90 . riLARIA GEA.CIIJ8. 



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 in tmwuim with tft^ ^xai &mn\i\m of 



BY S. SMITH, M.E.C.S.E., and L.S.A., 



Head at the General Meeting, October 2ndy 1873. 



It will not be necessary for me in this place to enter into an 

 elaborate anatomical description at large of these animals; I shall 

 therefore simply say, that under the term Anmilosa, or "Worms, 

 Zoologists comprehend — 



1. Entozoa, or Intestinal "Worms — animals in which 

 segmentation is not very distant. 



2. Eotifers. 



3. Turbellarias, and 



4. Annelida. 



Entozoa, which live upon the secretions of other animals, 

 are sub-divided into Cestoid, or flat worms, in which there is 

 neither mouth nor stomach, to which order Tape- worms and 

 Cystic Entozoa belong ; and Nematoid, or round worms, in 

 which order are to be found Lumbrici, Thread-worms, Eilaria, 

 Dracunculus, &c., &c., and to which the specimens before us 

 properly belong. The third division is called the Trematode 

 group, of which the" Fluke, so often found in the liver of sheep, 



