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crustaceous imbricate segments, rough above, and of a livid brown 

 or dirty ash-colour. The larger specimens are generally marked 

 with a double series of pale yellow spots down the back ; the side* 

 are yellowish, and the belly nearly white. The body is not capable 

 of contracting into a ball, and the tail is furnished with two pro- 

 minent lateral styles, by which characters it may at once be distin- 

 guished from the Oniscus armadillo. 



The learned Bonnet relates, that a young woman who had swal- 

 lowed these animals alive, as is usually done, threw up a prodigious 

 number of them of all sizes, which must have bred in her stomach.* 

 The Oniscus Asellus is popularly named Sow-bug, Church-louse, 

 Pig's-louse, Wood-louse, or Carpenter. 



Class IX.— ARACHNIDES. 



Oviparous animals, with articulated members, and not 

 undergoing a metamorphosis ; respiration tracheal or 

 brachial, the openings for the admission of the air 

 stiematiform ; antennae none. 



SCORPIO OCCITANUS. 



Yellow Scorpion. 

 Pl. XXIV. fig. 4. 



Order Pulmonaria. Family Scorpionides, Lair. 



Gen. Char. Hands with the last joints thickest, and 

 in the form of forceps ; maxilla short, rounded, some- 

 what arched, and hairy ; eyes six or eight ; body ob- 

 long, divided into many segments, with two laminated 



* Bonnet CEuvres, v. 144. 



