42 MYRIAPODA 



The Persians have several words for them, less accurate than 

 the Arabs and more like our o\vii terms. For instance, they call 

 them " Hazarpa," or thousand feet, like our Millepedes ; also 

 " Sadpa," or hundred feet, equivalent to our Centipedes. Another 

 term resembles our common term before mentioned, " Chehlpa," 

 forty feet. A more figurative term is " tasbih dud," a worm 

 resembling a rosary with a hundred beads ; this word is trans- 

 lated in Richardson's Persian Dictionary as " a venomous insect 

 having eight feet and a piked tail." 



Classification of the Myriapoda. 



Two of the principal writers on the classification of the 

 Myriapods are Koch and Latzel, both of whom have classified 

 the whole group. I do not wish for a moment to undervalue 

 the many authors who have done excellent work on the classifi- 

 cation of different groups and families, but I wish here to u Ju- 

 an outline of a classification of the whole class, and I naturally 

 have recourse to the authors who have treated the subject as a 

 whole. 



Koch's two works, the System der Myriapoden l and Die 

 Myriapoden^ cover the whole range of the class, and his divisions 

 are clearly marked out and are easily understood, but both works 

 are comparatively old. He does not include the Scolopendrellidae 

 or the Pauropidae, which are now included by all naturalists in 

 the Myriapoda. Latzel is a more recent writer, and though his 

 work is entitled The Myriapods of the Austro-Hungarian .A'///y>//r, :: 

 he gives much information about Myriapods not found in 

 Europe, and his work is fairly entitled to be considered as 

 embracing the whole class. He divides the Myriapods into four 

 Orders, including the Scolopendrellidae and Pauropidae. On the 

 whole, I think it will be better here to take the classification of 

 Koch, and to add to it the two Orders before mentioned, viz. 

 Symphyla containing one family the Scolopendrellidae, and Pauro- 

 poda with one family the Pauropidae. 



The Orders are as follows : 



1 C. L. Koch, System der Myriapoden. Regensberg, 1847. 

 C. L. Koch, Die Myriapoden. Halle, 1863. 



3 Latzel, Die Myriapoden der (Esterreichisch - Ungariscken Monarchic. Wien, 

 1880. 



