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A very beautiful species, allied to S. eiliata, Hook, from the 

 Eastern Archipelago. On the younger stems the leaves are oblong- 

 spathulate with cilia sub-equally distributed along their ambit. W. 

 Mitten Musci A ustro- Americana, London, 1869, p. 122. 



Hab. — Pimpama, Burpengary, and Ashgrove (C. J. Wild). 



Whilst out with the Field Naturalist Section last month, in the 

 vicinity of Enoggera Waterworks, I met with Weisia Pimpama?, 

 C. Muell. ; this being a second locality, I think the discovery worthy 

 of note. 



OX THE PHALAXGISTID.E OF THE POST- 

 TERTIARY PERIOD IX QUEEXSLAXD; 



By C. W. "Pe VIS. 



Remains of Phalangers are entirely absent from the post-tertiary 

 fossils of Queensland as yet made known. Possibly the arboreal 

 habits of the famdy were unfavourable to the committal of its relics 

 to drifts entombing those of animals whose haunts were 1 flood and 

 field.' For whatever reason bones referrible to this family are almost 

 of the scarcest, and but for the fact that in the search for such 

 fossils there was found a gathering place enriched by agencies of 

 unusal range and efficacy, it would probably not have fallen to the 

 lot of the present writer to submit for recognition the existence of 

 the family at a period earlier than that of the Wellington Caves. 



The bones of Phalangistida?, so far determined, are but a 

 minute fraction, about a nine-hun Ireth, of the number surrounding 

 them in their present receptacle ; yet the small company of nine 

 yields evidence in their diversity of form that the family was even 

 in their day one of long-drawn descent : while from their frequently 

 great size, which rendered their preservation the easier, we may 

 fairly suppose that no small number of feebler species perished 

 without leaving such ' foot-prints on the sands of time.' 



