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necticut, Maine, Nova Scotia, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. 

 H. W. Conn (1905, p. 14, and pi. 1, fig. 5-6) records and figures 

 this species from Connecticut, but does not give the habitat in 

 which he found it. C. H. Edmondson (1918, p. 220) states that 

 its habitat is sphagnous swamps. A. A. Schaeffer (1923, p. 179) 

 records it from an old abandoned cistern in Key West, Florida. 



From these records, it would appear that Thecamoeba verrucosa 

 Ehrenberg is a widely distributed rhizopod, and one having con- 

 siderable range of habitat. The writer believes that his dis- 

 covery of the species in what was an apparently unusual location, 

 namely inside of a building, may be of interest. 



Literature Cited. 



Conn, H. W. 



1905. A preliminary report on the Protozoa of the fresh waters of Connecti- 

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 34 pi. 



Edmondson, C. H. 



1918. Amoeboid Protozoa (Sarcodina). Chapter 8, p. 210-237, in H. B. 

 Ward and G. C. Whipple, Fresh-water Biology. New York: p. 

 ix+1111, 1547 fig. 



Landacre, F. L. 



1908. The Protozoa of Sandusky Bay and vicinity. Proc. Ohio State 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 4, pt. 10, p. 421-472. 



Leidy, Joseph. 



1879. Fresh-water rhizopods of North America. Rept. U. S. Geol. Survey 

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1923. On the distribution of marine amebas. Carnegie Inst. Washington, 

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