INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS. 



S^knt^^nt^ Cabk Case. 



The Mark *\ indicates specimens or other illustrations exhibited in the Cases. 



As far as the end of the Eleventh Table Case, and in the following 

 portion of the series, the tablets have been completed; and from 

 them occasionally a paragraph has been inserted in this Synopsis, 

 but sparingly, to avoid unnecessary bulk. 



Group 193.— Class MYRIAPODA. iJ^vpia;, 10,000; ttou?, a 

 foot. The animals of this class have comparatively few 

 segments when first hatched. The head is distinct, and 

 in the Centipedes is armed with poisonous fangs. The 

 remainder of the body is made up of nearly similar 

 segments. Kespiration is by tracheae. 



I. Order Chilopoda. %i«>vof, a lip ; ttovs, a foot. 

 Centipedes : animals active, nocturnal, predacious. 



II. Order Chilognatha. x^^^°i> ^ lipj yvoc^og, a 

 jaw. Millipedes : animals tardy, vegetable feeders. 

 About 500 species in this class are recognised by 

 Walckenaer. 



H Examples of Scolopendra gigantea, Lithohius, 

 Geophilus, Julus, Polydesmus, &c. Small 

 series of British Myriapoda, collected and pre- 

 sented by H. H. H. Euphorheria Brownii, 

 a fossil of the Middle Coal-Measures, collected 

 at Ravenhead, and presented by H. H. H. 



