On a new and gigantic Fossil SjJecies o/" Ecliidna. 113 



XIX. — On the Discovery of a new and gigantic Fossil Spe- 

 cies of Echidna in Australia. By GtERAED Krefft, Cu- 

 rator and Secretary of the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



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



Gentlemen, 



In cataloguing the rich collection of Australian fossil remains 

 in the Museum at Sydney, I observed, among other novelties, 

 a fragment of the humerus of a gigantic Echidna (much larger 



Fig. 2. 

 Fig. 1. 



Fig. 1. Fragment of humerus of a fossil Echidna^ view from above. 



Fig. 2. Ditto, front view. Fig. 3. Ditto, back view. 



Fig. 4. Part of humerus oi Echidna hi/striv, corresponding to fig. 1. 



Fig. 5. Ditto, back view, corresponding to fig. 3. 



Fig. 6. Humerus of Echidna ht/strix. 



