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be apparent to those who have made this beautiful class of 

 animals their special study : — 



Floscularia cornuta abundant. 



„ campanulata scarce. 



„ (an undescribed species) very scarce. 



Melicerta (an undescribed species) ... rather scarce in this pool, but abundant 



in the neighbourhood. 



CEcistes crystallinus scarce. 



Megalotrocha velata scarce. 



Microcodon clavus abundant. 



. Nbtommata aurita 



„ centrura 



ITurcularia coeca common. 



Plagiognatha felis 



Lindia torulosa abundant. 



Monocerca bicornis 



Dinqcharis tetractis scarce. 



„ Collinsii abundant. 



Salpina mucronata 



Colurus caudatus abundant. 



Stephanops muticus '. 



„ (an undescribed species) 



Rotifer (several species) common. 



Actinurus Neptunius 



Philodina (several species) common. 



FROM KURRACHEE TO MOOLTAN. 



BY FEANKLIN IOX, 

 Superintendent Oriental Inland Steam Company, Limited. 



The monotonous chant of the Lascars calling the soundings 

 in feet, as they dip their coloured bamboos to the river's bot- 

 tom from the flatly-built steamer's bow, warn us in our gradual 

 and winding passage up the Indus, when we may look for the 

 grounding bump that stops our progress for a time. 



" Bonee paunch poot [" " Sara char poot \" quarter less 

 five, and a-half four feet, hint that we have not very much 

 water to spare under us. In the dry season, from November to 

 February or March, though the journey up the Indus is for- 

 midable from the time it occupies, the channels of the river 

 being shallow, winding, and comparatively dried up, the cli- 

 mate is cool and invigorating, and the trip from Kotree to 

 Mooltan, affords to those making it, a not by any means un- 

 pleasant experience of Indian life. But to begin at the be- 

 ginning, one must "take a departure" from Kurrachee, a 

 seaport close to the creeks forming the delta of the Indus, and 

 which presents to us, on arrival, an appearance different from 

 any other harbour in the world. 



