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is median, the shorter situated to the left. The lorica is ridged in 

 its anterior quarter in continuation of the median spine. Toe f 

 of length of body and head ; two minute substyles at the base. 

 Two large fiagellse in the ventral half of the corona. Right malleus 

 absent. 



I^ength — Body and head . . '27 mm. {-io") 



Toe .. .. -lymm. (^i/) 



Maximum breadth . . 'i mm. 



Locality. — Se-chen, 13,000 ft., in small marshy pools. March 

 and April. 



This form closely resembles M. bicornis, Ehrenberg. It differs 

 from it in the following three points: (i) The short spine is to 

 the left, not to the right of the mid-line. (2) The lorica is ridged. 

 (3) There is a pair of minute substyles. 



Fam. DiNOCHARiDi^. - •- 



10. Dinocharis pocillum,'Eh.Tenheig. 

 Locality. — Chang-lo, 13,100 ft. July. 



II. Scandium longicaudum, Ehrenberg. 

 Locality. — Gyantse, 13,100 ft. 



Fam. Sai^pinad.^. 



12. Diaschiza exigua, Gosse. . . - r. 



The form found in Tibet is somewhat larger than that described 

 by Gosse, as the head and body measure ^\-q" in length as compared 

 with -3I5-" of the English form. It does not, however, correspond 

 with the larger D. taurocephalus, Hilgendorff,^ described from 

 New Zealand, as the head is not so large in comparison with the 

 bod}^ as in that form. 



Locality. — Chang-lo, 13,100 ft. In a small pool off an irriga- 

 tion channel among algse. August. 



13. Diaschiza semiaperfa, Gosse. 

 Locality. — Te-ring Gompa, 14,000 ft. 



14. Salpina shape, sp. nov, (fig. 4). 



This species closely resembles S. brevispina, Ehrenberg, differ- 

 ing from it apparently only in the following two points: (i) it is 

 double the length of S. brevispina; (2) it is devoid of lumbar 

 spines. 



1 Hilgendorff, Trans, and Proc. Neiv Zealand Institute, vol, xxxi, p. 107. 



