WORMS INTESTINA. ao. Hirudo. 6.9 
•Found frequently in ftagnant waters, ditches and ponds; 4 6 
inches long: Ld^ above dull olive-black, with an ochre margin 
each fide ; hcBcath paler, with fometimcs a few black fpop . 
tail thicker than the head This Ipccics fucks blood vvitlt 
great avidity and in large i^uantities. 
Elongated, grey, with 4 longitudinal black lilies on tbp 
back. 
Mull, Hill. Verm. 2, p 39, ff. 169. • 1 j 
Found early in the fpring in ft gnant waters; about an inch and 
'a half long : hady mnulate with numerous wrinkles, and with 
6 deep b ack eyes in a dpuble tranyerfc row. 
Elongated, vellow-brown, with 8 eyes in a lunate feries. 
J-T. Stockh'\-]^7, 'tab . 
Inhabits ftagnant waters, among aquatic plants, and preys on 
monoculi and the fmaller animalcules: about 15 inches long. 
Body f .inetiiiics brown irrmacula'e, lometimes Jprinkled above 
with black dots ; fometime' brown w ith yellow iftr dots above; 
fometimes yellow-brown with a knotty line in the middle and 
a lateral bLckifh one pinnate within on the forcrpart ; Ibrne.- 
times yelluwifti with longitudinal lines, t e middle one knot', 
t) , the lateral ones with remofe red dots : (yes often 9. 
* inerrous, with 2 eyes. 
* Ad. oiod-. i 7 )-> ”■ 4 > 6,/^. 9— Ji. 
Inhabits wet hoilowa and rivulets ; -about 9 lines Ipiig, 
sidy -whitilh, pellucid, Iprinklcd with cinereous dots and plaited 
?.t the fides; eggs about 40, lurrounded by a pellucid circle, 
cir.erous at finl »nd afterwards brown : the young after ex- 
clufion auhere by their tails to the belly pf ihe mother. 
E 'by lii'hked, cinereous, with a douk!^ tubcrculate line P >1 
'theoack., the margin fcf rate, 
Aa.dmkh xjoj, tah.b, fig. M — 14. 
F< und in Ihallow llrcams ; abput 4 lines long. ^ 
Body with tranverfe bands compoled of 3 pale line?, the niargiit 
whitifti ; beneath grey: /««</ poipted, white, with 0 eyes , 
/fl/7 orbicular and cinereous. 
■ Body flpprelTed, oblong, green with a tranfparertt margin! 
qnd pointed at the tail. 
ShaoM.^ranfizB Linn. Soc.u p. 93, tah.7. . , , j 
Inhabits clear cold waters; about an eighth of an inch long, and 
like moll of the Genus h-as a power ol reproduilion almoft 
equal to that of the Polype; for if the animal be Pivided in 
every direaion, the parts will become peifca apunals, ana 
niay be a|Hin divided and again reproduced ad infinituin-^^^^^ 
