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A LIST OV QUEENSLAND ROTIFERA, 



Sticta retigera, Ach., one of the lung-worts. 

 Parmelia conspersa, Ehrenb. 



,, revoluta, File. 

 Pannaria flexuosa, C.K. 

 Lecanora Babbingtonii, Afass. 



„ subfusca, L. 

 Coenogoniurn interplexum, Nyl. 

 Lecidea vulpina, Tuck. 



,, Domingensis, Pers, 

 Tvpethelium pallidum, C.K. 

 Strigula complanata, Fee. 



A LIST OF QUEENSLAND ROTIFERA ; 



By 



SURGEON V. GUNSON THOKPE, R.N., ME.C.S, ENG., Etc. 



The following thirty-two species of Ilotifera were found during the 

 cruises of H M.S. " Paluma," on the Queensland coast in 1887-8, 

 and afterwards were identified. Several other species, however, are 

 unidentified, and some of these are known to be new. A des- 

 cription of the latter I hope to publish at some future date. 



Order L — Rhizota. 

 Family I. — Flosculariad.u. 

 Genus Floscularia. 



1. F. coronetta, Cubitt. 

 C. T. Hudson v. P. H. Gosse, " The ttotifera, 1886. Vol. I., p. 

 49, PI. L, Fig. 5. 

 Ponds in Acclimatisation Gardens, Brisbane. 



Family II. — Melicertadj^:. 

 Genus Melicerta. 



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1. M. rtngens, Schrtf.nk. 



Op. Cit., Vol/X, p. 7.0, PI. v. Fig. 2. 

 Ponds in Acclimatisation^ Gardens, Brisbane. 



