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" perlitora sparglte museum. 



Naiades, et circClra vitreos considite fontes : 

 Poll ice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divae, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphse Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N.Parthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1. 



No. 115. JULY 1857- 



I. — Contributions to the Knowledge of the T'errestrial Planarise, 

 from communications from Dr. Fritz Miiller of Brazil and 

 personal investigations. By Dr. Max Schultze*. 



1 HE travels of the English naturalist, Charles Darwin f, have 

 made us acquainted with a rich fauna of terrestrial Planarice in 

 the humid regions of primaeval forest in South America, which 

 merits the attention of zoologists in a high degree. If it was 

 impossible to help being astonished, in the first place, at the 

 remarkable circumstance that worms belonging to the order of 

 the Turbellaria — which we are accustomed to find only in water 

 in Europe, and which, in consequence of their extremely soft, 

 delicate parenchyma, destitute of all supports, appear destined 

 to live exclusively in that medium, — should occur on land, our 

 interest would be no less attracted by the statements of the 

 large size of these animals, the variegated colours with which 

 they were adorned, and their Nemertoid form combined with 

 the internal structure of the Planarice of our fresh waters. The 



* Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from a copy of the paper in the 

 ' Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Halle,' vol. iv. 1857, 

 kindly communicated by the author. 



t Naturwissenschaftliche Reisen, deutsch von E. DiefFenbach, 1844, 

 p. 28 ; Annals and Magazine of Natural History, first series, vol. xiv. 

 p. 241, 1844. 



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