ORDER XII. 



AHACHNIDA.^ 



Acaridae — Mites. 



The white spot on the back of a certain species of Wood- 

 tic (Acarus) is said to be the spot where the pin went 

 through the body when Noah pinned it in the Ark to keep 

 it from troubling him. 



Phalangidse— Daddy-Long-legs. 



A superstition obtains among our cow-boys that if a cow 

 be lost, its whereabouts may be learned by inquiring of the 

 Daddy-Long-legs (Phalangium), which points out the di- 

 rection of the lost animal with one of its fore legs. 



In England, the Phalangium has been christened the liar- 

 vest- man, from a superstitious belief that if it be killed there 

 will be a bad harvest.^ 



Pedipalpi — Scorpions. 



Concerning the generation of the Scorpion, Topsel, in 

 his History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, printed in 

 1658, treats as follows: 



"Now, then, it followeth that we inquire about the man- 

 ner of their (Scorpions') breed or generation, which I find 

 to be double, as divers authors have observed, one way is 



1 Properly the second Class of the sub-kingdom Articulata. 



2 Chambers' Book of Days, i. 687. 



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