Class VI. LUMBRICUS. DEW-WORM. 63 



GENUS VIII. LUMBRICUS. DEW-WORM. 



Body slender annulated, furnished with lateral 



pores. 

 Mouth simple, nearly terminal. 



Lumbricus. Lin. Syst. IO76. 



Faun. Suec. No, 2073. 



1. Terres 



Gm. Lin. 3083. 



Raii insect. 1 . 



TRIS. 



Earth. 



L. with a hundred and forty rings ; head taper ; 

 mouth, at the end, round ; fore part of the 

 worm cylindric, the rest depressed ; at about 

 one third of its length is a prominent annulated 

 belt ; on each side of the belly a row of minute 

 spines, distinguishable only by the touch, as- 

 sistant in motion. Tab. xx. Jig. 1. 



A variety only of the former ; excepting in (a.) Minor. 

 size, resembling it. Raii insect. 2. 



Inhabits the common soil, and by perforat- 

 ing, renders it apt to receive the rain ; devours 

 the cotyledons of plants, or part of the seed that 

 vegetates ; comes out at night to copulate ; is 

 the food of moles, hedge-hogs, birds, &c. In 

 English, the Dew or Lobworm. Tab. xx. 



