PLATE XLVIL 



FIG. L 



PROTEUS DIFFLUENS. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



An invifible, very ample, pellucid Worm, of a variable form. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Proteus, branching itfelf out in a variety of diredlion*. 



F I G. JI. 

 TRICHODABOMBA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 

 An inviuble, peljucid, hairy worm, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Changeable, with a fev/ hairs difperfed on the fore part. 



Miiller's Am. Inf. 



Proteus Diifluens, under fome of its changes appears rather a fhape- 

 iefs mafs, than an animated bodyj it confifts of gelatinous, pellucid 

 fubftance, replete with dark coloured molecules, which either direa or 

 attend, the internal exertions and adions of the animalculum j it pufhes 

 forth branches of various Ihapes. 



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