ta Te EXC VIN, 
SCOLOPENDRA FORFICATS. 
APTERA, 
WITHOUT WINGS. 
CENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne fetaceous: feelers two, filiform, united between the 
jaws: lip toothed and cleft: body long, depreffed, confifling of 
numerous tranfverfe fegments: legs numerous, as many on each 
fide as fegments of the body. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Feet fifteen on each fide. 
SCOLOPENDRA ForFicaTa: pedibus utrinque 15. Linn. Syft. Nate 
2. 1062. 3.—Fn. Su. 2064.—Geoffr. Inf. 2. 674. 1. 
—Fab. Spec. Inf. 2.532. 3.—Ent. Syft- 2. 390. 4. 
Scalependra rufo fufca, pedibus utrinque 15. Degeer Inf.7. 557. 1. 
| fab. 35. fig. 12: 
Sulz. Inf ia. 24 fen le. 
Schaef. I, pl. 46. 12. 
ESTER TERE 
This fingular creature not only changes its fkin feveral times; but, 
as it advances in age, the fegments of which the body is compofed 
increafe in number: the Infeét when full grown has nine fuch feg- 
Linnzus mentions it as a native of America: in many 
ments, 
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