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Locality and Age. — Spring Creek (Bird Rock Zone). Jan 

 Jukian (? Eocene). 



Chaetopoda. 



Serpiilidae. 

 SaLMACINA (?) TEHETA, n. .sp. (PI. XT., Fig. 9). 



Numerous examples of almost straight intertwining calcareous 

 tuljes occur in the Kalimnan beds at "Forsyth's," on the Grange 

 Burn, near Hamilton. They closely resemble in size and habit 

 the tubes of Salmacina australis, Haswell, which is common in 

 Port Phillip and Port Jackson. The tubes have an external 

 diameter of 0.4 mm., and are marked by rounded lines of growth 

 and an occasional funnel-shaped expansion where the mouth of 

 tube formerly lay. In the recent species there is occasional 

 dichotomous division of the tube, as shown in Fig. 10. I have not 

 seen any trace of this in the fossil specimens, but the latter occur 

 as small fragments, and are usually somewhat rolled. It is, of 

 course, impossible to refer tubes of this nature to any particular 

 genus with absolute certainty, nor indeed cylindical tubes to any 

 particular part of the animal kingdom. Very similar objects have 

 Ijeen referred to Serpula, but with Salmacina actually living on 

 our coasts, we may perhaps have some slight justification in 

 regarding our fossil as belonging to the same genus. I have to 

 thank Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., for a specimen of S. australis, from 

 Port Jackson, which enabled me to determine our Port Phillip 

 examples as belonging to the same genus if not indeed to the 

 same species. 



Locality attd Age. — Fairly common, but much broken, in the 

 beds at "Forsyth's," on the Urange Burn, Hamilton. Kalimnan 

 (1 Miocene). 



Crustacea. 



Lepas pritchardi, n. sp. (PI. XI., Figs. 11, 12, 13.) 



The only two specimens I have seen are right scuta, which 

 difler only in size. Viewed from the side, the occludent margin 

 is slightly concave. The basal margin is almost straight, but has 



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