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neath the (kins of various animals will be found univerfally with- 

 out them *. 



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

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

 hornv bridles direiSlcd towards the truncated end, and arc of a 

 reddiih colour, except the points, which are black. Thefe larva; 

 evidently leceive their food at the fmall end by a longitudinal 

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

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

 horny, and irre^^ular. 



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 diflfedtion the inteftine is 

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

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

 is not perfedly pure. 



♦ They are wanting in the CE. Tarandi, whofe larva I have I'ecn ; and alfo in a new 

 and fingular fpecies, which inhabits beneath the (kin of the rabbits and hares of Georgia 

 ill America. This fpecies having never been defcrlbed by any writer I am acquainted 

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

 excellent cabinet of Mr. Francillon. 



CE. cuniculi. Niger, alls fufcis, thorace ad medium nigro, podice, abdominifque bad 

 pilis flavefcentibus. 



HaVttat in Georgia Americana. 



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

 porrefta. Thorax antice nigricans, angulo obtufo ad medium ; poftice, lateribus, 

 fcutelloque flavis. Abdomen nigrum bafi et lateribus fegmcntorum flavis. Ala 

 glaucefcentes feu fufcx. Carpus fubtus nigrum. Pedes nigri. 



Larva fufca undique muricata aculcis minutiflimis, fub cute leporum et aflinium 

 habitat. 



From the extraordinary fize of this OcJlrus., I ihould be led to imagine it was origin- 

 ally dedined to infed fomc much larger animal, which perhaps may be extiniA. 



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