Q6 TWELFTH ANJfUAL KEPORT. 



5. Bosmina striata , Herrick . 

 tt Antenmiles short. 



* Rostium long. 



6. Bosmina lacustris, Sars. 

 ** Rostrum short. 



7. Bosmina obtusirostris, Sars. (B. nitida, Sars?) 



B. Shell not spined behind. 



(a) Shell strongly arched above. 



8. Bosmi7ia nil jehor gii, Hars, (B. diaphana?) 

 <b) Shell moderately curved above. 



9. Bosm,ina m,icrops, P. E. Mueller, 



Concernins: the identification of Bosmina longispina, Leydig, 

 with B. brevirostris, P. E. Mueller, it must be said that the bow is 

 drawn at a venture, for Mueller, in his paper on the Cladocera of 

 Swiss Lakes, in a fit of absent-mindedness refers to B. lacustris, P. 

 E. Mueller, citing p. 149 of Danmark's Cladocera. On the page in 

 question are descriptions of B. maritima and B. brevirostris of which 

 the latter is probably the one meant. Sars' B. lacustris seems quite 

 different, being strongly marked by longitudinal lines, while Leydig 

 says of B. longispina ''shell striped and small reticulate," and P. E. 

 Mueller says in B. brevirostris the shell is "utydeligt reticuleret" 

 i. e. indistinctly reticulate. 



The three species so far identified in America are B. longirostris, 

 of which a figure is given (plate J, fig. 2,) B. cornuta and B. striata, 

 which may possibly be yet identified with one of the European spe- 

 cies, though it seems improbable. I have also seen a species like 

 L?ydig's B. laevis, but considered it a smooth variety of B. longi- 

 rostris. 



FAMILY LYNCODAPHNIDiE, Sars, 1861; Herrick, 1881. 



This is a rather small family with seven genera of minute ani- 

 mals which are abundant only in summer. Many and, indeed, 

 most o1 the species are among the rarer of fresh-water crustaceans 

 of this group, and a few are among the rarities which only now and 

 then reward the collector. This family undoubtedly is the link 

 connecting the Daphnidse with the Lynceidse, relationships to which 

 are expressed by Macrothrix, on the one hand, and Lyncodaphnia, 

 on the other. 



The rank of this group as a family must be, of course, a matter 

 largely of opinion. Sars was the first to adopt this view, sustained 

 by certain curious transition forms leading toward Lynceidae. Later 

 writers seem never to have found these genera and the group was 



