Glfi 



ZOOLOGY 



SECT. 



palps; one or both pairs of maxillae usually possess palps; the 

 second pair of maxilla? are in some groups more or less united 

 together. In the Chilopoda the first pair of legs of the trunk 

 are specially modified to act as poison-jaws (maxillipedes), by 

 means of which the Centipede inflicts its poisonous bite. 



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Fi<: 4s7.- Scolopendra. (From 



Cuvk-r's .Inn, ml Knif/i/oiii.) 



Fir;. 4S.S. Lithobius forficatus !-ccn from the 

 ventral side. a t tt. antenna 1 ; brn. l>rain : cn.r. nj>. 

 cox;e of appendages ; ft. 15, fifteenth pair of legs ; 

 iii/. intestine; mat. Malpighiiii tubes; m.i-/>. 

 maxillipedes; *>. ro. nerve cord; a's. (esophagus; 

 i. stomadi. (From Leuckart.) 



The number of segments in the body varies from 10 to 173. In 

 the Millipedes the dorsal walls of the segments are very strongly 

 arched ; in the Centipedes the segments are all dorso-ventrally 

 compressed, with distinct tergal and sternal shields separated 

 laterally by intervals of comparatively soft skin on which the 



