24 G. 0. Sårs. 



Natal, and, according to a note given in the work of J. do 

 Guerne and Richard, they did not properly occur in fresh 

 water, but in a so-called salt-pan, or small saline marsh. 

 The specimens examined by me were found in 2 samples 

 taken by Dr. Purcell in the beginning of October, 1898, on 

 Green Point Common, near Capetown, partly from small 

 ponds, partly from a so-called «vley», where the water 

 must have been perfectly fresh. To judge from the power- 

 fully developed maxillipeds, this form is certainly a very 

 rapacious animal, probably feeding upon other Entomostraca, 

 especially Daphniæ, which, indeed, occurred in great numbers 

 in the same places. 



2. Broteas lamellatus, G. O. Sars. 



Paradiaptomus lamellatus, G. O. Sars, «On some South 

 African Entomostraca raised from dried mud.» Chr.a Vid.- 

 Selsk. Skrifter 1895, p. 46, PI. 7 and 8. 



Body comparatively shorter and thicker than in the pre- 

 ceding species, with the anterior division oblong oval in form 

 and highly convex above; cephalic segment evenly rounded 

 in front, with no distinct cervical sulcus; lateral lobes of last 

 segment in female symmetrical, lanceolate, pointing obliquely 

 behind. Tail in female less slender, with the genital seg- 

 ment abruptly dilated in front; 2nd segment much shorter 

 than the 1st, and considerably expanded distally. Caudal 

 rami in female of quite an unusual size, exceeding half the 

 length of the tail, oval lamelliform in shape, and scarcely 

 tapering distally; those of male much smaller and slightly 

 asymmetrical. Caudal setæ in female unusually small and 



