EUGLYPHA BRACH1ATA. 25 



row of 6 or 7 slightly-incurved, denticulated scales ; 

 the neck furnished with 2 to 6 long recurved spines 

 arising from scales situated among the three rows 

 adjoining the aperture ; the spines generally acicular 

 but sometimes ribbon-shaped ; a second row may 

 rarely be present ; body-scales circular or sub-circular ; 

 nucleus large, placed posteriorly ; plasma and pseudo- 

 podia normal. 



Length 92-120 ju, ; diameter 30-37 /A; aperture 

 12-15 /u,; length of spines 50-65 ju ; nucleus 16-20 /A 

 in diameter. 



Habitat. Submerged sphagnum. 



ENGLAND. Hawes Water, Westmorland, and Sheffield 

 district, W. Yorkshire (Brown). 



WALES. Capel Gurig, Carnarvonshire (West). 



SCOTLAND. Loch Ness, Inverness-shire (Murray) ; 

 Forth area (Evans, Murray). 



ICELAND. Lakes east of Recess, Gal way (West). 



Tests of this species with ribbon-shaped or flattened 

 spines are' rarer than those with acicular spines. 



In the United States is found var. libra ta Wailes, 

 which is furnished with oar-shaped appendages arising 

 from the median portion of the test. (Leidy, Freshw. 

 Rhiz. N. Amer., pi. xxxvii, f. 7; Wailes, in Jrn. Linn. 

 Soc., Zool. XXXII, pi. xii, f. 29.) 



7. Euglypha bryophila Brown. 

 (Plate XXXIV, fig. 4, and PL XXXV, figs. 9 and 10.) 



Euglypha cnstata 



PENARD (pars) in Mem. Soc. Geneve, XXXI (1890), n, pi. ix, 



ff. 91, 92. 

 Euglypha bryophila 



BROWN in Jrn. Linn. Soc., Zool. XXXII (1911), pp. 82-83, pi. ix, 

 ff. 14, 15 ; in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1911, p. 231 ; in Scott. Natur. 

 1912, p. 112 ; 1913, pp. 208, 210. 

 WAILES & PENAKD in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XXXI, LXV (1911), pp. 



17, 36, 38-39, 61, pi. iii, f. 17 a-c. 

 WAILES in Naturalist, 1913, p. 147. 

 Euglypha a 



VEJDOVSKY (pars) Thier. Org. Brunnenw. Prag (1882), p. 38, pi. ii, 

 f. 1 c. 



