166 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



111.—PAL.E0PEDE WHITELEGGEI, ETH. Fil. 



In the last number of this publication* I described a supposed 

 Endophytic Alga, under the above name, occurring in a Favosites 

 from the Middle Devonian Limestone of Moore Creek, near 

 Tamworth, in the north-eastern part of this Colony. Since then, 

 on examining a composite coral (not yet described), from a 

 limestone, possibly of much the same age, at Goodravale, on the 

 Goodradigbee River, not far from the junction of the latter with 

 the Murrumbidgee River, I again met with a similar organism. 

 As in the former instance the coral tissues are traversed by the 

 alga in various directions, and the characters of the intruder are 

 practically the same as those of P. whiteleggei. In the present 

 instance the heterocysts (I) vary in diameter from '01 to "015 mm.; 

 the diameter of the filaments of cells from '006 to 008 mm.; the 

 distance between the heterocysts (1) '07 mm.; and the totallength 

 of a filament generally about "2 mm. 



It is very interesting to meet with this Endophytic Alga and 

 obtain confirmatory evidence of its existence in a perfectly distinct 

 coral and at two places so widely separated, although near about 

 the same geological horizon. 



R. ETHERIDGE, Junr. 



lY.—LAMPRIS LUNA, GMELIN. 

 Its Recurrence in New Zealand Waters. 



On the 25th instant (October), we received notice from the Fresh 

 Food and Ice Co., of this city, that a rare fish would shortly arrive 

 from New Zealand. With the Curator (Mr. R. Etheridge, Junr.) 

 I visited the depot of the Company, and there saw a very fine 

 example of the Opah, Lampris hma. We learned that it had been 

 so identified in New Zealand, and the daily papers of 2Gth October, 

 contained the announcement that the fish exhibited in the window 

 of the Company " was caught by some men employed on the 

 Timaru Dredge, New Zealand, and after being exhibited in Timaru 

 was forwarded to Dunedin. Professor Benham, of the Otago 



Etheridge— Rec. Austr. Mus., iii., 5, 1899, p. 127. 



