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coiled up in the interior like a small snake. The hole by which it 
penetrates is not always very large; thus it often happens that, 
strawberries are picked which undoubtedly contain [uli. We only 
know it when eating them by their cracking besween our teeth. 
This small myriapod prefers the larger species of strawberry, but 
the small ones which grow on F'ragasia vesca are not exempt.” 
The following is Say’s description from his ‘‘Complete Writings,” 
Vol. II, p. 25 
“Body cylindrical, immarginate, above brownish with a slight tint 
of red, immaculate, beneath yellowish white; segments each with 
about fifteen elevated obtuse lines, of which four are equal dorsal, 
a pyriform, larger, oblique one on the stigmata, and about ten 
decreasing in size to the feet, anterior segment as long as the three 
succeeding ones conjunctly ‘and elabrous, posterior one glabrous 
reddish brown, as long as the two preceding ones, united and 
obtusely rounded at tip; head whitish before; antennz white; eyes 
transverse linear, black; vertex: not distinctly impressed; a rather 
common species in the Southern States.” 
To this I may add that the antenne are much shorter and thicker 
than those of Iulus, and the eyes are greatiy reduced, being repre- , 
sented only by a single series of not very distinct ocelli on each 
side, immediately adjoining the margin of the segment following the 
head. The segments are sixty-one in number, of a deep mahogany- 
brown color above. Length about two inches. This species 1s 
reported by Prof. Cope to ‘be very abundant in the Alleghany Moun- 
tains under logs and in rotten wood. 
The Iulide have been frequently charged with causing a scabby 
appearance of the surface of potatoes, and have been occasionally 
known to gnaw and penetrate the tubers in the ground. They have 
BiBo been found devouring the bulbs of lilies and other garden 
flowers. 
In the Hleventh Report from this office (p. 44), Mr. Coquilleté de- 
scribes an injury to corn in the ear, done by Iulus impressus, to 
which, because of this practice, he gives the common name of corn 
myriapod. Dr. F. W. Goding, of Ancona, informed me last May 
that he had found a millipede boring the stems of his currants. In 
a letter of that date he says: 
lasend you by this mail two specimens of the common ‘thousand- 
legged worm,’ which I obtained from my currant bushes, while in 
the act of es iting the pith of the stalk. ‘They appear to have gnawed 
off the top of the brush, and then quietly fed upon the pith.” 
The specimens accompanying this letter were the abundant Julus 
impressus, Say. 
In Europe, various species of Iulids have been reported by Curtis 
in his Farm Insects, as distinetly injurious to roots of wheat, cab- 
bage and onions, to potatoes, to sprouting beans in the garden, and 
to peas and potted plants. He has also known them to destroy 
cauliflower and cabbage by gnawing the plants just beneath the 
surface of the soil. 
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