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Many interacting doubles and galaxies with interacting companions, (Category 1 and 2) show tails and loops, presumably because of the interaction. But here is a class of galaxies which shows these tails or loops where the galaxies appear to be single. This is an important category because, if the galaxies really are single, it implies internal activity is responsible. Perhaps jets that fall back, or drift, or are perturbed by other objects in the vicinity, could give rise to these observed forms. This is the reason, aside from the morphological similarity, why the present Category should be considered along with Category 7: Galaxies with Jets.

Of course there is always the possibility that what looks like a single galaxy may be something else: the central ``galaxy'' may be the product of a past merger of two galaxies with the loops and tails being the long-lived echos of the collision. Only detailed investigation in each case, however, would be capable of establishing this. If the galaxy is not obviously double and has luminous filaments which are not straight, it is put into the present Category.

On the first page the object AM 2217-245 (= NGC 7252) is the well-known ``Four Petal Daisy'' named by W.W. Morgan. Schweizer (1980) has interpreted this as due to gravitational interaction of companions; others would argue that it is a case of multiple ejection. The pages following show an object AM 0031-565 on a photograph taken with the Las Campanas 2.5m telescope. The SRC Schmidt Survey plate shows that the main galaxy has a filamentary connection (showing dust features and an interior condensation) out to the very faint nebula to the south-west.

On page 15.9, the object AM 2258-595, known as the ``Flea'', is illustrated. The stellar image on the end of the filament going south-east is reported by Hawarden and Longmore to be blue and featureless but by Arp to be a low redshift star (both private communication).