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Habitat. — Sphagnum and submerged vegetation. 



England. — Cumberland and Westmorland (Brown) ; 

 Lancashire (Cask, Broion) ; Yorkshire ; Cheshire 

 (Gash) ; Derbyshire [Brown) ; Shropshire ; Essex 

 {Soourfield) ; Hertfordshire ! (Hopk.) ; Hampshire ; 

 Isle of Wight ; Cornwall. 



Fia. 132. — Scales of Sphenoderia lenta. x 1000. 



Wales.— Nant Francon, and Moel Siabod (1200 feet), 

 Carnarvonshire [ffopk. coll.) 



Scotland. — Shetlands ; Orkneys (West); Suther- 

 landshire; Outer Hebrides (West); Inverness-shire 

 {Penard, Brown) ; Elginshire, Aberdeenshire, Perth- 

 shire, and Argyllshire {Brown) ; Skye ; Ayrshire and 

 Wigtownshire {Brov:n). 



a bed 



Fig. 133. — Types of apertures of Sphenoderia lenta. x 1000. a. 

 Length of test 48 /n : Pilmoor. i. Length of test 42 p : New Forest. 

 c. Narrow view of same. d. Length of test 32 jx : Isle of Wight. 



Ireland. — Donegal; Armagh; Clare Island and 

 mainland. Mayo; Galway ; Wicklow ! [Eopk.) ; Kerry. 



There is some difficulty in correctly ascertaining 

 the shape of the orifice owing to the curious con- 

 struction of the neck or collar (figs. 133 and 134). 

 Where the collar joins the test the orifice is long and 

 narrow with semicircular ends, beyond this the flat 

 sides of the collar approach each other so that in side 

 view it has a conical shape ; in broad view the outer 



