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Miscellaneous. 



On the Canine Teeth o/Thylacoleo carnifex (Ow.). 

 By Prof. M'CoY. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural Uistory. 

 Gentlemen, — I beg to enclose you a rough pen-and-ink sketch 

 of the exact natural size of one of two canine teeth of Thylacoleo 

 found, with part of the jaw and teeth of Noto- 

 therium Mitchellii (on which it had probably 

 been feeding), on the surface of Mr. Bell's 

 station, Murchill, not far from Geelong, in 

 this colony of Victoria. As hitherto only the 

 molars and back part of the skull of Thyla- 

 coleo have been known, the discovery of the 

 great canine is of much interest. The trans- 

 verse section of the crown is rotundato-oblong, 

 having two long nearly parallel lateral bounda- 

 ries, and the anterior and posterior faces ob- 

 tusely rounded, the anterior a little larger than 

 the posterior ; the great fusiform bony root is 

 very coarsely marked with short, irregular, in- 

 terrupted longitudinal sulci, and narrow ridges 

 about a line in thickness. The specimen is 

 nearly 5 inches long and 1 inch 5 lines wide 

 at about the middle of the fusiform, com- 

 pressed, gently incurved root. The crown is 

 worn down obliquely almost to the base, only 

 about an inch of it remaining. 



The specimens have been presented, through 

 Dr. Greene, to the Melbourne National Mu- 

 seum ; and I shall shortly figure them in the 

 Decades I am preparing of the recent zoology and palaeontology of 

 Victoria. 



I remahi. Gentlemen, yours, &c,, 



Melbourne, Aug. 24, 1865. Frederick M'Coy. 



Mgeon Alfordi. 

 To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, — A second specimen of Mgeon Alfordi was found 

 here on August 24th by Mr. Mundie, 93 Richmond Road, Dalston. 

 Amongst other favourite haunts, I showed him a ledge of rocks stretch- 

 ing into the Roads under the Garrison Hill, and here, with many of 

 the more common species, he found one Anemone which was new to 

 him. He examined this treasure carefully with a lens, and found it to 

 be exactly like Mgeon Alfordi in form, and also in colour on base, 

 column, and disk ; but the tentacles, instead of being " satiny green 

 throughout with a faint line of grey on the outer edge," were of a lus- 

 trous satiny green on the back, whilst the front was marked as in those 

 of Bunodes Ballii, with bars and dots of opaque white on a ground of 

 neutral tint, this tint brightening into a lovely rose-colour at the tip. 

 I described this specimen to Mr. Gosse, and he judged it to be avariety 

 of Mgeon Alfordi, and advised me to write you an account of it. This 



