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MR JAMES MURRAY ON 



long claws have very fine supplementary points, which are sometimes difficult to distin- 

 guish. The eggs are laid in the skin, and are smooth. I have seen 2 and 3 eggs. 

 Professor Richters has seen as many as 15. 



M. tardigradum, Doy. Length 430m, pharynx 60m, eggs 120m by 85m. 



LITERATURE CITED. 



(1) Doyere, Ann. d. sc. nat., Paris, Ser. II. t. 17, 1842. 



(2) ,, Ann. d. sc. nat., Paris, Ser. II. t. 14, 1840. 



(3) Ehrenberg, "Mikrogeologie," 1854, Atlas, pi. 35&. 



(4) Lance, D., "Contribution a l'etude anatomique et biologique des Tardigrades," Paris, 1896. 



(5) Lauterborn, R., " Fauna des Oberrheins und seiner Umgebung," Verhandl. d. Deutsch. Zool. Gen., 



1906, p. 267. 



(6) Murray, J., " Tardigrada of the Scottish Lochs," Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., xli., 1905, pp. 677-698. 



(7) „ "Tardigrada of the Forth Valley," Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist, 1905, p. 160. 



(8) „ "Scottish Alpine Tardigrada," Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist, 1906, p. 25. 



(9) „ "Tardigrada of the South Orkneys," Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., xlv., 1906, pp. 323-334. 



(10) „ " Tardigrada of the Forth Valley," Second Paper, Ann. Scot Nat Hid., 1906, p. 214. 



(11) „ "Encystment of Macrobiotus," Zoologist, 1907, p. 4 



(12) ,, " Arctic Tardigrada," Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., xlv., 1907. 



(13) Plate, L., " Naturgeschichte der Tardigraden," Zool. Jahrb., Bd. iii., Morph. Abt., 1888, 



pp. 487-550. 



(14) Richters, F., Ber. Senckbg. Natf. Ges., 1900, p. 40. 



(15) „ "Fauna der Umgebung von. Frankfurt-a-M.," Ber. Senckenbg. Natf. Ges., 1902, p. 3. 



(16) „ "Nordische Tardigraden," Zool. Anz., xxvii., 1903, p. 168. 



(17) ,, " Verbreitung der Tardigraden," Zool. Anz., xxviii., 1904, p. 347. 



(18) ,, " Islandische Tardigraden," Zool. Anz., xxviii., 1904, p. 373. 



(19) „ "Arktische Tardigraden," Fauna Arctica, Bd. iii., 1904, p. 495. 



(20) Schultzk, C. A. S., "Macrobiotus hufelandi," Oken's Ms, 1834, p. 708. 



(21) Scourpield, D. J., "Non-Marine Fauna of Spitzbergen," Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 791. 



(22) Basse, A., "Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Baues der Tardigraden," Zeitschr. fur Wiss. Zool., Bd. lxxx., 



1905. 



