178 Records of the Indian Museum. (Vor. 2s 
only a very small proportion of the Ciliate fauna of this place, and 
it is hoped to add to it occasionally in future communications. 
Family ENCHELINA. 
Subfamily HOLOPHRYINA. 
Genus Holophrya, Ehrbg. 
Holophrya indica, sp. nov. 
Body evenly elliptical, a little more than one and a half times 
as long as broad; cuticular surface presenting distinct alternating 
longitudinal striae and furrows, ciliation uniform, cilia fairly long 
and distinct, disposed along the longitudinal striae ; colourless ; 

Fic. 1.—Holophrya indica, sp. nov., 1a. posterior end showing one principal 
and six subsidiary vacuoles; 16. posterior end showing one principal and two 
subsidiary vacuoles. 
(N. macronucleus; Cc. v. contractile vacuole or vacuoles.) 
border of the oral aperture not projecting, pharynx absent ; con- 
tractile vacuole single, spherical, postero-terminal, with a number 
of small circular feeding vacuoles in its neighbourhood which are 
not arranged in longitudinal rows; macronucleus large, band- 
shaped, curved in a horseshoe-shaped manner, situated in the 
anterior half of the body. Length 105,, width 63,. Habitat, 
stagnant water. 
A few specimens of a new species of Holophrya, as defined 
above, were found in a temporary collection of water in a ditch 
on the roadside in front of the College compound in March, 1914. 
The body showed only a slight degree of flexibility, and was almost 
equally rounded at the anterior and posterior ends. On the sur- 
face presented to view, thirteen longitudinal striae, along which 
the cilia were disposed, were distinctly made out. So the animal 
