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poison-claws which play an important part in the capture and 

 slaughter of prey by carnivorous Myriapods. 



The Common Millipede and its allies feed largely upon dead 

 vegetable matter which has begun to decay, and they are also 

 reputed to do a certain amount of damage to living plants. 

 Farmers know them by the name of " false wire-worms", " wire- 

 worms " proper being the young of click-beetles (p. 211 ). 



The remarkable genus Peripatus, the only form included in 

 the class PROTOTRACHEATA, the fourth and last subdivision of 

 air-breathing Arthropods, is carnivorous, and has already been 

 described (p. 134). 



