68 BRITISH PRESHWATBR EHIZOPODA. 



Lecquereubsia (Difflitgia) spiralis Butschli in Bronn's Thier- 

 Eeichs, I, 1 (1880), t. iii, f. 9. 



Lecqioereusia spiralis Taeanek (pars) in Sitzber. bohm. Ges. 

 Wiss. 1881 (1882), p. 228; and in Abh. bobm. Ges. Wiss. 

 (6) XI (1882), 8, p. 49, t. v, ff. 1, 2, 4, 6-11, 13-15, ? 16; 

 Blochmakn Mikr. Thierw. Siissvvass. (1886), p. 13, t. i, f. 

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 R. Soc. N. S. Wales ; Rhumblee in Zeits. wiss. Zool. LII, 

 4 (1891), p. 518; and op. cit. LXI, 1 (1895), p. 42 etc., 

 t. iv, ff. 1, 3, 4, and text-f. 9 (p. 97); Schewiakofp in 

 Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (7) XLI (1893), 8, p. 98; 

 Levandeb in Acta Soc. Fauna Fenn. XII (1894), 2, p. 19 ; 

 op. cit. XIX (1900), 2, p. 7 ; and XX (1901), pp. 8, 12; 

 Delage & Herouard Traite Zool. concr. I (1896), p. 106, 

 f. 129; ScHAUDiNN in Deutsch-Ost- Africa, IV, 2 (1897), 19, 

 p. 10; Andre in Jahresb.nat. Ges. Graubiind. XLI (1898), 

 p. 57 etc.; Daday in Termesz. Fuzetek, XXI (1898), 

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 (1898), 1, p. 35 etc. ; Aveeintzev in Trudui S.-Peterb. 

 Obshch. XXX, 1 (1900), p. 239; 0^3. cit. XXXVI (1906), 

 2, p. 173 ; and in Ber. Susswass. Nat. Ges. St. Petersb. I 

 (1901), p. 214 ; Lagerheim (pars) in Porh. Geol. Foren. 

 Stockholm, XXIII (1901), p. 514; and op. cit. XXIV 

 (1902), p. 348; Penaed in Arch. Sci. nat. (4) VII (1899), 

 p. 256 etc. ; Faune Rhiz. Leman (1902), p. 326, ff. 1-10 

 (p. 328) ; and in Pr. R. Soc. Edinb. XV, 8 (1905), p. 594 ; 

 G. S. West in Jrn. Linn. Soc.,Zool. XXVIII (1901), p. 321 ; 

 and in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1905, p. 90 ; Cdshman in 

 Amer. Natur. XL (1906), p. 372; Haetog Prot. in Cambr. 

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 Biol. Lacustre, I, 2 (1906), p. 260; Schouteden in Ann. 

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 Biontol. II, 1 (1908), p. 58. 



Test homogeneous ; in lateral outline globose or 

 ovoid ; slightly compressed, produced into an un- 

 symmetrical neck, and so constricted as to give the 

 impression of a spiral ; its membrane chitinous and 

 transparent, with a meshwork of short curved rods, 

 forming minute ridges, closely compacted (described 

 by Leidy as " vermiform pellets "), the neck, below the 

 constriction, with a slight elevation from which the out- 



