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SHARP-TAILED ONISCUS. 
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Generic Character* 
Antenna setaceous. 
Feelers unequal, the hinder longest. 
Body oval. 
Legs fourteen. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Pale brown ONISCUS, with four antennal, and 
oblong, sharpened tail. 
SQUILLE ENTOMON. 
Degeer. 7- p* 514. 
This insect, the largest of the British Onisci, is a 
marine species, and is commonly found attached to 
the bodies of ihe larger fishes: its colour, when 
living, is pale brown, which fades in the dried ani¬ 
mal into dull white. 
