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2. Floschlaria campanulata, Dobie. 

 Only seen once or twice, size yV'. 



3. Floscctlaeia ambigua, Hudson. 

 Fairly common, on Utricularia, during tlie rains, size 



4. Floscdlakia ienuilobata, n. sp., PI. XIX. 

 Lobes fire, linear, knobbed, composing almost the whole of tlie 

 corona, tlie undivided portion being almost nothing. Knobs hemi- 

 spherical with the flat surface inclined at an angle with the inner surface 

 of the lobe. Setra long, radiating from the kn6bs, smaller ones on the 

 ■whole length of the lobe and on the smaller edge of the corona between 

 their bases. The long linear lobes with their peculiarly shaped heads, and 

 the very small undivided portion of the corona, are distinctive. The 

 lobes seem capable of independent motion and have the appearance in 

 certain positions of being jointed on to the neck. The neck is much 

 narrower than the body, which again tapers gradually to its long and 

 narrow foot, so that the creature has a somewhat spindle-shaped ap- 

 pearance. The internal structure corresponds with that of other Flos- 

 cules, except that it seemed to me that the buccal orifice from the vesti- 

 bule into the crop was situated at the side rather than at the centre of 

 the crop, and that the tube leading from the one to the other hung against 

 the wall of the crop. I note that, in the figure originally drawn by me, 

 there is a projection at the base of the corona which looks like an anten- 

 na. I have not been able to verify this by subsequent observation. 

 This species is a fine handsome creatui-e from to ^V" in length. It is 

 not at all shy, and I found it in great profusion last year (1888) during 

 the raius on leaves of a species of Utricularia. I first saw it in 1887, 

 and described it at a meeting of the Microscopical Society in the autumn 

 of that year. 



Family II. Melicertadse. 



5. Meliceeta eingens, Schrank. 



I have only come across a few specimens in Entally tanks : these, I 

 saw in November, 1888. Mr. W. J. Simmons, however, tells me that he 

 has found this species in great profusion in water taken from tanks in 

 the Botanical Gardens. 



I came across one specimen of a Melicerta with a tube very fluffy 

 and irregular iu shape differing greatly from the regular compact tube 

 of M. riugens. The pellets, oval in shape, were not fascal, as I observed 



