ONI 
eate and two-fpited at the fides. It inhabits the Chinefe 
ocean. 
® ASILUS. Abdomen covered with i ike the tail 
is ferni-oval. It inhabits the European 
AUDALOUPENSIS. The abdomen of this inked is covere 
with “fix {cales; the tail is ovate, entire. It inhabits the 
American o  & 
omen sebaie a fix {cales; the 
tail retufe, wth is Found in Euro 
**E ery omer $ tail oblon 
aeute. It inhabits othe” uo ocean, and preys on {mall 
fifh. 
* AQuarTicus. 
it has four antenne. 
many parts of Europe. 
cleft pen 
NUS. cae aia tail oval-oblong, pointed. 
It inhabit the European 
ARIS. Body Seer: - four-toothed, 
baits the sochade cs and Indian 
Oblong ; tail three toothed legs flightly 
aii is ages in pe Atkantic am ea-weed, 
-cylindrical, with two tails as ‘long 
as ae body. “ht Siahite the feas of 3 way. 
ly e qellow with brown ftreaks. 
The tail is rounded, with forked ftyles ; ; 
This is found in ftagnant waters in 
The young are contained in a fix- 
It in- 
chelate 
ScoPuLORUM. 
Inhabits the feas of Norway. 
Americanus, Abdomen covered with twelve fcales ; 
hind-legs long and rufous; tail rownded. It inhabits the 
American ocean 
Psora. Abdomen naked beneath ; tail femi-oval, acute. 
Kt ae Norway. 
* Pirysopes. Abdomen naked beneath; tail ovate. It 
“mhabits bis ee 
pENTATUs. Abdomen naked; tail very obtufe, 
— wie peg aaa d. Inthis the body is very minute, 
e upper fide with fix tranfverfe rows 
marked on 
of ochreous ions the fcales are even, the laft with two 
Oe an Body oblong, {pinous and pellucid. It is 
found in the — oF the body is gelatinous. 
Ac s Brey 3 3 atten and legs paler ; 
tail pointed. It Glas “4 ocea 
MARGINATUS. s is einer and sa a grey-brown ; 
the tail -is acest aay It inhabits the oc 
ALBI rown; tail oe, dotted with 
sand Te inhabit i Spans fea. 
at diftine ona 3; third and fourth 
pair "of ‘legs ie a ‘onarmed. It inhabits northern 
feas, and infefts the whale; hence its fpecific nam 
* Oczanicus. Ovate; ‘tail ending in two bifid iia. It 
inhabits the European ocean 
ERRATUS. vate, Genk tail with five plates; the 
outer ones ferrate without. It inhabits the Spanifh coaft, 
m 
; sean na obtufe, unarmed ; body cine- 
ntti inhabits Eur 
La Se: above brown; tail oblong- 
enate. 
e thorax is naked; the back is. befet 
with three rows af {fpines. It is found in the White 
fea. 
ScorProrpEs. 
ending in a fpine and bifid br yee 
baie ies ae White fea; as isthe 
ATUS. hors ee Chee: 
dorfal: fegment cufpidate. 
Hazctricus. Cinereous, linear ; tail linear, bicufpidate, 
is 
Thorax oval-glebular ; tail long, jointed, 
os alfo is an inha- 
the fix 
ONK 
with two linear ftyles. It is an inhabitant of the At- 
1 
lantic 
I Ovate; green {potted with black ; the tail is 
rounded. It habits Denmark. 
TRIDENTATUS, 
This is flattith the tail is compofed of 
two plates, and is ses toothed. It inhabits Denmark. 
USC This is of a brown colour ; 3 the fhell is carinate 
with a white foot. on the thorax. It is alfo found in Den- 
CICADA. oe oti apa fublinear, with four fpu- 
bands; the upper nnz fhor wk ail {mooth on 
gece ie a the Cael 
ED Compre sa Apa oes ; — very 
fhort aed iendeats four han mpreffed a — It is 
found under the folds a the Medal capillat 
Arenarius. This is flightly depre effed before, cari- 
nate and fubferrate behind ; it has = ia cheliform 
and fmooth; the antennz are nearl 
STREMIANUS. Compreffed ; four fren cheliform and 
flightly toothed; the upper antenne very fhort. It inhabits 
the fhores of Greenland: the body is of a violet colour. 
and fer at the bafe on the inner margin. 
It iad eae the body is marked with white 
- faffron bands: it darts with great ae in the 
er. 
Diviion B contains five {pecies, of which two are com- 
nto our own country. They have unequal feelers, the 
hind ones longer; antenne filiform 
Latus. Tail obtufe and unarmed ; the body is of 
a lead ian, with dotted white lines. It is found in Italy, 
and is twice the fize of the armadillo to be defcribed pre- 
ees a body is marked with feven longitudinal white 
dotted line 
Bosrctands 
fegment, and two 
fouthern Europe. 
* ASSELLUS; the Wood-loufe. 
Black ;-with four red dots on the firlt 
whitifh ones on the reft. It inhabits 
_ Tail obtufe, with two 
rotten wood, and under ftones; it preys on minuter infects ; 
it infefts England and many other parts of Europe. The 
oung are ceeation ina four. eine follicle under the ab- 
domen of the m 
YLVESTRIS. on ith four ftyles, the lateral ones 
longer. It inhabits Pa, and is lefs than the laft. 
* ARMADILLO ; ede, or Medical Wood-loufe. 
The body of this "infeGt is of a grey-brown; the tail is ob- 
tufe and entire; the body confifts of ten fegments, the 
edges of which are white; it 1s longer than the affellus, of 
a darker colour, and a more polifhed furface ; but found in 
fimilar fituations« when fuddenly difturbed or handled it 
— itfelf up into a completely globular form, in the man- 
r of the armadillo, hence its {fpecific name. See Mituz- 
EDES. 
NISION, in Geagrapiiy : town . Perfia, in the pro- 
viace of Ira f Con 
Os, in poe a celebrated rabbi, who 
flourifhed in the firft century, and was author of the Chal- 
dee Tareum, (which fee, ) or anflston of the Pentateuch, 
which is called after his name. He was probably a con- 
temporary with Jonathan Ben Uzziel, author of the Tar- 
gum of aa prophets, y by much the younger of the 
gt e Jewifh elie Jonathan 
e of the peace eas if Hillel, who died about the 
cae of our Saviour’s birth; while Onkelos furvived ea 
liel, 
