No. 640] SHORTER ARTICLES AND DISCUSSION 465 



well-known ciliatc raramecium. The neuromotor apparatus of 

 this organism consists of fine branching fibers in the periphery 

 and the cytopharynx, converging to the neuromotor center. 



In the peripliery these fibers are connected to the basal gran- 

 ules of the cilia and also to the tricliocysts. From these organ- 

 elles they may be traced to the neuromotor center (Fig. 1, n. c.) 

 located in the endoplasm just anterior to the cytostome. They 



