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LUMBRICIDiE. 



second, and overlooking the wide circular mouth, which is furnished 

 with a very short proboscis : segments furnished with eight spines 

 and spinets in four pairs, two on each side and two on the venter : 



No. I. 4 ^• 



1. 2. 3. 



sexual orifices opening on the ventral surface of segments anterior to 

 the clitellus : clitellus distinct, formed by the thickening and coales- 

 cence of several segments : anus a longitudinal cleft in the small 

 terminal segment. Blood-red : stomach muscular : oviparous, the 

 eggs capsulated : terrestrial. 



1. L. terrestris, clitellus of six segments ; vulvae on the 16th ; upper 

 lip mammillate ; second or buccal segment with two impressed 

 furrows behind the snout extended from margin to margin; tail 

 flattened, spathulate. Length 8-10". 



j3. The furrows on the second segment connected by a line thus | — |. 



Lumbricus major, Mouf. Theat. Insect. 178. Rail Hist. Insect, i. 



Vermes terrestres majores, Merr. Pin. 206. 



Earth-worm, Sibb. Scot. Illust. ii. 3. 33. 



Lumbrici terrestres vulgares, qui matutino tempore bini conjuncti 



passim observantur. Dew- Worms Anglice dicti. Rail Hist. Insect, iii. 

 Lumbricus terrestris, Willis, Oper. Omn. ii. 18. tab. 4. Linn. Syst. 



var. ^. 1076 ; Faun. Suec. 2nd edit. 504. Mull. Zool. Dan. Prod. 



no. 2602; Verm. i. ii. 24. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 33. tab. 19. f. 6, 



& edit. 1812, iv. 63. pi. 20. f. 1. Turt. Gmel. iv. 58. Turt. Brit. 



Faun. 128. Home, Comp. Anat. iv. pi. 40. f. 4, & pi. 145, 146, 147, 



