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out, which is reached by an electric tram. Here there is an orna- 

 mental lake in the gardens of the hotel, and therefrom I obtained 

 six species of Eotifers — 



Polyarthra platyptcra Ehrbg. Very abundant. 

 Euchlanis oropha Gosse. Few. 

 Diaschiza gibba Ehrbg. Few. 

 Cathypna luna Ehrbg. Few. 

 Pterodina patina Ehrbg. Abundant. 

 Brachionus Bakeri Ehrbg. Abundant. 



On the afternoon of September 7 we left Kimberley for Bula- 

 wayo, and after a long journey through the very dry and more or 

 less desert country of Bechuanaland reached our destination on 

 the morning of the 9th. There was no opportunity for collecting 

 during this journey, though I might probably have been successful 

 had I known then that it is possible to collect Eotifers by the hose 

 which feeds the engine from the iron or wooden railway water- 

 tanks at the stations, a discovery which I made later in Rhodesia. 



Bulawayo is an embryo city, a town of magnificent distances, 

 which stands in an open plain where fifteen years ago some bushes 

 and a few blades of grass only grew. The plan of the town, with 

 its broad avenues and streets, looks imposing, but a closer ac- 

 quaintance reveals the fact that only the central business part is 

 covered with a fair number of substantial houses, with a building 

 here and there at the corners of streets ; the remainder are blank 

 stands or numbered plots of land to let, awaiting tenants. The 

 town, however, has six hotels, three clubs, five churches, a public 

 library and a Natural History Museum, which was opened during 

 our visit by Professor Darwin ; so there can be no doubt that it will 

 grow in extent and prosperity as time goes on. A small stream 

 called Matjesumshlope river runs through a portion of the town set 

 apart for a large park, but at the time of our stay it had ceased 

 running, and presented a very dry bed of sand. My search for a 

 pond or pool of water at this dry season was altogether hopeless, so 

 I turned my attention to the waterworks of the town. The water 

 supply of Bulawayo is drawn from a series of reservoirs formed by 

 damming several breaks in a natural chain of granite kopjes some 

 three miles to the east of the town. Unfortunately I had no 

 opportunity of visiting these reservoirs, but the water is brought to 

 the town by a main flowing into a large tank situated close to the 

 station ; from here it is pumped through a filter and distributed in 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XV. 



Fig. 1. — Cathypna ungulata Gosse. x 225. 

 » 2. — Tctramastix opolicnsis Zacharias. x 210. 

 „ 3. — Brachionus palavax. dorcas. x 160. 

 ii 4. — Jaws of unnamed Notommatoid Rotifer from Victoria Falls, x 250. 



