12 Prot. 
PEOTOZOA. 
Blanchard (6) proposes the following classification :— 
Class Sporozoa. 
Order Sarcosporiclce. 
i. Fam, Miescheridce. Situated in the striated muscles. Enveloping 
membrane— (a) thin and structureless, genus Miescheria ; (5) 
thick and traversed by fine canaliculi, genus Sarcocystis. 
II. Fam. Balbianidce. Situated in connective tissue. Enveloping mem¬ 
brane thin and structureless. Genus Balbiania. 
Blanchard (5) also states that he believes that the Sarcosporidia- pre¬ 
sent affinities with the Cocculia, especially with the Polysporea ( Klossia ). 
Biitschli (13) confirms Kleb’s discovery \cf. Zool. Rec. xxi. Prot. p. 5] 
of a flagellum lying within the equatorial groove and the absence of any 
cilia. The so-called Cilioflagellata are to be regarded as an autonomous 
group, Binoflagellcita, of the Mastigophora near the Flagedlata. 
Haeckel (39) gives a sketch of a classification of the Acantharice 
( Radiolaria ). 
Grassi (35) places his Jcenici cinnectens , g. & sp. nn., in the family of the 
Lophomonadidce, among the Flagellata. In the same family he places 
Trichonympha aqilis, Leidy, which he renames Lopkomonas trichonympha. 
[See also Kent (52).] 
Kunstler (55) gives a resume of the structure, physiology, etc., of the 
Bacteria , and compares together such organisms as Bacillus , Spirillum , 
Monas , Trypanosoma , Protomonas , Bacterioidomonas , &c. He concludes 
by saying : “If some of the Bacteria should be ranked in the vegetable 
kingdom from their acquired characters, there are others which should 
take their place in the animal kingdom ; and further, these constitute 
distinct passage-forms to unequivocal animal groups. It is to the group 
of Flagellates—more especially the astomatous Flagellates—that these 
organisms appear to be allied.” 
Genera and Species. 
KHIZOPODA. 
Balkwill & Wright (2) describe and figure the following new British 
Foraminifera :—Ophthalmidium carinatum , sp. n., p. 326 [Reophax sp., 
p. 328], Lagena curvilineata , sp. n., p. 338, Discorbina tuberculata, sp. n., 
p. 350, Nonionina pauperata, sp. n., p. 353. 
Archerina bolioni, g.& sp. nn., Lankester (58) [see p. 8]. 
Amceba villosa, Arcella vulgaris , LieberJcuehnia australis , sp. n., Echino- 
pyxis australis , sp. u., Lecquereusia spiralis , Difflugia pyriformis, all from 
Australia, von Lendenfeld (61). 
Amceba parasitica, sp. n., von Lendenfeld (62). 
Arcyothrix balbicinii, g. & sp. nn., Hallez (41). 
Amphiexis and Lithozoa , gg. nn. [no sp. described], Folin (30) [see 
p. 9]. 
Collozoum inerme, Mull., Q.fulvum , sp. n., p. 223, C, pelagicum, Hack., 
C. hertwigi , sp. n., p. 228, Sphacrozoun neapolitanum , Br., >8. acuferum , 
