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and C. TutcefoUa. Casuarina quadrivalvis has its habitat here 

 as elsewhere on the quartzite outcrops. The surfaces occupied 

 with the sharp detritus of the felstones and granites are 

 covered with a dense scrub of Melaleuca uncinata, with here 

 and there the low shrubs Acacia spinescens, Sti/phelia Sonderi, 

 and ;S^, Immifusa^ occurring solitarily, and tussocks of Triodia 

 pungens. 



Zoology. 



Noies on the Zoology alout Franklin- Ha.ebour. Bij Prof. 



U. Tate. 



The genus JMacropus is unrepresented, though the black-faced 

 kangaroo is so abundant in the Port Lincoln district. Wal- 

 labies abound in the low-level scrubs, and the ubiquitous 

 phalanger in the ranges. The osprey was seen at Franklin 

 Harbour, and the Avedge-tailed eagle in three individuals at 

 Waugaraleednie. The deaf-adder is common on the loamy 

 tracts, and lizards of two species; a "guana" also occurs. 

 Large scorpions of a dark green colour may be found under 

 almost every large stone in the moist gullies in the ranges. 



Of the mollusca. Helix Flinders i and Bidimus Adelaidfc seem 

 to be restricted to the Pliocene Drift, sheltering themselves at 

 the bases of the stems of umbrageous shrubs ; whilst Nanina, 

 Tustica and Helix patraelis occurred to me abundantly under 

 large stones in the bottom of gullies in the Pre-8iluriau 

 country alone. Siiccinea australis is common to the two 

 regions. 



In a small spring on the margin of Waugaraleednie Creek, 

 I found many living examples of a small Bi/fhinella, conspecific 

 with a shell which I had collected, in a sub-fossil state, at 

 Penola. The same species was found enclosed in calcareous 

 tuff in Oolabidnie Creek. 



In the artificial dams at Yadmana and Waugaraleednie, there 

 lives an Aplexa, which I propose to describe as a new species 

 under the name of rahida, because of the carmine or ruby 

 colour of the animal ; the shape of its shell is intermediate 

 between that of A. injlata and A. sidjiujlata, the former is 

 known only from Adelaide, and tlie latter from Mount 

 Margaret, C. Aust. 



Nyctopuilus G-eoffroyt.^ — Ail addition to the JMnmmalian 

 Fauna of South Australia. — This insectivorous bat, which was 

 captured at Smithficld by Mr. Scoular, is readily distinguished 

 from its congeners, by the presence of a largely-developed fold 

 of skin across the forehead from ear to ear. As far as the 

 figures and descriptions in Gould's work on the Mammals of 



