THE ENTOMOSTRACA OF EPPING FOREST,
WITH SOME GENERAL REMARKS ON THE GROUP.
(Continued from page 210.)
By D. J. SCOURFIELD.
[Read November 27th, 1897].
Part II.
CHIEF RESULTS OF WORK ON THE ENTO-
MOSTRACA OF EPPING FOREST.1
IN a paper published in the Journal of the Quekett Micro-
scopical Club in 1893 (82), 2 some particulars have already
been given of the Entomostraca of the little piece of Epping
Forest known as Wanstead Park. It is now proposed to
expand that account so as to include the whole of the Epping
Forest district. To prevent misunderstanding it should be
stated at once that by the latter term is meant not only the
actual Forest under the management of the Epping Forest
Conservators, but also a certain margin on both sides of this,
extending to the Lea on the west and to the Roding on the
east. The district agrees in fact with that defined by Mr.
W. Cole in his paper on "The area of Epping Forest for
Faunistic Purposes." (Essex Naturalist Vol. VI. (1892)
p. 10), but with this exception, that the large triangular tract
of country to the north-west of Cobbins' Brook is not included.
The area of the district thus limited is about 35,000 acres,
but it is only fair to state that the bulk of the collections
have been made in the 5,600 acres or thereabouts preserved
to the public.
Although the literature dealing with the fauna of
Epping Forest is fairly extensive, very little has hitherto
been published on the Entomostraca. The following
are the only sources of information known to me. The
lists of objects found on the excursions of the Quekett
Microscopical Club published in the Journal of that Society
1 Part I., "Some General Remarks on Entomostraca" is printed ante pp. 193-210;
Part III., "A detailed list of the Epping Forest species;" and Part IV., "A Bibliography
of the Literature relating to the British Fresh-water Entomostraca" will be published in
succeeding parts of the Essex Naturalist.—[Ed.]
2 The figures in brackets refer to the numbers of the papers in the Bibliography
appended (See Part IV.)