EUGLYPHA CRISTATA. 21 



Test larger than in the type, usually glabrous ; the 

 constriction of the neck slight or absent ; plasma and 

 pseudopodia as in the type. 

 I_ L Length 70-90 ^ ; diameter 20-24 /*. 



Habitat. Submerged vegetation. 



WALES. Criccieth, Carnarvonshire (Cash). 

 SCOTLAND. Loch Kirbister, Orkney Islands. 

 IRELAND. Caher Island, Mayo; Inishbofin, Galway. 



This variety occurs in the United States in a smaller 

 and rather more robust form ; length 60-70/i, diameter 

 21-24/u,, and the larger forms occasionally are furnished 

 with spines (v. Leicly), which, however, have always 

 been absent in the British individuals recorded up to 

 the present time. 



FIG. 115. Types of spines of Euglypha cristata var. acicularis. 

 x 450. 



Var. acicularis Wailes. (Fig. 115.) 



Euglypha cristata var. acicularis 



WAILES in Jrn. Linn. Soc., Zool. XXXII (1912), pp. 144, 147, pi. xii, 

 ff . 32; 33. ( Vide Proc. R. Irish Acad. XXXI, LXV, p. 40 (note).) 



Test larger than in the type ; fundus slightly more 

 acute and furnished with one or two long spines 

 which are frequently flexuous; plasma and pseudo- 

 podia similar to those of the type. 



Length 75-95 ju; diameter 23-24 /x; aperture 10- 

 14 /A ; spines 23-40 p in length. 



Habitat. Submerged sphagnum. 



