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VIEWS OF THE MICROSCOPIC WORLD, 



Fig. 66. 



Fig. 67. 



are seen which have thus been captured and swallowed : it is likewise 

 by means of these fringed arms that locomotion is effected. In figure 67, the 

 Stephanoceros is seen drawn within its case. This change of attitude it effects 

 instantaneously, upon the slightest alarm : the arms are then closed together, 

 and the case contracts in wrinkles ; the upper edge being drawn inward, as 

 the part of the animalcule to which it is united sinks down toward the bottom 

 of its crystal cell. The tube is thus doubled inward upon itself, like the finger 

 of a glove turned partially outside in. 



The Stephanoceros is said to possess a single, small, red eye, which is not seen 



