Records of the Western Australian Museum 
Volume 18 Part 2 1996 
CONTENTS 
D.J. Kitchener and A. Suyanto 
A new species of Melotnys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Riama Island, 
Tanimbar Group, Maluku Tenggara, Indonesia 113 
M.R. Yardin and B.J. Richardson 
Status of Anadara trapezia (Deshayes) (Bivalvia: Arcoida) from Oyster 
Harbour, Albany (Western Australia) as compared with east 
Australian populations 121 
R.J. Tregonning, D.J. Gaughan and W.J. Fletcher 
Description of the eggs and yolk-sac larvae of Whitebait Hyperlophus 
inttatus (Teleostei: Clupeidae) 129 
A. Williams, P.R. Last, M.F. Gomon and J.R. Paxton 
Species composition and checklist of the demersal ichthyofauna of the 
continental slope off Western Australia (20-35°S) 135 
R.E. Johnstone, P. Jepson, S.H.M. Butchart, J.C. Lowen and D. Prawiradilaga 
The birds of Sumbawa, Moyo and Sangeang Islands, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia 157 
D.J. Kitchener, Y. Konishi and A. Suyanto 
Morphological variation among eastern Indonesian island populations of 
Hipposideros bicolor (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae), with descriptions 
of three new subspecies 179 
K.J. McNamara 
Plio-Pleistocene Peronella (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida) from Western Australia 193 
M. Peterson 
Aspects of female reproductive biology of two southwestern Australian 
Temognatha species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) 203 
Yu Wen 
Early Cambrian stenothecoid molluscs from China 209 
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS 
J.A. Long and A.R.I. Cruickshank 
First record of an Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur bone from 
Western Australia 219 
M.S. Harvey 
The first record of the Fiddle-back Spider Loxosceles rufescens 
(Araneae: Sicariidae) from Western Australia 223 
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