llotifera of Natal. By Hon. T. Kirkman. 237 



the eye also can be moved slightly, independently of the mastax. I 

 had several opportunities of viewing the tropin clearly, and found them 

 of a normal sub-inalle;ite type with eight teeth in each uncus. 



Salpina, — One species is fairly common here, as I have seen it in 

 various habitats both on the coast and in Maritzburg, from the spring 

 to the summer months. It is very like the description of S. macra- 

 cantha Gosse, but the head end, or collar, is always stippled, and I 

 think it may be 8. ventralis as described by Hudson and Gosse, Sup- 

 plement. The spines appear to be the spines of 8. macracantha. 



Diplois propatula Gosse (?) [now called Euchlanis propatula, 

 C. F. B.].— 1 have only seen about three specimens of what I believe 

 to be D. propatula. It was in company with Euchlanis triquetra, 

 in the hottest month of the year — February 1900 — along edges of 

 pools in the Umzinto. 



Since the foregoing was written, I again found, in October 1900, 

 what appeared to be 7). propatula, judging from the size, the foot and 

 toes, the three acute spines behind, and its general similitude with 

 that described and illustrated by Hudson and Gosse. This time, 

 however, I had a beautiful white cloud illumination, and was able to 

 make out clearly, after the lorica had been cleansed from all internal 

 matter and washed, that the lorica was covered all over with raised 

 points, and that there were five teeth in each uncus. There were a 

 few specimens only, found in company with Scaridium eudactylotum 

 in the rapidly drying-up water, in what had been a miniature inlet 

 •or creeklet, overhung more or less with grass, in the middle of the 

 rocky bed of the river Umzinto, a few miles below where I found it 

 in February 1900. The toes end in points, and are not blunt as 

 the one described by Hudson and Gosse. 



Euchlanis. — There are several species of this genus in Natal. In 

 JMaritzburg, along the edges of the river Umsindusi, among reeds, &c, 

 I found what appears to be E. macrura Ehrbg., which was fairly 

 common. 



Euchlanis uniseta (?) — Another, fairly common about Maritz- 

 burg, was one agreeing with the description and illustration of E. 

 uniseta, from June to August 1^99. [This is a very doubtful species, 

 C. F. R.] 



Euchlanis triquetra Ehrbg. — On the coast along the edges of 

 Umzinto river, from February to April, were considerable numbers 

 of what I took to be E. triquetra, judging from the occipital notch, 

 the position of the setae on the foot, and general appearance. I also 

 found it, though more sparsely, in other places. 



Euchlanis dilatata Ehrbg.— I have only just found what ap- 

 pears to be this species (December 1900), along the edges of pools in 

 the river Umzinto, judging from the shape of the lorica, the broad 

 gap, instead of the notch as in E. triquetra, and the five unusually 

 distinct teeth in each uncus. There were always a pair of setae on 

 the foot, I saw none without. 



