DIFFLUGIA OBLONGA. 37 



2. Difflugia oblonga var. bryophila Penard. 

 (Plate LXI, fig. 9.) 



Difflugia pyriformis var. bryophila 



PENARD Faune Rhiz. Leman (1902), pp. 221-222, f. 7 ; Sarcodines in 



Cat. Invert. Suisse (1905), p. 40. 

 Diffluyia oblonga var. bryoplnln 



WAILES & PENARD in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XXXI, LXV (1902),pp. 16, 34. 



Test of medium size, brownish in colour, elongate 

 with hemispherical fundus whence the sides taper 

 towards the aperture in nearly straight lines ; plasma 

 as in. the type; nucleus containing several greenish 

 nucleoles ; pseudopodia normal. 



Length 90-130 /A; breadth 40-60 p ; aperture 20- 

 30/i. 



Habitat. Mosses and sphagnum. 



ENGLAND. N. Yorkshire ; Shropshire ; Bucking- 

 hamshire. 



IRELAND. The islands off Clew Bay and Mayo 

 (Pennrd) ; Inishbofin, Galway ; Cahirciveen, Kerry. 



In shape very like var. lacustris but smaller and of a 

 brownish colour ; the neck also is without any large 

 adherent grains. 



3. Difflugia rubescens Penard. 

 (Plate LX, figs. 10 and 11.) 



Difflugia pyrifwmis 



LEIDY (pars) Freshw. Rhiz. N. Amer. (1879), p. 103, pi. x, ff. 22, 24, 25. 

 Diffluqia rubescens 



PKNARD in Amer. Natur. XXV (1891), pp. 1072.1075-1076; in Rev. 



Suisse Zool. IX (1901). p. 237 ; Faune Rhiz. Leman (1902), pp. 227- 



229, 4 figs. ; Sarcodines in Cat. Invert. Suisse (1905). pp. 41-42. 

 AVERINTZEFF in Trudui S.-Peterb. Obshch. XXXVI, n (1906), 



pp. 195-196. 



SCHOUTEDEN in Ann. Biol. lacustre, I, 3 (1906), pp. 343, 346. 

 COCKERELL in Univ. Colorado Stud. VI, 4 (1909), p. 306 ; op. cit. VIII, 



4 (1911), p. 240. 

 BROWN in Brit. Assoc. Handb. Sheffield (1910), pp. 500, 501 ; in. Jrn. 



Linn. Soc., Zool. XXX (1910), pp. 361, 363; in Naturalist, 1910, 



p. 92 ; op. cit. 1912, p. 181 ; 1913, p. 206. 

 WAILES & PENARD in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XXXVI, LXV (1911), 



pp. 9, 16, 34-35. 

 WAILES in Jrn. Linn. Soc., Zool. XXXII (1912), pp. 124, 127. 



