Frejh Water Squilla* 359 
both Branches unite and are thence continued 
to the Stomach, lam the more certain of their 
receiving no Nouriftiment but what pafles 
through the Forceps, as I have often by the 
Alii fiance of a fingle convex Glafs, and fome- 
times by the naked Eye only, when the In- 
fed: has been fucking its Prey, feen the 
Juices thereof pafs in a fine Stream through 
the Forceps and Head. This is more parti¬ 
cularly viiible juft after the Squilla has caft 
its Skin 3 at which Time the Forceps and 
Head are moft of all tranfparent. Six very 
fmall black Eyes are difcernable on each Side 
of the Head, very near the Origin of the 
Forceps. 
Its Body is compofed of eleven Joints or 
annular Diviftons 3 the Edges whereof Hide 
eaftly over one another : the laft Divifton is 
long, tapering and hollow, ferving to buoy 
up the Animal to the Surface of the Water 3. 
its Back is hard and of a dark brown Colour* 
having a paler Streak, down the Middle : its 
Belly is fofi and yellowifh: it hath'fix Legs 
finely befet on each Side with a ftngle Row 
of Hairs 3 its Tail is alfo hairy and divided 
at the End. 
In the Water it generally hangs, fu fpend- 
ed by the Tail, from the Surface 3 the Body 
arching backwards, fo as to make the Belly 
the convex Part, and the Head inclining- 
upwards towards the Back, in this Pofture 
it waits, like its Fellow-deftroyer theCroco- 
A a 4 dile. 
