A MONOGRAPH OF THE FRESHWATER ENTOMOSTRACA OF NEW 

 SOUTPI WALES. Part ii. Copepodx 



By Margdeeite Henry, B.Se., Liunean Maeleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology. 



(Plates Iv.-lviii.) 



Introduction. 



The Copepoda of New South Wales have not been dealt with as extensively 

 as the Cladocera. In 1855, King mentioned a species of Cyclops, C. australis, 

 and four species of Diaptomus, but gave neither descriptions nor diagi'ams. The 

 name C. australis was retained by Sars for the largest known Australian Cyclops 

 but it has been impossible to identify the species of Diaptomus, as no members 

 of that genus have been found in the vicinity of Sydney, where King obtained 

 his specimens. The next mention of Copepoda in the State was in 1896, when 

 Sars recorded the presence of nine species, two of which were described as new. 

 In 1919, the present writer recorded five more species, of which three were 

 described as new, and also a new genus Gladioferens. The present paper deals 

 with twenty-three species; one is recorded for the first time in Australia, four 

 for the first time in New South Wales and three are described as new. 



With the exception of Victoria, comparatively little is known of the Cope- 

 pods existing in the other States. Sars described eleven species from Victoria in 

 1908, six of which were new; in 1912, he added three new species and described 

 a new genus Uemiboeckella. The work has been ably carried on by Searle who 

 has published three papers, in 1911, 1912 and 1914, in which seven additional 

 new sijecies were described. The total number of species recorded from Victoria 

 was thus raised to twenty-three. In 1889, Sars raised two species of Diaptomus 

 from dried mud that had been collected from the Gracemere Lagoon, near Rock- 

 hampton, Queensland, one species, D. lumlioltzi, being new. The only other 

 Copepod recorded from Queensland was a new species of Cyclops described by 

 Breinl in 1911. 



The first mention of Copepoda in South Australia was made in 1917 by 

 Chilton, who saw a species of Boeckella in Central Australia and recorded the 

 fact, although the species was not identified. The six species here recorded were 

 collected in the Botanic Gardens and in the hills near Adelaide. A species of 

 Boeckella occurred in these collections, but as the specimens were all females 

 and were not very numerous an exact determination covild not be made. 



