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that I am not aware of having seen them so separated. Characters: 
eye single, cervical; foot simple styliform ; (?) lorica depressed, ovate, 
truncated anteriorly, destitute of spines ; gizzard with two teeth. It 
is hyaline, and the lorica has four small ridges (or slits), shown in the 
two figures. Its lorica is too small for the animal, and is, I believe, 
open at the sides. Fig. 21a. animal retracted; Fig. 214, animal 
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Reduced from the original sketches by Photo-zincography. 
the previous Rotifer is applicable to this one. It is, however, con- 
siderably larger; the lorica is not cut away anteriorly to the same 
extent, and it appears jointed, posteriorly. It has no spines, and 
its colour is reddish yellow. Its gizzard, although on the same 
plan, differs in its parts. I found the animal in a bottle of water 
and confervee, I had dipped up in the Manchester Botanical Gar- 
dens last summer. Fig. 23. For a long time I looked upon this 
Rotifer as Distemma foricula, although the toes were not dentate 
