LIST OF THE FRESHWATER RHIZOPODA OF 



N. S. WALES. 

 Part I. 



By Thomas Whitelegge. 



Excepting the short paper by Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, published 

 in our Proceedings of last year, there does not appear to be any 

 record as to the nature or extent of this lowly yet interesting 

 branch of our fauna. The following list will, I hope, prove 

 useful to students of Australian Biology, and to others more or 

 less interested in the geographical distribution of the family. 

 This list being far from complete, there is a wide field yet open 

 for investigation. 



With most of the forms herein enumerated I have been familiar 

 for the last two years, but it is only during the last few months 

 that I have attempted any systematic search for them ; hence the 

 localities given are few in number and mostly near Sydney. The 

 student who desires to collect Rhizopods should provide himself 

 with a few wide-mouthed bottles, and a stick to which may be 

 fastened either a bottle or a hook, for the purpose of obtaining 

 plants or mud from deep water. Mosses, dead leaves, fine-leaved 

 aquatic plants, and mud from the bottom of stagnant water should 

 be collected and examined. Mosses such as sphagnum, may be 

 taken home in a box or bottle without water, except that which 

 is retained on the leaves. When required for examination the 

 water should be squeezed out, or if this method fails the material 

 should be washed and the sediment examined. 



When gathering aquatic plants in search of any of the unattached 

 forms of microscopic life, they should never be lifted entirely out of 

 the water, but floated or pushed into a bottle with as little 



