On a Pohjthalamian from Transylvania. 34^ 



Dr. Kraatz also mentions that " besides the build of the 

 thorax Linotarsia is distinguished from Stenotarsia bj the 3- 

 (not 2-) toothed anterior tibiae." 



H. discoidaiis and S. picta have three acute teeth in both 

 sexes • but in S. Scottii (and S. plaglata more recently de- 

 scribed by myself) the anterior tibite are only two-toothed 

 in the male, the would-be basal one being so obscure as to 

 be scarcely noticeable. In S. punctiventris here described, 

 the anterior tibiae have no trace of a third tooth, although the 

 specimen is a female ; I therefore place it in the genus 

 ^tenofarsi'a, although the form of the thorax &c. is that of 

 '' Linotarsia Scottii.'''' 



XLIV. — On a Pohjthalamian from the Salt-pools near Diva 

 in Transylvania. By Dr. EuGEX vOiY Daday *. 



The Protozoa of the numerous salt-ponds and pools in Tran- 

 sylvania were first studied, and compared with the Proto- 

 zoan fauna of the sea and of fresh waters, by Prof. G<5za Entz. 

 It was found that " the Infusorian fauna of Transylvanian 

 salt-pools, which cannot well be styled rich in comparison 

 A\ith that of the fresh Avaters, (1) possesses some new forms 

 which have hitherto been found neither in fresh nor in sea water • 

 (2) a portion of the Infusoria of the salt-pools has not previ- 

 ously been found in freshwater, but only in the sea ; (3) 

 the greater part of the Infusoria of the salt-pools is formed by 

 those forms which occur both in fresh water and in the sea* 

 and (4) only about a fourth part of the Infusoria found con- 

 sists of forms which have not hitherto been found in sea- 

 water "t- Lastly, however, it is stated that the Infusorian 

 fauna of the continental salt-pools stands in closer relation to 

 that of the sea than to that of the fresh water |. 



Among the thirty-seven Infusoria (Ciliata) enumerated in 

 two memoirs § by the above-mentioned naturalist from the 

 salt-pools of Torda and Szamosfalva, eight species {Acineta 

 tiibervsaj Ehr. ; Phacus striatus, Cohn j Lacrymaria lage- 

 nuia, Clap. & Lachm. ; Aspidisca polystyla, Stein ; Styloplotes 



* Translated by AV. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the 'Zeitschrift fiir wissen- 

 scliaftlitlie Zooiogie,' Band xl. pp. 405-480. (See a preliminary note 

 in ' Annals,' toI. xiii. p. 307.) 



t 'The Infusorian lauua of the Salt-pools of Torda and Szamosfalva' 

 (in Hungarian), 1876, pp. 9, 10. 



X Loc. cit. p. 10, 



§ "On some _ Infusoria of the Salt-pool at Szamosfalva" (in Hun- 

 garian), Naturhistorische Hefte, Bd. ii. pp. 219-258, Taf. viii., x. ; (in 

 German), ibid. Bd. iii. pp. 33-72. 



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