_Polypide._ The polypide has normally about 60 tentacles, the velum at the base of which is narrow and by no means strongly festooned. The stomach is yellow or greenish in colour. The extended part of the polypide measures when fully expanded rather less than 3 mm., and each limb of the lophophore about the same. _Statoblast._ The statoblast is variable in shape and size but measures on an average about 0.85 × 0.56 mm. The ends are truncate or subtruncate; the capsule is small as compared with the swim-ring and as a rule circular or nearly so. The processes at the two ends are variable in number; so also are their spinules, which are arranged in two parallel rows, one row on each side of the process, and are neither very numerous nor set close together; as a rule they curve round through the greater part of a circle and are absent from the basal part of the process. [Illustration: Fig. 46.--Lophopodella carteri (from Igatpuri Lake). A=outline of a zoarium with the polypides expanded, as seen from below through glass to which it was attached, × 4; B=outline of a zoarium with the polypides highly contracted, as seen from above, × 4; C=statoblast, × 75.] 37 _a._ Var. himalayana. _Lophopus lendenfeldi_, Annandale (_nec_ Ridley), J. As. Soc. Bengal, (n. s.) iii, 1907, p. 92, pl. ii, figs. 1-4 (1907). _Lophopus lendenfeldi_ var. _himalayanus_, _id._, Rec. Ind. Mus. i, p. 147, figs. 1, 2 (1907). _Lophopus himalayanus_, _id._, _ibid._ ii, p. 172, fig. 4 (1908). This variety differs from the typical form in having fewer tentacles and in the fact that the marginal processes of the statoblast are abortive or absent. _Pectinatella davenporti_, Oka[BL] from Japan is evidently a local race of _L. carteri_, from the typical form of which it differs in having the marginal processes of the statoblast more numerous and better developed. The abortive structure of these processes in var. _himalayana_ points to an arrest of development, for they are the last part of the statoblast to be formed. [Footnote BL: Zool. Anz. xxxi, p. 716 (1907), and Annot. Zool. Japon. vi, p. 117 (1907).] TYPES. The statoblasts mounted in Canada balsam by Carter and now in the British Museum must be regarded as the types of the species named but not seen by Hyatt. The types of the var. _himalayana_ are in the Indian Museum and those of the subspecies _davenporti_ presumably in the possession of Dr. Oka in Tokyo. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.--The typical form occurs in Bombay, the W. Himalayas and possibly Madras, and its statoblasts have been found in E. Africa; the var. _himalayana_ has only been taken in the W. Himalayas and the subspecies _davenporti_ in Japan. Indian localities are:--BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, Igatpuri Lake, W. Ghats (alt. _ca._ 2,000 feet); the Island of Bombay (_Carter_): W. HIMALAYAS, Bhim Tal, Kumaon (alt. 4,500 feet).