168 Records of the Indian Museum. (Vor. sal; 
Lame 
. The synoecial jelly is much softer and more copious. 
. The colony is broken up into a number of short branches 
lying separated in the jelly. 
3. The tentacles of the polypide are longer and more 
numerous. 
4. The statoblast is larger and has the sides more nearly 
parallel and the extremities subtruncate; the swim- 
ting is not curved in cross-section. 
No 
Ridley’s statement that the different parts of the polyparium 
are joined together by a stolon is due to a misunderstanding : 
a stolon is indeed present at the base of the jelly, but it is that 
of a hydroid (Cordylophora whiteleggi, v. Iendenfeld), of which 
I have found a single hydranth projecting from the surface of the 
colony in the schizotype of the polyzoon. 
Australella jheringhi (Meissner). 
1893. Lophopus jheringhi, Meissner, Zool., Anz., p. 290. 
1914. Australella jheringhi, Kraepelin, Michaelsen’s Land und 
Stisswasserfauna Deutsch-Siidwestafrikas 1, Bryozoa, p. 
61, pl. i, fig. 9. 
I have not seen this species, which is only known from 
Brazil. It may be readily distinguished from the other two by its 
nearly circular statoblasts. 
Genus Plumatella, Lamarck. 
Plumatella punctata, Hancock. 
1887. Plumatella punctata, Kraepelin, Deutsch. Susswasserbryo- 
zoen I, p. 126 (numerous figures). 
1911. Plumatella punctata, Annandale, Faun. Brit. Ind., Fresw. 
Sponges, etc., p. 227, p. 213, figs. 42 G and G’ and pl. iv, 
fig. 5. 
1914. Plumatella punctata, Kraepelin, op. cit. supra, p. 60, pl. i, 
fig. 10. 
Since 1911 I have found this species fairly abundant, with 
Fredericella sultana indica and Plumatella tanganyikae bombay- 
ensts, in the canal at Cuttack in Orissa. Kraepelin has recently 
recorded its occurrence in South-West Africa. 
var. longigemmis, nov. 
(Plate IIT, fig; 2). 
A closely allied form grows luxuriantly in a small pool of prac- 
tically fresh water on Barkuda Island in the Chilka Lake (Gan- 
jam district, Madras Presidency). It agrees with P punctata 
in every respect except that the gemmules ate uniformly more 
elongate and have relatively smaller capsules than is usually the 
case (fig. 2, p. 166), ‘They have the swim-ring slightly curved in - ; 
