268 MICROSCOPIC LIFE ON GOUGH ISLAND, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



Trim-ma enchdi/x (Khrbg. ). Not rave; always very small form, as generally 



found in mosses. 

 liin'iire, Penard. 



Such are the Rhizopods I found in the Gough Island material. Tliey are few 

 in species, and each species is poorly represented in numbers, yet this note may be 

 of some interest, and for several reasons : 



1. All are species found in Europe (except one, Parmulina brucei), and did 



not differ in appearance, except that they were perhaps on the average 

 a little smaller. 



2. They represent, most of them, the typical fauna of mosses, but the scarcity 



(one specimen only) of Difflugia constru-ta, a species always so abundant 

 in mosses, is remarkable. 



3. With the exception of the above, no Difflugias were observed. Murray found 



one, " Diffluf/i>.( spec.," but it was very likely Phryganella hemisplvvrica. 

 In Europe, and indeed everywhere, Difflugias (except constncta) are rare 

 in mosses. 



4. One species has never been found before, namely Parmulina brucei, nov. ; but 



it will probably be found somewhere else one day or other. 1 I append a 

 description of this species, or rather of its envelope, which was the only 

 part of the organism available. I have taken the liberty of naming it 

 brucei, after the leader of the Scotia expedition. 



For other organisms besides Rhizopods I did not look specially, but I found the 

 following : A small rotifer (Brachionus ?), about twenty specimens of Callidina 

 angusticollis, Murray, a small diatom which was abundant (Meridian sp.), and a 

 good many samples of Mt-rixinnpedia very likely that "blue-green tabular Alga, 

 with the cells grouped in multiples of four," which Murray mentions. 



Parmulina brucei, spec. nova. 



Enveloppe chitineuse, jaunatre, en forme de pyramide ou de cone tronque, a 

 base deux fois environ aussi large que le sommet. De ce sommet, ou plateau dorsal, 

 partent un certain n ombre d'aretes (14 a 16 en moyenne), qui descendent vers la 

 face ventrale, et divisent la surface de 1'enveloppe en partitions ou facettes a pen 

 pres egales. 2 



La surface de cette enveloppe est couverte de ponctuations tres-nettes, serrees les 

 urn's contre les autres, disposees regulierement. 



1 I have this year (1911) found this same species, though very likely a special variety of it, in mosses collected 



by Dv FUHRMANN at an altitude of 3000 metres, on the Andes of America (Colombia). 



'-' II est possible r, -priii lant (jiie ces aretes ou facettes n'existent pas toujours ; elles manquaient dans les 

 ,,plairi-< trouvi'-s plus tard dans les Andes. Dans cette derniere station (Parano, Cruz Verde; Colombie), 



il'aillenrs, on pouvait constater d'antres iliMV-rences, surtout dans les ponctuations caracteristitjues du plateau dorsal, 

 t-etre y a,-t-il la line vurieti' .-pi'-riale. 



