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liquids. Their defensive role has been witnessed in their eliminating 

 the spores of a sporozoon. 



Duration of Larval Life of Eucyphotes.* — H. Coutiere finds an 

 extremely wide range in the duration of larval life between the zo^a 

 stage and the recognisable young of Eucyphotes. He has examined a 

 whole series of 31 //sis larva of this genus of the same morphological 

 aspect whose sizes ranged from 6-53 mm. It is doubtful if these large 

 larvEe are normal, and if they ever reach the adult stage. 



Affinities of Genus Funchalia.t — E. L. Bouvier points out that 

 HemipencBopsis villosus Bouvier is the young stage of Funchalia wood- 

 icardi, and that Grimaldidla richardi Depuis is the last larval stage of 

 the same, adducing evidence in favour of this conclusion. Funchalia is 

 to be placed at the base of the Penean series, along with Penceus and 

 Artemesia. 



Regeneration of Vestigial Organs.^ — C. Zeleny records the in- 

 teresting case of a blind crayfish which re-grew in place of the right 

 (functionless) eye-stalk which had been excised, an antenna-like organ. 

 The new organ consisted of a slender feeler-like process covered with 

 hairs, and having the appearance of being functional. The terminal 

 third is unsegmented, but the basal two-thirds is divided into segments. 

 Its interest lies in the fact that here is an apparently functional organ 

 replacing a removed non-functional one. 



New Blind Gammarid.f — K. Schiiferna describes Typhlogammarus 

 mrdzeki, a new species which he makes representative of a new sub- 

 genus Typhlogammarus, related to Gammarus and Bathyonyx. 



New British Terrestrial Isopod.|| — Alexander Patience describes 

 Trichoniscus stebhingi sp. n., which he found in a field near Alexandra 

 Park, Glasgow (in company with T. pygmmus and Trichoniscoides alhidus 

 Budde-Lund, in one of the propagating houses in the Botanic Gardens, 

 Glasgow, and in various localities (Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire). 

 This new species is at once distinguished from all the other British 

 species of Trichoniscus, by the form of the last segment of the metasome, 

 which is broadly and evenly rounded at the tip, instead of being 

 truncate. He also reports T. spinosus, which offers some points of 

 resemblance to T. stebhingi. 



Indian Entomostraca.f — R. Gurney notes that knowledge of the 

 Entomostraca of India is most meagre. Apart from the Phyllopoda, of 

 which several have been recorded by Baird and Sars, we know practically 

 nothing. He has done something to remedy this defect by describing 

 some fresh-water Entomostraca in the collection of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, and adds to the Indian fauna fourteen species, e.g. Estheria 

 indica sp. n., Daphnia fusca sp. n. 



* Comptes Rendus, cxliv. (1907) pp. 1170-2. f Tom. cit., pp. 951 4. 



\ Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 1905, p. 160. 



§ SB. k. Bohm. Ges., xxii. (1906) pp. 1-25 (1 pi.). 



I Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), xxx. (1907) pp. 42-4 (1 pi.). 



\ Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, ii. No. 7 (1906). 



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