219 



~ rm. t 



Macl. ; 68. L. convexior, Macl. ; 69. L. picipeunis, Ge. ... 

 70. L. obscurus, Macl. ; 71. L. nitidior, Macl. ; 74. L. ves- 

 titus, Blanch.; 75. L. nudipennis, Germ. ; 76. L. squamiger r 

 Macl.; 79. L. abnormalis, Macl.; 80. L. simillimus, 

 Macl. ; 81. L. Kenuedyi, Macl. ; 95. L. ordinatus, Macl. 



III. A Eevision of the Australian Staphylinidse. Part II. 

 By H. Sidney Olliff. P.L.S. op. cit., p. 887, et seq. 



97. Conosoma phoxum, Olliff; 98. C. ambiguurn, Olliff; 100. 

 C. exirnium, Olliff. 



E.T. 



New Australian Freshwater Entomostraca, by Professor 

 G. S. Brady, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, Feb. 2, 1886. 



The paper is prefaced by a list of all the Australian fresh- 

 water Entomostraca which have been described. The list gives 

 the names and references of eight Phyllopods, nineteen of 

 Cladocera, five of Copepoda, and fifteen of Ostracoda. 



The species now described and figured are of Phyllopoda four 

 and of Ostracoda seven, whilst four previously described are 

 now illustrated for the first time. 



The South Australian species were collected by Professor E. 

 Tate, and have been named as follows : — Limnetis Tatei, Eivoli 

 Bay ; JSstheria lutraria, Cooper Creek, at Innaminka ; Estheria 

 Packardi, Lake Bonney, Eiver Murray ; also Fowler's Bay ; 

 Eidimnadia JRivolensis, Eivoli Bay ; Ci/pris Tatei, Adelaide ; 

 Gypris mi/tiloides, Kangaroo Island ; Ghlamydotlieca australis, 

 Penola. 



Lepidurus viridulus, Tate, Port Creek, is figured. 



Eemarks on an UNUsrAL Development oe a Low 

 Vegetable Organism. 

 "Whilst passing between the city and North Adelaide on the 

 morning of Friday, October 1st, 1886, I observed that the 

 asphalt pavement presented a somewhat peculiar appearance. 

 The weather was warm and calm, and a steady rain had been 

 falling for about two hours. The wet asphalt was thickly 

 dotted with slimy patches of a brownish colour, ranging in size 

 from minute points to the circumference of a dinner plate. A 

 little of the glary substance was gathered, and having been 

 mixed with chloral in a phial, it was at once apparent that the 

 colour of the mass was the result of a large number of small 

 cellular bodies of a brownish tinge, which found support in the 

 otherwise colourless slime. Under the microscope the cells 



