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APPENDIX. 



Note on Queensland Cretaceous Crustacea. 

 By R. Etheridge, Junr. 



No Crustacean has been described from the Queensland 

 Cretaceous rocks up to the present time, but I am in the tem- 

 porary possession of another specimen from the Queensland 

 Museum collection, in addition to the present species, through 

 the kindness of the Curator, Mr. C. W. De Vis, M.A. This 

 will be further referred to. 



Prosopon Etheridgei, H. Woodw., was presented to the Queens- 

 land Museum by Mr. H. St. George, and although without precise 

 locality, its general appearance and mode of preservation is so 

 manifestly that of the large Inocerami from the Flinders River, 

 that I think the specimen may be said, without much doubt, to 

 come from somewhere in the Central Queensland Cretaceous area. 

 It is on the weathered surface of a concretionary buff-coloured 

 nodule of limestone. It will therefore appertain to the Lower 

 Series of the Queensland Cretaceous, or the " Rolling Downs 

 Series." 



The second specimen appears to be a portion of one of the large 

 chelse of a Macrourus Decapod, and is preserved in a blue-grey 

 concretionary limestone, much resembling that of the Walsh River 

 District, and therefore from the same division of the Cretaceous 

 as P. Etheridgei. I have not yet succeeded in determining this 

 fossil, but it seems to accord better with the structure of the 

 family Astacomorpha, or that of the Thalassinidse, than with that 

 of any others. 



The first Cretaceous Crustacean found in Australia was by Mr, 

 Norman Taylor, who acted as Geologist to W. Hann's North 

 Queensland Exploring Expedition in 1872. The fossil comes from 

 the Mitchell River, and is perhaps identical with one thus referred 



