BY SURGEON V. GUNSOK THORPE, R.N., E.C. *0 



Family XV1L— Pterodinad.e. 



QEHUfl PtERODISA. 



1. P. patina, Ehrenl erg. 



Op. at., Vol. II., p. 112, PL xxvi, Fig. 11. 



Ponds in Acclimatisation Gardens, Brisbane. 



Family XYIII. — Brachionid.<£. 



Genus Brachiosus. 



1. B. Baken, Ehrenberg, var. I on gi* pi nee, Thorpe. 



Op. Cit., Vol. II, p. 120, PI. xxvii, Fig. 8. 

 Ponds in Acclimatisation Gardens, Brisbane. 



The lorica of this rotifer resembles that tigured in Hudson 

 and Gosse's monograph {I.e.), in respect to the number and the posi- 

 tion of its spines, but differs in that all the spines are much 

 longer. 



2. B. militaris. 



Acclimatisation Gardens, and a pond on Captain Heath's 

 estate, Norman Creek, Brisbane. 



This rotifer, I believe, is not a British species. 



Family XIX — Anur.ead,*:, 



Genus Asur.ka. 



1. A. aculeata, Ehrenberg. 



Op. Cit., Vol. II., p. 123, PL xxix, Fig 4. 

 Fountain, Botanical Gardens, Brisbane. 



The single specimen found appears to be a variety with the 

 posterior spines unequal. 



Order IV. — Scirtopoda. 

 Family XX. — Pedaliomd.e. 



Genus Pedalion. 



/. P. minim. 



Op. Cit., Vol. II, p. 132, VI xxx, Fig. 1. 

 Extreme north point of Dunk Island, near Kennedy Bay 

 (to be known in future as " Pedalion Point"), in a fresh water 

 pool on a rocky coast, about ten feet above high water mark 



