INDEX. 
economic plants in New Guinea: 
betel nut, 110; Coix, 101; 
cotton, 102; Crotons, 102,116; 
dye-plants, 102; Manihot, 102 ; 
paw-paw, 4; sugar-cane, 102; 
tobacco, 102; yams, 102 
Ehrenberg on Trichodesmium, 20, 
21 
Eleocharis as esculent, 39 
Elzocarpus bancrofti, sp. nov., 142; 
affinities of, 143 
Eleotris crescens, n. sp., 32 
elephantiasis in New Guinea, 110 
Engineer group, language of, 4 
English words adapted, 9 
Extinct lizard, 25; do. monotreme, 
35; do. saurian, 181 
Falconer, E., on artesian wells, 208 
filarian disease, 73-4. 
finsch, Dr. O., mop-hair amongst 
Papuans, 92-3; light-coloured 
Papuans, 93; on Papuans, 92-3 
flora of Mt. Perry, 41 
Fly River natives, 88 
food of New Guinea natives, 102-3, 
115 
food plants introduced in New 
Guinea, 102 
fungus on ant’s nest, 33 
Francis, G., on sea-scum, 18, 23 
geology of Queensland, literature, 
200 
geological survey of Queensland, 
Ringrose on, 198; purpose of, 
202; connection with water 
supply, 207; of Canada, 198 ; 
England, 198; N.S.W., 198 
Georgetown, harvesting ants at, 
; 151 
Gerygone fusca at Chinchilla, 121 
Gigaspermum repens, Schweg, 53 
‘Gordon, P. R., death song of blacks, 
170 (note) 
Gould on harvesting ants, 146 
grape, “ black spot” of, 11 
grasshoppers, plague of, 196 
greeting amongst Papuans, 113 
harvesting ants, vid. ants 
Hayter Island, language of. 3 
horn-silver, 34 
Hovenia as esculent, 39 
humerus of Notiosaurus, 26; hydro- 
saurus, 26 
217 
Huxley on exoskeleton of croco- 
dilide, 190 
hybridization, Pink, J. on, 141 
Hypopterigium tomentosum, Brid., 
53 
incantations practised 
Guinea, 110 
isinglass from Rhinoptera, 12 
Islands east of New Guinea, 
language of, 10 
Jerdon on harvesting ants, 148 
Johnston River Elceocarpus, 142 
Keys, J., on Mt. Perry Flora, 41 
Kirby & Spence on harvesting ants, 
146 
Kitai Island, language of, 3 
Krefft, G., on fossil Echidna, 41 
Lake, J. J.,on harvesting ants, 148 
Lathamus discolor at Chinchilla, 
125 
lenticels as respiratory organs, 79 
Lespés, M., on harvesting ants, 148 
Leucoloma sieberianum, 53 
light-coloured Papuans, 93 
Lincecum on harvesting ants, 148, 
150 
Lindley on sea-scum, 21 
ling (Trappa bicornis), 39 
Ling Roth on harvesting ants, 152 
Lubbock on ants, 150 
MacDonald, J. D., on sea-scum, 18 
McCook on harvesting ants, 149, 
150 
Malays and Papuans, 81-2 
Mandible of ornithorhynchusagilis, 
n. sp., 38; of extinct saurian, 
184 
Manihot in New Guinea, 102 
Marriage custom amongst Papuans, 
110 
measurement of base line, 131-9 
medicinal plants: Alstonia, 60; 
Colocasia, 211; croton, 116; 
cunjevoi, 211; Datura, 69 
members (new), 1, 12, 34, 40, 77, 
126, 140, 163, 191 
Meranoplus, a harvesting ant, 
description of, 161-2; habits 
of, 159 
mice, visitation of, 196 
Milky way, superstition concern- 
ing, 172-3 
Milne Bay language, 3 
in New 
