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Haiika side, they put the mud on the right cheek below the eye. 

 This is the young buffalo-bull decoration. With reference to it, 

 a man says, " My little grandfather (the young buffalo-bull) is 

 always dangerous as he makes an attempt. Very close do I stand, 

 ready to go to the attack !" The horse is painted with some of 

 the mud on the left cheek, shoulder and thigh, if his rider belongs 

 to the Cheezhoo side, but the mud is put on tiie right cheek, 

 shoulder and thigh of a horse belonging to a warrior on the Hanka 

 side. 



Some warriors, who act like a black bear, paint with charcoal 

 alone. (The tradition of the black bear people is, that they brought 

 down fire from one of the upper worlds.) 



Some paint in the wind style, some in the lightning style, and 

 others in the panther or catamount style. 



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NOTES ON SOME APPARENTLY UNDESCRIBED 

 INFUSORIA FROM PUTRID WATERS. 



BY DR. ALFRED C. STOKES. 



FROM a dead rat which had been lying exposed to the weather 

 for an unknown period, but long enough to have had most of 

 the abdominal soft parts destroyed, the tail was taken and placed 

 to macerate in ordinary river water as supplied the town by 

 hydrant. By the third day the infusion teemed with minute life, 

 an apparently undescribed Heteromita, which at first glance was 

 mistaken for H. caitdata Duj., being particularly abundant. A 

 careful examination, however, discovered so many essential points 

 of divergence between it and known forms that it seems to de- 

 mand recognition as a presumably new species, under the name 

 of Heteromita putrina (Figs, i and 2). 



H. paTRiv.\, n. sp. — Body obovate, wider and rounded anteriorly, tapering pos- 

 teriorly to a somewhat obtuse point; sur- 

 face smooth, endoplasm enclosing sev- 

 eral dark bordered refractive particles ; 

 nucleus obscure, apparently centrally 

 placed in the median line; contractile 

 vesicle conspicuous, situated near the 

 right lateral margin of the anterior body 

 half; the vibratile flagellum but slightly 

 exceeding the body in length, the trailing 

 gubernaculum about three times as long 

 as the zooid, both being of equal size 

 and inserted anteriorly. Length of body 



TffiTn to XTTTTT inch. Habitat, the putrid 



^"^ /^ . , . ' Hein-omUaputnim,\\.%\\ X I500- 



water of animal macerations. ^ > i 



Fig. I. Fig. 2. 



