Pda T B CCCCLXXY. 
SCOLOPENDRA HORTENSIS. 
GARDEN CENTIPEDE. 
APTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne fetaceous : feelers two, filiform, and united between the 
jaws: lip toothed and cleft: body long, depreffed, confifting of nu- 
merous tranfverfe fegments: legs numerous. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
SCOLOPENDRA HORTENSIS : fufcous: legs on each fide twenty-one. 
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This Centipede appears to be of an undefcribed fpecies: it wag 
diicovered, in fome abundance, by Mr. W. Leach, in the gardens at 
Exeter. 
The natural fize of this infe¢t is delineated in the lower part of the 
annexed plate ; and from this it will be obferved, that the fpecies is 
of the more diminutive kind. In its general afpect it bears a very 
ftrong analogy to the great venemous Centipede of the eaftern parts of 
the world, Scolopendra morfitans. The refemblance is indeed fo 
ftriking, that notwithftanding the difparity of fize, were it not for the 
prefent fpecies differing, in having a pair of legs more than that in- 
fe&t, we fhould not be inclined to think it fpecifically diftinct. The 
number of legs in the Scolopendra genus is admitted by entomological 
writers 
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