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marked ; corona encircled by a prominent ring or collar ; lorica 

 normal diaschiza type ; dorsal cleft broad, well marked ; lateral 

 cleft very distinct ; eye frontal, large ; foot stout ; toes short, about 

 one-sixth length of rest of body, furcate, style-shaped, slightly 

 decurved. 



Gosse's description gives a very good idea of this species. 



The eye, as he states (Suppl. p. 37), is on rare occasions diffi- 

 cult to define, and is always of the nature of scattered pink pig- 

 ment rather than of a spherical mass. 



The " collar " round the corona was in all our examples easily 

 observable. 



The jaws are of the same type as those of D. gibba ; the incus, 

 however, is slightly thinner. 



This species is uncommon, and only found in small numbers 

 and in few localities. It is lethargic in its habits whether swim- 

 ming or crawling. 



It feeds on fiocculent matter. 



For further description we refer our readers to Gosse, only 

 adding that his A sjphmrica, from the figure and also from the 

 somewhat vague description, evidently belongs to this species. 



Size. — Total length 200 m - (127 fi); toes alone xsVo in. (20 fi) ; 

 greatest breadth 3 -J f in. (50 /x) ; height ^}q in. (53 /t). 



Local and uncommon. 



Diaschiza sterea Gosse. 

 PI. I. figs. 3 and 3a. 



Synonymy. 



Furcularia sterea Gosse. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Gosse, P. H. — Twenty-four more new Species of Eotifera. Journ. Boy. Micr. 



Soc, 1887, p. 861. 

 Hudson & Gosse. — The Eotifera. London, 1889, Suppl. p. 25, pi. 31, fig. 15. 



Sjk'c. Char. — Body ovate, cylindric, with a soft projection over 

 foot ; head thick, truncate ; neck a marked constriction ; face sub- 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 



All figs, x 476. 



Fig. 5 — Diaschiza Hoodii Gosse. Dorsal view. 



„ 5a „ ,, „ Lateral view. 



„ 56 „ „ „ The male, lateral view. 



„ 6 „ lacinulata Miiller. Lateral view. 



„ 6a „ „ „ 1 Ventral view. 



„ 7 „ ventripes Dixon-Nuttall. Lateral view. 



