CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV, PART 1. 



Art. I. — Preliminary Account of Synute Pulchella, a New Genus and 

 Species of Calcareous Sponges. By Arthur Dendy, 

 D.Sc, F.L.S. .. .. .". .. .. 1 



n. On a New Species of Dictyonema (with Plates I and II). 



By T. S. Hall, M.A. . . . . . . . . 7 



III. — Notes on the Lower Tertiaries of the Southern Portion of 

 the Moorabool Valley (with Plates III and IV). By T. 

 S. Hall, M.A., and G. B. Pkitchard .. .. 9 



IV. — A New Species of Fresh-water Fish from Lake Nigothoruk. 

 Mount Wellington, Victoria. By A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., 

 B.Sc. .. .. .. ' .. .. ..27 



v.— Note on the Alkaloids of Strychnos psilosperma. By Prof. 



Kennie, M.A., D.Sc., and G. Goydee, Jun., F.G.S. .. 29 



VI. — On tlie Oviparity of Peripatus leuckartii. By Arthur 



Dendy, D.Sc, F.L.S. .. .. ".. ..31 



VII. — Short Descriptions of New Land Planarians. By Arthur 



Dendy, D.Sc, F.L.S. .. .. .". ..35 



VIII. — On the Presence of Ciliated Pits in Australian Land Plan- 

 arians (with Plate V). By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc, F.L.S. 39 



IX. — Photographic Charting of the Heavens. By R. L. J. 



Ellery, F.E.S. .. .. .. .. .,47 



X. — On a New Species of Graptolitid* (with Plate VI). By G. 



B. Pritchard . . . . . . . . . . .56 



XI. — Notes on the Distribution of Victorian Batrachians, with 

 Descriptions of Two New Species. By A. H. S. Lucas. 

 M.A., B.Sc. .. .. ..59 



XII.— The Magnetic Shoal near Bezout Island, off Cossack, N.W. 



Coast of Australia. By R. L. J. Ellery, F.R.S. . . 65 



XIII.— Notes on Victorian Rotifers (with Plates XII and XIII). By 



H. H. Anderson, B.A., and J. Shephard .. .. 69 



XIV. — Notes on the Habits of Ceratodus forsteri. By Professor 



W. Baldwin Spencer, M.A. .. .. ..81 



