SUB-FOSSIL CRDSTACEANS ETHERIDGE ANIi McCl'LLOCH. 3 



The I'ltlij.fia lifcifi is probably intended fur I'hilijrn hecis, Bell, 

 whicli is a very common sj)eoies in Victorian waters, more pai- 

 ticularly as tliei'e is no species /i/t/s in the genus J'lilij.rin, so far as 

 we know. Of J^Hi'k, the only recent. Australian species were des- 

 cribed l)y Prof. W. A. Haswell fiom Fort Uenison, Queensland, 

 and it is most unlikely the crabs so lefei-red by Wintle were 

 correctly named. As to the .I.s/kcd/'-'''-', -I. fruiildini, (irav {non 

 McCoy) is not a Victoi'ian but w 'rasnianiMii species. 



It a-p[)ears crabs, in a, similar condition to oui- TlmlKsginu 

 from the noi'th, ai'e also found on the New Caledonian coast, 

 fof Prof. A. Milne Edwards I'efeis*^ to the occuiwence of Macri:- 

 ji/it/ial iiiii.-' Iiitn^illei, Desinai'est. Kven here tiie crabs were in a 

 bluish-grey very haid calcareous claj, in fact, vevy much like 

 the matrix from different spots on oni' north-west coast. 



One other leference only is known bevond Wintle's brief 

 notices^about 18S0 Dr. H. L. .lack forwai'ded to one of us a 

 I'cdled limestone nodule found on the beach at Townsville, but 

 he was unable to thi'ow any further light on it. The nodule 

 contained the abdominal somites and por'tion of the appendages 

 of a 7V/i(/i/.s.Nw'//((, seemingly T. Pinrri>\ Bell.^ In a footnote to the 

 desciiption Dr. Jack said: — "A numbeiof specimens, apparently 

 of this same species wei-e collected by tlie late Mr. James Smith 

 (Collector to tlie (Teoh)gical Sui'vey of Queensland) shortly 

 before his death, at Casuaiina island, Keppel Hay." 



J 11. MopKS OK OCCURRENCK. 



We possess information on this point onlv fi'om the tlii-ee 

 K)calities mentioned in the introductory I'eniai'ks, and also from 

 Derby. 



I. A)iso)i /j<(//, embouchure of the Daly River, North Aus- 

 ti'alia. — Exanifiles of Tli((lii><.iiii(( t'lufrii from this localitv were 

 first sent to one of us by Mr. H. Y. L. Brown, late (xovernment 

 Geologist of South Austi'alia, in 1908, with the following 

 information: — The calcareo-ai'gillaceons nodnles are found on 

 the beach at the foot of a low cliff (PI. vii.) composed of sand, 

 clay, and grit topped b\' i-ed loam, as water-worn fi-agments. 

 They are also found embedded in a blue clay below high-water 

 mai'k, and hei-e piobably the nodules aie in ])lace. 



=< A. Milne-Edwards— Nouv. Ann. Mas. Hist. Nat., ix., 1873. p. 278. 

 9 Etheridge— Geol. Pal. Q'land. Ac, 1892, p. 639, pi. 3H. tig. 6. 



