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XV. — Australasian Rotifera. 

 By James Murray, F.E.S.E. 



{Read April 16, 1913.) 



Plate XIX. 



Some years ago I collected Eotifera in New Zealand and Australia 

 while visitin^ those countries in the course of the Shackleton 

 Antarctic Expedition, and the results appeared in two papers 

 published in this Journal in 1911 {10) {11).* 



Since then I have been enabled to extend my studies of the 

 Australasian Eotifera-fauna through the kindness of friends who 

 sent material to me. And, moreover, many animals about which 

 I was doubtful when those papers were published have since been 

 identified, or found to be undescribed. 



The present paper deals with these species. 



LIST OF SPECIES COLLECTED. 



In Australia. 



(All in ponds at Sydney.) 



(Ecistes cristatus sp. n. M. hatillifer sp. n. 



Elosa worrallii Lord (7). M. (longstyled species of 



Furcularia forficula Ehr. Harring). 



Battulus ca-pucimLS Wier. u. Metopidia ehrenhergi Perty {IS). 



Zach. {16). M. heterostyla sp. n. 



Folyclisetiis suhquadratus M. quinquecostata Lucks {8). 



Perty {13). M. collaris Stokes {15). 



Monostyla hamata Stokes {15). Pedalioyi mirum Hudson. 



In New Zealand. 



(All from ponds near the Hermitage, Mount Cook.) 



Monommata appendiculata Scctridium longicaudatum 



Stenroos {U)- Miill. {9). 



'Ccrpeus caudatus Collins (^). S. eudactylotum Gosse {6). 



Fiattnlus scijno Gosse (^). Polychsetus colUnsi Gosse {6). 



F. orca sp. n. Monostyla hullaGosse {4). 



JJiurella insignis Herrick (5). Pterodina striata sp. n. 



* The figures in brackets refer to the Bibliography at the end of the paper. 



