SCOLOPENDRA. CENTIPEDE. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna setaceae. 
Corpus depressum. 
Pedes numerosi, totidem 
utrinque quot corporis 
scgmeiita. 
Palpi duo articulati. 
Antenna setaceous. 
Body depressed. 
Legs numerous, equalling 
the number of segments 
of the body on each side. 
Feelers two, setaceous. 
The larger species of the genus Scolopendra, 
found only in the hotter regions of the globe, are 
insects of a formidable appearance, and possess 
the power of inflicting severe pain and inflamma- 
tion by their bite. Of these one of the most con- 
spicuous is the Scolopendra jnorsitans^ y a native of 
many parts of Asia, Africa, and South America. Its 
length is sometimes not far short of ten inches: 
its colour is yellowish brown, the legs and under 
parts of the body being much paler: the head is 
armed on each side with a very large curved fang, 
of the same strong or horny nature as those of the 
Aranea Avicularia, but placed in a difl'erent dircc- 
* The Linnaean characters of the gigantea and morsitans seem 
very uncertain: his gigantea has seventeen legs on each sidci 
and morsitans twenty. 
