SCUTIGERA. MYRIAPODA. 



multifid, with two Large palpi, and two feet in the form of 

 large hooks, pierced at the end for the passage of a poisonous 

 fluid; body depressed, with a coriaceous, membranous, or 

 flexible covering, and each segment with a pair of feet ; an- 

 tennae setaceous, composed of numerous joints ; spiracles dis- 

 tinct. 



The animals of this order are carnivorous, run quickly, shun the light, and con- 

 ceal themselves under stones, among earth, in dunghills, &c. The larger species 

 are dreaded for the dangerous nature of the wounds they inflict. They kill insects 

 by pricking them with the hooks of their claws and injecting a poisonous fluid. 



FAMILY I. IN^EQUIPEDES. 



Body elongated, but not vermiform or linear, divided below 

 into fifteen segments, each with a pair of feet, and covered 

 above with eight plates or half segments in the form of scu- 

 telli, and concealing the spiracles ; feet elongated, above all 

 the last pair, with a long and jointed tarsus ; eyes large, com- 

 pound. 



Gen. 1. SCUTIGERA, Lat. Scolopendra, Lin. 

 Antennae setaceous, many-jointed, much longer than the head ; 

 mandibles two, with two slender palpi adhering to the poste- 

 rior face of the internal lip ; posterior lip with two strong 

 pierced hooks ; body elongated, linear, with thirty feet. 



S. araneoides, Lat. (S, coleoptrata, Lin.) Body reddish-yellow, 

 with longitudinal lines and bars on the legs of blue black. Inha- 

 bits houses in the South of Europe and Africa Lat. Gen. i. 77- 



FAMILY II. JEQUIFEDES. 



Body linear, vermiform, with the segments above and below 

 equal ; feet, with the exception of the last two, which are long 

 and form a kind of tail, equal ; eyes granulated ; spiracles 

 lateral. 



Gen. 2. LITHOBIUS, Leach. Scolopendra, Lin. 

 Antennae conico-setaceous, with about forty-five joints, the two 

 first largest ; under lip broadly notched anteriorly, the mar- 

 gin very much denticulated ; some of the upper segments 

 partly concealed by the others ; fifteen pairs of feet. 



ti.forficatus, Leach. Head broad ; under lip entirely and deeply 

 covered with impressed dots ; legs testaceous-yellowish. Europe, 

 beneath stones. 1 inch long. B. Sup. Encyc. Brit. i. pi. 22. 



Gen. 3. SCOLOPENDRA, Lin. Lat. Leach. 



Antennae conico-setaceous, of seventeen subconic joints ; mouth 



covered by hemispheric galeae ; exterior palpi with a double 



peduncle ; mandibles strong, horny ; upper lip divided by a 



fissure ; body with the segments margined ; anterior pair of 



