OF THE UNITED STATES. 1(J9 



My Cabinet. 



Body chesnut brown, polished, impunctate. with 

 short sparse hairs ; segments with reflected lateral 

 edges, first one shortest, transverse, the second quad- 

 rate with rounded angles, five or six posterior ones 

 each narrowed behind and emarginate on the hind 

 edge, the posterior angles of those near the caudal 

 segment more acute, caudal segment truncate conico- 

 cylindric; antennce pale testaceous, with dense, very 

 short, rigid hair, terminal joint as long as the two 

 preceding ones conjunctly; feet pale testaceous, 

 joints spinous at tip, an elongated spine at the tip of 

 each beneath, anterior pair shortest, posterior longest 

 and more robust; labium longitudinally indented, 

 impunctate, teeth of the tip black. 



Length, more than one inch. 



Very common under stones &c. The specimeu 

 from which this* description was taken has but thirty 

 joints to the antennae. 



Genus CERMATIA. 



C. coleoptrata, Villiers. Is an inhabitant of the 

 Southern States; we observed it both in Georgia and 

 East Florida. It is probable, that, like a vast num- 

 ber of the insects now common in our country, it has 

 been introduced by our shipping from abroad. 



Genus SCOLOPENDRA. 



Antennse conico-setaceous ; dorsal scuta subequal : 

 eyes, four each side, hemispherical. 



