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pendra, and Crytops of Dr. Leach. The eyes are distmct, 

 eight in number, four on each side, in the first, and that 

 which comprehends the largest species ; they amount to 

 nothing, or are scarcely visible in the second. 



The most southern departments of France, and of other 

 countries of the South of Europe, present us with one species 

 {Scolopendra, cingulata, Latr. Sc. Morsitans, Vill. Entom. 

 tom. IV. xi. 17, 18,) almost as large sometimes as the ordi- 

 nary species of the Antilles, but having the body more 

 flatted.* 



The crytops have their antennae more grained than the 

 scolopendrae, and the two hinder feet more slender. Dr. 

 Leach mentions two species found in the neighbourhood of 

 London. -f- 



In the scolopendrae composing the genus Geophilus of 

 the same writer, the number of feet is above forty-two, and 

 often very considerable. The antennae have but fourteen 

 articulations, and their extremity is less slender. The body 

 is proportionally more narrow and long. The eyes are not 

 very distinct. Some species are electrical. | 



• Scolopendra Morsitans, Linn. De G. Insect.VII. xliii. 1. — See, for the 

 other Species, the third volume of the Zoological Miscellany, by Dr. 

 Leach. The Scolopendra Gignntea of Linnaeus (Brown, lam. xlii. 4.), and 

 other large species, but incompletely described. 



f Crytops Hortensis, "Loo], Misc. cxxxix. ejusd. ibid.; Crytops La- 

 vignii. 



J S. Electrka, Lin. Frisch. Insect. XL viii. 1.; S. occidentalis, Linn. 

 List, ibid, vi. S. Phosphorea, Lin. Fallen from the sky on a vessel, at 

 one hundred miles distant from land. See the third volume of the Zool. 

 Miscell., Dr. Leach's GeojMlus viaritimus, CXL. 1, 2. — G. longicornis. 

 Tab. ead. 3, 6, and some other species. 



