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ornamented form of bow-puller.) It is in the form of two 

 rings springing from a solid centre. The two rings might 



FiGS. 1 and 2. 



be compared to the frame of a pair of eye-glasses, only in 



place of the delicate spring connecting the rings, the 



intervening space is solid metal 



though less in width than the 



transverse diameter of the ring 



(see plan, Fig. 2) . This space may 



be called the body, and from this 



body spring three spines at right 



angles to the plane of the rings. 



It will be observed that the rings 



are not on a plane but turn slight- 



ly upward so that the object rests 



on the body. This feature is very 



marked in some specimens though in rare instances the 



rings are in a plane, and in very rare cases bend slightly 



Fig. 3. Eijd View. 



