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Family TRACHELINA. 
Genus Loxophyllum, Duj. 
Loxophyllum fasciola (Ehrbg.), Cl. u. L. 
(Syn. Amphilephus fasctola, Ehr., Litonotus fasciola, Kent., 
Litonotus varsaviensis, Wrz.) 
subsp. punjabensis, subsp. nov. 
Body elongate, transparent, flexible but scarcely contractile, 
three and a half times as long as broad, pointed posteriorly but 
not prolonged into a distinct tail-like portion, tapering gradually 
towards the anterior extremity which is curved towards the right; 
PCW. 

Fic. 3.—Loxophyllum fasciola punjabensis, subsp. nov. 
(N. macronucleus; C, Vv. contractile vacuole or vacuoles.) 
oral aperture nearly median; cuticular surface striate longitudi- 
nally; cilia on the neck region most conspicuous; contractile 
vacuoles arranged in two rows, seven along each border; macro- 
nuclei two in number, not united by a filament, spheroidal, sub- 
central. Length about roo. Habitat, stagnant water. 
A single specimen of this form, from water from the ditch in 
front of the College compound, came under my observation in 
March, 1914. The animal showed slow locomotion, now moving 
forwards, then suddenly in a backward direction. The length of the 
specimen was 147, and the maximum width 42,. The form 
showed closest resemblance to Litonotus varsaviensis, Wrz. (Kent, 
p. 744, pl. xlii, fig. 4), from which, however, it differed in the 
absence of trichocysts, number of contractile vacuoles, and their 
arrangement in two longitudinal rows instead of one containing 
five contractile vacuoles only (fig. 3). In the footnote Kent 
