,000 ft. high (Siissmilch, 1922, 203). In the upper Tertiary, this
peneplain was apparently covered by a Rain-Forest similar to that which oceurs
in isolated parts of New South Wales and Queensland to-day. The climate was
probably uniformly moist and warm throughout the region, and eapable of
supporting a luxuriant tropical vegetation.
BY P. BROUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K, PETRIE, 479.
During the “Kosciusko Epoch,” at the close of the Tertiary period, a great
epeirogenic uplift produced the existing tablelands, accompanied by faulting and
tolding, and formation of rift valleys; subsequent erosion partly dissected the
tablelands and the present topography of HKastern Australia was developed, with
its high north-south mountain chain, and generally east-west river valleys. The
development of these highlands near the coast divided the State roughly into
three regions with different climates, viz., a coastal zone with high temperature
and high rainfall; a mountain zone with a dry cold climate; and a western zone
with a dry, hot climate. This differentiation probably appeared at the close of
the Tertiary period, and undcubtedly caused a restriction in the range of the
Rain-Forest vegetation, which disappeared from the drier and cooler regions of
the State and became entrenched in the sheltered valleys—especially those with
an easterly aspect and warm moist eclimate—or on isolated sheltered areas of
the tablelands, where rich basaltic soils and adequate rainfall and shelter pro-
vided a favourable habitat.
These basaltic outcrops, on weathering, produce a soil not only chemically
rich, but also with a high water capacity. It is not surprising, therefore, that:
the tropical Rain-Forest types of Polynesian-Malayan origin colonized these
lava flows, and became firmly entrenched upon them, for their primary necessities
appear to be abundant soil-moisture and a sheltered habitat.
The retreat of the Rain-Forest from the hot or cold and drier habitats
provided the opportunity for colonization by the endemic forms, which evolved
elsewhere on the continent, probably in Western Australia, and migrated to the
eastern region subsequent to the disappearance of the inland sea.
In New South Wales the Tertiary representatives of the endemic flora ap-
parently flourished under more mesophytic conditions; at any rate the climate
was probably more uniform and tropical throughout the State than it is~ to-day,
and would favour the development of a richer mesophytie flora provided the
edaphie conditions were favourable. In the lower Tertiary the surface soils
were sandy, siliceous and porous on the one hand, and on the other, heavy and
derived from the weathering of the Wianamatta Shale. The endemic types,
perhaps, established themselves on the sandy soil, while the Malayan vegetation
occupied the shales. The two habitats would be exposed to the same climatic
factors, but the edaphic differences might have led to the development of different
degrees of mesophytism. The Tertiary lava flows, on weathering, produced very
rich soils in different parts of the State, and these formed an ideal and
optimum environment for the Malayan Flora, which even in upper Tertiary
times, must have been subjected to vigorous competition from the endemic
forms. The primitive endemic flora of New South Wales appears, then, to
have been mesophytic, and the xerophily of the present types is an induced
character which has developed along with the climatie changes over the State,
attendant upon the formation of the mountain blocks. At any rate, the uplift
at the close of the Tertiary period provided a variety of climate which would
stimulate xerophily. The denudation of the shales and Tertiary basalts from
parts of the plateaux exposed the Hawkesbury Sandstone Series which, edaphi-
cally, provided a xerophytie habitat. Thus it appears from Tertiary times on-
wards, the edaphic and climatic factors have stimulated the progress of the
endemie types from mesophytism to xerophytism, and have caused a great re-*
striction in the range of the Malayan elements in New South Wales.
480 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY.
The Mount Wilson area is one of the basaltic residuals on which the
Tertiary Rain-Forest has been preserved; it belongs to a series of basalt-capped
peaks raised above the general level of the Blue Mountain Plateau. The basalt
flow probably covered a considerable portion of the plateau in the immediate
neighbourhood, but most of it has disappeared. The age of the basalt of Mount
Wilson is not quite certain, but it probably belongs to the Older Basalts which
survive aS cappings on the residuals which rise in the form of isolated hills
or long narrow ridges above the surface of the East-Australian Tertiary pene-
plain (Siissmileh, 1922, 199). The sandstone of the plateau, during Triassic
times, was overlaid with Wianamatta Shales which were subsequently denuded
from the plateau with the exception of restricted areas as far as Fauleonbridge,
and the cappings under the basalt of the isolated peaks. The basaltic coverings
on these peaks—Mt. Toinah, Mt. King George, Mt. Tootie—appear to have pro-
tected the shales from complete denudation. Thus the isolated peaks are pro-
bably survivals of an original higher tract protected from denudation by the
more resistant portions of the basalt sheet which flowed over the undenuded
surface of the plateau (Carne, 1908). The isolated basaltic peaks are probably
survivals of an original continuous sheet (David, 1896).
Mt. Wilson is a long ridge between the Bowen and Wollongambe Creeks,
trending north-easterly. These creeks flow in deep gorges, about 1,200 feet be-
low the summit of the ridge. Four parts of this ridge are capped with the
olivine-basalt sheet, which probably was continuous originally, but is now divided
by denudation into four isolated masses. The most important of these are
Mann’s Hill, 3,475 ft.; Wynne’s Hill, 3,425 ft.; and Yengo, 3,345 ft. The
basaltic cap varies in ficitess from 135-{t. (Memeo) to 300 ft. (Wynne's Hill),
while the estimated area of basalt aggregates 575 acres.
Weathering.—The larger crystalline masses of the basalt weather first and
form vesicles or hollows, but frequently surface, boulders weather more or less
concentrically, and the fragments come away in conchoidal flakes. The soil
produced by the weathering is of a rich chocolate colour. The rock has been
studied petrologically by Card (1908), and the following features are taken
from that description: The rock is an olivine basalt; the minerals present are
augite, olivine, plagioclase felspar (labradorite ?) and magnetite, and are em-
bedded in a light brown glassy matrix. The felspar microlites give rise by their
disposition to a good fluidal structure floating round the porphyritic constituent.
Olivine is abundant, and remarkably fresh. It occurs as porphyritic individuals,
presumably from an earlier stage of crystallization, and numerous granules
through the rocks. The augite has a tendency to assume a purplish tint and is
slightly pleochroie. ‘
The following analysis of the olivine basalt of Mt. Tomah, near Mt. Wilson,
and probably part of the same original sheet, probably approximates to the Mt.
Wilson rock. The analysis was made by J. C. H. Mingaye, and is quoted in the
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Geology, No. 6, p. 129.
BY P. BROUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K, PETRIE. 481
Olivine-Basalt of Mt. Tomah.
Analysis. Molecular Constitution.
Sn O Se 46.42% Orthoclase 10.5
ING OR ere wet 17.42 Allpitemmece. .-.- 24.1
Fe203 .. 70 Anorthite .. 25.9
INOS ae 45 Nepheline 3.4
MgO . 61 Diopside .. 9.5
CAOm A bee! os 56 Olivine 14.2
Nap O ied eee 61 Magnetite 5.3
IS Ope ei Ss 80 Tlmenite .. 3.6
HeO (100°C) 34 Apatite .. 1.9
Soooodc oc oS Hole oS co 6 Go NI Go) AS)
S
se
HeO (100°C+) 52
CO2 .. ANY Eee Nepheline not detected micro-
M@svs cc 2, 88 seopically but must be present.
TAdO a ee Mn total exceptionally low for
PeOs5 .. 87 igneous rocks.
SO3
Cll ae 05
mi@HeS2) > 3 >.
(Cire Os Sameccnie eae .006
INTO COO! s.n'5. 32's 02
MnO .. .02
Bae. 03
SEOee: trace
LizO .. 0
WeOn 0.01
100.35
DOeGilerce natasha ay 90D
It will be seen from this analysis that the potash, phosphoric acid, ferrous
and ferric oxides, magnesia, and lime content is very high. The basalt is thus
exceedingly rich in the essential elements for plant nutrition, and on weathering
produces a soil which supports a luxuriant vegetation, in striking contrast to
that on the siliceous sandstone strata in close proximity.
THE VEGETATION OF Mt. Wiuson As A WHOLE.
A consideration of the topographical features of Mount Wilson, as pre-
viously outlined, has led us to recognise for convenience three physiographic
unit-areas, namely, (1) the basalt-capped hills with a rich moisture-retaining
soil; (2) the sandstone tracts of the plateau with a dry and impoverished soil;
and (3) the gullies which occur between some of the basalt hills and the valleys
of the Wollangambe and the Bowen into which they lead.
This division has more especially commended itself since the vegetation
tends to fall into three groups corresponding with these unit-areas. The flora
of Mount Wilson is divisible into two main types; the Malayan and the En-
demic, with a small and scattered representation of the Antarctic. The luxuriant
Malayan vegetation, as has been mentioned earlier in the paper, finds a suitable
habitat on the basalt caps, except where in certain areas exposure, or thinness
of the basalt covering, has resulted in an invasion of endemic types. This
vegetation also occupies the valleys, where it has a richer composition. The
Endemic Flora, essentially xerophilous and adapted to a poor siliceous soil,
482 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
élothes practically the whole of the sandstone plateau and finds its chief ex-
pression in open sclerophyllous Eucalyptus Forest. Antarctic types oceur both
among the Malayan and Endemic Floras.
It is proposed to, confine this paper to a description of the associations
occupying the basalt caps, postponing the study of the remaining parts of the
district for subsequent communications.
Tur ASSOCIATIONS OF THE BASALT CAPS.
The vegetation of the basalt comprises several interrelated associations, the
distribution of which is determined largely by exposure. A dense and luxuriant
Rain-Forest clothes the eastern slopes of the basaltic caps, and occurs also on
level basalt tracts which are sheltered from the west by neighbouring hills; this
can be regarded as the typical association of the volcanic soil. Near the edge
of the basalt tract, as the rich soil begins to grow thin, the Rain-Forest loses its
tropical character and becomes more open and increasingly permeated by an
invasion of the endemic Eucalyptus from the sandstone; until eventually the
Rain-Forest trees practically disappear, and give place to a Eucalyptus Forest
with a tree-fern stratum. Thus a gradual transition from the one extreme to
the other takes place, but none the less the extremes must be regarded as
different communities. It has been found best to divide this vegetation into the
following three associations :—
1. Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest.
2. HKuealyptus-Doryphora Forest.
3. Kuealyptus-Alsophila Forest.
The first and second of these are sub-tropical Rain-Forests, while the third
represents the sclerophyllous Eucalyptus Forest with the tree-fern stratum.
In less favourable habitats the last two often occur without the first, while
large exposed areas of the basalt caps are frequently. occupied by the Eucalyptus-
Alsophila association alone.
The Euealyptus-Alsophila Forest usually ceases in a most abrupt and strik-
ing manner near the edge of the basalt and the region of the boundary between
the two soils is occupied by a peculiar junction flora, composed of a Hucalyptus-
Pteridium association.
Thus we recognise four associations in the basalt formation, but, as will
be seen later, all are varying mixtures of the two main associations, namely, the
Kucalyptus Forest of the sandstone and the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest
of the basalt.
THE CERATOPETALUM-DoRYPHORA ASSOCIATION.
Habitat.
This luxuriant Rain-Forest oceurs on the sheltered eastern slopes of the
basaltic hills, and to this habitat it is confined. It cannot survive in any spot
that is not completely sheltered from the desiccating west and south-west. winds
which sweep the opposite slopes with their full force. But exposure is not the
only factor limiting the range of this largely mesophytie community, for it is
only in the central portions of the basalt areas that the rich soil is deep enough,
and the water content high enough, for the normal development of the Rain-
Forest. Thus this association, although frequent, is not very extensive, except
where it is continuous with the Rain-Forest in the gullies.
BY P. BRQUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K. PETRIE, 483
Structure and Physiognomy.
The association is dominated by Ceratopetalum apetalum and Doryphora
sassafras, other trees being only occasionally present. These average about one
hundred feet in height but are compact and narrow (Plate lx., fig. 10). This
feature, combined with their proximity, dense distal mosaic of foliage and
shining leaf surface, protects them largely from the extreme insolation to which
the plateau is exposed, since all but the topmost branches are sheltered from the
full force of the sun.
A second stratum is formed by the tree-fern Dicksonia antarctica, with an
oceasional tall shrub or small tree. The tree-ferns which are often so numerous
that their fronds overlap, as is illustrated in Text-fig. 1, average about twelve
feet in height, and lend a distinctive aspect of tropical luxuriance to the interior
cf the Forest (Plate lvi., fig. 1).
The canopy of foliage above and the screen of tree-fern fronds result in
the lower regions of the forest being shrouded in gloom, especially when the
sun has passed the meridian (Plate lvii., figs. 1 and 2). In these dark regions
the forest floor is oceupied by a fern-stratum, averaging two feet in height.
This is frequently sparse, owing to lack of sufficient illumination, and a con-
siderable amount of the ground is bare or carpeted with dead and decaying
leaves; but wherever a chance opening in the canopy occurs, and a beam of
sunshine penetrates the forest, the ferns form a closed society. Corresponding
to these two conditions of illumination are two communities, namely, pure closed
societies of Blechnum discolor under openings in the canopy (Plate lvii., fig. 1).
and in the darker regions an open society of the remaining components of the
fern stratum (see subsequent list). Text-figure 1 illustrates the distribution and
composition of the lower strata, and shows how the vegetation of the forest floor
tends to be massed in the areas between the shade of the tree ferns.
The frequent lianes and climbers constitute another feature of the Rain-
Forest (Plate lviii., fig. 1). Vitis attains a great development and is often 4
foot in thickness. The other,climbers are much more slender, but attain a con-
siderable height. Polypodium diversifolium, in particular, may be seen on tree
trunks a hundred feet above the forest floor, the lower parts having died away
as upward growth proceeded.
Epiphytes are common, the greater proportion being mosses and lichens
which clothe the trunks of Dicksonia and the slim boles of the forest trees.
There are also several orchids and Pteridophytes, amongst which are Dendrobium
pugioniforme, the rare Tmesipteris tannensis (Plate lviii., fig. 3) and the delicate
Trichomanes venosum growing in societies on Dicksonia trunks. A noteworthy
feature, however, is the complete absence of Asplenium nidus and Platyceriwm
grande, which occur in this association at Mt. Irvine, some six miles distant; this
fact seems to be correlated with the lower altitude of the latter peak and _ its
consequent milder winter, as in similar forests in other parts of the State with
a mild climate these epiphytes are abundant.
One phenomenon of special interest is the occurrence of young plants of
Quintinia Siebert growing epiphytically on tree-fern trunks, among the tangled
adventitious roots of which the seeds germinate. Subsequently, no doubt, the
roots of the epiphyte reach and establish themselves in the ground. This is
ue only case of hemi-epiphytism encountered in the Rain-Forests at Mount
ilson.
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BY P. BROUGH, J. MGLUOKIE AND A. H. K. PEDRIE, 485
en Doryphora sassafras; Loranthus, so common on species of Eucalyptus on the
Sandstone plateau, was not observed on the basalt vegetation.
Floristic Composition.
Tree Stratum
Ceratopetalum apeialum Don. . d*
Doryphora sassafras Endl. .. . d
Hedycarya angustifolia Cunn. o-vr
Quintima Sieberi D.C. .. .. o-vr
Atherosperma moschatum Labill. r
Acacia elata Cumn. .. .. .. .. r
Eugenia Smith Poir. .. .. .. 7
Tree-Fern Stratum
Dicksonia antarctica Labill. .. sd
Drimys dipetala F.v.M. .. ()
Citriobatus multijlorus Cunn. .. o
Hymenanthera Banksu V.v.M. O
Alsophila australis R.Br. r
Fern Stratum
Polystichum aculeatum Schott. . ¢
Dryopteris decomposita Kuntze. tf
Athyrium umbrosum Ait. .. .. f
Pellaea faleata Fée .. .. .. fr
Blechnum discolor Keys .. .. . ©
Dryopteris tenera Chr. .. .. .. T
Polystichum aristatum Presl. .. r
Dennstaedtia davallioides Moor. r
Blechnum Patersoni Mett. .. .. vr
Asplemum flabellifolium Cay. . xr
Numerous fungi.
Climbers
Polypodium diversifokum Willd. f
Vitis hypoglauca F.v.M. .. .. f
Tylophora barbata R.Br. .. .. f-o
Polypodium pustulatum Forst. . 0
Iieldia australis Cunn. (on
IDIGESORAE (HEVINE)) Tho ne no ko O
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Epiphytes
Trichomanes venosum R.Br. (in
dense societies on Dicksonia
Crus ery seca es eb O
Cyclophorus serpens Chr. .. .. 0
Dendrobium pugioniforme Cunn. o
Dendrobium teretifolium R.Br. . o
Tmesipteris tannensis Bernk. . r-o
Asplenium bulbiferum Forst.
So 66 Goes G5 2 Ti Wee lalate
Quintinia Siebert D.C. (seedlings
onmtnee!termstrunks) 44,20 9T-0
Polyporinae and other epiphytic
Fungi.
Parasite
Viscum arficulatum Burm.
r on Doryphora
Ground Stratum
Dawsonia sp. .. .. © in societies
THr Hucatyprus-DoryepHorRA ASSOCIATION.
Habitat.
The voleanic soil of the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora habitat is comparatively
deep, but, as the periphery of the outcrop is approached, the layer of basalt
superimposed on the sandstone becomes thinner, and finally disappears. This
area, surrounding the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest just described, does not
seem to be so favourable a habitat for that association: the trees have a more
open structure and some of the components become much less frequent or even
disappear. The less vigorous hold of the Malayan vegetation on this habitat,
resulting from the decrease in environmental favourableness, with its consequent
more open structure and greater illumination of the forest floor, has given rise
to certain changes in the vegetation, chief of which is the invasion of Hucalyptus
trees from the sandstone.
The new association so formed often occurs as a thin fringe round the
Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest, and on the borders of the road running
through it. It also replaces the Rain-Forest on some of the basalt outcrops
which are either not sheltered enough or too shallow to enable the Rain-Forest
*TIn these lists, a — abundant, c —=common, d — dominant, f — frequent,
= locally, o = occasional, r= rare, sd — subdominant, vr = very rare.
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486 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
to attain its optimum development and thus exclude invaders from the surround-
ing terrain. It may be that the unfavourable nature of the habitat is due to
lower water content of the soil, smee the rain would readily percolate through
the sandstone lying beneath.
Structure and Phystognomy.
Although this Forest is largely a mixture of the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora
and the Hucalyptus associations, taxonomically it must be regarded as a separate
association. Its distinctiveness is shown by the fact that Ceratopetalum, not
faring so well in the competition with the invaders as Doryphora, falls from the
rank of a dominant to that of an occasional type. Moreover, on account of the
admixture of Eucalyptus, with its spreading branches and pendulous iso-bilateral
leaves, less light is obstructed, and the lower strata undergo consequent changes:
the association is less tropical in physiognomy, but it nevertheless has a greater
floristic richness; for the less specialised habitat allows a greater number of
types, especially Angiosperms, to colonise it.
The trees fall into two strata. The Hucalyptus species, perhaps on account
of the favourable edaphic factors, reach a height of about two hundred feet
(Plate lix., figs. 5, 7), which is considerably more than that attained on the
sandstone, and so dominate the association. A second layer, about one hundred
feet high, is composed of Doryphora, which must now be regarded as sub-
dominant, and several other trees. The latter, such as Hedycarya and Athero-
sperma, seem to be given a greater chance in the struggle for existence in this
open forest: in the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest the dominants give other
types but little opportunity of spreading. These facts are shown strikingly in
Text-fig. 2.
The increased light intensity in the lower strata, as has been said, causes
profound modifications in structure. In the tree-fern stratum, not only is the
extreme sciophyte Drimys absent, but a radical change takes place in the com-
position of the tree-ferns themselves. For, as the Forest becomes more open,
the shade-loving Dicksonia becomes largely replaced by the more xerophilous
Alsophila australis (Plate lix., fig. 7); and consequently the tree-fern stratum
extends over a considerable vertical range, since many of the latter attain from
forty to fifty feet in height. One magnificent specimen, indeed, growing on the
edge of a clearing in the Rain-Forest was.seventy feet high (Plate lix., fig. 5).
There is no sharp transition between the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora and
Eucalyptus-Doryphora Forests: the one merges into the other gradually, and there
are homogeneous associations lying midway between the two conditions we have
chosen to describe here as types. It is in some of these midway associations that
Citriobatus becomes abundant, perhaps because it is given a greater chance by
increased insolation. It is accompanied in the same stratum by a number of
other shrubs. This is a new stratum in the Forest which we may interpret as a
response to the stronger light intensity. For the same reason, the representation
of Angiosperms as a whole inereases considerably in the Eucalyptus-Doryphora
Forest.
There are also modifications in the fern-stratum. This now approaches
more to a closed community with the exception of disturbed tracts, such as
paths and roadsides, where the ground stratum takes its place. The more
ombrophilous Pteridophytes, such as Athyrium umbrosum, Dryopteris decom-
posita and Dennstaedtia are absent; while Blechnum discolor here finds its most
BY P. BROUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K, PETRIE. 487
favourable environment. Polystichum aculeatum is abundant because it is ap-
parently a type somewhat indifferent to light intensity. In the more iliuminated
situations there is sometimes an abundance of Blechnum cartilagineum, a type
which appears to be more xerophytic than B. discolor. These facts are clearly
illustrated in Text-fig. 2.
The modifications in the lower strata of this part of the basalt vegetation
are evidently due to the difference in the structure of the tree layer, which al-
lows more light to reach the lower strata, thus affecting the humidity of the
forest atmosphere, the moisture content of the soil and the transpiration of the
plants themselves. The increase in the Angiospermic flora of all layers is strik-
ang. The vegetation is richer floristically, but it lacks the tropical luxuriance of
the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest. Thus lianes are absent, and in their stead
are smaller creepers such as Smilax and Clematis; epiphytes, too, are less
numerous.
Floristic Composition.
‘Tall-Tree Stratum Pteridium aquilinum Kuhn.
Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. .. . d sis Gel we ae @ IM More open parts
Fucalyoius sp) os) «2.2 +... > a Blechnum cartilaginewm Swartz f
iRellacanpalcatamiee. ss ie) a yee
Tree Stam co ae
Doryphora sassafras Endl. .. . sd Busgnanie ficlnia EAB 0+ oo ©
Hedycarya angustifolia Cunn. f-r Helichrysum sp. ars
Acacia elata Cunn. .. .. .. .. OF
Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. .. . o-r GroundaStratnr
Quintinia Siebert D.C. .. .. 0-7 iia eave :
Ceratopetalum apetalum Don. . o-r GONCLOD {ONOSTEEE Sol. .. ame
a, Hydrocotyle asiatica L. .. Heat
Acaena sanguisorba Vahl. a-0
Tree-Fern Stratum Stellaria pungens Brongn. .. .. f
Alsophila australis K.Br. f Dawsonia sp... +. ++ ++ ++ +. @
Dicksonia antarctica Labill .. f Stellarta flaccida Hook. .. . 0
Hymenanthera Banksti F.v.M. . 0 Galium umbrosum Sol... .. .. 0
Solanum aviculare Forst. ... .1 Aspleniwm flabelufolium Cav. . o
Prunella vulgaris l. .. .. «- ft)
Doodi 123 eenec
Reh Gitatiim oodia aspera R.Br 0)
Citriobatus multiflorus Cunn. o-la @lhanhers
Panax sambucifolius Sieb. .. .. 0 SE a RoBi.
Prostanthera lasianthos Labill. . lf Ciena ER Bee
Senecio dryadens Sieb. .. .. «- T Tylophora barbata R.Br. ..
Geitonoplesium cymosum Cunn. r
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Polystichum aculeatum Schott. . a Epiphytes
Blechnum discolor Keys. .. . ¢-a Cyclophorus serpens Chr. .. .. 0
Tur BucaLyprus-ALSOPHILA ASSOCIATION.
Habitat.
Still nearer the edge of the basalt than the habitat of the mixed forest is
‘the third association, which has been called the Eucalyptus-Alsophila Forest. The
-game association is found on the summit and gentle western slope of a basalt
hill which is more or less sheltered by a higher hill on the western side (see
488 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
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Text-fic. 4.—Belt-Transect from Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest througl
the Eucalyptus-Alsophila Forest to the Hucalyptus-Pteridium association. (Seale,
1 in. = 50 ft.). The incidence of Eucalyptus with the Rain-Forest trees, and
Alsophila with Dicksonia is illustrated clearly. It will be observed how the
abundance of tree ferns varies with the intensity of light, being most abundant
in open parts of the Eucalyptus-Alsophila Forest.
489
Text-fig. 3), but which, on account of its westerly aspect, cannot support the
more luxurious associations. It also extends from the Rain-Forest over on to
the western slopes of the basalt hills wherever the topography is such as to
protect the habitat from the full brunt of the winds.
N.w eee SE.
mr Basalt Soil. ; j
— Sandstone Soil. f
a) Kuealyptus Forest.
®t? Eucalyptus-Alsophila Forest.
y Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest.
Text-fig. 3—Diagrammatiec section of the Mount Wilson ridge showing dis- :
tribution of associations on the basalt. The Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest is
seen on the sheltered south-east slopes of the hills.
Structure and Physiognomy.
This forest is another complex formed by the overlapping of the Rain-Forest
types and the sandstone types (Text-fig. 2) but exhibits a much greater adap-
tation to a xerophytic environment.
In the tree stratum the Rain-Forest types are now absent, and the two
species of Eucalyptus form an open well-illuminated forest. (See Text-fig. 4).
The tree-fern stratum is composed now chiefly of Alsophila australis, which
is apparently the type best adapted to a heliophytic habitat, and flourishes abun-
dantly, often forming a closed stratum. The association owes its physiognomy
chiefly to this feature; for, on account of the open structure of the tree stratum,
an unobstructed view is obtained of thousands of tree-ferns growing often in
dense array (PI. lix., fig. 8; Pl. Ix., fig. 9). Many of these attain fifty feet in
height; and it has been calculated, on the assumption that two cirelets of fronds
are produced each season, that such must average two hundred years in age.
Occasional saplings of Doryphora occur among the tree-ferns; but it seems
unlikely that any succession in the direction of more luxurious structure will
take place, since these communities have had ample time to attain the maximum
degree of mesophytism which the habitats will allow. These saplings are
particularly common over the face of the hill indicated on the right of the
diagrammatic section (Text-fig. 3), at which junction a certain amount of
oscillation appears to take place.
The remaining strata resemble those of the Eucalyptus-Doryphora Forest,
except that some of the more sciophilous types such as Citriobatus are absent,
and others, such as Polystichum aculeatum and Blechnum discolor, are over-
shadowed by the ascendancy of Pteridiwm (see Text-fig. 2).
490, ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
Floristic Composition.
Tall-Tree Stratum Blechnum discolor Weys. .. .. o-a
Pteridium aquilinum Kuhn. .. f-e¢
Gleichenia dichosoma Hook. .. o-f
Polystichum aculeatum Schott. o-f
Rellacakalcata ieee ara nko
Xerotes longupolia abr)... 9.80
DawalliondebtG ae: O
Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. .. d-¢
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Acacia melanoxylen R.Br. .. .. 0
Acaciwpelata A. ©unn. -. ..) ..- 0
Tree-Fern Stratum
Alsophila australis R.Br. .. .. sd
Dicksonia antarctica Labill. .. o
near Doryphora-Ceratopetalum Ground Stratum
Association. Geranium pilosum Sol. .. .. .. a
Doryphora sassafras Endl. Sap- Hydrocotyle asiatica L. .. .. .. a
Ibbavediin aacs ce Gaol art te . r-0 Stellaria pungens Brongn. .. .. f
Banksia integrifolia lL... .. .. v¥ Stellaria flaccida Hook. .. .. . 0
Galium umbrosum Sol... .. .. 0
Shrub Stratum Doodia aspera RABt ec) eer
Hymenanthera Banksii F.v.M. . 0 Acaena.sanguisorba Vahl. .. .. r
Senecio dryadens Sieb. .. .. .. ©
Fern Stratum Climbers
Blechnum cartilagineum Swartz. f-a Clematismanistata kh bir eunet eis
THe HUCALYPTUS-PTERIDIUM ASSOCIATION.
(a) THE TYPICAL ASSOCIATION.
At a varying distance from the edge of the basalt, depending on how
abruptly the rich soil diminishes in thickness, the forest of tree-ferns of the
Eucalyptus-Alsophila association ceases abruptly, forming a barrier which, when
viewed from a distance, is one of the salient features of the vegetation of Mount
Wilson. The Hucalyptus species, however, continue uninterruptedly, and form a
uniform stratum ranging from the Euealyptus-Doryphora Forest on to the sand-
stone, where, owing to the incidence of other species, they become less frequent
(Plate Ix., fig. 9).
From the tree-fern boundary to some little distance on to the sandstone
oceurs a peculiar association which forms a junction between the typical plant
covering of the sandstone and that of the basalt. One would expect to find
a continuation of the overlap of the sandstone and basalt floras with a still
increasing preponderance of the former; instead there are few of either, and the
association is poor floristically.
The tree stratum is unchanged, while the shrub stratum is absent, except
where there are societies, often dense, of Daviesia ulicina or Acacia penninervis.
The fern stratum, continuous with that of the Euealyptus-Alsophila as-
sociation, undergoes a complete change in structure. The Blechnum community
extends beyond the tree-fern line to a certain extent, and, frequently, outlying
patches of this community occur; but it becomes increasingly mixed with Pteri-
dium aquilinum, which shortly becomes the dominant of the fern stratum of the
Junction Flora.
The junction between the Blechnum community or the outlying societies, and
the adjacent Pteridium community, is usually a sharp one, so far as the Blechnum
is concerned, although the Pteridiwm is continuous throughout. Text-fig. 5 illus-
trates this point at the boundary of one of these outlying societies. In this chart
BY P. BROUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K. PETRIE. 491
Alsophila australis trunk
Pteridium aquilinum
Blechnum cartilagineum
Gleichenia dichotoma
Xerotes longifolia
Doodia aspera -
Dianella longifolia
Acacia elata seedling
Clematis aristata seedling
Stellaria pungens
Geranium pilosum
Tylophora barbata
Text-fig. 5—Belt Transect across
junction of Blechnum cartilagineum and
Pteridium agquilinum societies in the
Euealyptus-Pteridium association. The
structure of the fern and ground strata
is clearly brought out; the greater con-
centration of the-latter in the Blechnum
society is interesting, suggesting that the
occurrence of+ this society depends on
more favourable habitat factors. (Seale,
dint == tt)
492 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
Blechnum discolor is absent: this fern seems to require more favourable con-
ditions than exist on these outskirts, and does not often advance far beyond the
tree-fern line. Thus in many places one passes from Pteridium to Blechnum
cartilagineum which, further away, is replaced entirely by B. discolor.
Pteridium is associated with several sandstone types and also two other
Pteridophytes, Gleichenia dichotoma and Davallia dubia, which were not observed
further in towards the Rain-Forest. But perhaps its most conspicuous associate
is Lomatia silaifolia, which, although not so conspicuous near the tree-ferns, be-
comes abundant nearer the opposite edge of the association.
Although comparatively poor in these strata, the Eucalyptus-Pteridium as-
sociation has a rich ground stratum, which resembles essentially that of the as-
sociations previously described, although embracing a number of additional com-
ponents.
Some hundred yards beyond the edge of the basalt, the Eucalyptus-Pteridium
association slowly merges into the typical vegetation of the sandstone, charac-
terised, in contrast to the former, by a profuse shrub stratum.
Floristie Composition.
Tree Stratum Xerotes longifoha R.Br. .. .. . 0
Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. .. . d Mirbehia grandiflora Ait. .. .. vr
Eucalyptus sp. a ceo ca.
Eucalyptus OREO Sm.
Ground Stratum
. 1 on sandstone
Agee HE A. "CREATE ae ONL Geranium pilosum Sel... .. 2
Galium umbrosum Sol. .. a
Hydrocotyle asiatica Ll. .. 5G
Tall Shrub Stratum Tylophora barbata R.Br. f
Eucalyptus sp. ee Viola betonicifola Sm. O90 5 if
f (pyrie succession ) Stellaria pungens Brongn. Oo
ihomnette longifolia lived BY ene an eR Stellaria flaccida Hook. .. - 0
Acacia penninervis Sieb. .. . o-a Doodia aspera R.Br. .. .. 0
Daviesia ulicina Sm... .. .. o-la Oxzalis corniculata L. .. .- 0
Acaena sanguisorba Vahl. .. .. 0
Poranthera microphylla Brongn. o
Fern Stratum EE) g
Brachycome sp. .. nse Sree tO.
Pteridium aquilinum Kuhn. .. sd Cardamine hirsuta ie. Oe Macatee 2D)
Davalia dubia R-BYr. .. 4.55. 28 Clematis aristata R.Br. seedlings
Lomatia silafolia R.Br. .. .. f-a at eee.
Blechnum cartilagineum Swartz. Solanum zanthocarpum ‘Schrad. r-0
.. @ near tree-ferns Sonchus sp. r
Blechnum iiseaton Keys. Trifolium sp. é 55 18
a in places Wahlenbergia aneenlis D. C. Be
Polystichum ‘poullewtane Schott. Dipodium punctatum Re r
: . @ near tree-ferns only Stackhousia viminea Smo... .. 7
Glacnea dichotoma Hook. Lycopodium densum Wabill. .. vr
BG wich co. eR . f in places Chiloglottis formicifera Fitzg. vr
DTA ESO eo a de Go bo. oO Unidentified grasses .. :
(b) THE ASSOCIATION OF THE WESTERN SLOPES.
On the western side of the basalt capped hills exposure to the prevalent
strong and parching winds usually prevents the Euealyptus-Alsophila Forest
from coming muéh over the hill from the eastern side, except in depressione or
BY P. BROUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K. PETRIE. 493
in a bay protected by an adjoining headland. The Euecalyptus-Pteridium as-
sociation thus extends further onto the basalt here than elsewhere, and, as was
pointed out earlier, on account of the exposure, is much modified. As a matter
of fact, however, it is a difference of physiognomy rather than eomposition. The
structure is a more open one; for the ground is strewn with igneous boulders,
suggesting that weathering here is slow, and the vegetation, except for the well
adapted Eucalyptus, is scanty and stunted. The less xerophytic plants of the
typical association, such as Gleichenia, are absent; and there is a greater abund-
ance of grass, of which, however, a close examination has not yet been made.
This association, like the normal junction flora, has frequent dense shrub
societies. These, however, are composed of Pultenaea flexilis and Lomatia longi-
fola. This is a remarkable habitat for the latter which, in Sydney districts, is
a component of the mesophilous vegetation of creek banks. The association
differs widely here in the composition of the ground flora; that of the typical
examples of the association was also found in the Eucalyptus-Doryphora Forest
and is, therefore, a mesophytic community which could not exist in so exposed
a habitat as that under consideration.
This junction association, from what could be seen, extends, with little
change, a long way down the sandstone slope towards the Wollangambe River.
It is probable that the basalt soil washed down from above would inhibit the
development of the ordinary sandstone flora.
In more sheltered parts of the slope the tree-ferns, as has been said, are
able to come over the hill; and in such parts shallow water courses draining
down into the Wollangambe bed are clothed with long tongues of the Euealyptus-
Alsophila Forest. In some cases no termination of these could be seen, and it
is possible that they continue to the river at the bottom of the valley. This
point will be investigated later when the valley formation is studied. |The
drainage channels, however, have probably carried basalt. a long distance down
the slope, which would enable the tree-ferns to exist in these places.
Floristic Composition.
Tree Stratum Ground Stratum
Hucalyptus sp. .. ond Hydrocotyle asiatica L. .. .. 0-a
Eucalyptus iminalis, abil 5 Gl Stellaria pungens Brongn. .. o-a
Panax sambucifolius Sieb. .. .. 0
Shrub Stratum Doodia aspera R.Br... .. .. . 0
Citriobatus multiflorus Cunn. . 0 Schelhammera undulata R.Br. Cy)
Pultenaea flexiis Sm. .. .. .. f Dianella sp. ... .: Cy)
Daviesia ulicina Sm... .. .. 0 Clematis aristata R.Br. seedlings 0
Lomatia longifolia R.Br. .. f Viola hederacea Labill. 0
Adiantum aethiopicum L. .. .. o-¥
Fern Stratum
Pteridium aquilinum Kuhn. .. sd Climbers
Xerotes longifolia R.Br. .. .. . 0 | Smilax australis R.Br. “0
Lomatia silaifolia R.Br. .. .. . 0 Eustrephus Brownii F.v.M. 0
wavaiha dubia R.Br. .. .. ....°0 9 °* Geitonoplesium cymosum ‘Cunn. ie
Ampera spartioides Brongn. .. 0-F Hardenbergia monophylla Benth. r
Trachymene linearis Spreng. .: r Billardiera longiflora Labill. .. r
494 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
(c) THE STATUS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
A study of the structure of the junction flora leads one to speculate on the
abnormal nature of the vegetation on the sandstone side of the borderline. That
overlapping and invasion should take place on either side one naturally expects;
but the problem of the absence of the characteristic sfrubs of the sandstone
flora is presented. The typical Kucalyptus Forest owes its facies largely to the
remarkable shrub-stratum; but here between the tree tops and the ground, ex-
cept for the somewhat restricted societies of Daviesia and Acacia, is little but a
closed community about two feet high dominated by Pteridiwm and Lomatia
silaifolia.
One of the most potent factors controlling the structure and development.
of the Eucalyptus Forests in Australia is the frequent occurrence of bush-fires.
Round every junction the vegetation bears all the indications of having been
recently burnt. The fire has crept up to the edge of the basalt, has in places
passed through the Eucalyptus-Alsophila association, but has never transgressed.
the humid Rain-Forest.
We cannot escape the fact that the effect of bush-fires on the succession
of vegetation is of considerable importance. In most countries and in most
formations, the forest is entirely destroyed; a secondary succession then com-
mences, beginning with a ground flora and gradually advancing once more to
the climax association—sometimes even to a climax association dominated by
different types from the original. The Australian Kucalyptus Forest, however,
possesses the faculty of rapidly recovering from a bush-fire. Many of the de-
foliated and blackened trunks send forth new shoots, and by next season have
entirely renewed their foliage. Alsophila can recover in a similar manner.
The bush-fire seldom destroys the climax association and so its effect is-
perhaps less striking than in other countries; but nevertheless profound altera-
tions usually occur in the lower layers. Many of the shrubs are killed; and
although it often happens that the same species grow up again to form the
normal shrub stratum, frequently the first stage of succession is a community
of Pteridium aquilinum. This occurs on the sandstone at Mount Wilson at some
distance from the junction. No doubt some plants of this cosmopolitan and
virile species were previously present in such localities; and when the fire des-
troys every living aerial shoot, the rhizomes of this plant are unharmed, and
then, freed from the competition of its neighbours, it spreads apace and forms a
closed community before the shrubs have time to recolonize the area. The same:
phenomenon has been observed in other countries.
These facts, then, offer an explanation for the structure of the Junction
Flora which should not be overlooked.
It might, however, be urged that the richness of the soil at the junction:
inhibits the presence of the usual sandstone shrubs, and that only the limited
number of types which occur there are adapted to these edaphic conditions; this
is indeed what one would be led to expect from the highly specialised structure
and metabolism which the sandstone shrubs have developed to fit themselves for
their severe environment. Few species or individuals from the Eucalyptus Forest
of the sandstone habitat have invaded the basalt.
In criticising this hypothesis we have searched for evidence of any further
succession taking place. The societies of Acacia penninervis do not appear to
BY P, BROUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K. PETRIE. 495,
be a development from the normal Hucalyptus-Pteridium association, but have
more the aspect of pyrie societies contemporaneous with the Pteridium stratum.
It is possible that the societies of Daviesia wlicina are a further development,
but if so, it is not a development tending towards the typical Eucalyptus forest
of the sandstone, since Daviesia is not a component of that.association. It may
be, however, that Lomatia, along with the few other sandstone types present,
represents a development in the direction of the typical Eucalyptus Forest of
that habitat.
Beyond this there is only one instance where the Junction Flora is richer
and has the following composition :—
(x) Leptospermum stellatum Cav. (x) Cassinia denticulata R.Br. . f
fy Acacia .elata Cunn. .. 0)
(x) Leptospermum flavescens Sm. Humea elegans Sm. .. .. 310.88
Stellaria pungens Brongn. .. f-a
(x) Acacia longifolia Willd. .. a Goodenia ovata Sm. .. .. .. .. 1
Pteridium aquilinum Kuhn. . a-sd Hydrocotyle asiatica L. .. .. ¢c
Blechnum discolor Keys.
. £ in patches richer in basalt
Polystichum aculeatum Schott. . f
Eucalyptus saplings .. ...... a
Smilax australis R.Br. .. .. .. O
Blechnum cartilagineum Swartz.
. f in patches richer in basalt
Clematis aristata R.Br. seedlings r
Davalian dubia W-BEae es 24 feel t
Billardiera longiflora Labill. .. . r
Although a number of additional types are mentioned here, they do not
approach within fifty feet of the tree-fern boundary, where the normal Hucalyptus-
Pteridium association is unaltered. We may suppose that the sandstone types
are always endeavouring to cvlonize the junction and this may be one place
where they have partially, and perhaps only temporarily, succeeded. Even so,
these remarks apply only to the four types marked with an x. The remaining
additional types, Humea and Goodenia, are normal occupants of rich, moist soil,
and one wonders only why they do not occur more frequently. Billardiera
longiflora has already been mentioned as occurring at the junction on the north-
west slope.
On the whole then, the Kucalyptus-Pteridium association may be regarded
as a sub-climax; and further succession does not normally take place, a fact
much favouring our second hypothesis.
The second source of evidence appears to lie in comparison with other
basaltic plateaux. Shirley (1912) has recorded that, on Mount Tambourine in
Queensland, a fringe of Davallia dubia marks the junction of the “serub” and
the forest. This type has not been recorded as a first colonist in secondary
succession, but, being a heliophyte, might well be occupying a soil too rich for
normal sandstone shrubs, which would explain its occurrence in the Junction
Flora at Mount Wilson also.
In the absence of further data it is impossible to decide definitely which
of the two hypotheses we have considered is correct; but we cannot avoid
suggesting that although the bush-fires may have given Pteridium a greater
ascendancy than usual, the absence of any further development in the constitu-
tion of the flora seems to indicate that the richness of the soil precludes the
invasion of other types from the sandstone. Lomatia appears to be an excep-
tion, which is adapted to the prevailing edaphic condition.
495 EOOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON,
THE FLorRA oF THE ROADSIDE.
The road leading through Mount Wilson on to Mount Irvine in many places
cuts through the heart of the Rain-Forest, forming a narrow opening in the
tree canopy, which allows the sun to illuminate the ground on the roadside. The
result is the establishment of a more heliophilous plant community, consisting
largely of low herbs and shrubs. The composition of the roadside flora is ex-
tensively modified by the anthropogenic factor; for the transport to and from
the few orchards at Mount Irvine, along with the sowing of grass seed, has
resulted in the introduction of many exotic genera. The same flora occurs also
where the road passes through the more open forest of the basalt, and does not
vary much in composition.
Floristic Composition.
Acaena sanguisorba Vahl. ..
Solanum nigrum L. .. area)
WONCHUSUSD ile eine ere ake Rubus moluccanus L. .. .. .. .. 0
Geranium pilosum Sol. .. .. .. Anagallis arvensis L. .. .. .. . 0
Taraxacum dens-leonis Desf... . Asplenium flabellifolium Cav. .. 0
Pteridium aquilinum Kuhn. .. Helichrysum elatum Cunn. .. (0)
Hydrocotyle asiatica L. . Solanum cinereum R.Br. r
Rubus fruticosus L. .. Convolvulus marginatus Poir. r
Billardiera scandens Sm. .. .. r
Solanum xanthocarpum Sehrad. r
Goodenia ovata Sm. .. .. r
Acacia penninervis Sieb. .. if
Persoonia mollis R.Br. .. .. : vr
]
1
OGausicOnniGulata lina eae
Euphorbia peplus lL... .. =...
Solanum aviculare Forst. ..
Davallia dubia, R.Br.
Urtica incisa Poir. ..
Trifolium repens L. ..
Trifolium pratense lL. ..
ZLieria Smithi Andy. ..
Lomatia longifolia R.Br.
Banksia integrifolia L. .
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THE STABILITY OF THE ASSOCIATIONS.
It is difficult, from the data so far accumulated, to make any definite state-
ment upon the stability of the cssociations dealt with, or to gain any clue as
to possible succession, apart from the Junction Flora already discussed. The
Doryphora-Ceratopetalum association is undoubtedly a climax; the dominance
of the prevailing life-form is such as to maintain the association in its present
state indefinitely under the existing conditions. The occurrence of the sub-
ordinates and the establishment of its own seedlings are definitely secured. A
likely factor which would disturb the stabilizing control exerted by the dominating
life-form would be the invasion of a superior life-form, which in the flora under
review may prove to be Eucalyptus; and a Kucalyptus-Doryphora association
exists around the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest. The invasion of Hucalyptus
produces a marked change in the structure of the community as is seen in the
Euealyptus-Doryphora Forest. Whether this invasion will involve the Cerato-
petalum-Doryphora Forest cannot be decided at present; but one fact does
appear striking, namely, the absence of seedlings of the species of Eucalyptus
which have colonized the basaltic habitat from the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora
association. This absence may be due to the extreme difficulty of the seedlings
becoming established in this habitat owing to the unfavourable light factor;
which makes it probable that under the prevailing climatic and physiographic
conditions, Eucalyptus and other endemic genera will not seriously reduce the
area of, or displace the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest.
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By P, BROUGH, J. MCLUCKIE AND A. H. K. PETRIE. 497
In the Euealyptus-Doryphora association the structure and physiognomy
changes and the luxuriance passes from the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest.
There is little doubt but that, if all the basalt be denuded from the residuals,
leaving only the barren sandstone, the Rain-Forest Flora will entirely dis-
appear from the higher parts of the plateau at Mount Wilson and be confined
to the valleys where it exists at present.
Around the fringe of the dense Ceratopetalum-Doryphora association, a
considerable amount of oscillation is evident. Here the basaltic covering on the
sandstone appears to thin out considerably, and is occupied by the Eucalyptus-
Doryphora association, whose structure and physiognomy have been deseribed.
Undoubtedly Eucalyptus is the dominant, but Doryphora is able to establish its
seedlings in this area and so reaches the status of a sub-dominant.
SUMMARY.
1. The vegetation of New South Wales is composed of three elements, viz.,
(1) an Endemic Flora consisting largely of Eucalyptus Forests and occupying
the greater part of the State; (2) a Malayan Flora finding its chief expression
in Rain-Forest; and (3) an Antarctic Flora which occurs as scattered individuals
in certain regions.
2. The fossil evidence seems to indicate that the Malayan Flora emanated
from the north in the early Tertiary, and spread through the greater part of
eastern Australia. The Endemic Flora arose later, elsewhere on the continent,
‘and gradually invaded the Malayan vegetation.
3. The differentiation of climate resulting from the uplift which occurred
in Eastern Australia at the close of the Tertiary caused the Malayan Flora to
recede to sheltered habitats with a high edaphic favourableness, while the endemic
flora took its place by adapting itself to a xerophytic habitat.
4. Mount Wilson is one of a series of residuals of an ancient Tertiary
basalt outflow and consists of a sandstone ridge with frequent caps of igneous
rock.
5. The Malayan Flora is well represented on the sheltered slopes of the
basalt caps and in the sandstone gullies; the endemic flora oceupies the whole
of the sandstone plateau.
6. The present paper includes an account of the plant communities occupy-
ing the basalt caps. The associations described are as follows:—
(a) The Ceratopetalum-Doryphora association which is the optimum ex-
pression of Malayan Rain-Forest.
(b) The Euealyptus-Doryphora association, which resembles the above as-
sociation modified to a certain extent by the invasion of the endemic Eucalyptus.
(c) The Eucalyptus-Alsophila association, a transitional association occurring
in the neighbourhood of the edge of the basalt and containing only the hardiest
Malayan types mixed with a limited number of endemic invaders.
(d) The Eucalyptus-Pteridium association which occurs at the fringe of the
basalt and extends onto the sandstone. This association is not a normal transi-
tion since the development of such is prevented by certain factors discussed.
7. Possible cases of succession, and the factors which might give rise thereto
are briefly discussed.
498 ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF ‘THE FLORA OF MOUNT WILSON.
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Carne, J. E., 1908—Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South widlies,
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Hamitton, A. G., 1899.—Flora of Mt. Wilson. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxiv.
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EXPLANATION OF PLATES LVII.-LX.
Plate lvii.
Map of the Mount Wilson region showing the residuals, Mounts Wilson,
Irvine (north-east of Mount Wilson), Haycock, Tomah, and Bell. The diagonal-
hatching indicates the basalt caps.
(From the 16- mile map issued by the Geological Survey of New South
Wales).
Plate Iviii.
1.—Interior of Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest, showing the subdominant
Dicksonia, lianes, an Alsophila and a society of Blechnum discolor under an
opening in the canopy on the right.
2.—Interior of Geratopetalum- Doryphora Forest, showing bare ground under
canopy of a large Ceratopetalum on the left.
3.—Tmesipteris tannensis growing from a sloping Dicksonia trunk in the
Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest.
4.—Dicksonia in the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest.
_ Plate lix.
5.—Hdge .of a clearing in the Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest, showing
closed canopy of foliage and an Alsophila australis 70 feet high in the middle
distance. In the background are.seen the tops of three gigantic Hucalyptus
trees belonging to a EHucalyptus-Doryphora association beyond. Péeridium oc-
cupies the clearing in the foreground.
6.—Interior of Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest, showing Dicksonia.
7.—Huealyptus-Doryphora Forest, showing tall Eucal YBED trees in the back-
ee and Alsophila australis in the foreground.
8.—Eucalyptus-Alsophila ‘Forest. Note the tall fren of lee tet in the
middle distance, and Blechnum discolor cloeninin ag the ground stratum.
~ Plate Ix.
9-—Junetion of Eucalyptus-Alsophila association (background) and
Kucalyptus-Pteridium association (foreground). Note the abrupt cessation of
Alsophila, and Pteridium dominating the ground stratum.
10.—Interior of Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest; note densely serried trunks
of the dominants in the background, and Dicksonia on the right.
499
’A FURTHER REFERENCE TO THE OCCURRENCE OF MERISTA
PLEBEIA SOWERBY IN NEW SOUTH WALKES.
By Joun MITCHELL, late Principal of the Newcastle Technical College and
School of Mines, N.S.W.
(Plate li.)
[Read 24th September, 1924.]
The present reference to my record of the presence of Merista plebera
Sowerby in Australian rocks (These Proceedings, xlv., 1920) has been brought
about by the attitude assumed towards that record by Professor W. N. Benson,
of the University of Otago, N.Z. Professor Benson (Rec. Geol. Surv. N.S.W.,
x., Pt. 2, 1922) omitted my record of Merista plebeia from his, extensive list of
Australian Devonian fossils. Thereupon I wrote and drew his attention to the
omission of this important Middle Devonian fossil, thinking at the time that the
omission had been an accidental one. Professor Benson, in a courteous reply,
informed me that the omission referred to had been intentional; because he
considered that my determination was incorrect. Subsequently when a verbal
discussion on the subject took place between us, he suggested that I had mis-
taken some Carboniferous brachiopod for a Merista. I therefore decided to sub-
mit duplicates of the brachiopods which had been determined by me as Merista
plebeia Sowerby to an authority whose qualifications were beyond question and,
in January last, I wrote to Dr. John M. Clarke, Director of New York State
Museum, explaining to him the points in dispute between Professor Benson and
myself, and asking him to act as arbiter between us. In his reply, Dr. Clarke
‘makes the following remarks :—
“(1) Merista plebeia from the Eifel and elsewhere in the middle Devonian
Shales is, as a rule, a longer shell and a typical Merista; that is to say, its
‘shoe-lifter’ process is a single plate unsupported by a median septum.
“(2) The genus Dicamara, introduced by myself (Hall and Clarke, Palae-
ontology of New York, Vol. 8, Part i, p. 73, Pl. 42, figs. 13-16), has a median
septum supporting this central plate so that the umbonal chamber of the ventral
valve is divided into two compartments. 4
“(3) Dicamara scalprum (EF. Roemer) from the Middle Devonian of the
Rhine, often in association with Merista plebeia, has this peculiar structure, and
is the type of the genus. In it I can see no distinction from your species in
structure or in form, I am disposed to believe that your species is identical
with it. : pil Site
“Tn a miscellaneous collection of specimens commonly referred to Merista
plebeia, one would be quite likely to find specimens of Dicamara scalprum. In
500 THE OCCURRENCE OF MERISTA PLEBEIA IN N.S.W.,
tact this is the way in which the latter came to my attention as a distinct generic
form and there is, therefore, good ground for your having identified your own
species with M. plebeia.”
The above opinion and explanations by Dr. Clarke aye not likely to be
challenged and leave little to be added by me.
However, it may be pointed out that before the establishment of the genus
Dicamara J. M. Clarke, Dicamara scalprum was known as Merista scalprum F.
Roemer and generally accepted to be identical with Merista plebeia Sowerby.
Further, I was quite aware, that ultimately the fossil under discussion would
be placed in the genus Dicamara, as the following remarks, in my rough copy
of the original description of it, go to show: “It may happen later that ad-
ditional evidence will prove the present form to belong to the genus Dicamara
J. M. Clarke, for as stated above, there is a median septum in the brachial
valve.” The classification of our Meristoid fossil will now be as follows :—-
Family MERISTELLIDAE Hall and Clarke.
Genus DicamMara J. M. Clarke, 1894.
DicaMARA SCALPRUM F. Roemer.
Syn. Merista plebeia mihi (non Sowerby), These Proceedings, xlv., 1920, 544-
by Jel xo-oel., ies, dleey
To Dr.. John M. Clarke my very sincere thanks are tendered for his kind-
ness in undertaking the office of arbiter to settle the points of divergence placed
before him; and for his examination and classification of the fossils submitted
to him.
It has oceurred to me that further proof of the Devonian age of the rocks
from which Dicamara (Merista) scalprum was obtained might, appropriately,
be added here, and consequently I add descriptions of three small Spirifers and
an Athyris which in my opinion possess a true Devonie facies and which were
found associated with Dicamara (Merista) scalprum Roemer.
SPIRIFER TULCUMBAHENSIS, n.sp. (Pl. lin., figs. 1-3.)
Shell of medium size, subrhomboidal or subpentagonal. Pedicle valve
strongly convex, suleus wide, shallow; ribs fourteen or more in number on each
side of the medial fold, smooth, mildly convex, their obliquity laterally increases
very gradually; interspaces shallow concave and equal in width to the ribs; beak
prominent, incurved; umbonal ridges curved and reach the cardinal angles;
cardinal area large, elevated and concave; cardinal angles rounded (?), dental
plates conspicuous; delthyrium large and seems to be closed by the deltidium.
Brachial valve subsemicireular, less convex than the other one, beak fairly pro-
minent; medial fold low, indefinitely separated from the adjoining radials; in
ornamentation it agrees with the ventral valve. When the outer lamellate layer
of the shell is removed the valves are seen to be covered with fine radial striae,
similar to those under similar conditions observed on the valves of Martiniopsis
subradiata from Lower and Upper Marine beds (Permo-Carboniferous) ; but no
concentric striae are visible on either valve. Dimensions: Length, 18.0; width,
20.0; depth, 12.0 mm.
The characteristic features of this Spirifer are (1) the thin flaky outer
layer of the test, (2) longitudinal striae visible after removal of the surface
lamellae, (3) indistinctness of the radials at and near their origin, (4) absence
BY JOHN MITCHELL. 501
of concentric striae, (5) faintness of the radials. The species has a decided
Devonie aspect.
As far as I have been able to ascertain the Spirifer most closely related to
the present species is S. tullius Hall from the Hamilton group (Devonic) of
U.S.A. They agree in the following: (1) High cardinal area; (2) Plications
rather flattened and low; (3) Whole surface covered with radial striae; (4)
Sinus and fold extending quite to the beak, and smooth but for the fine radial
striae. The local species differs from the other in (1) Having a weakly defined
fold and sinus, (2) rounded cardinal angles (?), (3) curved umbonal ridges on
the ventral valve, (4) terminal of the medial fold and sinus protrusive instead
of emarginate, (5) lacking concentric striae, (6) greatest width some distance
ventrally from the cardinal angles (?), (7) much smaller size.
On the foregoing differences the local form is separated from the American
one.
Loc.—One of the foothills of the Bulga (an old voleanic vent) near. the
Bulga homestead, Parish of Gunnenbene, County Nandewar, N.S. Wales, as-
sociated with Dicamara scalprum F. Roemer (= Merista plebeia, Mitchell, non
Sowerby), and Orthis (Schizophoria) striatula.
Horizon.—Middle Devonian.
SPIRIFER GUNNENBENENSIS, n.sp. (PI. li, figs. 4-6.)
Pedicle valve subrhomboidal, strongly convex or arched, slopes steeply from
the beak to the lateral margins; ribs on each side of the sulcus are nine or ten,
the pair bounding the suleus being much stouter and more prominent than any
of the others, all are convex and moderately prominent; concentric striae numer-
ous, equally spaced and imbricate the radials; suleus moderately deep, begins at
the tip of the beak, concave, rounded in front; umbo prominent, high, and mildly
ineurved; cardinal area triangular, high, concave and reaches the cardinal angles;
delthyrium narrow, partially closed by the deltidial plates. Brachial valve strongly
convex, but less so than the pedicle, semicircular; radials similar to those of the
pedicle valve; fold prominent, narrow, very definitely separated from the radials
by pronounced furrows; beak inconspicuous. It may be added that the radials
‘of both valves have a decided curve towards the lateral margins. Dimensions
of two of the largest pedicle valves known: Length, 16.0, 15.0; width, 16.0,
15.0; depth, 8, 7.5 mm. A brachial valve measured 12.0 mm. long, 16.0 wide
and 4.0 deep approx., and a small specimen with valves in apposition 11.0 long,
11.0 wide and 8.0 mm. deep.
The chief features of this species are (1) approximate equality of length
and width, (2) proportionate great depth, (3) prominent radials abutting upon
the suleus, (4) high and prominent umbo, (5) prominent and curved umbonal
ridges of the ventral valve, (6) radials rather strongly curving towards the
lateral margins and (7) distinct separation of the fold of the brachial valve from
the radials by pronounced furrows.
Locality and horizon the same as for the preceding species.
SPIRIFER WOODHOUSEI, n.sp. (PI. lii., figs. 9-11.)
Whole shell small. Pedicle valve subrhomboidal, very strongly convex,
especially towards the umbo, pyramidal. Radials five on each side of the suleus,
the fifth being faint; the suleus pronounced and triangular; beak prominent,
mildly ineurved, pointed and suberect; umbonal ridges bow-shaped and just
502 THE OCCURRENCE OF MERISTA PLEBEIA IN N.S.W.,
reach the rounded cardinal angles; area relatively large and concave; delthyrium
narrow and open. Brachial valve semicircular; radials similar in number and
other respects to those of the pedicle valve; medial fold prominent, triangular
in section; beak prominent. This valve is much less convex than the other one;
traces of concentric striae are visible on both valves. Dimensions: Length, 9.0;
width, 11.0; depth, 7.0 mm.
The striking features of this Spirifer are (1) its relatively large area, (2)
prominent beaks, (3) bow-shaped umbonal ridges of the pedicle valve, (4)
prominent and triangular sectioned medial fold and its definite separation from
the radials, (5) the great depth, compared with the length and width of the
whole shell. The shell here described is testless, and shghtly damaged on one
side; but for these imperfections it is a good specimen and unfortunately is
singular.
The present species will fall into Hall and Clarke’s division Radiati and
group Paueiplicati of that division. The Spirifers belonging to this group, for
the greater part, oceur in Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks. It is therefore
reasonable to assume that the present species is of Devonian age. This assump-
tion is practically confirmed by its occurrence in association with Dicamara
scalprum Roemer.
The species is dedicated to Mr. Woodhouse, at one time teacher of the
public school at Gunnenbene and who, while on a visit to the Bulga with the
writer, collected the specimen which forms the type of the species. .
ATHYRIS BULGAENSIS, nsp. (Pl. lui, figs. 12-14.)
Outline of complete shell pentagonal or subdiscoidal, each valve about equally
convex; pedicle valve shorter than wide (11:12); radials absent; concentric
striae distinct, evenly spaced and imbricated; a shallow sulcus developes towards
the ventral margin; umbo subtumid; foramen distinct. Brachial valve slightly
shorter than the pedicle one, but in other respects the two are similar except
that on the brachial valve, owing to the removal of the outer layer of the test,
the concentric striae are invisible; no median fold present. Dimensions: Length,
11.0; width, 12.0; depth, 8.0 mm.
This species is a neat one. In dimensional proportions and in some other
respects it resembles A. cora Hall from the Hamilton group, Delphi, N.Y., but
is only half the size of that species, and in some other respects differs from it.
Loc. and horizon: The same as for the preceding species, and is named
after the homestead on which it was collected.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE LIII.
Spirifer tuleumbahensis Mitchell.
1, 2, 3. Views of the pedicle, brachial and front aspects (x 1.5, 1.5 and 2
respectively ) .
Spirifer gunnenbenensis Mitchell.
4, 5, 6. Views of a brachial valve and two pedicle valves, each more or less
incomplete (x 2).
Spirifer sp. indet.
7, 8. Pedicle and brachial aspects (x 2 approx.).
BY JOHN MITCHELL. 503
Spirifer woodhousei Mitchell.
9,10, 11. All showing the brachial aspect. Fig. 11 is a rough drawing of
the shell restored. It shows the radials too distinetly (x 2).
Athyris bulgaensis Mitchell.
12, 13, 14. Pedicle, brachial and front aspects. The brachial valve, owing
to the removal of the outer layer of the test, appears to be smooth (x 2).
All the specimens here figured are in the writer’s collection.
A PRELIMINARY REFERENCE TO A NEW SPECIES OF ELONICHTHYS
FROM THE LOWER BEDS OF THE NEWCASTLE COAL MEASURES.
' By JouNn MirTcHELL, late Principal of the Neweastle Technical College and
School of Mines, N.S. Wales.
(Plate iii.)
[Read 24th September, 1924.]
ELONICHTHYS DAVIDI, n.sp. (Pl. lin., fig. A.)
The present remarks merely form a preliminary introduction to the descrip-
tion of the above species by Dr. A. Smith Woodward, to whom the original
specimen of the fossil fish is being sent for that purpose. Already a good
photograph of the fossil has been submitted to Dr. Woodward, who, at the
writer’s request, very generously determined its generic position as given above.
In his letter conveying this information, Dr. Woodward further remarked that
the species was new, and that it could be dedicated to Professor Sir Edgeworth
David with safety, as this was the expressed wish of the writer. Dr. Wood-
ward adds: “It must be one of the finest specimens of Elonichthys known.”
_ As far as the writer is aware the above species is more ancient than any
fossil fish yet recovered from rocks.of Permian age in New South Wales.
Loc.—Near the junction of the Neweastle Coal Mining Company’s railway
with the Great Northern Railway of N.S. Wales, Parish of Tarro, County Nor-
thumberland.
Horizon.—About two hundred feet below the Borehole seam of the Neweastle
Coal Measures. This horizon may be considered as belonging either to the lower
beds of the Newcastle measures, or to the upper beds of the Dempsey Island
division (David) of our upper Permian rocks.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE LIII. A.
Elonichthys davidi, n.sp.. (x 4).
504
NOTE UPON DETERMINING THE HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION
COLORIMETRICALLY, IN SMALL QUANTITIES OF FLUIDS.
By R. Greie-Smitu, D.Se., Macleay Bacteriologist to the Society.
[Read 29th October, 1924. ]
The acidity of a fluid depends upon the presence of free atoms or ions of
hydrogen. In recent years, the concentration or strength of the fluid in these
ions has been determined electrometrically and colorimetrically. Electrically,
they are measured by their power to carry an electric charge and colorimetrically
by the fact that certain colouring dyes alter in colour according to the number
of active hydrogen ions in the fluid. The colorimetric method is the easier to
perform and, as the colour changes have been standardised by the electrical
method, there is reason to adopt the easier method for general work. As the
acidity depends upon the free hydrogen ions, so the alkalinity depends upon the
free hydroxyl ions and these in their turn h&ve an influence in altering the
colour of the dyes which thus act as standardised indicators.
Each dye alters in colour or dissociates over a certain range of acidity or
concentration of the hydrogen ions but by employing a chain of dyes and noting
the colour changes, we are able to determine the acidity over a wide field.
The general method of testing the active acidity is by adding a small
quantity of a suitable dye to 5 or 10 ce. of the fluid under examination, noting
the nature and depth of the colour and comparing it with a solution of a known
acidity, treated in a similar manner. 4
The values assigned to the strengths of acid are the logarithms of the
hydrogen-ion concentration. For example, hundredth normal hydrochloric acid,
(N/100), is 1/100 or 10-2, the logarithm of which is -2 and for sake of con-
venience the negative sign is understood. Tkus the pH value of N/100 hydro-
chlorie acid is 2, N/1000 is 3 and so on. Neutrality is obtained at 10-7 or as it
is written the pH value of neutral water is 7. As the numbers shorten, an in-
creasing acidity is indicated and as they lengthen, the alkalinity increases. Nor-
mal sodium hydrate (N/1) has the pH value, 14.
With a large quantity of fluid at one’s disposal, it is usual to employ test-
tubes and a special holder or comparator. That is the usual method and it
necessitates a considerable quantity of fiuid. When, however, one has but @
small quantity of liquid and that is precious, the use of test-tubes is out of the
question. For example a fluid measuring 30 ¢.c. was undergoing fermentation
and it was desired to test the reaction daily for from 20 to 30 days. Obviously
a method had to be devised which would necessitate the withdrawal of only a
minute quantity of the fermenting liquid.
BY R. GREIG-SMITH. 505
The method adopted was to take a porcelain plate with six or twelve
shallow depressions and trom a burette to drop into each depression 0.45 c¢.c-
of water, then to add a drop of a suitable dye. By means of a platinum spiral,
a minute droplet of the fermenting liquid was abstracted and mixed with the
diluted dye. With certain precautions the method was successful and the test-
ing was expeditiously done.
The water was ordinary distilled water that had been boiled to two-thirds
of its volume to expel carbon dioxide and ammonia. It was contained in an
ordinary 200 ¢.c. burette furnished with a soda-lime trap at the top. This dis-
charged 0.45 ce. in six drops. The water below the stopcock was naturally
run away before the drops were taken. The platinum spiral was made by tak-
ing the ordinary platinum-iridium wire such as is used in making infection
needles and coiling it five times around a No. 18 B.W.G. wire. The coils were
slightly separated. The helix when dipped into water abstracts and holds a
minute drop the size of which can be determined. Those in use by the writer
hold eight milligrams of water. After use they are dipped into clean water and
ignited, as it is obvious that the presence of a trace of an ash constituent such
~ as an alkaline salt would destroy their utility.
One spiral of fluid is mixed with the diluted indicator and then another is
mixed and any change of colour is noted. If the colour is altered, another
spiral of fluid is added. As a rule, one spiral is enough, but there are cases
where two are necessary and sometimes more; much depends upon the buffering*
of the solution. With a well buffered fluid such as is used in the standard
solutions of tenth molecular citrate and phosphate, one loop is ample, but in |
solutions not so well buffered more than one may be necessary.
Clark + says that a dilution of 1:8 or 1:16 is permissible, but I find that:
one can go further, down to 1:32 and even 1:64 in a well buffered liquid. In
a Peete red fluid, dilution may not be justifiable. For example, a tempered
tan-bark was digested with hydrochloric acid and washed with water; the second
washing had a pH value of 3.2 by the tube method when undiluted. By the
plate method the undiluted fluid was also 3.2 but in dilutions of 1:1, 1:2, 1:4,
1:8 and 1:16 the pH values were 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 4.2 and 4.4 respectively.
Obviously one has to be careful in using the method.
The colour shows up well on the porcelain tile and the pH value is deter-
mined by using a neighbouring depression for holding the same quantity of
water, coloured with a drop of the same dye and treated with a droplet of a
standard buffered solution. The determination should be quickly done as the
colours soon fade.t
Many of the formulae for preparing standard buffered solutions give odd
* Buffer substances include peptone, proteins, amino-acids and the salts of
weak acids such as phosphates, citrates, borates, bicarbonates. They “soak up”
the excess of ions much as a sponge soaks up water. They regulate the acidity
by taking up “hydrogen ions so that the addition of moderate quantities of acids
make a comparatively small change in the reaction of the fluid.’ (The Reaction
of Media. Special Report Series No. 35. H.M. Stationery Office.)
+ The Determination of the Hydrogen-Ion Concentration.
+ Haas (see Clark, op.cit.) devised a spotting method in which a drop of the
fluid is mixed with a drop of indicator dye on a sheet of white opal glass. Drops -
of standard solution are spotted around this drop and these are coloured with
the dye and compared with the test drop.
506 DETERMINING HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION,
fractions of the pH values. In such cases one may prepare graphs and from
them use the quantities of salts which will give whole numbers and rises of 0.2.
In making these solutions, one is advised to reerystallise the saline components
such as citric acid, and the phosphates of potassium and sodium. It is much
easier and perhaps more satisfactory to use the ordinary pure crystals and to
test the ionic strength of the solutions by the double tube method elaborated by
Gillespie (Soil Science, ix. (No. 2), 1920, 115). For example, mixtures of M/10
citrate of soda, M/15 sodium phosphate, M/15 potassium phosphate and N/10
hydrochloric acid give solutions with pH values ranging from 1.2 to 8.6. The
citrate of soda should have a pH value of 4.9 and, if it differs from this, citric
acid can be added until this value is obtained. As an instance, 21 grams of
citric acid were dissolved in water, 200 ¢.c. of normal sodium hydrate were added
and the volume brought to a litre. The pH value was more alkaline than 4.9
but was corrected by the gradual addition of 2.6 grams of the citric acid
erystals. Mixtures of this citrate with N/10 hydrochloric acid and M/15. sodium
phosphate so as to make the values 3.8, 5.8, 6.6 and 7.2* were found to be
correct when tested against the Gillespie method. In preparing the M/15 sodium
phosphate and the M/15 potassium phosphate, the pH values of which should
be 9.2 and 4.5 respectively, the ordinary salts were used and a correction was
found to be unnecessary.
The recognition of the colour tint is facilitated by having a series of paper
squares painted with water colour to match as nearly as possible the tint of the
standard solution. The matching of a dichroic colour such as is obtained with
brom-cresol purple is not easy, but one can get a close approximation by putting
one colour upon another. The colours of all the other dyes are comparatively
easy to match.
In making these colour tints, the liquid colour, instead of being painted on
the paper with a brush, may be spread uniformly by placing a pool of the
blended pigments on paper and drawing the fluid along the surface with the
edge of a microscopic slide held at an angle. Tints around the colour desired
must be prepared, as the pigments alter.upon drying. When dry, they are com-
pared with the colour produced by adding a droplet of the solution of standard
pH value to the water and dye in a porcelain depression and the corresponding
tinted paper is picked out and retained.t
To be able to utilise only a minimum quantity of nutrient fluid for testing
the pH value it is necessary that the solution should have a sufficiency of salts
or other substances which act as buffers, enabling one to dilute the liquid and
yet obtain a knowledge of the active acidity or alkalinity. Exactly how much
of these it is desirable to have can only be determined by trial, but the follow-
ing may give some indication.
In testing the fermentative activity of the high temperature organism of
fermenting tan-bark. a solution was prepared containing potassium mono-
hydrogen phosphate 0.5, potassium dihydrogen phosphate 0.5, magnesium sul-—
*Thes2 values are about midway in the effective range of colour for brom-
phenol blue, brom-cresol purple, brom-thymol blue and phenol red by the Gillespie
double. tube method.
+The use of tinted paper for compar'ng the colours of the dyes is supported -
by Clark, who gives a set of colours in his book, and I have seen similar coloured.
paper in use in the Lister Institute for controlling the init’al-reaction of nutrient
agar. :
BY R. GREIG-SMITH. 507
phate 0.15 and sodium chloride 0.15 grams per 100 ¢.c. As a source of nitrogen
and carbon, each flask of 30 ¢.. received one ¢.c. of water containing 0.05
gram each of lactose and peptone. Thus the fluid contained 1.2% of saline
matter. The fluid was diluted in certain proportions and the figures below show
the carbon dioxide given off; they are the average of two determinations.
The Fermentation of Lactose in a well-buffered solution. Carbon dioxide in mg.;
aggregate amounts.
r Days 1 2 3
1 Salinity 1.2% .. 15 37 53
2. FA 0.8 14 39 55
3. 5 0.6 14 36 54
4, 0.4 12 40 55
5 0.2 3 30 46
In testing the acidity, the first three could be diluted 1:60, the fifth 1: 30
and the fourth probably 1:50 as, although two spirals were taken, a little more
than one would have done.
It is clear therefore that a salinity of about 0.5%, if the bulk of it con-
sists of phosphate, is good for obtaining an optimum fermentation and for de-
termining the acidity in small quantities of the fermenting liquid.
The ease is different when the solution contams a minimum of buffering sub-
stances. For example, a modified Uschinsky solution was prepared and tested.
It contained ammonium sulphate 0.37, sodium chloride 0.5, magnesium sulphate
0.02, calcium chloride 0.01 and potassium acid phosphate 0.1%. ‘The salts
totalled 1%. The original acidity of pH 5.6 was neutralised with dilute soda
and 0.1 gram of lactose was added to each 30 ¢.e. portion in uae fermentation
flask.
The fluids became acid as the fermentation progressed, much more so than
with well-buffered solutions. One set. was neutralised on the second day.
The Fermentation of Lactose in a poorly buffered solution. Carbon dioxide in mg.;
aggregate amounts.
Neutralised Not neutralised
pH value.
, Days f° 2 3 pom yer) 3 1 2 3
Undiluted, salinity 1 % 5 @) By G8 9 38 58 G8 5.8 Boil
Diluted one half, salinity 0.5 % be 8 24 493 424 29 @o0 Hs BoB
Diluted one quarter, salinity 0.25 % 200 3 24 48 1 6 20 6.8 6.0 5.2
In the previous table, the buffered fluids had a pH value of 6.8 at the start
and they never became more acid than 6.7, whereas in this badly buffered fluid
the acidity rose to 5.1. As the fluid with the high saline content, whether neu-
tralised or not, gave the largest yield of carbon dioxide, it is clear that in the
absence of buffer salts a high saline content is necessary. The neutralisation of
the acid fluids is advisable.
In testing the hydrogen-ion concentration, the fluids could not be diluted
more than 1 in 4, 1 in 3 and 1 in 2 for the 1%, 0.5% and 0.25% respectively,
when using brom-thymol blue and brom-cresol purple. This emphasises the im-
portance of having a sufficiency of buffer substances in the fermenting fluids
when it is desired to test the active acidity in small quantities of the fluids.
The dilution of the buffered solutions is only applicable when the sulphone-
phthalein dyes are used as indicators. With the acid ranges for which such a
dye was not obtainable, the solution could not be diluted to any extent. Methyl
red, for example, did not give true readings when diluted more than 1 in 3,
while, in a solution of the same nature, brom-eresol purple, brom-thymol blue
508 DETERMINING HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION.
and phenol red gave true indications in dilutions of 1 in 60. There was need
therefore of a dye to replace methyl red. This has been met by the introduction
of brom-cresol green by Cohen (Abstr. Bact., vi., 1923, 3).
A quantity of brom-cresol green was obtained and tested. It has rather a
feeble tinctorial power, but a drop of 0.16% solution in water gave a good
working colour. Its range is from pH 4.0 to 5.6, and it fits better in between
brom-cresol purple and brom-phenol blue than methyl red. Like the other sul-
phone dyes, it acts well in dilutions of 1 in 60. :
Thymol blue and brom-thymol blue also have feeble tinctorial powers but a
008% solution in water has been found to act well by the porcelain tile method
in both cases. The other dyes are used in 0.04% aqueous solution and a drop
is enough to give a good depth of colour in the half ¢.e. of liquid.
In poorly buffered solutions the porcelain tile method can be used, but the
solutions may not be able to be diluted.
Frequently one has to work with coloured liquids and if these have been
well buffered the colour may be so minimised by dilution that a determination
may be made. According to Hind (J. Inst. Brew., 30, 1924, 57), dark coloured
solutions as well buffered as wort may be diluted from five to ten times and
stout may be diluted up to forty times without appreciable error.
Sometimes it is desirable to know the approximate acidity of an agar
medium on which bacteria have been growing. This can be easily done. By
means of a platinum spade or similar implement, a portion of the agar slope
or plate is dug out and transferred to the depression of a porcelain plate or
tile. It is chopped into fragments and these are distributed in a few of the
other depressions. Water is added to each depression and the acid or alkaline
salts soon diffuse into the fluid.* On the addition of a drop of indicator dye
the reaction is determined. ; i
Summary.
By using well-buffered solutions in fermentation experiments, small droplets
(= 1/100 ¢.c.) may be abstracted and mixed with 0.5 ¢.c. of water held in the
depression of a porcelain plate. On the addition of a drop of a suitable dye,
the active acidity can be determined, either by comparison with - a drop of fluid
of standardised hydrogen-ion concentration added to water in a neighbouring de-
pression or by means of a series of coloured papers.
With poorly buffered solutions, dilution becomes impossible, but the plate
with 0.5 ¢.c. of solution gives a fairly accurate picture of the acidity.
Portions of agar slopes may be soaked in the 0.5 e¢.c. of water which soon
becomes charged with the active ions and the colorimetric test can be made.
* Henriques (through Abst. of Bact., vii., 1923, 330) adds carbon dioxide-free
water to the agar slants and after 45 minutes determ nes the pH of the water.
CRITICAL NOTES ON THE TEMNOCEPHALOIDEA.
By Pror. W. A. Haswe tu, M.A., D.Se., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Biology,
The University of Sydney.
(Plates liv.-lvi.)
[Read 26th November, 1924.]
INTRODUCTORY. .
Since the beginning of the century a number of important additions have
been made to our knowledge of this section of the Platyhelminthes, and the
question of the relationships of the group and its constituent members has been
frequently discussed. Of these more recent original contributions, the most com-
prehensive have been those of Monticelli (1902), Wacke (1903) and Merton
(1914). But Mrazek (1906), Annandale (1912), Gravely (1913) and Plate
(1914) have also added to our knowledge in various ways.
A revision of the subject in view of the newer literature and with the aid
ef a considerable quantity of material from various sources has resulted in the
conclusion that, in a number of points of greater or less importance, the pub-
lished accounts of the group require amplification and correction before our
knowledge can be regarded as in any way adequate. The present paper is an
attempt to contribute towards the greater completeness of our knowledge with
regard to the female reproductive apparatus, more especially the “receptacula,”
of Temnocephala.
My drawings have been re-drawn, for the purpose of reproduction, by Mr. F.
W. Atkins of the Technical High School, Sydney.
I am indebted to the Senate of the University of Sydney for a grant from
the McCaughey Research Fund which has defrayed the expenses incurred.
I. THE FEMALE PART OF THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM OF 'TEMNOCEPHALA.
The female reproductive apparatus is composed of the vitellarium and its
ducts, the germarium with the germiduct, the reservoir with its duct into which
the germiduct and main vitelloduct open, giving rise to the oviduct which enlarges
ventrally to form the ootype, opening, with or without an intercalated vagina or
metraterm, into the genital atrium.
A. DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTS IN T. FASCIATA.
The genital aperture leads into the atriwnm—a chamber common to the male
and female parts of the sexual apparatus. The left-hand portion of the cavity
is occupied by the free part of the penis. The right-hand (female) part is
capable of being greatly distended, so as to accommodate a completed egg, which
510 CRITICAL NOTES ON THE TEMNOCEPHALOIDEA,
is here detained for a time before being passed out—probably to permit of the
hardening of the newly secreted egg-shell. Around the genital aperture, both
outside and inside, the integument is perforated by the numerous ducts of the
unicellular cement-glands producing the substance by means of which the
eggs, on discharge, are cemented together and to the surface of the erayfish-host.
The surface integument is continued into the atrium, but soon undergoes modi-
fication: the nuclei of the epidermis disappear and the cuticle becomes thinned
out. The muscular layers are in continuity with those of the general body wall,
interrupted only by a sphincter surrounding the aperture.
Perforating the wall of the atrium in the right-hand portion are a number
of ducts of unicellular glands corresponding closely to the ootype glands, but
with the ducts not dilated terminally.
The ootype (uterus) (Plate lv., figs. 8 and 9, w) opens directly into the right-
hand part of the atrium—the aperture surrounded only by a slightly developed
sphincter. In its ordinary condition the ootype is bent on itself and folded,
but is capable of being distended so as to enclose an egg during the process of
formation of the egg-shell. Its wall consists of (1) muscular layers (external
circular and internal longitudinal), (2) epithelium, (3) cuticle; and is perforated
by the very numerous ducts of the ootype- or shell-glands. The epithelium is.
non-nucleated and syncytial. The cuticle is reduced to a thin perforated layer
which in sections has the appearance of a fringe along the inner surface of the
epithelium. There are no vibratile cilia im any part. A great part of the thick-
ness of the wall is taken up by the terminal parts of the ducts of the shell-
glands, each of which is dilated as it passes through into a rounded bulb with a
clear, firm, cuticular wall. Almost invariably, droplets of coagulated secretion,
little stainable by ordinary methods, appear in Sections, issuing from the open-
ings of the ducts or massed in the lumen of the ootype. In certain conditions
the ducts of many of these glands have each two dilatations, the one in the sub-
stance of the wall of the ootype and the other just outside the latter.
The shell-glands (ootype-glands) (sg.) are unicellular glands of very irregular
shape—in general pyriform—which lie around the ootype in an irregular zone.
On an average these glands are about .05 to .1 mm. in diameter and the single
nucleus of each is about 0.013 mm. in diameter. Usually each is distinet from
the rest and its duct is a process given off centrally to open into the lumen of
the ootype; but the bodies of neighbouring cells sometimes coalesce and oc-
casionally union takes place between ducts.
The ootype lies to the right of the middle line. Its general direction
is cephalad and dorsad. In front it narrows and bends to the left to
become continuous with the oviduct. The latter (od.) is a comparatively narrow
tube with small lumen, muscular wall, and an epithelial and cuticular lining
thrown into slight longitudinal folds. Along one side is a ridge-like thickening
of the epithelium. The ducts of unicellular glands which are uniform with the
shell-glands open into the oviduct at intervals and are numerous on the ridge:
these are devoid of the terminal enlargements occurring in the case of the ootype-
glands. Sinee, in sections of specimens with an egg in utero, the appendage or
filament of the shell lies in the oviduct, it appears probable that the function of
these oviducal glands is the secretion of the filament. The oviduct runs to the
right and dorsad, and then bends forward to open into the reservoir (r), piercing
the dorsal and posterior wall of the latter. As it does so, it loses its muscular
layers, and its cuticle alone is prolonged, as a very fine tube. the terminal part
BY W. A. HASWELL. 511
of which (Plate liv., fig. 3 and fig. 7) with a lumen only 0.003 mm. in diameter,
projects into the eavity of the reservoir and opens into it. This terminal tube,
which I will refer to here as the mouth-piece of the reservoir, is so fine and
so brittle that it is readily destroyed in section-cutting, and when preserved is
easily overlooked, unless the sections happen to have been cut in a direction
parallel to it. In favourable sections such as those represented in figs. 3 and 7,
there is distinguishable a narrow stream of spermatozoa with other matter pass-
ing through the tube into the lumen of the reservoir.
The reservoir (Plate liv., figs. 1 and 2, r.) is a large vesicle about 0.5 mm.
in diameter (about a tenth of the length of the animal in the fixed condition)
situated in the middle line immediately behind the intestine and rather nearer
the dorsal than the ventral surface of the body. Its wall, in addition to an in-
vesting layer of muscle, consists of a protoplasmic layer without trace of cell
boundaries and with only a small number (about twenty-five) of large nuclei
“about 0.02 mm. in diameter. The protoplasm is normally structureless without
fibrillations or networks and, save exceptionally, without vacuoles or canals. The
contained cavity is in most instances quite undivided, but in a small proportion
of cases a partition composed of the protoplasmic wall partly cuts off the por-
tion from which the oviduct opens from the rest.
In the neighbourhood of the point where it enters (or leaves) the reservoir,
the reservoir duct is surrounded by six or seven large cells (m) with nuclei 0.02
mm. in diameter. These are the myoblasts of the muscular fibres of the wall of
the oviduct and have been hitherto overlooked or misinterpreted.* Hach gives
off a large process of fibrillated material which enters the wall of the duct and
passes into the circular and longitudinal fibres of the latter. A short distance
behind the zone of the myoblasts are four short blind diverticula (r.s) of the
‘lumen of the duct which invariably contain spermatozoa. These correspond to
the structures first discovered by Merton (in other species) and called by him
receptacula seminis (1913, 1914). In T. fasciata they are small rounded vesicles,
about 0.03 mm. in diameter, not free from the wall of the duct as in the species
in which they were described by Merton, but actually contained within it, sur-
rounded by its muscular tissue. Hach leads into the lumen of the duct by a
short narrow canal directed forwards, i.e., towards the reservoir.
Close to the so-called receptacula seminis, but further away from the large
reservoir, is the opening of the germiduct. This is a mere funnel for the passage
outwards of mature ova from within the capsule of the. germarium to the ovi-
duct. Close to this also is the opening of the main vitelloduct formed by the
union of the right and left vitelloducts. The right and left main vitelline ducts
converge inwards and backwards, and unite to form the short, approximately
median, unpaired duct, which runs backwards and opens into the. oviduct close
to the junction of the germiduct and reservoir duct and of the receptacula
~seminis of Merton (Plate lvi., figs. 13-15, vdl., vdm., vdr.). The position of the
opening of the main duct thus differs widely from that described and figured by
Merton (1914) in the case of T. rowzxi, and agrees with the earlier descriptions
of Weber (1889) and Monticelli (1898). These main right and left unpaired
ducts in this species (7. fasciata) have quite definite walls and are readily trace-
able in sections even when empty: but in no part is there a definite internal
cuticle.
*The only record I have found of these cells is in Merton’s fig. 46 f of Tafel 4
11914), where two of them are shown, but are lettered offdr (ootype glands).
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The germarium and vitellarium have been described in sufficient detail else-
where and differ little in essential characters in the various species.
B. DEscrRIPTION OF THE PARTS IN T. COMES AND T. SIMULATOR.
T. comes is an invariable companion of T. fasciata on the surface of the
widely distributed Australian Crayfish—Astacopsis serratus. It differs very
widely from its larger companion, not only in the absence of colour and the
presence of six tentacles in place of five, but in the structure of its reproductive
system. A feature in the male part of the apparatus in 7. comes, which is im-
portant in its bearing on the structure of the female part, is that the sperma-
tozoa become aggregated in packets or spermatophores, each enclosed in a thin
ease. These are formed in the posterior testes, pass along the exceptionally
wide vasa deferentia to the vesicula seminalis, and are found in the ootype and
oviduct, where the cases become ruptured, liberating the spermatozoa. The
structure and development of these spermatophores have not yet been followed.
The ootype of T. comes (Pl. lv., f. 12; lvi., f. 16) differs from that of T.
fasciata in the development of a comparatively thick sphincter (sp.) round the
atrial end. The aperture does not lead directly into the atrial cavity, but into a
small chamber cut off from the latter by a circlet of papillae (pp) across which,
from side to side, usually stretches a thin structureless membrane, sometimes
double, obviously the product of the secretion of unicellular glands situated
round its periphery. The chamber thus cut off may be regarded as a specialised
part of the ootype or oviduct (metraterm of Ward and of Monticelli) or a
separated-off part of the atrium.
In two cases of specimens of this species cut, into sections, the occurrence
or self-impregnation is suggested. In one of these the end of the penis is ad-
vanced into the right-hand corner of the atrium, close to the opening into the
ootype. In the other (Plate lvi., fig. 16) the terminal enlarged introvert, with
its bristling spines, has passed in further, and is firmly held by the sphincter.
There is no proof in these cases that self-impregnation occurs, but the second
seems to afford evidence that the function of the sphincter is to hold the penis,
whether of the same or another individual, during the act of discharge of the
_ spermatophores.
The dilatations at the ends of the ducts of the shell-glands in the wall of
the ootype are very conspicuous, and project as papillae into the lumen. These
are arranged in regular longitudinal rows. The cavity of the ootype was found
to contain several spermatophores in each of the specimens sectioned, with the
exception of one in which there is an egg lodged in the atrium. Spermatophores
lie also in the oviduct. There they seem to burst, setting free the spermatozoa,
which pass in large sheaf-like bundles into the cavity of the reservoir. The
latter is partly divided by a septum (sp.) formed of an ingrowth of the syn-
cytium, into a smaller posterior or basal part into which the duct opens, and a
larger anterior part. The contents of the former are only, or almost only,
normal-looking spermatozoa, while those of the latter are the same mixture of
effete reproductive products as in T. fasciata with the addition of irregular
shreds and fragments which are obviously the remnants of the envelopes of rup-
tured spermatophores. A mouth-piece and minor receptacles are entirely absent.
BY W. A. HASWELL. 513
In T. simulator * the éntire reproductive system closely resembles that of T.
comes: similar spermatophores are formed in the posterior testes and are found
distributed in a similar way in the ootype, oviduct and reservoir. But (1) the
sphineter at the mouth of the ootype is by no means so specially developed; (2)
the ring of papillae on the atrial side of this aperture is absent; (3) the ter-
minal enlargements of the shell-gland-ducts are not arranged in longitudinal
rows. In the neighbourhood of the opening of the ootype into the atrium some
of the papillae assume the appearance of rudimentary teeth.
C. DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTS IN T. NOVAE-ZELANDIAE.
T. novae-zelandiae differs in a very marked manner from the other Austra-
lasian species, and most of the distinctive features are connected with the female
reproductive apparatus (Plate lv., fig. 11). This has been described by Merton
(1914); but it is desirable to give here a résumé of the main facts for the pur-
pose of comparison, and to add certain points not hitherto recognised. The
most striking feature is the development of the posterior region of the ootype
(mm) into a muscular bulb containing a system of formidable chitinous teeth.
This has no equivalent, so far as is known, in any other member of the order.
The “bursa copulatrix” of Actinodactylella is a similar structure, but is not a
modification of a part of the ootype, being an independent outgrowth from the
atrium. Perhaps the vagina of 7. novae-zelandiae is best looked upon as an
enormous extension of the thick sphincter of 7. comes and the metraterm which
it subtends. The atrial aperture of the female duct leads into a narrow passage
with thick muscular walls which runs nearly vertically upwards (dorsad). The
interior is beset with numerous sharp sub-triangular teeth. Dorsally it enlarges
into a muscular bulb the greater part of the thickness of which is composed of
circularly running fibres forming a thick hoop. The lumen of this bulbous por-
tion of the ootype, wider than that of the preceding part, is beset with rows of
sharp teeth, larger and evidently more highly chitinized than those just referred
to. Perforating the thick muscular wall are numerous ducts of the shell-glands,
which, as in other species, form a zone round about. These ducts, which present
dilatations as in T. fasciata, are most clearly traceable in young specimens, in
which the teeth are not fully developed or not completely chitinised. Dorsally
the bulb opens into the ootype proper. This, which is much smaller relatively
than in T. fasciata, is a thin-walled chamber of irregular shape surrounded by
shell-glands the ducts of which perforate its walls. In the ootype, and extending
into the oviduct, is, as in TJ. fasciata, a ridge-like thickening of the epithelial
layer running longitudinally and comprising many ducts. It is well represented
in Merton’s Fig. 47, though not referred to in the text. The oviduct running
to the right and dorsad to open into the reservoir, is at first a narrow tube with
a few shell-glands opening into it: in the immediate neighbourhood of the re-
servoir the lumen enlarges, and the wall becomes thickened by contributions
from large special myoblasts as in T. fasciata. The lumen dilates in the region
from which the funnel-like germiduct is given off. From the dilated region,
which usually contains a number of spermatozoa, are given off there diverticula
*T. simulator is the name which I propose to apply to an undescribed brown
six-tentacled Temmnocephala occurring with two other species on the Crayfishes of
Barrengarry Creek, above Belmore Falls. It is referred to here as it is the only
member of the group known to me resembling T. comes in developing spermato-
phores.
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(r.s) each about .03 mm. in diameter. These are the receptacula seminis dis-
covered by Merton: they lie quite outside the oviduct itself, connected with it
by a short narrower part serving as a duct: in the interior, closely coiled up,
are always a number of spermatozoa which have apparently the staining re-
actions of normal active spermatozoa like those in the lumen of the oviduct
itself. Into this part opens also, on the dorsal aspect, the short main vitelline
duct formed by the union of the main right and left ducts.
The reservoir (7) hes distinetly to the right of the middle. The opening
into it of the oviduct (become reservoir duct} is situated on a prominence pro-
jecting into the cavity of the receptacle. From this projects, as in T. fasciata,
a tubular mouth-piece (mp) which is a prolongation of the cuticle lining the
interior of the duct. In T. novae-zelandiae this is an extremely delicate struc-
ture, invariably more or less broken in sections, and were it not for my know-
ledge of the condition in 7. fasciata I should have failed to interpret the
structure.
Merton (1914) gives excellent figures of series, of sections of the female ap-
paratus in 7. novae-zelandiae, but does not represent the actual opening of the
duct into the reservoir. In his fig. 47K vres points, not to the cavity of the
large reservoir, but to the dilated part of the duet into which the three small
“receptacula seminis,” the germiduct and vitello-duct all open, and from which
the narrow terminal part of the duct, with its slender mouth-piece, leads into the
extreme dorsal and right-hand recess of the reservoir.
D. DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTS IN T. BREVICORNIS.*
In T. brevicornis Monticelli the cuticle of the ootype is rather thick and the
wall is folded longitudinally so that an appearance of teeth is produced in
sections cutting the organ transversely. Merton (1914, p. 47) erroneously
ascribed to Monticelli the statement that teeth are present, whereas the latter
quite emphatically states that they are absent (1898, p. 86).
The ootype has in its posterior (atrial) portion a thick museular wall with
a small lumen. This persists throughout the vertical part, so that series of
horizontal sections present the same appearance from the atrium to the point
where the passage changes its direction to run towards the receptaculum and
germarium. Here the wall becomes thinner and the lumen wider.
As described and figured by Monticelli (1898, Tav. iv., fig. 19, d) there is
a small compartment (metraterm) separated off from the ootype at the atrial
end by a sphincter. This closely resembles the corresponding compartment in
T. comes, but is divided from the atrial cavity, not by a ring of papillae, but by
a cireular fold with an irregular edge.
Merton’s receptacula seminis, five in number, surround the reservoir duct or
oviduct in a ring, but are here empty. They are imbedded in the muscular wall
of the duct almost as completely as in the case of T. fasciata.
The right and left main vitelline ducts meet to open into the avidin: close
to the Merton’s receptacula and the germiduct, immediately posterior to the
former.
*T am indebted to my friend and former colleague, Prof. J. P. Hill, F.R-.S.,
for my specimens of this species, which are labelled by him “Temnocephala from
Fresh Water Tortoise (Hydromedusa maximiliana) loc. Theresopolis, Brazil. Oct.
13. Picronitric-osmic acid.”
BY W. A. HASWELL. 515
The receptaculum has an incomplete partition. The lumen is very small in
four sectioned specimens and is empty or nearly so. The partition separates off
the part from which the duct opens from the anterior part. The latter has a
very thin anterior wall and, owing to thinness of the intestinal wall in this
position, the entire thickness of solid tissue between the lumen of the reservoir
and that of the intestine is very small. In one of the series a rupture has taken
place in this and part of the reservoir lies in the actual lumen of the intestine
as a long narrow process in front of the anterior end of which is a clump of
darkly stamed matter which may be the discharged contents.
The myoblasts of the reservoir duct are in this species closely amalgamated
with the syncytium of the reservoir, nearly completely surrounding the latter as
a layer composed of ten or twelve large cells with large nuclei, the cytoplasm
not sharply marked off from that of the syneytium, but distinguishable in the
stained sections on account of the stronger affinity of the latter for haematoxylin.
A quite unique feature is that the investment of muscle lies outside the layer of
myoblasts, not inside. I have failed to find any nuclei in the syncytium.
II. RECEPTACULA SEMINIS IN TEMNOCEPHALOIDS.
The vesicle which, in the preceding account of the female reproductive
apparatus, | have, in order to avoid implications as to its function, referred to
sumply as reservoir was termed originally receptaculum seminis by Weber (1889)
and by myself (1888)—the contents being supposed to consist solely or mainly
of spermatozoa. More detailed.examination, however, showed me a preponder-
ance of yolk material in many eases, and, accordingly, I suggested (1900) the
name of receptaculum witel on the supposition that it acted as a storehouse in
which yolk-cells accumulated until they were required for the building up of an
egg. Later again (1909) I recognised that the spermatozoa and the yolk-matter
contained in the receptaculum are for the most part dead or moribund: the
Spermatozoa move feebly if at all; what is more conclusive, the yolk-cells have
lost their nuclei and are fused together. The receptaculum acts in fact as a
storehouse for surplus reproductive material—shell-gland secretion as well as
spermatozoa and yolk. I assumed at this time that the accumulation of surplus
matter was discharged at intervals through the ootype and genital atrium, to
reach the exterior through the genital aperture; and I supposed that the need
for a reservoir for this surplus matter was created by the occasional blocking
up of the passage by an egg. Merton (1914) confirms my conclusion as to the
condition of the contained spermatozoa and regards the receptaculum as an
organ in which all superfluous products of the reproductive system are stored to
become dissolved and re-absorbed: he proposes for it therefore the name of
vesicula resorbiens.
The vesicle in question varies considerably in different species of Temno-
cephala and the allied genera; but certain structural features which it possesses
in all cases seem to me to be little in agreement with the resorptive function
ascribed to it by Merton. In all cases, in addition to an investment of muscular
fibres, the wall is composed of .a comparatively thin, almost structureless
syncytium. Through the protoplasm are distributed large nuclei, 0.02 mm. in
diameter in T. fasciata, twice as large in T. quadricornis. These oceur at wide
intervals so that many sections of ordinary thickness (5 to 10) through the
entire length or breadth of the organ contain none. Altogether there are on an
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average about 25 in the wall of an organ which may be half or three-quarters
of a millimetre in diameter. The syncytium is usually structureless throughout
in the best-fixed series. In some specimens of T. novae-zelandiae, vacuoles of
various sizes, some spherical, others drawn out, appear in the substance of the
syneytium, but similar vacuoles appear also in the contents, and I have not been
able to aseribe any special significance to them.
This structureless syncytium, with its very infrequent nuclei, would appear
to be little adapted to the function of digesting and absorbing such solid or
semi-solid matters as spermatozoa, yolk and shell-gland secretion.
At the same time, more thorough examination of the structure of the vesicle,
and more especially of its mode of communication with the duct, has shown me
that the original theory—viz., that of discharge of the contents through the
ootype to the exterior, is untenable. It is obvious that the extremely slender
pipe or mouth-piece cannot well be the passage through which the mass of
effete reproductive matter which has accumulated in the receptacle becomes dis-
charged. IT. fasciata, T. tasmanica and T. novae-zelandiae are the only species I
have studied in which the mouth-piece is actually demonstrable (though there are
pretty definite indications of it in some of the other smaller forms): but the
essentials are the same in all, and it seems unlikely that the mode of functioning
of the vesicle, so clearly circumscribed in the case of T. fasciata, can be radically
different in the other closely-allied species.
A receptacle corresponding exactly with the reservoir occurring in the
Temnocephaloids is of rare occurrence in the Trematodes so far as known.
Distomum variegatum (Looss, 1894) is one of the exceptions, and in certain
other species of the same genus such a reservoir—a “receptaculum seminis’” con-
taining other elements besides sperms—co-exists with a Laurer’s canal. In
Aspidogaster the “receptaculum vitelli” is a similar structure (Goto, 1894, p.
169).
In the Malacocotylea its equivalent, probably functionally as well as mor-
phologically, is Laurer’s canal: in the Heterocotylea the single genito-intestinal
canal (Goto). But in some Rhabdocoeles (Vorticidae) there is a receptacle
which is very similar in structure, relations, and contents to that of the Temno-
cephaloids.
In the case of all these modifications it may be assumed that the special
function of the part is to dispose of surplus reproductive material. In the
internal parasites this surplus is presumably not of great importance in con-
nection with nutrition, and may be entirely discarded by being discharged ex-
ternally through Laurer’s canal or through the oviduct: but in the non-parasites
or ecto-parasites, the genito-intestinal canal* may provide for its conservation
and further use in nutrition.
In the Temnocephaloids there is no permanent genito-intestinal canal, while
the arrangement of the parts is such as to facilitate the passage of the effete
reproductive material into the reservoir and impede its outward passage through
the oviduct. But there are indications that, at intervals, when the reservoir be-
comes distended, it grows into the lumen of the intestine, forming a passage—a
temporary genito-intestinal canal—which ruptures at its free end and discharges
the contents. The duration of this canal must be brief, since, leaving out of
account the specimen of TZ. brevicornis referred to on page 515, I have found it
*TIn certain Triclads,a Rhabdocoele, and at least one Polyclad.
BY WwW. A. HASWELL. ily
actually present in two only of the many specimens of Temnocephala, serial
sections of which I have examined.
One of these series is of a specimen of the Tasmanian 7. tasmanica (PI.
Ivi., figs. 18-21). In this the reservoir has burst into the intestine, and the
contents, sharply differentiated by the effects of the staining which the series
has undergone, lie partly in the intestinal lumen, partly in the improvised genito-
intestinal canal (gi). The other is one of a specimen of one of the largest
and most complex species—TZ. quadricornis. Here (fig. 22) a comparatively
long diverticulum has been developed from the receptaculum and opens ter-
minally into the intestine—portions of the contents being traceable throughout
the length of the temporary genito-intestinal canal. Here we seem to have a
temporary condition comparable with what is permanent in Hexacotyle grossa
(Goto, 1894, p. 221).
In 7. semperi and T. novae-zelandiae Merton observed such a condition in
several instances :—
Sowohl bei ZT. semperi als bei novae zelandiae fand ich Exemplare bei
denen das Blasen-lumen in dem Darm gedffnet war. Dass dies erst bei der
Konservierung durch platzen der Blase erfolgte, scheint méglich. Es wire aber
auch denkbar, das bei den nahen Beziehungen der Blase zum Darm dieser Fall
auch im Leben eintritt, wenn die Blase tiberfillt wird, wie es bei dem recep-
taculum seminis einiger Trematoden beobachtet worden ist” (p. 42).
To the two cases deseribed above, I may add a third. In this, however, the
genito-intestinal connection is incomplete. The canal (fig. 17, gi.) is repre-
sented only by a clean-cut cylindrical channel which runs from the lumen of the
reservoir (into which it opens directly) forwards through the syncytium (here
specially thickened) to terminate abruptly against the enclosing layer of mus-
cular fibres. In this canal, and in smaller spaces round about which may be
branches from it, are many spermatozoa and minute clumps of granular matter.
It appears probable that we have here either the rudiments or the vestiges
of a genito-intestinal canal, and the former rather than the latter, since the
contained spermatozoa are less altered than those in the main cavity of the
reservoir itself.
That the cases which I have gbserved are due to bursting in the process of
fixation seems to me very improbable. The appearance presented by the speci-
mens of J. quadricornis and T. tasmanica described is hardly reconcilable with
such a conclusion.
Merton’s receptacula seminis occur in all the species I have examined for
them except 7. comes and T. simulator. The chief difficulty in my opinion in
the way of accepting Merton’s view as to the function of these bodies is their
small size. In T. fasciata each is only, at most, about .03 mm. in diameter,
the enclosed ball of spermatozoa contracting to about .02 mm. in sections. In
T. novae-zelandiae the size is about the same—a little greater in relation to the
size of the animal. In the former species the living spermatozoon is at least
.2 mm. in length, so that it would need to be very closely coiled up to be
packed into the space, and only a small number can be received.*
*TI take the opportunity of correcting here an error which Merton makes
Ttegarding my account of the spermatozoa. He states (p. 37), “Nach Haswell sollen
am Hinterende des Kopfes zwei lange Cilien sitzen, die, mehrmals so lang sind als
das ganze Spermatozoon.” This is not correct. On page 1201 give the total length
of the living spermatozoon inT, fasciata as .2 mm. and that of the cilia as .015
mm. Moreover I figure the living spermatozoon with its cilia (fig. 12, Plate xiii.).
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The little knot of spermatozoa in each vesicle stains strongly with haema-
toxylin so as to be comparable with the sperm-masses in the vesicula seminalis
in the same section or same series. But in this respect there is little to dis-
tinguish them from some of the scattered spermatozoa in the contents of the
reservoir. Their main feature is their closely-coiled state which does not seem
to be very favourable to their supposed fate of being passed out into the ovi-
duct to fertilize emerging ova. Moreover, differential staining sometimes re-
veals the presence of other bodies besides spermatozoa in the contents of these
vesicles. Taking all these things into account, I think it improbable that these
are receptacula seminis in the sense of receptacles in which spermatozoa are
received in copulation in order to fertilize the ova as they pass out from the
ovary. At the same time the absence of these vesicles in the only two species
developing spermatophores seems to favour Merton’s view.
SUMMARY.
The vesicle variously known as receptaculum seminis, receptaculum vitelli
and vesicula resorbiens has a duct which opens into it in some species of
Temnocephala, probably the majority, by a slender chitinous tube or mouth-
piece, the arrangement being such as to render the evacuation of the contents
of the vesicle (reservoir) through the oviduct and atrium an impossibility.
The discharge of these contents (surplus reproductive material) appears to
take place by the formation of a temporary connection with the intestine (tem-
porary genito-intestinal canal) of very short duration.
The small diverticula of the oviduct discovered by Merton and regarded by
him as receptacula seminis are present in all the species examined, with the
exception of two in which fertilization is effected through the agency of
spermatophores.
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HPXPLANATION OF PLATES LIV.-LVI.
Lettering.
a, atrium; aa. atrial aperture; ag. atrial glands or their ducts; ¢. capsule
enclosing reproductive apparatus; g. germarium; gd. germiduct; gi. genito-
intestinal canal (temporary); 7. intestine; ze. epithelium of intestine; m. myo-
blasts of female duct; mm. metraterm; mp. mouth-piece of duct of reservoir;
mr. muscle of wall of reservoir; nr. nucleus of syneytium of reservoir; od. ovi-
duct; p. penis; ph. pharynx; pp. papillae of circle round female aperture into
atrial cavity; r. cavity of reservoir; rd. duct of reservoir; rs. Merton’s receptacula
seminis; s. sucker; sc. syncytium of reservoir; se. septum in reservoir; sg. shell-
glands; sgd. shell-gland ducts; sp. sphincter; spt. spermatophore; sr. syneytium
of reservoir; ¢. testis; u. uterus; vd. vitelline duct; vdl. left vitelline duct; vdm.
main vitelline duct; vdr. right vitelline duct; x. mass of surplus reproductive
matter in reservoir.
Plate liv.
Figs. 1 to 6. Corresponding portions of successive sections from a thick
horizontal series of Temnocephala fasciata showing the relations of the parts in
the region of the mouth-piece in ventro-dorsal order. (x 205).
Fig. 1 shows parts of the mouth-piece (mp) in the syncytium (sr.) of the
reservoir (7) in which one nucleus appears, myoblasts (m) and portions of shell-
glands (ovidueal glands).
Fig. 2 shows slightly displaced parts of the mouth-piece embedded in the
syneytium with the beginnings of the terminal part of the muscular wall of the
duct and the oviduct in cross section.
Fig. 3 shows the free end of the mouth-piece with its opening into the cavity
of the reservoir.
Fig. 4 shows oblique section through muscular thickening of duct at base of
mouth-piece.
Fig. 5 shows two of Merton’s receptacula seminis (7s.) and beginning of
germarium (g.).
Fig. 6 shows transition of reservoir duct (rd.) into oviduct (od.) with
Merton’s receptacula seminis.
Fig. 7. T. fasciata. End of mouth-piece, from another horizontal series.
(x 440).
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Plate lv.
Fig. 8. Temnocephala fasciata. Diagrammatic lateral view of the female
part of the reproductive apparatus (> 50). The vitelline glands and ducts
are not shown and only two of the myoblasts are indicated.
Fig. 9. T. fasciata. Diagrammatic ventral view of the female part of the
reproductive apparatus. The vitelline ducts and the germiduct are not re-
presented.
Fig. 10. T. fasciata. Portion of a horizontal section showing the mouth-
piece of the reservoir with its connections. ( 205).
Fig. 11. 7. novae-zelandiae. Diagrammatic ventral view of the female part
of the reproductive apparatus. The myoblasts are not shown.
Fig. 12. Temnocephala comes. Diagrammatic ventral view of the female
part of the reproductive apparatus. The germiduct and vitelline duct are not
represented.
Plate lvi.
Figs. 13 to 15. T. fasciata. Corresponding portions of three consecutive
sections of a thick (about 12) horizontal series cut in ventral-dorsal order.
x 205). .
° rhe 13. Section on the dorsal side of the reservoir, passing through the
thickened terminal part of the reservoir duct (rd.) showing sections of four of
the ‘“receptacula seminis” (rs.) buried in the muscular wall; the right and left
vitelline ducts (7vd., lvd.) converging and the former just passing through the
enclosing capsule (¢.) of the female reproductive apparatus. ;
Fig. 14. Néarer convergence of the vitelline ducts: appearance of ger-
marium (g-).
Fig. 15. Union of vitelline ducts in short median duct (mvd.) opening into
the oviduct.
Fig. 16. 7. comes. Portion of a section from a horizontal series, showing
the opening of the uterus into the atrium with the sphincter (sp.) and the ring
of papillae (pp.). The position of the end of the penis (p.) roughly indicated.
(< 150).
Fig. 17. T. fasciata. Portion of a section from a horizontal series, show-
ing what appears to be a rudiment (or a vestige) of a genito-intestinal canal
(gi.).
Figs. 18 and 19. T. tasmanica. Two successive longitudinal and vertical
sections of a specimen with a communication (genito-intestinal canal) (qgi.)
between the reservoir and the intestine. (x 50).
Figs. 20 and 21. Portions of the sections represented in Figs. 18 and 19,
showing the reservoir (r.) and its connections. (x 205).
Fig. 22. 7. quadricornis. Diagram of the genito-intestinal canal. From
six sections of a horizontal series.
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AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA: NOTES AND NEW SPECIES. No. iv
By, H. J. Carter, B.A., F.H.S.
(Thirteen Text-figures. )
[Read 29th October, 1924.]
The following notes are the outcome of an examination of some unnamed
Buprestidae belonging to various Australian Museums and of Tenebrionidae and
Cistelidae sent by entomological friends. Two new genera are described and
some interesting new species from an interesting faunal region, Stanthorpe—a
granitic highland of South Queensland—sent by Messrs. F. A. Perkins and R.
Tllidge.
Further corrigenda to my “Revision of Stigmodera.”
S. (Castiarina) crenata Don. In my “Revision” I followed Castelnau and
Gory’s erroneous determination of this species, and again erred in my identification
of these authors’ S. plagiata with a species that I now consider to be undescribed.
A further confusion of names has been caused by the fact that, in the mono-
graph referred to, the species described in the text as sexplagiata is figured as
plagiata.
The only Castiarina that corresponds with Donovan’s figure (Epit. Ins. N.
Holl., f£. 3)—his description is useless—is amphichroa Boisd. Hence the follow-
ing corrections are necessary in my tabulation :— ;
No. 342. light bands of elytra red, apices widely lunate, external spine
long eaee. -. .. kershawi, n.sp-
No. 343. Light bands foul elses orange—laterally fiartnenne sree finely
lunate, shortly bispinose .. .. .. .. sexplagiata C. & G.
The synonymy (p. 87 of my Revision) elonil now read:
S. crenata Don. = amphichroa Boisd. = sexspilota C. & G. = sieboldi
C. & G.
S. cylindracea Saund. = bucolica Kerr. (The latter, a distinct species, was
erroneously placed as a synonym of amphichroa Boisd.).
S. sexplagiata C. & G. = plagiata C. & G. = crenata C. & G. (nee Don.)
= bicruciata Hope = hopei Boh. = similata Boh. = kreffti Macl. = variata Kerr.
(This is probably the commonest species in the genus and generally labelled
in collections S. crenata Don.).
S. erythromelas Boisd. In my tabulation, S. cyanipes Saund. and S.
erythromelas Boisd. should be interchanged, so that cyanipes should appear as
No. 304 and erythromelas as 305, with its synonyms armata Thoms. and longula
Blkb. The following is the deseription of the new species referred to above.
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STIGMODERA (CASTIARINA) KERSHAWI, n.sp.
Lightly obovate. Head greenish, mouéh blue, pronotum, and scutellum black
or blue-black, underside and legs blue; elytra brick red with a narrow basal band,
the suture, two fasciae and a quadrilateral apical spot blue-black, the premedial
fascia lunate, not extending to the sides, the postmedial fascia wider than the
former, widened at the suture and extending to the sides.
Head widely excavated between eyes, punctate. Prothorax lightly bisinuate
at apex, strongly so at base, sides well rounded, widest behind middle, all angles
a little produced, dise moderately convex, with round, well-defined punctures
(considerably larger and less dense than in sexplagiata C. & G.), medial channel
in general lightly indicated, frequently obsolete at middle. Hlytra wider than
prothorax, widest behind middle, sides lightly constricted behind humeral swell-
ing, apex with a moderately large semicircular lunation, the external spine rather
long, the sutural spine sub-obsolete, posterior margins minutely serrated: striate-
punctate, the interstices lightly convex and closely punctate, the 2nd and 4th
wider and more raised than the rest. Underside lightly punctate, very shortly
and sparsely pubescent. Dimensions: 10-12 x 4-4.5 mm.
Habitat.—Victoria: Warburton (Mr. J. E. Dixon and the author); N.S.
Wales: Mountain districts, Jenolan, ete.
Ten examples are now before me. This is the species (No. 342 of my
tabulation) erroneously determined as plagiata C. & G. which should be known
as sexplagiata. Though closely allied to this species, the following comparison
shows very clear separating characters, especially in the form and sculpture of
the pronotum, and the very different elytral apex.
Dedicated to Mr. J. Kershaw of the National Museum, Melbourne. Type in
Coll. Carter.
sexplagiata C. & G. kershawt, n.sp.
Colour
Pronotum. green or greenish-black. black or blue-black.
Underside. green-bronze. peacock-blue.
Elytra. ground colour orange, san- uniformly brick-red, premedial fascia
guineous at sides, premedial seldom (if ever) broken up into spots.
fascia often broken up into spots.
Structure
Eyes. closer. wider apart.
Pronotum. densely, finely and uni- punetures larger and not uniformly
formly punctate, gibbous, with placed, not gibbous, medial sulcus
deep, well-defined medial suleus. seldom clearly defined.
Elytra. apical lunation — small, apical lunation much larger, forming
formed by oblique excisions be- a semicireular excision, the exterior
tween ill-defined spines. spines well-defined.
BUPRESTIDAE.
Chalcotaenia quadri-impressa Waterh. = C. finitima Obenb.
An example of Obenberger’s species labelled “compared with type,” sent by
Mons. Théry, is indistinguishable from the well known C. 4-impressa Waterh.
Endelus subcornutus Kerremans. I have identified a specimen of this in the
Macleay Museum, labelled Cape York. It was described as from New Guinea,
and is the first recorded species of the genus from Australia.
BY H. J. CARTER. 523
Castalia bimaculata L. == Polycesta mastersi Macl. I have little doubt as to
the correctness of this synonymy which a comparison of Macleay’s type with the
figure of lLinnaeus’s species in Laporte and Gory’s Monograph, as also in
Saunders’s Revision (1868), substantiates. Macleay’s brief description of the
elytra of Polycesta mastersi is misleading “Elytra coarsely striato-punctate,”’
since the elytra have the alternate intervals carinate-costate, while the apices
are multispinose. No reference is made to the lightly marked “maculae,” seen
in some of the specimens, though often evanescent in old examples.
CASTALIA SCINTILLANS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 1.)
Hlongate, oblong, dull metallic reddish-brown above and below, including
legs and antennae.
Head scarcely, or feebly convex, eyes rather prominent; coarsely rugose
punctate, with elongate, raised, medial impression; antennae short, segments 5-11
very slightly and obtusely dentate. Prothorax convex, apex nearly straight
(lightly advanced at anterior angles), base bisinuate; sides rounded, hind angles
subrectangular; disc subconfluently alveolate-punctate, the edges of punctures
raised, the base of each with a brilliant metallic spot; medial sulcus distinct,
some reticulate rugosity at sides, extreme margins reflexed. Scutellum small,
rounded. EHlytra of same width as prothorax at base and more than thrice as
long; subparallel, widening at shoulders, margins faintly crenulate behind, apices
trispinose, the short teeth forming the terminals of the costae; alveolate-punctate,
the punctures more or less seriate and with metallic scintillation as on pronotum;
the alternate intervals forming slightly crenulate costae, the 2nd and 4th more
strongly raised than the rest; suture also raised; pro-, meso- and metasternum
coarsely punctate, abdomen with irregular elongate punctate impressions with
smooth interspaces, the first segment suleate. Dimensions: 14 x 5 mm.
Habitat.—Western Australia: Kellerberrin (W. Duboulay).
Two examples from the National Museum, Melbourne, though in outline and
convexity like Microcastahia globithorax Thoms., cannot, I think, be generically
separated from Castalia bimaculata L., from which it differs as follows :—colour
a lighter shade of bronze, without any sign of the dark fasciae sometimes seen
in bimaculata; in form, narrower, more elongate and depressed, the punctures
of pronotum much denser, the elytral costae wider and less clearly defined, apices
of elytra without the many small spines seen in bimaculata, while the scin-
tillating base of punctures is a noticeable character that extends to the femora.
From Microcastalia globithorax Thoms. (== Bubastodes sulcicollis Blackb.)
it differs in colour, in the much rougher sculpture, and the more pronounced
elytral costae, inter alia. Type in the National Museum, Melbourne.
Two examples of Castalia bimaculata L. are before me, a male from Blackall
(Q.) measuring 15 x 6 mm. and a female from the National Museum, from
Rockhampton, measuring 21 x 74 mm.
NEOBUPRESTIS ALBOSPARSA, n.sp. (Text-fig. 2.)
Hlongate-obiong, moderately flat; head and pronotum dull black with violet
reflections, elytra dull blue-black, with a few small white pubescent spots arranged
more or less in transverse lines, one on each interval near base, about 12 in a
premedial line, about 8 in each of two equally-spaced postmedial lines and about
8 close to apex, besides one or two of irregular position; underside glabrous,
524 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA: NOTES AND NEW SPECIES, iv.,
brilliantly metallic, dark green or blue, with the apical segment and margins of
sther segments of abdomen violet; antennae, legs and tarsi blue.
Head flat, rugose-punctate, with short sparse pubescence, feebly sulcate be-
tween the eyes, with a smooth medial carina in front; eyes large and prominent.
Prothorax slightly narrower than head; apex and base subtruncate, sides very
lightly arched and feebly converging to apex; deeply and widely suleate in
middle, anterior angles acute, posterior rectangular, dise rugose-punctate with
some large irregular depressions. Scutellwm small, circular, impressed in middle.
Elytra much wider than prothorax and three and one-third times as long; each with
1. Castalia scintillans. 2. Neobuprestis albosparsa.
3. Notobubastes costatus.
six well-marked costae (including the raised suture and marginal borders), be-
sides a short scutellary costa, the interspaces reticulate-punctate; the apices
multi-spinose, the spines small. Sternal area with large round punctures, abdomen
with longitudinal pear-shaped punctures, the first segment sulecate, the apical
segment bispinose, a pubescent spot at side of each segment. Hind tarsi with
basal joint as long as 2nd and 3rd combined. Dimensions: 13 x 54 mm.
Habitat—Cairns, N. Queensland (Allen).
A single male specimen in Mr. Lea’s collection is very like N. marmorata
Blackburn (of which a female from Victoria is before me) in form, but differs
markedly in (1) colour, the large yellow fasciate blotches of Blackburn’s species
being replaced by very small pubescent spots, (2) the intercostal spaces of
elytra more coarsely punctate, (3) underside more brilliant. Type in Coll. Lea.
There are also two examples in the Macleay Museum, one labelled Richmond
(presumably Richmond River, N.S.W.), the other labelled Victoria, in which
the pubescent spots are much abraded.
N.B.—Probably N. marmorata Blkb. and N. albosparsa should be generically
separated from NW. frenchi Blkb. and N. australis Blkb., the less prominent eyes,
the more sinuate apex of pronotum, the less elongate elytra with non-spinose
apices, the first abdominal segment not suleate in the case of the two last sug-
gesting differentiation, but with the scanty material available they may for the
present remain as in the “Genera Insectorum.”
PSEUDANILARA BICOLOR, N.sp.
Depressed, subparallel; head, antennae and prothorax indigo-blue, the last
with front margins violet; elytra coppery-brown, subnitid, underside and legs
violet.
BY H. J. CARTER. 525
Head densely and finely punctate, clothed with long whitish hair; eyes large,
prominent, converging behind; antennae with segment 1 as long as 2-3 combined,
3 longer than 2, subdentate; 4-11 triangular with short internal tooth. Prothorax
convex and transverse, bisinuate at apex and base, the former lightly produced
in middle and at angles, the latter widely lobate in middle and sub-faleate at
posterior angles; sides well rounded, widest near base, considerably narrower at
apex (here slightly narrower than head) than at base; all angles acute; dise
densely and strongly punctured, setose at sides and apex, without foveae or
medial line. Scutellum circular, moderately large. Hlytra rather wider than
prothorax at base, shoulders rounded; subparallel for the greater part, separately
rounded at apex, apices not quite covering abdomen, leaving an exposed coarsely
punctate pygidium; hind margins denticulate; dise densely and finely punctate
with some feebly indicated longitudinal impressions; underside rather densely
punctate with a short white pubescence. Dimensions: 7 x 2.5 mm.
Habitat.—Queensland, Bowen (A. Simson).
A single specimen from the South Australian Museum is a puzzling species
to classify. The wide head and strongly bisinuate base of pronotum give it a
strong likeness to Melanophila cupripes Macl., but the first two abdominal seg-
ments are soldered and the elytra do not quite cover the abdomen. P. roberti
Théry has the abdomen completely covered by the elytra, but I am doing less
violence to generic limits by placing it here than in Amilara, Melanophila or
Neocuris, the bisinuate base of pronotum placing it outside the first and the
soldered basal segments of abdomen outside the two latter. Type in §. Aus-
tralian Museum.
Pseudanilara roberti Théry.—I have determined 4 examples of this taken
near Sydney (two by myself and two by Mr. Erasmus Wilson). The type was
described from Victoria. A specimen in the Macleay Museum is labelled Port
Denison, Q’land. (Since writing the above I have received the type, very
courteously sent for examination by the author. This confirms my determination.
Further a comparison of this type with that of Anthaxia purpureicollis Macel.
fails to show any specific distinction, while Anthaxia nigra Macl. differs only
in its black surface and slightly smaller size. Thus Pseudanilara (Anthazia)
purpureicollis Macl. = P. roberti Théry, var. nigra Macel.
PSEUDANILARA OCCIDENTALIS, n.sp.
Oblong, abruptly attenuated behind; head and pronotum blue, suffused with
purple, the latter colour especially at sides and base of prothorax; elytra bluish-
green, legs and underside purple, abdomen here and there greenish.
Head wider than apex of prothorax, eyes subparallel, the inner margins
slightly converging to the vertex, surface punctate and pubescent. Prothorax:
apex feebly advanced in middle and at sides, base strongly bisinuate, sides
obliquely diverging from apex to near base, then abruptly and roundly narrowed,
hind angles acute and subfalcate; dise finely and densely alveolate-punctate, more
strongly at sides and base. Scutellwm minute and circular. Elytra clearly
narrower than base of prothorax, subparallel to near apex, apices separately
rounded, margins finely serrate for the greater part; a wide ridge following the
basal outline, accentuated by sulcate depression behind it, dise closely shagreened,
the sculpture (under a Zeiss binocular) shown to consist chiefly of fine trans-
verse ridges. The suture between the Ist and 2nd abdominal segments almost
526 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA: NOTES AND NEW SPECIES, 1V.,
invisible; basal margin of metasternum with four short spines, two on each side
at the angles; prosternum with fine, dense punctures, abdomen subglabrous and
nitid, with uneven shallow punctures. Dimensions: 7 x 3 mm.
Habitat.—Western Australia (South Australian Museum).
A single example ean be readily distinguished, apart from colour, by the
subfalcate basal angles of the pronotum, the elytral basal ridge, and the spinose
metasternum. Type in South Australian Museum.
Neotorresita—This genus has recently been published by Dr. Obenberger
(Sbornik Ent. Mus. Prague, 1923, p. 19) for the reception of a species that is
clearly identical with that much deseribed species Melanophila (Anthaxia) cupripes
Mael., referred to by me (Ent. Soc. Lond., 1923, p. 104). Since then I have
been able to study the palaearctic genus Melanophila and am now satisfied that
the above species is a Pseudanilara. Dr. Obenberger also gives six characters in
which his genus differs from Melanophila. The following synonymy thus shows
an insect that has been referred to six different genera: Pseudanilara (Anthaxia)
cupripes Macl. == Melanophila (Melobasis) laticeps Kerr. = M. australasiae
Kerr. = Neocuris dilaticollis Blkb. = Neotorresita achardi Obenb.
NOTOBUBASTES COSTATUS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 3.)
Elongate ovate, convex; dark violet-bronze, subnitid; head and underside
with short pubescence.
Head convex in front, a longitudinal carina between eyes, surface coarsely
rugose-punctate; eyes prominent, making head slightly wider than base of pro-
thorax, their inner margins not quite parallel. Prothorax convex, apex truncate,
base bisinuate, anterior angles obtuse, sides evenly rounded, scarcely sinuate
before the acute posterior angles, the lateral carina ill-defined, not visible from
above; medial suleus deep, not quite reaching apex; surface coarsely and rather
unevenly punctate, the lateral half coarsely rugose. Scutellwm small, transversely
oval, depressed in middle. Hlytra wider than prothorax at base, shoulders
widely rounded, sides attenuate from middle; apices dehiscent, each shortly but
sharply trispmose, the sutural and subsutural spines rather close, enclosing a
lunate excision, the lateral spine separated from the second by a sinuate margin,
margins entire, each elytron with four well-defined costae, these roundly convex;
becoming narrowly carinate at apex; besides a short seutellary costa and the raised
suture, the costae sparsely, the intervals strongly punctate; the punctures in the
basal area forming ecrenulations on the sides of the widened costae. Sternal re-
gions, especially the prosternum, densely rugose-punctate, abdomen coarse and
(except the anal segment) sparsely punctate, the latter rather squarely rounded
behind and densely punctate. Dimensions: 12 x 4 mm.
Habitat—Western Australia: Kookynie (French Coll. in National Museum,
Melbourne).
A single female specimen is the only example I have seen of this distinet
species. While generically inseparable from my other three species, it is clearly
differentiated by outline and elytral sculpture. Type in Melbourne Museum.
Bubastes—Dr. Jan Obenberger has published recently a Revision of the
genus (Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr., 1920, pp. 89-108) and has very courteously supplied
me with a copy. Having lately examined a very large number of specimens
from the chief museums of Australia with this “Revision” before me, the re-
sulting notes here recorded may interest students of Australian Buprestidae.
Obenberger proposes the name Bubastini to include in a group the genera
Bubastes C. & G., Euryspilus Lec., Neraldus Théry, Neurybia Théry and Para-
BY H. J. CARTER, 527
tassa Mars. (the last found in Africa and unknown to me). I cannot recognize
Neraldus as distinct from Bubastes. A cotype of N. bostrychoides Théry, kindly
sent me by the author, only differs from typical Bubastes in the less prominent
eyes. Obenberger tabulates Neraldus “d’aprés leur description” as follows :—
“Yeux plus petits, non saillants, réniformes, éloignés du prothorax. La caréne
latérale du prothorax manque presque complétement. La marge antérieure du
prothorax est échancrée.”
Of these four characters the first two are true only in degree. Other
Bubastes, e.g., achardi Obenb. and cylindrica Macl., approach it as to the small
and less salient eyes. The character “éloignés du prothorax’ depends somewhat
on the position of the head when set. As regards the lateral carina, my example
has a defined carina for about halfway from the base, a character shared by
B. globicollis Thoms., while I cannot find a trace of the fourth character (pro-
thorax échaneré). Moreover, I think Obenberger has redescribed N. bostrychoides
as Bubastes olivinus.
In his characterization of the group Bubastini there is one notable mistake,
the last sentence being “Le sommet des élytres n’est jamais denté en scie latér-
alement.” As a matter of fact every Bubastes examined has the hind margins
serrated more or less finely. Euryspilus and Neurybia have minute crenulations.
On the same page he says “Le genre Bubastes . . . . est jusqu’A présent
assez mal représenté dans les collections et ses espéces semblent etre relativement
rares.”’ This is not the case in Australian collections. In Western Australia
some species are very common. I have before me now about 150 examples of the
genus, including 35 laticollis Blackb., 30 inconsistans Thoms., 24 bostrychoides
ete:
Of the specific characters used by Obenberger, I am unable to follow him
in his division into two groups, the one distinguished by “le front bombé,” the
other by “le front creusé au milieu par une large impression.” Belonging to
the first group he states that cylindrica, olivinus, inconsistans and sphenoidea
“ont la tete bombée, absolument sans impression marquée.”’ I have before me
cylindrica (compared with type), inconsistans Thoms. (— inconstans Blackb.,
compared with type), sphenoidea, also the types of occidentalis and splendens of
Blackburn, and cotypes of laticollis. In no single case can the head be said to
be “without an impression,” though it is often confined to a small suleus at the
base of the head, and while some species (e.g., bostrychoides and sphenoidea)
have the front more clearly “bombée” than others, it is only a question of de-
gree, and amongst a series of bostrychoides and inconsistans I find examples in
which the front might be termed “creusée,” the difference being in some eases
sexual. The genus is difficult to classify owing to the great variability of the
common species in size and colour.
As to colour, see Blackburn’s description of B. inconstans (later considered
by him as a synonym of inconsistans Thoms.). Blackburn omitted both dimen-
sions and locality for inconstans and laticollis. I have both species varying from
11 x 33 mm. to 22 x 8 mm., the larger examples being female. The former I
have from N.W. Victoria and South Australia, the latter from Kalgoorlie, Gerald-
ton and other parts of Western Australia. Bubastodes sulcicollis Blackb. and
Neobubastes aureocincta Blackb. should be clearly separated from Bubastes, the
former being synonymous with Microcastalia globithorax Thoms., as suggested by
Kerremans (Gen. Ins.), the latter being erroneously merged with Bubastes by
Kerremans.
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The following is my view of the described species of Bubastes, with synonymy
and localities :—
1. sphenoidea C. & G. Cunnamulla, Queensland. |
2. inconsistans Thoms. = inconstans Blackb. = ? australasiae Obenb. N.W.
Victoria and Quorn, 8.A.
globicollis Thoms. = ? simillima Obenb. Nyngan, N.S.W., and Queensland.
cylindrica Macl. Geraldton, and King Sound, W.A.
laticollis Blackb. Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Mullewa, W.A.
vagans Blackb. N.W. Victoria and $.A.
splendens Blackb. = persplendens Obenb. ‘Tennents’ Creek, Fitzroy River.
occidentalis Blackb. Eucla, S.A. and W.A.
suturalis Cart. = strandi Obenb. Drysdale River, and Cue, N.W.A.
10. formosa Cart. Cue, W.A.
11. bostrychoides (Neraidus) Théry — olivinus Obenb. Perth, Beverley, W.A.
12. achardi Obenb. Cobar, N.S.W., Cooktown, Q’land.
13. niveiventris Obenb. Cooktown, Rockhampton, Q’land.
14. obscura Obenb. Kuranda, Q’land.
15. aenea Obenb. N. Q’land.
16. viridicuprea Obenb. N. Q’land.
17. lea, nsp. W.A.
There is little doubt of the synonymy of splendens and persplendens. There
is some blunder in Blackburn’s dimensions, given as 7 x 2 lines. The type from
the National Museum, before me, measures 184 x 54 mm., which is almost exactly
that of persplendens from the same district, while Obenberger’s description of
the latter accurately fits Blackburn’s type, except that the elytra are greenish-
blue instead of emerald-green, as the head and pronotum.
Since writing the above I have received a copy of Dr. Obenberger’s paper
(Arch. fur Naturg., 1922, pp. 64-168) in which he describes six new species of
Bubastes, besides a so-called subspecies (which I take to be synonymous with
variety). As elsewhere it seems that this author does not make sufficient allow-
ance for variation. Thus B. simillima Obenb. does not, I think, warrant separa-
tion from globicollis Thoms., in which the eyes—according to 8 examples before
me—are in no case so prominent laterally as in the outline figure given on p.
106 of Obenberger’s Revision. Again B. australasiae Obenb. is only, I consider,
a form of inconsistans Thoms. Of the remaining four I think I have identified
P. niveiventris in specimens in the Macleay Museum from Cooktown and Rock-
hampton, and P. obscura in an example from Kuranda sent by Monsieur Théry
for determination. P. aenea and P. viridicuprea I cannot identify at present.
Both must be rather close to occidentalis Blackb. The evident synonymy of B.
strandi Obenb. with B. suturalis Cart. and of B. persplendens Obenb. with
splendens Blackb. 1s unnoticed.
SS 2 eS) Carns eo
BUBASTES LEAT, n.sp.
Elongate, subcylindric, finely attenuate behind; head and pronotum green (in
one example bluish-green), moderately nitid, elytra golden-green or coppery,
underside brilliantly coppery-green, apical segment violaceous; legs coppery, an-
tennae coppery at base, the rest obscure greenish.
Head (seen from above) convex in two examples, feebly concave in a third,
clearly channelled near base of forehead, eyes not prominent (less so in 6 than
in 2, their inner margins subparallel, interspace about the width of the lateral
BY H. J. CARTER, 529
diameter of one eye; densely covered with round deep punctures. Prothorax:
apex and base bisinuate, the former rather strongly produced in middle, widest
near front, sides gently widening from base to apical third, then rounded and
narrowed to apex, posterior angles acute; punctures as on head, scarcely con-
tiguous in middle, alveolate at sides. Scutellwm subcircular, laevigate. Hlytra
subconic, apices obliquely bispinose; with densely crowded rows of punctures, the
intervals nearly flat and themselves closely punctate except near base. Pro-
sternum coarsely punctate, mesosternum transversely rugose, metasternum and
abdomen closely and finely punctate; underside without pubescence. Dimensions:
13.5-15 x 4.3-4.6 mm.
Habitat. Western Australia (South Australian and Macleay Museums).
Three examples examined differ slightly in the colour of the upper surface.
What I believe to be the male has the eyes less prominent, the elytral intervals
feebly convex with the usual abdominal sexual character (the last segment shorter
than elytra and truncate at apex). Only three described species have a bright
metallic green or coppery underside, viz., splendens Blkb., occidentalis Blkb., and
suturalis Cart. B. leat is readily distinguished from these by the much more
densely punctate head and pronotum and its duller upper surface. In its sur-
face sculpture and general form it is nearest B. bostrychoides Théry (= B.
olivinus Obenb.). It is not very near the other bicoloured species B. vagans
Blkb., which has its pronotum less densely punctate, the elytra purple and the
underside obscure green. Type in South Australian Museum.
N.B.—B. splendens Blkb. and B. occidentalis Blkb. The types of these two
species are before me. While closely allied I consider them distinct; the former
differs not only in the colour of elytra (blue-green in splendens, golden-green
in occidentalis), but in their apical structure and especially in the punctures of
the underside, which in splendens are unusually fine and sparse, in occidentalis
strong and close.
KURYSPILUS VIRIDIS, n.sp.
Narrowly eylindric; metallic green throughout.
Head: front depressed and finely canaliculate between the eyes, these rather
prominent; finely and densely punctate, antennal joints dentate from the 6th
outwards. Prothorax cylindric, apex and base subtruncate, sides very slightly
converging in a straight line from base to apex, disc finely punctate, showing a
slight transverse striolation; medial impression clearly defined throughout except
near apex, widened at base. Scutellum round, impressed at middle. Hlytra of
same width as prothorax at base, apices feebly bidentate; apical margins minutely
serrate, each with the suture and four costae sharply raised, both costae and
intervals finely punctate; underside coarsely punctate. Dimensions: 9 x 2.2 mm.
Habitat.—Western Australia: Swan River.
A single male example in the Macleay Museum closely resembles H. chal-
codes C. & G. in form and sculpture. It may be distinguished, however, not
only by colour, but by the finer sculpture of its upper surface and the less
deeply incised dentation of the apices. The underside is, if anything, more
coarsely punctate than in EF. chaleodes. Type in the Macleay Museum.
Euryspilus australis Blackb.—I have, I think, identified this in several col-
lections (including my own). If this determination is correct Blackburn was
mistaken in stating the antennae to be dentate from the 5th joint. A specimen
now before me from King George’s Sound is clearly dentate only from the 6th oa aS
—
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joint as in EL. chaleodes and E. viridis. E. australis Blkb. is quite distinct from
E. chaleodes, of which I expressed a doubt in a former paper (These Proe., 1924,
p. 23).
CURIS OBSCURA, N.sp.
Hlongate, sharply attenuated behind; upper surface, abdomen and antennae
obscure purplish-brown, sterna and undersides of femora dark metallic green.
Head deeply impressed, finely and closely punctate. Prothorax: apex and
base bisinuate, the former rather strongly produced at middle, anterior angles
acute, posterior rectangular, sides moderately rounded at middle, dise with wide
oval depression at middle near base and another near each side, a feeble medial
carina throughout, surface very finely punctate, except at sides and medial de-
pression, where punctures more obvious. Scutellum subcireular, impunctate.
Elytra lightly enlarged at shoulders, subparallel to beyond half-way, thence taper-
ing to apex, apices rather sharply and separately rounded, not quite covering
abdomen, hind margins finely serrated; disc finely seriate-punctate, each with
three feeble costae, the first (nearest suture) most obvious; underside closely and
finely punctate, abdomen rather thickly clad—especially at sides—with long re-
cumbent hair, the first segment showing greenish metallic gleams, apical segment
with two tubercles rather than spines at extremity. Dimensions: 10 x 3 (+)
mm.
Habitat—South Australia (?): Monarto (?) (Tepper).
A single male specimen with an indistinct locality label is in the South
Australian Museum. It is clearly distinct from other described species, not
only by its absence of metallic lustre on the upper surface, but also by its
combination of finely punctured surface with sharply attenuated apex, and
scarcely spinose abdomen. Type in South Australian Museum.
CURIS YALGOENSIS, n.sp.
Elongate, oblong; head and pronotum olive-green or bluish, the latter with
some golden gleams here and there, elytra dark blue, the base, suture and shortly
at sides golden-green—becoming coppery at its junction with the darker ground-
colour—the metallic colour on suture widening behind middle and terminating
before the apex; the exposed pygidium, underside, legs and antennae blue, the
underside brilliantly nitid.
Head widely and deeply excavated. Prothoraz: apex nearly straight in
middle, acutely produced at angles, base rather strongly bisinuate, posterior
angles also acute and produced, sides well rounded, greatest width rather behind
middle, rather suddenly sinuate near posterior angles; dise subalveolate-punctate,
the punctures smaller and shallower near middle, larger, deeper and denser
towards sides, a smooth medial line faintly indicated, a feeble shallow depression
at middle near base. Seutellum green, circular, depressed in middle. Elytra
rather strongly widened at shoulders, a little compressed at middle, again widen-
ing before the apical convergence, each apex separately and widely rounded (sub-
truncate), the margins of apical third strongly serrated, a considerable area of
pygidium exposed, this strongly punctate, each elytron with three distinct costae,
outlined by rows of rather small, round punctures, the intervals between these
rows irregularly punctate, the punctures on metallic sutural area small, those
near sides coarse, with rugose margins. Sternal area closely and strongly,
abdomen very finely, punctate, margins of segments—especially near sides—with
BY H. J. CARTER. 531
pale, recumbent hair; apical segment bispinose at extremity; posterior tibiae
widely expanded and flattened. Dimensions: 15-16 x 5-53 mm.
Habitat—Western Australia: Yalgoo (H. W. Brown).
A fine species, the elytra superficially resembling those of the eastern species
C. aurifera C. & G. in colour and somewhat in sculpture, the punctures being a
little finer and the apices less pointed, while in awrifera the golden suture is of
uniform width and extended to apex. The pronotum is, however, very. different
in its absence of coloured vittae, bright margins and lateral foveae, with closer
and stronger punctures. The prosternum is less closely punctate than in
aurifera and the expanded hind tibiae are unlike those of any other species
known to me. Type in Coll. Carter.
Curis splendens Macl.—tIn his “Synopsis” (1877) Fairmaire described an-
other species under the above name that is readily recognizable and distinct from
Macleay’s species. Dr. Obenberger has. recently published (Sbornik Entom.,
1923, p. 22) a special genus Neocuropsis for the reception of what he supposed
to be C. splendens Macl., but his description and tabulation clearly indicate a
reference to C. splendens Fairm. (nec Macl.). I propose the name fairmaires
for Fairmaire’s species.
Of the special characters by which Obenberger distinguishes Neocuropsis
from Curis, the non-serrate hind margins of elytra seem the most important,
though of doubtful generic value. (Both entire and serrate margins occur in
the neighbouring genus Castiarina). The elytra shorter than the abdomen is
more or less true of the females of all the species, while the longer first joint
of the post tarsi is of specific force only. I think, therefore, that the genus
Neocuropsis is superfluous. Both of the above species have short elytra with
their apices obliquely truncate; both have a fairly wide distribution in Queens-
land. The following comparison will help the student to distinguish them.
Both are represented in the Macleay Museum and were known to the late Mr.
G. Masters.
Curis fairmairet (nov. nom.) C. splendens Mael.
= splendens Fairm. (nec Macl.)
Hind margins of elytra. non-serrate. serrate.
Pronotum. medial impression deep, medial impression moderate, sides
sides concolorous with dise or green- widely coppery, punctures fine.
ish, punctures strongly defined.
Elytra. sides concolorous with dise sides coppery or golden green.
(rarely with apical margin metallic).
punctures very coarse, costae well punctures fine, costae moderately
raised. raised,
Underside. “violaceo-cyaneo.”’ “oolden green.’
NEOCURIS AURO-IMPRESSA, n.Sp.
Above peacock-blue, the sides of pronotum green, the elytra with im-
pressions containing golden flocculence, underside nitid greenish-blue.
Head strongly, not densely punctate. Prothorax: apex and base bisinuate,
the latter more strongly than the former, anterior angles well produced forward
and acute; sides widely rounded, widest behind middle thence converging each
way, posterior angles obtuse; dise finely punctate with large medio-basal fovea.
Scutellum small, transverse. Hlytra wider than prothorax at base, separately
rounded at apex and shorter than abdomen, a considerable area of each occupied
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by four gilded impressions, the first triangular at base, between the humeral
swelling and the scutellum, the second round, premedial, near suture, the third
elongate ovate, postmedial, also near suture, the fourth elongate near sides, ex-
terior to the third, the surface minutely punctate, the punctures becoming coarser
at sides; underside strongly punctate. Dimensions: 5 x 2 mm.
Habitat.— Queensland, Wide Bay.
A unique example in the Australian Museum, Sydney, bears a locality label
in the handwriting of the late G. Masters. The apex of one elytron is mutilated
through bad pinning. A species of unusual distinctness. Type, K 32268 in the
Australian Museum.
NEOCURIS LIVIDA, n.sp.
Widely oblong, oval; above subnitid blue-black, mouth blue; beneath brillant
peacock blue-green, appendages blue.
Head with a feeble frontal impression and a short suleus on vertex; evenly,
closely and finely punctate, eyes widely separated and parallel as to their inner
margins. Prothorax rather convex, apex lightly arcuate, base bisinuate, widest
at base, thence arcuately converging to apex, anterior angles obtuse, posterior
subrectangular (about 80°); rather unevenly and distinctly punctate, the punc-
tures larger and more distant near middle and base, elsewhere smaller and closer;
without medial line or foveae. Scutellwm circular, depressed in middle. Elytra
oblong-oval, scarcely compressed at middle, apices separately rounded, leaving a
considerable portion of the dorsal body exposed; closely scalose-punctate,
wrinkled near middle and sides, a foveate depression near shoulders. Underside
mirror-like, very finely punctate and entirely glabrous. Dimensions: 7.5 x 4
mm.
Habitat—Western Australia: Perth (Mr. Duboulay), in Melbourne Museum.
A single female example is nearest N. monochroma Fairm., which, however,
is more brightly coloured and has the elytra “obsoletissime costulatis” and the
sides of prothorax “postico leviter sinuato.’ Type in the National Museum,
Melbourne.
NEOCURIS SAPPHIRA, n.Sp.
Shortly ovate; the whole surface a concolorous rich blue (in certain lights
with a violet gleam), legs violaceous.
Head rather strongly concave, deeply and closely punctate, eyes with interior
margins parallel, slightly more prominent in the 6 than in the ¢. Prothorax
very transverse, apex nearly straight, base bisinuate, sides evenly, arcuately
narrowed from base to apex, all angles a little produced and acute; dise without
medial line or foveae, rather evenly covered with moderately large and shallow
punctures. Scutellum very small. EHlytra of same width as prothorax at base,
scarcely compressed at middle, apices separately rounded, nearly covering
abdomen; pro- and metasternum strongly and densely, abdomen finely punctate
and glabrous. Dimensions: 44-54 x 2-24 mm.
Habitat—Western Australia: Geraldton (A. M. Lea), in Melbourne Museum.
Two examples are, I consider, sexes of the same species, the male being the
smaller, with Mr. Lea’s label, the other example is merely labelled W.A. The
nearest described species is viridi-micans Fairm., which, besides colour differ-
ence, is a more elongate species, the head and prothorax narrower. Type in
National Museum, Melbourne.
BY H. J. CARTER. 533
Notes on Stigmodera described by Dr. Obenberger.
In Archiv. f. Naturg., 1922, p. 111-123, Dr. Obenberger has described
twenty-one new species of Stigmodera, together with twelve named varieties or
subspecies. As with Bubastes the author presumably distinguishes between “sub-
species” and “variety,” a distinction as difficult to maintain as it is undesirable
in this connection. In so protean a genus as Stigmodera the naming of varieties
could be carried out ad nauseam, but should only be done in those rare cases
where there is a possibility of specific distinction or a clear local race is :ndicated,
Of his varieties I note the following :—
S. (Themognatha) suturalis var. tincticollis Obenb. = ? S. lessoni C. & G.
S. (Castiarina) leai var. fasciosa Obenb. = 8. dimidiata Cart. (vide These Proe.,
IMG), ods disks}; disk).
S. sexguttata var. humeriguttata Obenb. = 8S. puella Saund.
S. wilsoni subsp. septentrionis Obenb. = ? S. flavopurpurea Cart.
8S. brutella subsp. victriz Obenb. = ? 8. uniformis Kerr.
Most of the other varieties are well known pattern divergences from the
normal—e.g. The wide variations of S. caroli Blkb. (= capucina Blkb.) were
recorded in the original description. Of the 21 new species I regard ten as
certain and five others as probable synonyms as follows:—
1. S. (Themognatha) queenslandica Obenb. = S. parryi Hope.
2. S. (Themognatha) desperata Obenb.. = S. excisicollis Macl.
3. S. (Themognatha) nickerli Obenb. = 8. (Castiarina) maculiventris Macl.
4. S. (Themognatha) strandi Obenb. = S. (Castiarina) maculiventris Macl.
5. SS. (Castiarina) bizonata Obenb. = S. (Castiarina) secularis Thoms.
6. S. (Castiarina) saundersiana Obenb. — S. (Castiarina) campestris Blkb.
7. S. (Castiarina) cirewmfleza Obenb. = S. (Castiarina) flavosignata Macel.
8. S. (Castiarina) opacula Obenb. = S. (Castiarina) carinata Macl.
9. S. (Castiarina) modesta Obenb. = 8. (Castiarina) venusta Cart.
10. S. (Castiarina) carteri Obenb. = 8S. (Castiarina) sexguttata Macl. var.
11. S. (Castiarina) bifasciatella Obenb. = ? 8. (Castiarina) marginicollis Saund.
12. S. (Castiarina) obliquefasciata Obenb. = ? S. (Castiarina) cupreo-flava
Saund.
13. S. (Castiarina) crucioides Obenb. = ? S. (Castiarina) cyanicollis Boisd.
14. 8. (Castiarina) dicax Obenb. = ? 8. (Castiarina) mastersi Macl.
15. S. (Castiarina) guttifera Obenb. = ? S. (Castiarina) delicatula Kerr. var. or
tropica Cart. ;
Re (1) my note (p. 88 of my Revision) states my reason for considering
parvicollis Saund. as a synonym of parryi Hope, so that the author’s words “in
der mitte zwischen parvicollis und parryi” explains the above. (2). Nothing in
the description shows distinction from Macleay’s species. (3) and (4). Both
named amicta by Kerremans (in litt.). In my Revision (p. 81) I stated that
the very variably patterned maculiventris Macl.—the largest of the Castiarina
subgenus—had been wrongly placed under Themognatha by WKerremans, a mis-
take apparently repeated here. (5-10). I have little doubt of these cases. (5).
The habitat given is Nordaustralien (sie) Perth.
There is a specimen of S. carinata Macl. in my collection, labelled opacula
Kerr., purchased with others in 1912 from a German dealer. Dr. Obenberger
appears to have accepted a number of Kerremans’ manuseript names without
due investigation. No figures are supplied, and in twelve eases no comparison is
made between the described species and any of its allies, while nuportant charac-
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ters like the presence or absence of serrated hind margins to the elytra are
omitted.
By way of “amende honorable” I must confess that the two species of Briseis
described (Ent. Soc. Lond., 1923, pp. 101-102) by me are probably synonyms as
follows :—
Briseis smaragdifrons Obenb. = ? B. cuprea Cart.
B. prolongata Obenb. = ? B. elongata Cart.
The German publication, Archiv. fur. Naturgeschichte, was published in De-
cember, 1922. My paper, “Melobasis with Notes on Allied Genera,” was read
15th November, 1922, but not published till August, 1923.
STIGMODERA (CASTIARINA) THERYI, n.sp. (Text-fig. 4.)
Oblong-ovate, attenuated behind; the greater part of surface above and be-
low red; head, seutellum, medial area of pronotum, a narrow basal band and apex
of elytra, and (sometimes) middle of prosternum black; antennae and tibiae
greenish, femora blue-black.
Head excavate and channelled between the eyes. Prothorax:
apex and base bisinuate, the former rather prominently advanced
in the middle and at the acute anterior angles, the latter with a
wide medial lobe; sides well rounded, widest at middle, thence
strongly converging to the front, with a feeble anterior sinuation,
arcuately converging behind, the posterior angles also produced and
acute, closely adapted to the elytra; disc rather coarsely punctate,
the punctures more sparse at middle, dense towards sides, a smooth
medial line on basal half terminated in a rather undefined fovea;
the medial black area vaguely merging into the wider red parts.
Scutellum prominent, semicircular, depressed in middle. Elytra
lightly widened at shoulders, feebly compressed at middle, margins
entire throughout, apices with a wide oval lunation between two
robust exterior teeth, the apical black area small and indefinitely
2 merging into the red; striate-punctate, the seriate punctures only
Text-fig. 4. seen as crenulations on the sides of the intervals, these everywhere
convex and punctate, in parts transversely wrinkled. Underside finely and
closely punctate and glabrous. Dimensions: 616 x6 mm. 2 17-20 x 6.5-8 mm.
Habitat—New South Wales: Enfield (Ramsay), Ropes Creek and Clarence
River (Masters), Blue Mts. (Melbourne Museum).
Its nearest ally, S. analis Saund., is clearly separated by the following
characters:—(1) more oblong, less attenuate, form, (2) elytral apices rounded,
apical margins serrated, (3) prothorax more laterally widened, (4) all dark
areas metallic, underside (except 3 apical segments partly red) brilliant dark
blue.
In S. théryi the medial parts of the sternum are sometimes black, while the
dark area of pronotum is vaguely defined, red gleams showing on the dark area.
I find the species erroneously labelled analis Saund., in the Macleay Museum, and
jucunda Saund., in the Australian Museum. Eight examples are before me. My
example of S. analis Saund. is from N. Queensland, taken by Mr. Hacker. Types
in Australian Museum.
*4. Stigmodera théryt.
BY H. J. CARTER. 535
PARACEPHALA VITTICEPS, U.Sp.
Widely subeylindric, attenuated in front; coppery bronze, underside and
lateral depressions on head and pronotum thickly silvery pubescent, elsewhere
sparsely so.
Head as wide at eyes as apex of prothorax; finely punctate, medial channel
deeply impressed, a wide lateral impression extending from interior of eye to
the base of head, filled with pubescence. Prothorax: apex nearly straight (slightly
produced at angles), base strongly bisinuate, posterior angles subrectangular,
sides lightly rounded, widest behind middle, disc minutely shagreened (finely
pustulose as seen under strong lens) with wide and irregular medial sulcus (a
narrower suleus on apical half received into a wider suleus behind), slghtly
depressed and pubescent at sides. Scutellum triangular. Hlytra minutely pus-
tulose or shagreened, a feeble costa on each, extending from humeral callus to
apex; underside more brightly coppery than above, densely punctate and flocculent
pubescent. Dimensions: 5. 8 x 3 (vix) mm. &. 10 x 3.6 mm.
Habitat—Western Australia: Perth (H. M. Giles).
A pair sent me long ago by Mr. Henry Giles, may be readily distinguished
from the other large species P. thoracica (Kerr.) by the pubescent vittate de-
pressions on the head and differently shaped prothorax, Kerremans’s species
being widest near apex with an embossed (‘“bossué”) surface. Type in Coll.
Carter. .
(In the ¢ the apical segment of abdomen is shortly rounded, in the @ that
segment is more extended with a sinuate outline).
AGRILUS MACLEAYI, n.sp.
Head and legs green, pronotum coppery purple, elytra violaceous, underside
golden, antennae blue; sub-glabrous and nitid.
Head impressed between eyes, punctate, with longitudinal strioles on vertex.
Prothorax widest in front, thence converging and nearly straight to base, the
anterior angles lightly, the posterior strongly produced and acute; base strongly
sinuate, the medial lobe subtruncate; lateral carinae widely divergent behind, the
inferior carina nearly straight; dise strongly transversely striolate. Scutellum
triangular, its base very transverse. Hlytra deeply impressed at basal lobes,
apices separately rounded and sharply serrated; surface shagreened, at the base
and sides transversely strigose, apical half with short sparse light-coloured hairs.
Underside finely punctate and glabrous. Dimensions: 4 x 1 mm.
Habitat— Queensland: Cairns.
A minute species not very near anv described species—unique in the Macleay
Museum.
Agrilus—Dr. Obenberger has lately described seven species and two sub-
species of Australian Agrili (Sbornik Entom. Nat. Mus. Prague, 1923). Of
these I cannot but consider four (raphelisi, van diemeni, domint and danesi) as
well as the so-called subspecies (cooki and tasmanicus) as merely variations of
the common and widely distributed A. australasiae C. & G., the complicated
synonymy of which I recorded recently. The presence or absence (partial or
entire through abrasion) of the sutural and lateral pubescence, together with
vther colour differences noted by Obenberger are not, I consider, specifie dis-
tinetions, while the variations in the thoracic carinae and gular tooth are of
doubtful value. This doubt as to the validity of the distinctions noted in his
tabulation is intensified by the inclusion therein of A. hypoleucus Sd. (?), A.
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australasiae C. & G. and A. flavo-taeniatus Thoms., as distinct species, with dis-
tinguishing characters not to be found in the original descriptions of these
species. If Dr. Obenberger has examined the types of these species his informa-
tion would be valued, otherwise his determinations are open to question. Of the
remaining three species deseribed, A. kwrandae must be very near A. mitidus
Kerr.; though no comparison is mentioned, A. korenskyi may be the species IT
described as semiviridis, but the description of korenskyi is lacking in many
details. A. walesicus is probably the species I mentioned as being near A.
nigritus Kerr. from Banguey.
APHANISTICUS BLACKBURNI, 0.Sp.
Wholly black, elongate, subeylindrie.
Head deeply cleft and bilobed, with a double system of punctures, the larger
round and sparse, the whole surface shagreenate-punctate. | Antennae sub-
clavate, the last 4 segments dentate. Prothorax: apex slightly produced in middle,
more so at the sharply acute angles, base strongly bismuate, posterior angles
rectangular, sides nearly straight (feebly widened on front half), with rather
widely horizontal foliate margins, widened at base to meet the flattened basal
sides of disc; surface of disc uneven, a wide medial transverse ridge separating
a wide apical and a narrower prebasal depression, the whole surface (as on
head) with a dense minute system of punctures overlaid with large shallow
ocellate punctures sparsely and unevenly placed. Scutellum large, triangular,
depressed. Elytra of same width as prothorax at base, parallel on basal half,
thence rather strongly widened before the apex, the latter rather widely and
separately rounded, posterior sides entire; seriate-punctate, the seriate punctures
coarse and round, the intervals covered with minute punctures as on head and
pronotum. Underside minutely punctate, the femora—especially the front—
widely laminate. Dimensions: 3 x 1 (vix) mm.
Habitat.—Australia (Blackburn Coll. in South Australian Museum).
A single specimen, sent with other Buprestidae for determination, clearly
differs from A. browni Cart. and A. endeloides Cart.—the only other Australian
species with bilobed head. Both of these have the prothorax much more widely
rounded, with very differently sculptured elytra. Type in South Australian
Museum.
TENEBRIONIDAKE.
ENDOTHINA, n. gen. Opatrinorum.
Body oval, convex, thickly clothed with scales (as in Ulodes verrucosus
Erich.).
Head trapeziform, short and wide, widest at eyes, deeply sunk in prothorax,
eyes large, transverse, prominent, coarsely faceted, antennal orbits not pro-
minent, antennae little longer than head, Ist joint stout, cylindric, longer than
succeeding, 2nd cup-shaped, 3rd longer than 4th, 3rd-7th closely adjusted, wider
than long, 8th-10th strongly transverse forming a distinct club, 11th much
smaller than 10th and partly received within it; palpi with apical joints subu-
late, mentum transverse, obscured by seales, epistoma narrow, sub-truneate with-
out visible suture; anterior coxae globcse, rather widely separated. Prothorax
strongly transverse, widely emarginate at the anterior angles, sides and base
fringed with stout whitish cilia, dise irregular; sides slightly depressed, sub-
foliate. Scutellwm transversely oval. Elytra closely adjusted to prothorax and
BY H. J. CARTER. . 537
of same width at base, moderately convex; seriate punctate. Legs shortish, pro-
tibiae stout, much enlarged at apex, outer edge undulately subdentate, inner
margin with a few spines; mid and hind tibiae serrated on outside edge, tarsi
(especially claws) short. Prosternum rather flat, scarcely produced behind
coxae, post-intercoxal process semicircular.
A very distinct genus, suggestive of Gonocephalum in general structure, of
Ulodes verrucosus Er. in the scaly clothing, and of Phaennis fasciculata in ity
mottled coloration.
ENDOTHINA SQUAMOSA, n.Sp.
Oblong ovate; above tawny-brown variegated with white, beneath and on
legs the white scales predominating; antennae also clothed with small white
seales.
Head rather flat, surface uneven and coarsely squamose, a thin, shining,
interrupted carina at middle, a deep foveate depression on each side of this be-
tween the eyes, some longer scaly cilia on vertex. Prothorax: apex slightly
produced in middle, strongly so at the widely rounded angles; widest in front
of middle, wider at base than at apex, sides well rounded, slightly sinuate
before the acute posterior angles, the slight dentation accentuated by a cluster
of spiny cilia protruding therefrom; base strongly bisinuate, lateral flanges
subfoliate, a separating depression strongly marked at base, more feebly in
front; dise uneven, with four depressions, the largest triangular, extending from
near middle to apex, the second, also medial, near base, and two discal, one on
each side, rather behind middle; the white scales forming a rough cross on dise,
besides largely shown on lateral flanges. Scutellum dark brown, squamose,
Elytra: shoulders rounded, sides subparallel, apex rather bluntly rounded, the
white scales generally in clusters, the more regular forming two lines of clusters,
one line on each side of suture; and subfasciate clusters on apical third; thd
general tawny colour also relieved by some irregular, scattered dark ciliate
seales, with rows of circular punctures, like sunken studs in the scaly clothing,
between rows of cilia. Legs and tarsi thickly clothed with white cilia. Dimen-
stons: 5-5.5 x 3 mm.
Habitat—New South Wales: Sydney (Ocean Beach at Collaroy; Dr. E. W.
Ferguson).
Two examples taken by Dr. Ferguson in February of the present year
(1924) form another of our numerous beach-haunting Tenebrionidae, that has
escaped notice till now. The rough, scaly clothing is unlike anything in thé
group to which it appears to belong; but the short, clavate antennae, the struc-
ture of head and prothorax, the wide, subdentate protibiae, the ciliate tarsi,
widely separate it from Ulodes verrucosus. The apical segment of antennad
smaller than the preceding is a notable character. Type in Coll. Carter.
DYSARCHUS IRREGULARIS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 5.)
Oval, convex; black, opaque, antennae and tarsi reddish.
Head densely pustulose-punctate, upper surface of eyes small and round,
rather deeply sunk; antennal orbits rounded; epistoma triangularly excised in
middle, rounded at sides, angulate at junction with antennal orbit; antennae
robust, extending to middle of prothorax, 3rd joint equal to 4th and 5th com-
bined, 8th-10th widely transverse, 11th small. Prothorax very convex, twice as
wide as long, apex and base nearly straight except for the produced angles, the
038 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA: NOTES AND NEW SPECIES, IV.,
anterior subacute, directed forwards, sides strongly widened and rounded at
middle, converging and sinuate before the rectangular hind angles; foliate mar-
gins wide and lightly reflexed, their surface rugose-pustulose, giving a shghtly
crenulate appearance to the extreme border, surface of dise unevenly and closely
rugose-punctate. Scutellum very small and deeply sunk. Hlytra oval, convex,
at shoulders rounded and wider than prothorax at its widest; margins strongly
erenulate, the dise irregularly sculptured; the more obvious features on each
elytron consisting of a few (two to four) short, shining undulate carinae near
base; some sparse, irregularly placed pustules (like fragments of the former)
on apical half; coarse transverse, pustulose ridges near the sides; the secondary
or ground sculpture consisting throughout of dense punctures. Prosternum,
parapleurae, epipleurae and abdomen, evenly and distinctly, not closely, punctate
—the punctures of abdomen smaller than elsewhere. Legs finely pustulose,
5. Dysarchus irregularis. 6. Cardiothorax foveatus. 6a. Hind leg of
same. 7. Cardiothorax nasutus. =
front tibiae with two wide teeth at apex; hind tarsi with basal joint nearly as
long as the rest combined; a thin coating of red hairs beneath. Dimensions:
11 x 6 mm.
Habitat— Queensland: Stanthorpe (H. Jarvis).
A single specimen, sent by Mr. R. Illidge, is easily distinguished from
D. batesi Haag.—the only other Eastern Australian species recorded—by the
smaller size, irregular sculpture and distinctly punctate surface. It is equally
differentiated from the Western species by the absence of the definite lines of
pustules on the elytra, amongst other things.
CARDIOTHORAX FOVEATUS, n.sp. (Text-figs. 6, 6a.)
Oblong-ovate, black; head and prothorax (above and below) opaque, elytra
and abdomen rather nitid.
BY H. J. CARTER. 539
Head: epistoma truncate in front, antennary orbits widely rounded, head
widest in front of eyes, frontal impression deep, concave within (concavity
formed by two large foveae), antennae stout, opaque black. Prothoraz widest
in front of middle, apex arcuate, front angles advanced and bluntly rounded,
sides well rounded anteriorly, a little sinuate behind middle, thence rather
abruptly and arecuately narrowed to hind angles—these bluntly dentate, and
twisted outwards and downwards; base widely angulate in middle, extreme
border narrowly raised throughout; foliate margins wide, subhorizontal, separated
from dise by suleus; dise with two deep foveae at middle of each lobe, a clearly
impressed medial sulcus, triangularly widened behind to join a rather wide,
basal, transverse depression. Scutellum arcuate-triangular, convex. Elytra
slightly wider than and two and a half times as long as the prothorax, shoulders
widely rounded; the sculpture very irregular; chiefly consisting of lines of
foveae formed by strongly undulate costae, the four alternate costae (1, 3, 5, 7)
more strongly raised and less undulate than the rest. Underside smooth, in
the male all femora more or less armed, the hind with a large conical tooth
near apex, intermediate femora with a longer, carinate tooth, the front femoral
tooth just traceable, all tibiae curved and widened, the hind tibiae strongly so;
their apices strongly spined. In the female all femora unarmed, tibiae straight
and normally wide. Dimensions: 21-23 x 73-84 mm.
Habitat——S. Queensland: Stanthorpe (F. A. Perkins).
Six males and eight females sent by Mr. Perkins, of the Queensland De-
partment of Agriculture, of this very distinct species, one of the finest of the
genus. The elytral sculpture is unique in the genus, and very irregular, no
two examples being quite alike. It is a member of the first group in my table
(Trans. Roy. Soe. S. Aust., 1914, p. 395) “Femora armed in 6,” but is very
dissimilar from its nearest allies (armipes Bates and opacicollis Macl.) in sculp-
ture. Types sent to the Queensland Museum.
CARDIOTHORAX NASUTUS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 7.)
Oblong-ovate; nitid black, antennae and tarsi brown.
Head with epistoma bluntly dentate and reflexed in middle, the stirrup-
shaped frontal impression having a few punctures on it; antennae stout, 3rd
joint little longer than 4th, 8th-l10th widely ovate, llth pyriform. Prothorax:
apex arcuate-emarginate, base sub-truncate, the lobal margins straight, but not
quite collinear, anterior angles rather widely rounded, sides widest in front of
middle, subsinuate near the widely obtuse, non-dentate hind angles, the medial
part nearly straight; extreme border thick, foliate margins separated from dise
by a wide shallow sulcus; each with three setae, at wide intervals; disc with
medial suleus throughout, two small punctures near middle of each lobe and a
deep basal impression like an inverted T (the transverse bar at base). Hlytra
- suleate, each with seven convex intervals and two sub-obsolete convexities at
sides, the 3rd and 5th clearly wider than the 2nd and 4th. Underside and epi-
pleurae impunctate. Middle and post-tibiae widely dilated, the latter arcuate
on the superior edge; post-tarsi strongly fringed with pads of hairs forming a
lateral extension on inside. Dimensions: 22 x 7 mm.
Habitat—New South Wales: Port Macquarie.
The unique male example known to me has been generously given me by
my friend, Mr. R. Illidge. It is one of the largest species belonging to the
acutangulus-castelnaudi group in which the males have widely expanded tibiae
540 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA: NOTES AND NEW SPECIES, iv.,
and may be distinguished by the combination of large size, nitid black colour,
non-dentate hind angles of prothorax and unequal elytral intervals. The re-
flected clypeal tooth and post-tarsal pads are characteristic, C. politicollis Bates
containing some approach to the former and C. laticollis Cart. to the latter of
these characters. Type in Australian Museum. @& latet.
LICINOMA ILLIDGEI, n.sp. (Text-fig. 8.)
Elongate oblong, blackish bronze, glabrous; antennae, palpi and tarsi
reddish-brown.
Head sparsely, minutely punctate with deep arcuate suture, and two large
punctures, close together in a depression near base of forehead; antennae with
3rd segment one and a half times longer than 4th, 4th-llth increasing in size,
subtriangular, 11th ovate. Prothorax: apex subtruncate, the narrowly rounded
anterior angles feebly advanced, base truncate, sides evenly moderately arcuate,
extreme border narrow, disc impunctate, medial sulcus lightly impressed, two
foveae on each side of this (very faintly visible in one example), hind angles
obtuse. Scutellum small, triangular. Hlytra considerably wider than prothorax,
humeri wide; suleate; intervals convex and impunctate, the 3rd, 5th and 7th
clearly wider than the rest; one or two setae on the 3rd interval near apex.
Underside almost impunctate, the epipleurae with small, sparse punctures; hind
tarsi with basal segment longer than claw segment. Dimensions: 12 x 4.5 mm.
Habitat— Queensland National Park (R. Illidge).
Two specimens sent by the captor, to whom it is dedicated, show a large
species readily distinguished from all described species except angusticollis Cart.
by its impunctate elytral sulci. From angusticollis Cart. it is differentiated by
darker colour, larger size and the unequal elytral intervals. Type in Coll.
Carter.
LIcINOMA MAJOR, n.sp. (Text-fig. 9.)
Elongate obovate, black, nitid, glabrous; antennae and palpi piceous, tarsi
reddish.
Head almost impunetate, suture deep, a single fovea on vertex; antennae
submoniliform, 3rd segment one and a half times longer than 4th, 4th-8th oval,
9th-10th subglobular, 11th largest, oval. Prothorax: apex lightly emarginate,
wider than base, the rounded anterior angles a little advanced, base subtruncate,
lightly advanced in middle; sides moderately rounded, widest in middle, posterior
angles rather widely rounded, medial suleus indicated only by a basal notch, a
longitudinal depression on each side terminating behind in a fovea; dise im-
punctate. Scutellum larger than usual, semicireular. Elytra wider than pro-
thorax at base, shoulders rounded but accentuated by epipleural fold, widest:
behind middle; suleate, intervals lightly convex and of subequal width, impune-
tate, with a few setae near apical third. Epipleurae and mesosternum finely
punctate, rest of underside impunectate. Hind tarsi with basal segment as long
as the claw segment. Dimensions: 14 x 5 mm.
Habitat—Queensland National Park (R. Illidge).
A single example sent by its captor shows the largest species yet described.
It may be distinguished from the other suleate species by large size, black colour,
and the areuate base of pronotum with its hind angles quite rounded off. Type
in Coll. Carter.
BY H. J. CARTER. 541
LICINOMA SPLENDENS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 10.)
Hlongate ovate; head and pronotum brilliant fiery coppery, elytra blue or
violet, antennae, palpi and legs red, underside glossy black.
Head unevenly punctate, frontal impression subhexagonal with two large
foveae besides punctures; antennae moniliform, 3rd joint one and a half times
as long as 4th, 4th-10th oval, successively widened, 11th elongate ovate, much
longer than 10th. Prothorax sub-scutate, convex, wider than long, greatest
width in front of middle, apex nearly straight, the slightly blunted subrect-
angular angles feebly advanced, apex clearly wider than base, sides arceuately
converging te base, posterior angles obtuse, base truncate, lateral border nar-
‘rowly horizontal with two or three setae, this border widening at front angles;
dise without medial line or foveae (in some examples a vague impression near
middle at base), the whole with fine shallow, rather close punctures. Scutellum
black, small, triangular. Elytra slightly wider than prothorax at base and twice
as long, shoulders obliquely rounded; striate-punctate, the punctures only visible
as crenulations on the insides of the intervals except those in the lateral striae;
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8. Licinoma illidget. 9. L. major. 10. L. splendens. 11. L. coerulea.
12. Adeliwm iilidget. 13. <Austropeus pustulosus.
intervals rather widely convex, of equal width, the 3rd with two or three setae,
the margins also setose; underside almost entirely impunctate; front tarsi of ¢
shghtly enlarged, hind tarsi with Ist jomt about as long as the claw joint.
Dimensions: 9.5-14 x 2.5-4 mm.
Habitat—S. Queensland: Stanthorpe (F. A. Perkins).
Another fine discovery of this enthusiastic entomologist. Thirteen examples
sent for examination show one of the most beautiful insects in the whole sub-
-family Adeliinae. Its brilliantly contrasted colours will alone distinguish it
from other described species. By its structure it should come near apasioides
(No. 21) of my table (These Proc., 1920, p. 244). Its size is very variable
as in other species of which I have seen a long series. Type in Queensland
Museum.
LICINOMA COERULEA, n.sp. (Text-fig. 11.)
Elongate oblong-ovate; upper surface rich dark blue, antennae, palpi and
legs red, underside nitid black.
Head rather coarsely punctate, epistoma setose, the deep rhomboidal frontal
impression bifoveate; antennae narrower than in splendens, 8-10 more strongly
542 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA: NOTES AND NEW SPECIES, IV.,
widened in proportion to 4-7, the 11th pyriform, wider and longer than 10th.
Prothorax sub-cordate, flatter than in splendens, apex lightly arcuate, anterior
angles more prominent and sharper than in splendens, greatest width near
front, there the rounding of the sides most marked, thence rather straightly
narrowed and feebly sinuate before the defined castrate angles; these slightly
wider than 90°, margins very narrowly suleate with one or two setae; base
truncate; dise minutely and densely punctate, medial channel finely and clearly
ieee ced throughout. Scutellum black, triangular. Hlytra wider than pro-
thorax at base, shoulders more prominently raised and more squarely rounded
than in splendens; deeply striate-punctate, the punctures in striae scarcely
visible except in lateral striae; intervals equal and sharply convex (sub-carinate),
without evident setae; underside almost impunctate; hind tarsi with 1st joint
about as long as claw joint. Dimensions: 11.5 x 3.5 mm.
Habitat.—S. Queensland: Stanthorpe (F. A. Perkins).
A single specimen examined of a species little less brilliant than the pre-
ceding, also separated from its nearest allies by colour and clearly distinct from
splendens (apart from colour) by its differently shaped prothorax with its pro-
nounced medial suleus, and the sharply raised elytral intervals. In my table it
should be placed near truncata (No. 22). Type in the Queensland Museum.
ADELIUM ILLIDGEI, n.sp. (Text-fig. 12.)
Convex, widely ovate; coal-black, moderately mnitid, glabrous, antennae,
palpi and tarsi red.
Head coarsely rugose-punctate, antennal segment 1 stout, 2 bead-like, 3
cylindric as iong as 4-5 combined, 4-10 subconic increasing in size outwards, 11
elongate oval. Prothorax: apex semicircularly emarginate, anterior angles acute,
pointing forwards, base truncate, sides widely diverging from apex till near
base, then abruptly rounded and sinuately contracted, posterior angles acute and
pointing outwards, foliate margins wide but not differing from dise in sculp-
ture; this unevenly rugose-punctate with some smooth vermiculate impressions;
medial suleus clearly impressed on apical half, merging into an indefinite de-
pression near base. Scutellwm curvilinear triangular, minutely punctate. Elytra
considerably wider than prothorax at base (widest at humeri) and two and one-
third times as long, shoulders rather squarely rounded, apex widely rounded;
the sculpture formed by interrupted striae, the lightly convex intervals with
irregular transverse connections on same level as intervals, the 3rd and 5th in-
tervals clearly wider than the rest; intervals not perceptibly punctate; pros-
ternum and abdomen nearly smooth, epipleurae (especially the prosternal) with
large, sparse punctures; intercoxal process widely rounded. Dimensions: 12 x
6 mm.
Habitat.——Queensland National Park (R. Illidge).
I name this very distinct species after the Queensland naturalist who has
made such valuable observations over a wide range of fauna. The species is,
in general form and elytral sculpture, nearest to A. reticulatum Cart. and A.
geminatum Pase., but is more convex than either, without a touch of bronze, and
distinguished from both by the widely excised sides of pronotum in which
character it is nearest A. angulicolle Casteln., but with a finer border and sharper
posterior angles than that species. Type in Coll. Carter.
N.B—A. reticulatum Cart. is readily distinguished from A. geminatum
Pase. by its darker colour and clearly punctate elvtral intervals.
BY H. J. CARTER, ‘ 543
AUSTROPEUS, nov. gen. Helopinae.
Body apterous. Head enclosed in prothorax to the eyes: antennal orbit
horizontal, widely rounded, shghtly impinging on eyes; these transversely oval,
not prominent. Kpistoma broadly rounded in front, scarcely separated from
forehead, labrum not prominent, apical segments of palpi securiform, mentum
trapeziform, wider in front than behind, antennae not reaching base of pro-
thorax, apical segments flattened, 1st stout, 2nd bead-like, 3rd cylindric, longer
than 4th, 4th-6th obconic, 7th-10th sub-spherical, 11th oblong-oval, considerably
larger than 10th. Prothorax: apex strongly emarginate, moderately convex,
wider than long; base sub-truncate. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra convex,
obovate, striate-punctate; prosternum convex, its hind process triangularly sharp-
ened and widely margined; coxae globose, hind intercoxal process rounded and
margined. Legs rather long, tibiae not enlarged nor spined at apex. Tarsi
rather short; post tarsi with Ist segment shorter than 4th, and as long as 2nd-3rd
combined. A genus unlike any other Australian genus, with a facies somewhat
resembling Simarus of the Cistelidae.
AUSTROPEUS PUSTULOSUS, n.sp. (Text-fig. 13.)
Ovate, convex, glabrous, opaque-brown; antennae and tarsi reddish.
Surface of head and pronotum densely and finely rugose-pustulose; the
outline of the epistoma and antennal orbits almost a semicircle, eyes rather
small. Prothorax: apex sub-truncate in middle, the anterior angles rather
sharply prominent, pointing forwards, sides moderately rounded, widest about
middle, scarcely sinuate behind, posterior angles sub-rectangular, clearly defined,
sides and front narrowly margined, the former narrowly horizontal within the
margin—at least on front half. Hlytra slightly wider than prothorax at base;
humeri prominent, subrectangular with extreme angle rounded; apical declivity
steep; striate-punctate, the seriate punctures foveate and distant, with about
nine convex intervals on each elytron, each with a single row of nitid pustules—
the pustules near middle round, becoming more elongate and irregular towards
sides (here forming irregular crenulations) ; the suture and third interval form-
ing strong ridges at apex. Sternal area pustulose, episterna coarsely punctate,
abdomen densely and more finely punctate, underside of legs alveolate-punctate;
fore and mid tibiae slightly arched, tibiae not enlarged at apex, their apices and
tarsi clothed with short golden pubescence. Dimensions: 12.5 x 6 mm.
Habitat—(?) Murchison district of Western Australia.
The locality is given with doubt, the unique example being one of several
Coleoptera given by Mr. C. French to Mr. F. Erasmus Wilson, in spirits with-
out label, but probably from the Murchison River region. Mr. Wilson has
generously passed it on to me. After considerable hesitation, I place it
amongst the Helopinae, near Mimopeus. Type in Coll. Carter.
CISTELIDAE.
ATOICHUS FLAVIPES, n.sp.
Oval; head, prothorax, scutellum and legs testaceous; antennae, elytra and
underside black.
Head and prothorax more strongly punctured than in A. bicolor Blackb.,
the antennal joints wider. Prothorax widest at base, lightly, arcuately converg-
ing to apex, base and apex truncate. Elytra wider than prothorax, sub-parallel
544 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA: NOTES AND NEW SPECIES, lv.
for greater part, very finely sub-striate-punctate, about two striae near suture
fine but distinct, the rest ill-defined or obsolete, under a Zeiss binocular the fine
seriate punctures are seen to be closely set (both rows and punctures) and
seratch-like. Dimensions: 44 x 12 mm.
Habitat.—Bribie Island, Moreton Bay (H. Hacker and A. M. Lea).
A single example sent by Mr. Lea is clearly distinct from A. bicolor Blackb.,
not only by colour differences, but by its distinct elytral sculpture, which in
bicolor is clearly striate-punctate throughout—the striae more distant and the
punctures larger than in flavipes. Type in South Australian Museum.
A second example varies in having the posterior legs partly dark with
knees and basal half of tibiae only yellow.
ATOICHUS DIMIDIATUS, n.Sp.
Oval; head, thorax, scutellum, basal half of elytra, basal joints of antennae,
four front legs and posterior knees testaceous; antennae (except basal joints),
apical half of elytra, underside and posterior legs (except knees) black, tarsi
piceous, upper surface clothed with short, fine hair.
Head and prothorax very similar to the preceding, the antennal joints more
slender (less oblong), the pronotal punctures finer. Elytra clearly striate-
punctate, the seriate punctures comparatively large and well separated, the
intervals flat and apparently impunctate. Dimensions: 44 x 14 mm.
Habitat— Queensland, Bribie Island, Moreton Bay (H. Hacker and A. M.
Lea).
A single example from Mr. Lea is distinct in colour and seulpture from the
other described species. It is smaller and narrower than A. bicolor Blackb.
The dark portion is rather less than half the elytra. Type in South Australian
Museum.
N.B.—The apical joint of antennae in both the above species, as also in the
others (at least in bicolor and tasmanicus now before me), is smaller (especially
finer) than the tenth. All the species show marked differences in their antennae.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
PLATE XLy,
Species of Permosyne, n.g.
=.
1. P. belmontensis. 2. P. affinis.
3. P. mitchelli. 4. P. pincombeae.
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PLATE XLVI.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
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Protocoleus mitchelli,
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE XLVILI.
d
M,
c, Anisops; d, Enithares; e, Notonecta. (All
Antennae of Notonectinae. a, Nychia (scape not shown); b, Paranisops ;
enlarged 50 diams.).
2. Paranisops inconstans, male of melanochroic form.
'b, hemelytron; ¢ and d, anterior and intermediate legs.
a, head and thorax;
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Proc, Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1924.
PLATE XLVIII.
3. Paranisops inconstans, male and female of leucochroic form. a, head
and thorax of male; b, hemelytron.
4, Salda nicholsoni. a and b, antenna and posterior leg of male; e and
d, ventral view of abdomen of male and female.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE L.
Aviculopectens from the Carboniferous of New South Wales.
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PLATE LI.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
Aviculopectens from the Carboniferous of New South Wales.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
PLATE LIII.
A. Elonichthys davidi, n.sp.
Middle Devonian Brachiopods from New South Wales.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE LY.
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8-10. Temnocephala fasciata. 11. T. novae-zelandiae. 12. T. comes.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
13-15, 17. Temnocephala
18-21. 7. tasmanica.
fasciata. 16. T. comes.
22. £. quadricorms.
PLATE LVI.
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Map of the Mount Wilson Region.
The diagonal hatching indicates the basalt caps.
(From the 16-mile map issued by the Geological Survey of New South Wales.)
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE LVIII.
: %
Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest in the Mt. Wilson region.
. Showing Dicksonia, Alsophila and Blechnum discolor.
Showing bare ground under canopy of a large Ceratopetalum.
. Tmesipteris tannensis growing from a sloping Dicksonia trunk.
. Dicksonia.
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PLATE LIX.
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924.
a Forest.
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Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1924. PLATE LX.
9. Junetion of Eucalyptus-Alsophila Association and Euealyptus-Pteridium
Association.
10. Interior of Ceratopetalum-Doryphora Forest.
aS
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
LINNEAN SOCIETY
NHW SOUTH WALES.
WepDNESpDAY, 26TH Marcon, 1924.
The Forty-ninth Annual General Meeting, together with the Ordinary Monthly
Meeting, was held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Ehzabeth Bay, on Wednesday
evening, 26th March, 1924.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
Mr. A. F. Basset Hull, President, in the Chair.
The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting (28th March, 1923)
were read and confirmed.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.
Perhaps the most outstanding scientific event in Austraha during the year
was the second meeting of the Pan-Pacifie Science Congress. The first meeting
of this Congress was held at Honolulu in 1920, and the second meeting was held
under the auspices of the Australian National Research Council, partly in Mel-
bourne and partly in Sydney. It was attended by more than 80 scientists from
overseas, as well as by a large number of Australian scientists and others in-
terested in the objects of the Congress. The holding of the meeting was made
possible by the generosity of the Commonwealth and State Governments, and the
work of organising and carrying out the meeting was performed by the executive
of the Australian National Research Council. The meeting was most successful
and we may look forward with interest to the publication of the papers read
in the various sections.
Mention was made in the Presidential Address last year of the advantages
that would result, both to members and to the Society, if the Society’s head-
quarters could be removed to a more central position than Elizabeth Bay. During
the year, the attention of the Council was given to this question, and as a result
a property known as Lauriston Hall, 16 College Street, overlooking Hyde Park,
was purchased by the Society. The property was bought subject to an existing
lease expiring in February, 1925. The tenant has, however, asked to be released
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and the Council has agreed to allow her to vacate the premises. As a result,
alterations to the property will be commenced immediately, and on their com-
pletion the Council has decided to remove the office of the Society to 16 College
Street, where the ordinary meetings will be held. The request came from our
tenant quite unexpectedly and the Council had to come to a decision at once; it
was therefore decided to allow the lhbrary to remain at Elizabeth Bay for the
present, until the Council is able to consider carefully all the matters connected
with a complete removal of the Society’s activities to the new site. We hope to
hold our first ordinary meeting at the new address about the middle of the year.
We will thus give effect to the aspirations of your Council as expressed by. my
predecessor in this chair in his presidential address last year, and at a date, I
may venture to say, far in advance of his most sanguine anticipations.
The community suffered a severe loss by the death, in September last, of
the State Governor, Sir Walter Davidson. His Excellency showed a keen ap-
preciation of the work of this and other scientific societies and was especially
interested in a scheme to bring all such societies under one roof.
Several years ago I entertained a hope that the two leading scientific societies
might be induced to join forces in devising a scheme for the establishment of a
comprehensive Science Building; options on sites were secured, but in view of
the disturbed condition of affairs during the war, the project was allowed to lapse.
Shortly after my election to the presidency of this Society I again took the matter
up, and on the occasion of my official call upon the Governor, I referred to the
subject, only to find that His Excellency had independently conceived a similar
plan in conjunetion with the proposed Soldiers’ Memorial and the extension of
the Mitchell Library. At His Excellency’s invitation I joined the committee which
was engaged with him in elaborating his plans. At the same time I brought the
subject before your Council, and it received a considerable amount of attention
during the year. The lamented death of His Excellency abruptly terminated the
proceedings, but I personally may be permitted to express the hope that means
will yet be found to carry the scheme of union of the Scientific Societies to a
successful conclusion. The central feature of my plan is a large Hall of Science,
erected on a commanding site in the city, with annexes providing lecture rooms,
office accommodation, libraries, committee rooms and every accessory of a well-
equipped club; an Institution such as would be a credit to this great city, and a
meeting place for the leaders of science, literature. art and philosophy; erected
by the joimt efforts of every association formed for the furtherance of such ob-
jects; managed by a joint committee; but so constructed and laid out that each
Society would retain its own individuality unimpaired; its own distinctive quarters,
with, at the same time, the advantage of co-operative performance of those de-
tails of house management which would be for the common use of all members.
The ideal is a high one, but by no means unattainable, if those who guide the
destinies of our great societies could agree to work together for the common
good of themselves and their humbler brethren.
The coneluding Part of Volume xlvii. of the Society’s Proceedings has been
issued. The complete volume (688 + Ixxxii. pages, 52 Plates and 438 Text-
figures) contains forty papers, covering a wide range of subjects in Natural His-
tory, nine papers being contributed by the Society’s research staff.
Exchange-relations with other scientific societies and institutions are now
more normal, the receipts for the session numbering 1,450. During the past year
we have resumed exchanges with a number of German Scientific Societies with
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whom we exchanged formerly, and have added to the societies and institu-
tions on our exchange list the following:—Bergens Museum, Bombay Natural
Mistory Society, Botanisches Museum zu Berlin-Dahlem, Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine, National Research Council of Japan, Notgemeinschaft der
deutschen Wissenschaft, Société botanique de Pologne and Société d’histoire
naturelle de Toulouse. Bookbinding operations are proceeding steadily, the pub-
heations most used by members receiving first consideration.
Last year there seemed a likelihood that the issue of the “Zoological Record”
might be discontinued. The difficulty, one of finance, appears to have been over-
come and it is now assured that the volume for 1921 will be issued and that for
1922 will be prepared. Following the lead of the Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia, your Council has offered to contribute towards any loss on the
publication of the Record in the year ending 30th June, 1924, and to consider
further contribution, should such be necessary, in succeeding years.
In response to a request from the N.S.W. Exhibition Commission the Council
agreed to prepare an exhibit of the Society’s publications for the Education Sec-
tion of the British Empire Exhibition.
Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, having accepted the Acting-Professorship of Mathe-
matics in the University of Tasmania for the year 1924, decided not to seek re-
election as a member of the Council of the Society. I desire to place on record
our appreciation of the valuable services rendered to the Society by Mr. Lueas
as a Member of Council for twenty-nine years, during two of which he occupied
the presidential chair.
Mr. W. W. Froggatt, a member of Council since 1898, retired during the
year from the position of Government Entomologist. His services as an economie¢
entomologist have, however, not been lost to the State, as he has been appointed
Forest Entomologist to the Minister for Lands and Forests, his work being to
study the pests of timbers in the forests, and also the pests coming into this State
from abroad in imported timbers.
After thirty-three years of service on the staff of the Australian Museum,
Mr. Charles Hedley has retired under the provisions of the Superannuation Act.
Although he has still some years to traverse before reaching the compulsory re-
tiring age, he has exercised his option and voluntarily relinquished his position as
Principal Keeper of Collections in that Institution. While we cannot but regret
the severe loss that must result to the scientific side of the Museum, it is a matter
for sincere congratulation that Mr. Hedley’s high attainments have been sub-
stantially recognised by the neighbouring State of Queensland, he having been
appointed scientific director of the Great Barrier Reef Committee, a most im-
portant body formed under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of
Australasia, Queensland branch, to engage upon research problems in relation
to that great natural feature of the Queensland coast. To us personally and as
members of the local scientific bodies, Mr. Hedley’s removal from this State for
the greater part of the year will be fraught with the sincerest regret. His well-
considered judgment and ever helpful counsel in the scientific and business con-
duct of our Societies, in all of which he has been an esteemed office bearer, will
be sorely missed. Our chief consolation lies in the fact that in his new sphere of
activity he will be enabled to add more lustre to his already great achievements in
the world of scientific effort. We also have to offer Mr. Hedley our hearty con-
gratulations on the honour conferred upon him by the New Zealand Institute,
which has elected him an Honorary Fellow.
I have much pleasure in offering the Society’s heartiest congratulations to
Mr. W. B. Gurney on his appointment as Government Entomologist; Sir Douglas
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Mawson on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London; Mr. A. H.
S. Lucas on his appointment as Acting-Professor of Mathematics in the University
ot Tasmania.
The reading of papers at the ordinary meetings has again been supplemented
by discussions and lecturettes, and we are indebted to Miss M. I. Collins, Dr. C.
Anderson, and Messrs. A. R. MeCulloch and D. G. Stead for short lantern
lectures.
Since the last Annual Meeting the names of 14 ordinary members have been
added to the roll, 4 members have resigned and we have lost by death one
corresponding and two ordinary members. This leaves the Society with 166
ordinary members on the roll.
Achile Raffray, Ministre plenipotentiaire de France, en retraite, died at Rome,
24th September, 1923, at the age of 79. He had been a corresponding member
ot the Society since 21st November, 1900. By his death entomology has lost one
of its most distinguished workers, M. Raffray being the world’s authority on the
Pselaphidae. The publication of his last work “Sur la dispersion geographique
des Psélaphiens du Monde” has commenced in the ‘““Memorie dell’Accademia Ponti-
ficia dei Nuovi Lincei.”” He contributed an important paper on Australian
Pselaphidae in our Proceedings for 1900.
Henry. Deane, who died at Malvern, Victoria, on 12th March, 1924, was
born at Clapham, London, in 1847 and was educated at Queen’s College, Galway
and King’s College, London.
He was the son of Henry Deane (1807-1874) of Clapham, a noted phar-
maceutical chemist, the first President of the British Pharmaceutical Conference
and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London from 1855 till his death. Amongst
the schoolfellows of Henry Deane, Senior, were Henry and Edwin Doubleday,
afterwards the distinguished entomologists, who communicated their love of collect-
ing birds and insects to Mr. Deane, whose interest in natural history, thus aroused,
never waned. He was a personal friend of A. R. Wallace and others of the same
time and received from Dr. Harvey (who visited Australia to collect seaweeds,
wrote a book on them and distributed sets of seaweeds) a set which Henry Deane,
Junior, inherited. This set he presented, together with his own private herbarium,
chiefly of New South Wales plants, to the National Herbarium in Sydney only
some four years ago.
Thus it was the example and influence of his father that aroused the interest
in natural history of the Henry Deane whose loss we mourn. Before he came to
Australia, he collected and studied British insects, but in Australia, in his leisure
hours, he specialised in botany.
For the greater part of his life Henry Deane was connected with railway
engineering. Before coming to Australia in 1880, he had been engaged first with
the London metropolitan railways and later in Hungary and the Philippine
Islands. From 1880 to 1906 he was employed in the construction department
of the New South Wales railways, rising to the position of Engineer-in-Chief, and
being associated with many important railway works, including the construction
of the bridge over the Hawkesbury River and the introduction of the electric
tramway system in Sydney.
In 1908, two years after retiring from the service of the New South Wales
railways, Mr. Deane was appointed by the Commonwealth as controlling and con-
sulting engineer in connection with the survey of the proposed transcontinental
railway between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta, and later, as Engineer-in-Chief of
the Commonwealth railway construction branch, he did much towards bringing
to a suecessful conclusion the task of building this 1,100-mile line of railway
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through an almost waterless and uninhabited region. In 1914 he severed his con-
nection with the Commonwealth railways and practised as a consulting engineer
in Melbourne. :
Mr. Deane became a member of this Society in 1883, and, until his removal
to Melbourne, was a very active member of the Society, being a regular attendant
at the meetings and a frequent exhibitor of interesting specimens. He was a
member of Council from 1887 to 1912 and was President for the years 1895-96
and 1896-97.
He was a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales from 1885 till
his death, and occupied the presidential chair of that Society on two occasions
(1897 and 1907); he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in
1885.
During the years 1895-1901 he contributed fourteen papers, nine of them in
conjunction with Mr. J. H. Maiden, to the Proceedings, amongst them being a
series of eight papers containing observations on the Eucalypts of New South
Wales. Before the appointment of Mr. Maiden to the Botanic Gardens, he was in
close touch with such eminent botanists as Dr. Woolls, Mr. Fitzgerald and Baron
von Mueller. He was an accomplished botanist, and, apart from his work on
present day plants, he had carried out much work on the Tertiary fossil flora of
Kastern Australia—a most difficult subject to deal with satisfactorily. Some of
the results of these fossil studies were published by the Geological Survey of New
South Wales, and they form a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the flora
which preceded the existing flora in Australia.
Although living in Melbourne for the last twelve years, he retained his: in-
terest in the Society and its doings and it was rarely that he did not find time,
on his visits to Sydney, to look in at the Society’s headquarters. His death re-
moves one who took a keen interest in the Society’s affairs and who helped to
guide the destinies of the Society for a quarter of a century.
How similar was the end of the father to that of the son! Of Henry Deane,
Senior, we read: (Proc. Linn. Soe. Lond., 1873-74, p. xlx.) “The death of Mr.
Deane occurred on the 4th of April, 1874, at Dover, where he had been detained
for a day or two by stress of weather on his way to visit his son in Hungary.
Walking from his hotel to the boat he was attacked by sudden pain in the region
of the heart, and in a few minutes had ceased to exist.” Of Henry Deane, we
learn that he collapsed suddenly while working in his garden and passed away
without regaining consciousness.
Jacos Rosert L. Dixon, who died on 27th October, 1923, after an illness ex-
tending over several months, was born at Liverpool, England, in October, 1861.
He was educated at the Royal Infirmary Medical School, Liverpool and obtained
his L.R.C.P. of Edinburgh and M.R.C.S., England, in 1884. He was for a time
Honorary Pathologist to the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, and then entered
into private practice in the South of England. He came to Australia in 1912
and, very shortly after his arrival, was appointed Demonstrator in Physiology,
and later, in 1923, Lecturer in Histology at the University of Sydney. Dr. Dixon
joined the Society in 1913 and for a number of years was a regular attendant
at our meetings. He was keenly interested in Natural History, particularly
microscopy and conchology, and paid a good deal of attention to a group of small
Crustaceans found infesting the masses of seaweed and bryozoa round the piles
of wharves and floating jetties. He was also an artist of no mean ability and
was passionately fond of water colour landscapes. He was a very reserved man
and few of his colleagues knew much of his hobbies.
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Last year attention was called to the possibility that, as a result of visiting
expeditions of collectors to Australia, the best collections of some groups of Aus-
tralian animals would be found, in the near future, not in Australian Museums,
but in those outside Australia. As a result of representations made to him the
Prime Minister has intimated that it is intended to grant permits in future to
expeditions engaged in collecting specimens in Australia only on condition that
types of any new species and duplicates (one pair in each case) of any rare
species are donated to the Museum in the State in which specimens are collected.
This is a very satisfactory arrangement in view of the need for future research
workers to have material for comparison.
During the year the Minister for Trade and Customs has appointed advisory
committees in the various States to assist him in connection with applications
which may be received for permission to export prohibited Australian birds and
animals. Applications will be submitted to the Advisory Committee in the State
concerned and on receipt of the Committee’s recommendation the Minister will
decide whether or not each application shall be granted. The committees consist
of representatives of various institutions and in each case a deputy has been
appointed to act in the absence of the representative. The New South Wales
Committee comprises Professor L. Harrison (deputy, Dr. A. B. Walkom) re-
presenting The University of Sydney, Royal Society of N.S.W. and Linnean
Society of N.S.W., Mr. F. Flowers (deputy, Col. A. Spain) representing the
Taronga Zoological Park Trust, Mr. A. F. Basset Hull (deputy, Mr. A. R.
McCulloch) representing the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W., Dr. C. Anderson
(deputies, Mr. EH. le G. Troughton, and Mr. J. R. Kinghorn) representing the Aus-
tralian Museum, Mr. W. W. Froggatt (deputy, Mr. E. Cheel) representing the
Naturalists’ Society of N.S.W. and the Wild Life Preservation Society of N.S.W.,
Mr. N. Cayley (deputy, Mr. J. 8. P. Ramsay) representing the Royal Austral-
asian Ornithologists’ Union (N.S.W. Branch), Mr. F. Farnell (deputy, Mr. W.
F. L. Bailey) representing the National Park Trust and Mr. F. Lynne Rolin (de-
puty, Mr. S. T. D. Symons) representing the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. The issue of permits to export is subject to the requisite
permission being obtamed from the State Government to collect the Birds and
Animals concerned.
The announced intention of the Government to introduce a Bill to provide
for representation of the Scientific Societies on the various Park Trusts was not
carried out during last Session, but recent paragraphs in the daily press indicate
that the subject has not been entirely lost sight of.
This Society joined with others interested in the preservation of our native
fauna in a deputation which waited upon, the Chief Secretary in June last. In
the absence of Mr. Oakes the deputation was received by Mr. Farrar, and a reply
to the representations then made has been recently received. While in some de-
tails improvements are being introduced in the administration of the Act, there
still remains much to be done, but the all-important question of finance seems to
block the way to a more stringent enforcement of the provisions of the Statute.
The Australian Forest League which has been formed recently should play
an important part in the preservation of our forests. It may be said to stand in
the same relation to eur trees as does the League of Bird Lovers to our birds.
Among the objects of the Forest League are:—The Maintenance and preservation
intact of the present forests; Re-afforestation of denuded areas; Tree Planting of
waste spaces and sand dunes; Protection of forests against fire and other des-
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tructive agents; To foster the planting of trees for shelter and ornamental pur-
poses; To advertise the value and encourage the use of our timbers and their
products; Publication and diffusion of facts and statistics concerning our trees
and forests; Education of the public to a realisation of the value of our forests;
and Protection of our indigenous flora and fauna.
We may wish this organisation every success.
The year’s work of the Society’s research staff may be summarised thus :—
Dr. R. Greig-Smith, Macleay Bacteriologist to the Society, has continued the
investigation into the activities of the high-temperature organism used in the
corrosion of lead.
Three papers have been submitted and have been published in the Proceed-
ings during the year. These showed that the characteristic substance of the tan-
bark, after undergoing the process of tempering, is humic acid which is readily
fermented by the thermophilic bacterium. Tempering is a preparatory fermen-
tation in which moulds attack the insoluble cellulose and convert it into simpler
bodies. Some of the moulds were isolated and seeded upon filter paper. They
converted the paper into a product which readily yielded carbon dioxide upon
the introduction of the high temperature organism. The bacterium can attack
many compounds of carbon such as sugars, alcohols and organic acids while
ammonium salts and urea can serve as sources of nitrogen. Raffinose and inulin
among the carbohydrates, and oxalic and formic among the acids were not at-
tacked.
The bacillus is sensitive to sudden changes of temperature and its inability
to ferment solutions of citrate was traced to the organism being chilled when dis-
tributed in fluid at the laboratory temperature.
Some work has been done with bacteria isolated from the nodules at the
bases of the stems of Eucalyptus seedlings. Only one out of many bacteria has
given positive evidence of nodule formation but, as the results may have been
accidental, much work has yet to be done before a definite conclusion can be made.
Dr. J. M. Petrie, Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Bio-chemistry,
has, during the past year, continued his investigation of the colour pigments of
Acacia flowers. In addition to the two species (Acacia discolor and A. linifolia)
already dealt with, work has been carried out with A. mollissima and A. longi-
foha. From all four species the pigment proved to be the same, having the con-
stitution of Kaempfcrol, in union with the sugar rhamnose as a glucoside. Closely
associated with this glucoside are certain organic acids and phenols which evi-
dently play a part in the formation of the yellow pigment and of the red colour-
ing matter and tannins. The results of these researches are contained in the paper
“Studies in Plant Pigments, I.,” published in Part 3 of the Proceedings for 1923.
Further investigations have been commenced with Hucalyptus stricta and E.
eugenioides. Plants of the former were observed whose foliage and small twigs
were changed from green to red, the change being the result of insect injury. An
attempt was made to obtain from these plants and from healthy normal flowers
of the same species both the yellow and red pigments in order to determine
whether the two are chemically related. This research was obstructed by the
separation of a highly insoluble white compound which has now been isolated in a
practically pure condition. The red leaves proved to contain no anthocyanins,
the pigment being a tannin red formed by oxidation of the catechol tannins in
the normal leaves. These red leaves and twigs are therefore in contrast with
the young spring growth which contains true anthocyanins.
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Dr. Petrie proposes, during the coming year, to continue his work on various
species of Hucalyptus; also on the flowers of Hrythrina for the red pigment; and
on certain Acacias for the red pigment of the flowers and its relationship with
the yellow pigment already cbtained.
Miss Marjorie I. Collins, Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Botany.
has spent a good part of the year in preparing the results of her field work for
publication. The first paper, dealing with the plant ecology of the Barrier dis-
trict, appeared in Part 3 of the Proceedings for 1923 and the second paper, deal-
ing with the botanical features of the Grey Range and its neighbourhood is com-
plete and ready for publication.
Additional field work was carried out in the Cobar district and on the
Dazling and Paroo Rivers after the autumn and winter rains, and observations
were made on the winter herbage. These supplemented previous observations
which had been restricted to the ground flora following spring and summer rains.
An examination was also made of the red soil scrub floras between the Paroo
and Warrego Rivers and between the Warrego and Darling. During this field-
work Miss Collins collected what is probably a new species of the rare aquatic
liverwort Riella which genus has not previously been found in Australia. The
occurrence of an aquatic liverwort in a region subject to rainless periods extend-
ing over years is one, the study of which promises to be of very great interest.
Miss Collins proposes, during the coming) year, to complete her ecological
studies of the vegetation of the arid and semiarid regions of New South Wales,
visiting, for that purpose, the lower part of the Darling near its junction with
the Murray; she also proposes to make a study of the vegetation of the serpentine
deposits of New South Wales.
Miss Marguerite Henry, Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology,
in continuation of her studies of the freshwater entomostraca of New South Wales,
completed her account of the Ostracoda, the results being published in Part 3 of
the Proceedings for 1923. Whilst studying the Phyllopoda, Miss Henry visited
the Cobar district for the purpose of studying the oceurrence and habits of living
Phyllopods, as this group is far more abundant in western New South Wales than
in the coastal region. The description of this group has now been completed and
the results are ready for publication. Nineteen species are dealt with, six of them
being described as new, and three recorded for the first time from New South
Wales. Miss Henry has been working also on samples of dried mud from Queens-
land and Central Australia, and on a collection made by Mr. T. Steel from New
Zealand lakes.
Miss Henry completes her work as a Linnean Macleay Fellow on the 31st
instant, and leaves on the 12th April on a holiday trip to England. We may ex-
press our satisfaction with the results of her work as a Fellow, and wish her a
very pleasant and enjoyable trip.
Dr. Walkom has completed two pieces of work on fossil plants during the
year, viz. (1) a deseription of a collection of plants of Upper Triassic age from
Bellevue, Queensland, forwarded by the Director of the Queensland Museum and
(2) the examination of the collection of fossil plants from the Narrabeen series”
for the Geological Survey of N.S.W. Arrangements have now been completed
for him to receive for examination collections of Mesozoic plants from the
Geological Survey of Tasmania. The description of these Tasmanian specimens
should add considerably to our knowledge of the distribution and relationships of
Australian Mesozoic floras and may well help to clear up some of the doubtful
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points in connection with the correlation of the freshwater Mesozoic Strata of
‘Tasmania and the mainland.
Five applications for Linnean Macleay Fellowships, 1924-25, were received in
response to the Council’s invitation of 26th September, 1923. I have pleasure in
reminding you that the Council has re-appoimted Dr. J. M. Petrie and Miss
Marjorie I. Collins to Fellowships in Bio-chemistry and Botany respectively for
one year from Ist April, 1924, and has appointed Miss May M. Willams, B.Sce.,
and Mr. P. D. F. Murray, B.Se., to Fellowships in Botany and Zoology respectively
for one year from Ist March, 1924. Mr. Murray, who desired to take his degree
at Oxford, will not commence his Fellowship till 25th April. On behalf of the
Society I wish them a successful year’s research.
Miss May Marston Williams graduated in Science in 1921 with First Class
Honours and medal in Botany, and for two years has held a Science Research
Scholarship in Botany. Since graduation her research work has resulted in the
completion of two papers, “A Contribution to our knowledge of the Fuecaceae”
and “The anatomy of Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Swartz).” The former appeared in
Part 4 of our Proceedings for 1923 and dealt with the branching, oogenesis and
parasitism of Notheia anomala and the oogenesis and spermatogenesis of
Phyllospora comosa. In addition Miss Williams has been working on the anatomy
of some Australian Pteridophyta. She proposes for her year’s work as a Fellow
to study the life histories, morphology and physiology of the Australian
siphonaceous algae.
Mr. Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray has already shown great promise
as a research zoologist. He graduated in science at the University of Sydney in
1921 with First Class Honours and Medal in Zoology and First Class Honours in
Botany, gaining the John Coutts Scholarship for distinction in Science in 1922.
Since graduation he has spent two years working at Oxford under Professor
Goodrich and Mr. Julian Huxley and has done vacation work at Edinburgh and
at the Marine Biological Station at Plymouth. He has worked with Mr. Huxley
on the effects of grafting certain tissues on to the membranes of the embryonic
chick and proposes for his year’s work as a Fellow to study the reaction of tissues
to the presence within them of various foreign bodies, more especially other
tissues, with special reference to the problem of Metaplasia.
THE RELATION OF THE LORICATES TO THE COUNTRY ROCK.
(Plates 1.-111.)
One very hot day in the summer of 1906 I was surfing at Freshwater Beach,
north of Manly. Towards midday the tide had fallen to such an extent that it
was possible to wade round the rocks at the northern end almost to the point.
The numerous rock-pools, filled with translucent water through which the brilliant
colouring of the marine growths could be seen, offered such an attraction that I
spent some time in them, turning over the loose stones and examining the mollusks,
erustacea and echinoderms sheltering beneath them. I was struck with the num-
ber and variety of the Loricates* or Chitons, a group with which I was not at
all familiar, and impelled by the collecting instinct I gathered examples of each
easily recognisable species, subsequently removing the animals and roughly pre-
paring the shells by placing them between two flat pieces of wood under a heavy
weight. This collection I submitted to my friend Charles Hedley, who identified
% Iredale and I have shown (Aust. Zool., iii., 1923, 186) that, according to the
law of priority Gray’s ordinal name Polyplacophora (1821) used by Pilsbry (1892)
and other writers, must be rejected in favour of Schumacher’s Loricata (1817).
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no less than seventeen species with two varieties, including some rather searce
species. Interest being thus aroused in the group, I acted on Hedley’s advice and
commenced to collect these shells intensively within Port Jackson and on the
ocean headlands in the vicinity. During the eighteen years that have since
elapsed I have extended my field of observation to other parts of the coast of
New South Wales, to Queensland from Brisbane to Townsville, to Western Aus-
tralia from Albany to Esperance, and to King Island in Bass Strait.
In the course of my expeditions it soon became evident that there was some
relation between the shells and the rock forming the littoral. One species,
Ischnochiton lentiginosus, originally recorded from Neweastle, N.S.W., and subse-
quently taken by Dr. Cox at Port Hacking, should have been discoverable at the
intermediate locality of Port Jackson, but I searched for it in vain. One day,
when examining a rather unfavourable spot at the southern end of Deewhy Beach
—unfavourable on account of the scattered nature of the boulders and the absence
of sheltered pools—I found the sought-for species under loose shingle, partly em-
bedded in sand near median tide mark. Just above where the shells were found
there were loose friable shales and pipeclay through which a small creek flowed.
These shells were all of pale brown to yellow shades, with the characteristic blue
“freckles” from which the specific name is derived. A little later I found this
species in large numbers at Long Reef, the Basin, Mona Vale and Newport (Bil-
gola Head). The iron dyke at Long Reef is a well known feature, and the
shells from this locality showed another direction in which the influence of the
rock was felt; they were mostly very dark in colour, being almost blackish-brown.
Subsequent discoveries of this species on the shales of Bull, the basalt near Port
Kembla, the granite of Montagu Island, the porphyry of Port Stephens, Broughton
Island, and Coff’s Island, and the serpentine of Port Macquarie showed the pre-
dilection of the shell for the harder rocks and the dark coloured shales. Even
at Port Haeking, where the rock is mainly sandstone, this species is found in
abundance in the vicinity of dykes only. In each instance the influence of the
rock on the general colour scheme of the shells is noticeable, the lighter coloured
rocks yielding pale yellow and light brown shells, while those from the basalts,
shales, ironstones and other darker coloured rocks are dark to blackish-brown,
with frequent varieties showing white bars or patches on some of the valves.
This indication of some relation between the Loricates and the rocks was
verified at each new locality examined on the coast of New South Wales. Apart
from the occurrence of the species above referred to only in conjunction with
certain rocks, a more important factor early became apparent. The relative num-
bers of species and individuals were found to show marked variation according
to the nature of the rock. On the basalt of the Five Islands, near Port Kembla,
both species and individuals were remarkably few in number. It is true that the
exposed position of the rocks did not tend to encourage settlement, but even the
hardy species, such as Poneroplax paeteliana, Onithochiton quercinus and Sypharo-
chiton pellis-serpentis, so frequently met with on the outer rocks exposed to the
full foree of the surf in sandstone country, were absent or extremely rare on the
basalt.
In 1907 I visited Montagu Island, about 150 miles south of Sydney. This
Island is roughly in the form of a figure 8, the northern portion of basalt, and the
southern of granite, the two being almost separated by a narrow gully through
which the sea has been known to break in very heavy weather. I found no Lori-
cates on the basalt, and there were not many on the granite. In the boat harbour
Ischnochiton lentiginosus was plentiful, and Poneroplax paeteliana was found on
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the rocks in small numbers. A very sheltered pool was searched thoroughly, and
yielded a total of eight species belonging to seven genera. Of the four common
species which are almost general on the coast of New South Wales—Ischnocluton
proteus, I. crisipus, Ischnoradsia australis, and Heterozona fruticosa—there were
numerous examples, but the other three species in the pool were represented by
single individuals only. The granite island therefore yielded ten species, seven
being common and three rare. This was in the month of October, before the
surface temperature of the water had reached summer level, and the upper littoral
, zone would therefore be most thickly populated.
I then communicated with one of my correspondents in South Australia, Mr.
A. R. Riddle, who kindly sent me a list of the species of Loricates found in
association with three kinds of rock in that State. Associated with magnesian
travertine he had taken no less than 15 genera, comprising 36 species; with
eranite he found 5 genera and 7 species, while with calciferous ferruginous sand-
stone only one species was found. My own observations had resulted in locating
22 genera, comprising 33 species associated with the sandstone of Port Jackson and
vicinity; seven genera and 8 species on the granite of Montagu Island, and three
species on exposed basalt.
During 1910-11 I visited Port Stephens and the Islands (Cabbage Tree,
Broughton, ete.) in the vicinity, but as I was primarily engaged in an investigation
of the Petrels breeding there, very little time was available for collecting Lori-
cates. However, a few hours spent on Fly Point in the Harbour, and on
Broughton Island, disclosed a fairly large number of species and individuals in
the more sheltered localities. No further opportunity for personally investigating
this locality presenting itself, I have gladly taken advantage of the splendid re-
sults attained by Mr. A. EK. J. Thackway, who spent three weeks in making a
careful examination of about fifteen miles of the littoral within Port Stephens.
He collected no less than 34 species, embracing 18 genera, and including all
the species hitherto recorded from Port Jackson, with two or three exceptions.
Mr. Thackway collected in September, one of the cold water months during which
those species which seek a lower zone in the summer would be within wading
reach. The rocks cf the Port are chiefly granitic, and the wealth of the Loricate
fauna appeared remarkable when compared with the comparatively scanty forms
and individuals of Montagu Island. Reference to the geological map of Port
Stephens and its vicinity will show that there are still large gaps to be examined
in detail, but the feature that bears most upon the subject of this paper is the
presence of a large area of Carboniferous sediments with tuffs, forming the
littoral to the east of Nelson’s Bay. Interbedded flows and dykes of andesite
and porphyry are shown on the map, Point Stephens being wholly composed of
andesite.
During the years 1912-16 I visited Bateman’s Bay and the Tollgate Islands,
Ulladulla and Brush Island, Port Kembla and the Five Islands, and in each ease
I was struck with the scanty nature of the Loricate fauna wherever the rock of
the littoral was granitic, basaltic, dioritic, quartzitic or schistose, without any as-
sociation of sandstones, shales or limestone.
During 1921-3 I paid three visits to Queensland during the winter months,
collecting at a number of points from Southport: to Townsville. The results of
these trips may be briefly set out in the order of the localities visited, from south
to north. At Southport the shore rocks are slates and quartzites, much altered
and in places decomposed to ferruginous clays. Here I found not a Loricate of
any kind. Incidentally, however, I may state that Professor T. Harvey Johnston
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gave me some specimens of Squamopleura curtisiana Smith, which he had eol-
lected at Redcliffe at the entrance to the Brisbane River, where the formation
consists of ferruginous clays and sandstones, with decomposed basalt in the
vicinity. As there are sandstones about the islands off Southport I consider it
quite probable that a more extended search will reveal a few Loricates in that
locality. North of Brisbane the first rocks are found at Caloundra. Here the
long sandy stretch of Bribie Island ends at the entrance to the Pumicestone
Passage, and opposite the end of the Island hes Caloundra. Harvey Johnston
(Queens. Nat., 11., 1917, 54) deseribes the locality as follows:—“There are two
rocky headlands, Caloundra Head (or Wickham Point) and Moffat’s Head, the
latter being the more northerly. They are formed of a Trias-Jura (probably
Jurassic) sandstone, sometimes fine grained, coarsely conglomeratic, and contain-
ing a considerable quantity of iron. Imbedded in the rocks are large trunks and
branches of fossil conifers, whose wood has been replaced by limonite, while in
a few places on the cliff face of Moffat’s Head thin bands of coal and carbon-
aceous shale are to be seen.” Some collecting had been done here by Iredale
(1909), Harvey Johnston, and others. I spent five days collecting there in
1921 and 1922, examining both the south and the north headlands; the
latter is higher and more generously furnished with sheltered rock pools
than the former. The yield of Loricates amounted to 18 species of 14
genera, including two species I have since described, the remainder, with one ex-
ception (Liolophura queenslandica Pilsbry), being common to Port Jackson.
Those two handsome members of the highly specialised genus Rhyssoplax, R..
vauclusensis and R. translucens, which Hedley and I first deseribed from Vau-
cluse, were taken in small quantity. About ten miles further north by sea (but
quite a long way round by land!) is Point Cartwright at the entrance to the
Mooloolah River. Here a high bluff has weathered on the northern side, forming
a broken pavement with gutters filled with loose stones, ending in a series of
escarpments behind which lie sheltered pools and seattered boulders. Four days
were devoted to this locality, and the yield was similar to that of Caloundra; if
any difference could be remarked it was in the greater number of individuals, due
possibly to the less accessible locality and the greater extent of protected pools.
About half a mile further north, and on the northern side of the Mooloolah
River, lies Alexandra Headland, another sandstone point, but less extensive, more
ferrugimous, and of a harder nature than that of Point Cartwright. My visits to
this Headland were a brief one in July, when the tide was not very favourable,
and one day in September, when the surface temperature had become higher.
The results were not nearly so good as at Point Cartwright, although an August
visit by a friend had resulted in quite a number of the species usually found in
the upper zone. Ten miles north of Alexandra Headland lies Coolum Head, and
beyond that for a further ten miles stretches Coolum Beach, terminating in the
well-known Noosa Head, south of the entrance to the Tewantin River. I visited
both of these Headlands, which consist of grano-diorite and schists—extremely
hard, jagged masses, seamed and riven with deep clefts into which the surf
tumbles violently even in moderate weather. There are, however, several deep
rock pools with abundant algal growth and many loose stones suitable for the
shelter of Loricates. Both Headlands were practically untenanted, except by the
ubiquitous Lvolophura queenslandica, which inhabited the less exposed crevices
above median tide mark in countless numbers, nearly every specimen examined
showing the effects of exposure in the erosion of the tegmentum. Whole days of
exhaustive search in both localities resulted in my taking a single specimen of
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Omthochiton quercinus and a couple of small examples of Acanthochiton variabilis
on each Headland.
The next point visited was Burnett Heads near Bundaberg. Here the for-
mation is basalt, and although some extensive boulder-strewn pools were examined
the yield was limited to the common Liolophura, which was plentiful, and three
diminutive specimens of Acanthochiton. Port Curtis was the next locality visited,
a country of quartzites and schists, but with extensive muddy foreshores. This is
the type locality of Squamopleura curtisiana, and that species was found in
abundance, chiefly amongst the oysters on the piers of the wharf. Under a few
stones scattered along the shore, and at Barney Point, south of the town of Glad-
stone, I found a considerable number of Ischnochiton (Haploplax) arbutum and
I. luticolens, both apparently finding comfortable quarters and sufficient sustenance
on the hard angular fragments of quartzite embedded in the viscous mangrove
mud of the littoral. A day spent on Facing Island (northern end) yielded numer-
‘ous examples of ILrolophura and a few Acanthopleura gemmata, with three
Acanthochiton variabilis nestling together in a crack in a piece of decomposed
rock. The formation of this Island is quartzites and schists (phosphate-bearing)
with granite at the south end, but I did not reach the granite portion. A raised
coral reef, much weathered, is situated near the northern end on the seaward side.
This reef was thickly populated by Liolophura only. Many hundreds of stones
were diligently overturned in the course of the day’s collecting, but there were no
representatives of the family Ischnochitonidae to be found. The total from Port
Curtis therefore amounted to five genera and six species, four being comparatively
common.
Emu Park, in Keppel Bay, is the principal watering-place of Rockhampton.
Here there is a rocky point of quartzite and schist, with a few sheltered rock
pools, and a day’s collecting yielded the same species as were found at Port
Curtis, together with a new and beautiful species of Rhyssoplax to which I gave
the name venusta; only three examples were taken. The conditions at Emu Park,
as regards shelter, loose stones in pools, and abundance of algal growth, were all
favourable to the harbourage of Loricates, but the results were only seven genera
and species, two being rather plentiful and the others seanty as to individuals.
Two hundred miles further north, -at Slade Point, Mackay, was my next
collecting ground. On the northern and western sides of this point the coal
measures have been disturbed by igneous intrusions. The headland is about
ninety feet in height, and the chff debris forms many sheltered pools, while a
great sandbank, two te three hundred yards out, breaks the surf. The natural
conditions of food and shelter were all that could be desired, but the yield, after
many hours’ patient search, was a total of four species, three of which were re-
presented by single individuals!
Port Denison (Bowen) was next visited, a country of granitic and dioritie
rocks. On the north head where the rocks were associated with much dead and a
little living coral, five genera with eight species were taken, none being very
plentiful. Stone Island, at the entrance to the Port, is most diversified in forma-
tion. Granite, felsite, diorite, with volcanic dykes, and, on the north-western
pomt, Permo-Carboniferous rocks prevail; rocky points project seaward, and be-
tween them lie shallow beaches of coral sand and debris with scattered stones em-
bedded. Here I took four of the species found on North Head, and four others,
three belonging to genera not represented at North Head. The total for Port
Denison therefore amounted to eight genera and twelve species.
The furthest north on the Queensland coast where I have collected is Magnetiz
XIV. PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS.
Island, off Townsville. This Island is principally granite, interspersed with
altered voleanic rocks. My collecting was confined to granite with much coral
sand and debris. Five genera and six species were collected.
From Townsville to Albany is a far ery, but the south-western port is
granite country, with an addition that appears of supreme importance to the
Loricates—the presence of limestone. It was in 1921 that I spent several days
collecting in King George and Queen Charlotte Sounds, where 120 years pre-
viously Peron and Lesueur collected the shells, now in the Paris Museum, which
are accepted as the types of many well-known Australian species. The remark-
able fact that the tides in this locality rarely exceed a rise of two feet not only
facilitates littoral collecting, but tends to a concentration of a fauna which would
otherwise be scattered over a considerable area. Here I found a fairly large
number of species and abundant individuals of many of them. Along the rocks
of the upper zone were countless examples of the shell that Blainville named
Chiton hirtosus in 1825 (I have recently proposed the genus Clavarizona with
this shell as the type); under stones in the lower zones were several species of
Ischnochiton and Acanthochiton, and representatives of the genera Rhyssoplaz,
Cryptoplax, Lorica, Onithochiton, Callistochiton, and Terenochiton. Over the
Harbour, at the Quarantine Ground, I found a bed of Zostera, the plants of
which were inhabited by numerous species of Sienochiton, those curious elongated
Loricates that take up their station on the leaves and inside the root sheaths of
the sea-grasses. When Blainville described Chliton longicymba in 1825, a con-
fusion of locality evidently occurred, for he gave the type locality as King Island,
a place where Peron and Lesueur collected also in 1802. I have since visited that
Island, and failed to find either the Zostera or the Stenochiton. I may here men-
tion a curious coincidence. On my way to King Island, and when boarding the
s.s. Marrawah which was to convey me there, I noticed an old hulk with a high
square stern, lying alongside the steamer. The hulk was named Geographe, the
name of Baudin’s discovery ship on which Peron was the naturalist. To return
to King George Sound, it is necessary to state that the Zostera bed on which the
Stenochitons found such congenial shelter, was situated on a limestone outcrop
terminating in a weathered group of rocks amongst which [ found quite a number
of other Loricates.
From the Sound I proceeded eastwards, calling at Bremer Bay and Hope-
toun, where a few hours were spent in collecting. The former locality was un-
relieved granite, and only three species of Loricates were taken, one being re-
presented by a single individual. At Hopetoun there is a reef of limestone, and
in the pools I found two examples of the rare Strigichiton verconis Torr, of which
so far only four specimens are known, the other two being from Ellenbrook and
Bernier Island on the west coast. Several other species were present in numbers,
but the time available was not sufficient to make a complete examination of the
reef. From there I went to Esperance Bay, and worked out amongst the islands
of the Archipelago of the Recherche. The coast and islands consist of high granite
hills, some rounded and others weathered into peaks, devoid of vegetation except
in the ravines. Some of these hills exceed 1,000 feet in altitude. The shore line
is mostly dazzling white sand, and in most cases where a point of rock juts into
the water it is of solid granite, worn smooth by the sea, and slippery from the
weed which grows to high water mark. Here I found few Loricates. The hardy
Clavarizona hirtosa was found in some comparatively sheltered portions of
Dempster Head, and the valves of a Poneroplax disgorged by a Pacific Gull, were
picked up on the Esperance jetty. On Woody Island there is a small bight
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. XV.
with a beach and adjacent boulders. Here four species of Loricates were taken
in small quantities. Rounding Cape le Grand, about 25 miles from Esperance,
we entered and camped in Lucky Bay, a shallow bay with sandy beach sheltered
by two bold granite headlands. Behind the western head, where we camped, there
is a very sheltered cove with a few yards of cliff debris on the water’s edge,
and a reef of white limestone outcropping on the beach and extending almost
across to the headland. In this shallow cove there is an extensive bed of Zostera.
The few movable stones of the cliff debris were well sprinkied with several species
of Loricates, and the Zostera was simply infested with Stenochitons, S. longi-
cymba down in the root sheaths, and 8. posidonialis Ashby on the leaves. A few
spadefuls of the roots dug up and brought ashore in a kerosene tin afforded me
several hours of pleasure in searching out and preparing the shells for preserva-
tion. On returning to Esperance I went out on a similar bank of Zostera under
the shelter of Dempster Head. An hour’s hard work in digging up and examining
the seagrass did not result in a single shell of any description! I therefora con-
clude that the presence of the shells in the other two instances was due to the
association of the limestone with the granite.
In 1922 I visited King Island, Bass Strait, and collected Loricates in Sea
Elephant Bay, wading over the reefs examined by Peron 120 years previously.
By another curious coincidence W. L. May, of Tasmania, had been moved to do
the same thing a few days before me, although we were quite unaware each of
the other’s movements until later, when we pooled our results. I have already
referred to the absence of the Stenochiton longicymba which Blainville attributed
to “rivages de l’Ile King,” and which May, eollecting at other points on the
Island, had also failed to locate. As shown by Debenham (Journ. Roy. Soe.
N.S.W., xliv., 1910, 560) the Island blocks up rather more than a quarter of the
western entrance to Bass Strait. On the west coast it is buttressed by large
batholiths of granite—grey biotite-granites with accessory muscovite. Currie
Harbour is situated about the middle of the west coast, and I collected here and
to the south, also at Whistler Point, south of Yellow Rock R., near the north-
western point of the Island. Currie Harbour is sheltered, with abundant growth
of kelp and other seaweeds, with patches of the sea grass Cymodocea. The total
results for the west coast, were five genera and seven species of Loricates, four
species being represented by numerous individuals. One, Heterozona subvirids,
was present in such profusion that it was not unusual to find fifty specimens
clustering on a small stone having less than a square foot of under surface. On
the eastern shore I collected at Fraser or Sea Elephant Bay. Debenham is un-
certain as to the formation here, stating that the basalt shown on the map south
of the Fraser River is on slender evidence only. He appears to consider that
closer examination will show that there are dykes of dolerite with porphyritic
felspars. So far as I could ascertain Fraser Bluff and the reefs near the jetty
are of porphyry, but there is evidence of decomposition, and many rock pools
exist, well furnished with loose stones offering shelter to numerous Loricates.
Here I collected fifteen species belonging to seven genera, four species being
represented by numerous individuals, as on the western coast.
During the past three years I have paid several visits to Shellharbour, sixty
miles south of Port Jackson, and have also received very material assistance from
Mr. MeAndrew, a resident and a keen collector. The artificial harbour has been
formed by building a causeway across the narrow strait that formerly existed be-
tween Cowrie Island and the mainland; while a concrete breakwater has been built
out from the shore to the south of the island, with an arm extending southwards
XVI. PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
from the island itself. A very snug little harbour is thus provided, and it has
yielded a splendid harvest of Loricates. Cowrie Island and Cemetery Point are
of Jamberoo tuffs, and on both sides there is basalt. A mile of beach extends to
the south of the harbour, and there the basalt with included masses of voleanie
tuffs extends to Point Bass. In the harbour there is a large ac-
cumulation of loose boulders on the northern side, mixed with quantities
of debris from the harbour works, and ballast discharged from visiting
vessels. In this favoured spot we have taken twenty-eight species belonging to
eighteen genera, and the possibilities of the place do not appear to be exhausted
yet. Here there are no rock-pools in the accepted sense of the term, but merely
an expanse of rather muddy sand strewn with more or less movable boulders and
stones. There are several beds of Zostera, but they harbour no representatives
ef the genus Stenociiton, although some of the common Ischnochitons are found
taking shelter in the root sheaths. A marked feature of this spot is the abundance
of species of Rhyssoplaz, all five of the New South Wales species being represented,
three of them in comparatively large numbers. The colours of the latter are re-
markably diversified and beautiful. The basalt rock pools towards. Point Bass
are holes weathered in the lava flow, and beneath this flow, just below sea level,
lie the marine sandstones. These pools, with their sandstone association, yielded
25 species belonging to sixteen genera. Here again, the field has been by no
means exhausted.
In addition to the collections made personally, I have received representative
gatherings from Twofold Bay, N.S.W., Mallacoota Inlet, Port Fairy, and Port-
land, Victoria; north-western and southern Tasmania, and from various localities
in South Aunsoraitin, with some general idea as to ane geological formation where
the collections were made.
Conclusions.
From the foregoing observations I conclude :—
1. That the Loricates exhibit a marked preference for sandstone, lmestone,
and other sedimentary rocks, the number of species exceeding twenty-five, and
there being a wealth of individuals.
2. That voleanic rocks are marked by a sparse Loricate fauna, both. of
species and individuals, the number of species never exceeding ten, less than half
of which are at all plentiful.
3. Where voleanic rocks are in association with, or immediately overlie
sandstone or limestone, the Loricate fauna at once assumes considerable propor-
tions.
4. The foregoing apply, notwithstanding the existence of similar conditions
of shelter, food plants, and constant supply of pure sea-water.
I gratefully acknowledge the assistance afforded me in the identification of
the rocks of the littoral of Queensland by Mr. B. Dunstan, Chief Government
Geologist; and by Messrs. Andrews (Government Geologist), Harper and Dun
of the New South Wales Geological Survey, as regards the rocks of this State.
The relation of the flora to the country rock has received considerable atten-
tion, and in this respect I would refer with appreciation to a paper by Mr. R. H.
Cambage on the Native Flora of Tropical Queensland (Journ. Roy. Soe. N.S.W.,
xlix., 1915) in which he gives copious information as to the nature of the rock
or soil at each locality visited, and draws interesting deductions as to the effect
of the soil upon the vegetation or the variations in plants as possibly resulting
from adaptation to environment. Dr. Jensen lectured at the December, 1921,
meeting of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club on “The Relationship between Soil,
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. XVil.
Forest Flora, and Geological Formation”; and he also published a series of articles
on the same subject in the Queensland Agricultural Journal, 1921-2. Other re-
ferences could be given, but it is sufficient to show that the relation of the flora
to the rock is the subject of attention. One finds less reference to the fauna in
relation to the rocks, but Dr. Spencer Roberts.and Mr. Hubert Jarvis contributed
a paper to the Emu (xxu., April, 1923, 288) on the “Small Birds of the Granite
Belt,” the meeting point of the Dividing Range of South Queensland and the
New England Highland.
There is much in the investigations of the zoologist that depends upon at
least a superficial knowledge of the country rock; to the conchologist, perhaps,
more than to any other observer. In discussing my predecessor’s presidential ad-
dress, referring particularly to the section dealing with the need for a biological
survey, Professor Harrison said “Zoology is waiting until Botany and Geology
have completed their investigations,” and he appealed to research students to get
on with their work in ecology and geological survey, so that the ground may be
cleared for a biological survey. May I suggest that the three go hand in hand
in parties taking definite sections—the geologist to make a survey of the surface;
the botanist to identify the plants and plot their incidence on the geologist’s sketch
map; and the zoologist to collect or list the fauna and note its ecology. Much
more effective work could be done by such a co-operative method.
In the course of collecting Loricates one meets with many observers curious
to know the objects of the search. “Bait?” is the usual laconic query, and though
some scoff when shown the shells sought for, others remain to admire and learn.
My old friend Dr. Torr, of Adelaide, relates with gusto an encounter he had with
a seoffer. The doctor; over seventy years of age, but still a keen collector, was
up to his waist in a pool picking some desired specimens from stones raised from
the bottom. ‘“Whadyer gettin’?” inquired a shore loafer. “Chitons,”’ replied the
doctor. “Can yer eat ’em?” was the next inquiry. “No.” “Can yer sell
’em?” “No.” “Well whads ther good of gettin’ ’em?” The doctor, who is a
master of homiletics, could not let such an opportunity pass. “My good man,”
said he, “mankind may be broadly divided into three classes:—those whose god 1s
their belly, those whose god is boodle—and you might represent either class. The
third find their worship in the exercise of their brains. Good afternoon.”
There is a very large section of our community comprising men of political
and financial standing and importance, whose attitude towards scientific work is
that of Dr. Torr’s interlocutor. “What is it worth—in money or goods?” is the
question, actual or implied, always on the lips of these men. They are incapable
of appreciating or unwilling to admit the value of research or systematic work,
the results of which cannot be immediately expressed in terms of cash or barter.
Sometimes a remark by a passing observer as to the collector’s labours or
personal appearance is humorous, but J will always remember the remark of the
little girl, who, after watching the great cairns of stones accumulating in my
wake, called out “Say, mister. What are you collecting all them rocks for?”
One word in conclusion before I finally vacate this chair. You are aware
that hitherto it has been tacitly understood that when a member of Council was
elected President, his term should extend over a second year should he so desire.
Some time ago a discussion took place in your Couneil on the question and it
appeared to be the general opinion that this lex non scripta should be abrogated.
I am desirous of carrying on investigations in other States during the current
year and I therefore relinquish this chair in favour of my esteemed colleague in
recognition of the Council’s opinion and in furtherance of my personal inclinations.
XV1l. 'PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS,
‘Mr. J. H. Campbell, Hon. Treasurer, presented the balance sheets for the
year 1923, duly signed by the Auditor, Mr. F. H. Rayment, F.C.P.A., Ineor-
porated Accountant; and he moved that they be received and adopted which was
carried unanimously.
No nominations of other Candidates having been received, the President de-
elared the following elections for the ensuing Session to be duly made :—
President: Mr. R. H. Cambage, F.L.S.
Members of Council (to fill six vacancies): Messrs. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.,
A. G. Hamilton, C. Hedley, F.L.S., T. Steel, G. A. Waterhouse, B.Se., B.E.,
F.E.S., and Prof. L. Harrison, B.A., B.Se.
Auditor: Mr. F. H. Rayment, F.C.P.A.
A cordial vote of thanks to the retiring President was carried by acclamation.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES I.—IIl.
Plate i.
Upper—Cowrie Island, Shellharbour, N.S.W. Easter, 1923.
Lower——Shellharbour, N.S.W. Easter, 1923.
Plate ii.
Upper—Moffat Head, Caloundra, Q. Northern end of beach.
Lower.—Point Cartwright, Q.
Plate iii.
Upper—Port Macquarie,,N.S.W.
Lower—Magnetic Island, near Townsville, Q.
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XX11.
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING.
26th Marcu, 1924.
Mr. R. H. Cambage, F.L.S., President, in the Chair.
A letter was read from Mrs. Deane, returning thanks for sympathy in the
death of her husband.
The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(28th November, 1923), amounting to 24 Vols., 256 Parts or Nos., 58 Bulletins,
22 Reports and 66 Pamphlets, ete., received from 125 Societies and Institutions
and 4 private donors were laid upon the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species, No. 3. By H. J. Carter,
B.A., F.E.S. ;
2. Studies in the vegetation of arid and semiarid New South Wales. Part
ii. The Botanical Features of the Grey Range and its neighbourhood. By
Marjorie I. Collins, B.Se., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Botany.
3. New trilobites from Bowning, with notes on Hnecrinurus and Cordania.
By John Mitchell.
4. Studies in parasitism. 1. A contribution to the physiology of the genus
Cassytha. By J. McLuckie, M.A., D.Se.
Mr. E. Cheel exhibited a specimen of sclerotium or so-called “Black-fellow’s
bread” collected at Mount Wilson by Mr. J. J. Sloan, on the 10th of March,
which had developed six well formed and definite pilei or spore-bearing caps
of a ecreamy-white colour with zones of a lemon-yellow tint tending to egg-yolk
colour when matured. From the fissures eight other partially developed pilei
were observed, but the contents of the sclerotium having been absorbed, the latter
were not developed beyond # of an inch.
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING.
30th Apri, 1924.
Mr. R. H. Cambage, President, in the Chair.
Miss Ida Alison Brown, B.Se., Geology Department, The University of
Sydney; Dr. Edwin Claud Chisholm, Comboyne; Mr. Reginald Ernest Dickinson,
B.Se. Eng. (Lond.), A.M.I.C.E., Engineer, N.S.W. Government Railways, and
Mr. Francis Basset Hull, “Tolosa,’ Wemyss Street, Marrickville were elected
Ordinary Members of the Society.
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXlil.
The President announced that the Council had elected Professor H. G. Chap-
man, M.D., B.S., and Messrs. J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Se., G@. A. Waterhouse,
B.Se., B.E., F.E.S., and A. F. Basset Hull to be Vice-Presidents and Mr. J. H.
Campbell, M.B.E., to be Honorary Treasurer for the current session, 1924-25.
The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(26th March, 1924), amounting to 27 Vols., 160 Parts or Nos., 2 Bulletins, and
1 Report, received from 71 Societies and Institutions and 9 private donors were
laid upon the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. The Loranthaceae of Australia. Part v. By W. F. Blakely.
2. A critical revision of the Australian and New Zealand species of the genus
Secotium. By G. H. Cunningham. (Communicated by Professor J. B. Cleland).
3. Studies in the Epacridaceae. i. The life-history of Styphelia longifolia
(R.Br.). By P. Brough, M.A., B.Se., B.Se. Ag.
4. A monograph of the freshwater Entomostraca of New South Wales.
Part iv. Phyllopoda. By Marguerite Henry, B.Sec., Linnean Macleay Fellow of
the Society in Zoology.
NOTES AND EXHIBITS.
Mr. David G. Stead exhibited a number cof examples of an Amphioxus
(Branchiostoma sp:) which had been sent to him by Professor 8. F. Light, Pro-
fessor of Zoology in the University of Amoy in China. Professor Light had re-
cently described an Amphioxus fishery of a most extensive character—quite unique
in the world—which has existed for hundreds of years at the village of Liuwutien,
six miles from the University. As much as 2,600 lbs. weight of these organisms
is taken each day during the 9 months of the fishery each year.
Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited specimens of beetle borers and their parasites
taken from red Louan sawn timber imported from the Philippines: (i.) a bostrychid
beetle, Xylothrips flavipes Zell., which bores and lays its eggs in the dry sap-
wood; (u.) a lyetid beetle, Lyctopholus rugicollis Walker; (ii1.) three coleopterous
parasites and one braconid wasp parasitic on these beetles.
Protessor L. Harrison exhibited an irregularly conical shaped object about 8
inches in height found in an air space under a step at the entrance to the Macleay
Museum. It appeared to be made up of pellets of earth around a central cylin-
drical opening about 2 inches in diameter, the opening being continued into the
eround. Mr. Froggatt suggested that it had been built by a Cicada, similar ~
structures, not quite so large, being of common occurrence in some parts of
America.
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING.
28th May, 1924.
Mr. R. H. Cambage, President, in the Chair.
The President announced that the Society’s offices had been removed to 16
College Street and that the Council had decided on the name “Macleay House”
for the Society’s house.
The President, on behalf of members, offered congratulations to Dr. G. A.
Waterhouse on obtaining his doctorate of science of the University of Sydney.
Miss M. J. Collins, on obtaining the degree of Master of Science of the University
of Sydney and Mr. I. M. Mackerras, on being awarded the John Coutts Seholar-
ship by the University of Sydney.
XXIV. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS.
The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(30th April, 1924), amounting to 10 Vols., 117 Parts or Nos., 4 Bulletins, 4
Reports and 1 Pamphlet, received from 57 Societies and Institutions and 2
private donors were laid upon the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains and their defined areas. By E. C.
Chisholm. (Communicated by Mr. J. H. Maiden).
2. Notes on Australian Diptera. No. ii. By J. R. Malloch. (Com-
municated by Dr. E. W. Ferguson).
3. The food-planis or hosts of some Fitian insects. Part 2. By R. Veitch,
B.Se., and W. Greenwood.
4. Observations on /Telix aspera in Australia. By T. Steel.
NOTES AND EXHIBITS.
Mr. W. F. Blakely exhibited from the National Herbarium, (1) a terato-
logical specimen of Asparagus officinalis L., (Wagga Wagga, Bishop J. W.
Dwyer) showing fasciation of the stem, which measured 31 inches long, and 1}
in. broad, the greater portion of which showed ribbon-growth, and a small
portion of the top winding-growth. (2) Silene nocturna L., Night-flowering
Catchfly, which appears to be new for the State. It is a native of the Mediter-
ranean, and like 8. gallica, which it closely resembles, it is now a common weed
in cultivation in nearly all parts of the world. It is a more glabrous plant than
S. gallica, and has longer and more eylindrical capsules. It was first brought
under notice by Mr. D. Cross, Dundas, who said that it is very common, and
erows in association with S. gallica. Mr. T. R. Harrison, Hawkesbury Agricul-
tural College, Richmond, says that it is in restricted areas at the College, and
appears to be well established.
Mr. E. Cheel exhibited specimens of Mimalus moschatus, cultivated in the
Botanie Gardens, which showed the same characteristics as the old-fashioned
sweet-scented Musk Plant, but like most of the present-day plants cultivated in
Great Britain, it had lost its musk-like odour. It is interesting to note that
specimens have been collected on the Upper Murray, Victoria, by Mr. A. Quinn
in December, 1905; also at Queanbeyan, N.S.W., by Mr. R. H. Cambage in De.
cember, 1912, which latter the late Mr. EK. Betche noted “seemed to be an escape
from cultivation” and “apparently naturalised” respectively. No mention is
made by the collectors as to the loss of scent in the naturalised plants, but Mr.
Cheel states that some plants having the distinctive musk-like odour were culti-
vated by Mr. J. McRae, Propagator in the Centennial Park, during the years
1898-1900.
In view of the discussion that has taken place in the daily press as well
as in Scientific and Horticultural Publications, concerning the loss of scent in
present-day plants, it would be of special interest to locate a plant having the
musk-like odour, as they appear to be unobtainable in Great Britain. Mr. Cheel
also exhibited specimens of the “Californian Straw Flower” (Collomia grandiflora
Dang.) collected by Dr. F. A. Rodway on the Upper Tumut River near Kiandra,
and at Wolseley Park, Wagga Wagga, by Mr. P. G. Ricel, which shows that the
plant is spreading since it was first recorded from Canoblas, Orange (see Agric.
Gaz. N.S.W., xv., 1904, 624).
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXV.
Mr. T. Steel remarked that the specimen exhibited by Professor Harrison
at the April meeting, appeared, from the description in the Abstract, to agree
with the tubular entrance of the burrow of Engaeus, a burrowing land crayfish.
With reference to Mr. Steel’s remarks, Mr. D. G. Stead stated that the
position of the formation referred to (at the top of a hill in hard shales, far
removed from water) and its structure precluded the possibility of there being
any connection with burrows of Hngaeus or other burrowing crayfish.
Professor A. A. Lawson exhibited some lantern slides of orchids.
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING.
25th June, 1924.
Mr. R. H. Cambage, President, in the Chair.
The President offered congratulations to Dr. Darnell Smith on his appoint-
ment as Director of the Botanic Gardens.
The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(28th May, 1924), amounting to 1 Vol., 78 Parts or Nos., 12 Bulletins, 2 Re-
ports and 1 Pamphlet, received from 46 Societies and Institutions and 3 private
donors were laid upon the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. Two new thrips-galls and their inhabitants from New South Wales.
By W. Docters van Leeuwen and H. H. Karny. (Communicated by Mr. J. H.
Maiden).
2. On some Australian Searabaeidae. By A. M. Lea.
3. Results of Roy Bell’s Molluscan Collections. By T. Iredale. (Com-
municated by Mr. C. Hedley).
NOTES AND EXHIBITS.
Mr. EH. Le G. Troughton exhibited (by permission of the Director of the
Australian Museum) a photograph and specimen of a female insectivorous bat,
Nyctinomus australis Gray, 1838, from Mittagong, N.S.W. The specimen is in
the Museum collection, together with another from the Taree District, N.S.W.
Both are females and have pure white stripes of fur on the under-surface of the
lateral membranes, and well developed gular sacs, which characters are described
as typical of the female of the South Australian species, N. albidus Leche, 1884.
In 1906, Thomas recorded australis from south-western Australia, and stated
that his specimen did not differ in any important respect from Gray’s type;
Collett (1887) described a female having an indistinct gular sac, which is said
to be typical of the female australis, and white under-wing fur characteristic
of the female albidus. In consideration of the plastic nature of the characters
used to separate the two species, the wide range now covered by australis, and
the variation displayed by female specimens, the exhibitor feels justified in
assuming albidus to be Synonymous with australis, of which species it 1s merely
a variation due to age or seasonal changes.
Mr. E. Le G. Troughton exhibited a specimen of the White-backed Wren
(Malurus leuconotus Gould) which he had eollected at Mt. Lyndhurst, 30 miles
east of Farina, South Australia. Mr. Iredale pointed out that this species had
been described by Gould nearly sixty years ago, and the type being lost, had
been recently removed from the list of Australian Birds, the supposition being
XXV1. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS.
that the species had been based upon a freak skin. Mr. Troughton’s specimen
proved that M. lewconotus was a valid species, apparently restricted in range,
and probably Gould’s specimen had been collected in the same locality whence
the bird now exhibited was procured. As Gould’s type was lost, the present
bird could be regarded as a neotype, and was probably one of the most interest-
ing birds exhibited before this Society.
Dr. G. A. Waterhouse exhibited a second generation hybrid (female) from
his series of crosses. The original cross was Tisiphone abeona x T. morrist. This
specimen shows the forewings closely approximating in colour to the forewings
of abeona whilst the hindwings are almost identical in cclour and markings with
the hindwings of morris.
This being the last meeting in the Linnean Hall at Elizabeth Bay, the
President referred to the circumstances under which the Society became possessed
of the Hall through the generosity of Sir William Macleay, as well as to the
many other ways in which the Society was indebted to Sir William. Other
members (Messrs. J. J. Fletcher, R. T. Baker, W. W. Froggatt, A. G. Hamilton,
D. G. Stead and Dr. A. B. Walkom) recounted what the Society owed Sir
William, without whose munificence the Society could not have succeeded as it
has done. It is hoped that a short historical account of the Society will be
published for members in connection with the Jubilee celebrations early next
year.
As this was the last meeting to be held in the Linnean Hall at Elizabeth
Bay, a flashlight photograph was taken of the meeting in order that there might
be a permanent record.
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING.
26th Jury, 1924.
(At Maeleay House, 16 College Street, Sydney).
Mr. R. H. Cambage, President, in the Chair.
The President drew attention to the fact that this meeting, the first held
in the Society's new home, marked a-distinct step in the development of the
Society and would, in time to come, be looked back upon by members as one
of great historic interest.
Dr. C. Anderson, president of the Royal Society of New South Wales, con-
veyed a friendly message from the Council of that Society extending cordial
greetings and expressing the hope that the friendly co-operation between the
two societies, for the advancement of science, might ever continue.
On the motion of Mr. A. F. Basset Hull, it was resolved that the message
be acknowledged, and the hope reiterated that the friendly spirit of co-operation
between the two societies might always exist.
_ Mr. James Roy Kinghorn, Australian Museum, Sydney, was elected an
Ordinary Member of the Society.
A letter was read from Dr. G. P. Darnell Smith, returning thanks for
congratulations.
The President offered congratulations to Dr. A. N. Burkitt on his appoint-
ment as Associate Professor of Anatomy in the University of Sydney.
The President announced that Mr. C. Hedley, who had been a Member of
Council since 1897, had resigned from the Council on account of his continued
absence in Queensland, and that Professor A. A. Lawson had also resigned from
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXVIl.
the Council; also that the Council had elected Mr. A. R. McCulloch, of the
Australian Museum, to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Hedley’s resignation.
The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(25th June, 1924), amounting to 14 Vols., 127 Parts or Nos., 13 Bulletins, 5
Reports and 4 Pamphlets., ete., received from 63 Societies and Institutions and
4 private donors were laid upon the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. Notes on breeding Entomostraca from dried mud, and their habits in
aquaria. By Marguerite Henry, B.Se., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society
in Zoology.
2. Entomostraca collected in the vicinity of Auckland, N.Z. By Marguerite
Henry, B.Se., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology.
3. Notes on Australian Diptera. No. iii. By. J. R. Malloch. (Com-
municated by Dr. E. W. Ferguson).
4. A revision of the Australian Chiromyzini (Diptera). By G. H. Hardy.
NOTES AND EXHIBITS.
Dr. G. A. Waterhouse exhibited larvae of Philiris ilias innotatus Misk. He
pointed out that these larvae were very different in shape from these of Canda-
lides, of which genus Philiris is considered a synonym. On a previous occasion
he had exhibited pupae of Philiris, which also differ very much from pupae of
Candalides. Though the venation of both Candalides and Philiris is very similar,
the butterflies of these two genera have a very different facies and this, com-
bined with the great differences in both larvae and pupae, has confirmed his
previous opinion that the two should be kept as distinct genera.
He also exhibited a specimen of Loranthus linophyllus found growing on
Casuarina glauca between Mona Vale and Bay View, a few miles distant from
Newport where it had been recorded by Mr. R. H. Cambage. This parasite 1s
of infrequent occurrence in the County of Cumberland, but was growing on
many she-oaks near Mona Vale.
Mr. E. Cheel exhibited a fine series of specimens of the common Port
Jackson Fig (Ficus rubiginosa Vent.) collected from trees in The Botanic Gar-
dens, Government Domains and various Parks and private gardens in the Sydney
district, showing extreme variation in the size and shape of the leaves and
fruits, as well as in the colour of the indumentum. Other examples collected by
Dr. J. B. Cleland and himself from 32 trees growing naturally from Mosman to
Cremorne Point, and from Narrabeen by Dr. Cleland, were also shown for com-
parison with the cultivated plants. It was suggested that some of the forms
may be identical with F. platypoda and the doubtful varieties mollis, petiolaris
and minor of Bertham.
Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited specimens of the coconut moth (Levuana iridescens)
in its various stages; this insect is now very destructive to the copra industry in
some Fijian islands and efforts are being made to secure parasites to keep it
in check.
Mr. A. Musgrave exhibited some lantern slides of views of Lord Howe
Island.
XXVIll. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS.
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING.
27th Aueust, 1924.
(At Macleay House, 16 College Street, Sydney.)
Mr. J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Se., Vice-President, in the Chair.
The Chairman announced that Dr. W..R. Browne had been elected a mem-
ver of Council to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor Lawson.
The Chairman offered congratulations to Miss Marjorie I. Collins, who had
been awarded a Dominion Research Scholarship for the year 1924-25, tenable at
the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
Mr. Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts, B.Se., Prickly Pear Laboratory,
Sherwood, Brisbane, Queensland, was elected an ordinary member of the Society.
The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(30th July, 1924), amounting to 11 Vols., 83 Parts or Nos., 8 Bulletins, 1 Report
and 1 Pamphlet, received from 53 Societies and Institutions and 3 private donors
were laid upon the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. The Nectar of Flowers. By T. Steel.
2. An Australian Caryophyllaeid Cestode. By Professor T. Harvey John-
ston, M.A., D.Se.
3. Notes on Australian Diptera. No. iv. By J. R. Malloch. (Communi-
cated by Dr. FE. W. Ferguson.)
4. The motor nerve-endings of the limb muscles of the frog (Rana tem-
poraria) and of the muscles of the pectoral fin of the Dog-fish (Squalus acan-
thias). By P. D. F. Murray, B.Se., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society
in Zoology.
5. Studies in Plant Pigments. Part ii. The red pigment induced by
insect injury in Eucalyptus stricta. By J. M. Petrie, D.Sc. F.1I.C., Linnean
Macleay Fellow of the Society in Bio-chemistry.
NOTES AND EXHIBITS.
Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited the life history of the green wood moth,
Charagia eximia Scott; the stem of the tree with covering and bore containing
the larva; also the cap and section of a bore into another tree trunk, a larva,
and two of the female moths from Brooklana, Dorrigo, N.S.W.
Mr. A. S. Le Souef exhibited skins of two new rock wallabies; one, allied
to the yellow-footed rock wallaby, from Bulloo River, S.W. Queensland, and
one from Dajarra, N.W. Queensland.
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING.
24th Sepremper, 1924.
(At Macleay House, 16 College Street, Sydney).
Mr. R. H. Cambage, F.L.S., President, in the Chair.
The President announced the death of Professor G. B. De Toni, of Modena,
Italy, who had been an Honorary Member since 1897 and also of Mr. H. G.
Smith, who had been a member since 1899.
The President announced that the Annual Natural History and Wild Flower
Exhibition of the Naturalists’ Society of New South Wales will be held in the
Art Gallery of the Education Department from 9th to 15th October.
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. Xxx.
The President also announced that the Council is prepared to receive ap-
plications for four Linnean Macleay Fellowships tenable for one year from Ist
March, 1925, from qualified candidates. Applications should be lodged with the
Secretary, who will afford all necessary information to intending candidates, not
later than Wednesday, 5th November, 1924.
The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(27th August, 1924), amounting to 17 Vols., 131 Parts or Nos., 14 Bulletins, 3
Reports and 1 Pamphlet, received from 56 Societies and Institutions and 1
private donor were laid upon the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Lasiocampidae. By A. J. Turner,
M.D., F.E.S.
2. Upper Permian Coleoptera and a new Order from the Belmont Beds,
N.S.W. By R. J. Tillyard, M.A., D.Se., F.E.S., F.L.S.
3. A preliminary reference to a new species of Elonichthys from the lower
heds of the Neweastle Coal Measures. By John Mitchell.
4. Further reference to the occurrence of Merista plebeia Sowerby in New
South Wales. By John Mitchell.
5. Eleven new species of Aviculopecten from Carboniferous rocks, Myall
Lakes, N.S.W. By John Mitchell.
NOTES AND EXHIBITS.
Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited (1) the life-history of the Pin-hole Borer,
Crossotarsus armipennis, of the Spotted Gum (Eucalyptus maculata) from
Morisset, N.S.W. This Scolytid beetle bores through the bark of freshly fallen
spotted gums and forms radii along galleries in the sap-wood, in which the larvae
are developed and pupate. The adult beetles do all the boring, the larvae feed-
ing upon the fungus forming on the walls of the galleries with the fermenting
sap; (2) photograph of a Wasp Tree and specimens of wasps and nest. This
photograph showed a Blue Gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis) growing on the road-
side at Brooklana (Dorrigo), on which the Paper Nest Wasps (Polistes tas-
maniensis) have built many thousands of nests, extending up the sunny side of
the trunk for about 30 feet. On his first visit, November, 1923, all these nests
were small and separated from each other, now they are all joined together,
forming an almost unbroken coating of the tree trunk. Under normal conditions
these nests are seldom over a few inches in diameter and the adult wasps feed
the larvae with chewed up spiders. How these millions of larvae are fed it is
difficult to imagine.
Mr. J. Mitchell exhibited a specimen of a fossil insect wing from Belmont,
N.S.W. :
Mr. EK. Cheel exhibited fresh flowering specimens of Microcitrus australis
(Planchon) Swingle (Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., v. (16), 1915, 575) (Citrus
australis Planchon, B. FI, i., 371), from two plants cultivated in the Botanic
Gardens, Sydney. The flowers are mostly 3-merous or occasionally 4-merous,
with 18 or 20 free stamens with pollen of a rich orange-yellow colour. Although
the plants have flowered in the Gardens three successive seasons, no fruits have
set. Specimens in the National Herbarium from Murwillumbah, Ballina, Boat
Harbour, Richmond River and Burringbar are identical with the cultivated plants
mentioned above and all show that the flowering period is during August to
November. There is also a fruiting specimen from a plant cultivated in the
XxX. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS.
Centennial Park, the fruits being quite globose (about 1 inch diameter). All the
above have been mis-determined as M. australasica (F.v.M.) Swingle, but the
latter has smaller leaves, and eylindric-fusiform fruits. A fresh specimen from
a plant cultivated at Ashfield raised from seeds of the true “Finger Lime” was
shown for comparison.
ORDINARY MONTHLY MERTING.
29th Octoprr, 1924.
(At Macleay House, 16 College Street, Sydney).
Mr. R. H. Cambage, F.L.8., President, in the Chair.
The President called attention to the fact that this meeting took place on
the fiftieth anniversary of the first preliminary meeting in connection with the
formation of the Society, and announced that at the NER General Meeting
the Jubilee of the Society would be celebrated.
Mr. Fred Wright, Seville Street, Lane Cove, was elected an Ordinary Mem-
ber of the Society.
A letter was read from Mrs. H. G. Smith and family, returning thanks for
expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement.
Candidates for Linnean Macleay Fellowships, 1925-26, were reminded that
Wednesday, 5th November, is the last day for receiving applications.
The Donations and Hxchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(24th September, 1924), amounting to 8 Vols., 89 Parts or Nos., and 6 Bulletins,
received from 45 Societies and Institutions and 2 private donors were laid upon
the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. The Influence of certain Colloids upon Fermentation. Part i. By R.
Greig-Smith, D.Se., Macleay Bacteriologist to the Society.
2. Note upen determining the hydrogen-ion concentration colorimetrically
in small quantities of fluids. By R. Greig-Smith, D.Se., Macleay Bacteriologist
to the Society.
3. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. iv. By H. J.
Carter, B.A., F.H.S.
4. Australian Nemestrinidae (Diptera). By G. H. Hardy.
NOTES AND EXHIBITS.
Mr. D. G. Stead gave a short account of the Pan-Pacifie Food Conference
held recently at Honolulu.
Mr. H. Cheel exhibited specimens of the “Adder’s-tongue Fern” (Ophio-
glossum Pranthi) which were found quite common in pasture-land in the neigh-
bourhood of Orange. Although this species has a wide range (vide Handb. FI.
N.S.W.) it is only found on certain soil-formations. Specimens in the National
Herbarium, Sydney, are from Riverstone, Lilyvale, Dubbo, Condobolin, Lachlan
District, Yandama and Warialda in this Stacy and from King Island, Tasmania,
Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Port Phillip (Victoria), Mount ibility. S.A.,
and Central Australia. It has been recorded in various works under the names
O. vulgatum L., and O. lanceolatum Prantl. Christensen (Ind. Fil., 1896, 471)
regards this as a distinet species. Oliver (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xlix., 1916, 126)
reduces it as a variety under O. vulgatwm—i.e., O. vulgatum var. Prantlii (C.Chr.)
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXX.
Oliver. It seems also very closely allied and may not be specifically distinct
from O. lusitamicum Willd.
Dr. A. B. Walkom exhibited a specimen collected by Mr. T. H. Pincombe
showing scale-leaves of Glossopteris, with which are associated sporangia similar
to those described by Arber but aggregated in groups.
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING.
26th Novempesr, 1924.
(At Macleay House, 16 College Street, Sydney).
Mr. R. H. Cambage, F.L.S., President, in the Chair.
The President announced that Mr. A. F. Basset Hull had resigned from the
Council of the Society, on account of his projected absence from the State
during the greater part of the coming year.
The President also announced that the Council had re-appointed Mr. P.
D. F. Murray and Miss M. M. Williams to Linnean Macleay Feliowships in
Zoology and Botany respectively for another year from 1st March, 1925, and
had appointed Dr. I. M. Mackerras and Mr. G. D. Osborne to Fellowships in
Zoology and Geology respectively for one year from 1st March, 1925.
The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting
(29th October, 1924), amounting to 6 Vols., 61 Parts or Nos., 6 Bulletins, 2
Reports and 1 Pamphlet, received from 43 Societies and Institutions and 3
private donors were laid upon the table.
PAPERS READ.
1. Two new Hemiptera from New South Wales. Bye rien Meso Erale
(Communicated by A. J. Nicholson, M.Sc.).
2. Critical notes on the Temnocephaloidea. By Professor W. A. Haswell,
M.A., D.Se., F.R.S.
3. An ecological study of the flora of Mt. Wilson. Part i. The vegetation
of the basalt. By P. Brough, M.A., B.Se., J. MeLuckie, M.A., D.Se., and A.
H. K. Petrie.
NOTES AND EXHIBITS.
Mr. W. F. Blakely exhibited from the National Herbarium four introduced
plants not hitherto recorded for the State. (1) Rapistrum hispanicus (L.)
Crantz, var. hirsutum (Cariot) O. E. Schulz, Broken Hill (A. Morris, No. 601).
(2) B. rugosum (L.) All, var. nervosum (Pers.) D.C., Junee district (J. B.
Nugent). The variety is distinguished from the typical form in being more
glabrous. (3) Myosotis versicolor (Pers.) Sm., Gilmore, near Tumut (J. L.
Boorman). It is said to be distributed throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. In
general appearance it is not unlike some small forms of the native species,
M. australis, from which it can be separated by the longer calyx-seements. (4)
Echium italicum L., near Young (W. J. Smith). It is an undesirable weed.
Mr. H. Cheel exhibited specimen of Myriangium montagnei Berk., collected
in the Centennial Park 14th May, 1901, on branches of Casuarina distyla. In a
paper entitled “Studies in Entomogenous Fungi,” by T. Petch (The British
Mycological Society Transactions, x., 1924, 75) Myriangium duriaei, of Aus-
tralian authors, together with M. dolichospermum Wilson (Proe. Roy. Soe. Vie-
XXXL. _ ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS.
toria, v., 1892, 160) and M. acaciae McAlpine (These Proceedings, xxix., 1904,
124) are included as synonyms. Although previously classed under the family
Collemaceae of the Lichenes group of plants by several authorities, the genus
is now generally regarded as belonging to fungi and included under the family
Myriangiaceae. There is a large series of specimens in the National Herbarium,
Sydney, usually associated with scale insects on Hymenanthera dentata and
various species of Acacia, in Victoria and other localities in this State.
Mr. David G. Stead related some of his experiences at Honolulu at the
Pan-Pacifie Food Conservation Conference and deseribed his air flights over the
Hawaiian Islands. The remarks were illustrated by lantern slides.
XXXill.
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES.
Received during the period 29th November, 1923, to 26th November, 1924.
(From the respective Societies, etc., unless otherwise mentioned: )
ADELAIDE.
Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914.—Scientifie Reports, Series C,
vi., 6 (1924).
Department of Mines: Geological Survey of South Australia—Muining Re-
view for Half-years ended 30th June, 1923 (No. 38) (1923); 31st De-
cember, 1923 (No. 39) (1924); Report of the Director of Mines and
Government Geologist for 1922 (1923).
Field Naturalists’ Section of the Royal Society of South Australia——“The
South Australian Naturalist,” v., 1-4 (1923-1924).
Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australa—Reecords of
the S.A. Museum, i, 4 (T. p. & ¢.) (1924); Report of the Board of
Governors for 1923-24 (1924).
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch.—Pro-
ceedings, Xxill.-xxiv., Sessions 1921-22, 1922-23 (in one vol.) (1924).
Royal Society of South Australia—Transactions and Proceedings, xlvii.
(1923).
South Austrahan Ornithological Association— “The South Australian Orni-
thologist,” vi., 5-8 (1924).
University of Adelaide—Publications:—9 Reprints from Trans. Roy. Soe.
S. Aust., xlvi. (1923); “The Australian Journal of Experimental
Biology and Medical Science,” i., 1-3 (1924).
Woods and Forests Department——Annual Progress Report for Year 1922-23
(1923).
ALBANY.
New York State Museum—A Scientific Survey of Turners Lake, Isle-au-
Haut, Maine,” by S. C. Bishop and N. T. Clarke. 1922 (1923).
ALGER. :
Institut Pasteur d’Algerie.—Archives, i, 1 (cover for No. 2), 3-4 (T.p. & e.)
(1923).
AMSTERDAM.
Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging—Entomologische Berichten, v1.,
128-137 (1922-1924); Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, Ixvi. (1923).
XXXIV. DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES.
Royal Academy of Sciences.—Jaarboek, 1920, 1920-1921 (1920, 1921); Pro-
ceedings of the Section of Sciences, xxil.-xxiv. (1920-1922); Verhan-
delingen, 2nd Section, xxi, 1-3 (T.p. & ¢.) (1920-1921); xxii, 1-4
(1921-1922); Verslagen Afdeeling Natuurkunde, xxviil.-xxx., 1919-1921
(1920-1922) ; 10 Articles on the History and Present State of Scientific
Research in the Dutch East Indies (1923).
ANN ARBOR.
American Microscopical Society.——Transactions, xli., 4 (Index) (1923);
xliii., 1-3 (1924).
Michigan Academy of Science—Annual Report, vith. and vuith., 1904, 1906
(1904, 1906).
University of eee Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.—
University of Machcon: Museum of Zowlioan. ePitisceliancoue Publications,
Nos. 9-11 (1923); Occasional Papers, T.p. & ec. for Nos. 91-112 (1921-
1922); T.p. & ¢«. for Nos. 113-128 (1922); Nos. 137-143 (1923).
AUCKLAND.
Auckland Institute and Museum—Annual Report, 1923-1924 (1924).
BALTIMORE.
Maryland Geological Survey.—Vol. xi. (1922); Silurian (1923).
Johns Hopkins University—University Circulars, N.S., 1923, 2-7 (1923).
BARCELONA.
Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona.—Boletin, yv., 1 (1924) ;
Memorias, xvii., 4-9 (1923-1924); Nomina del Personal Academico,
1923-1924 (1924).
BATAVIA.
Koninklijke Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederl.-Indie—1 Map to ac-
company Monographie 1., Dr. G. L. L. Kemmerling’s Monograph “De
Geologie en de Geomorphologie van den Idjen’” (1917-1918); Natuur-
kundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie, lxxxili., 3 (T.p. & «e.)
(1923); Ixxxiv., 1-2 (1924).
BERGEN.
Bergens Museum.—Aarsberetning, 1922-23 (1923); Aarbok, 1921-22, Hefte
2 (1923) ; 1922-23, Hefte 1 (1924).
BERKELEY.
University of California.—Publications: Botany, x., 9 (1924); xi., 13
(1924); Entomology, T.p. & ec. for Vol. i. (1906-1922); ii., 2 (1924);
Geology, T.p. & ¢. for Vol. xii. (1921-1922); xiv., 5-113- (11923); xv.,
1-3 (1924) ; Physiology, v., 4-12 (1919); Zoology, xx., 18-23 (T.p. & c.)
(1919-1924); xxi, 13 (1924); xxii, 11-14 (Tip. & c.) (1921-1924) ;
xxiv., 3 (1924); xxv., pp. 1-514 (complete) (1924); xxvi. 1-15 (1923-
1924).
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. XXXV-
BERLIN.
Botanisches Gartens und Musewms.—Notizblatt, viui., 78-80 (T.p. & ce.)
(1923-1924) ; ix., 81 (1924).
Deutsche Entomologische Museum.—Entomologische Mitteilungen, xiii., 1-5
(1924); Supplementa Entomologica, No. 10 (1924).
'Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft— Flora,” Neue Folge, xvi., 4
CEsp= ics) 9 @l923)5) xvite, leno) L924):
BERN.
Naturforschende Gesellschaft—Verhandlungen, 1921-1923 (1921-1923).
BIRMINGHAM.
Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society.—List of members,
1924 and Annual Report, 1923 (1924); Proceedings, xv., 2, Session
1922-1923 (1923).
BompBay.
Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory—Handbook, 1924 (1924).
Bombay Natural History Society—Journal, xxix., 2 (T.p. & c., and Index
for Parts 1 and 2); 3-4 (1923-1924).
Boston.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.—Proceedings, lviu., 16-17 (T.p. &
e.) (1923); lix., 1-9 (1923-1924).
Society of Natural History—Memoirs, vi., 2 (1923); Proceedings, xxxv., 3
(1915) ; xxxvi., 1-2, 4 (1921); 5 (1922); 6-8 (1923); xxxvii., 1 (1923).
BRISBANE.
Department of Agriculture and Stock—Queensland Agricultural Journal,
xx., 6 (T-p. & c.) (1923-1924) ; xxi., 1-6 (1924); xxii., 1-4 (1924).
Department of Mines, Queensland Geological Survey.—Publications 244;
271 (8 Maps) (1923); 273, pt. 2 (1924); 274 (1923).
“Queensland Government Mining Journal’ (from the Editor).—xxiy., Dee.
1923 (T.p. & ce.) (1923); xxv., Jan.-Nov., 1924 (1924).
Queensland Museum.—Memorrs, vill., 1 (1924).
Queensland Naturalists’ Club and Nature-Lovers’ League-—“The Queensland
Naturalist,” iv., 3-5 (1923-1924).
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland Branch.—Queensland
Geographical Journal, xxxviii., 38th Session, 1922-23 (1923). —
Royal Society of Qweensland.—Proceedings, xxxv., 1923 (1924); Report of
Council for 1923 (1924).
BROOKLYN...
Botanical Society of America-—American Journal of Botany, x., 8-10 (T.p.
& c.) (1923); xi, 1-8 (1924).
BRUSSELS.
Académie Royale de Belgique—Annuaire, 1924, 90th Année (1924); Bulle-
tin de la Classe des Sciences, 1923, 1-12 (T.p. & e¢.) (1923-1924) ; 1924,
1-3 (1924).
Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique—Bulletin, lvi., 1-2 (T.p. & ©),
1923 (1924).
Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique—Annales, liv., 1923 (1924).
XXXVI. DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES.
BUDAPEST.
Musée National Hongrois—Annales, xx., 1923 (1923).
BUENOS AIRES.
Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales.—Revista, ‘“Physis,” T.p. & e. for
ii, (1915-1916); T.p. & ec. for ii. (1916-1917); Tp. & ec. for iv. (1918-
1919); Tip. & « for v. (1921-1922); vi., 21-22 (T.p. & @.) (1922-
1923) ; vii., 23-24 (1923).
CAEN.
Société Linnéenne de Normandie-—Mémoires, xxv., 1923 (1923).
CALCUTTA,
Geological Survey of Indta.—Bibliography of Indian Geology, Part 3, Index
to Subjects (1923); Memoirs, xlv., 2 (1922); xlvii., 2 (1923); Memoirs,
Palaeontologica Indica, N.S., vu., 4; 1x., 1 (1924); Records, liv., 4
(T.p. & ce.) (1923); lv., 2-4 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923-1924); lvi., 1 (1924).
Indian Museum.—Memoirs, v., 12 (1924); T.p. & e. for vii., 1918-1922; viii.,
IL (GUQ22D) 9 levereongols, 0-155 “4s (kos Gg @y)) (CGIRED) es Mbeio. oO, aioe Seony.
(1922); xxv., 5-6, Appendix (T.p. & ec.) (1923-1924) ; xxvi., 1-4 (1924) ;
General Index for Vols. 1.-xx., 1907-1920 (1923).
CAMBRIDGE, England.
Cambridge Philosophical Society—Proceedings, xxi., 6 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923);
xxii., 1 (1924); Supplement, Niels Bohr on the Application of the
Quantum Theory to Atomic Structure, Part 1 (1924); Proceedings,
Biological Sciences, 1., 2 (1924); Transactions, xxiil., 2-3 (1924).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College-—Annual Report of
the Director for 1922-1923 (1923); Bulletin, Ixv., 10-12 (1923-1924).
Care TOWN.
Royal Society of South Africa.—tTransactions, xi., 3-4 (T.p. & ¢.) (1924).
South African Museum.—Annual Report for Year ended 31st December,
1923 (1924); Annals, xu., 8 (1924); xui., 8 (T.p. & ¢.) (1913-1923) ;
xiv., 6 (1924); xix., 1-3 (1923-1924); xx., 1-2 (1924); Guide Leaflet
No. 1 (1913).
CHRISTCHURCH.
Canterbury Museum.—Records, i1., 3 (1923).
Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.—Transactions and Proceedings, N.Z.
Institute, liv. (1923).
CHRISTIANIA.
Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania.—Forhandlinger, Aar 1922 (1923); Skrifter,
1921 (Vols. i.-11.) (1922); 1922 (1923); Vorhandlinger, 1921 (1922).
Cuus, Roumania.
Gradina Botanica—Bulletin, iii., 3, Appendix 1, 4 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923); iv.,
1 (1924); Contributions Botaniques, i., 5 (1924).
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. XXXVI.
Cotp SPRING Harpor.
Station for Experimental Evolution, Carnegie Institution of Washington.—
Annual Report of the Director of the Department of Genetics, 1922-
1923 (Extracted from Year Book No. 22 for the year 1923) (1923).
CoLtumBvus, Ohio.
American Chemical Society—Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, xv., 11-
12 (T.p. & e.) (1923); xvi., 1-10 (1924); News Hdition, i., 20-24 (1923) ;
a, 1-19- (11924).
Ohio Academy of Science and Ohio State University Scientific Society—
Ohio Journal of Science, xxiii., 5-6 (T.p. & «.) (1923); xxiv., 1-4
(1924). '
COPENHAGEN.
Zoological Museum of the University.—Publications, Nos. 28-31, 33-36
(1923-1924) ; The Danish Ingolf Expedition, i., 7-8 (1923).
DUBLIN.
Royal Dublin Society—Scientific Proceedings, N.S., xvii., 11-41 (1922-
1924).
Royal Irish Academy.—Proceedings, xxxvi., Section B, 2-11 (1922-1924).
Hast LANSING.
Michigan Agricultural College, Agricultural Experiment Station.—Bacterio-
logical Section, Cireular Bulletin No. 61 (1923); Special Bulletin No.
124 (1923); Technical Bulletin Nos. 59-61 (1923); One Reprint from
Journ. of Bacteriology, viii, 5 (1923):--“‘The Enzymie Content of
Bacterial Spores,” by G. L. A. Rueble.
EDINBURGH.
Royal Physical Society.—Proceedings, xx., 6, Sessions 1921-22 and 1922-23
(1923).
Royal Society of Hdinburgh—Proceedings, xlii., 3 (T.p. & e.), Session
1922-23 (1923); xliv., 1-2, Session 1923-24 (1924); Transactions, lii., 2,
Session 1922-23 (1924); liv., 1, Session 1923-24 (1924).
FRANKFURT ON MAIN.
Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft—Abhandlungen, xxxv., 4
(1923) ; xxxviii., 1-2 (1923-1924); Bericht, 53, 4 (T.p. & c.) (1923); 54,
1 (1924).
GENEVA.
Société de Physique et ad Histoire Naturelle—Compte Rendu des Séances,
xl, 3 (Typ. & ¢.) (1923); xh. 1-2 (1924); Mémoires, xxxix., 8 (T.p.
& c.) (1923); xl., 1 (1924).
GENOA.
“Rivista di Coleotterologia,”’ No. 1, 1923 (1923).
GIESSEN.
Botanisches Institut.—(1) Zu kenntnis der panaschierten Geholze iv. (1922) ;
(2) Eduard Strasburger (1912); (3) Handworterbuch der Naturwissen-
XXXViIi. DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES.
schaften (Zelle und Zellteilung) (1914); (4) Mikroskopische Messung
osmotischer Gewebeschwellunger (1922); (5) Uber Aufgaben und Ergeb-
nisse der Entwicklungsmechanik der Pflanzen (1918); (6) Uber Mosaik-
panaschierung und vergleichbare Erscheinungen (1918); (7) Keimung
und Entwicklung von Schimmelpilzen in gebrauchten Nahrlosungen
(1908); (8) W. J. Behrens (1905).
GRANVILLE.
Denison University—Journal of the Scientific Laboratories, xx., pp. 37-185
G@llg23 ete ‘
GRAZ.
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein fur Steiermark.—Mitteilungen, 58, Beiheft
(1922); 59 and Beiheft (1923).
HALIFAX, ;
Nova Scotian Institute of Science-——Proceedings and Transactions, xv., 3-4,
Sessions 1920-21 and 1921-22 (1923).
HAMBURG.
Naturwissenschaftlicher Vereim—Abhandlungen, xx., 2-3 (T.p. & ¢.) (1914-
1917); xxi., 1-2 (1919-1920); Verhandlungen, Dritte Folge, xx., 1912-
xxix., 1921 (1913-1922); Vierte Folge, i., 1, 1922 (1923).
HAMILTON.
Hamilton Association—Journal and Proceedings, No. xxx., Sessions 1918-
19 to 1921-22 (1928).
HELSINGFORS.
Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica.— ‘Die Laubmoose Fennoskandias,” by
V. F. Brotherus (1923).
Societas Scientiarum Fennica.—Acta, |., 6 (1924); Arsbok-Vuosikirja, ii.,
1923-1924 (1924).
HOopart.
Department of Mines, Geological Survey.—Geological Survey Bulletin No. 33
(Text and Maps), 34 (1923); Mineral Resources No. 7 (Text and Maps)
(1922) ; Underground Water Supply Paper No. 3 (1924).
Royal Society of Tasmania.—Papers and Proceedings for the Year 1923
(1924).
Tasmaman Field Naturalists’ Club—Easter Camp, 1924 (1924); “The Tas-
manian Naturalist,” N.S., 1., 1 (1924).
Honouvuww, T. H.
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.—Bulletins, 6-14 (1923-1924); Memoirs,
Walibic, 9) ((AUEjoR (4 5) (G28) 2 te, Nee (Alec
Pan-Pacific Union.—Bulletin, N.S. Nos. 61, 62 (1924).
INDIANAPOLIS.
Indiana Academy of Science.—Proceedings, 1922 (1923).
JAMAICA PLAIN.
Arnold Arboretum.—Journal, iv., 4 (T.p. & c.) (1923); v., 1-2 (1924).
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. XXX1x.
JOHANNESBURG.
South African Association for the Advancement of Science——South African
Journal of Science, xx., 1-2 (T.p. & ce.) (1923).
KURASHIKI.
Ohara Institute for Agricultural Research.—bBerichte, ii., 3 (1923).
La JOLLA.
Scripps Institution for Biological Research of the University of California —
32 Reprints (1900-1923).
La PLATA,
Museo de La Plata.—Revista, xxvii. (1923).
LIEGE.
Société Géologique de Belgique—Annales, xlv., 4 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923); xlv1.,
1-4 (T.p. & e.) (1923-1924); Publications Relatives au Congo Belge et
aux Régions Voisines, Année 1921-1922, Annexe au T. xlv. des Annales
(1923); Année 1922-1923, Annexe au T. xlvi. des Annales, Livr. 1-2
(1923-1924) ; Année 1923-1924, Annexe au T. xlvii. des Annales, Livr.
1 (1924).
LIVERPOOL.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine—Annals of Tropical Medicine and
Parasitology, xvu., 4 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923); xvii, 1-2 (1924).
LONDON.
British Museum (Natural History) —A Guide to the Hlephants (Recent
and Fossil) (2nd Edition) (1922); Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa
(Polyzoa). The Cretaceous Bryozoa, iv., 2. By Dr. W. D. Lang
(1922); Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game. By J. G.
Dollman (1921); Economic Series, No. 13 (1922); Guide to the Ex-
hibition Galleries of Geology and Palaeontology (1923); Guide to the
Mollusca exhibited in the Zoological Department (1923); Guide to the
Reptiles and Batrachians exhibited in the Department of Zoology (3rd
Edition) (1922); Index Animalium, 2nd Section, Parts i-1m., by C. D.
Sherborn (1922-1923). A Handbook of the Larger British Fungi, by
J. Ramsbottom (1923).
Entomological Society of Jondon.—Transactions, 1923, 3-5 (T.p. & «.)
(1924) ; 1924, 1-2 (1924).
Geological Society—Geological Literature added to the Society’s Library
during the Year ended Dee. 31st, 1923 (1924); Quarterly Journal,
ibcabes 4: (UNO. cs G.)) (UI28)) 6 boo fale) (GIG 2
Linnean Soctety—Journal, Botany, xlvi., 309-310 (1924); Zoology, xxxv.,
236-238 (T.p. & c.) (1923-1924); xxxvi., 239 (1924); List, 1923-1924
(1923) ; Proceedings, 135th Session, 1922-23 (1923).
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries—British Empire Exhibition, 1924,
Guide to the Agricultural Exhibit in Gallery uu. of the Government
Pavilion (1924); Journal, xxx., 8-12 (T.p. & e.) (1923-1924); xxxi., 1-7
(1924).
xdb DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES.
Rayal Botanic Gardens, Kew.—Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 1923
(1924).
Royal Microscopical Society.—Journal, 1923, 4 (T.p. & ¢«) (1923); 1924,
1-3 (1924).
Royal Society.—British Hmpire Exhibition, 1924. Handbook to the Ex-
hibition of Pure science, arranged by the Royal Society. Galleries 3
and 4, British Government Pavilion. (1924); Philosophical Transactions,
eexil., Nos. B. 396-401 (T.p. & ec.) (1923-1924); cexiii., Nos. B. 402-404
(1924); Proceedings, xev., Nos. B. 669-671 (T.p. & c.) (1923-1924) ;
xevi., Nos. B. 672-679 (T.p. & ec.) (1924).
Zoological Socrety.—Abstract of Proceedings, Nos. 244-255 (1923-1924);
List of Fellows, April, 1924 (1924); Notice re Meetings, Oct., 1924
(1924) ; Proceedings, 1923, 4 (T.p. & c.) (1923); 1924, 1-2 (Tp. & «.
for pp. 1-696) (1924).
Lyon.
Société Botanique de Lyon—Annales, xliii., 1922 (1924).
ManprIb.
Junta para Ampliacion de Estudios—Flora Iberica. Uredales, i. (1924);
Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Serie Geologica,
Nos. 31-33 (1923).
Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural—Boletin, xxiii., 7-10 (T.p. & ©.)
(1923) ; xxiv., 1-6 (1924); Lista de Socios, Mar., 1924 (1924) ; Memorias,
pa ete Ha (S)43)) ipo b Eyton (LLLS)27- 9)
MANCHESTER.
Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.—Journal of Conchology,
xvil., 3-5 (1923-1924).
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society—Memoirs and Proceedings,
Ixvu., 2, (Tip. & e.), 1922-1923 (1923).
Manchester Museum.—Publication 86 (1923).
Mania, P. I.
Bureau of Science of the Government of the Philippine Islands——21st An-
nual Report for year ending Dee. 31st, 1922 (1923); Philippine Jour-
nal of Science, xxiii., 5-6 (T.p. & c.) (1923); xxiv., 1-6 (T.p. & c¢.)
(1924); xxv., 1-3 (1924).
MARSEILLES.
Faculté des Sciences de Marseille—Annales, xxiv., 3-6 (Index) (1920-1922) ;
xxv., 1-2 (Index) (1922-1923); 2me Serie, i. (1921); ii., 1 (1923).
MELBOURNE. |
“Australasian Journal. of Pharmacy,” N.S., iv., 47-48 (Index) (1923); v.,
49-58 (1924). (From the Publisher).
Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics—Official Year Book, No.
17, 1924 (1924).
Commonwealth Department of Health—Service Publication, No. 25 (1924).
Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry—2nd Annual Report of
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. xli.
the Director from Ist July, 1922 to 3lst December, 1923 (1924); Bulle-
tin, Nos. 26-27 (1923-1924).
Commonwealth Treasurer— ‘Australian Wood Fibres,” by R. T. Baker and
H. G. Smith (1924).
Department of Agriculture of Victoria.—Journal, xxi., 12 (T.p.&¢.) (1923) ;
xxi, 1-10 (1924).
Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria.—Victorian Naturalist,” xl., 8-12 (T.p
& ¢.) (1923-1924); xli., 1-7 (1924).
Home and Territories Department—Report on the Salient Geological Fea-
tures, ete., of the New Guinea Territory, ete. By E. R. Stanley (1923).
Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria—Names of Vic-
torian Railway Stations, ete., compiled by T. O’Callaghan (1918); Re-
port of the Trustees for 1923 (1924).
Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union ‘The Emu,” xxiii., 3-4 (T.p. & ¢.)
(1924) ; xxiv., 1-2 (1924).
Royal Society of Victorta.—-Proceedings, N.S. xxxvi., 1-2 (T.p. & e.) (1923-
1924).
University of Melbourne.—Calendar for 1924 (1923).
MEXICO.
Instituto Geologico-de Mexico.—Boletin No. 41 (1923).
MILWAUKEE,
Public Museum.—Bulletin, iv., 1 (1923); v., 1 (1923); Year Book, ii., pp.
1-200, 1922 (1923).
MopEna.
“La Nuova Notarisia.”—(From the Editor, Dr. G. B. de Toni). Serie
xxxy., Genn.-Giugno; Lugl.-Dic., 1924 (1924).
Monaco.
| L’Institut Océanographique de Monaco.—Bulletin, Nos. 433-443 (1923-1924).
MUNCHEN.
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Munchen—Abhandlungen,
Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse, T.p. & ¢. for xxix. (1924); Abhand-
lungen, Mathematisch.-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, xxx., 1 (1924) ;
Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-physikalischen Klasse, 1923, 1-2 (T.p.
& ec.) (1923); “Der Anteil von Anlage und Umwelt an der Person-
lichkeit,” by Max von Gruber (1923); Beitrage zur Natur- und Kultur-
geschichte Lithauens und angrenzender Gebiete. Abhandlungen der
Math.-phys. Klasse, Suppl. Bd., 2-5 Abhandlung (1923).
NANTES.
Société des Sciences naturelles de VOuest de la France.—Bulletin, 4th Ser.,
i., 1-4 (T.p. & c«.), 1922 (1922).
NAPLES.
Museo Zoologico della R. Universita di NapolimAnnuario, N.S., v., 1-6
(1922-1923).
xii. DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES.
New Haven, Conn.
Connecticut Academy of Aris and Sciences——List of Publications, July,
1924 (1924); Transactions, xxvi., pp. 181-332 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923-1924) ;
One Reprint from “American Journal of Science,” vi., 1923—“Verte-
brate Fossils from the Mina Eruption,” by G. F. Eaton (1923).
NEw YORK.
American Geographical Society—Geographical Review, xili., Supplement to
No. 4 (T.p. & c.) (1923); xiv., 1-4 (1924).
American Museum of Natural History—Bulletin, xlvi., 1922 (1922); “Natural
History,” xxiil., 5-6 (T.p. & c.) (1923); xxiv., 1-4 (1924).
OTTAWA.
Department of Agriculture.—Report of the Dominion Entomologist for 1919
and 1920 (1923); Insects affecting Live Stock, Bulletin No. 29, N.S.
(1923).
Department of Mines—Report for fiscal year ending 31st March, 1923
(1923).
Department of Mines, Geological Survey of Canada.—Bulletin No. 38 (1924) ;
Memoirs, 133-137, 139 (1923-1924); Report of the Canadian Arctic Ex-
pedition 1913-18, Vol. xi., Geology and Geography (1924); Summary
Reports, 1922, Pts. A-D (1923); 1923, Pt. A (1924); Index to Separate
Reports 1996-1910 and Summary Reports 1905-1916 (1923). ;
International Institute Branch, Department of Agriculture—Agricultural
Gazette of Canada, x., 6, Index (1923); xi., 1-2 (T.p. & ¢.) (1924).
(Publication ceased).
Royal Society of Canada.—Proceedings and Transactions, Third Series, xvii.
(1923).
OxFORD.
Radcliffe Library, Oxford University Musewm—Catalogue of the Books
added during 1923 (1924).
Pato ALTO.
Stanford University—Stanford University Publications, University Series,
Biological Sciences, i., 3-4 (T.p. & c.) (1923); Bulletin of the Terres-
trial Electric Observatory of Fernando Sanford, i., 1920-1923 (1923).
PARIS.
“Journal de Conchyliologie.” (From the Publisher). Vol. \xv., 1-4 (T.p.
& c.) (1920-1921); Ixvi., 1-4 (T.p. & ¢.) (1921-1922); Ixvii., 1-4 (Tp.
& ec.) (1922-1923) ; Ixvin., 1-2 (1923-1924).
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle—Bulletin, 1923, 5-8 (T.p. & ce.)
(1923) ; 1924, 1-2 (1924).
Société Entomologique de France.—Annales, xcii., 1-4 (T.p. & e¢.), 1923
(1923-1924) ; xciil., 1-2, 1924 (1924); Bulletin, 1923, 15-21 (T.p. & ce.)
(1923-1924) ; 1924, 1-14 (1924).
PAVIA.
Istituto Botanico delVUniversita di Pavia.—Atti, Ser., ii., 1 (1924).
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. xiii.
PERTH.
Department of Agriculture of Western Australia—Journal, 2nd Series, 1.,
1-3 (1924).
Geological Survey of Western Australia.—Bulletin No. 89 (1924).
Government Siatistician, Western Australia.—Monthly Statistical Abstract,
Nos. 35 and 42 (Apr. and Nov., 1903); Quarterly Statistical Abstract,
Nos. 212 (1919) ; 231-234 (1923-1924).
Royal Society of Western Australia.—QJournal and Proceedings, 1x., 2, 1923
(1924).
PETROGRAD.
Société Entomologique de Russie—Revue Russe d’Entomologie, xy., 1-4
(1915-1916); xvi., 1-4 (1916-1917); xvu.- (1921); xvin., 1-3 (1922-
1923).
PHILADELPHIA.
Academy of Natural Sciences—Entomological News and Proceedings of the
Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, xxxiv., 9-10
(T.p. & ¢.) (1923); xxxv., 1-8 (1924); “The Joseph Leidy Commemora-
tive Meeting, held in Philadelphia, Dec. 6, 1923” (1924).
American Philosophical Society.—Proceedings, lxii., 2-6, and Supplement
(T-p. & ¢.) (1928).
Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology—Journal of Experimental Zo-
ology, xxxvili., 2-3 (1923); Journal of Morphology, xxxviii., 2 (1923).
Zoological Society of Philadelphia—Fifty-second Annual Report of the
. Board of Directors, 1923-1924 (1923); Report of the Laboratory and
Museum of Comparative Pathology in conjunction with the Fifty-second
Annual Report of the Zoological Society, 1923-1924 (1924).
PLYMOUTH.
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.—Journal, N.S., xili.,
1 (1923).
Port Moressy.
Mines Department, Geological Section.—“The Geology of Papua,” by E. R.
Stanley (1923).
PRAGUE.
Societas Entomologica Cechosloveniae.—Acta, xix., 3-6 (1922); xx. 1-4
(1923).
PRETORIA.
Botanical Survey of South Africa—Memoir No. 5 (1923).
PUSA.
Agricultural Research Institute—Bulletin, Nos. 152, 154 (1924); Memoirs
of the Department of Agriculture in India, Botanical Series, xi., 4, 6
(Tp. & ¢.) (921-1923); xn, 2-5 (Tp. & ¢.) (1923-1924); xin, 1-3
(1924) ; Entomological Series, T.p. & ¢. for vi.; vii., 4,5, 13 (T.p. & ¢.)
(1921-1923); Review of Agricultural Operations in India, 1922-1923
(1924) ; Scientific Reports, 1922-1923 (1923).
xliy. DONATIONS AND BXCHANGES.
RENNES.
Société Géologique et Minéralogique de Bretagne.—Bulletin, ii1., 4 and Index
(IQ ZED) S eve 1k (Cs))..
RicHMonpD, N.S.W.
Hawkesbury Agricultural College-—H.A.C. Journal, xx., 8 (1923); xxi, 1-7
(1924).
RIO DE JANEIRO.
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz—Memorias, xv., 1 (1922).
Museu Nacional—Boletim, i., 1-2 (1923-1924); Fauna Brasiliense—Peixes,
Wola: leuHascuelea(l923)n
Riversipe, Cal.
Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture and Citrus Hxperiment Station
(College of Agriculture, University of California)—Papers, Nos. 76, 77,
91-93, 97, 104, 106-109, 111, 114, 117 (1923-1924).
ROCHESTER.
Rochester Academy of Science.—Proceedings, vi., 5 (1923).
San FRANCISCO. ;
California Academy of Sciences——Proceedings, Fourth Series, T.p. & c. for x.
(1920) ; xi., 22-23 (1923); xii, 6-26 (1923); xi., 1-6 (1923).
Sao Pave.
Museu Paulista.—Revista, xii. (1923).
SENDAI.
Tohoku Imperial University.—Science Reports, 3rd Series, T.p. & ¢. for 1.
(1921-1923) ; i1., 1-2 (1924); 4th Series, i., 1 (1924).
St. Louts.
Missouri Botanical Garden.—Annals, x., 1-3 (1923).
STOCKHOLM.
Entomologiska Foreningen i Stockholm.—Entomologisk Tidskrift, xliv., 1-4
(jos 65 Gs), G25} (les).
K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien.—Arkiv for Botanik, xviii., 2-4 (T.p. &
e.) (1922-1924); Arkiv for Kemi, Mineralogi och Geologi, viii., 5-6
(T.p. & oe.) (1922-1923); ix, 1-2 (1924); Arkiv for Mathematik,
Astronomi och Fysik, xvi., 3-4 (T.p. & c.) (1922-1923); xvin., 1-2
(1924); Arkiv for Zoologi, xv., 2-4 (T.p. & e.) (1922-1924); xvi., 1-2
(1924); Arsbok, 1923 (1923); Handlingar, Ixi. 1-12, 14-17 (T-p. & ec.)
(1920-1921); Ixi., 1-5 (T.p. & ec.) (1921); Ixii., 1-13 (Supplement)
(T.p. & ¢.) (1922-1924); Tredje Serien, i., 1-3 (T.p. & ¢) (1924).
SYDNEY.
Australian Museum.—Annual Report for Year ended 30th June, 1923 (1923) ;
Australian Museum Magazine, ii., 1-4 (1924); Records, xiii, 7; xiv.,
2-3 (1923-1924).
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. xlv.
Australian National Research Council.—‘Australian ‘Science Abstracts,” iii.,
1-4 (1924).
Botanic Gardens and Domains —“<A critical revision of the Genus Eucalyp-
tus,” vil, 2 (1924). By J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist, ete.; An-
nual Reports, 1921, 1922 (1923).
Department of Agriculture, N.S.W.—Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W., xxxiv.,
12 (Tp. & ¢.) (1923-1924); xxxv., 1-11 (1924).
Department of Mines—Annual Report for Year 1923 (1924).
Department of Mines, Geological Survey of N.S.W.—Bulletins, Nos. 4-5
(1923-1924) ; Memoirs, Geology, No. 8 (Maps, Sections, ete., and Sup-
plement) (1923).
Department of Public Health—Report of the Director General for 1922
(1923).
Education Department.—EKdueation Gazette of New South Wales, xvil., 12
(T.p. & ce.) (1923); xvi., 1-11 (1924); Technical Education Branch,
Bulletin of the Technological Museum, Nos. 6, 8, 9 (1923-1924); “The
Technical Gazette of New South Wales,” xiv., 1 (1924); One Reprint
from Journ. & Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., lvii., pp. 227-230 (1923).
Education Department: Teachers’ College——Teachers’ College Calendar, 1924
(1924).
Forestry Commission of New South Wales.——Australian Forestry Journal,
vi., 11-12 (1923-1924); vii, 1-10 (1924); “Forest Flora of N.S.W.,”
vill., 5-7 (1923-1924). By J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist, ete.
(Publication ceased).
Institution of Surveyors—“The Surveyor,” xxxiv., 4-5 (T.p. & e.) (1923-
1924); xxxy., 1-2 (1924).
Naturalists’ Society of New South Wales. “Australian Naturalist,” v., 9-12
(1924). ;
Public Library of New South Wales.——Report for year ending 30th June,
1923 (1923).
Royal Society of New South Wales.—Journal and Proceedings, lvii., 1923
(1924).
Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.—“‘Australian Zoologist,” ii.,
5-7 (1923-1924).
“Scientific Australian,’ xxix., 7-12 (1923-1924); xxx., 1-6 (1924). (From
the Publisher, Peter G. Tait).
“The Medical Journal of Australia,” 1923, ii., 22-26 (T.p. & c.) (1923);
1924, 1., 1-26 (T.p. & ec.) (1924); 1924, ii, 1-21 (1924); List of Mem-
bers of B.M.A. in Australia (1924). (From the Editor).
University of Sydney.—Calendar for Year 1924 (1924).
TATHOKU.
Government Research Institute, Department of Forestry.— Identification of
Philippine Woods by Anatomical Characters’ (Supplement to the
“Anatomical Characters and Identification of Formosan Woods, ete.’) ;
“Anatomical Notes on Indian Woods” (Bulletin No. 4), by R. Kanehira
(1924).
TASHKENT.
Scientific Society of Turkestan—Transactions, i. (1923).
xvi. DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES.
TOKYO.
National Research Council of Japan.—Japanese Journal of.Botany, i., 1-4
(Tip. & ¢.) (1922-1923); ii, 1 (1924); Japanese Journal of Geology
and Geography, T.p. & e. for i. (1922); ii., 2-4 (1923).
Tokyo Zoological Society.—Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, x., 6 (1923).
TORONTO.
Royal Canadian Institute—Transactions, xiv., 2 (1923).
TOULOUSE.
Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse Bulletin, li., 2-4 (Index) (1923).
TOWNSVILLE.
Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine (Commonwealth of Australia, De-
partment of Health).—Service Publications (Tropical Division), Nos.
1-6, 8 (1924).
Trine, Herts.
Zoological Museum.—Novitates Zoologicae, xxx., 2-3 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923); -
xxxi., 1 (1924).
TRONDHJEM.
Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs.—Aarsberetning, 1921, 1922 (1922,
1923); Skrifter, 1921-22 (1923).
TUNIS.
Institut Pasteur de Tums.—Archives, xii., 3-4 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923); xiii, 1-2
(1924) ; Notice sur l'Institut Pasteur de Tunis (March, 1924).
Urnsana, Ill.
University of Illinois.—Illlinois Biological Monographs, viiil., 1-2 (1923).
VANCOUVER.
University of British Columbia.—Contributions to Canadian Biology, 1918- -
1920 (1921).
VIENNA.
Naturhistorische Museum in Wien.—Annalen, xxxvi.-xxxvii., 1923-1924 (1923-
1924).
Zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft in ‘Wien—Verhandlungen, Ixxiii., 1923
(1924).
WARSAW.
Societas Botanica Poloniae.—Acta, i., 1-2, 4 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923).
WASHINGTON.
Bureau of American Ethnology.—Bulletins, Nos. 40, 79-81 (1922-1923).
Carnegie Institution of Washington.—Publications, Nos. 248 (Vol. iv.), 326-
328, 336 (1923); Year Book No. 22, 1922-1923 (1924).
National Academy of Sciences—Proceedings, ix., 11-12 (T.p. & ce.) (1923) ;
x., 1-10 (1924).
Smithsonian Institution—Annual Report for year ended 30th June, 1921
(1922); Miscellaneous Collections, Ixxvi., 2 (1923).-
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce.—Special Pub-
lication No. 99 (1924).
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. xlvii.
U.S. Department of Agricultwre——Bureau of Entomology, Department Bulle-
tins, Nos. 1164, 1176, 1178, 1182, 1201, 1204-1205, 1218, 1222-1223, 1225,
1228, 1231-1232 (1923-1924); Department Circulars, Nos. 287, 288, 301
(1923-1924) ; Farmers’ Bulletins, Nos. 1086 (Revised), 1326, 1349, 1354,
1362, 1364, 1380, 1407, 1408, 1425 (1923-1924); Twenty Reprints from
Journal of Agricultural Research, xxv., 1, 5, 8, (1923); xxvi., 2, 7-12
(1923); xxvil., 1-2 (1924); xxvui., 1-3 (1924); Bureau of Biological
Survey, Miscellaneous Cireular No. 13 (1923).
U.S. Geological Survey. 44th Annual Report, 1922-1923 (1923); Bulletan,
Nos. 689, 690B, 709, 717, 718, 723, 738, 739, 744-746, 749, 750A-B,
751B, 752, 754, 760A (1918-1924) ; Mineral Resources, 1917, i., 8 (1918);
1920, i.. Summary and T.p. & ec. (1922); 1920, u., T.p. & c. (1923);
1921, ii., 33, 34 (1923) ; 1922, 1., 2-28 (1923-1924) ; 1922, ii., 2-31 (1923-
1924); Preliminary Summary (1923); 1923, 1., 1 (1924); Professional
Papers, 126, 132A-E, 133 (1923-1924); Water Supply Papers, 469, 489,
492, 494-498, 501, 502, 505, 506, 510-512, 515, 520A, 524, 527, 528
(1923).
U.S. National Museum.—Annual Report, 1922-1923 (1923); Bulletin, Nos.
100, Vol. i., pt. 10; 104, 125, 127 (1923); Contributions from the U.S.
National Herbarium, xxili., 3 (1923); Proceedings, Ixii. (1923).
WELLINGTON, N.Z.
Department of Mines: New Zealand Geological Survey—N.S. xvilith An-
nual Report, 1923-1924 (1924); Bulletin, N.S., No. 26 (1924); Palaeon-
tological Bulletin No. 10 (1924); Two Reprints from N.Z. Journ. of
Sci. & Tech., vi., 2, pp. 120-28; 3, pp. 174-90 (1923).
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science—Report of the
sixteenth meeting, held at Wellington, Jan., 1923 (1924).
Dominion Museum.—Bulletin No. 10 (1924); Monograph No. 7 (1924);
Report of the Director for year 1922-1923 (1923).
New Zealand Board of Science and Art.—N.Z. Journal of Science and Tech-
nology, vi., 3-6 (T.p. & ¢.) (1923-1924) ; vii., 1-2 (1924).
New Zealand Institute—One Reprint from Transactions, liv., pp. 62-80
(1923) ; Transactions and Proceedings, liv. (1923).
WELTEVREDEN.
Centraal Militair Geneeskundig Laboratorium.—Six Reprints:—(1) “Notes
on Dutch-Hast-Indian Mosquitoes,” by 8S. L. Brug (Bull. Ent. Re-
search, xiv., 4, 1924); (2) ‘“Graphische Voorstellingen, ete.,” by A. C.
Bobbert and §. van Dam (Gen. Tijd. Nederl.-Indie, 64, 4, 1924); (3)
“Uit het Jaarverslag van het Centraal Militair Geneeskundig Labo-
ratorium over het jaar, 1922”; (4) “Rapport omtrent het voorkomen
van beri-beri in de garnizoenen Batavia en Meester-Cornelis in de Jaren
1919 tot en met 1922,” by A. Lichtenstein; (5) “Filariasis-onderzoek
over dag,’ by Dr. J. Haga (Reprints from Gen. Tijd. Nederl.-Indie, 63,
4, 6, 1923-1924) ; “Verzending van Muskieten-Materiaal aan het Centraal
Militair Geneeskundig Laboratorium; vermelding van minder bekende
afwijkingen,” by Dr. J. Haga (1923).
Wirtey, Surrey.
The Hill Museum.—Bulletin, i., 3 (1924).
xlviil. DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES.
Private Donors (and authors, unless otherwise stated).
Borge, O..—“Die von Dr. A. Lofgren in Sao Paulo Gesammelten Susswasseralgen”
(Arkiv for Botanik, xv., 13) (Stockholm, 1918).
Ferguson, Dr. EH. W., Sydney (donor).—‘Fauna Hawaiiensis,” i., 1-6 (1899-
1913); i., 1-6 (1899-1910); im., 1-6 (1901-1910); “The British
Medical Journal,’ Nos. 3271-3326 (Sept. 8th, 1923—Sept. 27th,
1924).
Froggatt, W. W., F.L.8., Sydney (donor).—“‘The Anatomy, Physiology, Mor-
phology and Development of the Blow-fly,” by B. T. Lowne (Vols.
1-11.) (1890-1895) ; “The Conservation of the Wild Life of Canada,”
by Dr. G. Gordon Hewitt (1921).
Hedley, C., F.L.S., Sydney (donor).—“Nova Caledonia,” A. .Zoologie, iii., 2
(1924); One Reprint, “Sur les Relations des Neo-Caledoniens avec
le Groupe de Homo neanderthalensis,” by F. Sarasin (from
“T? Anthropologie,” xxxiv., 1924).
Institution of Engineers, Australia, Sydney (donor).—‘The Power Resources of
the Commonwealth of Australia and the Mandated Territory of
New Guinea” (Report to The World Power Conference, London,
1924) (1924).
Lindemann, Dr. E., Berlin (author and donor).—Seven Reprints:—(1) Unter-
suchungen tber Stisswasserperidineen und ihre Variationsformen,
ul. (1920); (2) Hine interessante Stisswasserflagellate (1923); (3)
Die Mikroflora des Zwergbirkenmoors von Neulinum. By F.
Steinecke and EK. Lindemann (1923); (4) Ueber Peridineen einiger
Seen Suddeutschlands und des Alpengebietes, (1923); (5) Ein
neues Spirodinium (1922); (6) Hine Entwicklungshemmung bei
Peridinium borgei und ihre Folgen (1923); (7) Neue von G. I.
Playfair beschriebene Siisswasserperidineen aus Australien, ete.,
(1923).
Luigioni, Paolo, Rome.—‘‘Achille Raffray,” (1924).
Mjoberg, Dr. E., Borneo (donor).—Three Reprints, Results of Swedish Scientifie
Expeditions to Australia, 1910-13 (Arkiv for Zoologi, xvi., 3, 5, 9,
(1923-1924).
North, D. S., Sydney.—‘The Control of Sugar-Cane Diseases,” (1923).
Obenberger, Dr. J., Prague (donor).—Bulletin of the Entomological Section of
the National Museum of Prague, i. (1-10) (1923).
Skirving, Dr. R. Seot, Sydney.—‘Two Sea-faring Doctors of the Past: Lionel
Wafer and Thomas Dover.’ (Reprint from “The Medical Journal
of Australia,” April 12, 1924).
Smith, Dr. R. Greig, Sydney (donor).—Chemical Engineering and Mining Re-
view,” xvi., 182-187, 189-191 (1923-1924); xvii., 193 (1924); County
of Northumberland, Education Committee, County Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, Cockle Park, Bulletin Nos. 34-36 (1922-1924) ;
DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. xlix.
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for Year
1923 (1924).
Stead, D. G., Sydney.—‘General Report upon the Fisheries of British Malaya
with Recommendations for Future Development” (1923).
Tillyard, R. J.. M.A., D.Se, F.L.8., F.H.S., Nelson, N.Z—Ten Reprints :—(1)
“On the Mouth-parts of the Micropterygoidea (Order Lepidoptera)”
(Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. Aug. 10, 1923); (2) “The lower Permian
insects of Kansas, Preliminary Announcement” (Ent. News, Dee.,
1923); (3) “Origin of the Australian and New Zealand Insect
Faunas”’ (Rep. Aust. Ass. for the Advancement of Science, xvi.,
pp. 407-413, 1923); (4) “Mesozoic Insects of Queensland, No. 10”
(Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., xlvii., 4, 1923); (5) “The Wing-venation
of the Order Plectoptera or Mayflies” (Journ. Linn. Soe. Lond.,
Zoology, xxxv., Mar., 1923); (6) “The Dragonflies (Order Odonata)
of Fiji’ (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Apr. 15, 1924); (7) “Studies
of N.Z. Trichoptera or Caddis-flies. No. 2” (Trans. N.Z. Inst. 55,
pp. 285-314, 1924); (8) “The Parasite of the Woolly Aphis in New
Zealand” (“The N.Z. Fruitgrower and Apiarist,’’ Sept. 16, 1924);
(9) “Les Blepharoceridae de la Tasmanie,” by A. Tonnoir (Ann.
de Biol.. Lacustre, xii., 1, 2, 1924); (10) “A new biting Ceratopo-
gonid from New Zealand,” by A. L. Tonnoir (1924).
Walton, L. B., Ohio.—(1) “Actinolophus minutus, a new Heliozoan with a Re-
view of the Species enumerated in the Genus” (1905); (2) “Naidi-
dae of Cedar Point, Ohio” (1906); (3) “Contributions to Museum
Technique, Pt. i.” (1907); (4) “Variability and Amphimixis”
(1915); (5) “Ohio Biological Survey, Bulletin No. 4” (1915); (6)
“Fraternities and Scholarship” (1915); (7) “Gametogenesis in
Plants’ (1916); (8) “Organic Evolution and the Significance of
some new Evidence bearing on the problem” (1918); (9) “Hutetra-
morus globosus, a new genus and species of Algae belonging to the
Protococcoidea” (1918).
Welch, M. B., B.Se., A.I-C., Sydney—Two Reprints from Journ. & Proc. Roy.
Soe. N.S.W., Ivii. (1923) :—“The Secretory Epidermal Cells of cer-
tain Euealypts and Angophoras”’; “Notes on Wattle Barks, Part
1,” by M. B. Welch, W. McGlynn and F. A. Coombs.
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LIST OF MEMBERS, 1924. .
ORDINARY MEMBERS.
Allen, Edmund, c/o Chief Engineer for Railways, Brisbane, Q. |
Anderson, Charles, M.A., D.Sc., Australian Museum, College St., Sydney.
Anderson, Robert Henry, B.Sc.Agr., Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Andrews, Ernest Clayton, B.A., F.G.S., Geological Survey, Department of
Mines, Sydney.
Aurousseau, Marcel, B.Sc., c/o Mr. G. H. Aurousseau, “Wondah,”’ Banner-
man Street, Cremorne.
Badham, Charles, B.Sc., M.B., Bureau of Microbiology, 98 Macquarie Street,
Sydney.
Baker, Richard Thomas, The Avenue, Cheltenham.
Barnett, Marcus Stanley, c/o Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., O’Connell
Street, Sydney.
Benson, Professor William Noel, B.A., DSc., F.GS., University of Otago,
Dunedin, N.Z.
Blakely, William Faris, Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Bone, Walter Henry, 15 Bond Street, Sydney.
Breakwell, Ernest, B.A., B.Sc., Agricultural High School, Yanco, N.S.W.
Brewster, Miss Agnes, Girls’ High School, Sydney.
Broelemann, Henry W., Boite 22, a Pau (Basses-Pyrenees), France.
Brough, Patrick, M.A. B.Sc, B.Ag.Sc., “Kinross,’ Billyard Avenue,
W ahroonga.
Brown, Horace William, Post Office, Mackay, Queensland.
Brown, Miss Ida A., B.Sc., Geology Department, The University, Sydney.
Browne, William Rowan, D.Sc., Geology Dept., University of Sydney.
Burkitt, Arthur Neville St. George Handcock, M.B., B.Sc., Medical School
University of Sydney.
Burns, Alexander Noble, Westwood, Queensland.
Burrell, Harry, 19 Doncaster Avenue, Kensington.
Burrell, Mrs. Harry, 19 Doncaster Avenue, Kensington.
Butler, Miss Hilda Catherine, ‘““Wenby,’ North Street, Marrickville.
Cadell, Miss Myall, “Wotonga,’ Belgium Avenue, Roseville.
Cambage, Richard Hind, LS., F.L.S., Park Road, Burwood.
Campbell, John Honeyford, M.B.E., Royal Mint, Sydney.
Carne, Walter Mervyn, Government Botanist, Perth, W.A.
Carson, Duncan, c/o Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. Bridge St., Sydney.
Carter, H. J.. B.A., F.ES., “Garrawillah,’ Kintore St., Wahroonga.
Cheperan Professor Henry G. M.D., B.S., Medical School, University of
ydney.
Chass Miss Eleanor Emily, B.Sc., Zoology Department, The University,
ydney.
Cheel, Edwin, Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Chisholm, Edwin Claud, M.B., Ch.M., Comboyne, N.S.W.
Clarke, Harry Flockton, c/o Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., Rarawai Mill,
Ba River, Fiji.
Cleland, Professor Jchn Burton, M.D., ChM., The University, Adelaide, S.A.
Collins, Miss (Marjorie Isabel, M.Sc., Botany Department, The University,
Svdnev.
Cotton, Professor Leo Arthur, M.A., D.Sc., Geology Dept., University of Sydney,
Crago, William Henry, M.D., 185 Macquarie Street, Svdney.
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Danes, Dr. Jiri Victor, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Europe.
David, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth, K.B.E., C.M.G., DS.O., B.A. DSc,
F.R.S., University of Sydney.
Dickinson, Reginald Ernest, B.Sc, Eng. (Lond.), A.M.I.C.E., 6 Hawea
Flats, Spofforth Street, Cremorne.
Dixson, Sir Hugh, Kt., J.P., “Abergeldie,” Summer Hiil.
Dixson, Thomas Storie, M.B., Ch.M., 215 Macquarie Street, Sydney.
Dodd, Alan Parkhurst, Prickly Pear Laboratory, Sherwood, Brisbane, Q.
Drummond, Miss Heather R., “Havilah.” Glenbrook, N.S.W.
Dwyer, Rt. Rev. Joseph Wilfrid, Bishop of Wagga, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.
Elston, Albert H., F.E.S., “Hatherley,” Unley Park, S.A.
Enright, Walter John, B.A.. West Maitland, N.S.W.
Ferguson, Eustace William, M.B., Ch.M., Bureau of Microbiology, Macquarie
Street, Sydney.
Finckh, Herman E., “Hermes,” 100 Raglan Street, Mosman.
Fletcher, Joseph J., M.A., B.Sc. Woolwich Road, Woolwich.
Flynn, Professor Theodore Thomson, DSc., University of Tasmania, Hobart,
Tas.
Friend, Norman Bartlett, 48 Pile Street, Dulwich Hill.
Froggatt, John Lewis, B.Sc., Dept. of Agriculture, Brisbane.
Froggatt, Walter Wilson, F.L.S., Young Street, Croydon.
Furst, Herbert Charles, 6 Old Canterbury Road, Lewisham.
Goldfinch, Gilbert M.. “Lyndhurst,” Salisbury Road, Rose Bay.
Grant, Robert, 24 Edward Street, Woollahra.
Gray, Archibald James, “Warwick,’ Fernhill Street, Hurlstone Park.
Greenwood, William Frederick Neville, c/- Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.,
Lautoka, Fiji.
Griffiths, Edward, B.Sc., Dept. of Agriculture, 186 Lower George St., Sydney.
Gurney, William B., F.E.S., Dept. of Agriculture, George St. North, Sydney.
Hacker, Henry, Queensland Museum, Bowen Park, Brisbane, Q.
Hajny, Emanuel J., Consul-General for Czechoslovakia, Australia House.
Carrington Street, Sydney.
Hall, E. Cuthbert, M.D., Ch.M., George Street, Parramatta.
Hall, Leslie Lionel, “Uabba Mansions,’ Milson Road, Cremorne.
Halligan, Gerald H., F.G.S, 97 Elphin Road, Launceston, Tasmania.
Hamilton, Arthur Andrew, “The Ferns,’ 17 Thomas Street, Ashfield.
Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw, ‘“Tanandra,” Hercules Street, Chatswood.
Hardwick, Frederick George, B.D.S., D.D.Sc., Molesworth Street, Lismore,
NESW:
Hardy, G. H. Hurlstone, The University, Brisbane, Q.
Harris, Miss Thistle Y., “Lynette,” 71 Spencer Road, Mosman.
Harrison, Professor Launcelot, B.Sc., B.A., Zoology Dept., University of
Sydney.
Haswell, Professor William Aitcheson, M.A., DiSc, F.RS., “Mimihau,”
Woollahra Point.
Haviland, The Venerable Archdeacon F. E., St. Thomas’ Rectory, O’Connell,
N.S.W.
Hedley, Charles, F.L.S., 67 Muston Street, Mosman.
Henry, Marguerite, B.Sc., “Derwent,” Oxford St., Epping.
Pony Max, DS.O., M.R‘C.V.S., B.V.Sc., Coram Cottage, Essex Street,
pping.
Hill, Gerald F., F.E.S., 5 Clifton Road, Hawthorn, Melbourne. Victoria.
Hinder, Miss Eleanor, B.Sc.,c/- Farmer’s, Ltd., George and Market Sts.,
Sydney.
Hindmarsh, Miss Ellen Margaret, B.Sc., Medical School, The University of
Sydney.
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
Hitchcock, Leith Fuller, Prickly Pear Laboratory, Sherwood Brisbane, Q.
Hopson, John, Jr., “Dalkeith,” Eccleston, N.S.W.
Hull, Arthur Francis Basset, Box 704, G.P.O., Sydney.
Hull, Francis Basset, Manchester Unity Buildings, 8th Floor, 160 Castlereagh
Street, Sydney.
Hynes, Miss Sarah, B.A., “Isis,” Soudan Street, Randwick.
Irby, Llewellyn George, Forestry Dept., Hobart, Tasmania.
Jackson, Sidney William, M.R.A.O.U., Belltrees, via Scone, N.S.W.
Jacobs, Ernest G., “Cambria,” 106 Bland Street, Ashfield
Jensen, Harald Ingemann, D.Sc., Treasury Chambers, George St., Brisbane.
OF
Johnston, Professor Thomas Harvey, M.A., D.Sc., The University, Adelaide,
S.A.
Kennedy, John A., M.B., Ch.M., 423 Marrickville Road, Duiwich Hil.
Kinghorn, James Roy, Australian Museum, College Street, Sydney.
Lawson, Augustus Albert, 9 Wilmot St., Sydney.
Lea, Arthur M., F.E.S., 241 Young Street, Unley, Adelaide: SAN
Le ’Plastrier, Miss Constance Emily Mary, “Carinyah,” Provincial Road,
Lindfield.
Le Souef, A. S., C.M.Z.S., Zoological Gardens, Taronga Park, Mosman.
Lindergren, Gustaf Mauritz, Secretary, Swedish Chamber of Commerce,
Carrington Street, Sydney.
Lower, Oswald B., F.E.S., Bartley Crescent, Wayville, S.A.
Lucas, A. H. S., M.A., BSc., “Girrahween,” William St., Roseville.
Mackerras, Ian Murray, “Beechworth,” Stanton Road, Mosman.
Mackinnon, Ewen, B.Sc., Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry,
314 Albert Street, East Melbourne.
Maiden, Joseph Henry, 1.5.0., F.R.S., F.L.S., “Levenshulme,” Turramurra
Avenue, Turramurra.
Mawson, Sir Douglas, Kt., B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., The University, Adelaide, S.A.
May, W. L., Forest Hill, Sandford, Tasmania.
McCarthy, T., Bertram Street, Mortlake.
McCulloch, Allan Riverstone, Australian Museum, College Street, Sydney.
McDonnough, Thomas, L. §., “Tluka,” Hamilton Street, Randwick.
McKeown, Keith Collingwood, ‘Office of the Water Conservation and Irriga-
tion Commission, Leeton, N.S.W.
McLuckie, John, M.A., D-Sc., Botany Dept., The University, Sydney.
Mitchell John, 10 High Street, Waratah, N.S.W.
Moulden, Owen Meredith, M.B.. B.S., “Roma,” Unley Road, Adelaide, S.A.
Murray, Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald, B.Sc. Zoology Department, The
University, Sydney.
Musgrave, Anthony, Australian Museum, College St. Sydney.
Musson, Charles T., “Calala,” Nelson Road, Gordon.
Newman, Leslie John William, ‘“Walthamstowe,” Bernard St., Claremont,
Perth, W.A.
Nicholson, Alexander John, M.Sc., Zoology Dept., The University, Sydney.
Noble, Robert Jackson, B.Sc.Agr., Ph.D., c/o Mining Museum, George Street
North, Sydney.
North, David Sutherland, c/o Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., Broadwater
Mill, Richmond River.
O'Dwyer, Margaret Helena, B.Sc., Bio-chemistry Dept., Imperial College of
Science, South Kensington, London, S.W.7, England.
Oliver, W. Reginald B., F.LS., F.ZS. Dominion Museum, Wellington, N.Z.
Osborne, George Davenport, B.Sc., Geology Dept., The University, Sydney.
Perkins, Frederick Athol, B.Sc.Agr., Post Office, Stanthorpe, Queensland.
Petrie, Arthur Hill Kelvin, Wonga Street, Strathfield.
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Petrie, James Matthew, DSc., F.I:C., Medical School, University of Sydney.
Phillips, Montagu Austin, F.L.S., 57 St. George’s Square, London, S.W
England.
Pincombe, Torrington Hawke, B.A., Russell Road, New Lambton, N.S.W.
Pinkerton, Miss Ethel Corry, B.Sc., Ashford Street, Ashfield.
Priestley, Henry, M.D., B.Sc., Medical School, University of Sydney.
Pritchard, Denis Adrian, B.Sc., M.B., Ch.M., H.M.A.S. Penguin, Sydney.
Pulleine, Robert Henry, M.B., 3 North Terrace, Adelaide, S.A.
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Roberts, Frederick Hugh Sherston, B.Sc., Prickly Pear Station, Gravesend,
via Moree, N.S.W.
Scammell, George Vance, 18 Middle Head Road, Mosman.
Shaw, Alfred Eland, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.E.S., Hospital for the Insane,
Goodna, Queensland.
Sherrie, Miss Heather, B.Sc., Neutral Bay.
Sloane, Thomas G., Moorilla, Young, N.S.W.
Smith, G. P. Darnell, D.Sc., F.I.C., F.C.S., Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Smith, R. Greig, D.Sc., Linnean Hall, Elizabeth Bay.
Smith, Miss Vera Irwin, B.Sc., F.L.S., “Cora Lynn,’ Point Road, Woolwich.
Stead, David G., “Boongarre,’ Pacific St., Watson’s Bay.
Steel, Miss Jessie Keeble, B.Sc., “Helensburgh,’ Marion Street, Killara.
Steel, Thomas, “Rock Bank,” Stephens Street, Pennant Hills.
Stokes, Edward. Sutherland, M.B., Ch.M., Dept. of Water Supply and
Sewerage, 341 Pitt Street, Sydney.
Sulman, Miss Florence, “Burrangong,’ McMahon’s Point.
Sussmilch, C. A., F.G.S., Technical College, Newcastle, N.S.W.
Thackway, Albert Edward John, “Wyoming,” Albyn Road, Strathfield.
Tiegs, Oscar Werner, D.Sc., The University, Adelaide, S.A.
Tilley, Cecil Edgar, Ph.D, B.Sc, A.I.C, F.G.S., Sedgwick Museum,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
Tillyard, Robin John, D.Sc., M.A., F.L.S., F.ES., C.M.Z.S., Cawthron In-
stitute, Nelson, New Zealand.
Troughton, Ellis Le Geyt, Australian Museum, College Street, Sydney.
Turner, A. Jefferis, M.D., F.E.S., Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, Q.
Turner, Rowland E., F.E.S., F.Z.S., The Needles Hotel, Port St. John’s,
Pondoland, South Africa.
Veitch, Robert, B.Sc. c/- Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., Lautoka Mill,
Lautoka, Fiji.
Walker, Commander John James, M.A., F.LS., F.ES., R.N., “Aorangi,”
Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford, England.
Walkom, Arthur Bache, D.Sc., Macleay House, 16 College Street, Sydney.
Wardlaw, Henry Sloane Halcro, DSc, Physiology Dept. University of
Sydney.
Wieecrhodse, Gustavus Athol, D.Sc. B.E., F.E.S., Royal Mint, Macquarie
St., Sydney.
Watt, Professor Robert Dickie, M.A. B.Sc., University of Sydney.
Wearne, Walter Loutit, “Telarah,” Collingwood Street, Drummoyne.
Welch, Marcus Baldwin B.Sc., A-1.C., Technological Museum, Harris Street,
Ultimo.
Welch, William, F.R.GS., “Roto-iti,’” Boyle Street, Mosman.
White, Cyril Tenison, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, QO.
Williams, Miss May Marston, B.Sc., “Bingera,’ 33 Day Street, Drummoyne.
Woolnough, Walter George, D.Sc., F.G.S., Florence Street, Killara.
Wymark, Frederick, 89 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Pa
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Hill, Professor J. P., Institute of Anatomy, University of London, University
College, Gower Street, London, W.C.1., England.
Wilson, Professor J. T., M.B., Ch.M. F.R.S., Department of Anatomy, The
New Museums, Cambridge, England.
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
Bale, W. M., F.R.M.S., 63 Walpole Street, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria.
Broom, Robert, M.D., D.Sc. F.R.S., Douglas, Cape Colony, South Africa.
McAlpine D., Government Vegetable Pathologist, Dept. of Agriculture, Mel-
bourne, Victoria.
Meyrick, Edward, B.A. F.R.S., F.Z.S., Thornhanger, Marlborough, Wilts.,
England.
Spencer, Professor Sir W. Baldwin, K.C.M.G., D.Sc., F.R.S., The University.
Melbourne Victoria.
INDEX
(1924).
(a) GENERAL INDEX.
Adder’s tongue fern, exhibited, xxx.
Address, Presidential, i.
Amphioxus, exhibited, xxii.
Aquaria, habits of Entomostraca in, 313.
Asparagus officinalis, teratological speci-
men, exhibited, xxiv.
Australia, Loranthaceae of, 79.
Australian Caryophyllaeid Cestode, 339
—Chiromyzini, 360—Coleoptera, Notes
and new species, 19, 521—Diptera,
Notes on, 138, 329, 348—Forest
League, vi.—Lepidoptera, 397—Ne-
mestrinidae, 447—Scarabaeidae, 283
—species of Secotium, 97.
Aviculopecten, new species of, from
Carboniferous rocks, Myall Lakes,
468.
Balance Sheets, 1923, xviil.-xxi.
Bat, insectivorous, exhibited, xxv.
Beetle borers, exhibited, xxiii.
Bell’s, Roy, Molluscan collections, 179.
Blackfellow’s bread, exhibited, xxi.
Blakely, W. F., Loranthaceae of Aus-
tralia. Pt. v. 79—see Exhibits.
Blue Mountains, Eucalypts of, 147.
Borer, pinhole, life-history exhibited,
KOXOXY
Botanical features of Grey Range and
neighbourhood, 1.
Bowning, new trilobites from, 46.
British Empire Exhibition, exhibit for,
ill.
Brough, P., Studies in the Epacridaceae.
Pt. 1. Life-history of Styphelia longi-
folia, 162—McLuckie, J., and Petrie,
A. H. K., Eeological study of the flora
of Mount Wilson, Pt. i., 475.
Brown, Ida A., elected a member, xxil.
Browne, W. R., election to Council,
XXVili.
Burkitt, A. N., congratulations to, xxvi.
Californian Straw fiower, exhibited,
XXIV.
Campbell, J. H., elected Hon. Treasurer,
1924-25, xxii.
Carboniferous rocks, New species of
Aviculopecten from, 468.
Carter, H. J., Australian Coleoptera.
Notes and new species. No. in., 19—
INO Niven oeile
Caryophyllaeid Cestode, Australian, 339.
Cassytha, contribution to physiology of,
50:
Cestode, Australian Caryophyllaeid, 339.
Chapman, H. G., elected a Vice-Presi-
dent, 1924-25, xxii.
Charagia eximia, life-history exhibited,
XXVII1.
Cheel, E., see Exhibits.
Chiromyzini, Australian, 360.
Chisholm, E. C., elected a member, xxi.
—Huealypts of the Blue Mountains
and their defined areas, 147.
Coconut moth, exhibited, xxvii.
Coleoptera, Australian, 19, 521—Aus-
tralian (Scarabaeidae), 283—Upper
Permian, and a new order from the
Belmont beds, 429.
Collecting expeditions, permits to, vi.
College Street, purchase of property, i.
Collins, M. I., Linnean Macleay Fellow
in Botany, congratulations to, xxl,
XXvilireappointed, 1924-25, ix.—
Studies in the vegetation of arid and
semiarid New South Wales. Pt. ii,
1—Summary of year’s work, viii.
Colloids, influence of certain, on fermen-
tation, 436.
Collomia grandiflora, exhibited, xxiv.
Cordania, notes on, 46.
Crossotarsus armipennis, life-history ex-
hibited, xxix.
Ivi. INDEX.
Cunningham, G. H., Critical revision of
Australian and New Zealand species
of Secotium, 97.
Davidson, Sir W., death of, u.
Deane, H., obituary notice, iv. —Mrs.,
letter from, returning thanks, xxii.
De Toni, G. B., reference to death,
XXVIll.
Dickinson, R. E., elected a member,
XXil.
Diptera, Australian (Chiromyzini), 360
—Australian (Nemestrinidae), 447—
Australian, notes on, 138, 329, 348.
Dixon, J. R. L., obituary notice, v.
Dog-fish, motor nerve-endings of muscles
of pectoral fin, 371.
Donations and Exchanges,
XXVIli.-XXXl1.
Echium italicum, exhibited, xxxi.
Ecological study of flora of Mount Wil-
son, 475.
Elections, xviii.
Elizabeth Bay, last meeting at Linnean
Hall, xxvi.
Elonichthys, new species from Neweastle
Coal Measures, 503.
Encrinurus, notes on, 46.
Entomostraca collected in vicinity of
Auckland, 313—freshwater, of New
South Wales, 120—notes on breeding,
from dried mud, 313.
Epacridaceae, Studies in, 162.
Eriophyes associated with malformation
of leaves of Eucalyptus stricta, 395.
Euealypts of Blue Mountains, 147.
Eucalyptus stricta, mite associated with
malformation of leaves in, 395—red
pigment induced by insect injury in,
386.
Exchange-relations, ii.
Exhibits :-—
Blakely, W. F., Asparagus officinalis,
teratological specimen of, xxiv.—
Echium italicum, Myosotis versi-
color, Rapistrum hispanicus, R.
rugosum var. nervosum, XXxX1.—
Silene nocturna, xxiv.
Cheel, E., Adder’s tongue fern, xxx.—
fresh flowering specimens of Micro-
citrus australis, xxix.—Myriangium
mortagnet, xxxi.—Port Jackson Fig
XX11.-XXV1.,
(Ficus rubiginosa), xxvii. —sclero-
tium or so-called Blackfellow’s
bread, xxli—specimens of Mimulus
xxiv.—Californian Straw
(Collomia grandiflora),
moschatus,
Flower
XXIV.
Exhibits (continued).
Froggatt, W. W., bostrychid beeile
(Xylothrips flavipes), XX1li.—
Coleopterous parasites and braconid
wasp parasite, xxiii—life-history of
green wood moth (Charagia eximia),
Seal —life-history of Pinhole
borer (Crossotarsus armipennis),
xxix.—lyctid beetle (Lyctopholus
rugicollis), xxiii—Photograph of
wasp tree, also wasps and nests,
DO.0 ig,
Harrison, L., irregularly
_ shaped object, xxiii.
Lea, A. M., coconut moth (Levuana
iridescens), XXVIi.
Le Souef, A. S., two new rock walla-
bies, XXvill.
Mitchell, J., fossil insect wing, xxix.
* Musgrave, A., slides of Lord Howe
Island, xxvii.
Stead, D. G., Amphioxus
- stoma sp.), Xxiii.
Troughton, H. le G., Insectivorous bat
(Nyctinomus australis), XXV.—
White-backed wren (Malurus leu-
conotus), XXV.
Walkom, A. B., scale leaves of Glos-
sopteris and associated sporangia,
XXxl.
Waterhouse, G. A., larvae of Philiris
tas innotatus, xxviu.—Loranthus
linophyllus on Casuarina glauca,
. XXvil.—second generation hybrid of
Tisiphone abeona x T. morrisi, xxvi.
Export of birds and animals, appoint-
ment of Advisory Committee, vi.
conical
(Branchio-
Fermentation, influence of certain col-
loids on, 436.
Ficus rubiginosa, exhibited, xxvii.
Fijian insects, food plants or hosts of,
153.
Fletcher, J. J., elected a Vice-President,
1924-25, xxiii.
Flora of Mount Wilson, ecological study
of, 475.
Flowers, nectar of, 324.
Food plants or hosts of some Fijian
insects, 153.
Fossil insect wing, exhibited, xxix.
Freshwater Entomostraca of New South
Wales, 120.
Frog, motor nerve-endings of limb
muscles, 371.
Froggatt, W. W., retirement, iii—see
Exhibits.
INDEX.
Galls, thrips, two new, from New South
Wales, 279.
Glossopteris, scale leaves and associated
sporangia, exhibited, xxx.
Green wood moth, life-history exhibited,
XXViil.
Greenwood, W. F. N., see Veitch and
Greenwood.
Greig-Smith, R., Macleay Bacteriologist
to the Society, Influence of certain
colloids upon fermentation, 436—Note
upon determining Hydrogen-ion con-
centration colorimetrically in small
quantities of fluids, 504—Summary of
year’s work, vii.
Grey Range, botanical features of, 1.
Gurney, W. B., congratulations to, iii—
Mite of genus FHriophyes associated
with malformation of leaves of Hu-
calyptus stricta, 395.
Hale, H. M., Two new Hemiptera from
New South Wales, 461.
Hardy, G. H., Australian Nemestrinidae,
447—Revision of Australian Chiromy-
zini, 360.
Harrison, L., see Exhibits. *
Haswell, W. A., Critical notes on the
Temnocephaloidea, 509.
Hedley, C., Appointment as Scientific
Director of Great Barrier Reef Com-
mittee, iii—congratulations to, li—
resignation from Council, xxvi.—re-
tirement, ili.
Helix aspera, observations on, 151.
Hemiptera, two new, from New South
~ Wales, 461.
Henry, M., Linnean Macleay Fellow in
Zoology, Entomostraca collected in the
vicinity of Auckland, New Zealand,
313—Monograph of freshwater En-
tomostraca of New South Wales.
Phyllopoda, 120—Notes on breeding
Entomostraca from dried mud and
their habits in aquaria, 319—Summary
of year’s work, viii.
Hull, A. F. B., elected a Vice-President,
1924-25, xxiiiiRelation of loricates
to the country rock, ix.—resignation
from Council, xxxi.
Hull, F. B., elected a member, xxii.
Hybrid Tisiphone, exhibited, xxvi.
Hydrogen-ion concentration, note on de-
termination colorimetrically, 504.
lvii.
Insect injury, red pigment produced by,
in Eucalyptus stricta, 386.
Insect wing, fossil, exhibited, xxix.
Insects, fijian, food plants or hosts of,
153.
Iredale, T., Results from Roy Bell’s
Molluscan collections, 179.
Johnston, T. H., Australian Caryophyl-
laeid Cestode, 339.
Jubilee, reference to, Xxx.
Karny, H. H., see van Leeuwen and
Karny.
Kinghorn,
XXVI1.
Larvae of Philiris tlias innotatus, ex-
hibited, xxvil.
Lasiocampidae, Australian, 397.
Lawson, A. A., resignation from Coun-
ceil, XxXvi.
Lea, A. M., On some Australian Seara-.
baeidae, 283—see Exhibits.
Lepidoptera, Australian, 397.
Le Souef, A. S., see Exhibits.
Levuana iridescens, exhibited, xxvii.
Linnean Hall, last meeting at, xxvi.
Linnean Macleay Fellowships, 1925-26,
announcement re applications, xxix.,
xxx.—Appointments 1925-26, xxxi.
Loranthaceae of Australia, Pt. v., 79.
Loranthus linophyllus, exhibited, xxvii.
Lord Howe Island, lantern slides, ex-
hibited, xxvii.
Loricates, Relation of, to country rock,
1D
Lueas, A. H. S., congratulations to, iv.—
retirement from Council, iii.
Lyctopholus rugicollis, exhibited, xxiii.
J. R., elected a member,
Mackerras, I. M., appointed Linnean
Macleay Fellow in Zoology, 1925-26,
xxx1l.— congratulations to, xxiii.
Macleay House, first meeting, xxvi—
notice of removal to, xxiii.
Malloch, J. R., Notes on Australian
Diptera, 138, 329, 348.
Malurus leuconotus, exhibited, xxv.
Mawson, Sir D., congratulations to, iv.
McCulloch, A. R., election to Council,
XXVil.
McLuckie, J., see Brough, MeLuckie and
Petrie—Studies in parasitism: a con-
tribution to the physiology of Cassy-
tha, 55.
lviii.
Merista plebeia, further reference to oc-
currence of, in New South Wales, 499.
Microcitrus australis, fresh flowermg
specimens, exhibited, xxix.
Mimulus moschatus, exhibited, xxiv.
Mitchell, J., Eleven new species of Avi-
culopecten from Carboniferous rocks,
Myall Lakes, 468—Further reference
to oceurrence of Merista plebeia in
New South Wales, 499—New trilobites
from Bowning, with notes on Hncrinu-
rus and Cordania, 46—Preliminary re-
ference to new species of Hlonichthys
from lower beds of Neweastle Coal
Measures, 503—see Exhibits.
Mite of genus Hriophyes, 395.
Mollusean collections, Roy Bell’s, 179.
Motor nerve-endings of limb muscles of
frog and muscles of pectoral fin of
dog-fish, 371.
Mount Wilson, ecological study of flora
of, 475.
Murray, P. D. F., appointed Linnean
Macleay Fellow in Zoology, 1924-25,
ix.—Motor nerve-endings of the limb
muscles of the frog and of the muscles
of the pectoral fin of the dog-fish, 371
—reappointed, 1925-26, xxxi.
Muserave, A., see Exhibits.
Myall Lakes, N.S.W., new species of
Aviculopecten from, 468.
Myosotis versicolor, exhibited, xxxi.
Myriangium montagnei, exhibited, xxxi.
Native fauna, preservation of, vi.
Nectar of flowers, 324.
Nemestrinidae, Australian, 447.
Nerve-endings, motor, in frog and dog-
fish, 371.:
Neweastle Coal Measures, new species of
Elonichthys from, 503. bs
New South Wales, Studies in vegetation
of arid and semiarid, 1.
New Zealand species of Secotium, 97.
Nyctinomus australis, exhibited, xxv.
Ophioglossum Prantla, exhibited, xxx.
Osborne, G. D., appointed Linnean Mac-
leay Fellow in Geology, 1925-26, xxx.
Pan-Pacrfie Science Congress, 1.
Parasitism, studies in, 55.
Permian, Upper, Coleoptera from Bel-
mont, N.S.W., 429.
INDEX.
Petrie, A. H. K., see Brough, MeLuckie
and Petrie.
Petrie, J. M., Linnean Macleay Fellow
in Biochemistry, reappointed, 1924-25,
ix._—Studies in plant pigments. Pt.,
ii. The red pigment induced by in-
sect injury in Hucalyptus stricta, 386
—Summary of year’s work, vil.
Philiris ilias innotatus, larvae exhibited,
XXVil.
Phyllopoda of New South Wales, 120.
Pigment, red, induced by insect injury
in Eucalyptus stricta, 386.
Pigments, plant, studies in, 386.
Pinhole borer, life-history exhibited,
NOONE :
Plant pigments, studies in, 386.
Port Jackson Fig, exhibited, xxvii.
Presidential Address by A. F. Basset
Hull, 1.
Raffray, A., obituary notice, iv.
Rana temporaria, motor nerve-endings
of limb muscles, 371.
Rapistrum hispanicus, exhibited, xxxi.—
R. rugosum var. nervosum, exhibited,
KOON
Red pigment induced by insect injury in
Eucalyptus stricta, 386.
Roberts, F. H. S8., elected a member,
XXVIli.
Royal Society of New South Wales, con-
gratulations from, xxvi.
Searabaeidae, Australian, 283.
Science Building, scheme for, ii.
Seclerotium, exhibited, xxii.
Secotium, critical revision of Australian
and New Zealand species of, 97.
Silene nocturna, exhibited, xxiv.
Smith, G. P. Darnell, congratulations to,
xxv.—letter returning thanks, xxvi.
Smith, H. G., reference to death, xxviii.
—Mrs. H. G., letter from, returning
thanks, xxx.
Squalus acanthias, motor nerve-endings
of muscles of pectoral fin, 371.
Stead, D. G., account of Pan-Pacifie
Food Conference, Xxx., XXXll.—re-
marks on exhibit, xxv.—see Exhibits.
Steel, T., Nectar of flowers, 324—Obser-
vations on Helix aspera in Australia,
151—remarks on Exhibit, xxiv.
Styphelia longifolia, life-history of, 162.
Temnocephaloidea, Critical notes on,
509.
INDEX.
Thrips-galls, two new, from New South
Wales, 279.
Tillyard, R. J., Upper Permian Coleop-
tera. and a new order from the Bel-
mont beds, N.S.W., 429.
Tisiphone hybrid, exhibited, xxvi.
Trilobites, new, from Bowning, 46.
Troughton, E. le G., see Exhibits.
Turner, A. J., Revision of Australian
Lepidoptera.
Lasiocampidae, 397.
Van Leeuwen, W. D., and H. H. Karny,
Two new thrips-galls
and their
in-
habitants from New South Wales, 279.
Vegetation of arid and semiarid New
South Wales, 1
Veitch, R., and W. F. N. Greenwood,
Food plants or hosts of some Fijian
insects. Pt. u., 153.
Synonyms are printed in italics;
Abra elliptica .. so ZA
ABRANDA ...- . 182, 212
TZN 50,660 OBL ae eer
Abutilon sp. .. .- 16
ANcHcia Ge. - mati, 60, “494
acuminata .. - 89, 90
aneura .. 8, 10, 13. -14, 16,
. ‘84-5, 88- 90
Burkitti .. .. .. 10, 16, 85
85
ealamifolia .. .
Cambagei 8, ont i, 84-5
cana os) LO, 13, igs 85
discolor .. so. 0) Willy OY)
elata 485, “487, 490, 492,
A95
Farnesiana 13, 16, 154, 158,
160
eladiiformis 6 SAG
harpophylla .. 85, 88
homalophylla .. . 85
INemENe, ol Bo ge 50 wUpaly
linifolia .. Seavall
Loderi -. se 16,80
longifolia .. .. . vil, 495
melanoxylon.. 85, 487, 499
mollissima ). gost 2.) 7. Vi.
Murrayana . lO; 16
marifolia, ss; «ode 2~ SO
Oswaldi .. LG) 16, 84-5
pendula Le .. .. 845
penninervis 487, 490, 492.
494, 496
lix.
Wallabies,
XXVII1.
Walkom, A. B., see Exhibits—Year’s re-
search, viil.
Rock, two new, exhibited,
Wasp, braconid, exhibited, . xxiii.—tree,
exhibited, xxix.
Waterhouse, G. A., congratulations to,
xxill.—elected a Vice-President, 1924-
25, xxiil.—see Exhibits.
Wilhams, May M., appointed Linnean
Macleay Fellow in Botany, 1924-25,
ix.—reappointed, 1925-26, xxxi.
Wren, white-backed, exhibited, xxv.
Wright, F., elected a member, xxx.
Xylothrips flavipes, exhibited, xxiii.
Zoological Record, 111.
BIOLOGICAL INDEX.
new names in small CAPITALS.
Acacia quadrimarginea 79, Adelium .. 55 ae)
89, 90 Berar wee ais oo
rigens .. .. eellO spall angulicolle .. .. . 542
ROSE, S650 6 tl WO aucilla . 33
sentis .. Fe, aerate EL augurale .. ; 4 Be)
stenophylla _ Gata kOs, All6 convexiusculum .. = 88)
tetragonophylla 8-10, 16, 88 geminatum 542
Acaena sanguisorba 487, 490, ILLIDGEL .. . 542
492, 496 nitidum . HOS:
Acanthia littoralis .. .. 465 QUCSUIN Waeliseiters isicteeet OO
Acanthias vulgaris .. .. 378 pilosum .. oo)
Acanthochiton .. exe reductum .... 5 ab)
variabilis .. . 5 Sauls reticulatum .. .. .. . 542
Acanthopleura gemmata xiii. scutellare oo au
Achaea janata .. 154 similatum sith (So
Acmaea alba ...: .... 239 Ademosyne .s -. . 429, 431
erucis 234, 237 Adeorbis aenenniacend 56 RP
inradiata .. s. .. 235 Adiantum aethiopicum . 493
jacksoniensis «. .. .. 234 Adoretus versutus. .. 157-8
marmorata var. submar- Adoxophyes fasciculana 155
morata .. . 236 Aelopus tamulus .. Salioil
octoradiata .. .. 238-9 Agaricus .. f 102
Saccharinaweniy ye 239 Agasthenes aillonstis oeraeh
striatal mc, ok . 240 irenchi See 33
Acritocera negligens spl goudiei .. 33
Acrocercops habroscia .. 156 goudiet .. 33
macroclina .. . 156 Agonoxema argaula’ 156
Acroclita physalodes 157 Aenewia amygdala Bee Oe
Actinodactylella .. .. .. 5138 pseudamyegdala .. 274-5
Acuminea .. .. .. 262 tritoniformis .. 275
Acuminia .. .. 262-3 Agraphis 6s
brazieri 263 Agrilus .. 30, 32
xe
Agrilus assimilis .. .. .. 29
AULOVIttAtLUS ee eee 29
australasiae
AUSUTAIS rena ote poeta wee)
BISPENOSUS) ato ss ysl mee
BREVISGet ok cee oe
cooki ..
Games ee ft/s ne eee
deauratus) eeu eee
DODDIA Ws Rica BO
GKoycabball gol Goes 4G Uae
flavotaeniatus .. .. 29, 536
‘trenchian eae eae too)
hypoleucus .. .. . 29, 535
korenskyi .. 56 BIO
kurandae .. 536
WENN 36 Wa hol ba tet
MASECUSIe nari nc ce el lO
MMIGGAGUS sata coe ee
MISTS ee e295 30
MACH Go 5 oo 6g PU ERS
|QUBH OWNS So 64 oo 5 ZY)
raphelisin ens tae ees OoD
Senm=aeneuses eee!
SiODVOKANMIOOIS G64 66 50 4. ZY)
semiviridis .. 536
tasmanicus a0) | BBS
terrae-reginae .. .. .. 29
van diemeni 535
WHLESTCHS seat SO
ZOMAGUS = cat ase ee ee O),
Agromyza lantanae bo. 6 JUGI
Aizoon quadrifidum .. . 16
Alciphron glaucus .. 159
Aleurodes comata .. 160
Alicia .. 5000. PAH)
Allecula flasoommrts a eatins pa eH
aE OeA WAL “G5 oo ao. as ts
Allognosta .. 5 GlOls Bxaes
INOCOG OE. oc oo nig oo. LLL
marginata _ 261
papillata .. 261
Alona laevissima 36. Bl
Alpinia nutans .. . 160, 327
Alsophila 5 494
australis .. _ 485. 7, 489- 90
Alternanthera “Reem a var.
abner) 55 55°55 oo 5 UG
Alysicarpus vaginalis .. 155
Amalda .. ae 209
Amaranthus paniculatus 155-
6
viridis .. . 155
Amblychilepas so 2alis)
Ampera spartioides. .. 493
Amphianax sub-coriaceus 33
INDEX.
Amphilophis glabra .. . 159
Amphioxus . XXiil.
Amydona guttularis 419
Amygdalum Ben ase LUNES
beddomei 181, 197
dendriticum .. 197
Anabathron emblematicum
244
INWEGHEREY 0) ae sik co) 4
Anagallis arvensis .. . 496
Anatina elongata . 200
Ancilla .. .. sia ty Dw)
australis . .. 259-60, 278
beachportensis .. .. . 260
cingulata .. . 259-60
coccinea 2200
edithae . 260
fusiformis .. 260-1
elandiformis 50 ZY)
lineatar-eie .. 260
marginata .. .. . 260
marginata var. tasmanica
260
monilifera .. . . 260
oblonga 259-60
papillata .. , Ail
petterdi .. . 260
fasmanicay es sheer eZO0
Aneillaria oblonga .. 260-1
Anecistromesus kermadecensis
240
Andropogon sericeus 9, 11,
15
JNAGEAOMNIS G6 956s 50 Zee
INTELMNWS Go 4 65 56 Ul
foMelleoeeg os oo no LY
INTE 64 56 5050 40
Gesu so 45 So 65 cA)
Anilara cuprescens .. .. 23
euprescens .. .. .. .. 2d
deplanata i. «9-21 -meeee
MACICAVINe) weeny aia
Obscurasees eee eee
(OUOCSS 36) Oa: 66. oo. 2B
uniformis .. .. .- .. 2a
DHMERCIATS Bo bo oo. oo 2
Anisops : 462
2 breddini . 463
endymion .. 602 °465
Aniomis Hayao. 20.6 abe
involuta 2... 3. 154
WAGCNSIS) eye) ean ale 154
Anona reticulata .. .. .
Amthaxaal menees eee el
cupripes .. Beatz A es
MIOTA 2 ates. Clee OO
Anthaxia obscura .. .. . 23
purpureicollis .. .. . 525
Anthela asciscens 5 ae)
CALLICESTA GEN cere O09
magnifica .. . 55 ay
Antheraea astrophela a3 ay)
eucalyp fierce cei Ooo
SACCOPOEA .. - «- 400
Anthrenus pimpinellae 5
Antigona striatissima .. 210
Apanteles expulsus .. . 158
Aphanisticus albo-hirtus . 30
BROWN sey «stele ame Oc
ROTI Gna Ga Aa a5 OBO
BLACKBURNI .. .. .. 536
eanaliculatus .. .. .. 30
ENDELOIDES .. .. .. .. ol
endeloides .. aos OED
Hilligoubanus en etme oU,
occidentalis he. ou
Aphelinus chrysomphali 158
Aphis gossypii 159, 161
Aplastomorpha ecalandrae 158
vandinei .. .. . 158
Apterotheca amaroides . 39
ieclale Sere Mest ch ai!
PUNCTIPENNIS .. .. .. 38
Apus amulets “yeaa mais a
australiensis .. "120- 2, 124
Araecerus fasciculatus . 158
Areca afra . 187
barbata.. . Ares dusit
fasciata .. . 186-7
PusGaics <i kien . 186-7
pisolina reel Si
pistachia .. a5 lets)
radula Bereretry a. I los0)
Sculpotihis) sya eto
eHOVARH Ge G6 5 dkshh, Ay
Arceuthobium .. .. .. .. 55
Archigetes 339, 346
appendiculatus .. .. . 347
lOO me ga Sn oo on aHhy
Archimyza .. os a00
Archimyza .. . 365
GVG Ve Fa al aoe OO OS
Arecopagia striatula .. . 211
Areoperna recens .. .. 198
seapha . 197-8
Argyna astrea .. . 154
Argyropeza .. .. . 248
Argyroploce aprobola . 156
ATIStd ar ees ree lel
calycina. .. = « v.uecmen Lo
Artaxd suSta clee eeeOOS
Artemia .. » 126
Artemia australis . .. 126-7
proxima .. . Son BZD
salina .. “Apa. 126, 321
salina var. arietina 121-2,
124
westraliensis . 126-7
Nrfenlopsis.2 .. 66... Lad
Artemis caerulea .. .. 208
Arthrocnemum arbuscula 16
Asparagus officinalis . xxiv.
Aspidiotiphagus citrinus 158
Aspidiotus aurantii .. . 160
COGUHS: 6 Se ee
destructor var. transparens
158, 160
palmae .. . ‘ . 160
Aspidogaster .. . 5 BD
Asplenium palectecnn . 485
flabellifolium 485, 487, 496
nidus .. . 483
Astacopsis Seen a ola
Astele scitulus .. .. .. 230
subearinata .. .. .. . 230
ASTELENA .. .. .- 182, 230
scitula .. . eet VO
Astraea fmbriata : oe 232
tentoriiformis .. 232
Astrebla pectinata a), iif, 15
Atalaemea fragilis .. . 238
Atalantia glauca .. .. 81-2
Atalaya hemiglauca 10-13, 16,
84- 5
Atherigona .. .. 145
tibiseta . .. 145
Atherosperma .. . 486
moschatum .. .. .. .. 485
Athyris BULGAENSIS 502
cora, ee 56 UA
Athyrium saalpasan ; ‘485- 6
Atoichus bicolor .. .. 543-4
DIMIDIATUS . . . 544
FLAVIPES . . 543-4
tasmanicus .. . . 544
Atriatops 448, 456
FENERO, Gon Wor .. 456
westwoodi .. .. .. .. 456
Atriplex 8, 13
angulatum .. nee SON LG
campanulatum .. .. .. 9
FING 20 oa coe Bye Io
Halimoidesttes: ono 9), LO
holocarpum .... -. 9, 15
Inmbatuma ss feeetnae 9) 16
Wiel go. Ge bs 9, 16
vesicarium .. 8, 10- Shy 15
Attenuata aerate ve. « 2A4
INDEX,
Auchenoglanis .. .. .. 347
Aulacophora quadrimaculata
157
AUSTROPEUS .. .. ..... 543
PUSTULOSUS . 543
Austrosarepta .. .. .. . 186
Austrotriton parkinsonius
253
Giacomo
BASILICUS .. > TEE 253
tortirostris . jp. 208
Autosticha solita .. .. . 155
Avicula georgiana .. .. 190
hyalina sete cs LOO
papilionacea .. .. .. . 190
pulchella .. epee OO
sealpta .. beg al)
Soitmeveghines Galego co o Kel
Aviculopecten ANDREWST 468-
70
ARGUIEUSWere eile 400s 401
articulosus 468
eaelatus .. ... AT2
FLEXICOSTATUS .. 468, 472
FUSIFORMIS .... . 469- 70
ONANMOSUS ere ces) fale ep EMO
PEGGEL yeat ss ssc . 468
MES ALOLISIas sen ee . 473
PEROBLIQUATUS 468- ioe 471
BUN|COMPBEM sea sys, acess s AUS
plagiostomus .. .. .. 472
plieatilis .. . 473
PYRIFORMIS .. .. 469
SPARTEUS .. : ‘468- 70
Axinaea kenyoniana .. . 188
Axigloga pura)... 4 .. 398
Azotobacter .. .. 436-7, 442
Babbagia .. .. .. 12-13
ACLOPLELA ms wesc sk ces MLO
dipterocarpa =. ..... 16
Bacillus aceti .. .. .. . 445
fluorescens liquefaciens
436, 441, 443
ochraceusi <4). 5 4. 5. (4a
phosphorescens .. . 436-7
Balanophoraye. ..4)- 4 .. DO
BALANOTAENIA .. . 347
BANCROFTI .. .. . 347
Bankia .. . 214
Bankagiat we See. es. ello
Banksia .. . 162, 478
integrifolia .. .. 490, 496
Barbatia adolphi .. .. . 187
radula .. . 186-7
Ixi.
Baxhiellmiaw see OOO
Barringtonia alba . 326, 328
speciosa .. . 157, 160
Baryspira’.. .. .. 259, 278
fusiformis .. .. . 184
FUSIFORMIS GAZA 183, 261
LaSMmanicay comers ae 184
Basstay Suen tea veen ae Ae. 12
DICOrMIS Hy j-teetareierner “36
DICUSPIS) tee re 16
bitlorare eh enetor 8516
brachyptera . : 8 95 13; 16
diacantha .. . 16
divaricata .. é 13% 16
laANTCUSPIS! 3a. “seu steel
fonsicuspisms. rede oe LO
DArAdOXAW aust se eaalO
quinquecuspis .. .. .. 16
Bassina pachyphylla ... 211
paucilamellata .. eat:
Bathyarea perversidens . 186
BATHYCARDITA .. . 182, 205
TAU ee sey cee oem OO
Batrachomyia .. .. .. . 354
IBV Gide Be soo vee ico . OE
IBEDEVANs 20) oo. ec ltSa, oc
Belionota aenea .. .. .. 23
COTLCTU ee ae ene
Saundersins seen yn coe
Bellastraea .. "182
kesteveni ...... 182, 232
Belloliva .. .. . 259
Bernisia inconspicua .. . 160
BERYLSMA .. Sis), 707
Bignonia radicans .. .. 324
Billardiera longiflora 493,
495
Scandensis. .. - . . 496
Bittium granarium .. .. 246
Blechnum eartilagineum 487,
490, 492, 495
discolor 483, 485- 7, 489,
490, 492, A95
Patersoni .. . .. 485
Blennodia canescens .. . 11
canescens var. pterosperma
lasiocarpa . eek LG
nasturtioides .. P16
ETISeCtae were, cre LO
Boeckella coronaria .. . 321
fluvialis .. 322,
MMAR GoM o ka 56 BPAL
triarticulata .. .. .. 314-5
Boeckia triarticulata .. 315
Bolboceras corRUGATUM 285
lxui.
Bolboceras CORRUGATUM
PAROOENSIS ..
TENUIS . Me
Branchinectella ..
Branchinella ..
australiensis ..
FLAVOCASTANEUM 286
frontale .. 285
TRICAVICOLLE 284
Bombax .. Tigao reuse O
Bombyeomorpha pst areata i202
Bombyx australasiae .. 424
barnardi .. ae 413
chlorophragma .... . 426
crenulata .. 423
ettusa, .<) .. 428
exposita .. 427
figurata . 427
PUIG 55 be 66 6b a Gee
UMNO 66 glo 428
galactodes .. 414
meoleuca .. te 414
muris-olens .. .. . 428
ocularis Sis 428
oxygramma .... .. . 416
picta .. . 406
pinnalis 407
pusilla .. 427
vitulina .. 413
zonospila . 409
Boreodromyia .. . 364
Boreoides .. 360- 1, 363- 4
machiliformis .. . 364
subulata .. . 362
subulatus .. .. . 364
tasmaniensis 365
Boreomyia .. Wo ie OOF
Bornia lepida .. . 182, 207
BORNIOLA .. . 182, 207
Bosmina wmeridionalis 314-5
Botellus 183
bassianus .. .. 244
Bougainvillea spectabilis 157
Bonwardia triphylla .. . 326
Brachychiton Gregorii .. 87
Brachycome .. A eral De
SDM a ea ite eo
Brachydeutra s. .. ~-)).-oo4
argentata .... 335
longipes .. ns 335
SYDNEYENSIS .. 56 GB)
_Brachyodontes .. .. .... 196
hirsutus 196
menkeanus .. . 196
Brachyplatys pacifieus . 159
Branchinecta .. .. 127
121-2, 129
INDEX,
Branchinella eyrensis 121-2,
129-30
PRONDOSA .. 5 ols ISK)
EOMGIOSE Go odo loo LAY)
ornata 121, 129-30
PROBOSCIDA .. .. 121, 131
TOODOREC Es 5 So do oo IY)
Branchinellites .. .. .. 129
Branchinema ornata .. . 130
Branchiostoma sp. XX1ll.
Branchipus arietinus .. 126
australiensis .. .. .. 120
australiensis .. .. .. 129
OUONUGYO 60 36 86 6o\ 00 IAG
Briseis cuprea .. .. .. 934
elonvatay aaa eee Oo
proloneatans) 1 oo
smaragdifrons .. .. . 534
BYISES ERT eas a sthateiese oo
BROMUS oo Go a0 oo 65 A
PLAT YANOLUSm@ acne ne DS
SONGS Go G0 00 65 BS
Bruchobius laticeps .. . 158
Bruchus chinensis .. .. 158
BRUNELLA STEELI .. ..
Bubastes)*). 2... 25; 526-7
achardi . zs
ACHE eae ee ee OS
australasiae .. .. .. 528
bostrychoides
cylindrica .. ae
HOLMOSANAe eee DOS
elobicollis 527-8
inconsistans .. 527-8
inconstans .. .... . 527-8
laticollis .. 527-8
TAL WN REAR escaby ei
nivelventris) «2... 9. O28
Obscura oe eee oS
occidentalis ..
OAS Ga 6d oo leon a: AL
olivinus .. .. .. ..
persplendens .. .. .. 528
simillima .. .. .. .. 528
sphenoidea .. 5
Splendens!s. 0.4 5 4.-
SUPT oo 00 00 06 oo DAIS
suturalis ..
vagans .. ES
viridicuprea .. .. .. 528
Bubastini .. ie
Bubastodes Palcieollie 68 DAT
SUICICOLUS a ae ea ae Des
Buenoa .. .. Ee LOe
Bulimus phasianns | tat es, Doe
phasianus minimus .. 232
IBUPRESTODES’ .. .2 9-5 +. 20
CORUSCANIS 4. 0 aaa sae
WUNSINOON 54 do. oo a0 ZH!
JACOCHROA GYMNOPLEURA var.
FUSCOSUTURALIS .. .. 311
CACOZELIA .. .. 183, 246
Cactus Ackermanni .. . 324
Caesalpinia bonducella . 156
Cajanus indicus .. .. . 159
Calandra oryzae .. .. . 158
Calandrinia balonensis 6, 11,
16
Callia albifins .. .. .. 415
contermina .. . 415
Calliostoma allporti 184, 229
comptus .. .. 229
GIOIA 45 ao oo oo Bee)
lecrandi 4) (2) 6) 28a 5220
poupineli ae 6 igo 2-8)
purpureo- Wench :
Calliotrochus coxi .. .. 226
tasmanicus .. .. .. 226-7
Callirrhipis vitiensis .. 157
Calista, ao oan etre cil)
LSTA, 6.6 5 6 ao 2A)
Callistemon amma ee Ol
Callistochiton i eee xave
antiquus .. . 184, 214
MMA WETS sc cic, ere uate iene
Callitrisme. joke one ede
cupressiformis Meare (OU
TOO co 40 oo Oy 18 15
Callochiton mayi .. .. 214
Calophyllum Inophyllum 156,
159
NALAUNS es ah aes ogo JOD
Calotis hispidula .. .. .. 17
Campis grandiflora .. .. 327
@anaceyetar me .. 334
Caneellaria australis ee Oe
eExdoua ys ana emuemi Ae
MINCE Celio Ges tec io lo AOe
SCODINAMA ee ene OF
WONG, so oc 30 50 Ox
Candalides .. . XXVil.
Candonocypris candonoides
314, 317, 322
Canthium vacciniifolium . 91
Cantharidella picturata 184
Cantharidus eximius .. . 225
faseraiusi ei mice ceD
lineolarispueeiartr arene Lo
NOMINEE 55 56,06 no Ze)
Opalus pun aenemeleo)
PYLLOS) Say eh ee)
Capulus australis .. 184, 245
ealyptra .. 245
Ganielicn.. ..3) <e . 245
Cardamine hirsuta Pa a 492
Cardiothorax acutangulus 539
armipes 5 oo OB)
castelnaudi .. .. . 939
FOVEATUS .. so Bete
laticeollis .. .. 040
NASUTUS .. 5 oe ey
O]OZNCOINS “Sheigh co posal
polwrcollis jj... <4. 540
Cardita astartoides .. 205
aviculina .. .. 204
ealyculata .. . 204
cavatica .. Aid ee erAU
Excanalameriios. see 200
gracilicostata .. . 205
racuti .. . 206
EAVOMG ests nese Hols ae 206
raouli .. 56 PANY)
Cardium Salchellum eee OG
striatulum var. thetidis 207
thetidis .. eel82520 7
Caryophyllaeus bancrofti 339,
344, 347
fennicus .. . 347.
filiformis .. . 347
laruei .. . 347
laticeps .. 346-7
mutabilis .. . 347
syrdarjensis . 347
tuba .. 347
Cacciapee man kun Haas oD
peemininides! ese drd
eremophila
HISD AM foes es Lave vehe-s ove
phyllodinea .. .. .. . 16
pleurocarpa .. .. . 11, 16
Sturtii .. iat, ae
Cassinia jeatiorleta . 495
Cassis albuta .. 254
UGUIN 6 sei e's oo 204
semigranosum .. .. .. 254
SOWIE! ssa: 3 254
Stadiale os. i... . 254
thomsoni .. 254
Cassytha 55-6, 58- 9, igo 4, Te
fiiformis .. . 56
elabella 55-7, 60- iL ica: 9,
WARTS, 5-6
melantha 55-61, 65, 68. 70,
72, 76-8
paniculata 55-7, 60-1, 65-6,
68-9, 72
HOMAeOLASTAN, yen clonre ON
INDEX.
Cassytha pubescens 55-7, 60-
Gi Sr Ose
Castalia bimaculata 523
SCINTILLANS .. 5 233
Castanospermum 327
Castraminany ann ele, ool
breasciavellaieeaseeees Doo
bizonata .. . 5 5 OBS
campestris s1o30
carinata .. 56 OBS!
carterl .. ; BBS}
circumflexa 533
erenata .. 56 Bak
erucioides .. 5 OB)
eupreo-flava .. 5 ABs)
eyanicollis .. 5 BSB)
delicatula var. 56 OBS
dicaxe 2nisaks > E83
flavosignata .. 50 ere
guttifera Spy)
KERSHAWI .. 5 au Oe
leai var. fasciosa .. . 533
maculiventris .. 5 BBB}
marginicollis .. 2 533
mastersl .. 533
modesta .. 533
obliquefasciata 533
opacula .. ihe Doo
saundersiana .. = eB
secularis 56 g0) OED
sexguttata .. .. . 533
THERYI .. anoot
HAOONED, oo Go Wo lod Oo. WOR)
venusta .. 533
Casuarina... 9, 60
distyla .. A Bi DXGXeXGl
equisettolian- 4 a. 3 100
BUC, op 00 0 . XXViL.
ieoonkiois tec HOS LS
Catalectis pharetropa .. 155
Catochrysops enejus .. 153
Catostomus commersoni . 347
Chllosllogsuin 66 so co « WY
CAVICEPS .. 355
FLAVIPES 356
Cellana cudmorei .. .. . 180
WANG) oe MC EN Re ee ee ee
ilibrata .. 241
limbata .. 243
FCTAMMAN ES UNI mene ee
radians . 242-3
rubraurantiaca .. 243
solida .. Bas Tt BN Vane S crea)
variegata .. .. 180, 242-3
VARIEGATA ARTEL 183, 242-3
xii.
Centipeda thespidioides 12,
il7/
CenpWalotusircac 2.0.) 9 400
Ceratopetalum .. .. .. 486
apetalum .. 483, 485, 487
CqnTeNbeTEwOIN oe vag oa OY)
Ceriodaphnia spinata 320,
322
sublaevis .. so Gules
Cerithiopsis .. . 246
Cerithium lacertinum 183,
246
Ceroplastes rubens .. .. 160
Chaetocanace .. 333
Chaetostricha ecratitia .. 158
Chainoderma .. alli
Chaleopterus affinis .. . 42
CUTE USI Pee ate 2
OGIO oo 65 Holo 1s Ce
PRAETERMISSUS .. .. . 42
TUSHICUSI ce ee mre
SHMPNENRIMNS Go ou 66 6 4
Spee Sow teats ao 4X4
Chalcofaeniay see eee
AUER, oi gc don bo wod Le)
ROTARY Go 66 66 oo 2H
OUD, og 06 56 0 0 BPH
TENN gouge oo bo oo CL
quadri-impressa .. 522
Chama calyculata .. 204
Charagia eximia .. . XXviii.
Chariotheca .. .. . 38-9
Chariothes DODDI .. .. .. 38
striato-punctata .. .. 38
subviolacea .. .. .. .. 38
Chelisoches morio 5 Gi!
Chenopodium nitrariaceum
12, ills:
Chiloglottis formicifera . 492
CHIONERYX... .. .. 182, 210
Chirocephalus sp. .. .. 131
Chiromyza . 360-1, 363, 365
AUSHEALIS | oe eo OL-a Ol
ava 362-3, 369
grandicornis . 362-3, 365-6
longicornis .. 362-3. 365-6
matruelis .. .. 362-3,.368
prisca .. .. 362-3, 368-70
stemmatiealis 362-3, 367-8
SHO MUENADE 5 B54 coh BARS
tasmaniensis . . 363
WGN, 56 oc 2 Ot
Chiton hirtosus .. .. .- xiv.
lonsicymba ~. 3: .4.% xiv.
Chlamys fenestrata .. . 194
hedleyi .. . 194
Ixiv.
Chlamys tasmanicus 194
undulatus .. .. . 183, 194
Chloromeris .. ae BBY
pallidior .. .- O32
purus nis alee Menet OOS
Chloropsi. 2c. 4 BS
Chloropsina .. Go OY
NIGROHALTERATA .. .. 3dd
@homnetes “5. S27 ess ses t08
Chiaycichthiys) ..0) 6 o+
Chrysomphalus aurantii 160
dictyospermi .. a5 LGD
Chrysopa sanvitoresi .. 161
Chydorus barroisi .. 314
barroisi var. laevis .. 315
Cienfuegosia gossypioides 16
Cingulina australis ..
toreularis 183, 251
Cinnamomum . . 478
Circe sig. PAD)
PHS 59° 69. dn) on PAULEILD)
australis .. e209
Cirphis unipuncta .. .. 158
WISSEIS HWA nara es Seana}
RONCINGE) oo 6500 o64 AU
cupripennis ..
MATTIAS IN, 6b68o5 06 6 AU
roseo-cuprea .. .. .. 27
seabrosula
HVE DOM tere usenet nee
VIRIDI-PURPUREA .. 27
Cimiobatucmsemee . 486, 489
multiflorus .. 485, 487, 493
Citrus aurantium 154, 159-60
, aurantium var. nobilis 160
australis .. STEEDS
decumana .. “157, 161
medica var. naommnn ii54=
5, 157, 160
Mlanculuseaneocne eee”.
SOM SC ieee. Urea, ee BOO
. brunneus .. . 184, 224
flagellatus .. . 224
floridus .. .. .. 184, 224
limbatus Bee ete
maugeri .. 224
nodoliratus .. 224
omalomphalus .. 224
pDlebeiusies. eee 224-5
IMO MACIS Ay so on 4 22D
Clathe anthracica .. 4l*
arida .. ae 412
CONG Tae taee ASG
fola .. 408
pyrsocoma .. 425
Clavarizona .. XIV
INDEX.
Clavarizona hirtosa ..
Claytonia alsinoides .. .
Clematis .. .. .. 487
aristata 487, 490, 492-3,
495
Clerodendron = fallax 160
inerme .. 155
@lvamthus' y.12 core,» to/eaeeeeeteoO
Dampieri .. AG
Chisio¢ampaye. =. sen 402
Clypidella callomarginata 219
Coceus hesperidum .. . 160
Cocos nucifera 154-6, 158, 160
325
Coleophora immortalis . 156
CoENACULUM . 183, 244
Colax .. . 456
javana .. . . 456
Collomia grandiflora .. xxiv.
Colocasia antiquorum 154,
é 160
Colospira .. sae 246
guadrata .. 184, 249
runciata (4b) les, O10
sinuata , 249
Colpospira guillaumei 183,
248
Columbella attenuata .. 271
COLUS NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE
GRANDICULUS . 183; 267
COMITILEDA .. 181, 185
Conus anemone .. .. 263- 4
carmeli .. ee 2204:
flindersi . 264
jukesii 263
maculatus .. . 263
maculosus . Jere cO8
novae-hollandiae .. 264
papilliferus .. go - 2188)
MEMO 2. eo ove onene . 264
Convolvulus Gruiheseane sll
- marginatus .. . . 496
Coreyra cephalonica .. 157
Cordania gardneri . 53, 468
COSMETALEPAS .. . 182, 218
Cosmotricha notodontina 414
Cosmotriche indistincta 427
Cotana Ree)
*serranotata .. .... . 399
Cranopsisiess.) 2. 217-8
Craspedia chrysantha .. 17
PIOWOSH a aes La,
Craspedotrutony =.) 3) eee eal
speciosus .. bichin yen Cae
Crassatella 202, 204
QUOT OMe ee. . 181, 204
Danesa Oe Oe ee aie sed 2) (VA
. xiv. Crassatella carnee .. .. 204
eastanea .. .. 202-3, 250
contraria .. .. 204
corbuloides .. B20
cumingli .. a, ZADB!
decipiens .. .. .. . 202-3
donacina . au ZAUB}
OACINOSI6G co oo a0 6 Ale
fulvida .. . 182, 204
CAOSUIS sovoel oo o ANE
kingicola .. 181, 204, 250
lamarckil .. Bag AUB)
obesas cess ears
pulchiral sss ecO2 co
SUM ego edo ok od oo ZB
Crassatellites kingicola . 202
Crassatina .. 204
Crassitina .. 204
Crenellatiany aca 197
elobularis .. yo) eke)
impactus .. 5 Wy
Crexa .. .. .. 403, 405
acedesta .. .. .. 406, 408
anthraxoides .. 406
dianipha .. .. .. 406, 408
tolat{..., 6.61.4. 4062408
OCS Ge Bn os 35 GUE
macroptila 406, 408
punctigera .. .. .
THOMA hese eee epee Oa
subnotata 406-7
Crinum flaccidum .. 12, 15
latifolium . 326
Croeidosema plebeiana . 157
Cromus bohemicus 47, 49, 50
MuUrchisont. ... .. :. .-02
Cronia .. . 274
amy deals se ieaseeeeeeme te)
pseudamyedalus .. .. 275
Crossea caneellata .. .. 251
carinata Tati Oe
-concinna $5, dlsBy, Zou
econsobrina, 4. so) eee
labiata 7) L83, 2a
lauta .. ec eamekeaee ilk
MATICOIMES) c.28 see eno
princeps .. sa. Zell
SemIorna ave ae lee
sublabiata .. 25ili
CROSSEOLA .. : 183, 251
Crossotarsus aEenms XXIX.
Crotalaria seeeere: 6
Cunninghamii .. io! tak “1g
dissitiflora LO} alee hG
PeCUSS) hn cts ae Rene OA:
Striatay eens selon 7,
Cryphalus jatrophae .. 158
Cryptomeria japonica .. 60
Cryptonymus .. . 46
ARAISHS (66 oh ody oe e 20
ARICUSUS co oA ono ome Ol)
duntroonensis .. sok
imcerbus <. .. . 46
INCERTUS . 48
perannulatus .. . 46
PERANNULATUS 0)
platynotus .. . 46
PLATYNOTUS .. .. .. . 47
robustus .. 46, 48
ROBUSTUS .. a6, 249
SIOTSVAME AS vais sis waka
Gryplowlaxes: 2... .... XIV:
Cryptothrips (?) intorquens
281-
Crysptotoma zonalis .. 255
Cucullaea concamera 186
minuta .. . 186
Cucumis sp. .. x bree lAt
Cuneus truncatus . 208
Cupidoliva .. .. .. 183, 259
Curis aurifera .. eo) Sell
HATRNPATRED .<.«. +10 OOL
OBSCURA . 530
Splendensi.. 2. 3. «. Dol
YALGOENSIS .. .. .. . 530
Cuseuta 55-6, 64-6, 71-2, 75,
78
americana .. Re 3
australis .. . 55
epilinum .. so Ke
europea .. jo OD
glomerata .. 56 5D
monogyna .. Smee 24
Cyathaula realaea 155
Cybister tripunctatus .. 157
Cyclestheria .. 55 By
hislopi .. 120, 122
Cyclophorus serpens 485, 487
Cyclophragma .. .. 403, 416
eyclomela .. .. .. . 416-7
Cyllene lactea .. . 270
Cymatiella . . 183, 254
quoyi .. .. .. 184, 253-4
Cymatium barthelemyi. 253
gpengleri .. .. 253
Cymbiola complex. 183, 258
Cymodocea .. XV.
Cynosarga SBoMenN ia - 401
OMMA At eh ts Se kee ees A28
Cyphonochelus .. 3 "979- 3
Cyphosticha caerulea .. 156
Cypraea alba . so BIST
INDEX.
Cypraea angustata .. 256-7
angustata comptoni .. 256
angustata piperata .. 256
armeniaca .. Ae ECO
australis .. so ADT
comptoni .. 56 DT
Guam, bo oe 08 B2o)
WeSibevbene ates weuce ts Sy AB
lamarekii var. alba so CD
maculata .. sa Ce
piperita . 256
rosea .. - ae
seotti .. Brees eS Okt
sphaerodoma .. nook
spurea var. alba .. . 257
toxorhyncha .. 26 PE
turdus var. alba . 257
umbilicata .. .. 5 ON
Cypretta globulus 314, SL
323
MESON, oo con ee oo oo BEX
minna .. . 322
viridis .. 320
Cypridopsis “ auktralis "309. 3
globulus .. i oe oh
Cypris bennelong .. 321, 323
candonoides .. .. 317
lateraria . : 321, 323
reticulata .. .. 322
Cyrtorhinus saaromadlallng 5 ley)
Cytherea disrupta .. .. 210
excavata .. 56 Alle!
above NG oer 58 bicedltey
MIRE, oo od ao o Call
paucirugata .. 211
submultistriata 210
vaginalis .. . 208
Dacus eorihodest : 161
Dalbergia monosperma, - 155-6
Dalmanites loomesi .. IL
meridianus .. 5 al
Danthonia snk
penicillata .. Sta res AE)
Daphnella gracillima .. 264
Daphnia ecarinata. 314, 321
carinata var. intermedia
323
obtusata .. . 314
Daphnobela sp. . 264
Darala consuta .. . 399
rosea .. oo OY
Daucus brachiatus ess Mal? ALT
Davallia dubia 487, 490, 492-
3, 495-6
Daviesia .. Noe Gen oe
ulicina .. 490, 492-3, 495
Ixv.
Dawsonia sp. .. 485, 487
Decadarchis heterogramma
155
DELTASTOMA . 5 ay)
UNIPUNCTATA .. 3° aay)
Dendrobium pugioniforme
483, 485
teretifolium . : 485
Dendrocephalus 129, 131
Dennstaedtia .. . 486
davallioides .. .. .. . 485
Deragena proserpina .. 153
Desmometopa 336
ciliatayyvon se eo OO
AIUEAADIIN G6 Go ha oo G80
Diaclina nitida .. are
Dianella sp. 492-3
Dicamara .. .. 499
sealprum .. 499-502
Dichaetomyia armata .. 140
Dichomeris transecta .. 155
Dicksonia antarectica 483,
485, 487, 490
Dichromosoma majus .. 406
Dicyphus minimus 2 159
Didiseus glaucifolius 12, 17
Dieffenbachia .. .. .. . 168
Digglesia .. . 403, 421
australasiae .. .. 422, 424
cerocota .. .. .. 421-3
eycloloma .. 422, 424
DASYMALLA .. .. . 422
THOME BS Ba oo oo Zeley
nana .. . 422, 424
rufescens ~ «. 422-3
spodopa .. .. .. .. 422-3
TEPHROPSIS .. .. .. 422-3
Dilochrosis browni .. .. 312
Diodora lineata .. . 220
watsoni .. So, 2A
Diphucephala CRIBRIPENNIS
294
TONOLA on esd so eM ome
THIGHS foe oes . 294
nitidicollis . 294
MACROPS .. Lena 294
PARVICEPS» alc. a creeper ce:
puberula .. .. . 294
TICHIMONGTa yy soe Oe
rufipes . . . 294
Tarsalisine sa \< . 294
Diplatia .. tere G0)
Diplodonta aidan 182, 206
jaeksoniensis .. . 206
Tiaibaietioa as . 262
Dipodium punctatum .. 492
Ixvl.
Distomum variegatum ..
Dodonaea Ps oilers
> dl, NG
attenuata . eens
viscosa .. Tak, 16, Ia
viscosa var. spathulata 11,
af
516
9
DourcrossEA .. .. 183, 251
Donax scripta .. .. .. 209
Doodia aspera 487, 490, 492-
3
Doryanthes .. . 328
BOIS Se 56-40 BAT, GWG
Doryphora .. 486, 489, 497
sassafras 483, 485, 487,
490
Dosinia caerulea 183, 208
circinaria .. ee 0S
cerocea eM tee ate De}
victoriae . 183, 208
IDianihyS oo oo. 66.09 oh) G00
dipetala .. .. . 485
Drosophila albofasciata 349
albo fasciata .. 50 Oe)
ALBOSTRIATA .. , Bi
ampelophila .. .. 304
australica .. ». 348
biradiata .. .. 348
buscki .. Bh EERE A
FUAVOEIRIA + elie crane OO
FUSCITHORAX . 353
immigrans .. .. 135i 2
inornata eos:
melanogaster .. .. .. 304
MYCETOPHAGA » 300-1
NIGROVITTATA .. oo Bb
POLYPORI so SA!
repleta .. . 349, 352
SETIFEMUR .. 351-2
Drupa chaidea .. 274-5
marginalba 275
tubereulata .. 275
Dryopteris decomposita 485-
6
tenera .. .. . 485
Dunhevedia crassa .. . 323
Dinplicariasea ee . 262
Dura marginepunctata . 398
Dysarchus batesi 538
IRREGULARIS ..22 2. « Dol
Dysdercus impictiventris 159
MASWIENENS) Obl a6 oo Bolo IE)
Earias fabia . si: foretalloe
Ebenolus BANKSI .. .. . 43
EVELINO Ries char aerate AL
SMIOMORCIE. 55 ool no on GH!
INDEX.
Ebenolus vernicatus .. .. 44
TOWSON 65° Gn dio too eee
Eburna 259
Eehium italicum XXXI.
Edmondia .. .. 468
Hlasmomyees .... .. . 104
Electroma .. May panleghl,
ELEGIDION AUDAX .. 182, 220
ELONICHTHYS DAVIDI .. 503
Elytranthe signata .. .. 93
Idonnasinoplles 55 G6 35° «
candida so Zo
connectens .. 182, 217
conoidea .. eG
devota .. 217
hedleyi .. Bp igmallicys:
Enamillus mauricei .. Sila:
IDI DO) OWA, ac oo do oo. of Gul
Enchylaena tomentosa .. 16
IDpACEwADIAWS 56 ca oo ao o 40
logma@nalen gs bo oo oo AY
bohemicus ..
bowningensis .. .. .. 47-8
duntroonensis 46, 51-2
etheridgei .. .. 46, 50
THOU HI | se din, ware) on LEU
IDROMANEMS S54 go bo bo Gul
mitchelli 47-9, 51-2
MMLC 55% 45066 ov CH
punctatus .. .. . 46-7, 51
rothwellae . 47-8
Secloae@lin 45 b$o.\so 55 Be
silverdalensis 47-8, 52
SS) Oa) Tae aN Ae ye iL
wennOlarais 54. 64 .. 46
Encyalesthus punetipennis
39
Endelus subcornutus .. 522
Endoptychum .. eelOs
agaricoides . 110-1
ENDOTHINA .. so BBO
-SQUAMOSA .. . 5 BB
IDTMIEBISUS 96 oo 30 XO SOR
Enithares .. . 463
Entometa .. .. 403, 417
adusta .. . 405
albida .. 417, 421
apicalis .. : . 417-9
CHLOROSACOA .. 417-8, 420
cycloloma ........ .. 424
despecta 418
divisa Sofa nates
HAVENS, <6) ga os, oo ZALTCAD)
cngniewary 64° 45 96) Zal7 2)
ignobilis ..
marginata ..
Entometa obliqua .. 404
plinthopa . 424
punctigera .. .. .. . 406
sobria .. .. .. 417-8, 420
BOOGIE go bo. 00 oo “28
TDWI Go 60 0 oo 0 Se
Kphydra .. arene k. 3
EPHYDROSCINIS .. 331
AUSTRALIS .. 331
Epicoma .. . 401
Epitonium eranosum . 252-3
oranulosa fs st teaezOe
Erechthias zebrina
Eremocitrus glauca .. .. 82
Hremaea ..
OMOSOWIE SoS 5 556
Eremonoma .. .. 403, 409
APASTA 409-10
HOLOPOLIA .. 410
NEPHELODES .. .. .. . 410
ZORISTIS .. 410
Kremophila oy, 1A
Nha, 55 85 > I, ily
laveraoyaunilore, bo 4 JUL, is}, 17
Brown . Rea
Datbomia sparc een O)
IDOI, 656 65 ob 00 LY
Mreelimenies si eee em
UBNGEOUIE, Sib Sa Ge oe 66
Latrobei .. 59th JO; Ly
lomearroOlie, 65 o¢ so WO, 17
maculata .. .. a Sy Ae
mitchelli . . 845
Gonos, o. 55 MO, 7
Ob Gleéky, 64 55 Il WS. 7
Sturtii .. betes IKE IL
Kriogaster hebes ) 427
lignosa 5 427
? simplex .. Bia 7 ae)
Hriophyes EUCALYPTI 393,
396
yA . 395
vitis .. : 395
Erodium cygnorum | : 12, 16
Erycina acupuncta 182, 207
eardioides er 207, 210
elliptica .. : 207
fragilis .. : . 207
Inaequilatera .. 207
laevis . s1 207
TMU ATT eA ese cere ee eee id
OOSGME 36 56 50 sa 6 DO
pellucida .. so AU
radiolata .. — ADE
trigona 207
undulata oe 207
SErraugiilarearvea s/o Lier) coe oh), WUD
CGhrist-callie.. 2. poco
Kstheria .. 132, 134
DRGs cor ee ioe oe
dictyon .. 122, 134
ellnpticaia. =. » 122,134
lutraria .. . 121-2, 134
packardi 121-2, 134
rubra .. 121, 134
TRU oo Gone wee oe
sarsil 122, 134
Hthalia .. erie 223
eancellata .. . 233
Mithminolia .. .. . eth
PROBABILIS .. .. 182, 228
iiborwmWmathimais: . 6... <;ss 00 OF
niROTIS & 5 So eee eco Ce
LBA Go Sees eet eee
Eubr omeninala 129
Eucalyptus 60, 162, 476, 478,
486, 489, 495- 7
agglomerata .. . 148-9
aligns Wee isos oe) eee
alopliylla, «2.5 «215+ 320)
altior . 148-50
apiculata .. . 149-50
Bauerleni .. 148, 150
bicolor 8, 12, 16, 84-5, 91
Blaxlandi . 147, 150
Gorcidemana .. 148-9
coriacea .. 5 La ID)
corymbosa .. . 149-50
erebra .. . 85, 148-9
Dalrympleana . 147-8, 150
Deanei .. .. .- 148-50
dives 5 Le UE
elaeophora .. .. 148, 150
eugenioides vil., 147, 149-
50, 386
ORIG), 96 ASeeeceE cemeige ean
fastigata .. . 147, 149-50
goniocalyx 148-50
inerassata var. dumosa 10
heustrina ts. ~.. 147, 149
macrorrhynecha 147
maculata J 5), PEOLID
maculosa . 148, 150
melanophloia 84-5
melliodora .. odieat AT
micrantha .. .. . 148-50
microtheca 8, 12, 16, 17,
91
Moorei .. .. 147, 149-50
Normantonensis .. .. 91
oleosa .. al Oepalies
oreades . 148
INDEX.
Kuealyptus paniculata 148-9
piperita .. .. 148-50, 492
TOO OUULEOINEY, cy eg Mad oc) GU
TOWUNCIDIE o6 5 148-50
THOMENI, bo "147, 149-50
TROSUMULSTED 56) db 00 co JAY
HORIIEMI So 5 fer dlzy AU Maly
rubida .. 148, 150
Shiressii .. ov 149
siderophloia .. . 148-9
Sieberiana .. .. .. 148-50
sp. .. .. 487, 490, 492-3
squamosa a. =. «... 148-9
stricta vil, 148- 50, 386,
390, 393, 395
ERE TIC OUMISH ya rsmes Ee mr P XXX
eames oo oe Oh we. aly
viminalis 148, 150, 487,
490, 492-3
Eueanthus felschei .. . 286
TRICARINATICEPS 286
Euchelus atratus .. 230
baceatus .. So feu Ze)
seabriusculus .. .. .. 230
Eucosma defensa 156
CMMNEIROCIES 55 50 00 o le
HUCRASSATELLA ... 181, 202
castanea .. 5 60 AUB
cumingil Bete cen pene
auneaKeOley oo lea! oo oo AUB)
obesa .. 5 204
AOU chav aleeen yee . 203
Kugenia eucalyptoides . 95
maine consis 5 JIB eS alah
rivularis . eat ale
Smithii—. 485
Eulimnadia .. .. 132-3
dahli .. 122
TOOOUCIISUS 55 00 00 oo 1388}
sordida . 5 dale, 1635}
stanleyana .. 133
wictoriensis ..'.. 2. . 122
EUMARCIA . SlS2en2ilall
Eumenes ovalauensis 158
EKumeta sesioides 403
Eunaticina .. 256
papilla we. - 256
Kuoplothrips bagnalli 280- 2
Euphorbia Drummondii . 16
eremophilayeaers oa LO
OOS 66 oo . 496
Kupoecila australasiae var.
intricata .. 5 ale
DORIS G5 55 a5 . 398
Hupterote es isan.ols. . 400
Kurybia australis .. .. 23
Kuryomma .. 146
peregrinum 146
Kuryspilus .. . 526-7
australis .. .. 23, 529-30
chaleodes .. .. 23, 529-30
VAR DD IS pe meeycan 529-30
IdTAVHRNCIN co 66 so ao 22s
strangel .. ay Oe
Kustrephus Brownii a 403
Kutermes sp. 556 CEB)
Hutoreuma cupreum .. .. 38
MINOR) =.).- 3G
Kutropia . ee 232
Exelastis pumilio EBS)
Exeretoneura .. .. 448, 457
ANGUSTIFRONS Bie ta eats)
maculipennis .. .. .. 458
WXIMIOTHRACIA .. . 181, 199
angasiana .. seeped) 8)
braziert .. 199
jacksonensis .. 199
qacksoniana ,. .. .. . 199
modesta .. oe ley)
SPeClOSAunty ety eon OS
Exocarpus 9, 476
aphylla UO) Is)
Fagus 478
Fannia .. 146
iHasciolavidiecya emer 265
australasia .. .. 264-6
bakeri .. 264-5
coronata .. 264-6
decipiens . 265
fusiformis .. 265
trapezium .. 265
culipay = ae tsehae 205
FAUTOR . 182, 230
Felania .. Hee 206
usta .. 206
Felaniella ies 206
FERGUSONINA .. .. aon
MICROCERA .. .. - 338
Ficus Barclayi .. . 160
minor .. XXVii.
mollis cade ao OVAL
petiolaris <5. 45 «sa eecxxvll
platypoda . in kyl
TUNA age no oa Soave
Sse yan see Beco. (oats
Fieldia australis .. .. . 485
Fissurella .. 217, 221
conecatenata .. OG ale
hiantula .. 220
incil re 220
fistenia otal (ere 220
Ixvill.
Vissurella macroschisma 219-
20
nigrita .. 182, 219
Oblomea et. e) Neva eee
janii@iemct Youea oo ¢ Zul)
rubiginosa .. 237
Fissurellidea .. .. 218
bimaculata .. .. .. . 218
trapezina .. 218
Fissuridea .. asa aieoalles)
lineatale craic bs eae aap
Flabellum areinella oe 206
Flindersia maculosa .. 81-2
FLuctTiGER ROYANUS 182, 209
Fluviolanatus win duel
MP OVIOUANATUS sete ee. LOO
Fossarina legrandi 182, 226
Fucus giganteus 198
Fusanus acuminatus 13, 83
DELSIGAFINS 155 Jfaliell see LS
Fusus imbricatus 4 PAL
legrandi .. So. 68) Gs)
pyrulatus 183, 268
tasmaniensis .. 55) PAO
ustulatus .. .. jo Aas:
waitei .. 5 dfs
Fusinus erandis yo 00 AOI)
novae-hollandiae 266-7
WHE bb 46 ox . 267-8
GiGhine oo Gutod ob 50, CUE
COTMCA Raa ei ee a ete Ce
Gafrarium .. ee 20
navigatum . e209
QUOI ss. 6 e209
Gaimardia Anasiealia cata) ays}
tasmanica .. .. oe 198
Galeopsis .. .. 390
GALFRIDUS .. .- 83) 271
Galium aun aeSTTOTT "487, 490,
492
Gallacea scleroderma .. 114
Gallobelicus crassicornis 159
Gari livida 212-3
menkeans esse eal
Gastridiotass. sie =o e400
adoxima .. .. . 400
Gastropacha rufescens . 423
Gaurax posuas eee te S04
ATRISHT AMR e iets ein ein ROOD
nigritarsis .. . 300
quadrilineatus .. a 31a)
Gazameda .. 183
Geitonoplesium cymosum
487, 493
Gelechia gossypiella .. 156
TNDEX.
Gemmoliva .. S83, 209
Gena) imperiusay.. bos
nigra L223
strigosa . 223
Geniostoma ruprestre GA
Geranium pilosum . 487, 490,
492, 496
Gerbera Tanghin 326
Germaricay ener oto)
Gibbula .. URE tae O24
GOr066 hands loo dls! 226
galbina 5 ig a 2740
lehmanni .. .. 226
multicarinata . 224
preissianus .. 226
Gitonides perspicax .. 349
Glaridacris .. 339, 346-7
catostomi .. EE OAT.
Gleichenia dichotoma 490,
A492
flabellata .. . 487
Glossopteris .. BS Ani p-0.0:6
Glyceria ramigera .. 12, 15
Glycine clandestina . 11, 16
Glyeymeris australis 187
australis .. 189
australis flammeus .. 187
cainozoicus .. .. .. . 189
erebreliratus .. 183, 188-9
flabellatus 183, 189, 190,
250
flammeus . 188-9
gealei .. 50. dlfehs)
grayanus .... . 189
hedleyi .. 55. 6 alists)
holosericus ... 183, 188- 9
insignis eo)
kenyomana .. .. .. . 189
laticostatus .. .. .. . 190
maccoyl .. .. ee OO)
pectinoides .. .. .. . 190
queenslandicus .. .. . 188
sordidus .. ; 189, 190
striatularis .. _ 187- 8
STRIATULARIS SUSPROTUS
181, 189
subtrigonalis .. . 190
tenuicostatus 188-9
Glyphis . 218
lineata .. . 220
watsoni .. = BERS
GLYPTOZARIA .. .. 183, 248
Goldins yaa. cee a eI
SINGULARIS .. Bie tary)
Gomphrena olobosa SPL SD
Gonocephalum a 5 Bay
Goodenia ovata ..
(3) o Raa MEAN. Sra ee A)
Gossypium barbadense . 154-
6, 158-60
Gouldia australis .. 182, 209
GOULDIOPA .. . 182, 209
Gracilaria soyella .. .. 155
Gracilipurpura 5
Granuliseala .. .. . 203
Granulobacter .. 443
Graptophylum pictum .. 160
Grevillea .. .. 60, 162, 478
aculeolata .. . 89, 90
Banksia .. See aA
burxakoliaieey on) rate)
robusta .. 60, 326
SELICEA ie ve te el oe OU),
stenobotryal.. 2s onl
striata . 2 0 aloe
Gunniopsis quadrifida .. 16
Gynandropsis pentaphylla
155, 159
Gyrophragmium 97-8
Habrophylla euryzona .. 398
Hakea dactyloides .. .. 59
leucoptera . AN), U5)
Haliotis albicans .. 222-3
albicante .. oo eee,
brazrera site. eee eee
coccoradiata .. .. 184.
coccoradiatum .. .. . 222
Conicoporateee soe e
eyclobates .. ws 222
CMM Sia Sia 6G oo 55 BEB
giganteagn<-uee ee eee
hargravesi .. 222
impertusa .. 223
laevigata -, 222
naevosa .. ... . 222
naevosum .. .. "184, 222
NAEVOSUM IMPROBULUM
182, 222
naevosum tubiferum . 222
roel ede 222
scalars’. s°.h.9 2 eee
tricostalis .. 5 BEB
tubifera 222
Haplogonotopus vitiensis 158
Haplonycha arvicola .. 307
campestris .. ... 308
clarasseaee - 308- 9
colossa 306
dubia .. . 308
faceta . so SWE
FIMBRIATA .. .. . 308
Haplonycha FIMBRICOLLIS 305
fimbripennis a2 305
gigantea .. .. 306
gouldi .. 5 ails)
latebricola j. 306
longipalpis .. so BD
marginata .. . 306
mauricel oo OUT
opaca .. -5 dy
PALLIDA .. yer 0G
pilosa .. 3 25 US)
pulchripennis .. .. .. 307
setosa .. 306
TARSALIS Se 306
testaceipennis . 304, 308- 9
thoracica .. . 308
ia CC) (0) 0/42
Haploplax arbutum xl.
lentiginosa -. 184, 214
Haptoneus tetragonus . 157
Hardenbergia monophylla
Hastula
Hausmannia mienidvaame , Sl
Haustellotyphis .. .. . 272
Haya australis 153
ledyecariyae <4 ss 486
angustifolia .. .. 485, 487
Helcioniseus .. . 239, 241
ornatus ineonspicuus . 238
infeliehuaysurm ccc). oy LL
ATONGDILENTININ Bio seo Beara eel
elastic ie Sy Nets
Seer dns we ce de oi OT,
aM vIMA mn Crs as Pete ee
S\GICIIIE) ells, Rae arene anes
ealiyotuatar. 2s. ss. 142
aupluettars. Sy...) 42
flavofusea . 143
imitatrix .. ! 143
Heliotropium curassavicum
7
Eleliprenumets. si). ate LL
floribundum Ooi,
polygalifolium pa by
SuChin ea ss | et ONL 7,
JSIGIGBS hes) eG m SeaearcRaee nesta ay”
aspera .. 151-2
aspera var. depressa :
aspera var. puncilulata 151
aspera var. tenuior .. 151
Hellula undalis 5 155)
Hemichionaspis minor . 160
Hemitoma .. sige 206
aspera .. s . 216
THUEROS yg Gc cic . 216
INDEX.
Heritiera littoralis . 159
Herpetocypris stanleyana
Herpetopoma none
Heterocheira ameteallis Noe
NULIGAw sy Seis 2 tees OA
ELOPICAM mera tac toll
TROPICA Go 2: 50 8S
Heterodendron plese roliaen
Eleteromiypxt hereto
brevicollis . .. .. 295-304
BREVICOXIS . 298, 301
CLYPEALIS .. .. 298-9, 303
coxalis:’ .. me 297
coxalis 296
CRIBRIFRONS .. 298
harpalinus .. 296- 8, 303-4
lnispoyiGlbuWWIS 65256 bo 5a CBW
INCONSTANS .. 298, 302-4
WOOWIS oo 60) © . 298
NOCTIVAGUS . 297-8, 302
PHANOPHILUS ... 298, 300
setifer .. sablvesn2Om
torvus «. . 299
TRANSVERSOPOLITUS A298
303
TRIDENTATUS . 298-9
UNIDENTATUS 296, 298,
303-4
Heterorissoa secunda .. 245
wilfridi . 184, 245
Heterozona fruticosa xi., 184,
214
subviridis xv., 214
Hexacetyle- grossa .. .. 517
Hibiseus diversifolius 154
roga-sinensis . 154, 159-60
tiliaceus ... 154, 156, 159
Hieroxestis aurisquamosa 155
citrinodes .. .. 155
Hippotion celerio 154
Hirmoneura heydenii 453
nigripes .. 453
mogriventms .. .... 402
novae-hollandiae 452-3
UNCLOLOM St) ate. 402
rosea .. 454
Hirtotyphis me a : ' ip 272
Homotrysis flavicornis: » 45
Hormomya .. 196
hirsutus . 196
rostratus .. 196
TOV) cess eeihsvel ees sit O9
lovancarnosayeey ete oie le
Humea elegans .. .
lxix.
Hyblaea sanguinea .. . 154
Hydrocotyle asiatica .. 487,
490, 492-3, 495-6
Hydromedusa maximiliana
514
iElydrophilustem as e429
Hylemyia . 138, 142
GUAT SS 6 66 on IBRD
deceptiva .. 5 diBCRY)
urbana .. ¢ Nay)
URBANA . i339
Hylorops . . 365
australis 5. SOU
matruelis dg late:
Hylorus .. 5 Boll
Hymenanthera Bae 485,
487, 490
dentatarce ee XXXL
Hymenia fascialis .. 155
Hymenogaster .. .. 98, 102
Hypaspistomyia 336
ALBIPENNIS .. .. . 336
Hypolimnas bolina .. 153
Hypothenemus gossypii 158
plumeriae 158
Icerya purchasi 160
seychellarum .. Ee LOO
IcuNcULA a 183, 251
Idiophantis chiridota 56.) ASS)
Hyodromus viridulus 322
Incisura lytteltonensis . 215
Tnopus despectus ..
Imbricaria porphyria ..
indicoteray a4 (a0 4 a 6
CHS AOS serge a) cao, UG
brevidens .. .. fel
TInocarpus edulis 154-5, 157,
160
Ischnochiton .. .. EXIVe
arbutum .. ane
atkinsoni . ‘ 56 ala
CLISPUS se xi., “184, 214
lemblsanosus meee
luticolens By atti
proteus .. . mm, 214
purus oe LSS
tateanus .. . - LSS 214
Isehnoradsia .. 5 Bile!
australis i
seem t xa
Iseilima mitehelli . 9, 11, 15
Isognomon cumingii 190
Tsogonum 190
Tsopogon 162
Isotoma petraea = i t Pont
llbxexe:
Jacobina magnifica . 326
Jacobinia 390
Jamides eraedtondi | 154
Jasminum lineare a
Jatropha Cureas 158
Jeffreysia wilfridi 245
Juanulloa aurantica ... 327
Katelysia 211
Kerguelenia iqmeminata 277
lateralis ane ais avr CALLE
stowae .. .«- 276
Kochia .. .. 8, 13
aphylla .. 10, 16
brachyptera .. 8, 16
brevifolia .. ae 16
pyramidata .. : 10, 16
aachadolbie oo co 2 ably als
Labdia eae A TeLOO
calidayora-r 56 Alo
clytemnestra .. mal56
epizona 5.6) AUX
Laeda dorhnu . so AUS)
Lambertia formosa .. . 326
Lanistina nana .. 5) alge
Lantana Camara .. 5 IOI
Laphygma exigua .. .. 154
Lappula coneava .. es A
Larva .. A 220
iBesiorneiteltenin 69, “70, Hi
ferrugineum ..
Lataxiena imbricata oa
lataxiena .. EPA
Laurus .. ap ha ae e ie)
Lavatera plebeia iol U2, WS
Lebeda apicalis .. . 419
obscura 418
saturata 418
Lecanium hemisphaericum
160
wauasley g5 44 Fe iGO
Leda crebrecostata doo, dlteld)
ensicula 2 ASAL TUSKS
hanleyi . SMUT ASP SS)
longicaudata .. ASG
miliacea .. 181
woodsii 185
Leiomyza .. 338
NITIDULA . 5 ayats
Leiopyrga .. 220
eingulata . silage eae
octona .. S35 225
octcna problematica 182,
226
quadricingulata .. 225
INDEX.
Leiopyrga sayceana.. ..
Leonotis leonurus 325-6
Lepidiota .. 310
frenchi .. 310-1
negatoria .. 310
perkinsi 56 310
PUATYIURA =. joe ee 310
RUGOSIPENNIS .. 310
TRICHOSTERNAW alyisehet le
Lepidium fasciculatum ealgali®
papillosum Ii 1G)
Lepidurus .. 123-4
angasit .. 123
compressus .. .. .. . 123
kirkii .. 123
viridis 120-3
viridulus 123
Tsepsrellavnie uy soe 275
Leptocyelops agilis .. 322
Leptospermum 22, 60
flavescens .. Sepia Oo)
stellatum .. .. .. 60, 495
Leptynoptera ane 159
Leuciseus ; 347
Leucophaea surinamensis
Leucophenga .. ..
albofasciata
CONJUNCTA .. ..
leucozona ..
poeciliventris .
seutellata ..
161
. 349
a5 OD)
. . 350
aio) oes)
. 300
. 350
Levuana iridescens xxvii., 154
Lezites repanda .. . 155
Libnotes greenwoodi 161
Licinoma aerea .. 5 451
angusticollis 540
COERULEA 541
ILLIDGEL .. 540
MEAT OR cuore ieee cua O)
MOMMOONE, 55% bo 6o00 o Al
nodulosa .. 41
PUNCTICEPS .. 69 Aull
SPLENDENS .. 541-2
truneata .. 542
UMBILICATA .. 4l
Lima angulata tlle “194
australis 181, 194
bassi . sel eueuemlt) 5)
lima .. BM . 194-5
multicostata .... .. 194-5
murrayl .. 2 AM py aL OEE
nimbifer .. 5) Weil, Is)
orientalis .. . 194
Limea 194.
Limnadia sonal oo) ats
stanleyana .. alos
Limnadopsis .. PA aby
birchi .. 121-2, 132
brunneus 122, 132
PARVISPINUS .. WAL, IBZ
Sonny Soka oo 56 1a
SOMMEGO de pe 60 oo bs 1!
TG do onteo oo 122. ils
Limnetis .. .. Hie gla’)
eremin eis eee
macleayana .. . 121-2, 135
tater. 5 Pe, 1185)
Limnoecia inconcinna .. 156
Limnophora NIGRIORBITALIS
144
OPACIFRONS .. 144
ORTHONEURA .. 144
triangula .. ye 145
Limopsis erectus .. .. . 186
Linum marginale .. 16
Lioconcha 209
AM CASIO oi ere . 209
Liocrobyla paraschista 45 115)
Liolophura gaimardi 214
queenslandica .. xl.
Liotia .. 233
micans .233
minima .. .. : 182.
Liparetrus sanelbilis: 288
aridus .. 288
Gye “bs do 287
BILOBUS .. 288
bitubereulatus .. 290
CAVICEDS 4a uoee OL
clypealis .. 291
convexior .. 290
CRIBRICEPS j 286
CRIBRIPENNIS .. 290
dispar .. es 288
erythropterus .. 288
flavus .. : 288
GGRIMGIOS 64 co ao 40 COL
GEMINATUS .. 290
glabripennis . 287
insignis 287
kreuslerae .. 287
laeticulus .. 290
laetus .. 291
laevatus .. 291
laevis . i 292
LONGIPILIS .... 288
luridipennis .. 287
minor .. 291
modestus .. 291
niger : 287
nigroumbr Aen 289
opacicollis .. 292
Liparetrus orTHODOxUS 289
phoenicopterus 287
picipennis . 55 Zee)
IMU) Go 6S 40 ao cuciey
rotundipennis .. . 290
rubefactus .. 290
TARSALIS .. 287
TIBIALIS .. 291
WESinlaS ag 50 oc 289
Liparis .. eb oda c cele
Lippistes mee lieants 251
consobrina .. .. «- 251
gabrieli 251
eracilenta . 251
helicoides .. 251
separatista .. .. 251
toreularis .. 251
zodiacus .. s5 2ol
Lironoba australis: 184, 244,
251
Lissarea picta 186
Listoca liguaria @. .. . 412
Lithodomus barbatus .. 181
Litorina tubereulata .. . 244
Lodderena .. . 182, 233
Lodderia lodderae . 233
minima .. .. 5 ae)
Womatialy. 5... s:- 495
longifolia .. .. 492- a 496
silaifolia .. _ 492- 4
Lophocateres pusillus .. 157
Loranthus .. .. 55, 168, 485
aulplexams) ese «1 0o-+
Benthami .. 81, 87
BENTHAMI .. .. .. 86
Betchei : . 92
biangulatus .. .. 93-5
bifureatus .. . 86, 93
bracteatus .. Boies Be
Britteni . 92-5
BRITTENI . 92
canus .. cs
canus ae 82, 84
celastroides . , 98
congener .. . 84-6
conspicuus .. . 84, 92
dictyophlebus .. .. 95
EXOCAROT aa-wus cian los tet Lo
ferruginifiorus .. 5 HY)
IPiieenpileh, 45 oo 66 88
PACA 65 goles ed te)
Gaudichaudi .. a 84
eibberulus .. 79
erandibracteus “79, "86, 90,
91
INDEX.
HILLIANA . sgt 80
insularum .. 93, 95
linearifohus .. 81, 9L
linophyllus .. . xxvii., 89
longiflorus .. .. .. 60
longifolius .. . 93
longifolius var.
amplexifolius .. .. 95
Lueasi .. . 87, 89, 92
LUCASH eee OO nc OL
Miaxcleni sw a ee 89
MAIDENI .. .. 87
Miquelii .. .. 91
miraculosus .. 15, 81, 83- 4
miraculosus var. ‘Synaranaeae
83, 85
Mitchelliana .. > fill
Mitchelana .. .. < Ghil
Murrayi .. ASN Oe
Nestor . : 79, 88, 91-2
nutans .. : 83, 85
nutans .. : 82, 84
OMbIGMEY so o6 46166 i, 2!
pendulus . . 85-7, 92
pendulus var. amplexi-
folius .. 87
pendulus var.
amplexifolius .. .. . 86
pendulus var. canescens 84
pendulus var. canescens 84
pendulus var. canus .. 84
pendulus var. parviflorus
83
IP VEISSIM scale (isos seld
pruinosus .. .. 84
Quandang .. 79-90
Quandang var.
amplexifolius 0 (eh)
Quandang var. Bancrofti
84-5
Quandong . els
sanguineus .. siecle
signatus .. 93, 95
signatus var. amplexans
94-5
spp. bsp Sees
vitellinus 79, 90, 94-5
Lorica .. XIv.
Loricella angasi- pecans 2A
Rotornum pene ee 2OS
MNNTOU oh os, 66 66 oo 20S
parkinsonianum .. .. 253
radiale .. 253
textile . 253
tortirostris .. 253
WiOOdSiiees.unstveucyale. 253
Lotus australis... .... . 16
Lueapinella .. .. 218
TVHOUE Sloe Seen ee)
OWE co gogo ooo cal)
joummmelaneeb, 65 66 6 219
Lucina brazieri .. .. .. 206
induta .. .. 182, 206
mayi .. . 183, 206
Luffa aegyptiaca .. .. . 157
Lycoperdon Warnei ... 111
Lycopodium densum .. . 492
Lyctopholus_ rugicollis xxiii.
Lyria mitraeformis 258
Lyrotyphis .. 5 PAT
Machaeroplax .. aaa CALL
IMIR CONGINES: 66.0656 on Oe
Macridiscus .. .. .. 211
Macrocallista .. .. 210
disrupta .. 210
inflata .. .. 210
OURO odo ae so) 2AWD
lamarckii .. . 210
TebMey So oe . 210
Maerones . eae edo
Macrosehisma .. . 218
compressa . 56 AY
hiatula .: : . 220
novacealedoniac | 2 220
tasmaniae 183, 219
Macrothrix spinosa .. 320- 1
Macrozamia .. . 476
IN EeVolni ete aes eri . 202
Maechidius EUTERMIPHILUS
293
CrCISGONS 55 65 55 oo OH
gibbicollis .. So 2
major . x So, 2B
PUNCTICOLLIS + 292
sordidus .. .. 293
tibialis .. . 293
Maenolia .. .. his, Gallic)
Mallodeta . soo AOU
Mallotus philippinensis 28%
Malurus leuconotus ... xxv.
Mangifera indica 154, 156,
160
Marcia .. .. ee ale:
nitida . 52 BG
sealarina Bees os CABAL
Margarita angulata, ODS:
Marginella eaducocincta 184,
: 261
dentiens .. . 184, 261
gabrieli .. eS Aare Gill
gathiffi .. . 184, 261
lxxi.
Liparetrus musearia .. .. 261
tasmanica .. .. . 184, 261
Marsilea Drummondii 12, 15
exarata . Se Ae)
Martarega .. 462-3
Maruea testulals .. 155
Matinus . sh 461
Mecytha antiqua .. .. 412
trimacula .. .. .. .. 406
Megasoma rubida . 423
Megatebennus coneatenatus
218-9
javanicensis 218
Melaleuca genistifolia . 81-2
leucadendron .. 91
leueadendron var.
SNUCAMEY Lo a4 leis) lo
SOONG) Kee huis
aichostackiyea peli cime we
Melanophila australasiae 526
cupripes .. 525-6
laticeps . . 526
Melicytus ramiflorus alos
MELLITERYX 182, 207
NMelobasinanieee en ero emree
Miclobasisee ee Cease ee eo
laticeps 526
OWNED, 6 Fo oc 33) 2B)
MENDICULA MEMORATA 182,
206
Menephilus corvinus ... 36
LACHUSH at ted ae Ano eR OO
iOAWCISENY Go Ga Bo 36
Merista plebeia .. . 499- 501
scalprum .. . 500
Meroscinis .. . 308
Mesembryanthemum .. .. 6
MeEsocuancutus .. 182, 224
Mesoecyelops obsoletus 314,
317
MESODREPTA . . 401
ISUNAOMNONON He (gg 4AU I
Metallesthes metallescens 312
Metanastria psidi .. . 428
Metoponia .. 361, 363-4
gemina .. . 362-4
IMUIGOGIOS o6 so co 5 Goze
Metrosideros tomentosa 325-6
Micretyche ferruginea ... 33
CRI OED Poulan nl BOER,
Microcantharis sanfrarottn . 429
Microcastalia globithorax
523, 527
Microcitrus australasica xxx.
australis .. .. . XXIx.
Micrococcus ureae .. .. 437
INDEX,
Micromelum pubescens . 154
Microvoluta australis 268-9
purpureostoma .... . 268
ROYANA : Mei ale | A008)
Mictis profana .. 15)
Milichiella .. . 335-6
lacteipennis Heh | eras)
MIMELENCHUS .. 182, 232
. 543
Mimopeus .. .. .---
Mimulus gracilis .. .. .. 17
moschatus
WMS Gobo we an) ss 12
Mamoliiaitavacire gee
agapeta.. .-
PNEM oo 66
ey Weds Gayo o lead
philippensis. 1... 2. 227
pulcherrima 227, 229
PULCHERRIMA EMENDATA
182, 229
rosulenta .. so) AA
Minopa .. ea le2:
legrandi .. 183, 226
Minuria .. ie
intesermima, (0) 2 os 1 eld
Mirbelia grandiflora ...
Miseanthus japonicus
WiwMo ONE, ob be ee lea 50 ee
Mitra miranda .. ..
Modiola albicosta .. MONG
albicosta var. spatula 197
australis .. 196-7
penetecta .. ale Alaa aLeNG
trapezina .. 5 55) ke
victoriae .. 197
Modiolarea .. 198
subtorta .. 181
fasmmamical ies aun
Modiolaria .. .. . 196, 198
Modiolus albicostus 181, 196
arborescens .. . 181, 197
areolatus .. Porte) naliOT
australis .. ) Acres lOi7
DELINIFIOUS .. ied, INS
victoriae .. , 1s 197
Moerodes kershawi .. .. 33
Moina tenuicornis .. 322
Moinodaphnia macleayii 321
Monilea .. . 226-7
aneulata .. 227-8
AOUCIMAN TH ele kel) ore S
lentiginosa .. 227
oleacea .. PATS
prodictus 228
vitiliginea .. 227
Monodonta .. 230
Monodonta baceata .. .. 230
labio .. ens 5 Pale}
Montfortula..... 216, 218
Morgania glabra .. . 12, i
Miormiyrs 0 etn sige ene "347
Morula .. hi 2. 274
ambustulata . bo AUD
granulata .. . 275
ne eeMDONIO, Ba bo 50 4 208
nodulifera .. os MAD
Mueuna aterrima .. 155
Muehlenbeckia Cunninghamii
2 115)
Murchisonia sutoris . 249-250
Murex colus .. 267
tubifer .. : Pee,
Musa sapientum .. .. . 154
Musea domestica .. .. . 161
Mydaea. rigidiseta .. .. 140
Museulus 5 SLOG
barbatus .. .. 196
cumingianys .. 5 i197
erosus . ‘o 50 alot
paulueciae 5) Ie
recens .. . 197
rostratus .. 196
splendidus .. 196
subtortus .. so JIG
Mya a . 184
Myadora .. Y 00
albida 9s: 56 AND
angustior .. 5 200
australis .. a20i
brevis .. Sa 201
COMODO 2s 55 6 181, 201
corrugata .. 00)
elongata .. ss) 200
OMEN Ne Stun cyl dba o8) 6 eANOal
pandoriformis etait
praelonga .. .. e200)
IROGAINDAN ety 181, 201
subalbida . 183, 200
Mycodrosophila .. 1 390)
Myochama keppelliana . 250
DOOM Fs a5 Ae a, ID
COMUINAHUNI 34 a6 o5 35 LO
deserti .. Hye ID, Ile
platyearpum .. 10, 17, 88
tenuifolium var.
XG MUAMDAENADIE 45 G6 ao JLT
Myosotis australis eXeXGXT
versicolor XXxl.
Myriangium acaciae .. xxxii
dolichospermum EX
duriaei EXON.
montagnei .. BUEXGXEX
Myriocephalus eel
Stuarti . Peters, eh Ob: ef,
Myrtaea botanica 182, 206
practea” “isco . 206
Mysella .. 207
anomala .. 207
Mysia . 206
Mytilicardia “avesmneratieny, . 205
Mytilus arborescens 197
eanaliculus .. 195
discors 198
dumikeria.. -... 196
edulis .. 195
obseurus .. 195
planulatus .. 195
polyodontes 196
tasmanicus .. 195
Myurella i: 262
(Myurellisea)
duplicatoides 262
Myurellisea 262
duplieata .. 262
INa@eulla oa 65 oe 6
INacellayene (ee ee AS
parva : . 182, 238
Nadiasa parviguita Gove 408
Naricava vineentiana 184,
. 252
Nascio lunaris .. 23
WEUUISIB, dio sees yee as oe eet)
Nassa Oe
tasmanica .. 6
Nassarius munierlana .. 270
TOC Maewaee ae oe. SOaN
semigranosus .. .. .. 270
tasmanicus 184, 271
victorianus sc RATA)
Natica shorehami 184, 254
SUNCOM, bo 66 66 o Zot
umbilicata .. 183
Nausitoria saulii 2.) 214
Nelitris vitiensis .. aR tf
Nechubastes aureocincta 527
Neobuprestis ALBOSPARSA
523-4
australis .. 5 60 BD
frenchi .. Dee
marmorata .. mS 524
Neocuris AwuRO- _TMPRESSA
531
dilaticollis .. . A264
LIVIDA ti OOS
monochroma .. 6
SAPPHIRA .. 532
viridi-micans 532
INDEX,
Neocuropsis .. woot
Neoheteronyx burn PADD
lividus . 295-6
lividus . 296
Neothais .. 5 BaD
succincta .. 5 UD)
Neotorresita So HYG
achardt 50 DAS
Neotrigonia GEMMA ... 181
margaritacea 192-3
Neralduste ome eee 20-1
bostrychoides .. 527
Nesiope ornata .. 159
Nesosteles glauca 159
hebe .. 159
Neurachne : 11
Neurochyta : “402, 426
@GhNe! oo, s< se oo 2S
Neurybia .. 526-7
Nicotiana suaveolens i
Tabacum 156, ILS!)
Nitraria Schoeberi 12, 16
Nothofagus sp. . 114
Notiphila 56 BOD
Notoacmea flammea 184,
235-6
FLAMMEA DIMINUTA 182,
236-7
MIXTA MIMULA 182, 235,
237
petterdi .. 184, 237
seabrilirata og, Be)
suteri . 242,
NOTOBUBASTES 24.
AUROSULCATA 26
COSTATUS 526
OCCIDENTALIS 25-6
ORIENTALIS . HERE ear)
Norocannista .. 182, 210
NOTOGIBBULA .. 182, 226
Notolimea .. 181, 194
NOTOMYRTEA .. 182, 206
Notonaulax .. a BD
Notonecta 462-3
"americana . 462
lutea 462
maculata .. 462,
shooter 62)
undulata . Be 462
Notoplax soaniosn , 183, 214
NOTOPRATAEUS .. EN eAaL Cat)
LITORALIS . oo OB
NOTOTRINTUS .. 39, 40
acaciensis a0
TWACKERI . 40
jaeksoni 40
{xxiil.
striatus seth enone 20)
Nucula PRAETENTA 181, 185
pusilla 184
umbonata .. Se 181, 184
Nuculana chuva 185
erassa .. 185
dohrni .. 185
(DOHRNII) TRAGULATA 181,
185
hanleyi .. 185
miliacea . 185
woodsil .. iis ac jdlst®
NUMELLA .. 182, 206
Nychia . .. 461-3
Nycterimorpha .. . 448, 459
speiseri 459
Nycterimyia .. 459
horni . 409
Nyetinomus allpighas XXV.
australis .. BHT RA ONEXCV 2
Nyetozoilus CRASSUS 35
dalenielimeet ssi 5 BO
marginatus .. 35
parvus 5 a0)
PUSILLUS 35
Ochrogaster contraria 428
Oenodus unidentatus 301
Ocybola semifusca 397
Odonestis 402
Olene ostracina 398
Oliva 259
GIGICC AN cerry eat aS
Oluvellawees 4 ais ea aero,
biplicata .. 258
brazieri .. 258-9
exquisita 258-9
IGNOBHOINE, So 50-00 o5 ZBI
nympha .. IS She 259,
pardalis Ps aera)
solidula 259
triticea ; ee)
Omichlis hadkeaamenas 401
Onithochiton 56 SAI
quereinus Key Mie
Onoba_ bassiana ne 244
bassiana 244
eglomerosa .. 244
Onosterrhus sculpturatus 33
veternosus .. 5 Be:
Onthophagus GRANICOLLIS
284.
eranulatus .. . , 284
haagi .. . 284
jubatus .. eile eee
QUADRINODICOLLIS 283
lxxiv.
Ophioglossum lanceolatum
XXX.
eranib layer SXOXO:
vAulleginbbad, G9 Gd alo 1) 22:0-G
vulgatum var. Prantli
OO
Opsirhina .. . 403, 425
albida ts 2a 421
albigutta .. 425
albigutta .. 425
cinereata .. 424
cyclomela 417
decorata 419
fervens .. 418
flextcosta .. 420
imtemerata 424
metastigma 412
nana .. 424
nasuta 424
pudorina .. 424
punctilinea 404
pyrosocoma 425
SOONG... .. .. 420
Opsirrhina metaphaca . 405
Orgyia semifusca .. .. 397
Orneodes pygmaea .. 155
Orthis striatula 501
Orthomesus .. 231
Oseinis ; 355
Ostrea angasi .. 191
angasil ANS Butte ee
cuenllataiey.) ewes elo
edulis .. ae 191-2
epphippium .. 190
glomerata .. .. 184, 192
mordax .. 5 < litets}, | allgy2,
numisma .. 5 algal
purpurea .. wt OZ,
sinuata . 191-2
virescens ,. ie temo IL
Otrintus . 6 6 ee, 40
ACACIENSIS|/ ie) we ieen ieee 0
JACKSON ee esse Nien se ao
striatus .. .. 40
Owenia acidula 10, 12, is}, 16
Oxalis corniculata . 492, 496
Oxomeris .. 262
Oxymeris 262
Pachnistis solita .. 156
Pachycyeclops annulicornis
321
Pachythaerus .. 204
Pachytricha minor . 5 Sul
Paleococcus rosae .. .. 160
Palmacorixa 5 AGH
INDEX,
Panacela ie .. 400
Panax Sermtneur line 487, 493
Pandanus odoratissimus 160
Panicum barbinode 159
distachyumyy. i. sue oO
Pantala flavescens .. .. 161
Papilio schmeltzi .. 154
Paracephala minuta .. . 23
pistacina . 2a, 30
vitticeps .. Be) EBD
Paradrosophila interrupta
348, 353
Parahippelates aequalis 331
ALBISETA . B5)) Big) BOW)
brunneicosta 5) Bhai)
COSTOMACULATA .. 329
FUSCIPES 330-1
MUCISEtA a eG) ee we OooUsL
Pararhopaea .. .. 310
Paralepidiota 310
Paralimna .. As) BBD
Paralimnadiaw een enintia2as
stanleyana .. .. 121, 133
Paranagrus optabilis 158
PARANISOPS .. .... -. 462-3
INCONSTANS . 463, 465
INCONSTANS var. LUTEA
464
Paratemia .. 121
zleziana .. 122
Paratassa .. De oak Maras
Parabenetesiesemieni onan Ito
Parvacmea .. ~. 242
ILLIBRATA MELLILA 183,
242
Paspalum dilatatum 159
Passiflora quadrangularis
159
Patella aculeata .. 238, 240
aegrota .. . 273-4
alticostata .. 4 ZL
anatina .. 5 a ALG
calamus SEAS 0
chapmani .. . 238-40
chapmani perplexa .. 239 -
conica . GRAINS Ug ARAN aayaLy
eretacea .. ie 938, 240
diemensis .. . 241
fragilis oy ais)
cigantea 240-1
hepatica . 240
inconspicua 237
insignis 235
laticogtata 5 abl
limbata .. » Pals
lobata . bg 6 GAD
lutea .. 223
macroschisma 220
nieclectay | ae eee
pPentagonma Wye. ae teLO
peroni . 241
perplexa .. 238-40
PICA : . 240
se ainranaitbiaee 241
scalaris 274
solida 241
squamifera .. 183, 239
stellaeformis 240
succincta 273-4
tasmanica .. 240-1
textiliosa .. .. .. 23-4
tramoserica .. .. .. 241
tramosericus i 241-2
unguis-almae .. 238
ustulata .. .. 238, 240-1
Vanlegata.) 6 sciuers bee
variegatus .. . 242
victoriae .. .. .. .. 240
wulgata wee
PATELMANAK (2). . 834239
squamifera .. .. . 240
Patelloida alticostata .. 234
ALTICOSTATA ANTELIA 182,
234, 237
ALTICOSTATA COMPLANATA
182, 234, 237
calamus . 2 236
conoidea .. +.) 230
erucis 234-5
flammea 5 560 CBM!
' gealei . 236-7
hamiltonensis .. 5 2a)
jacksoniensis .. .. . 235
latistrigata . 236-7
marmorata .. .. .. . 236
mayil a=) 230
mixta .. 234-5
mufria 4) Bais
onychitis .. . 236
perplexa .. Soyo Zu)
petterdi .. . 235-6
pileopsis .. BEY (sa BI
punctata 182, 238
SOMITE G6 55 inc BRM
stella .. AEN ey 1. Canes
submarmorata . 184, 236-7
Subundulatay yee Oa
Pecten adscensionis ... 194
albus .. . 193-
fumatus .. j 193
fumatus var. albus .. 193
fuseus =. . 193
Pecten laticostatus .. .. 193
AZO G6 6 Bo 193
meridionalis .. 193
modestus .. 193
novaezelandiae 193
undulatus 194
Pectunculus austr ales 187
beddomei .. 189
grayanus 188
hedleyi .. 188
holosericus 188
laticostatus 250
orbicularis so. ale
Peculator verconis 183, 269
Pedalion .. 190
ephippium 190
isognomon 190
perna = I
OIE, o6 0 190
Pellaea ellen 485, ‘487, 490
Penteune .. . ‘ 478
Peperomia pellucida. soo LG
Peripatus 152
Periplanata australasiae 161
Periploma qmeAes s5 o¢ Je)
micans 200
Perkinsiella iianeis : 158! 9
PERMOPHILIDAE .. . 430
PERMOPHILUS 430
2 MINOR .. . 431
PINCOMBEI .. .. .. . 430
PERMOSYNE .... .. .. 4381
AFFINIS .. .. .. 431, 433
BELMONTENSIS . 431, 433
MITCHELLI .. .. 431, 433
PINCOMBEAE .. . 431, 433
PERMOSYNIDAE .. .. .. 431
Rermiay.- .. .. 402, 426
brevipennis .. .. .. 426-7
chlorophragma .. 426
combinata .. _ Ae
exposita 426-7
? flavescens .. 428
metastigma, 412
varia .. A4l1
Perotyphis 272
Persoonia 60
mollis .., 496
salicina .. He ae
Pervicacia so Ilse, 2AS2!
assecla .. . 183, 263
ustulata .. Sc OS:
Petrophila ; 162
Phaennis Pasearlatin 537
Phalium labiatum .. .. 254
pyrum .. 184, 254
INDEX.
Phalium stadiale ...... 254
Phaonia FERGUSONI .. . 141
stupida .. . i4l
umbrinervis .. 141
Phaseolus adleaamilnns 154,
156
calearatus .. .. . 155, 159
Mungo as ge
semierectus oo JY)
vulgaris .. So LS
Phasianella angasi .. 231-2
australis .. 232
inflata 231
obtusa .. 231
perdix Shee CA a0
rubens . 184, 231
speciosa .. 8 50 Za
variegata .. . 231
ventricosa .. . 182, 230- 2
VIE SOM oi . 231-2
Divine commer 162 O77
Philiris ilias innotatus
XXVil.
Pholadomya .. > 200
Phoradendron .. .. .. . 595
Phragmorisma
anatinaeformis 202
watson a). los, 2010
Phthorimaea heliopa ... 156
Phyllocoma .. .. 5 Zeal
Phyllodromia notulata 2) Gil
Pimelea es te 16
simplex .. 16
Pinara , “403, 406, "428
cana .. Ah oles . 403- 4
erubescens woe 421
metaphaea .. ; 403-5
obliqua .. . 403-4
obtusa .. 412
pervicax . : . 424
TUfeSCENS .. «. .. 405
sesioides .. . 403
Piophila casei se lGill
Pison ignavum .. . 158
Pisum sativum welds
Pitan: Jeb a 210
Pitaria sophiae Be ey ple)
Pittosporum . 60, 478
phyllyraeoides LO 2S al
Spauras wales OO
Platycerium orande .. . 483
Platycolpus =... ..° 246-7
Platvdema rufibase .. 33
suleato-punctatum .. 32
Platyphanes .. Sathacese
Pleastaiol amarante 400
Ixxv.
Plesiocapparis .. 478
Plesiotrochus monachus
184, 246
Pleuroploca .. . 265
Pleurotomaria .. .... . 215
Pleuroxus barroisi 5 Ould
barroisi var. laevis .. 315
hastirostris .. so SUES)
Poecilocampa brevis ... 427
leucopyga .. . 428
simplex .. .. 428
Poinciana regia .. 5 dle
Polinices .. 256
conica .. . .256
melastoma nn 250
plumbea no C8
Polistes tasmaniensis XxX1xX.
Polycesta mastersi .. . 523
Polyplocium .. .. . 98
Polypodium diversifolium
483, 485
pustulatum .. .. .. . 485
Polyporinae .. . 485
Polystichum aculeatum
485, 487, 489, 490, 492,
495
aristatum .. . 485
Poneroplax . Pate AV:
paetellanay epauperenie este 2X
Pongamia glabra 155-6, 159
Poranthera alemp ye 492
Porela .. 403, 411
albifinis . 411, 415
AMATHODES .. .. 411, 414
arida .. Sone ODI
contermina .. .. 411, 415
delineataas +t ello
galactodes .. .. . 411, 414
homospila .. . . 414
notabilis .. . 411, 414
obtusa .. 56 oo CHOI
subfasciata .. .. 411, 413
vetusta am 41]
vitulina .. .. . 411, 413
Poroleda ensicula 185.
lanceolata .. ae soe Silt
pertubata . 181, 186
spathula .. Bhs Sills a,
Porthesia euthysana 397
trrorata PARE 397
melambaphes .. 397
semifusea .. 397
XUTHOSTERNA .. 397
Portulaca oleracea Wal als
Prataeus Stes 1)
PRATULUM .. 182, 207
Premma taitensis .. 160
Procanace Ae hy aos
Prodenia litura .. 154, 161
Prodesmometopa 336
Productus 468
Promecotheca wenn 2yl5ss
Pronucula . 184
PROPEFUSUS 188, 268
pYTUlatUS) si) ete eleds 207
PROPELEDA == 1. op lel e386
Propesinum .. iol 9.) dliehs!
(UMBILICATUM) MIMICUM
183, 256
UMBILICATUM
MINUSCULUM . 183, 256
Proohancsimecws sie
Prostanthera lnsianthos 487
Protaetia fusca .. 157
Protea mellifera 324
PROTOCOLEIDAE . 434
PROTOCOLEOPTERA so aay
PROTOCOLEUS .. . . 434
MITCHELLI .. . 434
Prunella vulgaris 487
Prunica granatum .. 396
Psalliota 98, 102
Psammobia livida .. . 212-3
menkeana ah Pals
modesta .. 5g Aes}
zonalis 5 PLS
Psara rudis .. . 155
Psegmoptera «2 360
Psegmoptera .. Oe
aurifrons .. . 360
aurifrons oO:
machiliformis ne 60)
machiliformis .. 364
Pseudanilara Biconor .. 524
cupripes SA sala! nee 0)
OCCIDENTALIS .. 56 DAD
purpureicollis . 5 B25)
roberti 523
roberti var. nigra .. 525
Pseudococeus citri .. . 160
vitiensis ; 160
Pseudoryctes dispar 5 ella
validus .. 2 Silat:
Pseudo- stroneylinm
viridipenne ANTE, Beat sia ta 3 74bs}
Pseudotaenia .. .. .. . 22
Psidium Guayava 157, 159-
60
Psoralea eriantha IL, 16
patens .. SONTAG
Pteria pulchella ais . 190
Pteridium . 489, 494
INDEX.
Pteridium aquilinum 60, 487,
490, 492-6
Pterinea brisa .. 5) Abe
Pterochilus . HUN
Pterospermum acerifolium
326
Pterostylis ..
Ftecovyjomisi iar samen Raiie
Ptilotus nobilis IES 16}
obovatus .. ALG
Pugillaria 183
stowae comita .. 188, 277
Pultenaea, flexilis . 493
Puncturella 2N7- 8, 221-2
corolla : 182, 218
demissa .. . ; 182, 221
Purpura chaidea 275
granulata .. . 275
nodulifera 2)
USO Goh ou oe BOD)
Pyrene beddomei .. 271
Pyroderces euryspora .. 156
Pyrula undulata .. 265, 268
undulatus .. . 268
Quercus .. 478
Quintinia Slohent 483, 485,
487
Quisqualis indica .. .. . 326
Rachionotomyia
purpurata .. 4g AL@il
Radiacmea Hie Gg 8)
calamus 184, 236-7
IMCONSPICUA |.) tel OS
insignis . . 184, 235
INSIGNIS CAVILLA 182, 235
mufria .. 238
RADULPHUS ROYANUS 183,
270
Raja clavata oo Be)
Rana temporaria .3f1-2
Randia chartacea 279-80
Rapistrum hispanicus var.
hirsutum XXX1.
rugosum var. nervosum
XXX.
Reniella dilatata .. 191
Rhabdoenemis obseura .. 158
Rhadinophylla siderosema 156
Rhagodia SoS tells
spinescens .. .. 10, 11, 15
Rhathymodes lechriodes 425
Rhinogyne calligama 404
Rhodesiella .. . 358
Rhododendron ponticum 324
Rhyncocephalus ales .. 452
costalis ao All
OHS a5 66. baloa, co 458)
Rhyssoplax . Xll., XiV., XVI.
carnosa .. 214
COXIME ar ae 2A
dap horaae paiy-mrnmeute ce
FUEOSE co sao van” lieth, Zale,
translucens .. .. .. Xi.
vauclusensis .. .. .. Xl
venusta es kbs anal
Ricinus communis .. .. 154
Riella so Walle
Rimula 217-8
asturiana . CLS
RIMULANAX 182, 218
Rissoa integella .. . 244
tenisoni La ia. af ape
Rissoina lintea .. . 184, 245
Rixa .. 182, 221
Rochefortia anomala ... 207
donaciformis .. 5 AU
Rochelia maccoya .. .. 17
Rosa_ sp. 160
Rubus Bantiecens 496
moluceanus ... 496
rosifolius .. . 487
Saecharum officinarum . 158
Sacchia suboibicularis . 206
Saissetia nigra .. 160
Salaputium 182, 204
Salda i 465- 6
eyeni .. erate e406:
NICHOLSONT. Enh A OV AOD LO
reuteriella .. . 466
Sibi) -ara) Ao) oe soo 6) GAOO
SaLsIPOTENS .. .. 182, 230
Salsola Kah .. 9, 16
Sandella .. ~ Dg)
Santalum acuminatum . 84
lanceolatum 10, 13, 15, 85,
87
Saragus marginellus .. . 33
PUINICTAT USE yo) cu rel een eenne
TUQIS. Wed Ske, oe ES
rugosipennis .. .. 35
Sarecostemma australe 8, alia
Saxicava subalata 183, 214
Seaevola spinescens iL 17
Seala granosa .. .. 252
minutula .. oo Alte
Sealaria ballinensis .. 252-3
Seaphella caroli .. 183, 258
undulata .. 269
Scaphula ? lanceolata . 185
Schelhammera undulata 493
Schimmsespa yees- (aera. 00
Schismope sales a5 2als
beddomei .. Bane py SPEND)
prevasicrne: : 5 Onl
Schismotis excisa .. -- 222
Schizophoria striatula . 501
Schizothorax intermedius 347
Schizotrochus .. PAS)
Secissurella australis .-. 215
obliqua .. .- -- . 215
ormata <2 3: %-: 183, 215
rosea .- .. 182-3, 215
ScissuRONA .. -- 182, 215
obliqua be LCS)
ROSEA REMOTA .. 182, 215
Scolia manilae .. oo Allsis)
Seutus .. ee 4. Bills
antipodes .. . 216
astrolabeus : a
Seymnus fens: a
Secotium . 97 8, 103- 4
acuminatum .. «+ +> 110
agaricoides 97-9, 104, 110
CARTILAGINEUS .. -- > 115
cartilagineus .- - 97, 104
coarctatum .. 97, 104, 108
Drummondii .. Seay)
erythrocephalum 97- 8, 100,
104, 106, 112
excavatum .. i ilaltS
Guinzil .. . 97, 104, 114
Gunnii 97, 104, 110, 112-3
leucocephalum 97, 104, 112
lilacense .. ye aera
melanosporum 97, 104, 110
novae-zelandiae 97, 100,
104
NOVAE-ZELANDIAE Walon
ochraceum . 97, 104, 108
pedunculatum .. aelaliG)
pendunculatum .. .. 112
piriforme .. .. 97, 103-4
PIRIFORME .. Hemera la lis)
porphyreum 97, 99, 103-4
PORPHYREUM .... .. 114
Rodwayi .. 97, 103-4, 117
scabrosum .. 97, 104. 117
Sessile eure ae erene LA Be:
superbum .. ‘97, 104, 107
SUPHRBUME |. 2s... 104
Szabolesense .. .. .- 110
Thunit .. Ce Sala)
virescens .. ‘97, “104, 106-7
Warnei .. . 112
Warnei » ilo
INDEX.
Seila attenuata .. 183, 246
turritelliformis .. 246
SHILAREX .. .. 183, 246
attenuatus .. .. .. . 246
SEMELANGULUS .. ae 212
Semele Wen «sales sg al)
Semicassis paucirugis . 2o4
paucirugis .. . 204
Semperia paivana .. 217
Senecio Mieee Cee OS
dryadens .. 487, 490
Gregoril .. Hal” ales
IMACTITICUSH Aes hte TL 7,
Sicaretus australis 255
Sida acuta .. 159
COREG Ata aie Ieee LO
retusa 153, 159
virgata .. a IU a6
Sigaretus 5 SS)
gualterianus .. 255
laevigatus .. . 255
planatus .. 254-5
planulatus .. 254-5
Signoretiella .. 462-3
Silene gallica XXIV.
nocturna .. XXIV.
Simocephalus obtusatus 314
Sinaga subfasciata .. . 413
Sinum albosutura .. . 255-6
elobosa . . 255
pacta: 3. 255
pictus Ss RASA
planulatum .. . . 254-5
umbilicata .. 255-6
umbilicatum. . » 255
zonale . 184, 255
zonalis .. . 255-6
Siphonaria albida But Ue
baconi .. : . 276
bifureata .. S36 ZG
blainvillei .. » 2D)
denticula var.
tasmanica .. 58) Zo
funiculata .. 275-6
ineulta Senha 2AC05)
stowae .. > lise Ze
tasmanica .. sco ANG
virsulata ee sess 2) 205-6
ZETA le: . 276
zonata .. PT satn Bea Ao)
Siphonella . 354-5, 359
Siphonochelus .. 5 A
Siphuneulina 5 og Blots)
BREVISHRAWE AE 20 Gmicen GOS
Sushadlorenpin, Sos oo oe oe Jul
Sitina albicans .. 407
lsxvil.
Sitina cinyra........ 408
Thod@ .. .. .- 407
Sitotroga cerealella g66 JG
Smilax .. 487
australis 279, 281, ‘487, 493,
495
leucophylla . 279
_ Zeylanica .. 5 oe CA)
SOLAMEN REX .. .. 181, 198
Solanderina .. . 209
solandri .. » 209
Solanum aviculare 487, 496
cinereum .. . 496
ellipticum . 5 ILL
esUriailen ys am reul eon
Forsteri .. 154
niorum ... . 496
SyapeaAehenDbis 65) oo am hao wlll
xanthocarpum .. 492, 496
Solariellamess camo ieee
Solemya australis .. . 183-4
mediterranea .. .. .. 184
Solen aspersus .. .. .. 213
correctus .. 182, 213
philippianus . dg cl pall}
sloanii .. SemlS2eaals
SOLGIGUS 4.4 st. -) Selee OLS
vaginoides .. .. 183, 213
Sonchusis. «1. +2. D9 28058
Spi. tees aos ba GON 4020496
SOPHISMALEPAS 182, 219
Sorema nubila .. .. 412
Sorghum halepense .. . 154
Sparella .. 66 6 ZO)
SPECTAMEN .. .. . 182, 227
Sphaerodema rusticum . 461
Spilonota eryptogramma 157
holotephirvas\s sq) o2 24 lat
Spinifex paradoxus .. . 15
Spirifer .. ater ens
GUNNENBENENSIS .. . 501
TULCUMBAHENSIS . 500
WOODHOUSEL .. HS Oil:
Spondias dulcis .. .. . 157
Spondylostrobus .. 478
Sporndyiuste eee ce nenkod:
Spuriostyloptera .. 352
Squalus acanthias 371, 378,
383
Squamopleura
Gurtisianal ys.) i -mexdiee) xt:
Stackhousia viminea .. 492
Stathmopoda synchrysa 156
Stavelia. subdistorta ... 195
subtorta .. .. 196
torta .: ae a 9G
Ixxviil.
Stellapasimmusiaerie rie enaoe
Stellaria flaccida 487, 490,
492
pungens 487, 490, 492-3,
495
Stenaspidius nigricornis 285
Stenimas sich te oOO
stemmaticalis . 368
Stenochiton .. xiv., xvi., 238
loneicymabay ir. e-iteeie ye
posidonialis .. .. .. XV.
Stenolobium stans .. . 327
Stenopetalum lineare 11, 16
Stigmodera addenda .. . 19
aeneieormis 2... js) 2e) LO
affinis ..
GBGMESUIS), Wena Palatine sy elo
alternecosta .. .. «=... 20
SMG oo dolce ob 60 OB
amphichroa .. . 521
AMAL IS Ai: sells emeRo ene ieeko MOOS
anchoralisi) . japan
armata .. eights
AUTICOIIS i emeeteee aro
bicruciata 521
bifasciatella .. 533
bizonata .. .. 533
brutella subsp. ‘victrix 533
DOOGWPER ob AO 66) 6
bunchelliyeei is aero.
campestris .. .. ..
Caplcinay. -cmane 533
carinata .. 533
earoli .. 533
carpentariae .. .. .. 19
GCALCETI Ne idalu tare ie OOo
circumflexa ak DoS
GOMENOOGUN 55 Po syleariag. Zab
erenata .. 521
crenata .. 521
erucioides .. 533
cupreo-flava 533
eyanicollis os) Coles ivateOOe
CUGMICOLLIS ene tae
cyanipes adi Oral
cyaniventris) .) 2) ey ee
cylindracea ..\..'.. + 520
deletave widths: wrctesnee
delicatula var... 22 2 533
desperata . 533
dicax .. : 533
Cimidiatai eine ee aS
SUISHTERCLEZIN many venge bee al ray NALS)
eryiamomelasm snl a OO:
excisicollis .. .. 533
flavopurpurea .. 533
INDEX.
Stigmodera flavosignata 533
euttifera .. . 533
POOR asl iho Caio oo: Sab
OStilisieea sc: plein eee 0
INENINAS reve. | nie hele riieteh ok
FOlMemIR Be haves od) Jy)
KERSHAWI .. ah
UW OT ele 4 eley)) Seared eran:
Terentia Muceacie pe fouR aoe
lanuginosa .. .. .. . 20
TLATIPES 5) accel vosunepeoetbe Le
leai var. fasciosa .. .
lessoni .. Veith dats
Inlloysi clea ey ae nnn 2AU
himbatan erie lee ena nee
longula
PORVUibbtee) So) 5) oo lob AD
maculiventris .. .. ..
MATOS reuse sek eO,
marginicollis dome
mastersi .. .. .. 19, 533
modesta .. He
masta Meee. Nea aoe
nickleri OSS
NOVA Wee ieee Neal areal
obliquefasciata 533
Opacula) iiipAcarstoa weirs
pallidipennis .. .. .. 19
OMIM Bal ag og (a) dith Ges)
parvacollisiy yay sevice
(DORUBAEE 56 46 6064. ANY
plagiata ..
plagiata ..
PRABTERETAY so jetel ite co
praetermissa .. .. .. . 22
mpwbicollis ey) ieee
puellayisc Nae we we 533
PUCIIIS aia tard peoeeeckonnned
queenslandica .. 533
Tobundatagee mame
rubriventris .. 19, 20
saundersiana .. . 533
Scalarisne pi acceeneniae 0
secularis .. al olan Des)
septemguttata .. .. .. 19
sexouttata 533
sexguttata var.
humeriguttata .. .. 533
sexplagiata .. 521-2
sexspilota .. . 521
steboldi 521
similata .. 521
simulate, (hy Mey wie toi ae ser
Spinolaent. Mec smacnnemee
SURO Oa eS oo ag 1k
SEAGIG eno a aos:
Stigmodera suavis .. .. 20
suturalis var.
tincticollis 533
SUEDIGR Yuli 7 sat fete oon cede
LYTTNERG = os eee ea
uniformis .. 4 BB)
variabilis .. 19, 20
variata .. 5 eal
WUROMOIGEY 56 Go oo 5) Aly)
wilsoni subsp.
septentrionis .. 533
venusta .. .. . 533
tropica .. . 533
Stipa (ha. ese) Aenea
elegantissima .. .. .. 15
Scabrar ee isos meee
Setacea. /. 01% wie sv sae ee
STIPATOR .. .. 182, 233
STIVA ROYANA .. .. 183, 245
Stomatella’ auricula .. . 223
bicarmata >. 2-3). 1825226
imbricata .. . 223
Streblopteria .. 468
Streptocephalus archeri 122
Strigichiton verconis .. xiv.
Striglina superior .. ../154
Strobilomyces .. ells
Strongylium macleayi . 44
VERTEBRATE?) ljet) cle 43
wollastoni .. .. . 44
Struthiolaria eeatalata . 252
Stylidium .. . 58, 476
Styphelia’ | iacumseneeeaG2
longifolia 162, "167, 169,
175, Nee
Subemarginula .. eS
Subonoba .. oo ee!
mereurialis .. .... . 244
SUBZEIDORA .. _ 182, 217-8
Sunetta .. Pee eset 34 09)
adelinae 5 big PROS
aliciae .. . 208-9
excavata .. . 208-9
eibberula .. .. .. 209
truneata . . 208
Sunettina .. 209
sunettina .. .. . 209
Swainsona ye sie ean
phacitoliayec. ia elo
procumbens .. ale eliG
tephrotrichae ye melulemalG
Symphyta . 403, 415
COLPODES .. .. .. 416
nyctopis .. . 416
oxygramma 49 25S)
psaropis 415-6
Synechocera albo-hirtus . 31
GUPRIPES) ae oc cil ae OL
CYANEIPENNIS .. .. -. 30
elomeatawici.: vi-0 cites GU.
occidentalis! cs) secje. «ob
SIKORA Gg cba OG SOOM cies
HASHMAMICA ale sos 6 30
Synedrella nodiflora 153- 4:
Synodonts .. moa.
Sypharochiton maugeanus
214
pellis-serpentis .. x., 214
Systellopus ater .. .. . 311
Tacilia delineata .. .. 412
rufocinerea . 427
Talabrica . 5 of difeill
TALABRICA .. See es 04
aurora .. . 183, 204
Talityphis .. 50 CMe
Talopia .. 5 CAM
eallifera .. 227
Tandanus semdeans "339, 347
BOWES AGDULs = m6 os. on Stl
See 5 Zab
Taraxacum dens-leonis 496
Teara brevipennis .. .. 427
notabilis .. .. «. 414
Tecoma australis .. 485, 487
Tectarius nodulosus ... 244
pyramidalis .. .. 243
tuberculatus .. . 184, 244
Tectocoris lineola 159
Teinostoma depressulum 233
politum .. Lew LOS
starkeyae .. .. 182, 233
TELEOCHILUS ROYANUS 183,
264
“Meal llincmnyey coors Samora im a U7)
Tellina beryllina 5 Alsya, 221
orAZTerIayee ty 0) 6 satis COO
elliptica .. 5 Jie, 2
inaequivalvis .. . 182, 211
masoni 212
semitorta .. 212
striatula Daleh
subdiluta .. Sawn Zul
tenuilirata so dliss 2ul2
Teloleuca .. Sif LOO
Telopea .. 476
Doe tale brevicornis
lal, HO
comes .. .. 512-4. 517
EEN Go oo HU) fuller
novae-zelandiae 513-4, 516-
i
INDEX.
Temnocephala quadricornis
515, S77,
BEMUP CRU veces < ysis? vaste OL
simulator .. . 512- 3, 517
fasmmaniCaeceunets is + paige 7
Templetonia aculeata 11, 16
Esenann erent) 0) LLG
Terebra aciculata .. 262
peddomel aes ie 183
brazierl .. 262
duplicata 262
lanceata .. SUAS PE AAG
OSM, os oo ou bo 208
(Myurellisea)
duplicatoides 262
subspectabilis .. .. . 263
ustulata .. 183-4, 262
Terenochiton 2 eM EXALV
VETHINA NIGRISETA .. 337
Tetragonia expansa .. . 16
Tetranychus telarius 390
Thais ambustulata .. .. 275
Marcariticolawe, 8.046 Ano
sueecincta .. . 203, 275
textiliosa .. . 273
Thalassodes pilaria 154, 158
Thalotia zebrides .. 229
Thamnocephalus .. .. . 129
Thaumatothrips froggatti 282
Themognatha desperata 533
nickleri 3 533
queenslandica .. .. .. 533
strandi ae 533
suturalis var. tineticollis
533
Thespesia populnea 156, 159
Thracia anatinoides ... 199
cultrata .. 200
elegantula .. .. 5, alten
myodoroides .. 50 OY)
perseabrosa .. 99
speciosa .. 199
watsoni .. Bol Bids PAI
THRACIDORA 181, 200
Thraciopsis .. 56 oa AU
angustata .. .. 199, 200
arenosa .. . 181, 200
elegantula .. 199, 200
elongata jap: oO)
peroniana oo dlfctils IS)
Thuarea involuta so GD)
Thyridula 5 Buys
ATROAPICATA .. 358
breviventris 358
illaeam recurvcmee aera O
Tinea BEY
\brorab<
VTirathaba trichogramma 155
Tisiphone abeona .. . xxvi.
Morrisi .. .. BEXeXoyiI
Mn OCOMUS meee ol) aS
Tmesipteris tannensis 483,
485
Tolype subnotata 407
Toreula .. E 248
tenuilirata .. : 250
Torpedo marmorata, 378
Trachymene linearis .. 493
Trapella 5 duh, 75)
sinensis apes. ALT)
IE RGTOOKG Vee GS Goon so. 16: OS
CHD oc oo o0 50 BH
signata .. . aha!)
Tribolium Con tisan siaio, JUSS
Tribulus terrestris .. .. 16
Tricholaena rosea .. 159
Trichomanes venosum 483,
485
Trichomusculus .. 181
TRICHOMUSCULUS .. .. . 196
barbatus 196
Trichomya .. 196
Trichophaga abruptella 155
Trichophthalma .. .. 447-9
albimacula 447, 450-1, 455
albitarsism meer 448
QUOtLETSISU a ete
ales) cesihiaa ane eae:
aurora .. . 448
aurora .. .. . 454
onvittiayein i . 447
bivitta GeGh ehiceuns Heese Ceo 4
bivittatal ~. 447, 451, 454
Dit ata eee 455
costalis .. ; 447, 450- al
degener 448, 450-1, 453-4
COWES cs 65 06 Gil. dvs
HONE 55 50 GUN 450, 452
ine Sc S aiaion ie. all
funesta .. Beg GENS
funesta .. 5g ae:
fuscipennis 448
fuscipennis . 451
gigas .. BA ich eke GUTS}
heydenii .. . 451, 453
laetilinea 447-8, 450-1, 455
leucophaea .. 447, 451, 454
montanea .. . 5 oo All
nigripes . 448, 450- ai 453
novae-hollandiae 447, 450-
453
novae-hollandiae .. .. 452
Obscura re aie
llbxexexes
Trichopthalma obscura 4o1
ochropa .. Perch Oe
prumitiva AAT, 450- IL 450
punctata .. 450-2
quadricola .. . 452
quadricolor .. .. .. 452
richardoae . 448, 451, 455
TOSS 6666. 6 450- iL. 454- 6
scapularis . 448
scapularis .. 453
tabanina .. we PASS
variolosa 448, 454
VWENEKOSE) Ga oc Reine seca
Trichopsidea .. 448, 456
dohrni .. . ws. 459
oestracea .. 457
Trichotropis .. 251
Tricimba Be 356
CARINATA Mee) suemlaieicL O00
cineta .. 357
fascipes .. 357
marina . 357
palpalis 357
similis .. ROU
spinigera 357
Tricolia .. Ais 232,
Trifolium pratense 496
MOP CMSs skh Mose dane 496
SOs otc . 492
Trigonia emo, po lz
beddomei .. .. 192-3
howitti 50. NO
lamarekii var. aeiioallata
192
reticulata, wns
strangel .. 193
Trigonotyphis 202
Triodia irritans .. 6, 15
Tristania suaveolens 95
Triton (Cabestana)
boltenianismes ene w2D5
convolutus .. ene
eburneus .. oo OS
quoyl .. 5 UUtshs3
quoyi .. . 253
speciosus so USB}
VeErTUCOSUS .. Hoes ene
Triumfetta rhomboidea 154
Trivia australis .. , Qasr
Triviella merces .. 183, 257
Trochus armillatus 182, 230
aspersus .. 72230
eucullatus .. 232
decoratus .. e229
fragum 229
INDEX.
Trochus georgianus . . 232
limbiferus .. 232
musearius .. 225
nobilis .. . 230
nodulosus .. 243-4
nodulosus minor .. .. 244
philippensis .. 182, 227
puleolum 56. 2B
plebejus .. 182
prodictus .. 227
TOVARROS 6 5 oc 229
rubiginosus 230
seitulus 182
squamiferus .. 232
tentoriformis .. 233
urville1 Bo gigs (2883
Trophon hanleyi .. 183, 273
usallianyer Hid aigrar Zale}
Turbo phasianellins) SB Hg AG
pullus a 232
sirius 5 232
trochiformis . 243
Turritella accisa .. 247, 249
varlottae .. eee neeree a
conspicabilis .. 249
cordismel .. 249
exoleta . 213
@emmulatan eases oeO
sunni .. .. 183, 247, 250
higgins real ho MAE
lamellosa .. 250,
murrayana .«:-.. .. 200
opulenta . 183, 248
oxyacris .. e200
parva . aera .. 248
philippensis .. 247-8
platyspira .. 249
quadrata .. 246
quadrata .. Bor nue 1289)
runecinata .. 246, 249
sophiae Bea, gO
Ssubsquamosa .. .. .. 200
tasmanica oe 250
vittata .. 247
Tylophora testes 485, 487,
492
“iN alaOe, 56 oo 272
Typhinellus .. . 272
Typhis areuatus .. 272
avenatus .. 272
belcheri 22
eleryi .. A Pie
coronatus .. 272
cumingi .. 272
cuniculosus 272
expansus 272
Typhis fimbriatus . 272
grandis 272
hebetatus 272
horridus . 272
MCCOVIN wey.) oe em
(mecoyi) interpres .. 272
philippensis T2
PHILIPPENSIS INTERPRES
183, 272
SOVWAIO, Go. 56 oc 272
syringianus .. 273
Yatesi .. Hay omental!
Typ nisalartec, Use seen eamciee
HI OIMEOOIS 64 ab 66 60 202
Ulodes verrucosus 536-7
Umbilia 257
Umbonium .. PPA
Urtica incisa .. 496
Urvillea melanesica 159
Vacerra .. go dite, | 24
demissa menda .. 182, 221
Vamkoro denselaminata 252
vincentiana 56 Ba
Venericardia aameinilhis Se HOD
atkinsoni .. 205
beddomei .. : 205
bimaculata tes ater 205
elegantula 205
gemmulifera .. 205
‘gunm .. BAG ing AUD
INOW, 56 66 Sioco, AUD
Venus aequilatera ; ict oa areal
dioneyeeee 210
ealvally ape: Se auohaline Palit
fumigata . em. ZI]
nitida Hing oZill®
ovata .. : 210
polita laevigata Sy merere ILL
Sigial One wey eo ee ty ADS)
striatissima .. 182, 210
Verconella adusta .. .. 266
dilatata 266
maxima .. 266-7
oligostira .. 266
tasmaniensis 266
waitel .. en asane OLR
WEICIE, GEACEE 46 55 55, SUR
Vigna Catiang .. 155, 161
lutea 154, 156
Vinsonia : stellifera . Sele GO
Viola betonicifolia .. . 492
hederacea .. 493
Viscum .. 55
album .. 5 nares
articulatum 483, 485
Vitex litoralis
trifolia
Vitis hypoglauca
Voluta angasi
fluctuata ..
fluctuosa ..
TMACMAbamec ce
magnifica ..
mitraeformis ..
multicostata ..
ondulata ..
pattersonia
punetata .. ..
undulosa .
325-6
1545,
159
485
258
5, DR
"958
183)
258
50 Zs
6 ba aie)
7208
. 298
» 183,
265
258
so als)
Vulsella eponeiar ual a
vulsella
Wahlenbergia eee 17, 492
NViernvOMTA 6)... ..
191
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INDEX.
Xanthocanace .. .. .. . 334
WHIM, 6-600. 60 . 334
NIGRIFRONS . dd4
orientalis .. Shab aes
ranula .. 5 oo aes
Xanthogramma
grandicorne 5 Gil
Xanthorrhoea > SllZ
Spee. 50.)
Xenomorpha costae. OM
grandicornis . 362
Gea oonats Sets 366
Xerotes longifolia 60, "490,
492-3
Xyleborus torquatus 158
Xylomelum .. G2,
Xylophaga . pn eeaet Qt
Xylothrips flavipes 5 SO0U,
religiosus .. ‘ lon
Xylotrya australis .
Xymene hanleyi ..
paivae ..
Zea mays
Zeidora ..
Zella
Zemira pneeralic Bs
praecursior
Zieria Smithii
Zizera labyadus ...
Zizyphinus allporti
COMMONS 55 co
legrandt ..
Zoila ..
Zostera
. 182, 230
Txxx1.
.. 214
184, ae
273
. 156-7
. 217-8
XIV.-XVl., "295
Zygophylium apiculatum 16
fruticulosum
iodocarpum .. ..
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