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34, On some Freshwater Entomostraca in the collection of the Indian 
Museum, Caleutta.—By Rosert Gurney. Communicated by 
N. AnnanpaLe. (With 2 plates. ) 
The Entomostraca here dealt with were kindly entrusted to 
me for examination by Dr. Nelson Annandale, Deputy Super- 
intendent of the Indian Museum. They comprise a number of 
Phyllopoda, Cladocera and Cope poda, and one Ostracod, some 
collected by Dr. Annandale himself, and others forming part of 
the Museum collection. 
Our knowledge of the Entomostraca of India is most meagre ; 
apart from the Phyllopoda, of which several have been recorded by 
Baird and Sars, we know practically nothing, and it is impossible 
nt ose cannot, of course, lay much stress on the evidence 
of the single species—Branchipus pisciformis, Schaeft., which I 
record from there, but the genus, as at present restricted, has not 
been found hitherto outside the Palearctic Region 
PHYLLOPODA. 
1. Liwnetis sracnycra (0. F. Miller). 
Several specimens, mostly females, from Shandir lake, Chit- 
ral ; 12,000 feet (Chitral Mission). 
2. Estraeria pavipi, Simon. 
See G. O. Sars, Ann. Mus. St. Petersb., VI, 1901. 
S species was first recorded by E. Simon (1886) from Pe- 
king. _ It has since been redescribed by Prof. Sars from specimens 
brought from the Western — - the Chingan Mountains in 
Eastern Mongolia. Several specim geen ore gine with 
the description given by Sars, were collected by 
I.M.S., at Gyantse in Thibet. The species has not hitherto at 
found outeide Asia. 
: 3, EsrHERiA INDICA, N. Sp. 
Description— 
- The shell is of the same shape and appearance in both 
sexes, ‘Bien laterally (Fig. 2) it is elliptical in shape, the height 
about two-thirds of the length; the umbones very prominent, 
