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FOSSIL ESTHERLE. 



EsTHERiA HisLOPi, Baird. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, 

 p. 232, pi. 63, fig. 1. 



— coMPEESSA, Baird. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1860, 



p. 188, pi. 71, fig. 6. 



— BiRCHii, Baird. Ibid., p. 392, pi. 72, 



fig. 1. 



— GiHONi, Baird. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



3rd ser., vol. iv, 1859, p. 281, pi. 5, 

 fig. 1. 



— HiEROSOLYMiTANA, Fischer. Abhandl. 



k. bayer. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen., viii, 

 1860, p. 649, pi. 20, figs. 7, 8. 



— AusTRALis, LovSn. Ofvers. af K. Vet. 



Ak. Forh., Arg. 3, 1846 (Stockholm, 

 1847), p. 57. 



— Dtjnkeri, Baird, MS. 



— Jonesi, Baird, MS. 



— LoFTUSi, Baird, MS. 



— Caldwelli, Baird, MS. 



— Rubidgei, Baird, MS. 



— Macgillivrayi, Baird, MS. 



Freshwater stream, near Nagpur, central India 



(Hislop). 

 Freshwater pools, Nagpur {Hislop). 



Pools of freshwater, on the banks of the Wamoi 



River, Australia {Birch). 

 Freshwater pool of Gihon, Jerusalem. E. Gihoni 



was reared in England, by Mr. H. Denny and 



Dr. Baird, from the dry mud brought from the 



Pool of Gihon. 

 Rain-water pools on limestone, near Jerusalem, dry 



for ten or eleven months in the year (J. B. Both). 



Freshwater marshes. Natal (/. Wahlberg). 



Zimapan, in the neighbourhood of Mexico, where it 

 lives with Planorbis nitens. Ph., Limnceiis subu- 

 latus, De Kr., Physce, and other molluscs, in 

 stagnant waters {Bunker, Nordd. Wealdenbild., 

 1846, p. 61). 



Brackish water, Cuba (through Dr. Bunker). 



Stagnant water, on the banks of the Tigris, near 

 Bagdad {W. E. Loftus). 



Lake Winnipeg {W. Caldwell). 



From the bed of a dried-up " vley " near Port 

 Elizabeth, South Africa {R. N. Rubidge). 



Brackish lake at Green Point, Cape of Good Hope 

 (/. McGilUvray). 



The closely allied genera Limnadia and Limnetis are kriown by tlie following 

 species : 

 Limnadia Hbrmanni, Ad. Brogn. Baird, Proceed. Freshwater pool, Fontainebleau {Brongniart). 



Zool. Soc, 1849, p. 86, Annulos. pi. 1 1, 



fig. 1. 



— Maxjbitiana, F. E. Guerin. Magas. de Mauritius {Julien Desjardins). 



Zool., Sept. Annee, Class VII. p. 1 — 7, 

 pl.22(21inthetext)figs. 1— 11, 1837; 

 Baird, Proc Zool. Soc, 1849, p. 87. 



— Antillarum, Baird. Proc. Zool. Soc, San Domingo {SalU). 



1852, p. 30, Annulos. pi. 23, fig. 1. 



— CORIACEA, Haldemann. Proc. Philad.>, 



Acad., 1842, vol. i, p. 184 ; and 1854, I "In ditches along the Susquehanna, in quiet water ;" 

 vol, vii, p. 34. ) in "roadside ditches" {S. S. Haldemann). In 



LiMNADELLA KiTEi, Gtrard. Ibid., 1854, vol. vii, fresh water, Cincinnati (T. Z?7e). 



p.3. ) 



LiMNETis BRACHYURUS, Muller. Entomost., p. 69, Freshwater marshes, Denmark {Muller). 

 t. 8, figs. 1—12. , 



