EUGLYPHA STRIGOSA. 29 



thickened scales ; nucleus large, containing two or 

 three nucleoles, placed posteriorly ; plasma normal ; 

 pseudopodia numerous, spreading, frequently branched. 

 Length 45-100 /x ; breadth 30-60 /u, ; thickness 20- 

 30 fji ; aperture 12-23 /* ; nucleus 10-20 /x in diameter; 

 cils 5-15 [M in length ; body-scales 7-10*5 /u, in length, 

 4'5-5'5 n in breadth. 



Habitat. Mosses and aquatic vegetation. 



ENGLAND. Durham; Westmorland (Gash, Broivn) ; 

 Lancashire (Cash) ; Yorkshire ; Derbyshire (Brown] ; 

 Nottinghamshire ; Rutlandshire ; Shropshire ; Bed- 

 fordshire; Cambridgeshire; Hertfordshire; Bucking- 

 hamshire ; Oxfordshire ; Hampshire ; Isle of Wight ; 

 Devonshire; Cornwall; Scilly Islands. 



FIG. 120. Aperture scales of Euglypha strigosa. x 1600. 



WALES. Llyn Ogwen (West); Llyn Crafnant, Dol- 

 garn, Moel Siabod, and Bettwys-y-Coed (Hopk.), and 

 Sychnant Pass (Gash), Carnarvonshire. 



SCOTLAND. Shetlands ; Orkneys (West) ; St. Kilda 

 (Brown), Outer Hebrides; Inverness-shire, Elginshire, 

 and Aberdeenshire (Brown}', Perthshire (Gash, Brown); 

 Argyllshire and Isle of May (Brown) ; Mid-Lothian 

 and Pentland Hills (Gash) ; Dumfries ; Ayrshire, Kirk- 

 cudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire (Brown). 



IRELAND. Armagh ; Islands off Clew Bay and main- 

 land, Mayo; Galway ; Wicklow (Hopk.) ; Limerick. 



This is the most generally distributed and numerous 

 of the Euglyphse, although in some localities E. ciliata 

 exceeds it in numbers. The thickened aperture-scales 

 generally suffice for its identification ; the circular 

 aperture also distinguishes it from E. ciliata and E. 

 compressa ; the cils are occasionally confined to the 



