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. XH. An Aaa: of the: Onchidium, a new Genus of the Clas à Vermes, 
| Sound i in net By Francis Bucbannan, M. D. 4. L. S 
nO eid June 55 1798. 
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"HIS animal, which- lhavéialways found on the leaves of the 
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Typha elephantina-of Dr. Roxburgh, is very nearly allied to the 
“ail or Limax; but differs in fo many of the gircumftances confi- 
dered by Linnzus as characteriftic, that I imagine it will be found 
to conititute a new genus. , To.this I would give the name Onchi- . 
dium, from the number of little tubercles with which the whole 
appar part of the animal. i is covered, i 
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m Vermes. Meltats Ore mx corporebrachiaty. : 
' auieidpONCHIDIUM. 
CHAR. GEN. Brachia duo ad latera capitis. Tenfacuh “duo. Os 
 amticum. Anus pofticus; infra. ^^ 3 
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GUTE a PASER'SEISM SES & EU 
Habitat i in foliis. Typha: Hephantise, O emet 
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Axel weet =) 
The body in ifs ftate ‘of reft is oblong, convex above, about a an 
inch long and three quarters of an inch broad; S: al the or- 
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ends, ‘about an iüch and F half or two inches long, ima halfor re 
quarters of “an inch broad; Jan the arms and feclers-of-thé animal 
: then become Vitiblez s It is flat; black, and. fmooth «below ; above 
