576 • SCOLOPENDRA« 



funnels, each havirrg the aperture clofed up with a covet- 

 ing of fand, to prote£l the inhabitant from danger. 



In the Eajl indies and America^ there are fcolopendra; 

 from four to fix inches long, and as thick as the finger : 

 When of that bulk, they appear truly hideous, and their 

 fting is reckoned as dangerous as that of the fcorpiono 

 Some of thefe animals are faid to be without eyes, and 

 to dire£l their courfe by means of two feelers that extend 

 beyond the head. It has been allerted, too, that when 

 cut into pieces, each fegment, like thofe of the polypi, is 

 capable of reproducing an entire animal *, 



* Barbut, ubi fuprst 



