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Plate VIIIa. Euscorphis italicus with newly born young. 





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Plate VIII6. E. italicus, the same female protecting her young just after 



their first moult. The cast skins can be seen on the mother's back. {Photos: 



J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson.) 



