on a Fossil Pine-forest in Australia. 



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plates of the head to its summit." The one form has two, the 

 other four ranges of " fingers." They resemble each other in 

 having " the columns at their superior part composed of rings, gra- 

 dually increasing in size towards the head. The plates of the head 

 are thin and broad, and marked on their outer surface by lines of 

 growth, and radiating ridges resembling the plates of the marsupite. 

 They are also furnished with four orifices of a lozenge shape, most 

 singularly inserted in the plates of the head, and their arms and 

 fingers are exceedingly short. The fingers are composed of two 

 rows of bones, each bone on the one side being inserted between 

 two of the opposite. These fingers appear to be placed in four rows 

 on each of the hands, and pass off from the head in a radiating di- 

 rection, commencing at the column and uniting at the summit." 

 Mr. Pearce names the first species Pseudocrinites bifasciatus, and the 

 second P. quadrifasciatus . 



" On a Fossil Pine-forest at Kurrur-kurran, in the inlet of 

 Awaaba, on the eastern coast of Australia." By the Rev. W. B. 

 Clarke, A.M., F.G.S. 



Awaaba is one of those inlets which occur at frequent intervals 

 idong the eastern coast of New South Wales, and which, from their 

 sea-entrance being usually narrow and blocked up with drifted sand, 

 are by the colonists termed " Lakes." Awaaba is called Lake Mac- 



quarrie, and is the largest of the inlets of that description between 

 Port Stephen and Broken Bay. Its sea- entrance lies fourteen miles 

 to the south of the mouth of the Hunter river, nearly in 33° south 

 latitude. 



This inlet occupies a portion of that formation of conglomerate 



