32 SCOLOPENDRID^. 



CASE its young. Tried by this test, the Pauropus must be a Myriapod ; 

 but it cannot be a Chilopod, because it has no foot jaws, but 

 feeble mandibles. It is apparently a herbivorous, not a carnivo- 

 rous Myriapod, and has a better right otherways to be placed 

 among the herbivorous Chilognaths j but although it at first sight 

 appears to have two legs to each segment in the middle of the 

 body, still they are not placed together as in the Julidse, and the 

 difference of the antennae is very great. The latter partake more 

 of the crustacean character than those of any insect that we are 

 acquainted with. It has ten segments, the first two of which 

 compose the head, or if they be reckoned from the under side, 

 counting a segment for each pair of legs, there would appear from 

 Sir John's cut to be 13, the same number that is possessed by 

 true hexapod insects. It has also 18 legs, the smallest number 

 in any species yet described being 26. For other details we must 

 refer to Sir John Lubbock's paper. 



Pauropus Huxleyi {Lubbock), Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 26. 



A bustling, active, neat, and cleanly little 

 creature, living throughout the year in consider- 

 able numbers among dead leaves and other 

 decaying vegetable matter in company with the 

 various species of Thysanura, mites, &c., that 

 frequent similar situations : found throughout 

 the winter on the warmer days, about half a 

 line in length. 



rauropus Huxleyi 

 (magnified). 



Pauropus pedunculatus {Lnbbock), loc. cit. 



Perhaps the female of the above. It cannot be the male, for 

 it was in the other that Sir John Lubbock found spermatozoa. 



