TECHNICAL REPORTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM The Australian Museum’s

mission is to increase understanding of, and influence public debate on, the natural environment, human societies and human interaction with the environment. The Museum has maintained the highest standards of scholarship in these fields for more than 100 years, and is one of Australia’s foremost publishers of original research in anthropology, geology and zoology. The Records of the Australian Museum (ISSN 0067-1975) publishes the results of research that has used Australian Museum collections and studies that relate in other ways to the Museum’s mission. There is an emphasis on research in the Australasian, southwest Pacific or Indian Ocean regions. The Records is released annually as three issues of one volume, volume 53 was published in 2001. Monographs are published about once a year as Records of the Australian Museum, Supplements. Supplement 27 (ISBN 0-7347-2305-9) was published in November 2001. Catalogues, lists and databases have been published sinc