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Subfamily II. Poniellin^. 



7. Pontella Wollastoni, Lubbock, 



Very common off Wimereux during the summer. The females 

 are never found with ovigerous sacs. 



8. Pontellina Lobiancoi, Giesbrecht, MS. 



A large species, measuring 6 or 7 millim. in length and further 

 remarkable for its brilliant coloration, a mixture of white, red, and 

 blue, much resembling that of Anomalocera Patersonii, Tempi. 

 Common off Wimereux in the summer. In general form it re- 

 sembles PonteUina gigantea, Claus. The body is elongated, nearly 

 cylindrical, and consists in the male of twelve and in the female of 

 nine segments and the furca. The frontal beak is bifid, with the 

 two branches widely divergent. The cephalic segment bears on each 

 side, at the limit of the anterior third, a point recurved backwards, 

 and the fiflh thoracic segment has on each side a wing-like process 

 terminating in a point. The abdomen of the male has five and that 

 of the female only three segments. The last abdominal segment in 

 both sexes is deeply incised on its ventral face, and on the two lobes 

 thus formed are fitted the broad and short furcal pieces. The 

 author notes other pecxiliarities of structure characteristic of this 

 species, which has been already described by M. Giesbrecht under 

 the above name in a memoir on the pelagic Copepoda which he is 

 preparing for publication in the ' Fauna und Flora des Golfes von 

 Neapel.' — Bulletin Scientijique de la France et de la Belgique, ser. 3, 

 Annee i. (1888), pp. 78-106. 



The Freshwater Infusoria of the Wellington District, New Zealand. 

 By 'W. M. Maskell. 



In communicating to the Wellington Philosophical Society a 

 notice of some freshwater Infusoria, in continuation of a previous 

 paper on the same subject, the author has the foUowiug remarks on 

 the resemblance existing between the Infusoria of New Zealand and 

 those of Europe. He says : — 



" In the ' Journal of the Poyal Microscopical Society ' for Feb- 

 ruary 1887 Professor A. C. Stokes, of New Jersey, in an account of 

 some new American Infusoria, remarks that it is rare to find in 

 America forms which are also found in European fresh water. 

 The experience of the compilers of the present paper leads to quite 

 the contrary view as regards the New-Zealand animalcules. Pro- 

 bably the ambition of every * systematic ' observer in any branch of 

 zoology or botany is to discover some new species ; and this, laud- 



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