THE 



CANCROID PHALANGIUMs 



Generic Character. 



Eight Legs. 



Two vertical and two lateral Eyes, 

 Antenna refembling legs. 

 Abdomen rounded. 



Specific Character. 



PHALANGIUM with obovate deprefled abdo- 

 rnen, and fmooth chela;, flightlj hairy at 

 the tips. 



This little infect, which has long been known to na- 

 turalifts, has been occafionally referred to very different 

 genera. The celebrated and laborious Swammerdam 

 has defcrjbed it as a fpecies of Scorpion. In the works 

 of Roefel it is alfo regarded as a Scorpion. In the 

 twelfth edition of the Syftema Natural of Linnaeus it is 

 ranked under the genus Phalangium; while in the Fauna 

 Suecica of the fame author it is made an Acarus. The 

 ingenious Degeer inftitutes for it a feparate genus under 

 the name of Ghejifer. Laftly Fabricius in his Syftema 

 Entomologias has reminded it to the genus Scorpio, to 

 which perhaps it is more nearly allied than to any other. 

 This infect feems to vary considerably in fize; thofe 



which 



