OCT Ö8 1899 

 ARCHIV FOR MATHEMATIK OG NATÜRVIDENSKAB. B. XXI. Nr. 4. 



Additional Notes on South African 

 Pliyllopoda 



By g. 0. Sårs 

 With 3 autographic Plates 



Introduction. 



In the XXth Volume of this journal I have published 

 2 papers on South African Phyllopoda, the one treating of 

 4 different forms raised from dried mud kindly forwarded 

 to me by Mr. Hodgson, who procured it from a dried-up 

 vley at Port Elizabeth, the other containing descriptions and 

 figures of 2 additional forms collected near Capetown by 

 Dr. Purcell, and kindly sent to me for examination pre- 

 served in alcohol. I have since received from the last- 

 named gentleman sevei'al excellently preserved specimens of 

 Phyllopoda, partly collected by himself in the neighbourhood 

 of Capetown, partly by Messrs. J. L. Drege and W, Sculley 

 in more remote regions of South Africa. I have thereby 

 been enabled to complete in several points my previous 

 descriptions, and also to announce some interesting new 

 species, to be described and figured in the present paper. 

 The material now at my disposal has shown that the 

 specific distinction of the Phyllopoda is connected with no 

 small difficulty, chiefly because, as a rule, these peculiar 



