5 8 WORMS. INTESTINA. 17. Lumbricus. 



17. LUMBRICUS. Body round, annulate, 

 with generally an elevated flefhy belt 

 near the head, moftly rough with minute 

 concealed prickles placed longitudinally^ 

 and furnifhed with a lateral aperture. 



N Earth-worm, 



*Terreftris Body red, with 8 rows of prickles. Dew-worm,: 



Brtt, Zool. iv. p- 3$, tab, 19, fig. 6, 



Petiv. Gazopb, tab. 1 30, fig. 6, Red. Exp, 4, tab, l$tf* It 

 Le/fer Theol.desinf.par Lyonnet f. 1, 2, 3. 

 Murrey de Lumbric. Jet* obfer tab. 2, f. 1 — 5. 

 Phelfam J fear. tab. 2, f. 4, 5. Bonnet inf. 2. tab. 4, 



2. Exactly alike, but about half the fize. 



P^a. Brit, Zool. iv. p. 33, ta£. 19, $ 6, A. 



Inhabits decayed wood and the common foiU which by perfo* 

 rating, it renders fit to receive the rain : devours the cotyledons 

 of plants and wanders about by night : is the food of Moles, 

 Hedghogs and various birds. 



Body with about 140 rings, each of which contains 4 pair or 

 prickles, not vilible to the eye butdifcoverable by the touch; 

 when expanded is convex each fide, and when contracted is 

 flattifh beneath, with a led canal down the whole body : the 

 belt is wrinkled and porous : month placed beneath the probofcis, 



*Marinm. Back with 2 rows of briftly tubercles. l<ug* 



Penn. Brit, Zool, iv. p. 34, tab, 19, f, 7. 

 It.Wgotb. 189, tab. 3, /. 6. 



Pall. no-v. Acl. Petrop. 2, p. 333, tab. I,/. 19,29. 

 Inhabits fhores of Europe, where it buries itfelf deep in the fand, 



leaving a little rifing with an aperture on the iurface ; and is 



ufed as a bait for fim. 

 Body pale red, round and annulate with greater and lefTer rings, 



the firft prominent with 2 oppofite tufts of lhort briftles on 



each; the lower-part fmooth, 



Ver?nicuk- Body white, with 2 rows of prickles. 

 ris. Mull. HzJl.Verm, 1,^,26, n. 158. 



Inhabits the wet and decayed trunks of trees and among moift 

 leaves, moving very expeditioufly in humid places, but twill- 

 ing itfelf up in dry ones : body poliftied, glabrous, 



Variegatus Rufous, fpotted, with 6 rows of prickles. 

 Bonnet Vers d'eau douce, tab, I, f, 1 — 5. 



Inhabits 



