CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. 



PART I. 



PAGE 



Supplement to the Descriptive Catalogue of the Fishes of Australia. 



By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c 2 



On some Batrachians from Queensland. By Charles W. De Vis, M. A. 65 



Occasional Notes on Plants Indigenous in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Sydney. No. 6. By E. Haviland 67 



Studies of the Elasmobranch Skeleton (Plates 1 and 2). By, William 



A. Haswell, M.A., B.Sc 71 



A Monograph of the Australian vSponges. By E. von Lendenfeld, 



Ph.D. Parti 121 



The Scyphomeduste of the Southern Hemisphere. Part I. By R. 



VON Lexdexfeld, Ph.D. 155 



Notices of new Fishes. By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. ... 170 



On the ImproveuKuits effected by the Australian Climate, Soil, and 



Culture on the Merino Sheep. By P. N. Trebeck, Esq. ... 173 



Notes and Exhibits - 119,178 



