CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. 



PART I. 



PAGE 



Supplement to the Descriptive Catalogue of the Fishes of Australia. 



By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c 2 



On some Batrachians from Queensland. By Charles W. De Vis, M.A. 65 



Occasional Notes on Plants Indigenous in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Sydney. No. 6. By E. Haviland 67 



Studies of the Elasmobranch Skeleton (Plates 1 and 2). By. William 



A. Haswell, M.A., B.Sc 71 



A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. By B. von Lendenfeld, 



Ph.D. Parti 121 



The Scyphomedus<e of the Southern Hemisphere. Part I. By R. 



von Lendenfeld, Ph.D. ... 155 



Notices of new Fishes. By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. ... 170 



On the Improvements effected by the Australian Climate, Soil, and 



Culture on the Merino Sheep. By P. N. Trebeck, Esq. ... 173 



Notes and Exhibits ... ... 119, ITS 



