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Brachionus furculatus, found by him in a pool near Simons Bay, 

 Cape of Good Hope. Then in 1893 the same author, in a short note 

 on the " Eecorded Localities for Eotifera " (20), mentions the follow- 

 ing additional six species observed by him in South Africa — 



Philodina citrina Ehrbg. Cape of Good Hope. 

 Brachionus pala Ehrbg. „ „ 



„ dorcas Gosse „ „ 



„ urceolaris Ehrbg. „ „ 



„ angidaris Gosse „ „ 



Metopidia soliclus. Delagoa Bay. 



In 1901 the Hon. Thomas Kirkman, of Natal, published in this 

 Journal a "List of some of the Eotifera of Natal" (11), in which 

 52 species are enumerated for that Colony, and quite recently 

 the same author has sent a " Second List of Natal Eotifera" (12) to 

 this Society, containing 21 additional species. 



Lastly, Mr. Wm. Milne, of Cape Colony, published in 1905 a 

 short paper with notes on " Some New South African Floscules " 

 (15), mentioning seven species. This is the sum total of the pub- 

 lished accounts of South African Eotifera. Within the last few 

 months Mr. Milne has, at my request, sent me a list of species 

 which he has observed in his district of Uitenhage, and which I 

 have incorporated in the general list of South African species given 

 at the end of this paper. 



The visit of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science to South Africa in the autumn of last year afforded me a 

 welcome opportunity of visiting this interesting country, and of 

 making collections of Eotifera in various and widely separated 

 parts, the results of which are embodied in this paper. I may state 

 at once, however, that several circumstances prevented my search- 

 ing for and collecting as much as I should have desired, so that my 

 results can only be taken as a small contribution to the Eotiferous 

 fauna of these vast regions. In the first place, the time of our 

 arrival in South Africa, August, corresponds with the early spring, 

 when no rain has fallen for many months, and the whole country, 

 except only the south and west coast district, is very dry — all 

 pools, ponds, and even rivers, in the interior are dried up. It was 

 not easy to find suitable collecting grounds, as we visited no lakes 

 or large pieces of water. In the second place, we rushed through 

 the country at a great rate in order to get through the pre-arranged 

 programme on the appointed days, from Capetown to Durban, and 

 from Durban to the Zambesi and Beira, a distance of over 4500 

 miles, stopping only very few days at the principal towns. Then 

 on arrival anywhere, every hour of the day had been set apart for 

 some function, reception, luncheon, lecture, or visit to battlefields 

 and places of interest. An umbrella being quite unnecessary at 



