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200. Trichoda Striata, 



Trichoda oblonga, altero margine curfum, Ifriuata et^eihata, 

 utraque extremitate obtufa. Oblong trichoda, one edge rather 

 curved, and alfo furnifhed with a row of hairs, both extremities 

 obtufe. 



It is a fplendid animal culum, of a fox colour, and at firft fight 

 might be taken for a kolpoda. The body is oblong, the lower 

 end is the largeft, the body becoming final ler at that part where 

 the hairs commence ; it has a fet of ftreaks which run from one 

 end to the other, and at the abdomen a double row of little eggs, 

 lying in a tranfverfe direction. It was found in river water in 

 December. 



201. Trichoda Uvula. Fig. 53. 



Trichoda planiufcula elongata, sequalis, antice crinita. Rather 

 flat and long, of an equal fize throughout, the fore-part hairy. 



This animalculum is fix times longer than it is broad, round, 

 llexuous, of an equal fize, the greater part filled with obfcure 

 molecules, the fore-part (a) rather empty, diftinguifhed by an 

 alimentary canal, and lucid globules near the middle c ; fhort 

 hairs occupy the margin of the fore-part, fomeare difperfed into 

 a chink near the canal. Found in an infufion of hay,, &c. 



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