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SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



generic names, the author says : " As far as can be judged from his 

 writings, he never saw a Eotifer." 



The author reduces the number of species by giving hundreds of 

 synonyms, which few will agree with — this may be due to a lack of 

 sufficient personal acquaintance with these species. 



The following is a list of changes in the generic names of Rotifera 

 which must be accepted if the present international rules of priority are 

 accepted. It is to be hoped, however, that this calamity will be avoided 

 by a modification of these rules. 



Present Generic Names to be 

 discarded. 



Apsilus . 



Amiraea . 



Cephalosiphon 



Gathypna . 



Callidina . 



Dlglena . 



Diplax 



Distgla 



Distemma 



Dlnocharis 



Floscularia 



Furcularia 



Hydat'ma . 



MetopicUa . 



Melicerta . 



Microdina 



Megalotrocha 



Notops 



Noteus 



CEcistes . 



FoljjclLsetus 



Pterodina 



Pedalion . 



Eaftulns . 



Rhinops . 



Eotifer 



Stephanops 



Triarthra 



Salpina . 



New Generic Names 

 substituted. 



Cupelopagis (Forbes) 

 Keratella (Bory de St. Vincent) 

 Beanchampia (Harring) g. n. 

 Lecane (Nitzsch) 

 Macrotrachela (Milne) 

 GepMlodella (Ehrenberg) 

 Mytilina (Bory) 

 Lecane (Nitzsch) 

 Dicranophorus (Nitzsch) 

 Triohotria (Bory) 

 Gollotheca (Harring) g. n. 

 Encentrum (Ehrenberg) 

 Epiphcmes (Ehrenberg) 

 Lepadella (Bory) 

 Floscularia (Cuvier) 

 Fhilodinavus (Harring) g. n. 

 Sinantherina (Bory) 

 Epiphanes (Ehrenberg) 

 Platyias (Harring) g. n. 

 Ptygura (Ehrenljerg) 

 Macrochsetus (Perty) 

 Testudinella (Bory) 

 Fedalia (Barrois) 

 Trichocerca (Lamarck) 

 Rhinoglena (Ehrenl)erg) 

 Rotaria (Scopoli) 

 SquatineUa (Bory) 

 Filinia (Bory) 

 Mytilina (Bory) 



New Species of Bdelloid Rotifera.* — David Bryce describes five 

 new species of Bdelloid Rotifera. Hahrotrocha mimda sp. n. is believed 

 to have been wrongly identified by Hudson and Gosse and other writers 

 as Callidina elegans Ehrb. It is not infrequent in weedy pools, and 

 is easily recognizable from the peculiar shape and pose of the spurs, 

 and from the unusually numerous teeth of the rami. Under natural 



* Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, xii. (April 1913) pp. 83-94 (2 pis.). 



