214 Gatliff, Recent Victorian Brachiopoda. [ 



Vict. Nat. 

 Vol. XXX. 



1878. — Kraiissia lamarckiana, Davidson. T. -Woods, P.R.S. 



Tas. (for 1877), p. 57. 

 1880. — Kranssia lamarkiana, Davidson. Hutton, Man. N.Z. 



Moll., p. 178. 

 1880. — Kraiissina Imnarckiana, Davidson. Challenger, Zoo!., 



vol. i., p. 53, pi. 4» f. 9- . 

 1887. — Kraiissina lamarckiana, Davidson. Tate, T.R.S. S.A., 



vol. ix. (for 1885-6), p. III. 

 1887. — Kranssina {Megerlina) lamarckiana, Davidson. Trans. 



Lin. Soc. Lond., vol. iv., p. 124, pi. 21, f. 7-11. 

 1890. — Kraiissina lamarckiana, Davidson. Lucas, P.R.S. Vic, 



vol. ii., n.s., p. 49. 

 1901. — Kraiissina {Megerlina) lamarckiana, Davidson. Tate 



and May, P.L.S. N.S.W., vol. xxvi., p. 442. 

 1910. — Kranssina [Megerlina) lamarckiana, Davidson. Verco, 



T.R.S. S.A., vol. xxxiv., p. 98. 

 Hab. — Under stones at low water, Williamstown (A. H. S. 

 Lucas) ; Frankston, Port Phillip, and Portland (T. Worcester) ; 

 Western Port. 



Cryptopora brazieri, Crane. 



1886. — Atretia brazieri, Crane, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 183. 



1887. — Atretia brazieri. Crane. Davidson, Trans. Lin. Soc. 



Lond., vol. iv., p. 175, pi. 25, f. 16-iya. 

 1902. — Atretia brazieri (Davidson), Crane. Hedley, Mem. 



Austr. Mus., vol. iv., p. 289. 

 1906. — Cryptopora brazieri, Crane. Hedley, P.L.S. N.S.W., 



vol. xxxi., p. 467, pi. 36, f. I, 2. 

 19 10. — Cryptopora brazieri. Crane. Verco. T.R.S. S.A., vol. 



xxxiv., p. 94. 

 Hab. — In about 40 fathoms, off Ninety-Mile Beach. 



A NOTE ON PARTURITION IN PERAMELES. 

 By Gerald V. Doyle. 

 (Communicated by Dr. T. S. Hall, M.A.) 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists* Club of Victoria, i^th Oct., 191 3.) 

 The distinction created by bushmen and others between the 

 domestic animal and the marsupial as regards the act of 

 parturition has often been shown to be quite erroneous, the act 

 in the two types — the domestic animal being typical and the 

 kangaroo representing the marsupial— being essentially the 

 same, though the absence of a well-developed placenta in the 

 marsupial appears to create a distinction. The ])assage in one 

 case of an embryo, and in the other of a well and completely 



