Upper Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Fosfiil<i. 309 



this author concludes, from the evidence before him. that the 

 Upper Palaeozoic strata in this part of Australia correspond with 

 the Lower lather than the Upper Carltoniferous of other areas 

 of Australia. 



R. Etheridge, Jun.,' recorded sev^eral species of hrachiopods 

 and bivalves from the Irwin River Coal Field, as well as a 

 Mesozoic Cucullaea from the Greenough River District (Paxton 

 Coll.). 



Messrs. E. T. Hardman and H. P. Woodward have extensively 

 collected in the Upper Palaeozoic and Mesozoic beds of West 

 Australia, and series of their fossils have been described by- 

 various specialists in England. 



The widely distributed and variable fossil Ctenostreon 

 pectiniformis has lately l)een figured by R. Etheridge, Jun., for 

 the first time from Australia. - 



Fossils from the Carboxiferous'^ (Star Beds) of the 

 Drummond Range, Queensland. 



Collected and Presented by the Late Mr. Richard 

 Daintree, F.G.S. 



Plantae — Lycopodiales. 



Lepidodendpon austpale, M'Coy. (Plate XXVIL, Figs. 



1-5;. 



Lepidodendron (Bergeria), australe, M'Coy, 1874. Prodr. Pal. 

 Vict., Decade i., p. 37, pi. ix. 



[For a full discussion of the specific standing of L. australe, 

 see R. Etheridge, Jun., in Records Geol. Surv., N.S.W., vol. 

 ii., pt. iii., 1891, p. 119]. 



Structure in L. australe. — Although much has been written on 

 the subject of the Australian Lepidodendra, there is ample room 

 for fresh discoveries, especially in relation to their structure and 



X Ann. Rep. Dept. Mines, New South Wales, for 1889 (1890), p. 239. 



2 Kec. Austr. Mus., vol. iv., No. 1, 1901, p. 13, pi. iii. 



3 The " Star-beds " are here re!,'-arfied as Carboniferous in correlation with beds in 

 Victoria, similarly containiii<f L. australe. 



