THE 
BROAD^JOINTED TAPE-WORM, 
Generic Character. 
Body depreffed, jointed. 
Head furnifhed with four orifices for fudlion, and 
(generally) with a double feries of retrailile 
hooks or holders. 
Specific Character, &l. 
Very long TAENIA, with broad, fliort joints. 
The broad T^NIA. 
The fliort-jointed TAPE-WORM. 
The numerous tribes of beings diftinguiflied in 
modern natural hiftory by the title of Fcrmes, exhi¬ 
bit perhaps more curious and ftriking particularities 
in their conformation, habits, and general appear¬ 
ance, than even the fuperior orders of the animal 
kingdom. 
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The additions to this branch of zoology by the 
pcrfevering refcarches of modern Naturalifts, are in 
the higheft degree curious, and prove the number 
of 
