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SCOLOPENDRA FORFICATA., 
APTERA. 
wiITHOoUtT WINGs. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
‘The fame number of feet as fegments of the body. Antenna 
fetaceous. Palpi two, jointed. Body depreffed or flat. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
| AND 
SY NONTMS. 
Feet fifteen on each fide. 
ScOLOPENDRA ForricaTA: pedibus utrinque 15. Linn. Syf. Nat. 
2. 1062. 3.—fn. Su. 2064.—Geoffr. Inf. 2. 674. 1. 
— Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 532+ 3.—Ent. Syft. 2. 390. 4. 
Scolopendra rufo fufca, pedibus utrinque 15. Degeer Inf. 7. 557. Le 
tab. 25. fig. 12. 
Sulz. Inf. tab. 24. fig 155- 
Scheff. 1. pl. 46. 12.. 
This fingular creature not only changes its {kin feveral times ; but, 
as it advances in age the fegments of which the body is compofed 
increafe in number: the Infeét when full grown has nine fuch feg- 
ments. Linnzus mentions it as a native of America: in many 
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