100 SPECIES OF GALAXIAS FOUND IN THE AUSTRALIAN ALPS, 



Caespitosa, ramosissima, sordide albida : trunco tenui ; ramis 

 ramulisque congestis, elongatis, acutis, siccitate fuscescentibus 

 et subfiliformibus. 



Western Port, Miss M. Lewellin. 



Polyporus [Pleuropus) Strajigerii, F. v. Mueller. 



Pileo suberoso-coriaceo, eumorpho, reniformi, convexo, sub- 

 umbilicato, azono, impolite, unbrino-nigrescente ; stipite brevi 

 cylindrico incurvo incrustato undique nigro ; poris minimis, 

 rotundis, obtusis, cum substantia pilei niveis. 



E-iverina, C. F. Stranger, Esq. 



Pol. melanopodi (Fries) proximus. Pileus 1-1-^- pollices latus, 

 1-2 lineas crassus, margin e acuto incurvus. Stipes vix 3 lineas 

 longus, 2 lineas crassus, basi in discum dilatatus. 



Wallendorf, December, 1881. 



On A Species of Galaxim found in the Australian Alps. 



By William Macleat, F.L.S., &c. 



I received from Baron von Mueller a few days ago, two 

 specimens of a small fish which inhabits the icy ponds of the 

 snowy range in the neighbourhood of Mt. Kosciusko. The 

 Baron writes as follows: ''I saw the same little creature in 

 several of the waters high up in the Al^os, during my exploration 

 of the Snowy Mountains in 1853-4, and 1855, and again in later 

 years when travelling, but I was in the then pathless alpine 

 regions, unable to preserve zoological specimens. When in 

 1874, I for the second time ascended Mt. Kosciusco, I saw this 

 species of fish again in the little glacier ponds, but missed 

 catching any, my time being so much occupied, during my brief 

 stay on the snowy summit, in the pursuit of plants." 



