1912.| N. ANNANDALE and S. Kemp: Kumaon Lakes. 143 
as intermediate specimens occur ; but Indian specimens represent 
a distinct race for which the name bombayensis must stand. Mr. 
Kemp found this species somewhat sparingly in Bhim Tal and 
Sat Tal in May. His specimens have a peculiar reddish colour 
and their zooecia are longer and slightly less recumbent than those 
from the W. Ghats. They were attached to small stones. 
I have recently (March 2nd, 1912) found several colonies of 
this species growing, together with F’vedericella indica, on the leaves 
of Vallisneria spiralis in a canal at Cuttack in Orissa. They re- 
sembled those found on the lower side of stones from Igatpuri but 
were evidently young. 
It is curious that no species of Plumatella with broad stato- 
blasts (except the aberrant P. punctata, Hancock) has as yet been 
found in India. Braem! has recently described (together with a 
new species of Vzctorella) a form allied to, if not identical with, 
P. fungosa (Pallas) from Issyk-Kul in Turkestan, but I know of 
no similar form in this country. 
6. SYTOLELLA HIMALAYANA, Annandale. 
Annandale, Faun. Brit. Ind., Freshwater Sponges, etc.., 
p. 246, fig. 49. 
This species is described and figured in the aadenda to my 
volume in the ‘‘ Fauna’’ (p. 246, fig. 49) from specimens taken 
by Mr. Kemp in Malwa Tal in May. At that season the species 
was evidently scarce, but the zooecia contained few statoblasts 
(only free ones) and numerous young colonies were being formed 
by the budding of old statoblasts on the stones to which the 
adult zoaria were attached. 
S. himalayana differs from S. indica,’ the type species of the 
genus, in the following characters :—(i) the zooecia are entirely 
recumbent ; (ii) each zooecium is separated from all others by the 
stolon-like prolongation of their bases; and (iii) the zoarium pro- 
duces lateral branches almost in a cruciform manner. | 
7. VOPHOPODELLA CARTERI (Hyatt). 
I found this species fairly common in Bhim Tal in October 
and Mr. Kemp took it in great profusion in the same lake and in 
Malwa Tal and Sat Talin May. At both seasons statoblasts were 
being produced in large numbers, but in my specimens a large 
proportion of these were more or less ill-formed, the hooked 
processes being deficient or obsolete. These specimens were made 
the types of my variety himalayana. Mr. Kemp’s were, however, 
quite normal. JL. carteyi was originally found in the island of 
Bombay and is abundant in November in Igatpuri lake in the 
1 ** Beitrage zur Kenutniss der Fauna Turkestans—vili. Bryozoen und deren 
Parasiten, ’’ Trav. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes St. Petersburg, vol. xlii, p. 5, figs. (1191). 
2 Rec. Ind. Mus., iii, p. 279, fig. (1909). Professor K. Ramunni Menon of 
Madras has recently sent me specimens of S. indica from that city. 
