JULUS. 509 
its colour is brown with a kind of brassy or me- 
tallic tinge, and the number of legs on each side is 
an hundred and thirty-four. This species occurs 
in plate 81. vol. 1. of Seba’s Thesaurus, under the 
name of M'lllepeda Orientalis omnium mcuxima. 
JuLiis lagurus or Hare-Tailed Julus is a very 
minute and singular species, not exceeding, when 
at full growth, the eighth of an inch in length. Its 
colour is pale brown, and its shape rather broad, 
and flattish, the body consisting of eight segments 
only, each beset on the sides with a fringe of flat- 
tened hairs of a Avhitish colour : a row of similar 
hairs, but much shorter, runs also across the upper 
part of each segment: the head is large, and orna- 
mented in front by a similar fringe, while the 
tail is furnished with two lengthened milk-white 
plumes or tufts of white down. This insect is by 
no means uncommon, being seen during the sum- 
mer months creeping about the barks of trees, 
walls, &c. It is considered by Linnasus as a 
species of Scolopendra, but as the legs are double 
the number of the segments on each side, it is 
more properly referred by Degeer, Scopoli, and 
others to the present genus. In fact it may be 
allowed, like the Julus complanatus, another slight- 
ly flattened species, to form a kind of connecting 
link between the two genera. 
END OF VOLUME VI. 
