482 Annals of the South African Museum. 



FAMILY BBANCHIPODID^E. 



1896. Branchipodida, Sars, Fauna Norvegiae, vol. i., p. 40. 



In this treatise Sars allots to this family five genera, 

 Branchipus, Schaeffer, Chirocephalus, Prevost, Artemia, 

 Leach, Streptocephalus, Baird, Branchinecta, Verrill, to which 

 he has himself later added Branchipodopsis. 



GEN. STEEPTOCEPHALUS, Baird. 



1854. Streptocephalus, Baird, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 2, vol. xiv., 



p. 219. 



1883. S., Packard, U.S. Geol. Survey, Phyllopoda, p. 344. 

 1898. .S'., Sars, Arch. Naturv. Kristian., vol. xx., p. 17. 



STREPTOCEPHALUS CAFER (Loven). 



1846. Branchipus cafer, Loven, K. Vet. Ak. Handlingar for Ar 



1845, p. 433, pi. 5. 



"Taken in Natal, lat. 26^ S., long. 29 E., by Herr J. 



Wahlberg, in some pools with clear water near the public 



road from Port Natal to the salt-pan of Makkalis mountain 



between Crocodile and Ap Eivers." 



1898. Streptocephalus caffer, Sars, Arch. Naturv. Kristian., vol. xx., 



No. 4, p. 18, and No. 6, p. 5. 



In his discussion of S. gracilis, Sars remarks : " At first I 

 thought that this form might be the Branchipus caffer of 

 Loven, which likewise is from South Africa, and which 

 undoubtedly belongs to the genus Streptocephalus ; but the 

 very short diagnosis given by Loven does not suffice for 

 a reliable specific determination, and indeed, the notes sub- 

 sequently given by Brauer (Sitzungsber. d. K. Akad. d. Wiss. 

 in Wien, 1877) on an examination of some authentic speci- 

 mens of this form preserved in the Zoological Museum of 

 Berlin, show that Loven's species is different from the one 

 here described. It would seem to be more nearly allied to the 

 Branchipus rubricaudatus of Klunzinger (Zeitschrift f. wdss. 

 Zool., xvii., 1866), from the northern part of Africa, though 

 differing also from this species in several points." It is only 

 fair to Loven to notice that his account of the species, though 

 it may be inadequate, occupies two pages and a half, accom- 

 panied by a full plate of details. 



