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the accompanying drawings. Whether they are ova or spores, or 
whether they have any connection with Dr. Beale’s entozoa, I have 
not been able to ascertain. The latter are by no means common 
in animals which I have examined in Ceylon; and only in one 
instance have I found these bodies and Dr. Beale’s entozoon together 
in one specimen. They seem to lie loose among the muscular 
fibres of the heart ; sometimes in large numbers together, at other 
times singly. Their great variety of form is very remarkable. 
Their minute size is shown in the scale to which they are drawn. 
Figs. C, D, E, are carefully copied with the camera lucida, and a 
power of 1000 diameters. The spherical body E is perhaps more 
common than the other forms, and is always of a golden brown 
colour. ‘The others are sometimes of a dark olive brown. I have 
examined the parts of numerous healthy animals, and only in one 
instance (in the heart of a Sambur deer) have I found any of these 
bodies. In the hearts of three animals which died of murrain in 
one locality they were very plentiful. One of these was a cow in 
calf, and some were seen even in the heart of the foetal calf. I may 
mention by-the-by that the specimens from these three were ex- 
amined on the day of death. 
There is a drawing in the ‘ Micrographic Dictionary’ of the 
spore of Stibospora macrosperma, which has some slight resem- 
blance to my Fig. C. Nearly all these bodies, however various in 
form, agree in the dotted appearance of their surface. I hope that 
some reader of the ‘ Microscopical Journal’ may be able to throw 
some light on the nature of these. 
CEyYLon, Sept: 6, 1870. 
V.—Notes on New Infusoria. By J. G. Tarem. 
Puate LXVIII. Upper portion. 
Or the Infusoria, of which camera drawings are laid before you, I 
purpose giving such brief descriptions as may be necessary for their 
explanation. 
I—Fig. 1. A Difflugia of small size—;},th—with smooth, very 
transparent chitinous test, flattened beneath, rounded above, with 
circular, smooth, direct aperture, through which the sarcode flows 
in a feeble undivided stream, containing very minute, greyish 
granules. From the posterior part of the bottle-shaped body four 
filamentary diverging ligatures stretch to the fundus of the test, 
binding down and securing the animal in its suspended position. 
These filaments—extensions of the pellicular investment—have, I 
think, a peculiar interest, not only as the sole example known to me 
of such a structure among the fresh-water Rhizopoda, but as demon- 
strating a fact in the Dijlugiz at least, as much disputed as admitted 
