Freshwater Poly zoo a from S. Africa. 



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voyage to England, some of them were still alive when she 

 handed them over to me. The most noteworthy among 

 them was a colony of freshwater Polyzoa attached to a stem 

 of triangular section. It had produced numerous statoblasts, 

 some of which were still contained in the parent colony, while 

 others, and these were the greater number, were free and lay 

 at the bottom of the jar. A long process at each end ren- 

 dered the appearance of the statoblasts strikingly different 

 from the reproductive bodies of Polyzoa with which I was 

 familiar. 1 consequently showed them to Dr. Harmer, who 

 recognized them as probably belonging to a new species of 

 Lophopus allied to Lophopus carteri, Hyatt ( = Lophopodella 

 sp., Rousselet). 



Fig. 1. 



A single valve of a statoblast of Lophopvs capensis. The artist has not 

 represented the air-cells quite correctly : they have the usual 

 hexagonal form. 



Definition. — The new species, which I propose to call 

 Lophopus capensis, is referred to the genus Lophopus on 

 account of its thick gelatinous ectocyst and of the form of its 

 statoblasts, which are elliptical and rendered pointed by the 



