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!I. Account of a not yet Defcrihed Scolopeiv 
dra Marina, by Thomas Molyneu?<| M. £>. 
S, K' S. Communicated by Mr. Locke, 
IHave lately met. with a remarkable Marine Animal, 
which 1 take to be one of the many Non-Defcripts.ihzt ' 
the Sea , by reafon of its vaft Extents and profound 
Depth, has hitherto Referved undifcovered, notwith- 
ftand the diligent Searches that have been made 
by Laborious Naturalifts, after thefe kinds of Pro- 
duftioos. 
^ This Decernher^ 1696. Two of them were found in 
the Stomach of the Afellus major vulgaris^ or common 
Cod'fifh ', a very voracious Creature, as one may judge, 
by its wide Mouth, its large Swallow and Stomach. 
I have often found young Crabs, Lobfters, Herrings, 
and fuch like fmall Fi!h, fome half digelled, others 
perfedly entire in their Stomachs. 
The Cod muft have been taken (bmewhere on the ^^^^ pj^^^ 
Sea-Coaft near Dublin , for 'twas Frcih, and Sold where 
here in our Fifli-Market ; and I judge it had fo^^^d '^J^^^^ 
this its Prey not very far from the Place, where it-^^^^^ * 
ftlf was Catched; becaufeoneoT the Two FifBes that 
were in its Stomach, was Compleat in all its Parts , 
and had received no manner of Alteration, frive 'twas 
Dead: The other, by lying longer in the Sto- 
mach, was much mangled and broken: But though 
it was partly Digefted, yet one might plainly fee, 'twas 
another of the fame fort of Fifh, which I am now go- 
ing to Defcribe, 
It was bigger at one end, and went Taper or xheShape. 
gradually leffening towards the other. 
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