JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL MICROSCOPIC iL SOCIETY 



SEPTEMBER, 1920. 



TKANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



VII. — Notes on Fresh-water Ciliate Protozoa of India. 



By B. L. Bhatia, M.Sc, F.Z.S., F.K.M.S., Assistant Professor of 

 Zoology, Government College, Lahore. 



{Read April 21, 1920.) 



Very little work has been done so far on the fresh-water Protozoan 

 fauna of India. Up to 1889, the year of publication of Biitschli's 

 work on Protozoa {6)* practically the only record of fresh- water 

 forms was based on the work of H. J. Carter, who studied these 

 forms in Bombay towards the middle of the last century, and 

 published a number of papers (7, 8, 9, 10). In 1862 J. Mitchell 

 contributed a short note from Madras (17). From 1869 to this 

 date nobody appears to have seriously taken up the study of 

 fresh-water Ciliates in India, and I am unable to find any record 

 of these interesting organisms from India, except for a paper by 

 Annandale (4) and another by Ghose (13). 



In a previous paper (S) the writer recorded a number of species 

 of Ciliates occurring in fresh water collected from ditches, ponds, 

 etc., in and about Lahore, which are enumerated below for ready 

 reference : — 



Holophyra mdica Bhatia. Loxophi/lhcm fasciola (Ehrbg.) 

 Urotricha globosa Schewia- CI. & L., subsp. punjabensis 



kofif. Bhatia. 



Enchelys arcuata Clap. & L. Nassula stromphii Ehrbg. 



LaG7'ymaria vermicularis Triclioda pura Ehrbg. 



Elirbg. Colpoda cucullus Ehrbg. 



Goleps hirtus 0. F. Miill. Paramecium caudatum Ehrbg. 



Didinium nasutum Stein. Spirostomum ambiguum Ehrbg. 



* The italic figures within brackets refer to the Bibliography at end of the 

 paper. 



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