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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
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III . — PA LJSOPEDE WBITELEGGEl , ETH. Fil. 
In the last number of this publication* I described a supposed 
Endophytic Alga, under the above name, occurring in a Favosites 
from the Middle Devonian Limestone of Moore Creek, near 
Tamworth, in the north-eastern part of this Colony. Since then, 
on examining a composite coral (not yet described), from a 
limestone, possibly of much the same age, at Goodravale, on the 
Goodradigbee River, not far from the junction of the latter with 
the Murrumbidgee River, I again met with a similar organism. 
As in the former instance the coral tissues are traversed by the 
alga in various directions, and the characters of the intruder are 
practically the same as those of P. whiteleggei . In the present 
instance the heterocysts (?) vary in diameter from '01 to *015 mm.; 
the diameter of the filaments of cells from *006 to 008 mm.; the 
distance between the heterocysts (?) *07 mm.; and the total length 
of a filament generally about *2 mm. 
It is very interesting to meet with this Endophytic Alga and 
obtain confirmatory evidence of its existence in a perfectly distinct 
coral and at two places so widely separated, although near about 
the same geological horizon. 
R. ETHERIDGE, Junr. 
IV .— LAMPRIS LUNA , GMEL1N. 
Its Recurrence in Hew Zealand Waters. 
On the 25th instant (October), we received notice from the Fresh 
Food and Ice Co., of this city, that a rare fish would shortly arrive 
from New Zealand. With the Curator (Mr. R. Etheridge, Junr.) 
I visited the dep6t of the Company, and there saw a very fine 
example of the Opah, Lampris luna. We learned that it had been 
so identified in New Zealand, and the daily papers of 26th October, 
contained the announcement that the fish exhibited in the window 
of the Company “ was caught by some men employed on the 
rimaru Dredge, New Zealand, and after being exhibited in Timaru 
was forwarded to Dunedin. Professor Benham, of the Otago 
* Etheridge— Rec. Austr. Mus., iii., 5, 1899, p. 127. 
