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VIII. Description of the Cermatia longicornis and of ifiree new 

 Insects from Nepaul. By Major-General Thomas Hardwicke, 

 F.R.S. and L.S. ^c. 



Read January 21, 1823. 



Order. CHILOPODA. 



Fam. CERMATIDM. 



Genus. CERMATIA lUiger. 

 Scutigera. Lam., Latr. — Scolopendrae pars Linn., Fab. 



Cermatia longicornis. 



Tab. V. Fig. 1. 



Scolopendra longicornis. Fab. Ent. Syst. ii. 390. 



Scutigera longicornis. Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. vol. vii. 



p. 89. 

 Scutigera lineata ? Latr. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vol. xxx. p. 446. 



Body, when viewed beneath, having sixteen segments, which 

 are united above by eight unequal scuta. Antenna of a 

 pale colour, as long as the body, finely setaceous with three 

 principal joints, each of which is numerously articulated. 

 External maxillary feet or mandibles strong, subulate, in- 

 curvate, four-jointed. Maxillary palpus four-jointed, hairy, 

 or rather spinulose, longer than the mandibles. Eyes 

 large, hemispherical. Feet very long, fifteen on each side, 

 with the last pair twice as long as the others. The prin- 



s 2 cipal 



