Vem aioe RoE A Se FOR AY RE VIS FON OF 
fOr ee wae TOL AM A TOUS. POLE ZO A 
OF INDIA. 
By N. ANNANDALE, D.Sc., C.M.Z.S., F.A.S.B., Superintendent, 
Indian Museum. 
The Phylactolemata of the Oriental Region have hitherto 
attracted little attention on the part of zoologists : except a few 
short papers of my own in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal and these ‘‘ Records,’’ the following are the only references 
(besides a few bare statements as to the existence of Plumatella 
in the East) I can find in literature :-— 
1859. Carter described and figured the statoblast of a 
‘* Lophopus’’ (Lophofodella cartert) and recorded 
Plumatella repens and P. stricta from Bombay 
(Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), vol. iii, p. 332). 
1862. Mitchell recorded a species of ‘‘ Lophopus’’ from 
Madras (Quart. Journ. Micr. Sct. (3), vol. ii, p. 61). 
1865. Hyatt named the Indian ‘‘ Lophopus’’ described 
by Carter as Pectinatella carteri (Comm. Essex Inst., 
vol. iv, p. 203). 
1887. Kraepelin described Plumatella philippinensis (Deut- 
schen Stisswasser-Bryozoen, part i, p. 118, footnote). 
1895. Meissner recorded the discovery of statoblasts of 
Lophopodella carteri in E. Africa (‘‘ Moosthiere,’’ 
p. 6, in Deutsch-Ost. Africa, vol. iv). 
1904. Rousselet placed this species in his new genus Lopho- 
podella (Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, 1904, p. 51). 
1906. Kraepelin described Plumatella javanica (Mitth. 
Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. xxiii, p. 143). 
1908. Loppens referred Plumatella javanica to P. emarginata 
as a variety (Ann. Biol. Lacustre, i111, p. 162). 
The following papers by Oka on Japanese forms are also of 
importance to students of the Indian species of the Phylacto- 
leemata :— 
1891. ‘‘ Observations on Freshwater Polyzoa,” in Journ. 
Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, vol. iv. 
1907. ‘* Zur Kenntnis der Siisswasser-Bryozoenfauna von 
Japan,’’ in Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. vi. 
1908. ‘‘ Ueber eine neue Gattung von Stsswasser-bryo- 
zoen,”’ in Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. v1. 
