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believe it to be a northern species, which dies out, 

 or gives place in the south to other species. Another 

 species (A. cellica, Rosa) was first found in Brittany. 

 A couple of years ago I found it in Scotland, then in 

 Glostershire and Lancashire, and now find it in my 

 decaying tree-stump in Sussex. 



A journey from Battle vid Sedlescombe to St, 

 Leonards yielded the red, purple, green, and turgid 

 worms, and the little square-tail. Others might 

 have been found, but the wind was so intensely cold 

 that it was with difficulty I could carry out my 

 pursuits. My explorations ended with a tramp from 

 Pevensey to Hurstmonceux on the 30th. The 

 square-tail was plentiful in ditches down to sea-level, 

 the ibrandling was found in old manure-heaps, and 

 inside the castle-grounds I found the green and 

 purple worms. To these during the day I added 

 the mucous worm (Alio, mucosa, Eisen), the typical 

 common earthworm {£. terrestris, L.), and the long 

 worm, while a rich harvest was gleaned among the 

 fresh-water and allied species. I regret to say that 

 most of the latter were devoured by leeches before I 

 reached my home in Yorkshire so that I shall have 

 to replace them before I can give a complete list of 

 captures on the strength of living materials. The 

 following list will perhaps be serviceable to future 

 workers. There are almost certain to be two or 

 three other continental species in Sussex yet unre- 

 corded, and I shall be grateful to any collector either 

 in the south or elsewhere who will send me living 

 specimens from different parts of the kingdom. Much' 

 yet remains to be done in Scotland, Ireland, and 

 Walesf as well as the Shetland, Orkney, and Channel 

 Islands. Worms should be placed in tin boxes with 

 soft moss, and addressed 4, The Grove, Idle, Brad- 

 ford. 



List of Known Sussex Earth-worms. 







[terrestris (Linn.) 



1 



I. 



Liimbricus . 



\rubellus (Hoffm.) 



2 







\rubescens (Friend) 



3 







(purpureas (Eisen) 



4 







llonga (Ude) . 



5 







Iturgida (Eisen) . 



6 



2. 



Allolobophora 



{chlorotica (Sav.) 



7 







I mucosa (Eisen) . 



S 







ycetida (Sav.). 



9 







tsubrtibicimda (Eisen 



10 







\Eiseni (Levinsen) 



11 



3- 



Dendrobccna . 



Xceltica (Rosa) 



12 







\arborea (Eisen) . 



13 







\constrictdQRos3.) . 



H 



4- 



Allunis . 



tetnzdrits\{Sax.) . 



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SOME STALKED ACTINOPHRYANS. 



IT has been my good fortune during the past three 

 months to discover two rare Actinophryan Rhi- 

 zopods in the waters of one of our Calcutta tanks. 

 In- November last I found Clathrulina elegans, and 

 in January last Hedriocystis pellucida. In a paper on 

 Clathrulina, which was read before the Microscopical 



Society here on the 14th December last by its. Presi- 

 dent, Mr. Wood Mason, he said : "This remarkable 

 genus of the order Heliozoa, in the lower grade 

 (Gymnomyxa) of the Protozoa, was first introduced 

 to the notice of zoologists in 1867 by the Russian 

 naturalist Professor L. Cienkowski, of Odessa, who, 



C.K 



Fig. 72.— Hedriocystis pellucida. (A), as seen under a 

 A-in. Economic. 



Fig- 73* — H. pellucida. (B), an average specimen. 



Fig. 74.—//. pellucida. (C), the organism with numerous 

 protoplasmic threadlets. 



in a paper remarkable for the numerous valuable 

 observations that it contains, fully described it, with 

 two of its three methods of multiplication, under the 

 name of Clathrulina elegans. Cienkowski found it 

 first at St. Petersburg, and afterwards at Dresden 

 and Franzensbad in Germany, in fresh-water ponds, 

 attached singly or in bunches to various aquatic 



