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single nucleole ; one to three contractile vesicles 

 usually present; pseudopodia one or two in number, 

 broad at the base, pointed. 



Diameter 40-59 JJL, usually 45-50 /x ; nucleus 7' 5-10 /u, 

 in diameter (Penard). 



Habitat. Mosses. 



SCOTLAND. Ross-shire, and Portpatrick,Wigton shire 

 (Bnnon). 



The above is the sole British record of this species, 

 the absence of others being largely due, no doubt, to 



171 





FIGS. 170 AND 171. Diplnchlamys timida. Fig. 170, side view. Fig. 171, 

 oi'al view, x 750. (After Penarcl.) 



its habitat being in the drier mosses found on trees, 

 walls, etc., these spots having been largely neglected 

 in favour of situations in which the Rhizopod fauna is 

 more plentiful and varied. 



3. Diplochlamys vestita Penard. 

 (Plate LX, fig. 7.) 



A mceba vestita 



PENARD in Mem. Soc. Geneve, XXXI, i, n (1890), pp. 192-193, pi. xi, 



ff. 64-73. 



Diplochlamys vestita 

 PENARD in Arch. Protist. XVII, 2 (1909), pp. 279-282, 5 figs. ; in 



Deux exped. Antarct. franchises (1911), pp. 4, 7. 

 WAILES & PENARD in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XXXI, LXV (1911), pp. 9, 16. 

 HEINIS in Mem. Soc. Neuchatel, V (1914), pp. 678, 683, 694, 696. 

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