78 PERIPATUS AND ITS OCCURRENCE IN AUSTRALIA 5 
Notr.—Since the above was written I have severed my 
connection with the Queensland Museum, but in the practice of 
my present business as assayer and mining expert I still hope to be 
able to obtain further information regarding Queensland minerals. 
When I wrote my catalogue Eidsvold goldfield had not broken 
out, nor had Croydon assumed such a prominent position as it 
now holds. From the Bismarck mine at Eidsvold a specimen of 
syenite containing 2 ozs. of gold to the ton passed lately through 
my hands. On the Croydon goldfield are found gold, silver, 
ceragyrite, iron pyrites, zinc-blende, and other minerals. An 
addition to the known minerals of Queensland has lately been 
made by Mr. A. W. Clarke, who discovered scolecite in the 
granite of the Rainbow claim, Charters Towers. ‘This discovery 
has, I think, been communicated to the Royal Society of 
Queensland by Mr. Clarke. who accompanies his description with 
analyses.—Epwp. B. Linpon, uly, 1888. 
ON PERIPATUS AND ITS OCCUR E et 
IN: AUSTRALIA: 
HENRY TRYON. 
(Read on 15th April, 1887 ). 
In placing on record the rediscovery of Peripatus in Australia, 
a brief notice of the circumstances under which the particular 
specimens of the noteworthy animal bearing this name, and now 
exhibited, were found, would seem to suffice. As, however, very 
few in the colony appear to have met with this name in the 
connection in which it is now used, much less to be conversant 
with the almost unique interest which, in the eyes of the 
philosophic naturalist, centres around the genus of animals which 
‘““Peripatus” denotes, it would seem profitable to make the present 
opportunity the occasion for stating why this interest has come 
to exist. 
Peripatus is a terrestial inverterbrate and has a body which is 
shortly vermiform, semicylindrical, flat on the ventral surface, and 
covered with a soft traversely-wrinkled skin. ‘lhe body segments 
are few and not distinctly defined, and each gives rise to a pair of 
