6S 
Saccatui! 
Indica. 
*M:dicina- 
lii. 
* Sanguifu- 
WORMS. INTESTINA. 20. Hirudo. 
£pdy conic and broader on the fore-part ; moatl/ much 
than the body, and armed with flcfhy 3-pointed papill'’^ 
aperture near the upper-extremity. 
« 
Body covered with a loofe fkin, and rounded at the lotv^’ 
end. 
Martin or Marine Worm', I, /. 6, tab. i. Jig, 3? 
Barhut Gen, of Werfnt, p- IJ, tab. 2, fg, 4. 
Amoen. Acad. 4, p 454, tab. fg. j. 
2. Pall. Spicil.Zool. to, p. 12, tab, t. fig. 8. 
Inliabits the American and Indian Seas ; is ihaped like the formef' 
except in being inclofed as it were in a loofe bag, and it* 
having the lower-end globular. 
20 IIIRUDO. Body oblong, truncate at 
both ends, unarmed, cartiiagenous, and 
moves by dilating the head and tail, aiui 
pontradling itfelflnto an arch. Leech- 
Body deprefTed, brown, with a hyndred Uanfverfe muricatfi 
ftria;. ' ’ 
Inhabits maritime parts of India. 
Elongated, olive- hlack, with 6 ycIlow*ferruginous lines 
above, and fpottpd with ye}low beneath. 
Medicinal Leech- 
Natur, Mtfcdl, vi tab. 21S. Brit. Zool, iv. 36, 
Barbut Gen. of Worms, p, 19, tab. z, fg. 5. 
Aei Stockh. 1757, p. 308, n 4, tab. (1, fg. 1,2. 
Found in ftagnint poods and ditches, and is the frecies ufe“ 
with fuch fuccefs as a phlebotomift in the praftice of Phyfic- 
is viviparous. 
Body above compofed of numerous annular winkles, which it ca^ 
coutraft or expand at pleafure, and marked with variegated 
lines ; mouth fmaller than the tail, and armed with 3 cartila' 
ginous teeth, with which it draw's blood ; tail compofed 
an annular roufcle, by which it has the power of fallcning 
Jjody firpily to any objeft. 
,al 
Elongated, olive bpown, with an ochrc-yellow margin 
band. Hotje- leech 
XaturaltfPs Mijcellany, vi. tab. 21^. 
Barbut Genera of U'erms. p. 20. tab.z, fig, 6. 
Petiv. Gaosoph. tab, I 30, fg. -J, 
AA. Stockh. 1757. n. 4, tab. 6, fg. 3, 4. 
