Guide to Myriopoda. 
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Table-case are twelve in number and there are nine pairs of limbs. The 
No. 27. genital aperture is on the third segment. 
The Pauropoda were first discovered by Lord Avebury (Sir 
John Lubbock), who found two species in London in 1866. He 
says that, “ Pauropus huxleyi is a bustling, active, neat and cleanly 
creature. It has, too, a look of cheerful intelligence, which forms 
a great contrast to the dull stupidity of the Diplopods, or the 
melancholy ferocity of most Chilopods.” They are found amongst 
decaying leaves in damp earth, and other similar situations. 
Owing to their small size and fragility of structure, aud to their 
retiring habits, they are still very incompletely known. They have 
Fig. 86. Fig. 87. 
Pauropus huxleyi, x 24. Scutigerella immaculata, x 8. 
(After Lubbock.) (After Latzel.) 
been found in Europe, tropical Asia, aud North and South 
America, and it is possible that they have a very wide distribution. 
There are three families. Drawings of Pauropus and Eurypauropus, 
to illustrate the morphology of the Pauropoda, are placed in 
Table-case 27. 
Class 7.— SYMPHYLA. 
In the Symphyla the generative apertures are situated at the 
anterior end of the body, as in the Diplopoda and Pauropoda. 
The antennae are long, unbranched, and many-jointed. There are 
fifteen or sixteen body-segments, twelve pairs of legs, and four 
pairs of mouth-appendages. 
