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obsolete impressed abbreviated lines at base, and an 

 intermediate more distiuct continued one ; posterior 

 feet remarkably robust, hardly longer than the ulti- 

 mate segment ; nail very robust, as long as the two 

 preceding joints conjunctly. 



A very remarkable species, distinguished at once 

 from all others, by the very thick and short posterior 

 pair of feet, the nails of which cross each other, and 

 are much used by the animal in its defence. 



Genus GEOPHILUS.- r~". V * ° 



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Posterior pair of feet not remarkably longer than 

 the others ; eyes obsolete. 



Species. 1. G. *rubens. Body attenuated be 

 fore and behind ; terminal pair of feet hardly longer 

 than the preceding pair. 



My Cabinet. 



Body broadest in the mid die, impurtctured, red, with 

 short hairs more numerous on the antennae and feet ; 

 segments with tw longitudinal impressed lines, and 

 a transverse acute one near the base of each, ultimate 

 segment somewhat longer than the preceding, nar- 

 rowed and rounded at tip ; head beneath, with a 

 blackish spot each side at the base of the mandibles, 

 and another at base of the terminal joint 5 labium 

 with a profound fissure, not dentated ; antermce, ter- 

 minal joint longer than the preceding ones, and of 

 equal diameter, not attenuated ; feet subequal. 



Very common in decaying wood, under stones, &c. 

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