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exactly corresponds with the distance between the extremities 

 of the vertical pillars of the Devonian examples. 



Occurrence. — The Victorian specimens of R. australis came 

 from two localities, Buchaii and Bindi, both from the Middle 

 Devonian. The examples from Buchan occur alike in the grey, 

 rather crystalline limestone, and in the black limestone. The 

 specimen in black limestone from Buchan was presented to the 

 Muesum by Mr. G. Sweet, F.G.S. That from the grey lime- 

 stones was collected by James Stirling, F.G.S. , and received 

 from the Mines Department, Melbourne. 



The Bindi specimen (Mines Dept., 4113) is in a bluish-grey 

 limestone, weathering brown, and apparently containing a fairly 

 large amount of bituminous matter (anthraconite or stinkstein). 

 This specimen is not mentioned in the general report on the 

 collection by Prof. McCoy (See Progress Report, No. 4, 1877, 

 p. 158). 



NOTE ON SOME QUEENSLAND SPECIMENS OF 

 R. AUSTRALIS. 



In their " Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland," Messrs. 

 R. Etheridge, junr., and R. L. Jack refer to specimens of a 

 Receptaculites collected by R. Daintree from Mt. Wyatt, but 

 which were afterwards lost sight of. In a note in the above- 

 mentioned work, Dr. R. L. Jack ^\Tites as follows: ^"The late 

 Mr. Daintree observed, at Mount Wyatt diggings, certain slates 

 and shales containing Chonetes sarcinulata, an Orthis allied to 

 0. rustica, Receptaculites and Leptaena, as determined by Sir 

 F. McCoy. These rocks were unconformaMy overlaid by beds, 

 probably of the " Star " series, containing Lepidodeudron. On 

 the strength of the fossils, the sti'ata first alluded to were 

 assumed to be of Upper Silurian age. The assumption was 

 based on a single, distinctly specifically determined Brachiopod, 

 Chonetes sarcinulata, now known to range upward into Devonian 

 times, an Orthis, which might be allied to an Upper Silurian 

 species, without being itself of that age^ — the genus ranging all 

 through the Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous — a Recep- 



1 Geol. and Pal. of Queensland and New Guinea, London, 1892, p. 95. 



