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Show INSECTA. 324 . . They live on Bats. Lm-ders still more than the precec.hng on~s. e he knew, with the I>edinreus arranged one species, and the on y on culi( 1). . 1 "-r.ycUribie and the same article Method. arttc e ..1.'' ' • (l) L:~.t., Ibid.; and the Encyc. . . ' See also the Memoll' of Professor of the Nouv. Di. et. d'H' st Nat. 2d edttlon. I • , Nitzsch on Epizoic Insects. FOURTH GREAT DIVISION OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. ANIMALIA RADIATA. The RADIATED ANIMALs, ZooPHYTA, on ZooPHYTEs(!), as they are termed, include a number of beings whose organization, always evidently more simple than that of the three preceding divisions, also presents a greater variety of degrees than is observed in either of them, and seems to agree in but one point, viz. their parts are arranged round an axis and on one or several radii, or on one or several lines extending from one pole to the other. Even the Entozoa or Intestinal Worms have at least two tendinous 1ines, or two nervous threads proceeding from a collar round the mouth, and several of them have four suckers situated round a probosci- (1) Neither of these denominations should be construed literally. There are some genera in this division in which the radiation is but slightly marked or even totally wanting, and it is only among the Polypi that we find that constancy and form of flowers which has caused them to receive the name of Zoophytes. These appellations, however, indicate our having reached the _lowest part of the animal series, and that we have arrived at beings, most of which remind us more or less of the vegetable kingdom, even in their external forms-it is in this sense that I employ them. [We here return to the Baron; the portion of the work written by M. Latreille, which commenced with the Crustacea, or our third volume, having terminated with the Dipterous Insects. .11m. Ed.] |
