General Catalogue of South African Crustacea. 531 



1902. Dia2)tomidcB, Stebbing, Encycl. Britannica, ed. 10, vol. xxviii., 

 Suppl. vol. iv., p. 272. 

 It is convenient here to accept the family in the wide sense, 

 calling it after the name of its earliest genus. In his Crustacea 

 of Norway, vol. iv., 1903, Sars divides it into a large number 

 of families, among which the names Diaj^toniidcB and Centro- 

 pagidcB occur, each in a very restricted application. 



Gen. DIAPTOMUS, Westwood. 

 1836. Diaptovms, Westwood, Partington's Cyclopaedia Nat. Hist., 



art. Cyclops. 

 1898. D., Giesbrecht and Schmeil, Das Tierreich, vol. vi., p. 66. 



DiAPTOMUs ORiENTALis, Brady. 

 1886. Diaptomus orientalis, Brady, J. Linn. Soc. London, vol. xix., 



p. 296, pi. 37, figs. 21-26. 

 1907. D. 0., Brady, Annals Natal Gov. Mus., vol. i., pt. 2, p. 184. 



Frequent in gatherings from Somkele and Pvichmond, Natal; 

 previously taken in Ceylon and elsewhere. Sent to Dr. Brady 

 by Mr. James Gibson. 



-'= DiAPTOMUS CAPENSis, Sars. 



1907. Diaptomus capensis, Sars, Arch. Naturv. Kristian., vol. xxviii., 



No. 8, p. 4, pis. 1, 2, figs. 1, 2. 



Taken by Dr. Purcell from Dam at I'aure, near Eerste 



Eiver, Cape Division ; pond in the Cape Flats, near Cape 



Town ; small ponds on the Green Point Common ; vley on 



the same ; pond in the Karoo, at Ashton, Eobertson Division. 



* Diaptomus puecelli, Sars. 

 1907. Diaptomus purcelli, Sars, Arch. Naturv. Kristian., vol. xxviii., 

 No. 8, p. 12, pi. 2, figs. 3-10. 

 Taken by Dr. Purcell from Dam of Bergulut, Constantia 

 Area ; brick-pond at same ; pond in the Cape Flats ; all near 

 Cape Town. 



Gen. PAEADIAPTOMUS, Sars. 

 1846. Broteas (preocc), Lov6n, K. Vet. Ak. Handlingar for Ar 1845 

 (vol. dated 1847), p. 436. 

 Schmeil gives the preoccupying name as " Brotheas (corr. 

 Broteas), G. L. Koch (1839, Hahn & Koch, Die Arachniden, 



