. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. ABEANCTIIA. 3U7 The Antilles possess a large one, which inhabits a tube of the consistence of leather. The PAyUodoeemaxillosa, Ranzani, named Polyodante by Reinieri, and Eumolpe maxima, Oken, appear to be nearly allied, having the Bame trunk and jaws, ami neither genus bavin? perhaps been desei ibi'cl from perfect specimens. Many species of Annelides remain, which have been too imperfectly described to admit of their being characterized ; and the Myr
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. ABEANCTIIA. 3U7 The Antilles possess a large one, which inhabits a tube of the consistence of leather. The PAyUodoeemaxillosa, Ranzani, named Polyodante by Reinieri, and Eumolpe maxima, Oken, appear to be nearly allied, having the Bame trunk and jaws, ami neither genus bavin? perhaps been desei ibi'cl from perfect specimens. Many species of Annelides remain, which have been too imperfectly described to admit of their being characterized ; and the Myrianc, and two or three other genera of M. Savigny, must remain to be examined anew. Finally, we place here a new and very singular genus, which I name Mouth with neither jaws nor trunk, hut furnished above with a lip, to which three small tentacles are attached. A disk then follows with nine pairs of feet, after which is a pair of long silky bundles like two wings. The lamina-formed gills are attached more towards the upper surface than the lower, and range along the middle of the body. [Here also ought probably to be placed the genus Peripatiu of Guilding, founded upon a West Indian species, which burrows in the sand, and which has much perplexed naturalists as to its relations. Hy Guilding it was considered as molluscous; by .Mac Leay as forming the passage between the Iulid<e and the annulose annelidous worms; whilst Gray (Z<l. Mite. p. 0) asserts that it is annelidous, and connects Nereu with Lumbricus.] itmwmSM ) ? mfm. Fig. 205.—Peripatus luliformii. THE THIRD ORDER OE THE ANNELIDES,— A BRANCH I A,— Have no respiratory organ appearing externally, and seem to respire either, as in the Earthworms, over the whole surface of the skin, or, as in the Leeches, by internal cavil Some of them have yet bristles to serve for locomotion, of which others are deprived, and they accordingly fall into two families. THE FIRST FAMILY OF THE ABRANCHIA,— The Ahran
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