Vol. II, No. 3.] Notes on the Freshwater Fauna of India. 5) 
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‘7. Notes on the Freshwater Fauna of India. No. I.—A variety of 
Spongilla lacustris from Brackish Water in Bengal.—By N. 
AnnanpaLe, J).Sc., C.M.Z.S. 
Thanks to Carter’s! classical memoirs, the Freshwater Sponges 
from Central India. The following list, based mainly on the third 
as members of our fauna :— 
INDIAN SPONGILLIDS. 
Genus Spongilla. 
1. 8. alba; Carte on ... Bombay. 
2. S. bombayensis, Cart. =) ombay,. 
3. S. carteri, Brok. ... _ Bombay, Chota Nagpur, Central India, 
Calcutta; Madura (Malay Archipelago), 
auritius, Eastern Europe. 
4, S. cerebellata,+ Bwrk. ... Central India. 
5. S. cinerea, Cart. ... Bombay ; Celebes, Flores, N. America. 
6. S. decipiens, Weber ... Calcutta; Celebes. 
7. 8. lacustris, auct. ia Bengal; Europe, N. America, 
Northern Asia, Australia. 
Genus Ephydatia. 
8. E. plumosa (Cart.) .. Bombay; N. America. 
The following species have been recorded from countries near 
India and will probably be found to belong to the Indian fauna :— 
Weber... Sumatra. 
Spongilla sumatrana, 
Ephydatia fluviatilis, auct. .. Eastern Asia, Europe, N. America ; 
Australia. 
4 blembingia,5 Evans .... Malay Peninsula, 
During a recent visit (January 28th-30th) to Port Canning 
in Lower Bengal, I was much struck by the enormous number of 
1 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1847, 1849, 1856, 1859, 1874, 1881. 
2 Wiegm Archiv. f. Naturgesch. LXT, 1895. 
8 Proc. Zool. Soc., 1863. 
4 Carter regarded this form as no more than a variety of his S. alba, 
* (1881 
& Quart Journ Micr. Science, 1900. 
