38 THE ROTIFERA. 
have seen the saccate brain at its hinder end, densely opaque in a great ball, just as in 
NV. aurita, while all the remainder was clear. In every other respect the specimen was 
anormal sordida. ‘The most observable characteristic of this species, by which it may 
without fail be identified (for it is quite constant), is the condition of the foot. The 
hinder half of the trunk, viewed dorsally, insensibly diminishes to a width about one- 
third that of the widest part, where it is abruptly truncate; the hind half of this is 
separated by a slight fold, and appears to constitute the foot-proper. Yet there are no 
visible joints in it, and its outline, as I have said, simply continues the gradual tapering. 
Down the middle of this foot there runs what seems a shallow depression, crossed by 
two similarly depressed transverse lines, and the whole ends in two small conical toes, 
When once this peculiarity has been noticed, there is no mistaking it. 
I first found the species in a tube sent me by Mr. Hood from Dundee, and since 
then in water from Miss Saunders of Cheltenham, and abundantly from Woolston, 
sent by Miss Davies. Some of these last were hyaline, and more active.—P.H.G.] 
Length, ;{, to ;4, inch. Habitat. Many localities in England and Scotland: 
common in pools (P.H.G.). 
P. TIGRIDIA, Gosse, sp. nov. 
(Pl. XVIII. fig. 10.) 
(SP. CH. Body cylindric or fusiform, curved in the manner of Rattulus ; foot 
and toes both long, and bent in a sigmoid curve. 
This animal, I do not doubt, has been confounded by observers, as it was by myself, 
with the N. tigris of Ehrenberg, but this latter I now relegate to another genus, in the 
Sub-order Loricara. The present is certainly il-loricate, and its long ciliate face, 
almost absolutely prone, shows its affinities to be here, though it is certainly osculant 
with Rattulus. Its trophi, too, are symmetrical, and of the Notommatous pattern. 
The cilia of the face seem set on minute eminences; and there are longer sete among 
them. The belly line bends upward and then downward to include the base of the deep 
foot, which again bends upward (7.c. backward) to the toes, and these bend downward 
at their tips. So that the whole line from the face to the toe-tips forms a double 
sigmoid curve of much elegance. In June 1885 I first became cognizant of this interesting 
form. It was haunting the decaying whorls of Nitella, in water from Woolston Pond, sent 
me by the kind courtesy of Miss Saunders. It has oceurred also in other waters. 
It is an energetic animal, given to sudden and rapid changes of motion, shooting 
through the free water with great celerity, the toes stretching behind straight and 
parallel ; now abruptly turning on itself to pursue another course, now arrested by a 
cloud of floccose, to dig into the decaying vegetation with apparent determination and 
vigorous perseverance. The digestive canal is almost invariably dark with granular 
food, of a deep rich-brown hue, A contractile vesicle is usually conspicuous. — P.H.G.] 
Length, +5 inch. Habitat. South and Midland England; pools (P.H.G.): rare. 
P. petromyzon, Ehrenberg. 
(Pl. XVIII. fig. 9.) 
Notommata petromyzon . A 2 Ehrenberg, Die Infus. p. 427, Taf. 1. fig. 7. 
[SP. CH. Body ovate ; foot long, stowt, and very distinct ; toes minute. 
The form is gibbous-ovate, truncate at each extremity, when contracted; the head is 
rounded, protrusile; the foot apparently of one joint, very large and long, but abruptly 
less in width than the truncate body whence it issues; the two toes are very minute 
cones. The character of the foot makes the species particularly easy of recognition. 
The simplicity of the trophi makes them very instructive. The incus-fulerum is 
