On a small Collection of Freshwater Entomostraca 

 from Sydney. 



On the 24th September last year (1888) I received from 

 Prof. Ramsey, Curator of the Australian Museum, a small tube 

 containing a collection of Freshwater Entomostraca, collected on 

 the 13th August same year by Mr. J. Whitelegge from the 

 Waterloo swamps in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and preserved 

 in spirit. Having been much engaged during the last few years 

 with experiments in artificially hatching and domesticating Ento- 

 mostraca from dried Australian mud, I had of course very much 

 interest in examining specimens from their native haunts, and I 

 am much indebted to Prof. Eamsey for his kind assistance 

 in giving me an opportunity of making such an examination. 

 The collection was of so much higher interest to me from the 

 fact that it was derived from the very same region, where Mr. 

 King had made his investigations relative to the freshwater 

 fauna of Australia. 



The main bulk of the contents of the tube was represented 

 a species of Moina, in which I immediately recognized the 

 very sam e form as that which I had previously raised from 

 dried mud collected in the neighbourhood of Rockhampton, 

 Queensland, and described under the name of Moina prop in ova. 



