*Vifceralis 
*Cellulrfe 
- 
Simie: 
Vefpertili- 
ants 
WORMS, INTESTINA: 14. Tania, 39 
14. TAENIA. Body flat and compofed of 
numerous articulations: ead with 4 
orifices for fuction a little below the 
mouth: mouth terminal, continued by a 
fhort tube into 2 ventral canals, and 
generally crowned with a double feries 
of retractile hooks or holders. 
Lape-worm. 
Thefe are deftined to feed on the juices of various animals, and 
are moitly found in the alimentary canal, ufually at the upper 
part of. it, ‘They are fometimes found in great numbers, and 
occafion very diitreffing ailments. ‘They have the power of 
reproducing parts which have been broken off, and are there- 
fore removed with confiderable difficulty. They are ovipa- 
rous, and diícharge their numerous eggs from the apertures on 
the joints, : 
A. Found in other parts befides the inteRines, and furnifhbed 
with a veficle behind. Hydatids. 
a, Infefting the Mammalia. 
Pifiform, inclofed in a veficle: broad on the fore-part and 
pointed behind. : 
Philof. Tranf. 43, n- 475, f» 505. 
Goexe Eingew. p.196, 249, tab. 20. B. fig. 12. a, 5. 
Wern. Verms Intefl. p, 68, tab. 9, fig. 29—33. 
Found in the liver, placenta, fack containing the dropfical fiuid, 
and other morbid tumours of mankind: is fometimes folitary, 
and fometimes many together in the fame veficle, 
Solitary, and inclofed in a cartilaginous veficle and 2-tailed 
tunic. 
Wern. Verm. Intefl. p. 2, tab. 1, fig. 1—8. * 
Inhabits the cellular fubftance of the mufcles of Man: about an 
inch long, -half as much broad and one-fourth as thick: is 
very tenacious of life: Acad furnifhed with obtufe hooks. 
Inhabits the diaphragm of the Ape. 
Size of a nut. Goexe Eingew. f. 24. 
Inhabits the liver of the Bat. 
Bloch, Schr, ber], Naturfi Y, 8. 334. 
Vulpis 
