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228. Trichoda. Rattus. Fig. 4,.. Plate XXVI. 



Trichoda. oblonga, carinata, antice crinita, poftice feta Ion- 

 giffima* Oblong trichoda, with a kind of keel, the fore-part 

 hairy, a very long brittle proceeding from the hinder-part. a. 

 the mouth, b a final L, knob at the bending of the tail, c the tail . 



229, Trichoda, Tigris. . 



Trichoda fubcylindrica, elongata, apice crinita, cauda fetis. 

 duabus longis. This trichoda is long, and fomewhat cylindrical^, 

 the apex hairy, the tail divided into two longbriftles. . 



It differs from the preceding in two particulars ; firft, that of the 

 tail; fecond, in a kind of incifion in the body, at fome little 

 diftanee from the apex. 



230. Trichoda Pocillum. Fig. 5 and 6, Plate XXVI. 



Trichoda oblonga, antice trancata, crinita, cauda articulata 9 

 bifeta. Oblong trichoda, the fore-part truncated and hairy, the 

 tail articulated, and divided into two briftles. 



The body is cylindrical, . pellucid, raufcular, capable of beings 

 folded up, feems as if it were formed of two; the interior one, 

 which is filled with molecules, has alfo an orbicular mufcular ap- 

 pendage, which it can fhut and open, and that forms the mouth. 

 The exterior, one is membranaceous, dilated, pellucid, and 

 marked, with tranfverfe ftreaks ; the ammalculum can protrude 



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