EUGLYPHA BBACHIATA. 25 



row of 6 or 7 slightly-incurved, denticulated scales ; 

 the neck furnished with 2 to 6 long recurved spines 

 arising from scales situated among the three rows 

 adjoining the aperture ; the spines generally acicular 

 but sometimes ribbon-shaped ; a second row may 

 rarely be present ; body-scales circular or sub-circular ; 

 nucleus large, placed posteriorly ; plasma and pseudo- 

 podia normal. 



Length 92-120 /x ; diameter 30-37 /a; aperture 

 12-15 /x,; length of spines 50-65 /x ; nucleus 16-20 /x 

 in diameter. 



Habitat. — Submerged sphagnum. 



England.— H awes Water, Westmorland, and Sheffield 

 district, W. Yorkshire {Brown). 



Wales. — Capel Curig, Carnarvonshire [West). 



Scotland.' — Loch Ness, Inverness-shire (Murray) ; 

 Forth area (Eva,ns, Murray). 



Ireland. — Lakes east of Eecess, Gal way {West). 



Tests of this species with ribbon-shaped or flattened 

 spines are rarer than those with acicular spines. 



In the United States is found var. libvata Wailes, 

 which is furnished with oar-shaped appendages arising 

 from the median portion of the test. (Leidy, Freshw. 

 Rhiz. N. Amer., pi. xxxvii, f. 7; Wailes, in Jrn. Linn. 

 Soc, Zool. XXXII, pi. xii, f. 29.) 



7. Euglypha bryophila Brown. 

 (Plate XXXIV, fig. 4, and PL XXXV, figs, 9 and 10.) 



Euglypha cristata 



Penabd (pars) in Mem. Soc. Geneve, XXXI (1890), ii, pL ix, 

 fE. 91, 92. 

 Euglypha bryophila 



Brown in Ji-n. Linn. Soc, ZooL XXXII (1911), pp. 82-83, pi. ix, 

 £E 14 15 ; in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1911, p. 231; in Scott. Natur. 

 1912, p. 112 ; 1913, pp. 208, 210. 

 Wailes & Pbnabd in Proc. R. Irish Acad. XXXI, lxt (1911), pp. 



17, 36, 38-39, 61, pi. iii, f. 17 a-c. 

 Wailes in Naturalist,' 1913, p. 147. 

 Euglypha a 



Vejdotskt (pars) Tliier. Org. Brunnenw. Prag (1882), p. 38, pi. ii, 

 f. Ic. 



