502 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



(4) Mr. W. W. Froggatt informs me that he has oljtained the 

 Platypus on the Wild River (17° 45' S.). 



I am indebted to Mr. Ernest Favenc for the following note :— 



(.5) " The highest point north, in Queensland, that I have seen 

 the Platypus is on the head of the Broken River, a triljutary, or 

 rather a main tributary, of the Bowen River. The head of the 

 Broken River is amongst the high ranges at the back of Port 

 Mackay, and up there the river is permanently running and 

 descends through a succession of gorges to the lower part, which 

 is sandy. The country is peculiar in every way, and more resembles 

 Southern Queensland than it does the general run of the country 

 about there. The latitude is about 21" S. There are no crocodiles 

 up there, but plenty in the Bowen River." 



The following letter supplies localities which although well 

 within the known area of distriljution, are definite, and therefore 

 worthy of record : — 



(G) "Quite recently a son of Mr. John McPherson, of Ptook- 

 wood, killed a Platypus in Melaleuca Creek, wdiere they are said 

 to exist in numbers. Melaleuca Creek (23" 34' S.) runs into the 

 Fitzroy about 20 miles from where the Platypus was killed. 

 There are no alligators, so far as I am aware, in the creek, though 

 they ai'e fairly plentiful in the Fitzroy. The locality I refer to 

 is due west of Rockhampton. — J.T.S.B., Rockhami?ton." 



The known range of the Platypus, in time, has recently been 

 extended by Mr. W. tS. Dun, as detailed in an article in the 

 Records of the Geological Survey of N.S. Wales (1895. iv. p. 1 23). 



After the note was read, Mr. J. J. Fletcher drew my attention 

 to the fact that the Platypus had been previously recorded from 

 the Normanton District by Capt. W. E. Armit (Jour. Linn. Soc. 

 Zoology, xiv. p. 413). 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited an Arachnid from the New Hebrides, 

 belonging to the genus Thelyphonus (Fam. Phrynidce); and a very 

 fine specimen of the Bag-shelter of a moth (genus Teara) from 

 Quirindi, N.S.W. • Also, on behalf of Mr. Lyell, of Gisborne, 

 Victoria, who was present, specimens of the rare butterfly 



