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1884.] Infusoria from Putrid Waters. 133 
Hañka side, they put the mud'on the right cheek below the eye. 
This is the young buffalo-bull decoration. With reference to it, 
aman says, “My little grandfather (the young buffalo-bull) is 
always dangerous as he makes an attempt. Very close do I stand, 
ready to go to the attack!” The horse is painted with some of 
the mud on the left cheek, shoulder and thigh, if his rider belongs, 
to the Cheezhoo side, but the mud is put on the right cheek, 
shoulder and thigh of a horse belonging to a warrior on the Hafika 
side. 
Some warriors, who act like a black bear, paint with charcoal 
alone. (The tradition of the black bear people is, that they brought 
down fire from one of the upper worlds. 
Some paint in the wind style, some in the lightning style, and 
others in the panther or catamount style. 
NOTES ON mae A APPARENTLY UNDESCRIBED 
INFUSORIA FROM PUTRID WATERS. 
_ BY DR. ALFRED C. STOKES. 
FRoM a dead rat which had been lying exposed to the weather 
for an unknown period, but long enough to have had most of 
the abdominal soft parts destroyed, the tail was taken and placed 
to macerate in ordinary river water as supplied the town by 
hydrant. By the third day the infusion teemed with minute life, 
az apparently undescribed Heteromita, which at first glance was 
mistaken for H. caudata Duj., being particularly abundant. A 
careful examination; however, discovered so many essential points 
of divergence between it and known forms that it seems to de- 
mand recognition as a presumably new species, under the name 
of Heteromita putrina (Figs. 1 and 2). 
7 ian line; contractile 
Nssicle conspicuous, situated near the 
“i margin of the anterior body 
eka vibratile flagellum but slightly 
is ng the body in length, the trailing 
um about three times ‘as long \ 
id, both being of equal size 
Mserted anteriorly. Length of ody 
9 ars inch, Habitat, the putrid 
al Macerations, 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 
Heteromita putrina, n. sp. X 1500. 
