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strong tooth near apex, hind tibiae about twice the length of the 

 hind tarsi, deeply grooved beneath with a fringe of fine black 

 hairs inside groove ; hind tarsi also fringed with black hairs 

 beneath. 



Type. No. 8064/H.I. in the collection of the Zoological Sur- 

 vey of India. 



This species is very closely related to E. indica and E. paivana 

 from which it differs chiefly in the total absence of any black 

 markings on its upperside ; the transversely impressed line near 

 the base of the scutellum is sufficient to differentiate it structurally 

 from an}' allied form.. 



Enithares templetoni (Kirby). 



Three specimens from small pools at the edge of the river at 

 Medha. and three from small rocky streams at Khandalla. '' Dives 

 under water and clings to stones some inches below the surface. 

 N. A." Evidently a very widely distributed species. Represen- 

 ted in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India from 

 various localities in the Western Himalayas, Bombay Presidency, 

 Ceylon and Southern Shan States. 



Family Corixidae. 



Corixa hieroglyphica, Duf. 



A number of specimens from small pools at the edge of the 

 river at Medha. 



VIII. Sponges from the Satar.-v and Poona Districts and 

 FROM Chota (Chutia) Nagpur. 



I have already discussed Spongillidae from the Satara district 

 in my paper on the sponges of the Malabar Zone {Rec. Ind. Mus. 

 VII, pp. 383-397 : 1912) and have referred to specimens from the 

 Poona district in an earlier paper {ihid, VI, pp. 225, 226 : 1911) ; 

 but when I wrote these papers I had not visited the districts 

 myself, and observation of sponges in the natural surroundings is 

 always important. The species that inhabit the beds of rocky 

 streams are of particular interest, and I am now able to compare 

 those that do so at Medha with those found in a very similar 

 stream at Chakradharpur in Chota Nagpur near the centre of 

 Peninsular India I have not yet found any sponge in a small 

 mountain torrent such as those at Khandalla, in which food is 

 probably deficient ; but when these streams are dammed to form 

 ponds in which aquatic vegetation grows up, sponges soon make 

 their appearance. 



So far as my experience goes, Spongillidae that grow on the 

 rocks of Indian streams are always encrusting forms. Massive 

 sponges would be in danger of destruction in floods, and although 



