I believe that you wlito to pa®a along tii© ideatiflcation of 
the 8Qjecir!iie.nB of Potman C Pottt3K>nautes) £io«eyi frm Sangalaf-na- 
Bactio (Mo. 39), "USe Ts om" of iha '5oat''"euS'iy jrecoenieed species 
in tbe Conga . It has been found sost often in the rortlieaatern p»i*fc 
of the tejTitony* Ibe tyj)® locsiity is in the Baiup el Jebel or Whit® 
Mile, bat the siaeoies has b^n recorded from aa far m tha 
vicini1;y of the »>uth of the Congo# It apparently si>eisis laaeh aore 
tiiae on land and in barx’ows than the other potmonids and this 
probably accounts for its wide distribution# ihere is a good account 
of its ecology in Hiss Bathbun’a report (1921) on the hang-Chs^ln 
collections* 
Hxe sp^iraen® of Potsaon ( Fo tmonaatee ) Ilrrang,®nsi8 from the 
Umi region ire ■welcoiw "oSc'Sis® th(^, are the first speoi^ns of the 
typical form of thia species ir* our collections# .ftumparison of 
these two specimens with the series from Stanleyvill®: supports the 
suggestion laade in ay 19li2 report on the Loveridge collection that 
the Stanleyville population Is significantly differ^t from the 
typical fom* Whether or j»t the former repres«ita a distinctt species 
or subspecies can b# detersined only if and when material is available 
fsom the inteiraadlate area# 
'Bt® flat»»s found in the debris collected from the mouth of the 
strea® at Uvira on May 20 and 21 liere' sent to Libble %am# She wm 
unable to positively identify them because 'they w^e*® not sexually 
mature, but she is reasonably sure that tlisy are Bugesia t angaryika® 
(Uddlsf, 1906)# 
> ,1 
She oligochaete norms taken from tli® lily pond in Firk Ferdinand 
D® Bock at Leopoldvill© on Ap*il 13 Iwvc be@ui sent to Dr, A# Weir B®11 
at los Aufjeles bity College# I will let you know if identifications 
are foutheoming# 
I am afraid that we cannot pitjvide detersixinatioius of the earth* 
woarais from Park ferdiruapd De Bock, ApAI 10, and £ro& liont Hoyo, May 4 
^ast at present, ‘ihey were of feral to Grace Pickfbrd at I'ale but she 
replied that she. do.es not hay® time even for hm cephalopod stodies 
these d^s and #ie could suggest m one else euscept G, E. Oates, who, 
as you know, insists .on compensation' Ibr ld.8 services# 
Bie $0 or more Isopods from the same tm localities sill also 
remain unidentified for the time being* 1 wrote to I'iilton Miller at 
the Univ^sity of Califojmia at Davis about them, bat he is too bu«y 
wlto collections from the Pacific islands and Bearettida to take on ary 
more just now# As Dr# IllUer is the only person in tiie oo^ontry who 
8<^sms to be actively working with terrestrial isopods at present, I 
do not know iduu*® else we sd^t seek determinations# 
'Hi® last it«s that concerns us is the lot of as^phipods, 
d# ii.««kvwi *j#h I b«U«V# 
you receivai from Dr. Leleup# 
