'p "-^^ u ^ IM^ f,^.Pl :»^^ ^m m. -i^-^^ V!U- i^ -•-,«w4* -'V ^^^ HARVARD UiNIVERSITY. LIBRARY MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS REPORTAND OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY Of SOUTH ADSTRALIA, For 1897-98. [With Seven Plates and Three Woodcuts.] EDITED BY PROFESSOR R. TATE. ISSUED DECEMBER, 189S. W. C. RIGBY, 74, KING WILLIAM STREET. Parcels for transmission to the Royal Society of South Australia, from Europe and America, should be addressed "per W. G. C. Rigby, care Messrs. Thos. Meadows & Co., 34, Milk Street, Cheapside, London." 1,^ .0gal ^ociftg of ^0ut^ Australia, HER xMAJESTY THE QUEEN. [Elected October, 1898.] W. L. CLELAND, M.B. fia-fusiiTjent: PROFESSOR RALPH TATE. (Representative Governor.) WALTER HOWCHIN, F.G.S. §ovi. ixeaswux: ion* ^eaetati): WALTER RUTT, C.E. G. G. MAYO, C.E. Pemtes of (SiomcxU REV. THOS. BLACKBURN, B.A. PROFESSOR E. H. RENNIE SAMUEL DIXON D.Sc, F.C.S. MAURICE HOLTZE, F.L.S. W. H. SELWAY, Jun. J. S. LLOYD E. C. STIRLING, C.M.G., M.D. M.A., F.R.S. ) CONTENTS. PART I. (Issued July, 1898.) Etheridge, R. : A further Cambrian Trilobite from Yorke Peninsula (Plate IV.) .-.-..- 1 Maskell, VV, M. : On some Australian Insects of the Family Psyllidie (Plates I. —III.) . 4 HowcHiN, W, : Further Discoveries of Glacial Remains in South Australia ------ 12 Rlackbukx, Rev. T. : New Genera and Species of Australian Coleoptera (XXIII.) -.-... is Tate, Pkof. R. : On two Deep-level Deposits of Newer Pleistocene in South Australia ------ 65 CORBIN, H. B. : Notes on the Graphitic Slates and associated Rocks in the Kalgoorlie District - - - - - 72 Maidex, J. H., and E. Betche : On a New Myoporum from South Australia ....... 76 PART II. (Issued December, 1898.) - - Tate, Prof. R. : On Two New Cretaceous Bivalves 77 On Some Australian Species of Eulimida^ and Pyramidellida? (Plate TVa. pars.) - - 80 On Some Recent and Fossil Australian Species of Philobrya (Plate IVa. pars. - - S6 Turner, Dr. A. Jefferis : Notes on Australian Lepidoptera (Plate V.) - - - - - - - 90 Koch, Max : A List of Plants collected on Mount Lyndhurst Run, S.A. ......-- 101 Tate, Prof. R. : On some New or Little-known South Australian Plants - - - - - - 119 Dimorphism in two South Australian Cruciferous Plants . - . 122 North, A. J. : List of Birds collected by the Calvert Expedition - in West Australia ; inch Field Notes by G. A. Keartland 125 Morgan, Dr. A. M. : Notes on the Nest and Eggs of Porzana - - - - - - - Jiuminea ; 193 Tate, Prof. R. : On deep-seated Eocene Strata in the Croydon and other Bores - - - - - - - 194 Turner, Dr. A. Jefferis : Descriptions of New Microlepidoptera from Queensland --...-- 200 ToRR, Dr. W. G., and E. Ashby: Descriptions of Seven New Species of South Australian Polyplacophora (Plates VI. and VII.) - 215 Blackburn, Rev. T. : New Genera and Species of Australian Coleoptera (XXIV.) 221 - Browne, J. Harris : Use of the Wedge by Aborigines - 234 page Abstract of Proceedings 235 Annual Report 241 Balance Sheet 242 Presidential Address 243 Donations to Library 250 List of Fellows APPENDICES. Proceedings, Annual Report and Balance THE Field Naturalists' Section 26i> Astronomical Section 265 General Index .... 26^ OCT 4 1898 A Further Cambrian Trilobite from YoRKE Peninsula. By R. Etheridge, June., Hon. Fellow, Curator, Australian Museum, Sydney. [Read November 2, 1897.] Plate n^, figs. 1-3. In 1884 Dr. Henry Woodward described"^ two Cambrian Trilobites from the Parara limestone of Yorke Peninsula, to —u:^v. u^ rr.^xTa. fi-ifi na.mpis of Dolichometopus Tatei, and Cono- ERRATA. pp. 80-89, and legend on Plate iv. (Mollusca) read Plate iv. his. p. 145, line 30, read were never seen. 162, line p. 12 from bottom insert at after shot. 173, pp. 175-8, 181, 183, insert Brockman before Creek. p. 217, line 30, read Plate 6 instead of Plate 7. It appears that Zenker, in 1833, proposed the name of Conocephalus for a blind Trilobite, previously known as Trilobites Suheri, Schlottheim, and in 1839 Emmrich added a second species termed Conocephalus striatus, but possessing eyes. The incongruity of this appears to have struck Corda, who in 1847 pointed out that Conocephalus was, at the time of its enunciation, by Zenker, a preoccupied name, and proposed to substitute for the blind Conocephalus (C. Sulzeri) the name of Conocoryphe, and for the species provided with eyes {Conocephalus striatus) that of Ptychojoaria. Subsequently the illustrious palceontologist Barrande, without separating the two forms, endeavoured to * Geol. Mag., 1884, I. (3), p. 343. t Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr., 1892, XV., PI. II., p. 187. PAGE Abstract of Proceedings 235 Annual Report 241 Balance Sheet 242 Presidential Address 243 Donations to Library 250 List of Fellows 257 APPENDICES. Proceedings, Annual Report and Balance of the Field Naturalists' Section - - - - - - 26^' Astronomical Section ...... 265 General Index --.-... 26S — OCT 4 1898 A Further Cambrian Trilobite from YoRKE Peninsula. By R. Etheridge, June., Hon. Fellow, Curator, Australian Museum, Sydney. [Read November 2, 1897.] Plate lY., figs. 1-3. In 1884 Dr. Henry Woodward described* two Cambrian Trilobites from the Parara limestone of Yorke Peninsula, to which he gave the names of Dolichometopus Tatei, and Cono- cephalites australis. Since then Prof. R. Tate has described! two others from the same district Olenellus (?) Pritchardi and MicrodisGUS suhsagittatus. Quite recently the Mr. W. Howchin transmitted to me a portion of the cephalic shield of another Trilobite, found by him at Ardrossan, that is in my opinion congeneric with Woodward's C. australis, but differing specifically, as I hope to show in the sequel, by a very important character. It will, however, be necessary in the first place to review our position in a generic sense. Dr. Woodward, following my determination of the Caro- line Creek Trilobites, in Tasmania, referred his species to the genus Conocephalites, Barrande, both of us using this name as it was then commonly accepted. Through later researches amongst Cambrian Faunas, and the literature relating thereto, it has been ascertained that Conocephalites as a generic name will not stand, but must give place to that of Ptychojmria, Corda. No one has done more to clear up this point than have Messrs. F. B. Meek and C. D. Walcott, the latter the energetic director of the U.S. Geological Survey. It appears that Zenker, in 1833, proposed the name of Conocephalus for a blind Trilobite, previously known as Trilobites Suheri, Schlottheim, and in 1839 Emmrich added a second species termed Conocephalus strHatus, but possessing eyes. The incongruity of this appears to have struck Corda, who in 1847 pointed out that Conocephalus was, at the time of its enunciation, by Zenker, a preoccupied name, and proposed to substitute for the blind Conocephalus {C. Sidzeri) the name of Conocoryphe, and for the species provided with eyes {Conocephalus striatus) that of Ftychoparia. Subsequently the illustrious palo3ontologist Barrande, without separating the two forms, endeavoured to * Geol. Mag., 1884, I. (3), p. 343. t Trans. R. Soe. S. Austr., 1892, XV., PI. IL, p. 18: — surmount the difficulty by substituting the name Conocephalites for Conoceflialus^. In 1872 the late Mr. F. B. Meek, whose great care and perspicuity it is a pity more of us do not follow, adopted! Corda's names to the exclusion of Barrande's substituted one. Finally in the words of Mr. Walcott : — " This division [^.e., of Conocephalus, Zenker] appears to me to be one demanded by the characters of the two types, and I fully endorse the opinion of the late Mr. F. B. Meek (....) that Mr. Corda's names should be adopted, and the subsequent name Conocephalites, proposed by Mr. Barrande, in 1852, treated as a synonym. I" In these terms I now employ the name Ptychoparia for Conocephalites australis, Woodw., and the fragmentary cephalic shield, lately obtained by Mr. Howchin, for which I propose the name of Ptychoparia Howehini, sp. nov. Pi. IV., figs. 1-3. Sp. Char. —Glabella oblong, with sides almost parallel, narrow- ing but very slightly towards the front, which is evenly rounded; surface convex, and slightly arched in the middle line, most so posteriorly ; furrows in three pairs, the first or posterior pair being the strongest marked, consisting of shallow depressions extending inwards nearly to the arched median line ; second or middle pair still shallower and shorter, issuing from the axial grooves halfway between the first pair of furrows and proximal ends of the ocular ridges ; third or anterior pair very short and faint, mere nicks in the lateral margins of the glabella, exactly opposite the proximal ends of the ocular ridges ; basal lobes the most pronounced, the anterior lobe the largest, gradually sloping downwards to the well developed frontal furrow, which is wide and gently concave ; fillet (bourrelet) of the limb prominent, thick, and rounded. Facial sutures anterior to the ocular ridges, straight (i.e., parallel to the longer axis of the glabella), giving to the anterior portions of the united glabella and fixed cheeks a square appearance. Fixed cheeks gently convex, but not wholly preserved. Ocular ridges very well marked, broad and rather flat, very oblique to the longer axis of the glabella, bounded pos- teriorly by faint furrows. Axial furrows broad and not deep. Ornament consisting of granules of two orders, small, and minute respectively, interspersed with one another, and distributed over the whole surface, including the frontal furrow, limb, and ocular ridges. * Syst. Sil. Boheme, 1852, I. p. 415. Geol. Survey Territories t 6th Ann. Report U.S. (Hayden's), 1872, have not this at to refer to. T) 487 I regret that I work hand Geol. Survey (Powell's), No. .35. X Bull. U.S. 10, 1884, p. p Ohs. —The central portion of the cephalic shield, or cephalon, is all that is preserved of this interesting crustacean. The reason for separating it from P.