BY F. M. BAILEY, F.L.S., ETC. 187 



winged petioles, one foot to thirteen inches long and about two 

 inches broad, with five faint longitudinal veins on each side of 

 the midrib, sprinkled with black dots and close adpressed hairs 

 of white color. Midrib produced six or seven inches beyond the 

 lamina, not curled but shortly recurved and bearing* an ascidium 

 three to four inches long, inflated at the base, the two anterior 

 rihs ivingecl with wings 1^ to 2 lines broad, colored and prominently 

 ciliate towards the truncate top, posterior wing somewhat faint, 

 ending in a hooked spur. Operculum ovate, with numerous small 

 reddish glands on the inner side. Peristome narrow and slender, 

 marked with close, transverse lines. 



Habitat, Cape York, whence it was sent by a corresi)ondent 

 some few years ago to the Queensland Acclimatization Society. 



On a Fossilifekotjs Bed at the Mouth of the Endeavour 



BlVER. 



By the Eey. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.Gt.S., F.L.S., President 



OF THE LiNNEAN SoCIETY, N.S.AV. 



The mouth of the Endeavour Eiver is a wide estuary forming 

 a bay which is entered by crossing a sandy bar. The north side 

 of the entrance is a flat sandy beach. The south side is a granite 

 hill about 900 feet high. On the land side this granite hill is 

 broken through by a volcanic dyke, very like some of the older 

 tertiorry dolerites of Victoria and New South AVales. The granite 

 hill is called Grassy Hill, and it was upon this which Captain 

 Cook encamped while repairing the "Endeavour," more than 

 a hundred years ago. It is very steep on the side facing the sea, 

 but in front of it inside the bar there is a mass of large boulders 

 derived from the volcanic dyke. These are covered with the 

 usual littoral shell-fish of these latitudes, namely Planaxis sulcata, 

 Nerita polita, JSferita alhicella, Acmcsa niarmorata, &c. The shingle 

 round these boulders is much mingled with sand and tropical 



