Division IV. PALUDICELLINA, nov.
The zooecia are arranged in a regular cruciform manner and arise either directly one from another or with the intervention of tubular processes.
If the polypide has a gizzard it does not bear internal chitinous projections. Most of the species are confined to fresh water, but a few are found in brackish water or even in the sea.
Although all true freshwater Ctenostomes belong to the fourth of these divisions, species of a genus (_Bowerbankia_) included in the third are so frequently found in brackish water and in a.s.sociation with one belonging to the fourth, and are so easily confounded with the latter, that I think it necessary to include a brief description of the said genus and of the form that represents it in ponds of brackish water in India.
SYSTEMATIC LIST OF THE INDIAN FRESHWATER POLYZOA.
[The types have been examined in the case of all species, etc., whose names are marked thus, *.]
Order I. GYMNOLaeMATA.
Suborder I. _CTENOSTOMATA._
[Division III. Vesicularina.]
[Genus BOWERBANKIA, Farre (1837).]
[_B. caudata_ subsp. _bengalensis_*, Annandale (1907).
(Brackish water).]
Division IV. Paludicellina, nov.
Family I. PALUDICELLIDae.
Genus 1. PALUDICELLA, Gervais (1836).
? _Paludicella_ sp. (_fide_ Carter).
Genus 2. VICTORELLA, Kent (1870).
26._V. bengalensis_*, Annandale (1907).
Family II. HISLOPIIDae.
Genus HISLOPIA, Carter (1858).
27. _H. lacustris_, Carter (1858).
27 _a._ _H. lacustris_ subsp. _moniliformis_*, nov.
Order II. PHYLACTOLaeMATA.
Division I. Plumatellina.
Family 1. FREDERICELLIDae.
Genus FREDERICELLA, Gervais (1836).
28. _F. indica_*, Annandale (1909).
Family 2. PLUMATELLIDae.
Subfamily A. PLUMATELLINae.
Genus 1. PLUMATELLA, Lamarck (1816).
29. _P. fruticosa_, Allman (1844).
30. _P. emarginata_, Allman (1844).
31. _P. javanica_*, Kraepelin (1905).
32. _P. diffusa_, Leidy (1851).
33. _P. allmani_, Hanc.o.c.k (1850).
34. _P. tanganyikae_*, Rousselet (1907).
35. _P. punctata_, Hanc.o.c.k (1850).
Genus 2. STOLELLA, Annandale (1909).
36. _S. indica_*, Annandale (1909).
Subfamily B. LOPHOPINae.
Genus 1. LOPHOPODELLA, Rousselet (1904).
37. _L. carteri_* (Hyatt) (1865).
37 _a._ _L. carteri_ var. _himalayana_* (Annandale) (1907).
Genus 2. PECTINATELLA, Leidy (1851).
38. _P. burmanica_*, Annandale (1908).
Order CTENOSTOMATA.
[Division VESICULARINA.
Family VESICULARIDae.
VESICULARIDae, Hincks, Brit. Marine Polyzoa, p. 512 (1880).
Zooecia constricted at the base, deciduous, attached to a stem that is either rec.u.mbent or vertical.