10 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



natare of the ground, they are all very rotten, and difficult of 

 extraction and preservation. The wash-dirt appears to be of 

 poor quality, although containing a few gem-stones, running in 

 narrow gutters between hard granite bars. The l)ones procured 

 were chiefly those of Difrolodoii. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. W. T. Ditchworth, the Manager 

 of the Crown Point Gold Mining Co., Ltd., I was able to inspect 

 the workings of the Marshall-McMahon Reef, where a quartz 

 lode carrying free gold, and another with very refractoiy ore, are 

 worked. I was fortunate enough to obtain good specimens for 

 our collection. 



ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES for PERIFATUS 

 LEUCHA R Til— Sang. 



By the late Frederick A. A. Skuse, Entomologist. 



The writings resulting from the researches of Dendy, Spencer, 

 Fletcher and others, have for some time past aroused considerable 

 interest in Peripatus in Australia ; so that every scrap of addi- 

 tional information respecting these remarkable creatures may be 

 considered of some value, and the evident interests attached to a 

 new discovery affecting our knowledge of Peripatus lends no 

 mean impetus to its investigation and the seeking out of its 

 distribution. 



During a recent visit (Oct. 22nd, 1895) to Colo Vale, near Mitta- 

 gong, N.S. W., Mr. Edgar 11. Waite* chanced upon a specimen of 

 P. leuchartiij whilst searching beneath fallen timber for reptiles 

 and insects. Colo Vale lies on the Great Southern Railway line, 

 seventy -two miles from Sydney, and the specimen of Peripatus 

 was obtained at an altitude of 2,000 feet. 



Other examples have just l)een presented to the Museum by 

 Mr. C. J. McMasters, who obtained them at Moree, New South 

 Wales, and plentifully by the Curator in November, 1895, in and 

 under rotten logs in the vicinity of the Jenolan Caves, Blue 

 Mountains, New South Wales, at an altitude of 4,000 feet. 



* Waite; Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2), x., 1895, p. 549. 



t Fletcher; Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2), x., 1895, p. 183, considers "all 

 the known Australian specimens of Peripatus as referable to one compre- 

 hensive species, i.e., F. leuchartii.. Sang. 



