The Hifiory cj ANIMALS if 
It is common on ftones, and about the bottoms of puddles. Reaumur calls it 
Hirudo- Limax, but it has no relation to the fnail-family, 
Hirudo dorfo elevato, cauda latiore* %l)t 
The high-backed, broad-tailed Hirudo. 
This grows to an inch and a half in length. It’s fkin is fmooth and glofty * it’s co¬ 
lour a dufky brown : it’s back is elevated into a kind of ridge, it’s belly flat j it’s tail 
is remarkably broad, and it holds very firmly by it. 
It is common on ftones in {hallow, running waters. Frifch. calls it, Hirudo ore 
caudaque ampla. 
A P T E R I A 5 
Or InfeEls which have no wings. 
Clafs the Second\ 
P O D A R X A. 
InfeEls which have no wings, but have limbs . 
Divifion the Firfi. 
Thofie with oblong bodies and numerous legs, or snore than fix pair Si 
I U L U S. 
T H E lulus is an Infed of an oblong form, and has the body rounded, not flat. 
The legs are about a hundred on each fide * and the eyes are two, and are Am¬ 
ple, or not compounded of other fmaller ones. 
lulus fufcus pedibus utrmque centum. d5&Ii}te 
The brown lulus, with a hundred legs on each fide . UJOJtlU 
This grows to about two inches in length : the body is of a browft colour* and 
there runs a double line of a .ferrugineous hue all along the back; the legs are of a 
paler brown. The back is rounded, and the belly flat * the whole animal is fmooth, 
and fomewhat glofly* the antennas are fhort, and are compofed of five joints * the ex- 
tream one is of a roundifh figure. 
It is frequent in the North of England, at little depths in the earth, Aldrovand 
calls it, Solopendra terreftris minor * Ray, lulus quartus glaber, 
lulus cinereus pedibus utrmque centusn et viginti. 
The grey lulus, with a hundred and twenty feet on each fide. 
This grows to three quarters of an inch in length, and to the thickdefs of a crow-* 
quill. It’s back is rounded, it’s belly flat 5 it’s colour is a pale grey, but it has two 
pale ferrugineous lines on the back, and it is fomewhat paler at the fides than elfe- 
where, and every joint of the body is there longitudinally ftriated ; the articulations of 
the body are about fixty * the feet are whitifh * the antennas confift each of five arti¬ 
culations. 
It is found under large ftones and old trees, but is not common. Ray calls it, Iu~ 
lo glabro affinis lividis albifque circulis. 
lulus corpore tenuiore flexuofo ruber . 
The red lulus, with a thin, flexuous body. 
> This grows to an inch and half in length: the body is very flender, and of a red- 
diih colour* the back Is but little prominent* the belly flat, fo that the whole animal 
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