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is even more painful. In such station one will 

 find many beetles and an occasional myriopod. 

 If not watchful one is likely to be stung by a 

 scorpion. There is almost certain to be a speci- 

 men or two of the hideous vinagerone or whip 

 scorpion ( Thelyphonus giganteus) ; ' ' scruncher ' ' 

 as it is called by the natives. It is two and a half 

 inches long, of a lurid, dark brown color, with two 

 immense palpi or nippers, a long rounded abdomen, 

 ending in an extended lashlike telson. No regular 

 scorpion presents so dreadful an appearance and it 

 is little wonder it is so feared. Many insist that 

 its sting is fatal. An old darkey of the Uncle 

 Remus type whom I knew lived in constant ter- 

 ror of them. "Man, suh," he once said, "dat's 

 de mos' owdashus beas' in de whole worl', an' ef 

 ever he hit yo a lick wid dat tail o' his'n yo shuah 

 'miff a goner." Notwithstanding the fact that 

 Blatchley and other naturalists declare that this 

 Arachnid is absolutely harmless I prefer to let 

 someone else examine it. A great wingless cock- 

 roach with a very strong odor (Eurycotes ingens?) 

 is generally abundant, and a curious Arachnid of a 

 dark brown color, resembling a small crab, is 

 occasionally seen. The red-headed lizard (Eu- 



