88 BULLETIN 81, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PROALES GIGANTEA (Glasscott). 



Notommata gigantea Glasscott, Proc. Royal Dublin Soc, n. ser., vol. 8, 1893, p. 80, 



pi. 7, fig. 1. 



? Proales ovicola Giaed, Feuilles jeunes Natural., vol. 38, 1908, p. 184. 



Proales gigantea Stevens, Joum. Quekett Micr. Club, eer. 2, vol. 11, 1912, p. 481, pi. 



24, figs. 1-5. 



PROALES PARASITA (Ehrenberg). 



Notommata parasita Ehrenberg, Infusionsth., 1838, p. 426, pi. 50, fig. 1. 

 Proales parasita Rousselet, Proc. Royal Irish Acad., vol. 31, No. 51, 1911, p. 8. 



PROALES WERNECKU (Ehrenberg). 



iVotommata 'wernecHi Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1833), 1834, p. 216. 



Copeus werneckii'EB.RENBERG, Infusionsth., 1838, p. 441. 



Proales werneckii Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, Suppl., 1889, p. 23, pi. 32, fig. 18. 



Doubtful or insufficiently described species: 



Proales algicola Kellicott, Proc. Amer. Soc. Micr., vol. 19, 1897, p. 48. 

 Proales coryneger Gosse, Joum. Royal Micr, Soc, 1887, p. 863, pi. 14, fig. 4. 

 Proales inflata Glasscott, Proc. Royal Dublin Soc, n. ser., vol. 8, 1893, p. 51, pi. 



4, fig. 1. 

 Proales micropus (Gosse). 



Furcularia micropus Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 46, pi. 

 19, fig. 12. 



Proales micropus Jennings, Amer. Natural., vol. 35, 1901, p. 743, pi. 5, fig. 82. 

 Proales othodon Gosse, Joum. Royal Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 366, pi. 8, fig. 11. 

 Proales prehensor Gosse, Joum. Royal Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 366, pi. 8, fig. 12. 



Genus PROALIDES de Beauehamp. 



Proalides de Beauchamp, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 32, 1907, p. 148. 

 Type (monotype). — Proalides tentaculatus de Beauchamp. 



PROALIDES TENTACULATUS de Beauchamp. 



Proalides tentaculatus de Beauchamp, Bull. Soc Zool. France, vol. 32, 1907, p. 148, 



fig. 1. 



PROALIDES VERRUCOSUS (Barrois and Daday). 



Adactyla verrucosa Barrois and Daday, Math. Term. I^rt., vol. 12, 1894, p. 227, pi. 7, 



figs. 4, 8. 

 Proalides verrucosus de Beauchamp, Bull. Soc Zool. France, vol. 32, 1907, p. 152. 



Genus PSEUDCECISTES Stenroos. 



Pseudcedstes Stenroos, Acta Soc. Fauna Flora Fennica, vol. 17, No. 1, 1898, p. 107. 

 Type (monotype). — Pseudoscistes rotifer Stenroos. 



PSEUDCECISTES ROTIFER Stenroos. 



Pseudoscistes rotifer Stenroos, Acta Soc Fauna Flora Fennica, vol. 17, No. 1, 1898, 

 p. 107, pi. 1, figs. 11-17. 



PTERCESSA Gosse. 



Pteroessa Gosse, only species Ptercessa surda Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, 

 vol. 2, p. 4, pi. 13, fig. 9; probably not a rotifer. 



