Huggins (1980) first reported the glass shrimp (Palaemonetes kadiakensis Rathburn, Crustacea, Decapoda) from Kansas. He and others collected 14 individuals from a small woodland pond in Woodson County near Woodson County State Lake (formerly Lake Fagan). Six of the 14 females were carrying eggs, suggesting a reproducing population. On 11 August 1987 Dan Bleam and Donald Rensner collected four individuals of the glass shrimp from the Ninnescah River, Sedgwick County Sec. 7, T29S, R3W, adjacent to Wichita State University's Biological Field Station (Ninnescah Tract), of which one female was carrying 18 eggs. Eleven of 18 of the eggs hatched and the young were successfully maintained on flake tropical fish food (Tetramin). On 8 September 1987, seven additional glass shrimp were collected at the same locality in shallow backwater pools by students surveying fish populations. None of these individuals were carrying eggs. Although this site has been sampled annually (since 1985), 1987 was the first year the freshwater prawn was collected. This species has been recorded from Oklahoma and Missouri (Pennak, 1978). In Missouri, fisheries biologists have utilized the prawn as a food source for centrarchid pond fishes (bass and bluegill) with success (Neilson and Reynolds, 1975). At the suggestion of Robert Hartmann, Fisheries Research Supervisor, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Leonard Jirak, Fisheries Biologist, KDWP for Woodson and Allen counties, was contacted. Jirak (pers. comm.) informed us that in the early 1970's he collected several hundred freshwater prawns from Pony Express Lake, DeKalb County, Missouri, approximately 25 miles east of St. Joseph, and introduced them into a small rearing pond adjacent to Woodson County State Lake (perhaps the same pond where Huggins collected them) to increase pond fish production. He further suggested that the species may have been inadvertently introduced into the Ninnescah watershed with shipments of fish from Woodson County. Flooding in the South Fork of the Ninnescah River in the spring of 1987 may have washed this prawn over pond spillways into the river where it reproduced and survived in shallow backwaters (depositional zones). Whether the prawn will become established in the sandy plains river is unknown. We thank Leonard Jirak for providing input on the origin and possible means of dispersal of this species in Kansas.