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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
The Rev. R. L. King gives figures; without any reference in the text, of 
parts of the structure of Limnadia sardida (King) andX. Stanley ana (King ?). 
Trans. Ent. Soc. New South Wales, vol. i. pi. xi. 
Limnetis (Loven). This genus is fully described by Grube, 1. c. p. 273, 
which he makes synonymous with Hedessa (Lievin) and Lynceus (F. O. 
Miiller). 
Limnetis hracJiyurus {Lynceics hrachyuruSy Muller ; Hedessa skholdiij 
Liev., and Limnetis wahlbergi, Loven), Grube, 1. c. p. 273, from Port Natal, 
and Sars, Norges Ferskvandskrebsdyr, tab. i. fig. 17 j L. gotddii (Baird), 
Grube, l.c. p. 273, from Canada; L. macleayana (King), Trans. Ent. Soc. 
N. South Wales, p. 162, pi. xi. ; Limnadella hitei (Girard), Grube, 1. c. p. 275. 
BRANCHIPODIDiE. 
Branchipus grubii (Dibowski), Buchliolz, Schrift. physik.- 
okonom. Gesellscli. Kbnigsberg, 1864, p. 93, tab. iii., from the 
neighbourhood of Konigsberg. The author gives a minute 
description of the species, and compares it with other known 
species. He discusses the mystery of its sudden appear- 
ance in pools into which no stream runs. He observed that 
they frequently become a prey to insect larvae much smaller 
than themselves, that they cast their skin every few days ; 
he had twice observed the act of copulation. The male 
swims below the female; holding her dorsally by the great 
frontal horns, suddenly turns over, and performs the act in- 
stantaneously. Dr. Buchholz had failed to hatch any of the 
ova, though he tried both by keeping them in water and in 
fresh earth for a time before placing them into water. He also 
failed to detect the termination of the nerves in the skin as it 
had been seen by Leydig in B. stagnalis, 
Aiiemia proxima, King, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. i.: pi. xi. contains . 
illustrated portions of the structure ; but no reference is made in the text to 
them. 
CLADOCERA. 
Daphniid^. 
Daphnia carinata, King, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, yol. i. p. 164, pi. 
xii., from the neighbourhood of Sydney. 
New species : — 
Bosmina gibbera, Schddler, Arch, fiir Naturgesch. xxxi. p. 283, from tiie 
neighbourhood of Kalilberg ; B. rotunda, Schodler, 1. c. p. 284, from Spree 
near Treptow ; B. lungicornis, Schodler, 1. c. p. 284, from Spree. 
Halyodaphnia berohnensis, Schodler, 1 . c. p. 284, from the neighbourhood of 
Berlin ; H. kahlbergiensis, Schodler, 1. c. p. 285, from the neighbourhood of 
Kahlberg. 
Herr G. O. Sars has published (Norges Ferskvandskrebsdyr, 
1865) the first part of a work on the freshwater Crustacea of 
