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but were accompanied by peltate infundibuliform organs, similar 

 to those of the latter. These spring from other sheaths on the 

 stems or branche.g, like the leaves of an ordinary Phyllotheca. 



Mr. W. A. Ouneo, of Thirlmere, recently presented to the 

 Trustees a slab of shale from the Upper Coal-Measures of Shea's 

 Creek, a branch of the Natti River, in Parish Killiwarra, Go. 

 Camden, covered with Glossopteris leaves, remains of a Phyllo- 

 theca, as we know it here, and the peltate organs of Cingularia, 

 just as the original specimens were found at Shepherd's Hill, 

 Newcastle, by Mr. J. B. Henson. This may be considered a very 

 interesting re-occurrence of a plant that we have yet to learn the 

 entire structure and full significance of. 



The only point of difference that I can detect is a greater length 

 of the tooth-like projections of the peripheries of the peltate organs 

 in Mr. Cuneo's specimen, and possibly a less subdivision of these 



same parts. i • i 4. 



If one of the conclusions I formerly arrived at — that "this plant 

 seems to be closely allied, if not identical with Phyllotheca hookeri, 

 McCoy," should ultimately prove to have any weight, then possibly 

 the present examples afford evidence of another species of Phyllo- 

 theca, possessing peltate infundibuliform organs. 



R. ETHERIDGE, Junr. 



YIU.—LYGOSOMA FRAGILE, GUNTHER. 



The Trustees have recently received from Mr. Alfred Stanley 

 Read two small Lizards, which I identify with Lijgosoma{Rhodona) 

 fragile, Giinther.* This species does not appear to have been 

 recorded since first described from r,he Peak Downs (Clermont), 

 Queensland. The new locality is Angledool, in the county of 

 Narran, New South Wales, just outside the Queensland border, 

 and four hundred and sixty miles almost due south of the Peak 

 Downs. 



Mr. Read while remarking that the lizard is very rare in the 

 district, makes some interesting observations on its habits ; he 

 states that it is never seen on the surface, all found having been 

 taken from six to nine inches under ground, always in sandy soil. 

 They are generally turned up at the roots of small stumps, when 

 they move just like a snake. 



The lizards were forwarded alive, we therefore had the oppor- 

 tunity of verifying Mr. Read's observations as to their movements, 

 and found that when passing through the soil, an action per- 

 formed with great celerity, the degenerate limbs are closely 

 adpressed to the body and are not used in subterranean progression. 



EDGAR R. WAITE. 



* Giinther-Journ. Mns. Godeffroy, xii., 1876. p. 45. Boulenger— Brit. 

 Mus. Cat., Lizards (2) iii., 1887, p. 334, pi. xxvii., fig. 2. 



