246 THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 2. Cryptodifflugia oviformis. Specimen with mass of debris attached to mouth. Proto- plasm not completely filling test, but showing attachment at various points. X 1500. 3. Do. do. Two specimens joined mouth to mouth. One test empty, the other containing an encapsuled (? encysted) mass of protoplasm, probably the result of conjuga- tion. X 1000. 4. Do. do. Outline of active specimen seen from above. Mouth indicated by small circle in middle. X 600. 5. Do. do. Cyst within broken upper half of test. x 600. 6. Phalansterium solitarium, Sandon (?). Four individuals with active flagella, embedded in mass of pellets (the latter only indicated in part.) x 1200. 7. Do. do. Five individuals in a more or less contracted condition. One flagellum still extended, another partly retracted and terminating in a ring as is often the case with flagella of many kinds. x 1200. 8. Petalomonas sp. Specimen with flagellum extended and showing the four long and divergent posterior processes. X 1500. 9. Do. Outline of view from above. X 1500. 10. Conidia of Tetracladium marchalianum (?). X 1000. 11. Do. Titaea sp. x 2000. 12. Do. Helicomyces roseus (?). x 1000.