EUGLYPHA ACANTHOPHOEA. 9 



Difflugia acanthophora 

 EHEBNBEEGin Abh. Acad. Berlin, 1841 (1842), pp. 413, 444, pi. iv, r, 

 f. 38 ; op. cit. 1871 (1872), pp. 146, 235. 

 Euglypha acanthophora 



Pbety in Mitth. nat. Ges. Bern, 1849, p. 45. 

 HoPKiNSON in Zool. Anzeig. 5LIV (1914), p. 628. 

 Euglypha setigera 

 Pbbty (pars) in Mitth. nat. Ges. Bern, 1849, pp. 162, 168 ; Kennt. 



kleinst. Lebensf. (1862), p. 187, pi. viii, fig. 19 6. 

 Maggi (pai-s) in Atti Soc. Ital. XXI (1879), p. 319. 

 Difflugia setigera 



Ehebnbbbg in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1871 (1872), p. 146. 

 Difflugia Setigerella acanthophora 



Eheenbeeg in Abb. Acad. Berlin, 1871 (1872), p. 246. 

 Euglypha alveolata var. gracilis 



Taeanbk (pars) in Sitzb. bohm. Ges. Wiss. 1881, p. 233. 

 Euglypha 



Delagb & Heeouaed Zool. concrete, I (1896), f. 138. 

 Euglypha hrachiata 



Pbnaed Paune Rhiz. Leman (1902), pp. 504r-507, 10 figs. (Non 

 Leidy, 1878.) 

 Euglypha armata 



Wailes & Pbnaed in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XXXI, lxv (1911), pp. 36, 



37-38, 62, pi. iii, f . 16. 

 Wailes in Scott. Natnr. 1912, p. 60 ; in Jrn. Linn. See, Zool. XXXll 

 (1912), pp. 125, 144, 159; loc. cit. (1913), p. 213; in Naturalist, 1913, 

 p. 147. • 



Test of medium size, oviform or slightly elongated 

 towards the aperture, not compressed ; the fundus 

 bearing 3 to 7 of its scales produced into spines; aper- 

 ture circular, bordered by one or two rows of serrated 

 scales; body-scales elliptical. Plasma and pseudo- 

 podia normal. 



Length 55-80 ^i ; diameter about half the length ; 

 aperture about half the diameter; spines 20-35 ju, in 

 length. 



Habitat. — Sphagnum and submerged vegetation. 



England. — Rossendale, Lancashire (Lord); Pilmoor 

 and Bilsdale, N. Yorkshire ; Sheffield district, W. 

 Yorkshire {Broion) ; Cheshire {Cash) ; Puttenham 

 Common, Surrey {West); Chillingston, Kent. 



Wales. — Dolgoth and Towyn, Merionethshire {Gash). 



Scotland. — Lerwick and Scalloway, Shetland Islands; 

 Harris, Outer Hebrides. 



Ireland. — Achill, Clare, and Caher Islands, Mayo; 

 Inisbofin, Galway; Giendalough, Wicklow. 



