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but were accompanied by peltate infundibuliform organs, similar 
to those of the latter. These spring from other sheaths on the 
stems or branches, like the leaves of an ordinary Phyllotheca. 
Mr. W. A. Cuneo, of Thirlmere, recently presented to the 
Trustees a slab of shale from the Upper Coal-Measures of Shea’s 
Creek, a branch of the Natti River, in Parish Killiwarra, Co. 
Camden, covered with Glossopteris leaves, remains of a Phyllo- 
theca, as we know it here, and the peltate organs of Cingularia, 
just as the original specimens were found at Shepherd’s Hill, 
Newcastle, by Mr. J. B. Henson. This may be considered a very 
interesting re-occurrence of a plant that we have yet to learn the 
entire structure and full significance of. 
The only point of difference that I can detect is a greater length 
of the tooth-like projections of the peripheries of the peltate organs 
in Mr. Cuneo’s specimen, and possibly a less subdivision of these 
same parts. 
If one of the conclusions I formerly arrived at — that “this plant 
seems to be closely allied, if not identical with Phyllotlieca hookeri , 
McCoy,” should ultimately prove to have any weight, then possibly 
the present examples afford evidence of another species of Phyllo- 
theca , possessing peltate infundibuliform organs. 
R. ETHERIDGE, Junr. 
VIII ,—LYGOSOMA FRAGILE , GUNTHER. 
The Trustees have recently received from Mr. Alfred Stanley 
Read two small Lizards, which I identify with Lygosoma(Rhodona) 
fragile , Giinther.* This species does not appear to have been 
recorded since first described from the Peak Downs (Clermont), 
Queensland. The new locality is Angledool, in the county of 
Narran, New South Wales, just outside the Queensland border, 
and four hundred and sixty miles almost due south of the Peak 
Downs. 
Mr. Read while remarking that the lizard is very rare in the 
district, makes some interesting observations on its habits ; he 
states that it is never seen on the surface, all found having been 
taken from six to nine inches under ground, always in sandy soil. 
They are generally turned up at the roots of small stumps, when 
they move just like a snake. 
The lizards were forwarded alive, we therefore had the oppor- 
tunity of verifying Mr. Read’s observations as to their movements, 
and found that when passing through the soil, an action per- 
formed with great celerity, the degenerate limbs are closely 
adpressed to the body and are not used in subterranean progression. 
EDGAR R. WAITE. 
* Gunther — Journ. Mus. Godeifroy, xii., 1876, p. 45. Boulenger— Brit. 
Mus. Cat., Lizards (2) iii., 1887, p. 334, pi. xxvii., fig. 2. 
