56 On Australian Entomostracans. 



Woolnorth, and several islands in Bass's Straits. The alter- 

 ations of level at Point Nepean, Port Phillip, have already 

 been observed and recorded by my able friend the late Dr. 

 E. C. Hobson, in the 3rd vol. of the Tasmanian Journal. 



VIII. — On Australian Entomostracans. By the 

 Eev. K. L. King, B.A. \Bead l%th July, 1854.] 



SUB-KINGDOM. 



ANMULOSA. 



Class Crustacea. Division Entomostraca. 



Legion I. 

 Branchiopoda. 



(See " Papers and Proceedings," Vol. 2, Part II., January 1853. 



Legion II. 

 Lophyropoda. 



LOPHYROPA. LaTREILLE. 



Lophyropoda. Leach, &c. 

 Branchiopodis. Frange's (pars) Lamarck. 



Character. — Mouth furnished with organs fitted for masti- 

 cation ; branchiae few, attached to the organs of the mouth ; 

 body having an envelope (either in the form of a buckler 

 inclosing head and thorax), or in the shape of a bivalve 

 shell, inclosing the whole animal ; feet few in number ; 

 articulations more or less cylindrical, and serving the ani- 

 mal for the purpose of locomotion ; two pairs of antenna. 



