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several spined or ciliated species of Euglypha, and his 

 example has been followed by many observers, hence 

 the records of this species are disproportionately 

 numerous ; generally E. strigosa is the more numerously 

 represented, but gatherings of moss are occasionally 



Fig. 123. — Body-scales and spines of Euglypha ciliaia. x 2000. 



found in which E. cilia ta is the prevalent species ; in 

 its larger forms it is distinguished from E. compressa 

 by its oval transverse section, denticulated aperture- 

 scales, and its smaller body-scales; small glabroiis 

 individuals are distinguished from E. Isevis by the 

 denticulated aperture-scales (fig. 124) and larger and 

 more broadly-oval body-scales (fig. 123). The ellip- 



Fio. 124. — Aperture-scales of Euglypha ciliata. x 1600. 



tical aperture distinguishes it from E. strigosa which 

 invariably possesses a circular one. Tests of that 

 species which have been slightly crushed accidentally 

 can usually be identified by the thickened aperture- 

 scales, but if these, as may rarely happen, are of the 

 same thickness as the other scales of the test, and there 

 is no trace of a neck, such crushed tests of E. strigosa 

 cannot be distinguished from those of E. ciliata. This 



