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CHAPTER Y. 



APRIL. 



PAGE 



The Beautiful Floscule — Mode of Seeking for Tubicolar 

 Rotifers — Mode of Illuminating the Floscule — Difficulty 

 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 — 

 Chsetonotus larus — Its mode of Swimming — Coleps 

 hirtus — Devourer of Dead Entomostraca — Dead Rotifer 

 and Yibriones — Theories of Fermentation and Putrefac- 

 tion — Euplotes and Stylonichia — Fecundity of Styloni- 

 chia 54 



CHAPTER YI. 



MAY. 



Floscularia comuta — Euchlanis triquetra — Melicerta rin- 

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

 — Mode of Yiewing the Melicerta— Use of Glass Cell — 

 Habits of Melicerta— Curious Attitudes — Leave their 

 Tubes at Death — Carchesium — Epistylis— Their Ele- 

 gant Tree Forms — A Parasytic Epistylis like the " Old 

 Man of the Sea " — Halteria and its Leaps— Aspidisca 

 lynceus 



CHAPTER YII. 



JUNE AND JULY. 



Lindia torulosa — (Ecistes crystallinus — A Professor ol 

 Deportment on Stilts — Philodina — Changes of Form 



