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parts of Europe it is not uncommon: in England it is found undet 
loofe ftones in damp places, and runs {wiftly. 
Fabricius has made a falfe quotation under this fpecies to the 
Fundamenta Entomologica of Scheffer; as errors will occur in the 
moft accurate work, we fhould not deem it neceflary to notice this 
circumftance, if he had not continued the fame miftake from his 
Species Infe@torum publifhed in 1781 to his laft work Ento. 
mologia Syftematica, emenda et auéta, Gc. publifhed in 1793.— 
his reference is Schef. Elem: tab. 3. fig. 1. and on examining that _ 
part of Scheffer’s works, we find the figure he quotes is a {pider 
Scolopendra forficata is given in the 46th plate of Vol. I. of that 
author’s Icones Infectorum circa Raftifbonam indigenorum, (Fc. as quoted 
amongft the fynonyms above. ; 
The Scolopendra forficata is, we believe, the largeft of the genus 
found in this country. In many parts of the world, fome kinds are 
found of a frightful fize and afpe&; the Scolopendra Morfitans of 
the Eaft-Indies, is about five inches in length, and as thick as a 
goofe quill. Sir G. Staunton, in his Hiftorical Account of the 
Embafly to China, mentions the Scolopendras and {corpions of that 
country: we have one {pecies of the former from China that ex- 
ceeds in magnitude every one of the genus we have feen from other _ 
parts of the world, and is perhaps the largeft known; it is near one 
foot in length, and is about one inch and an half round the girth of . 
the body; the colour is of a fine fhining chefnut brown, the legs 
inclining to yellow. The moft fingular Infe& of this kind in 
England is the Scolopendra ele€trica, which fometimes emits a {park 
or flafh of light in the dark. 
Fig. I. reprefents the underfide of the head and antenn, mag- 
nified. 
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