SYNOPSIS OF THE ROTATOKIA. 35 



DIASCHIZA STEREA (Gosse). 



Furcularia sterea Gosse, Joum. Royal Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 864, pi. 14, fig. 8. 

 Diaschiza sterea Dixon-Nuttall and Freeman, Journ. Royal Micr. Soc, 1903, p. 8, 

 pi. 1, fig. 3. 



DIASCHIZA TENUIOR Gosse. 



Diaschiza fcnwior Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 81, pi. 22, fig. 14. 



DIASCmZA TENUISETA (Bum). 



Furcularia tenuiseta Burn, Sci. Goss., vol. 26, 1890, p. 34, fig. 



Diaschiza tenuiseta Dixon-Nuttall and Freeman, Joum. Royal Micr. Soc, 1903, 

 p. 138, pi. 1, fig. 2. 



DIASCHIZA TIGRIDIA (Gosse), 



Proales tigridia Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 38, pi. 18, fig. 10. 

 Proales tigridia Weber, Rev. Suisse Zool., vol. 5, 1898, p. 368, pi. 18, figs. 18-20. 



Tlie animal described under this name by Weber is evidently a 

 Diaschiza, and appears to be the same species described by Gosse. 



DIASCHIZA VALGA Gosse. 



Diaschiza valga Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 77, pi. 22, fig. 12. 



DIASCmZA VENTRIPES Dixon-Nuttall. 



Diaschiza ventripes Dixon-Nuttall, Joum. Quekett Micr. Club, eer. 2, vol. 8, 1901, 

 p. 25, pi. 2, figs. 1-3. 



Doubtful or insufficiently described species: 



Diaschiza cupha Gosse, Joum. Royal Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 3, pi. 1, fig. 6. 

 Diaschiza fretalis Gosse, Journ. Royal Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 866, pi. 15, fig. 14. 

 Notostemma affinis Bergendal, Acta Univ. Lundensis, vol. 28, 1892, sect. 2, No. 4, 

 p. 70, pi. 2, fig. 17. 



Genus DICRANOPHORUS Nitzsch. 



Dieranophorus Nitzsch, Enc Wiss. u. Kiinste, sect. 1, vol. 16, 1827, p. Q%=Distemma 

 Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1830, p. 47=Dekinia Morren, Ann. Sci. 

 Nat., vol. 21, 1830, p. 113. 

 Type (by present designation). — Dieranophorus fordpatus (Muller)= Cercam for- 

 cipata Miiller. 



DICRANOPHORUS AURITUS (Ehrenberg). 



Diglena aurita Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1829), 1830, p. 16. 

 Typhlina canicula Ehrenberg, Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symb. Phys. Anim. 



Evert., 1831, pi. 1, fig. 16. 

 Eosphora aurita Werneck, Mitth. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, vol. 1, 1836, p. 16. 



(Reference from Ehrenberg.) 

 Eosphora viridis Stenroos, Acta Soc. Fauna Flora Fennica, vol. 17, No. 1, 1898, p. 



136, pi. 1, figs. 30-32. 



DICRANOPHORUS FORCIPATUS (MUUer). 



? Vorticella vermicularis Mijller, Verm. Terr. Fluv., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1773, p. 107. 

 ? Cercaria lupus MtJLLER, Verm.' Terr. Fluv., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1773, p. 67. 

 ? Cercaria vermicularis Muller, Anim. Infus., 1786, p. 133, pi. 20, figs. 18-20. 

 Cercaria /orcipata Muller, Anim. Infus., 1786, p. 134, pi. 20, figs. 21-23. 



