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2. Difflugia oblonga var. bryophila Penard. 
(Plate LXI, fig. 9.) 
Diffiugia pyriformis var. bryophila 
PENnaRD Faune Rhiz. Léman (1902), pp. 221-222, f. 7; Sarcodinés in 
Cat. Invert. Suisse (1905), p. 40. 
Difflugia oblonga var. bryophila - 
Waters & PENARD in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XX XI, txv (1902), pp. 16, 34. 
‘Test of medium size, brownish in colour, elongate 
with hemispherical fundus whence the sides taper 
towards the aperture in nearly straight lines; plasma 
as in the type; nucleus containing several greenish 
nucleoles ; pseudopodia normal. 
Length 90-130 uw; breadth 40-60 »; aperture 20- 
30 yp. 
Habitat.—Mosses and sphagnum. 
Encianp. —N. Yorkshire; Shropshire; Bucking- 
hamshire. 
IreLanp.—The islands off Clew Bay and Mayo 
(Penard) ; Inishbofin, Galway ; Cahirciveen, Kerry. 
In shape very like var. lacustris but smaller and of a 
brownish colour ; the neck also is without any large 
adherent grains. ‘ 
3. Difflugia rubescens Penard. 
(Plate LX, figs. 10 and 11.) 
Difiugia pyriformis 
Lerpy (pars) Freshw. Rhiz. N. Amer. (1879), p. 103, pl. x, ff. 22, 24, 25. 
Diffugia rubescens 
Penarp in Amer. Natur. XXV (1891), pp. 1072, 1075-1076; in Rev. 
Suisse Zool. IX (1901). p. 237; Faune Rhiz. Léman (1902), pp. 227- 
229, 4 figs.; Sarcodinés in Cat. Invert. Suisse (1905), pp. 41-42. 
AVERINTZEFF in Trudui §.-Peterb. Obshch. XXXVI, 11 (1906), 
pp. 195-196. ; 
ScHOUTEDEN in Ann. Biol. lacustre, I, 3 (1906), pp. 343, 346. 
CocKERELL in Univ. Colorado Stud. VI, 4 (1909), p. 306; op. eet. VIII, 
4 (1911), p. 240. 
Brown in Brit. Assoc. Handb. Sheffield (1910), pp. 500, 501; in. Jyn. 
Linn. Soe., Zool. XXX (1910), pp. 361, 363; in Naturalist, 1910, 
p. 92; op. ett. 1912, p.181; 1913, p. 206. 
Waites & Penarp in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XXXVI, txv (1911), 
pp. 9, 16, 34-35. 
WAILES in Jrn. Linn. Soc., Zool. XXXII (1912), pp. 124, 127. 
