Salpina redunca.
CHAPTER V.
APRIL.
The beautiful Floscule—Mode of seeking for Tubicolor Rotifers—Mode of illuminating the Floscule—Difficulty of seeing the transparent tube—Protrusion of long hairs—Lobes—Gizzard—Hairy lobes of Floscule not rotatory organs—Glass troughs—Their construction and use—Movement of globules in lobes of Floscule—Chætonotus larus—Its mode of swimming—Coleps hirtus—Devourer of dead Entomostraca—Dead Rotifer and Vibriones—Theories of fermentation and putrefaction—Euplotes and Stylonichia—Fecundity of Stylonichia.
EW living creatures deserve so well the appellation of "beautiful" as the Floscularia ornata, or Beautiful Floscule, although to contemplate a motionless and uncoloured portrait, one would imagine that it exhibited no graces of either colour or form. Mr. Gosse has, however, done it justice, and the drawing in his "Tenby" is executed with that rare combination of scientific accuracy and artistic skill, for which the productions of his pencil are renowned.
The Beautiful Floscule. A.—Partially protruded. B.—Freely protruded, with three eggs. C.—Appearance of young. D.—Floscule seventeen hours old. D'.—Jaws of Floscule, as figured by Mr. Gosse.