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parts of Europe it is not uncommon: in England it is found under 
loofe {tones in damp places, and runs {wiftly. 
Fabricius has made a falfe quotation under this fpecies to the 
Fundamenta Entomologica of Scheffer ; as errors will occur in the 
moft accurrate works, we fhould not deem it neceffary to notice this 
circumftance, if he had not continued the fame miftake from his 
Species InfeCtorum publifhed in 1781 to his lafl work Ento- 
mologia Syftematica, emenda et aucta, &c. publifhed in 1793.— 
his reference is Scheff. Elem. tab. 3. fig. 1.—On examining that 
part of Schzffer’s works, we find the figure he quotes is a fpider! 
Scolopendra forficata is given in the 46th plate of Vol. I. of that 
author’s Icones Infectorum circa Raftifbonam indigenorum, Sc. as quoted 
amongft the fynonyms above. : 
The Scolopendra forficata is, we believe, the largeft of the genus 
found in this country. In many parts of the world, fome kinds are 
found of a frightful fize and afpe&t; the Scolopendra Morfitans of 
the Eaft-Indies, is about five inches in length, and as thick as a 
goofe quill. Sir G. Staunton, in his Hiftorical Account of the 
Embaffy to China, mentions the Scolopendras and {corpions of that 
country: we have one fpecies of the former from China that ex- 
ceeds in magnitude every one of the genus we have feen from other 
parts of the world, and is perhaps the largeft known; it is near one 
foot in length, and is about one inch and an half round the girth of 
the body ; the colour is of a fine fhining cheftnut brown, the legs 
inclining to yellow. The molt fingular Infect of ‘this kind in 
England is the Scolopendra electrica, which fometimes emits a {park’ 
or flafh of light in the dark. 
Fig. I. reprefents the underfide of the head and antenna, mag~ 
nified. 
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