130 CLASS INSECTA. 



sexual organs replacing the pair which is wanting. These 

 animals are terrestrial and live under stones, in mountainous 

 places.* 



The luLi, proper (Iulus, Linn), 



Which have the body cylindrical, and very long, rolling 

 themselves spirally, and without any projection, or trenchant 

 edge on the sides of the rings. 



The largest species live on the ground, particularly in 

 sandy places and woods, and shed a disagreeable odour. 

 The smallest feed on fruits, roots, or the leaves of pot-herbs. 

 Some others are found under the bark of trees, in moss, &c. 



The very large lulus (/. Maximus, Lin.), Marcg. Bras. 

 p. 255. Proper to South America, and is about seven inches 

 long. 



The lulus of the sands (/. Sahulosus, Lin.), SchefF. 

 Elem. Entom. Ixxiii. I.fasciatus. De G. Insect. YII. xxxvi. 

 9, 10. Leach, Zool. Misc. cxxxiii. About sixteen lines in 

 length, of a blackish brown, with two reddish lines along the 

 back ; fifty-four segments, of which the last but one is ter- 

 minated by a strong point, hairy and corneous at the end. 

 In Europe. 



The terrestrial lulus (/. terrestris, Linn.), Geoff. Insect. 

 II. xxii. 5. About one-fourth smaller, bluish ash, inter- 

 sected with clear yellowish, forty-two to forty-seven segments. 

 With the preceding.-f" 



" lulus Ovalis, Lin. Gronov. Zooph. pi. xvii. 4, 5. — Oniscus Zonatus 

 Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. IX. xxiii. — Glomeris Marginata, Leach, Zool. 

 Misc. cxxxii. — Oniscus Pustufatus, Fab. Panz. ibid. xxii. 



f See the two before-cited memoirs of M. Savi. and the Zool. Misc. of 

 Dr. Leach, vol. 5. with respect to these two species and some other Eng- 

 lish ones. Add, lulus Indus, Lin. De G. VII. xliii. 7 ; Seb. Mus. II. 

 xxiv. 4, 5; Seb. Mus. I. Ixxxi. 5 .: Schroet. Abhandl. I. iii. 7. 



