Section Monotremata.

Genus—Echidna.

A fractured femur is referred to the above genus, and was discovered at Wellington; another specimen, part of a humerus, was obtained at the Darling Downs, and described as E. Owenii; both are exhibited in the Museum collection.

This closes the list of our Mammals, in which nearly all still living genera are represented, with the following exceptions, namely:—Bats (Cheiroptera), and "Water-rats," of the peculiar Australian genus Hydromys. Of the Marsupial Order the missing genera are the Myrmecobius and the Ornithorhynchus.