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ten'na very short.— Found in Kentucky, on the S. tnfoliatum \ length one-eighth 

 oj an inch j ij produces a kind of white substance or mealy wax. 



63. J.ocusta cu .i/itera: Back brown, Ileal and belly yellow, wings blue with 

 two red stripes.— Length half an inch; a beautiful little' species found in Illinois 

 am Indiana. 



64 Locvsta erythropoda. Yellowish, back with small transversal brown lines : 

 eyes and wing, greenish brown : legs with black knees and red feet.— Length one. 

 inch. Seen in Indiana add Kentucky. 



VII CLASS. IIELM1N THIA — THE WORMS. 



65. Hirudo ateiriina Entirely black, oblong, obtuse.— Length over one inch r 

 Muni m the swamps and bayous of' the valley of the river Ohio. There are at 

 least twenty other undesciibcd species of Leeches in the United States. 



66 Ihrudo OMenais. Olivaceous, elongated, flattened, obtuse ; back with two 

 parallel rows of distant red dotts— Length two or three inches. Found in the 

 Ohio, at the mouth of the Kenhaway. 



67 Ihrndotticolot: Oblong, obtuse, attenuated behind ; red above, with a Ion- 

 ffitiiduial black stripe, yellow or orange colou beneath.— Length less than one 

 in<:n Iii the swamps near Lake ChamplsJn. 



66 fSivdo tmrmoiftta. Oblong, obtuse, blackish variegated with brown white 

 and rufous spots.— Together with the foregoing and same size. 



VJI1 CLASS. APAI.O.SIA.— THE .VOLLUSCA. 



X'S l X. <; i> ,, .omiits Differs from Umax by no visible mantle, the longer 

 pair ot tciitaculs terminal and club shaped, the 'shorter tentacula lateral and 

 oblong— I he name means friend of fungi, on which they feed. 



69. Phtiomyciit gmdrUm. Grey, back smooth, with four longitudinal rows of 

 irregular black spots, long tentacula black and approximated : rather attenuated 

 behind, tad obtuse.— On the banks of the Hudson, length over half an inch. 



70 1 luhmycit* oxyunu Fulvous grey, slender, back wrinkled longitudinally : 

 teu.ania brow „, the lateral ones very small ; tail acute, carinated above.— Leneth 

 CWi -thirds of an inch, in New York 



7\ PhUomycntfitKiu. Entirely brown, tentacula thick, back smooth, tail com- 

 pressed, acute— In Ohio, on Amanita ellipiica .- length one-fourth of an inch. 



(~. PlnhmyauJkximUuii. Fulvous, back variegated with flexuose brown 



inu-s slightly wrinkled transversaHy i attenuated behind, tail obtuse — Len -ih 



rpm • lie to two inches, it may change its shape. Found on the Catskill moun- 



vi it • K ™ m:, "- V 0,I ' L ''' ^ ecies oftni * K ( '""*' " *e United States. 



-\\ II X t; EiMfn s. Differs from Umax by no visible mantle.the four ten- 

 tav .a almost in one row in front and cylindrical, nearly equal, the smallest pair 

 Detween the larger ones.— Name mythological. 



73 Gnmeliu wbuhsm. Body nearly cylindrical, rounded at both ends • back 

 smooth, crowded with grey and fulvous spots intermixed of the same tin-e, with- 

 tackv ene * th8, te, '- t:,culabrcm,, - Lt:n e thaboutonei, ' cl1 ; in-Obio and Ken- 



74. Eumdw Uvithtf. Livid brown above, greyish beneath, antenna black, ob- 

 ttise b hind, back smooth and convex.— Length one inch ; in Ohio, Indiana and 



75 Untax gradlh Body slen.ler, head and lower tentacula fulvous, neck 

 gtev, upper tentacula brownish, mantle dark fulvous, back smooth brown, beneath 



illv w lite ; tail brown, obtuse above, mucronate and acute beneath —Probably 



: /.imax. Y.t it has the two long tentacula inserted above the neck, while 



tin- small .ties are terminal, and all slightly club shaped It may perhaps form a 



sui. i> nus Derocera* i,^^ over onc incIl Found near Hendersonville in 



lv i I f ky, anil in woods. 



IVIH Jf. Q HiMiu>Mi (Univalve land shell) Spire raised and smooth ; o- 

 pening ihhqual elliptic, with an interior raised half margin on the inside lip, a lit- 

 Ur twisted ( Columella decurrent on the whorl obliquely and with a very small 

 Umbilicus.— I he name means half margin. 



76 '/.„// ma nata Ovate, very obtuse, smooth, six spires, breadth two-think 

 PI • ,. lem lh. Found near Lexington, in n< at ly a fossil state, by Mr. John D. Clif- 

 ford; whitish, length three-sixteenthofaninch. 



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