42 MYRIAPODA 



The Persians have several words for them, less accurate than 

 the Arabs and more like our own terms. For instance, they call 

 them " Hazarpa," or thousand feet, like our Millepedes ; also 

 " Sadpa," or hundred feet, equivalent to our Centipedes. Another 

 term resembles our common term before mentioned, " Chehlpa," 

 forty feet. A more figurative term is " tasliih dud," a worm 

 resembling a rosary with a hundred beads ; this word is trans- 

 lated in Eichardson's Persian Dictionary as " a venomous insect 

 having eight feet and a piked tail." 



Classification of the Myriapoda. 



Two of the principal writers on the classification of the 

 Myriapods are Koch and Latzel, Ijoth of whom have classified 

 the whole group. I do not wish for a moment to undervalue 

 the many authors who have done excellent work on the classifi- 

 cation of different groups and familie.-i, but I wish here to give 

 an outline of a classification of the whole class, and I naturally 

 have recourse to the authors who have treated the subject as a 

 whole. 



Koch's two works, the System der Myricqooden ^ and Dir 

 Mijriapudcnj' cover the whole range of the class, and his di-\-isions 

 are clearly marked out and are easily understood, l3ut both works 

 are comparatively old. He does not include the Scolopendrellidae 

 or the Pauropidae, which are now included Ijy all naturalists in 

 the Myriapoda. Latzel is a more recent writer, and though his 

 work is entitled 'Ilie Jfyriujiuds of the Avstro- Hungarian Emjiire^ 

 he gives much information aljout Myriapods not found in 

 Europe, and his work is fairly entitled to be considered as 

 embracing the whole class. He divides the Myriapods into four 

 Orders, including the Scolopendrellidae and Pauropidae. On the 

 whole, I think it will be Ijetter here to take the classification of 

 Koch, and to add to it the tw(i Orders before mentioned, viz. 

 ,S)'mphyla containing one family the Scolopendrellidae, and Pauro- 

 poda with one family the Pauropidae. 



The Orders are as follows : — 



' C. L. KocU, System der MijrUipocUii. Eegeusbers;, 1847. 



C. L. Koch, Ok Myriapoden. Halle, 1863. 

 ' Latzel, Die Mijriapoden der CEsterreichiscli - Ungarischcn MonarcJde. "Wien 

 1880. 



