No. 486] 



HABITS OF AM BLY STOMA 



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Ident{ficatio7i. In order to identify the spermatophores, search 

 was made for the parent animals. This resulted in the capture 

 on April 11, of three specimens of Amhlysioma puncfatum Linn, 

 which were found eml)edded in rotten wood under a stump at the 

 edge of the water of one of the ponds where the spermatophores 

 were numerous. From two of these specimens a few drops of 

 seminal fluid, containing an abundance of spermatozoa, were 

 obtained hy stripping; from the third, which proved to he a female, 



spermato})h()rcs and similarly treated. In >tni(tutv, >i/.c. ami 

 staining reactions the two were iilentieal. 



Another .species, J. tl(jrl)ntiit (ireeii. alx) (iccuin in the vicinity 



