Mr. Clark'j- Okjlrvations on tljs Octtut Oejlrus* 299 



ncath the fkins of various animals will be found univerfally with- 

 out them *. 



The body of the larva is compofed of eleven fegments, all of 

 which, except the two laft, are furrounded with a double row of 

 horny bridles directed towards the truncated end, and are of a 

 reddifh colour, except the points, which are black. Thefe larva 

 evidently receive their food at the fmall end by a longitudinal 

 aperture, which is (ituated between the two hooks or tentacuhi. 

 See fig. 22, a. The lips of this aperture appear fomewhat hard, 

 horny, and irregular. 



Their food is probably the chyle, which, being nearly pure ali- 

 ment, may go wholly to the compofition of their bodies without 

 any excrementitious refidue, though on diffection the inteflinc is 

 found to contain a yellow or greeniih. matter, which is derived from 

 the colour of the food, and (hews that the chyle, as they receive it, 

 is not perfectly pure. 



* They are wanting in the CE. Tarandi, whofe larva I have feen ; and alfo in a new 

 and fmgular fpecies, which inhabits beneath the fkin of the rabbits and hares of Georgia 

 in America. This fpecies having never been defcribed by any writer I am acquainted 

 with, I take this opportunity of introducing a defcription of it, from a fpecimen in the 

 excellent cabinet of Mr. Fvancillon. 



CE. cuniculi. Niger, alis fufcis, thorace ad medium nigro, poftice, abdominifque bafi 

 pilis flavefcentibus. 



Habitat in Georgia Americana. 



Defer, CE. bovino noftro bis major, caput nigrum, oculis fufcis, fronte veficulari 

 porre£la. Thorax antice nigricans, angulo obtufo ad medium ; poftice, lateribus, 

 fcutelloque flavis. Abdomen nigrum bafi et lateribus fegraentorum flavis. AU 

 glaucefcentes feu fufcaj. Cerpus fubtus nigrum. Pedes nigri. 



Larva fufca undique muricata aculeis minutillimis, fub cute leporum et aflinium 

 habitat. 



From the extraordinary fize of this OeJlrus y I fhould be led to imagine it was origin- 

 ally deftined to infefl fome much larger animal, which perhaps may be extinct. 



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