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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
natare of the ground, they are all very rotten, and difficult of 
extraction and preservation. The wash-dirt appears to be of 
poor quality, although containing a few gem-stones, running in 
narrow gutters between hard granite liars. The bones procured 
were chiefly those of Diprotodon. 
Through the courtesy of Mr. W. T. Ditchworth, the Manager 
of the Crown Point Gold Mining Co., Ltd., I was able to inspect 
the workings of the Marshall-McMahon Reef, where a quartz 
lode carrying free gold, and another with very refractory ore, are 
worked. I was fortunate enough to obtain good specimens for 
our collection. 
ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES for PERIPATUS 
LEU CHART I I — Sang. 
By the late Frederick A. A. Skuse, Entomologist. 
The writings resulting from the researches of Dendy, Spencer, 
Fletcher and others, have for some time past aroused considerable 
interest in Peripatus in Australia; so that every scrap of addi- 
tional information respecting these remarkable creatures may be 
considered of some value, and the evident interests attached to a 
new discovery affecting our knowledge of Peripatus lends no 
mean impetus to its investigation and the seeking out of its 
distribution. 
During a recent visit (Oct. 22nd, 1895) to Colo Vale, near Mitta- 
gong, N.S.W., Mr. Edgar R. Waite* chanced upon a specimen of 
P. leuchartii f whilst searching beneath fallen timber for reptiles 
and insects. Colo V ale lies on the Great Southern Railway line, 
seventy-two miles from Sydney, and the specimen of Peripatus 
was obtained at an altitude of 2,000 feet. 
Other examples have just been presented to the Museum by 
Mr. C. J. McMasters, who obtained them at Moree, New South 
Wales, and plentifully by the Curator in November, 1895, in and 
under rotten logs in the vicinity of the Jenolan Caves, Blue 
Mountains, New South Wales, at an altitude of 4,000 feet. 
* Waite j Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2), x., 1895, p. 549. 
t Fletcher ; Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2), x., 1895, p. 183, considers “all 
the known Australian specimens of Peripatus as referable to one compre- 
hensive species, i.e., P. leuchartii ., Sang. 
