FREE-LIVING NEMATODES 505 



70 (69) Spiculum single 71 



71 (72) Vagina of the adult cylindroid, S-shaped. . . Limnomermis Daday. 

 72(71) Vagina tubular (?) not S-shaped Pseudomermis de Man. 



73 (68) Cuticula with criss-cross fibers .' 74 



74 (77) Vagina of the adult S-shaped 75 



75 (76) Spiculum single Paramermis von Linstow. 



76 (75) Spicula two Mermis Dujardin. 



77 (74) Vagina of the adult not S-shaped Bathymermis Daday. 



78(67) Longitudinal fields eight 79 



79 (80) Cuticula without criss-cross fibers Hydromermis Corti. 



80 (79) Cuticula with criss-cross fibers Eumermis Daday. 



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BASTIAN, C. 1865. Monograph of the Anguillulidae. Trans. Linn. Soc., 



Lond., 25: 73-84; 5 pi. 

 BUTSCHLI, O. 1873. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden. 



Nova acta caes. leop., 36: 144; n pi. 



COBB, N. A. 1913. New Nematode Genera Found Inhabiting Fresh- 

 Water and Non-Brackish Soils. Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., 3: 432-444. 

 1914. The North American Free-living Fresh-Water Nematodes. Trans. 



Amer. Micr. Soc., 33; 69-134; 8 pi. 

 DE MAN, J. G. 1884. Die frei in der reinen Erde und im siissen Wasser 



lebenden Nematoden d. Niederlandischen Fauna. 206 pp.; 34 pi. 

 JAGERSKIOLD, L. A. 1909. Freilebende Siisswassernematoden. Siisswasser- 



fauna Deutschlands, Heft 15; 46 pp.; 65 figs. 

 MAUPAS, E. 1899. La mue et 1'enkystement chez les Nematodes. Arch. 



zool. exper. (3), 7: 562-628; 3 pi. 

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exper. (3), 8: 462-624; n pi. 

 MICOLETZKY, H. 1913. Freilebende Siisswassernematoden der Ostalpen. 



Sitzber. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. Kl., Abt. I, 122 : m- 



122, 543-548. 

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