ANTIIOPIIYSA. 



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ANTLIA. 



spots at tlu' hdso, antevior margin a little 

 convex aiul ciliated. Mandibles (/) slightly 

 curved, clothed ^vith long hairs, notched 

 near the apex; larger iu the females, and hut 

 slightly notched below the apex. MaxilUc 

 ((/) with the basal portion short and broad, 

 hairy, the edge above pectinated, terminal 

 lobe long and lanceolate, with a small pencil 

 of hairs at the apex. Palpi {h) rather long 

 and setaceous, G-joiuted, basal joint short, 

 second long, the remainder decreasing in 

 length. Mentam rather short and linear. 

 TinKjue (*) very long and slender, ringed and 

 tubular, the interior margins very pilose, 

 terminated by a lanceolate appendage. Pa- 

 7-af/l(>sscc (.v) lanceolate. Palpi (k) extend- 

 ing as far as the tongue, slender, tapering, 

 4-jointed, basal joint very long, second not 

 b.alf the length, ciliated towards the apex, 

 third inserted below the apex, and very 

 small, as well as the fourth. Head sub- 

 trigonate ; eyes (c) long and narrow ; ocelli 

 (b) three. Thorax much broader than the 

 head in the female. Legs rather robust ; 

 tibiffi, posterior dilated and very pilose ex- 

 ternally, .and the intermediate ones also in 

 the females ; tarsi, intermediate pair long in 

 the males, the basal joint of the 4 posterior 

 dilated in both sexes, and furnished with a 

 strong brush at the apex in the hinder pair 

 of the female. Claws bilid in the males, 

 with a tooth on the underside in the female. 

 Pulvilli distinct. Male thickly and minutely 

 punctured, and clothed with fulvous or yel- 

 lowish hairs, more or less black at the apex 

 of the abdomen ; female black, very pilose. 

 See Insects. 



BiBL. Curtis, Brit. Entomol. viii. p. 357 ; 

 Westwood, Infrod. &c. ii. p. 277. 



AKTIIOPHY'SA, Duj.— A genus of In- 

 fusoria, of the famih' Monadina, Duj. ; Fla- 

 gellata, Kent. 



Char. Bodies ovoid or pyriform, with a 

 single anterior flagellifcrm filament (two, 

 one shorter than the other, Kent), and ag- 

 gregated at the ends of the branches of a sup- 

 port or polypidom, which is secreted by them. 

 The groups, when free, resemble UvcUa, 

 and revolve in the liquid containing them. 



The branched support is of an irregular 

 arborescent form, at first soft and glutinous, 

 afterwards becoming bro^\T:ish, horny, and 

 nodidar in appearance. According to Cohn, 

 the brownish filaments so frequently found 

 in decomposing^ pond- &c. water, are the 

 stalks of Anthophijm, and form Kiitzing's 

 genus Sfereonema. 



A. MiUlcri {vcfjefans) (PI. ?,0. fig. 1.3). 



Body thicker in front ; length of stalks 1-2-50 

 to 1-120", length of single animal 1-2000", 

 P^ig. 13 b represents a detached animal with 

 the larger tiagelliform filament. This is the 

 EpistyUs vc(j('taus of Ehrenberg. The de- 

 tached groups of bodies form a species of 

 Uvella, Ehr. ( Uvella uva ?). Fresh water, 

 common. 



A. socialis. Bodies about 8 in a group. 

 On Confervas. 



BiBL. Dujardin, Infus. ; Ehr. Inf.; Cohn, 

 Nova Acta, 18o4, p.' lOU; Ann. N. Hid. 

 186(;, xviii. p. 429; Kent, Inf. p. 2(')G. 



ANTIIOSO'MA, Leach. — A genus of 

 Crustacea, of the order Siphonostoma, and 

 family Ergasilina, 



Found upon the gill-covers and gills of 

 sharks. 



BiBL. Baird, Brit. Entom. ; Desmarest, 

 Cons, gcner. sur I. Crustac. 



ANTIGRAM'MA, Presl.— A genus of 

 Scolopendriete (Polypodiaceous Ferns). Ex- 

 otic. 



ANTIMONIATE of soda.— The produc- 

 tion of this salt by the addition of antimo- 

 niate of potash to a neutral or alkaline solu- 

 tion of a salt of soda, is used as a test of the 

 presence of soda. The crystals are repre- 

 sented in PI. 10. fig. 21. 



BiBL. See Chemistry. 



ANTIMONY. See Aesenic. 



ANTITRICHIA, Br. and Sch. = NEC- 



KEEA. 



ANT'LIA. — The spiral tongue or probos- 

 cis of the Lepidoptera. 



Tliis well-knowni beautiful organ (PI, 33. 

 fig. 28), when extended, forms a long sucto- 

 rial tube, and when coiled up represents a 

 flat spiral, like the spring of a watch. It 

 consists mainly of two modified maxillte 

 (see Insects). According to Newport, 

 each maxilla is composed of an immense 

 number of abort transverse muscular rings ; 

 these are convex externally and concave 

 internally, and the two connected organs 

 form a tube. "Within each there are one or 

 more large tracheae (fig. 28 c* J) connected 

 with the trachea} in the head. The inner 

 or concave surface which forms the tube 

 (fig. 28 ct) is lined with a very smooth 

 membrane, and extends along the anterior 

 margin throughout^he whole length of the 

 organ. At its commencement at the apex 

 (fig. 28/*), it occupies nearly the whole 

 breadth of the organ, and is smaller than at 

 its termination near the mouth, where the 

 concavity or groove does not occupy more 

 than about l-3rd of the breadth. In some 



