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B. Two oval clusters of numerous eyes (50 and more), trans- 
verse, situated in front of the antennz at the sides of the head. 
Sub-genus Spheropeus BRANDT. Joints of antenne six, the last 
large, truncated at the point. 
Sp. Spheropewus insignis BRANDT, Zephronia ovalis GRAY ; a large species 
from Java, figured in this Manual. 
Sub-genus Spherotheriwm Branpt. Joints of antenne seven, the 
sixth oblong, the seventh the least. 
Most of the species of this sub-division are from the Cape of Good Hope. 
The genera Spheropwus and Spherotherium are exotic, and seem to repre- 
sent Glomeris in warm regions, 
Family Il. Scolopendride. (Chilopoda Later.) Second pair 
of feet cheliform, terminated by a strong hook, which is perforate, 
covering the first pair of feet and the organs of manducation 
beneath, joined at the base, dilated, as if forming a second labium. 
Body depressed, covered above and below with horny scutes, the 
sides membraneous. Feet lateral, mostly a single pair in each 
segment, the last longest, extended backwards. Antenne usually 
more slender towards the extremity, with numerous joints (14—40 
and more). Organs of copulation situated at the posterior extremity 
of the body. 
These animals live on animal food, insects, &e. Their nippers 
(feet of the second pair) contain the excretory duct of a poison- 
gland, which secretes a fluid deadly to small animals, as De Grrr! 
and LATREILLE’ observed in flies; the bite of the large native 
species may cause great pain in man and violent inflammation and 
swelling *. 
Comp. on the family G. Newport, Monograph of the Olass Myriapoda, 
Order Chilopoda. Transact. Linn. Soc. XIX. p. 265. 
A. Tarsi long, slender, multiarticulate. Antennz setaceous, as 
long as the body. 
1 Insect. VII. p. 557, on the bite of Lithobius forficatus. 
* Hist des Crust. et des Ins. vit. p. 88, on the bite of Scutigera arancoides. 
3 LEEUWENHOECK first observed and figured the perforated nipper, Vervolg. der 
Brieven &e. pp. 138—140, fig. 10 (59th letter), and Sevende Vervolg. der Brieven, 
pp. 184—186 (124th letter). 
