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anyway and you might as well go on about your business. 

 And if you pretend to do so, it will after some time uncurl 

 and scurry away. (Fig. 95 .) If it is smart enough to do this, 

 you would better let it run you would hardly have nerve 

 enough to get away from your enemy that way; besides, 



FIG. 95. A milliped, Spirobolus marginatus. Natural size. (Folsom.) 



this milliped, like many others of its kind, feeds on decay- 

 ing vegetable matter, which constitutes another reason 

 why you should let it alone. 



Centipeds. 



These myriapods have but one pair of legs to each 

 abdominal segment ; the body is usually flattened, and the 

 antennae are long and many- jointed. (Fig. 96.) Centipeds 

 are found in nearly all parts of the world. They abound in 

 the United States, the species in the southern states being 

 generally venomous, while the species native at the North 

 are small and rarely inflict injury upon their human 

 neighbors. 



The centipeds are all predaceous, feeding upon insects, 

 and also upon fruit and other plant food occasionally if 



