CONTENTS OF 



1896, 



PART I. (No. 81). 



(Issued July inth, 1896.) 



PAGE 

 Observations on the Relations of the Organ of Jacobson in the Horst.. 



By R. Broom, M.D., B.Sc. (Plater.) 9 



Descriptions of Further Highly Ornate Boomerangs from New South 

 Wales and Queensland. By R. Etheridge, Junr., Curator of 

 the Australian Museum. (Plates ii. -v.) ... ... ... ... 14 



On a New Genus and Species of Fishes from Maroubra Bay. By J . 



Douglas Ogilby. (Commmicatedhy T. Whitehgrje, F.E.M.R.) 23 



On the Occurrence of Callosities in Gyprcea other than Cy. hicallosa 

 and Gy. rhinocerus; and on the Occurrence of a Sulcus in Trhna, 

 By Agnes F. Kenyon'. (Comnmnicated by J. Brazier, F.L.S.) 26 



Theoretical Explanations of the Distribution of Southern Faunas. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., Hon. Memb. L.S.N.S.W. ... 36 



Report ou a Bone Breccia Deposit near the Wombeyan Caves, 

 N.S.W. : with Descriptions of some New Species of Marsupials. 

 By R. Broom, M.D., B.Sc. (Plates vi.-viii.) ... 48 



On a Galaxias from Mount Kosciusko. By J. Douglas Ogilby ... 62 



The Entomology of Grass-Trees ( Xamhorrha'a). By Walter W. 



Froggatt. (Plate IX.) 74 



Ob.servations on Peripatus. By Tho.s. Steel, F.C.S 94 



Descriptions of New Australian Fungi. By D. McAlpine, F.L.S. 



No. i. (Gommunicatedhy J. H. Maiden, F.L.S.) (Plates x.-xi.) 104 



Description of a New Species of Astralium from New Britain. By 

 Charles Hedley, F.L S., and Arthur Willey, D.Sc. (Plate 

 XII.) 107 



On a Rare Variation in the Shell of Pterocera lanibis, Linn. By 

 Arthur Willey, D.Sc. (Gommiuiicated by Jas. P. Hill, 

 F.L.S.) (Plate XIII.) 110 



Catalogue of the Described Coleoptera of Australia. Supplement, 

 Part ii. By George Masters.* [Title]. 



Elections and Announcements ... ... ... ... 1, 30, 31, 89 



Donations ... ... ...• ... ... ... ... ... 1, 31, 89 



Notes and Exhibits 28,88 



* Issued sepaiatuly as a .Supplement to this Part. 



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