Water Hog-Loufe or Sow, 35s 
Pipes or Tubes of this Size and Figure 
are fometimes found petrified, and confiitute 
one Species of the Syringoides . 
CHAP. XVIII. 
The Water Hog-Louse or Sow. 
T HE Animal figured Plate XIV. N° r. 
although an Aquatic, bears fo near a 
Refemblance in its general Appearance to 
the Millepedes, Sow or Hog-Loufe, efpeci- 
ally when creeping at the Bottom of any 
VefTel wherein it is kept, that it may proper¬ 
ly enough be called a Water Sow, or Water 
Hog-Loufe. 
Its whole Length is made up of nine Di- 
vifions, the anterior and poderior whereof 
are the Head and Tail. To the Head, which 
is almofl round, and about the A Part of the 
Animal’s Length, are affixed two very long 
Antennce, each confiding, next the Head, of 
four didintd joints, and then {hooting out 
a Part extremely {lender and tapering, and 
but little fhorter than the whole Body of the 
Animal; which on a clofe Examination ap¬ 
pears compofed of many Articulations, ha¬ 
ving an exceeding fine Bridle idbing from 
each, as the larger joints near the Head 
have; from the Infertion of the fecond of 
which larger joints a Branch arifes, con- 
, ' lifting 
