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38. Spicules and two spores of the same. 



o9. Horizontal section of hymenium of Boletus luridus. 



40. Utricle of Boletus seaber. 



41. Spore of ditto. 



42. Portion of hymenium of Hydnum repandwn. 



43. Spore of ditto. 



44. Portion of hymenium of Thelephora laciniata. 



45. Ditto of Thelephora purpurea, showing an utricle. 



46. Ditto of Clavaria cristata. 



47. Spore and spicule of Calocera viscosa. 



48. Portion of Plih-b'a vaga, highly magnified. 



49. Hymenium of ditto. 



50. Sporidium of Geoglossum dijforme. 



51. Sporidia of Spathularia Jlavida. 



52. Sporidium of Leot'ia lubrica. 



53. Sporophore and spores of Agaricus trechisporus. 



54. Spores of ditto. 



55. Utricles of ditto. 



50. Utricle in which the globule has vanished. 



IX. — Notices accompanying a Collection of Quadrupeds and 

 Fish from Van Diemen's Land. By Ronald Gunn, Esq., 

 addressed to Sir W. J. Hooker, and by him transmitted to 

 the British Museum. With Notes and Descriptions of the 

 new Species. By J. E. Gray, F.R.S., is;c. 



Mammalia. 



1. The Thylacinus cynocephalus is called in Van Diemen's 

 Land indiscriminately by the names of Tiger and Hyaena. It 

 is common in the more remote parts of the colony, and they are 

 accordingly often caught at Woolnorth and the Hampshire 

 Hills. I have seen some so very large and powerful, that a 

 number of dogs will not face one. They are usually noc- 

 turnal in their attacks on sheep, but they also move about in 

 the day time ; and upon those occasions, perhaps from their 

 rather imperfect vision by day, their pace is very slow, A 

 number of skins could be procured if much wanted, or their 

 skulls perhaps more easily. In Murray's Ency. of Geography 

 it is stated, p. 1485, that its tail is compressed, which suggests 

 the supposition that it is used in swimming. The tail is not 

 compressed, neither is it at all aquatic in its habits. They 

 are most numerous inland, and when I was recently at the 

 Hampshire Hills two were caught in one week at the sheep, 

 twenty miles from the sea. As to their feeding on fish, I 



