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corpuscles. Yet it is just probable that the motile zoospore-like 

 bodies may, after losing the motile condition, pass into an Amceba- 

 form state, still in the growing slide this has not been observed, the 

 conditions possibly being at variance with the natural state. 



As the distinguishing characters do not seem to correspond 

 exactly with any of the recognized genuine naked or testaceous 

 Khizopoda, but to fall nearest to the genus Amcjebaea, I propose, at 

 least temporarily, to name it Pseudo-amoeha vioJacea. 



i:?ince so much industry has been shown, especially by Hiickel 

 and others, in enlarging our knowledge of the Protista, it was 

 judged better to bring the subject before your Society, though so 

 imj^erfectly outlined, than to allow it to pass unheeded ; trusting 

 that the deficiency of the present details may be supplied hereafter 

 by an extension of its life-history, if such be presented by future 

 research. 



