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Title: Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Royal Society of Tasmania
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Publisher: Hobart, The Society
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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J. D. Do.ua,. frrm /a ceoL.f, f is. V 1262.. 241 an inch broad, and its body is composed of ten segments,the last being almost absorbed in the ninth, which againis much smaller than the eighth. Its activity was remarkable,and its motion sinuous, like that of the Sole. The female isabout i of an inch long, and ■£% of an inch broad; its cephalo-thorax has five joints, and its abdomen six. On either side ofthe abdomen, and springing from the junction of abdomenand thorax is a bag of very numerous small eggs, about J¥ ofan inch long, and ^ of an inch broad, of an elongated egg-shape. The female, like the male, was extremely nimble andactive, and swam swiftly round and round the glass. Theeggsacs, while the animal was in motion, were made to rapidlyapproach and recede from one another, thus appearing morelike organs of locomotion. Both sexes appeared to me to havea finely granulated exterior, and a uniform dull lavendercolour. In the head of each were a pair of elongated bronzered spec

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