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2. Gordius Platyura, Baird. (Tab. I. f. 4.) 



Body of a uniform dull white colour, quite smooth, with a de- 

 pressed line on one side throughout its whole length, obscurely 

 ringed at unequal distances, narrower at anterior extremity, 

 and terminating in a broad flattish tail, which is slightly bifid. 



Length of animal 32 inches, breadth of middle portion of body 

 about ^ a line ; breadth of tail 1 line. 



Hob. 1 Jamaica ? 



From the collection of Sir Hans Sloane. 



B. Epidermis granulated. 



3. Gordius Tolosanus. 



Gordius aquaticus (part), Auctorum. 

 Gordius aquaticus? Baird, Proceedings of Berw. Club, i. 

 Gordius Tolosanus, Dujardin, Ann. Sc.JS T at. 2nd series, 1842, xviii. 

 146, Hist. Nat. Helminth. 298. 



Hah. Fresh-water ponds and slow running streams. 



a. $ $ From Berwickshire. From the collection of Dr. G. John- 

 ston. 



b. (? From the collection of Col. Montagu. 



c. $ From Wivelescombe, Somersetshire. From the collection of 

 Dr. Leach. 



4 Gordius verrucosus, Baird. (Tab. I. f. 5.) 



Body black, covered all over with innumerable small raised warty 

 papilla}, round and very stiff like a piece of wire. An impressed 

 line runs on each side through the whole length. Head small. 

 Anterior extremity narrower than posterior. Length 6 inches ; 

 breadth about \ a line. 



Bab. 1 



Male, from the collection of Dr. A. Smith. 



5. Gordius violacecs, Baird. 



Body of a dark brown colour, apparently smooth, but under a 

 high magnifying power, completely covered with small flattish- 

 looking papillse, and ringed transversely with very slightly- 

 raised circular lines about half or one-third of a millimetre 

 apart from each other, tapering slightly at upper extremity 

 and gradually becoming slightly thicker at inferior. Along 



