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MYCETOZOA OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. 
Part J., W. N. Cueesman, F.L.S., Part II., G. Lister, F.L.S. 
 & 
Tue Mycetozoa recorded in this list were collected chiefly 
during the meeting of the British Association in Australia, and 
afterwards in a short visit to the North Island, New Zealand, in 
the months of August and September, 1914 
he climate of Temperate Australia is usually wet in the winter 
months, from June to August, and dry for the rest of the year, 
but owing to the Pech tisesoe and retried of the rainfall, long 
ee Hie followed by floods are apt to disturb the regularity of 
the seasons. We arrived sftar a long spell of dry weather, and 
during the visits we paid to the States of West Australia, South 
ralia, Victoria, New South Wales, and b dnecpeoning dry con- 
ditions prevailed. In spite of this, in the scanty time available 
for collecting, fifty-one oer a M pened were found. Few 
plasmodia were seen, and these only in damp fern gullies, but 
i se Rao bry frequently observed. 
mate of ealand is moist and genial, and very 
ainiita to that of the oath: sar of England. Twenty-two species 
of Mycetozoa were collected during my visit to Auckland and the 
region of the Hot Springs. 
will now describe the opportunities I had for collecting in 
the oe visited. 
ay at Perth, West Australia, ha occupied by a motor 
ride death King’s Park, by the banks of the Swan River, and to 
the a Gardens; here Onieescdes Gal opted was obtained. 
h Australia two days were spent in the National 
the Mount 
oni explain, was found on dec caying w During a motor 
trip to the vineyards and distilleries of hackiti n and Tanunda 
Physarum citrinum was obtained in the ria yellow plasmodium 
stage, and was tenderly nursed to maturi 
In Victoria the fern gullies in the ecray Rams a 
abundance, and a few sporangia of the rare T. erecta. aa the 
- grounds of Malice University Craterium minutum and Arcyria 
sncarnata var. fulgens were obtained. On a week-end trip to 
ria t 
were jana | in a pine fasted at the Creswick State N ursery. 
In New South Wales, during a visit to Manley Beach, Sydney 
