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CHAPTER y. 



APRIL. 



The Beautiful Floscule — Mode of seeking for Tubicolar 

 E-otifers — Mode of Illuminating the FLoscule — 'Difficult}- of 

 seeing the Transparent Tube — Protrusion of Long Hairs 

 — Lobes — Gizzard — Hairy Lobes of Floscule not Rotatory 

 Organs — Glass Troughs — Their Construction and Use — 

 Movement of Globules in Lobes of Floscule — Cha3tonotus 

 larus — Its Mode of Swimming — Coleps hirtus — Devourer 

 of Dead Entomostraca — Dead Rotifer and Vibriones — 

 Theories of Fermentation and Putrefaction — Euplotes and 

 Stylonichia — Fecundity of Stylonichia 71 



CHAPTER VI. 



MAY. 



Floscularia cornuta — Euchlanis triquetra — Melicerta ringens 

 — Its Powers as Brick-maker, Architect, and Mason — ■ 

 Mode of Viewing the Melicerta — Use of Glass Cell — Habits 

 of Melicerta— Curious Attitudes — Leave their Tubes at 

 Death — Carchesium — Epistylis — Their Elegant Tree Forms 

 — A Parasitic Epistylis like the "Old Man of the Sea" — 

 Halteria and its Leaps — Aspidisca lynceus. ... 89 



CHAPTER VII. 



JUNE AND JULY, 



Lindia torulosa — CEcistes crystallinus — A Professor of Deport- 

 ment on Stilts— Philodiua— Changes of Form and Habits 

 — Structure of Gizzard in Philodina Family — Mr. Gosse's 



