ON LIEBERKUHNIA WAGENERl. 145 
iiig, the worm was slowly ejected, quite dead, and much 
changed in appearance, a large proportion of its contents 
having apparently been sucked out. For some hours sub- 
sequently the Rhizopod displayed remarkable activity, the 
pseudopodial filaments stretching out on all sides until they 
eventually entirely filled the field of a 3 in. objective, the 
centre being occupied by the creature itself. The movement 
of the sarcode to and fro both in its body and in every rami- 
fication of the pseudopodia was much increased in rapidity 
by the unwonted feast, and it was not until six or seven hours 
had elapsed that the rapidity and force of the streams were 
sensibly diminished, after which the animal gradually as- 
sumed an almost dormant condition. 
In conclusion, I may just relate that in transferring this 
specimen from the bottle to the cell, I had some difficulty in 
detaching it from the pencil point, and in doing so accident- 
ally separated two small portions of the naked external pro- 
toplasm. These detached pieces began as soon as they were 
settled in the cell to put out pseudopodia in all directions, 
until at last no central mass was left in either. Each had 
become an interlacing network of pseudopodia. The parent 
Lieherkuhnia at the same time began to put out its pseudo- 
podia, which ultimately reached those extended from the 
detached portions, and the moment actual contact took place 
they coalesced, the fragments again becoming part of the 
original body — thus repeating what had been previously 
observed and followed a stage ffirther in Shephear della. 
Chester, March, 1880. 
