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wound. And Mr. Jackson affirms that a spider called the Tenda- 

 raman, is found in Morocco, which has venomous powers equally 

 formidable. Ulloa gives an account of a spider of a bright red 

 colour, common in Popayan, called Coya or Coyba, and usually 

 found in corners of walls and among the herbage, the venom of 

 which is of such malignity that if applied to the skin of either man 

 or beast, it immediately causes large tumours, which are soon 

 succeeded by death. The only remedy which the natives employ 

 for counteracting the ill effects of the poison is, on the first appear- 

 ance of the swelling, to swing the patient over the flame of straw 

 or long grass ; after this operation he is reckoned to be out of 

 danger.* 



Class X.— MYRIAPODA. 



Head distinct, with two antennae ; mandibles simple 

 incisive ; feet on all or most of the segments of the 

 body. 



SCOLOPENDRA MORSITANS. 



Venomous or Biting Centipede. 

 Pl. XXV. Jig. 1. 



Order Chilopoda. Family tEgiuipedes. Lair. 



Gen. Char. Aiitenncz conico-setaccous, of many sub- 

 conic joints ; mouth covered with hemispheric galerc; 

 exterior palpi with a double peduncle ; mandibles 

 strong, horny ; upper lip divided by a fissure ; body 

 with the segments margined; anterior pair of feet 

 small, the last pair largest ; eyes eight, four on each 

 side of the head, arranged in a rhomboidal form. 



* Ulloa's Voyage, b. vi. c. 3. 



