BY WHICH THE VINE IS.INFESTED. 185 
Aristotle speaks of the Julios in his History of Animals*; but all the 
information which he gives us is, that it is an insect without wings, like 
the Scolopendra. 
Speaking of animals in general, Aristotle distinguishes those which 
have only four feet from those with a larger number+, and among the 
latter he names the Scolopendra and the Bee. It is evident that Aristotle 
names these two examples as being the extreme limits of the class; one 
animal having but six feet, only two more than the animals of his first 
division, or quadrupeds, and the other having a much larger number : 
one of Aristotle’s commentators however, forming his judgement in a si- 
milar manner to the lexicographers, makes a Wasp of the Scolopendra. 
An insect without wings a Wasp! 
Aristotle mentions the marine Scolopendrat, a different animal, that 
lives in the sea; he describes it, and says that it is similar to the terre- 
strial Scclopendra, but of a deeper red colour; that it has a larger num- 
ber of feet, and those more slender. He remarks upon the terrestrial 
Scolopendra§, that if it be divided into several parts, each part has a 
progressive movement. 
Pliny||, translating this passage of Aristotle upon the marine Scolo- 
pendra, says that it resembles an insect of the earth named Centipede ; 
and in another part of his work he thus defines the Centipedeq: “The 
Millipede, which is also named Centipede and Multipede, is a kind of 
worm of the earth, which crawls upon all its feet, describing an arch, 
and coils itself up on the slightest touch. The Greeks call it Oniscos, 
and some of them Zylos.” Further on.he says again: “The species of 
Scolopendra which moves without sinuosities, and is named by the 
Greeks Seps, and by others Scolopendra, is more venomous.” 
“ Millipeda, ab aliis centipeda aut multipeda dicta, animal e vermibus 
terre pilosum, multis pedibus arcuatim repens, tactuque contrahens se < 
Oniscon Greci vocant, alii Tylon...... Illam (centipedem) autem que 
non arcuatur Sepa Greci vocant, alii Seolopendram minorem perni- 
ciosamque.” 
I may here remark, that in this passage Pliny ** confounds the Julios 
with another species of Millipede, to which Aristotle gives the name of 
the polypodous Ass, [ Asellus,] ovos 6 wohv7os; and Pliny afterwards 
appears to give the names of Seps and Scolopendra to the Oniscos, 
_ * Arist., Hist. Anim., book iv. chap. 1; vol. i. p. 129 of the Greek text, and 
vol. ii. p. 126 of the Latin translation, Schneider's edition; vol. i. p. 171 éf the 
translation of Le Camus. 
+ Arist., book i. chap. 5. vol. ii. p. 16 of Le Camus’s translation. 
¢ Arist., book ii. chap. 4. § Ibid., book iv. chap. 7. 
il Pliny, Hist. Nat., book ix. chap. 43. 
q Zbid., book xxix. ’ chap. 6. vol. x. p. 128. 
** Pliny, Hist. Nat., book xxix. chap. 39. vol. viii. p. 273. Arist., Hist. Anim., 
vol. v. chap. 25. (vulgo ’31); Scaliger, 126. vol. ii, p. 224. Schneider's edition. 
