RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. n.d. Polypompholyx multifida - W Australia. CUL-DAR60.2.97. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1

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Polypompholyx multifida W. Australia

The bladders grow in a whorl at on the summit of a stiff stalk.

The free part of the antennæ is represented by a minute membranous fork— the basal or united part being expanded so as to form a kind of hood surrounding the orifice, the hood is expanded into two lateral wings; the bladder has a 3 winged appearance on account of the presence of a dorsal ridge continuous behind with the dorsal part margin of the petiole— The structure of this hood was very difficult to be sure about — The inner surface of the hood is lined with long simple hairs with coagulated coul or shrunk contents like quadrifids in a bladder that has caught something

There is a valve but I cannot determine its structure; also numerous one celled glands* with a short stalks in the neighbourhood of orifice— Quads of 4 equal cells [sketch]

Catches entomostraca

P. tenella smaller but apparently the same general structure— Bladders full of "dirt" but I could find no articulate remains—

* [sketches]


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