96 NATURAL HISTORY. 



males have fearful battles with each other, mostly from 

 jealousy, -which end fatally. The Indian Scorpion, which 

 is found in Guinea and Ceylon, but principally in India, 

 resembles the European, is very venomous and the sting 

 more likely to produce serious consequences. The remedy 

 usually employed is olive oil, in which a scorpion has 

 been suffered to die ; or even the flesh of the creature 

 itself, applied to the wound, is considered a specific. 



The Dracunculus (thelephonus caudatus), plate 26, 

 fig. 6, is as large as the European scorpion, has short 

 nippers, and looks much like a field cricket, and, from 

 having a long, thread-like tail, is called the thread scor- 

 pion. Its color is a handsome dark red, and between the 

 rings milk-white. It is a native of the East Indies. 

 Its habits are unknown. 



ORDER II. 

 ARACHNIDA TRACHEARIA. 



To this order of spiders, which breathe through tra- 

 chea, belongs, first, 



The Paper Moth, Book Scorpion( obisiurn cancroides), 

 which resembles a bug, is flat, has long pincers in front, 

 found in Europe and America during the whole year, 

 harbors among paper, in old books, and under the barks 

 of trees, etc., feeds on small insects, mites, book worms, 

 and wood lice, and is therefore a useful creature, and 

 deserves the protection of man. It has no sting, and 

 never resists an enemy. 



The Dog Tick (ixodes caninus) is as large as a grain 

 of hempseed, of a dark violet color, with brown head 

 and feet, lives on different species of plants found in the 



