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Fig. 11. Acineta tuberosa, Ehr., embryo of, showing, in series, the changes 

 which it undergoes from the active state on its exit from the 

 parent, to its passive, tentaculated, and spherical form : a, active 

 state on issuing from the parent, when it is provided with a circlet 

 of vibratile cilia ; b, its globular form, assumed on becoming com- 

 paratively passive and stationary, 1 3 ' 5 th of an inch in diameter, 

 the cilia passive and curved from the centripetal force occasioned 

 by the rotatory motion which they originally communicated to 

 the young Acineta in its active state; c, the cilia regaining their 

 straightness, and becoming shorter ; d, the cilia disappearing, 

 and short tentacles projected; e, the cilia gone and the tentacles 

 increased in number and elongated. India, fresh water. 



Fig. 12. Collodictyon triciliatum, n.sp. Length yj-rSt of an inch: a, pos- 

 terior (?) view, showing bifid extremity, three cilia, central line 

 and nucleus, cellular structure and granules ; b, lateral view ; 

 c, presenting a digestive space containing an incepted Proto- 

 coccus in the 8-cell division ; d, ditto containing a Crumenula 

 texta nearly as large as itself; e, outline of another but common 

 form of this Rhizopod ; /, ditto of a globular form ; g, one en- 

 closing the central portion of a filament of Oscillatoria, while 

 the two ends are outside the animalcule ; h, length on the same 

 scale as the Actinophryans ; i, length on the same scale as that 

 of the testaceous Rhizopoda, figs. 13 d and 14<?. India, fresh 

 water. 



Fig. 13. Euglypha spinosa, n. sp. ; specimen i-i-rst of an inch long and 

 •3-^5-th of an inch broad ; animal retracted within a diaphragm, and 

 passive : a, view of broad side of test; a', ditto of narrow side, or 

 lateral view ; b, scales on test ; c c c c, moveable spines on fixed 

 tubercles ; c', more magnified view of the spine ; d, dotted out- 

 line of test on a scale of £th to -g-suth of an inch, for comparison 

 with other figures of testaceous Rhizopoda, I. c; e, diaphragm ; 

 f, portion of sarcode containing fragments of food ; g, ditto 

 charged with granules ; h, nucleus. England, fresh water. 



Fig. 14. Euglypha globosa, n. sp. ; specimens -j^th of an inch in diameter: 



a, empty test covered with circular scales hexagonally arranged, 

 also showing the broad side of the neck and open aperture; 



b, ditto, showing the narrow side (or lateral view) of the neck and 

 closed aperture, also c c, supernumerary scales ; d, test contain- 

 ing the animal, passive, with closed aperture ; e, sarcode contain- 

 ing fragments of food ; /, nucleus in posterior and granular por- 

 tion of sarcode. England, fresh water. 



XXXIII. — Contribution towards the Knowledge of the Rhyncho- 



prion penetrans. By Hermann Karsten*. 



[Plates VIII. & IX.] 



[In this paper Professor Karsten remarks upon the imperfect 

 knowledge which we still possess of this curious parasite — the 

 Nigua, Chigoe, Jigger, or Sand- Flea of tropical America, — not- 

 withstanding that the first European visitors to the New World 



* Translated from a separate copy of the paper in the ' Bulletin ' of the 

 Society of Naturalists of Moscow, communicated by the author. 



