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PLATE CCCXLIV, 



JULUS COMPLANATUS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Feet numerous. Twice as many on each fide as the fegments of 

 the body. Antennae naoniliform. Palpi two, articulated, body 

 femicylindrical. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Antennas clavated. Body flat. Tail acute. 



JuLUS CoMPLANATUS : pedibus utrinque 30, corpore planiufculo, 

 antennis clavatis. Llm. Syji. Nat.2. 1065. 4. 

 — i^«. Sv. 2068. 



JuLUS CoMPLANATUs : pedibus utrinque 30, corpore planlufculo, 

 Cauda acuta. Fab. Ent. Sy/i. 2. p. 393. 



Fabricius as well as Linnaeus confiders the number of feet as an 

 efTential part of the fpccific charader throughout this genus. Both are 

 certainly miftaken in afligning thirty feet to each fide of this creature. 

 Degeer mentions thirty-one ; and in an unmutilated fpecimen we 

 have, two legs may be perceived at every joint except thofe neareft 

 the head. The body is flat, the Ihields flightly fcabrous, and the 

 antennae clavated, the lafl: we deem more chara£terifl;ic than the 

 number of the feet. 



This very curious creature is local, being rare in mod places. 



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