52 FLANARIA FELINA. 



there to be discovered. A portion delinea- 

 ted soon after separation, is represented 

 somewhat magnified, Fig. 9. which, sub- 

 sequently, became a perfect animal. But 

 the paleness of the lower extremity denotes 

 that a previous disjunction, though then 

 completely repaired, had taken place. A- 

 mong those observed in August, one had 

 lost the head, either by accident or sponta- 

 neous division : while an oblique section 

 had carried away nearly the whole anterior 

 part of another. Only the point of a ten- 

 taculum remained. From this and various 

 examples better illustrated, separation is 

 not peculiar to the posterior extremity. It 

 can as little be ascertained that there is any 

 previous preparation for division. No in- 

 dications are betrayed ; and in so far as I 

 have witnessed, it takes place just as an or- 

 dinary incident in the animal's existence. 

 But there is a material difference in the 

 consequent state of the two severed por- 

 tions. The anterior part scarce seems to 

 suffer from its loss; while the fragment 



