~ 
166 ANIMALS KILLED Tw 
and adjoining part of the body are very tranfpat 
rent, and of a fhining filver colour: the tail is 
the fame, but the intermediate part is darkifh 
and all.granulated. The greater part of the tail 
is bent, and terminates in a very fharp. point. 
The head, on the contrary, is obtufe ; and a little 
below the extremity there is a mouth, which 
terminates a canal, apparently ferving for an 
cefophagus, and traverfing the whole length of 
the body,, pl. -4.-fig. 2.. 
if 
\ 
number. contained‘from one. to ten. I faw one with. 2 
fingle egg, fo large as to diftend the body in the middle 
very much. Whether thefe fubftances are eggs or foetufes 
is uncertain: they are probably the latter included by a 
fine intezument.; and I rather fuppofe that the body of the 
mother burfts to give them.an exit or immediately. after 
they are produced. It is much more difficult to ifolate 
an animal that almof{ never moves than another that is 
continually traverfing a-fluid. Sometimes I did fucceed 
in ifolating floths with eggs in watch-glaffes. When the. 
young appeared, the parent was no longer vifible, at leaft. 
“I could not find it; and they were remarkably. {mall in 
comparifon to others. There was no fand where they. 
were found ; their natural abode was among the particles 
of vegetable fitbftance.. I did not fucceed in reviving 
them; but their fearcity prevented me from making re- 
peated and accurate experiments. This, if it is a floth, 
may be named Tardigradus Oéopdalis, and that in the | 
text Tardigradus Italicus.—T. 
