30 Transactions. 
In Queensland there is no clear evidence of the existence of 
Upper Devonian rocks, and the widely extending Lower Carboniferous 
(Star) beds probably represent a transgression over a region from which 
the Devonian sea had regressed. There is not yet available, however, 
contemporaneity of the two faunas. We devote attention, therefore, to 
the better-known fauna of New South Wales, the information concerning 
(1920) and Mansuy (1912). Though this fauna appears to have come 
to Australia from the Asiatic Tethys by way of the eastern Malayan route, 
a relationship, however, seemed to be greater in Upper Carboniferous 
imes. i 
orogeny made such geographic changes that there is a marked community 
between the Upper Carboniferous fauna containing Fusulina in western 
orth America and eastern Asia, and perhaps to a less degree the Urals 
also. The American element has been clearly recognized as far to the 
‘south-east as Yun-nan (Mansuy, 1912) and Sumatra (Fliegel, 1901) mingling 
with Himalayan forms. 
most Important results in Australia, which have been discussed by Professor 
David (1919). Briefly, these involved in the east an extensive elevation 
of the land, and the withdrawal of the Lower Carboniferous sea from the 
» along the margin of which a series of very active volcanoes 
is still incompletely understood, though the 
