44 Journal oj the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (February, 1912. 
last year in streams of the Western Ghats by Mr. 8. P. Aghar- 
kar, Professor of Biology in the Elphinstone College, Bombay. 
This little medusa was at one time (like the polyzoon Arach- 
noidea) thought to be confined to Lake Tanganyika in Central 
Africa, its existence in which was also adduced as a proof that the 
fauna of the lake had a recent marine origin. We do not know 
as yet whether the Indian Limnocnida is precisely identical 
with the African one, but a member of the Museum staff will 
start in a few weeks to investigate this point and if possible 
discover the life-cycle of the medusa. [Mr. F. N. Gravely has 
recently returned from the W. Ghats with large numbers of 
specimens. The Indian form represents a distinct species and 
will be described in the next part of Records of the Indian 
Museum (pt. iii, vol. vii) as Limnocnida indica. 21-v-12 
I 
have already referred to the late Dr. H. J. Carter of 
Bombay, a naturalist who has never received his true meed of 
popular fame because the animals which he studied did not as a 
and Burma. This is more than twice as many as have been 
found in the whole of Europe. Indeed, in the tank in the 
compound of the Indian Museum we have more species and 
varieties than are known to exist in that continent. 
f the Protozoa of India waters we know as yet practically 
r 

: y eraady Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1848—1887, 
nnandale, Fau rit. Ind., tom. cit; see also Ree. Ind, Mus., II 
R 25 hoger III, p. 101 aed v, p- 31 (1910), vi, p. 295 (1911), and ‘also 
nnandale an emp on the fauna of the K : 
Mus., VII, p. 129, ete. (1912), oe ee ae 
ee Murray, Quart. Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc., 1 
1907, p. 269, and Pénard, ibid., p. 274. ee ee 
