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the number of slugs (Limax) on the same rock, 

 although comparatively rare elsewhere. 



Many curious myriapoda were observed, as 

 well as scorpions. Some of these were new 

 species, and have been fully described by our 

 distinguished friend, Mr. Newport. (See his 

 papers in the Transactions of the Linnsean So- 

 ciety.) Spiders are as abundant and in as great 

 variety in Asia Minor as in Greece. One of the 

 largest, a species of Mygale, lives in a tube of 

 earth, closed at its aperture by an earthy door, 

 which opens and shuts for the entrance and exit 

 of the animal, being suspended by a kind of hinge, 

 constructed out of the silky web. Some of the 

 Lycian spiders are painted with the most vivid 

 colours. 



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