Holotype: P4370, 1 incomplete mid-valve, from MacDonalds (Bank), Muddy Creek, Hamilton, Vic, Grange Burn Formation, early Pliocene (Kalimnan), collected by W. Holotype: P4368, I incomplete mid-valve, from MacDonalds (Bank), Muddy Creek, Hamilton, Vic, Grange Burn Formation, early Pliocene (Kalimnan), collected by W.
INCERTAE SEDIS
Holotype: T838, 1 incomplete anterior flap, from Schnapper Point, Mornington, Vic, BalcombeClay, Early to Middle Miocene (Batesfordian-Bairnsdalian), collected by R. Holotype: P4365, 1 incomplete anterior flap, from MacDonalds (Bankek, MuddyCreek), Hamilton, Vic, Grange Burn Formation, early Pliocene (Kalimnan), collected by W.
ON AUSTRALIAN FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
MUSEUM (ARACHNIDA : ARANEAE) SUPPLEMENT TO THE REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN HERSILIIDAE
ON AUSTRALIAN HERSILIIDAE FROM THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
MUSEUM (ARACHNIDA: ARANEAE) SUPPLEMENT TO THE REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN HERSILIIDAE
Lateral apophyses are also contorted, apex deeply excised, later excision with three elongate, slender, finger-like, hook-shaped sliueluncs, Inner finger apirally curved away fttWn palpus. Bacht & Baeht of southern Queensland. The male palpiate of both species is inferiorly similar and they are long recognized by Iheit, linger like processes at the height of the lateral apophysis.
AUSTRALIAN HERSILIIDAE 17
AUSTRALIAN HERSILIIDAE 19
REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN HALIPILIDAE (COLEOPTERA)
REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN HALIPILIDAE (COLEOPTERA) 21
Head relatively wide between eyes, yellow to yellow-brown, moderately covered with punctures of small size or slightly larger than the eye cheeks. Head relatively wide between eyes, dark yellow-brown apertures, shiny, with medium* dots larger than eye area.
LASIORHINUS LATIFRONS (OWEN, 1845) AND VOMBATUS URSINUS (SHAW, 1800) (MARSUPIALIA : VOMBATIDAE)
Lumbar vertebrae- maximum combined diameterof the transverse processes Of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd vcrte
There are no major morphological differences in the individual vertebrae to distinguish them between the two wombat tuxedos. There were no significant size differences, many measurements that appeared in Table 15. Other stemebracIrani, wombats were similar in shape for each species.
AXIAL SKELETONS OF VOMBATIDAE 33
Descriptive catalog of the osteological series.RovalCollege of SurgeonsfEngland (London),. MURIE,J 1867.Ontheidentity olthehairy-nosedwombat iPhastohmys Ui.siorhinusGould) with the broad-nosed wombat(/'.lailftonsOwen).Prot-Zo/)LSocLoud, lor.
AXIAL SKELETONS OF VOMBATIDAE 35
AXIAL SKELETONS OF VOMBATIDAE 37
AXIAL SKELETONS OF VOMB ATIDAE 39
FROM OF NORTHERN
TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALITES FROM THE VICINITY OF F1NKE,
NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
H. CLEVERLY
Since the volume of the body is I-IS(2.57Um'). The volume of material removed from the front surface that attracted the potential flange forming stage was fJ.ft4. {I.OK) cm'. The volume of the flange is 0.54(0.63) cm and therefore RS^ i59sf i of stripped material -was retained on the button as a flange. One specimen (Fig. 5D) has a distinct roll on the back surface of the flange and a gap below it .. suggesting that the flange was partially separated and pushed back while still hot.
THE LIMITS ON FIGHTING IN AN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY
ISOBEL WHITE
The only wound of this kind I actually saw in the close quarters (I dfOYCWoman injured by treatment) was on the bosom of the above-mentioned girl, sued by her disappointed lover when. he realized that she was returning to her much older husband. The wound was deep and painful, but not dangerous. hours after this stabbing, there was another hour of shouting and abuse between them and its members. Then, the camp moved with silent, readable weapons. as you describe later) bul instead of obeying them and ceasing threats of violence, he drew a rifle and threatened them It was now late at night and. Meanwhile, as 1 have already described, grown women stood near babies and infants, almost-topikkthemupifihey-then it could be a danger.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE COOPER BASIN : REPORT ON FIELDWORK
WILLIAMS
It includes a number of features - the main Cooper channel, an auxiliary channel - the North-West branch and an extensive series of clay pans in the Cooper discharge zone, located within the Strzelecki dune field. Australia (125 mm per year) and is mostly covered by a large dune field, Strzelecki, there are reliable water resources there. This made the area an important one for the original settlement, at least in recent times (Sturt 1849). The Cooper drains the Channel Country of central Queensland, and each year the wet season of rain falls in the Coopers. Innamincka and then the Coongie Lakes, 100 km to the northwest.
54 E. WILLIAMS
Before describing the results of the fieldwork, I will first provide an environmental context for the study by presenting the geography of the region and non-climbing change below. Environment\i *j Srrr»\r. Cooper Creek Environmental Association This land system occupies most of the study area and is located west and northwest of Fnnamincka.
56 E. WILLIAMS
Jones1 1979>studied ttu Insn.ncal material and. developed a model of suhsrslencc and control patterns supported by the available historical evidence - I show that Thai wtutc people lived mostly. tm the most important water sources, changing rain, groups pushed out/exploited the plant food that germinated and obtained the horrors, reptiles. and small mammals that abounded there. As the water in the clay pans and the dunes began to dry up, people retreated to the ranges, rivers and lakes, harvesting the plant-like Fnnhuman nard that now ripens on the floodplain. From this brief overview of the historical material. in areas the winch has permanent or semi-permanent water sources,Surfacecampsiternalenal will be found. the edges of lakes and permanent waierhoies.
58 E, WILLIAMS
In addition to looking at these pale dunes, I examined exposures of Pleistocene sediments in the longitudinal area. for in siru archaeological material. On manysiic.v freshwater mussel sht-0 var.iw.mi aled with anetacl scullers, but ihis mMerial var.
60 E. WILLIAMS
Could the pattern be explained by another model, such as a continental-wide process of economic intensification during the mid-Holocene, as outlined by Lourandos (1985)? complex. Given the preliminary nature of my work in the Coongie, I will therefore leave a detailed discussion of this issue until I have completed further fieldwork.
62 E. WILLIAMS
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
ABORIGINAL USE OF SUBTERRANEAN PLANT PARTS
IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
A. CLARKE
This is because ethnobotanical data have historically been recorded in a fragmented manner and it is unlikely that1 would have located records for all the species that were used. However, it is likely that.
ABORIGINAL USE OF SUBTERRANEAN PLANT PARTS 65
FREPNLMUYPSLSE
LEMU
LEFREPNLMUSLSE MU SL SE
NLMUSLK1SE FREA7EPNLML SE
NUKPNLMU YPSLKISE
EPSLKISE
FR.EPMU YPSLSE
LE. MUSLKISE
NW FREP YPNLMU SLKISE
NYCTAGINACEAE
ABORIGINAL USE OF SUBTERRANEAN PLANT PARTS 67 and found in abundance on the flats of the Murray. Eyre
Laura Kartinyeri, an Aborigine of the Lower Murray, says that the roots of a type of eucalyptus were boiled and the solution drunk for colds. Dawson (1881: 57) recorded the use of the roots of a narrow-leaved species of gum as a remedy for indigestion. The roots of the white-flowered variety of mallow were widely used as food by the Aborigines in South Australia (Bailey, citedin Maiden 1889: 37).
COMPOSITAE
Ethnographic records of southern South Australia suggest that the roots of at least some. Angas (1847a: 84) writes that they ate the roots of a smaller species of Xanthorrhoea (probably X. minor R.Br.) in the southeast.
ABORKUNAL USE OF SUBTKRRANLAN PLANT PARTS I
Some roots, such as those of the Eucalyptus, were probably more important than drought or 'hard time' foods. Another (actor) contributing to possible bias in the ethnographic record was that events such as the spearing of emu and kangaroomay left a more lasting impression on the memories of the recorder than that of the daily gathering of.
ABORIGINAL USE OF SUBTERRANEAN PLANT PARTS 73
The regular burning of the Lakes area in the Lower Murray region was apparently a sufficient number of Lodielocal farmers to have been reported in the report of the Protector of Aborigines in\~ 1830. These reports and others show that the burning of vegetation in southern South Australia is often the result of Ahongttal acttviiy.
ABORIGINAL I'SR OF SUBTERRANEAN PLANT PARTS 75
76 P.A. CLARKE
AMENDED TYPE LOCALITIES OF FIVE SPECIES OF SPIDERS
AMENDED TYPE LOCALITIES OF FIVE SPECIES OF SPIDERS (ARACHNIDA: ARANEAE)
RECORDS THE
SOUTH
AUSTRALIAN
MUSEUM
PART I
MAY 1988
ISSN 0081-2676
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
NOTES
HIRST
PART 2
NOVEMBER 1988
GENERA NABIS LATREILLE AND STENONABIS REUTER (HEMIPTERA
NABIDAE) IN AUSTRALIA
G. STROMMER
Ih'ad: light yellow with dark areas behind eyes andocelli, light brown longitudinal stripe between. Thorax: pronoturn yellowish with dark brown markings: broad median stripe narrowing on collar and hind lobe; brown pattern.
L3MNH)
Seutellum yellow with dark brown wic*e median band becoming narrow towards apex and with irregular brown areas basally and laterally. Sculcllum yellow, orange-yellow or pale yellow with a broad orchette brown median band reaching ornotreachingUsapex.
K4 \. STROM MIR
6 — Pronotum with additional stripe on each side or median stripe, very indistinct on posterior lobe of pronotum; brachypterous; total bodv length. 1-tonotum with additional stripes on each side of median stripe, distinct on posterior lobe oi pronoium; maeropterous; total body length [OrJ 8.0 mm tnorningtonl sp.
86 N.G. STROMMER
the head; dirty yellow with dark clypeus; some lime areas before and behind eyes and longitudinal streak between eyes brownish yellow with brown clypeus; head yellow to brownish yellow below, sometimes whitish. Abdomen: Yellow or brownish yellow ventrally with a brown narrow median longitudinal stripe and broader lateral stripes on each side of the median;
SH N.O. STKOMMLR
Thorax, pronoium shining yellow with narrow brown median stripe, more or less broader posterior border of very shining posterior lobe; additional brownstripeon collar on each side; lorelap with brown pattern; hind lobe with curved brown stripe. Collar and posterior lobe of pronotum with sparse, fine punctures; anterior and posterior margins of pronotum nearly straight, lateral impression between lobes shallow.
APPENDICULAR OSTEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
LASIORHINUS LATIFRONS (OWEN, 1845) AND VOMBATUS URSINUS (SHAW, 1800) (MARSUPILIA : VOMBATIDAE)
Humerus
Ulna
Femur
APPENDICULAR SKELETAL DIFFERENCES OF WOMBATS 97
However, Sonntag only looked at the myology of V. ursinus* while Hildebrand considered only the structural mechanics of the anterior part of L. In both cases their work was generalized. and did not attempt to explain the functional anatomy of the two wombat genera.
TWO NEW LARVAL MITES (ACARINA: ERYTHRAEIDAE) ECTOPARASITIC ON NORTH QUEENSLAND CICADAS
TWO NEW LARVAL MITE (ACARINA: ERYTHRAEIDAE) ECTOPARASIES ON NORTH QUEENSLAND CICADAS. TWO NF.W LARVAL MITE 4'ACARINA: ERYTHRAEIDAE) tttTOPAKASITJC ON NORTH QUEENSLAND CICADAS.
TWO NF.W LARVAL MITES 4'ACARINA: ERYTHRAEIDAE) tttTOPAKASITJC ON NORTH QUEENSLAND CICADAS
V. SOUTHCOTT
LARVAL MITES ON CICADAS 105
106 R.V. SOUTHCOTT
NI9H7194 (ACA2308),
LARVAL MITES ON CICADAS 109
LARVAL MITLS ON CICADAS 111
LARVAL MITES ON CICADAS 113
NI987247 (ACA2314A-C),
1988. Baro nga Australiano nga larva!callidosomatine mite(Acarina: Erythraeidae) parasiticon Hies, nga addaan kadagiti nota iti subpamilia ken pannakaidasig ti tribu. Larva Caitidosoma {Acarj, Erythraeidae): baro a rekord ken baro a panagdakkel manipud iti Amerika.
REVISION OF AUSTRALASIAN HYDROPHILUS MULLER, 1764
COLEOPTERA : HYDROPHILIDAE)
CHS. WATTS
ANIC, Pt Muumuric AM, Rcpion AM, AC, I
Loose portion of 1st abdominal segment covering about '/j of width of segment, those on sides of other segments about ',.- of width of segments. Pilose portion nt 1st abdominal segment covering well over '.2 width Thai segment, which on sides of other abdominal segments approx.
SAMA
Commonest of the large Hydrophilus in Australia, easily separated from H, pedipalfnts (and H. australis from New Caledonia) from.
DIAMONDS FROM ECHUNGA SOUTH
DIAMONDS FROM THK IXHUNGA COLDFIEJLD, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
L. GOMMERS
However, it is highly unlikely that the stones are South African, as the Kimherley Heldwnsnoi discovered until 1860, when the first diamonds were coveted again seven years ago.
In IR80, a collection of II rough Brazilian diamonds was exhibited at the South Australian Institute, the predecessor of the Australian Souih Museum, to further assist golddiggerson(hefields) in diamond identification. The recommendations of the Bean Report were raised in the South Australian Parliament in August 1879 by Mr. Bray (Member for East Adelaide).
CLASS 3P.-JKWBIXERY AND PREOIOT/B STOKES
Diamond fields exist near where these diamonds were found, for reasons - First, the height is often not the highest point in the mountains that form a backbone of the eoimirv, because these stones could not be washed down in Lothai place; and secondly, by the evidence of the stones themselves, which drop only signs of their passing through worn surfaces or broken ends, it is therefore (opinioned) that the diggers for gold, who for years worked paM and washed the grmlndine in the place , passed hundreds of headless diamonds, not known. ? them for worthless crystals or other sions of no value. Hales (1909) mentions that a number of miners found gems in the field, but no derailments of the sions are given .
ROM ECHL'NCA l>5
136 FL. GOMMLRS
ROM ECWUNGA 117
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ENDNOTES
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1880
SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1879
EARLY HUMAN OCCUPATION OF THE FLINDERS RANGES
The improvement in climate that followed IhclaM glacial mamum(17-15 (*W >'UP)) encouraged more widespread human occupation of the Australian arid zone. This evidence raised the possibility that Karian differed from other industries of the Australian central toot and tore LTadifion because.
A stretch of stretch in a wide arc lhal follows the south-west edge of the Great Artesian Basin horn Lake frome, across the northern edge of the Minders Ranges, along the south-west shore of Lake Eyre, to Dalhousie on the western edge of the Simpson Desert. In the 30,000- to 38,000-year-old sediments of the Pboraka Formation along Hookiua Creek, a quurtzitc core was found well embedded in the eroded slope of the canyon. We accepted this as being.
HAWKER LAGOON
The main excavation, called HLI (abbreviation HLI-5, shown on Tig.4), was opened in the richest part of the artifact concentration in the dune field, just beyond the west end of the lunette. In this eroded area at the east end of the lunette, only part of unit IB and all of unit IIB were available for excavation, while IA was completely removed. The following artifacts were recovered from Unit IIB:
HUMAN
Artifacts of the Kartan industry are present over a wide area, but small tools are limited to two localized patches where the luna terminates near the sides of the valley and two canals carry overflow from the marsh. 15 000 and $ 000 yBP, can be identified in the broad paleoclimatic history of the region, suggesting that there may be local rather than regional causes.
PWHQ
The Kartan is found on Kangaroo Island and
That view has been modified by the present slud which confirms reports by CoopCT (1968) of Kartan sites in the northern I'tinders Ranges. But no Kaitan she was taken while reconnoitering surrounding deseri areas extending as far north as limamincka, B'udsvilk and Oodnavlatta [Hughes& lamperl Lamperl 1985); Nor have Kartan sites been reported from the coast ami hinleiland to the west and cist of the three peninsulas. Holocene Age Like Kartan sites, core tools dominate the assemblages, but the tools are smaller and have a differentiated edge.
HUMAN OCCUPATION ()! "MIL I L1NDERS RANGES 167
HATE, H.H. &t HIMDALE., N.B. I93U. Notes on some human remains in the lower Murray Valley, South Australia. Pleistocene site and site occupation in southeastern Australia: .. research prospects for Cooper Creek Strzeleck!.
NOTES ON A WOODEN IMPLEMENT FROM NORTH-EASTERN
ARNHEM LAND
ARNHLM LAND
LEGEND
THE IMP1EMFNTS
The implement is simply a twig with the bark peeled off to make a point which is then rounded off through use. It is therefore not unreasonable to suggest that similar artifacts might have been used by other groups that exploited shellfish.
YANYUWA CANOE MAKING
M. BAKER
This paper describes the construction of a dugout canoe near Borroloola in the Northern Territory in 1987. Canoe construction of a dugout canoe that was in 1987, as part of research into the contact history commissioned by the Australian National Maritime of the Yanyuwa living in the Borroloola- area live. articlepresentsa description- the Northern Territory (Fig. 1), I have documented the tion of this construction together with background.
YANYUWA CANOH MAKING 175
Don Manarra made dugong hunting points, na-malbi, and a dugong harpoon, ridiridi, with
NANDA-RAMA
RRA-RIMI
MA- NGADUKU
NANDA- WUNHAN
NANDA- MABALUMA
NANDA- WURDU-
There was probably at least some work on the log to lighten it up and make it. Dispersion was achieved by hammering some cross sticks into the inside of the canoe so that they were flush with both sides and then setting fire to the inside of the canoe.
YANYUWA CANOE MAKJNU 17*
Thomson (1934a) describes the construction and use of qlbark and dugout canoes in the Batavia River area of Cape York. In addition to being a means of transportation, dugout canoes played an important role in the Yanyuwa economy.
