Miscellaneous. 423 
“From this we may conclude that our animal does not take its 
repose like the Gorilla gina (that is to say, supported against its 
back), but that, like the chimpanzees, it has much more arboricolar 
habits, which is also more in accordance with the reduction of its 
size. 
“All these differences justify us in regarding our specimen as 
belonging to a distinct species, to which we give the name of Gorilla 
mayema, from that of the negro chief of the village near which it 
was killed.”—Comptes Rendus, January 7, 1878, p. 56. 
On the Rhizopoda of the Salt Lake of Szamosfalva. 
By Dr. Gera Enrz. 
Dr. Entz has described the Rhizopoda obtained by him from a 
salt pool at Szamosfalva, near Klausenberg, in Hungary. He pro- 
cured in all twelve species, five of which, all shelled species, are 
described as new, and two of them as the types of new genera. 
These are Plewrophrys helix, Plectrophrys (g.n.) prolifera, Euglypha 
pusilla, Microcometes tristrypetus, and Orbulinella (g.n.) smaragdea ; 
the other forms noticed are Ciliophrys infusionum, Cienk., Podo- 
stoma jiligerum, Clap. & Lachm., and five species of Ameba (quttula, 
limax, princeps, diffluens, and radiosa). 
A previous examination of the Infusoria of the salt pools of 
Torda and Szamosfalva had furnished the author with some belong- 
ing to exclusively marine types; but the greater part were such as 
occur both in salt and fresh water, and only about one fourth of 
the Infusoria observed belonged to forms previously known only 
from fresh water. 
In the case of the Rhizopods, the majority belong to forms which 
are very common in fresh water, but which must probably be re- 
ferred to the category of organisms which occur indifferently in both 
fresh and salt water; and, so far as this supposition applies to the 
Amobe, Dr. Entz furnishes a confirmation of it in a subsequent 
short note, in which he states that he found Ameba imax and <A. 
radiosa very abundantly in sea-water from Cuxhaven. (He regards 
the marine forms A. marina, Duj., A. polypodia, F. KE. Schulze, 
and possibly also Protameba polypodia, Hick., as probably identical 
with A. radtosa.) 
Of the forms peculiar to the Szamosfalva salt pool, two (namely 
Euglypha pusillazand Microcometes tristrypetus) find their nearest 
relations in freshwater organisms. Plewrophrys helix, on the con- 
trary, belongs to a marine type. Of the two new genera, Orbuli- 
nella is most nearly related to the marine perforated Foraminifera, 
and Plectrophrys is referred to the neighbourhood of Pleurophrys, 
Plagiophrys, and Chlamydophrys, and may be either a marine or 
a freshwater type. As a negative character bearing on the marine 
or freshwater affinities of the Rhizopodal fauna of Szamosfalva, the 
author remarks on the total absence of Arcelle and Difflugie, both 
of which are so abundant in, and characteristic of, fresh water.— 
Hungarian ‘ Naturhistorische Hefte,’ 1877, iii. & iv. 
