[Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 27 (N.S.), Part 1., 1914]. 



-Ak'I'. Y\.— Description of Neiv and Rare Fossils obtained 

 by Deep Boring in the Mallee. 



Part III.' — Ostracoda to Fishes. 

 With a cowtpiete list of Fossils found In the Borings. 



BY 



FllEDERICK CHAPMAN, A.L.S., Etc. 



(Palaeontologist to the National Museum). 



(With Plates VI. -X.). 

 [Read 11th June, 1914]. 



Class CRUSTACEA. 



Super-Order OSTRACODA. 



Family CYPRIDAE. 



Genus ARGILLOECIA. G. 0. Sars. 



Argillokcia badia, a. S. Biady. (Plate VI., Fig. 1). 



Argilloecia bodia, G. S. Brady, 1880, Rep. Chall.. Zoology, 

 vol. i., pt. iii.. p. 40, pi. vi., figs Sa-d. Egger, 1901, 

 Abhandl, k. bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol xxi., pt. ii.. p. 422, 

 pi. iv., figs. 6. 7. 

 Observations. — 



.This is the first record of the species in the fossil state. It 

 -was described by Dr. Brady from a " Challengei' " dredging in 

 '2-10 fathoms at Port Jackson, New South Wales. Dr. Kgger also 

 obtained this species fioni " Gazelle "" dredgings off the N.W. coast 

 of Australia at 357 metres; and off the coast of Queensland at 

 951 metres. Its occurrence in the fossil condition adds tn the 

 list of species of Mallee fossils, especially the ostracoda and some 



1. For Part II. see this pirt>litation, vol. .\.\%'i. (ii.s.) pt. ii., l')14, pp. S01-o31. 

 '2. The fossil ostracoda of the eainozoics of southern Australia have hitherto liocii ahiiost en- 

 ■tirel.v iiefflet'ted. They are therefore here dealt with in more detail than the reniaiiiiii;; jiroups. 



