WORMS. INTESTINA. 20. Hirude, 69 
Found frequently in ftagnant waters, ditches and ponds; 4—6 
inches long: £edy above dull olive-black, with an ochre margin 
each fide; beneath paler, with fometimes a few black fpots; 
iai! thicker than the head. This {pecies fucks blood with 
"great avidity and in large quantities, 
Lineata, Elongated, grey, with 4 longitudinal black lines on the 
back. 
Mull, Hifl. Verm. 2, p. 39, 2. 169. 
Found early in the fpring in ft»gnant waters; about an inch and 
a half long: £d annulate with numerous wrinkles, and with - 
6 deep black eves in a double tranverfe row, 
* Octoculae Elongated, yellow-brown, with 8 eyes in a lunate ferics. 
(a. Ax. Stockh. 1757, tab. 6, fig. 5—8. 
Inhabits ftagnant waters, among aquatic plants, and preys on 
monoculi and the fmaller animalcules; about 15 inches long. 
Body f metiiaes brown immaculate, fometimes fprinkled above 
with black dots ; fometimes brown with yellowifh dots above; 
fometimes yellow-brown with a knotty line in the middle and 
a lateral blackifh one pinnate within on the fore-part; fomee 
times yellowith with longitudinai lines, the middle one knot. 
ty, the lateral ones with remote red dots; eyes often 9. 
% Stagnalis, Elongated, cinereous, with 2 eyes. 
A, Stockh. 17§7, 2.4, tab. 6, fig. g—1YY. 
Inhabits wet hollows and rivulets; about 9 lines long, 
Boy whitfh, peliacid, fprinkled with cinereous dots and plaited 
at the fides: eggs about 40, furrounded by a pellucid circle, 
cinerous at firit and afterwards brown: the young after exe 
clufion aanere by their tails to the belly of the mother. 
*Combla- Body dilated, cinereous, with a double tuberculate line on 
nata. the back, the margin ferrate, 
AG. Stockb. 1757, tab. 6, fig. 12—14. 
Found in fhallow ftreams ; about 4 lineslong. 
Body with tranverle bands compofed of 3 pale lines, the margin 
whitith ; beneath grey: ead pointed, white, with 6 eyes: 
teil orbicular and cinereous, 
2Viridis, Body depreffed, oblong, green with a tranfparent margin, 
and pointed at the tai]. 
Shaw. Tranfa@ Linn. Soc M p» 93, tab. 7. 
Inhabits clear cold waters ; about an eighth of aninch long, and 
like moft of the Genus has a power of reproduction almoit 
equal to that of the Polype; for if the animal be divided in 
every direction, the parts will become perfe&t animals, and 
jay be again divided and again reproduced ad infinitum. 
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