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FOSSIL ESTHERLE. 



Estheria Hislopi, Baird. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, 

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

 compressa, Baird. Proc. Zool. Soc, 18G0, 

 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, Lovin. Ofvers. af K. Vet. 



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

 1847), p. 57. 



— Dunkeri, Baird, MS. 



— Jonesi, Baird, MS. 



— Loftusi, Baird, MS. 



— Caldwelli, Baird, MS. 



— Rubidgei, Baird, MS. 



— Macgillivrayi, Baird, MS. 



Freshwater stream, near Nagpur, central India 



(Ilislop). 

 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. R. Roth). 



Freshwater marshes, Natal (J. Wahlbery). 



Zimapan, in the neighbourhood of Mexico, where it 

 lives with Flanorbis nitens, Ph., Limnceus subu- 

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

 stagnant waters (Danker, Nordd. Wealdenbild., 

 1846, p. 61). 



Brackish water, Cuba (through Dr. Bunker). 



Stagnant water, on the banks of the Tigris, near 

 Bagdad (TV. K. Loftus). 



Lake Winnipeg (W. Caldwell). 



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

 Elizabeth, South Africa (R. N. Rubidye). 



Brackish lake at Green Point, Cape of Good Hope 

 (J. McGillivray). 



The closely allied genera Limnadia and Limnetis are known by the following 



species : 



Limnadia Hermanni, Ad. Broyn. Baird, Proceed. Freshwater pool, Fontainebleau (Bronyniart). 

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

 fig. 1. 



— Mavjritiana, F. E. Guerin. Magas. de Mauritius (Julien Desjardins). 



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

 pi. 22 (21 in the text) figs. 1— 11, 1837; 

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



— Antillarum, Baird. Proc. Zool. Soc, San Domingo (Salle). 



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, Girard. Ibid., 1854, vol. vii, fresh water, Cincinnati (T. Kile). 



p. 3. J 



Limnetis braciiyurus, Mutter. Entomost., p. 69, Freshwater marshes, Denmark (Muller). 

 t. 8, figs. 1—12. 



