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obferve it, was Mr. Cuff’s aquatic one; where the ani- 
mal, when taken out of the (hell, may be put into the 
watch-glafs with fait water, or fpread on the round 
glafs plate on the ffage of the microfcope, and kept 
moid with a hair pencil and fait water during the 
time of obfervation : this will keep the claws and 
probofcis alive and in motion for many hours to- 
gether. 
This animal has 24 claws, or cirr t hi (S-ee Fig. A), 
which are diipofed in the following manner ; the 
1 2 longed dand ereCt, arifing from the back part of 
the animal : they are all joined in pairs near the bot- 
tom, and inferted in one common bafe. Thefe ap- 
pear like fo many yellow curled feathers : they are 
clear, horny, and articulated. Every joint is fur' 
nifhed with two rows of hairs on the concave fide. 
The animal, in order to catch its prey, is continually 
extending and contracting thefe arched hairy claws., 
which ferve it for a net. 
The 12 fmalled claws are placed next to thefe, 
fix on each fide : thefe are divided into pairs ; that 
is, two claws to one Item, like the chelre or claws 
of the crab. Thefe are more pliable, and fuller of 
hairs, than the others, and feem to do the office of 
hands for the animal. 
The whole number of claws leffen in fize gradu- 
ally each way, from the tailed in the back, *~to the 
lad but one of each dde in the front ; which lad 
two are of the middle fize. 
The probofcis, or trunk, riles from the middle of 
the bafe of the larger claws, and is longer than any 
of them : this the animal moves about in any direc- 
tion with great agility ; it is of a tubular figure, 
tranf- 
