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Genus POLYARTHRA Ehrenberg. 



Polyarihra Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1833), 1834, p. 226. 

 Type (monotype). — Polyarihra trigla Ehrenberg. 



POLYARTHRA EURYPTERA Wierzejskl. 



Polyarihra platyptera euryptera Wierzejski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 16, 1891, p. 



50, fig. 1. 

 Polyarihra latiremis Imhop, Zool. Anz., vol. 14, 1891, p. 125. This name was listed 



by Imhof in Vierteljahrsschr. Nat. Ges. Zurich, vol. 30, 1885, p. 380, and Zool. 



Anz., vol. 9, 1886, p. 43, 44, in both cases without a word of description. 



POLYARTHRA TRIGLA Ehrenberg. 



Polyarihra trigla Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1833), 1834, p. 336, pi. 11, 



fig. 2. 

 Polyarihra sexpennis Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1833), 1834, p. 226; 



corrected to Polyarihra trigla, p. 336. 

 Polyarihra platyptera Ehrenberg, Infusionsth., 1838, p. 441, pi. 54, fig. 3. 

 Polyarihra hexapiera Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 55, pi. 13, 



fig. 117. 

 Polyarihra platyptera remata Skorikov, Trav. Soc. Natural. Charkov, vol. 30, 1896, 



p. 277. 

 Polyarihra platyptera major Burckhardt, Rev. Suisse Zool., vol. 7, 1900, p. 414. 

 Polyarihra platyptera minor Voigt, Forschungsber. Biol. Stat. Plon, vol. 11, 1904, 



p. 33. 

 Polyarihra platyptera palustris Lie-Pettersen, Bergens Mus. Aarb., 1909, No. 15, 



p. 36, pi. 1, fig. 11. 

 Polyarihra minor Lucks, Rotatorienfauna Westpreussens, 1912, p. 44. 



Eliminated : 



Polyarihra fusi/ormis Spencer, Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 4, 1890, p. 59, 

 pi. 5, figs. 7-9; to Gastrotricha as Stylochaeta fusi/ormis (Spencer), Hlava, Zool. 

 Anz., vol. 28, 1904, p. 333. 



Genus POMPHOLYX Gosse. 



Pompholyx Gosse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 8, 1851, p. 203; not Pompholyx 

 Lea, 1856, Mollusca; not Pompholyx Freymuth, 1870, Hymenoptera; not Pom- 

 pholyx Stal, 1873, Orthoptera. 

 Type (monotype). — Pompholyx complanata Gosse. 



POMPHOLYX COMPLANATA Gosse. 



Pompholyx complanata Gosse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 8, 1851, p. 203. 

 Notholca orientalis Barrois and Daday, Math. Term. Ert., vol. 12, 1894, p. 229, pi. 7, 



fig. 14. 



POMPHOLYX SULCATA Hudson. 



Pompholyx sulcata Hudson, Journ. Royal Micr. Soc, 1885, p. 613, pi. 12, figs. 7, 8. 

 Genus PROALES Gosse. 



Pronles Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 36. 



Type (by present designation).— Proa Zes decipiens (Ehrenberg)=Notommata dedpir 

 ens Ehrenberg. 



PROALES DECIPIENS (Ehrenberg). 

 Notommata decipiens Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1831), 1832, p. 132. 

 Noiommata vermicularis Dujardin, Hist. Nat. Zooph., 1841, p. 648, pi. 21, fig. 7. 

 Proales decipiens Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 36, pi. 18, fig. 6. 

 Pleurotrocha decipiens v. Hofsten, Ark. Zool., Stockholm, vol. 6, No. 1, 1909, p. 12. 



