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Distribution. — West Australia, South Australia, inland area of 

 New South Wales, and northern area of Victoria. 



Genus 2 — LepidUPUS, Leach. 

 Lepidupus viridis, Baird. 



1850. Lepidurus viridis, Baird. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 



p. 254, fig. 1. 

 1866. Lepidurus angasii, Baird. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



p. 122, tig. 1. 

 1878. Lepidurus kirkii, G. M. Thomson. Trans. New 



Zealand Inst., xi., p. 260, pi. ii., fig. E4. 



1878. Lepidurus compressus, G. M. Thomson. Trans. 



New Zealand Inst., xi., p. 260, pi. ii., fig. E5. 



1879. Lepidurus viridulus, Tate. Proc. Royal Soc. South 



Australia, 1878-9, p. 136. 

 (?) 1894. Lepidurus angasii, G. O. Sars. Arch. Naturv., 

 Christiania, xii., pt. 2, No. 7, pp. 4-13, pi. i., 

 fig. 1-15. 

 1896. Lepidurus viridis, Spencer and Hall. Report Horn 

 Expedition to Central Australia, pt. ii.. Zoology, 

 p. 233. 

 This species is by no means uncommon in rain-water pools in 

 the neighbourhood of Melbourne, and also inland. 



Distribution. — Inland and coastal areas of N.S.W. ; northern 

 and southern areas of Victoria ; southern area of South Australia ; 

 Tasmania ; and New Zealand. 



Tribe 3 — Cotichostraca. 



Characters. — -Phyllopoda, with body surrounded by a large 

 ibivalved shell, so that the animal may be completely enclosed. 

 Often bearing a striking resemblance to certain bivalved 

 Mollusca. 



Family 1 — Limnadiidae. 



Characters. — Shell generally compressed and furnished, in the 

 full-grown animal, with a varying number of lines of growth. 

 Head of medium size, an<l only slightly diffin-ent in the two sexes. 



