EUGLYPHA ACANTHOPHOBA. 9 



Difflugia acanthophora 

 EHRENBERG in Abh. Acad. Berlin, 1841 (1842), pp. 413, 444, pi. iv, i, 



f. 36; op. cit. 1871 (1872), pp. 145, 235. 

 Euglypha acanthophora 



PERTY in Mitth. nat. Ges. Bern, 1849, p. 45. 

 HOPKINSON in Zool. Anzeig. XLIY (1914), p. 528. 

 Euglypha setigera 

 PERTY (pars) in Mitth. nat. Ges. Bern, 1849, pp. 162, 168 ; Kennt. 



kleinst. Lebensf. (1852), p. 187, pi. viii, fig. 19 6. 

 MAGGI (pars) in Atti Soc. Ital. XXI (1879), p. 319. 

 Difflugia setigera 



EHRENBERG in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1871 (1872), p. 146. 

 Difflugia Setigerella acanthophora 



EHRENBERG in Abh. Acad. Berlin, 1871 (1872), p. 245. 

 Euglypha alveolata var. gracilis 



TARANEK (pars) in Sitzb. bohm. Ges. Wiss. 1881, p. 233. 

 Euglypha 



DELAGE & HEROUARD Zool. concrete, I (1896), f. 138. 

 Euglypha brachiata 



PENARD Faune Rhiz. Leman (1902), pp. 504-507, 10 figs. (Non 



Leidy, 1878.) 

 Euglypha armata 



WAILES & PENARD in Proc. E. Irish Acad. XXXI, LXV (1911), pp. 36, 



37-38, 62, pl.iii, f.16. 



WAILES in Scott. Natnr. 1912, p. 60 ; in Jrn. Linn. Soc., Zool. XXXII 

 (1912), pp. 125, 144, 159; loc. cit. (1913), p. 213; in Naturalist, 1913, 

 p. 147. 



Test of medium size, oviform or slightly elongated 

 towards the aperture, not compressed ; the fundus 

 bearing 3 to 7 of its scales produced into spines; aper- 

 ture circular, bordered bv one or two rows of serrated 



/ 



scales; body-scales elliptical. Plasma and pseudo- 

 podia normal. 



Length 55-80 /*; diameter about half the length; 

 aperture about half the diameter; spines 20-35 p in 

 length. 



Habitat. Sphagnum and submerged vegetation. 



ENGLAND. Rossendale, Lancashire (Lord}; Pilmoor 

 and Bilsdale, N. Yorkshire; Sheffield district, "W. 

 Yorkshire (Brown) ; Cheshire (Cash) ; Puttenham 

 Common, Surrey (West); Chillingston, Kent. 



WALES. Dolgoth and Towyn, Merionethshire (Cash). 



SCOTLAND. LerwickandScalloway, Shetland Islands; 

 Harris, Outer Hebrides. 



IRELAND. Achill, Clare, and Caher Islands, Mayo; 

 Inisbofin, Galway; Glendalough, Wicklow. 



