ARTICLE V 



REPORT ON PHYLLOPOD CRUSTACEA (ANOSTRACA, NOTOSTRACA AND 

 CONCHOSTRACA) INCLUDING A REVISION OF THE ANOSTRACA 



OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE 



By Richard M. Bond 



(Received February 19, 1934) 



INTRODUCTION 



The Phyllopoda of the Indian Empire have received sporadic attention since the time of 

 Baird, who, in 1860, described Streptocephalus diclwtoiiiiis from a single male specimen which 

 was found swimming in a pail of milk. Since that time Sars, Gurney, Daday and some 

 others have added to the knowledge of the Phyllopoda of the region. Professor G. E. 

 Hutchinson has kindly turned over to me for examination the collections of tliese animals 

 that he made as Biologist of the Yale North India Expedition. 



The Notostraca and Conchostraca taken by tlie expedition are few in number, and it 

 seems wise, in these groups, to limit this treatment to tlie forms in this collection. In the 

 case of the Anostraca, however, the collections brought back are much more complete, and 

 for this reason, and because of the ecological and zoogeographical importance of the group, 

 it seems proper to treat them at greater length. 



In this undertaking I was greatly aided by Dr. Hem Singh Prutlii, who secured for me 

 the loan of all the unidentified Anostraca in the Indian Museum in Calcutta, in addition to 

 sending me named specimens of certain forms. Records based on this material are marked 

 with an asteri.'^k (*) throughout tlie present paper. This loan material in addition to tlie 

 Y. N. I. E. collections has given me an opportunity to compare a larger series of speci- 

 mens of certain of the species than has probably been assembled hitherto. As a result, I 

 have raised a "variety" to full specific rank, described 3 new subspecies, and am able to 

 record for the first time the occurrence of a species in Kashmir hitherto found only in 

 Mongolia and Manchuria. 



In the descriptions of the larger groups, such as families and genera, I have frequently 

 borrowed, almost verbatim, from the clear, concise paper on the South African Phyllopoda, 

 by Barnard (1929), to whom I am much indebted. 



Subclass BRANCHIOPODA 



The classification used in this paper is not only perfectly defensible on purely morpholog- 

 ical grounds, but has the added recommendation that it follows ecological as well as struc- 

 tural lines. 



Body uniformly segmented, usually elongate, usually ending in a caudal furca; without 

 carapace, with a dorsal shield-like carapace, or witli a bivalve carapace. Compound eyes 



Mem. Conn. Acad,, Vol. X, Art, V. September, 1934. 



