NEBELA BABBATA. 113 



9. Nebela barbata Leidy. 

 (Plate XXVII, figs. 5 and 6 ; and fig. 95 in text.) 



Difflugia (Nebela) 'barbata LEIDY in Pr. Acad. Pliilad. 1874, 

 p. 157. 



Nebela barbata LEIDY in Pr. Acad. Philad. 1876, p. 119, 

 f. 18 ; op. cit. 1879, p. 162 ; and Freshw. Rhiz. N. Amer. 

 (1879), p. 159, t. xxiv, ff. 14-17; HITCHCOCK Synops. 

 Freshw. Rhiz. (1881), p. 23; SCHEWIAKOFF in Mem. 

 Acad. St. Petersb. (7) XLI (1893), 8, p. 98; SCODRFIELD 

 in Pr. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 787; EYFERTH Naturgesch. 

 mikr. Siisswass. ed. 3 (1900), p. 265; LEVANDER in Acta 

 Soc. Fauna Fenn. XX (1901), 8, p. 11; G. S. WEST in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. XXVIII (1901), p. 323. 



FIG. 95. Nebela barbata. Llyn Llydaw, Snowdon. From a drawing 

 by G. S. West (reduced), x 325. 



Test in broad view flask-shaped, with an ovoid body 

 and cylindroid neck, the latter about equal in length 

 to the body; the mouth, in broad view, slightly ex- 

 panded and convex. In narrow lateral view com- 

 pressed; the sides tapering gracefully into the neck, 

 which is narrow and terminated by the notched mouth. 

 The whole structure gracefully proportioned and trans- 

 lucent, with a surfacing of comparatively large circular 

 discs, their outlines sometimes hardly perceptible- 

 accompanied, according to Leidy (who named the 



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