ON A NEW AUSTRALIAN MAMMAL. 345) 



by the stri.ated fibres of SyUis is made up of an outer isotropous 

 and an inner anisotropous segment. The formation of the tinst 

 transverse network in sucli a form is supposed to have taken place 

 by the establishing of communications between the intra-nuclear 

 filaments of the internal nuclei found in the middle of the isotro- 

 pous segments ; this communication having been brought about 

 owing to a necessity for simultaneous contraction. 



14.— ON SACCULINA INFESTING CRABS IN PORT 



JACKSON. 



By William A. Haswell, M.A., D. Sc, Lecturer on Biology, 

 in the University of Sydney. 



15.— PRELIMINARY NOTE ON THE BELL PIG. 



By T. P. Anderson Stuart, M.D., CM., Edin., Professor of 

 Anatomy and Physiology, in the University of Sydney. 



16.— ON A NEW AUSTRALIAN MAMMAL. 



By E. C. Stirling. M.A., M.D., Cantab., Lecturer on Physiology 

 in the University of Adelaide. 



Through the kindness of Mr. A. Molineux, of Adelaide, a small 

 mole-like animal, which appears to be new to science, was forwarded 

 to the South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 



It was found on the Idracowie Cattle Station, at a distance, I 

 understand, of about one hundred miles from the Charlotte 

 Waters Telegraph Station, on the overland line from Adelaide 

 to Port Darwin, but the exact cii'cumstances of its capture are not 

 yet to hand. The collector, however, reports that it must be of 

 rare occurrence, as on questioning the aboriginals of the localitv, 

 there was only one old woman who said she had seen it before, 

 and that upon a single occasion. 



It is evidently an underground burrowing animal, resembling 

 somewhat the Cape Mole {CJirysochloris) in its general external 

 appearance, but differing in many respects. 



The total length is 13 cm., inclusive of the tail, which is 2 cm. 

 long. The head, relatively shorter than in Chrysocliloris, has a 

 rounded muzzle, the dorsal surface of which is covered by a horny 

 shield. Nostrils transversely slit-like. No eyes visible, the skin 

 passing uninterruptedly over the ocular region, but on reflecting 



