CONTENTS OF DECADES. 



N.B.— The originals of all the Figures are in the National Museum, Melbourne. 



DECADE I 



Plate 1. — The Black Snake (Pseudechys porphyriacus, Shaw sp.). 



Plate 2.— The Copper-head Snake (Hoplocephalus superbus, Giinth.). 



Plate 3. — The Tiger Snake (Hoplocephalus curtus, Schl. sp.). 



Plate 4. — The Australian Bream (Chrysophrys Australis, Giinth.). 



Plate 5. — The Spiny-sided Butterfly-Gurnard (Lepidotrigla Vanessa, Rich. sp.). 



Plate 6. — The Kuruu Gurnard (Trigla Kumu, Lesson and Garn.). 



Plate 7. — The Australian Giant Earth-worm (Megascolides Australis, McCoy). 



Plate 8.— Lewin's Day-moth (Agarista Lewini, Boisd.). 



The Loranthus Day-moth (Agarista Casuarina?, Scott). 



The Vine Day-moth (Agarista Glycine, Lewin sp.). 

 Plate 9.— Pieris (Thyca) Harpalyce (Don. sp.). 

 Plate 10.— Pieris (Thyca) Aganippe (Don. sp.). 



DECADE II. 



Plate 11.— The Little Whip Snake (Hoplocephalus flagellum, McCoy). The White-lipped Snake 



(Hoplocephalus coronoides, Giinth.). 

 Plate 12. — The Death Adder (Acanthophis Antarctica, Shaw sp.). 

 Plate 13. — The Carpet Snake (Morelia variegata, Gray). 

 Plate 14. — The Gippsland Perch (Lates colonorum, Giinth.). 

 Plate 15. — The Murray Lobster (Astacoides serratus, Shaw sp.). 

 Plate 16. — The Salmon Arripis (Arripis truttaceus, Cuv. sp.). Adult. 

 Plate 17. — Ditto of the younger forms and coloring. 

 Plate 18. — The Horse Mackerel (Trachurus trachurus, Lin. sp.). 

 Plate 19.— The Small-scaled Rock Cod (Lotella callarias, Giinth.). 

 Plate 20. — The Australian Rock Cod (Pseudophysis barbatus, Giinth.). 



DECADE III. 



Plate 21. — The Sea-Leopard Seal (Stenorhynchus leptonyx, de Blainv. sp.). 



Plate 22. — The Yellow-sided Dolphin (Delphinus Novas Zealandia?, Quoy and Gaim.). 



Plate 23. — The Common Brown Snake (Diemenia superciliosa, Fisch.). 



The Small-scaled Brown Snake (Diemenia microlepidota, McCoy). 

 The Shield-fronted Brown Snake (Diemenia aspidorhyncha, McCoy). 



Plate 24. — Catenicella margaritacea (Busk). — C. plagiostoma (Busk) — C. ventricosa (Busk). — 

 C. hastata(Busk.)— C. rufa (McG.).— C. cribraria (Busk).— C. alata (Wyv. Thomson).— 

 C. lorica (Busk). — C. formosa (Busk). — C. elegans (Busk). — C. perforata (Busk).— 

 C. Buskii (Wyv. Thomson). — C. Hannafordi (McG.).— C. crystallina (Wyv. Thomson). — 

 C. carinata (Busk). — C. aurita (Busk).— C. geminata (Wyv. Thomson).— C. cornuta 

 (Busk).— C. intermedia (McG.) 



Plate 25. — Membranipora membranacea (Linn. sp.). — M. perforata (McG.).— M. ciliata (McG.). — 

 M. mamillaris (McG.).— M. umbohata (Busk). — M. pilosa (Linn. sp.). — M. cervicornis 

 (Busk). 



Plate 26. — Membranipora dispar (McG.).— M. Woodsii (McG.).— M. lineata (Linn, sp.).— M. Rosselii 

 (Audouin sp.). — M. Lacroixii (Savigny sp.). 



Plate 27. — The Australian Rockling (Genypterus Australis, Cast.). 

 The Yarra Blackfish (Gadopsis gracilis, McCoy). 



Plate 28. — The Southern Mackerel (Scomber pneumatophorus, De la Roche). 



Plate 29. — The Yabber Crayfish (Astacoides bicarinatus, Gray sp.). 



Plate 30.— The Large Wattle Goat-Moth (Zeuzera Eucalypti, Boisd. Herr.-Schsef.). 



