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grudge against the Kumai ancestors, some of whom (women) had 

 refused her some fish which they were cooking. In revenge she 

 and Bulumlut stole their fire while they were absent, and pro- 

 ceeded to ascend to the sky from what is now called AVilson's 

 Promontory. Bulumtut threw up a cord of emu sinews to the 

 sky where it stuck fast. He pulled at it, and it broke. He did 

 the same with another cord of the sinews of the kangaroo, which 

 also broke. Finally he threw up one made of the sinews of the 

 Red Wallaby (Ginara), and this held fast. Finding it safe, he 

 said to Boukan, " You hold on round my neck, and carry the 

 fire." Then he began to climb up the cord. 



Meanwhile Bellin Bellin, the Musk Crow, who was a friend of 

 the Kumai, had seen all this, and he went to Bunjil, the Eagle 

 Hawk, and told him. The Hawk flew after them, and swooping 

 on them, beat them with his wings so that Boukan let fall the 

 fire-stick. The Robin, seeing it fall, blew it up into a blaze, and 

 smeared some of the fire over his breast, and made it red, as it is 

 still. Bulumtut climbed up to the sky with Boukan, whence they 

 have never returned. 



This is how the Kumai nearly lost their fire. 



A. W. HOWITT. 



Notes on the Planarian Worms obtained on the Upper 

 Wellington. 



1. Geoplana hoivitti, species nova. — Unfortunately only a 

 single specimen of this worm was found, but it is a well marked 

 and very beautiful species. The ground colour of the dorsal 

 surface is yellowish white. In the middle line there is a fairly 

 broad band of the ground colour, and on each side of this a 

 stripe of about equal width of dark purplish brown, then a 

 rather broader band of ground colour thickly flecked with dark 

 purplish brown and edged on the outside by a fine line of the 

 same. Outside this is a very narrow margin of ground colour. 

 All the dark bands unite at each end. The ventral surface is 

 pale yellowish white or grey, with no markings. 



2. Geoplana lucasi, Dendy. — This is a remarkable and very 

 rare planarian, of unusually large size, and with black and white 

 markings. It was hitherto known only from three specimens 

 found on the top of the coast ranges in the Croajingolong district, 

 on the occasion of the Club's expedition to that locality, and de- 

 scribed (from spirit specimens only) by me in the " Transactions 

 of the Royal Society of Victoria." Only a single specimen was 

 found. 



3. Geoplana qiiadrangulata, Dendy. — A small variety of this 

 remarkable species was found in abundance. Hitherto it has only 

 been recorded from Macedon, and in very small numbers. 



