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tho’ at the fame time the ftone itfelf will be fome- 
what hurt or corroded by the air. 
I have the honour to be. 
Reverend Sir, 
Your very obliged and humble Servant, 
Bearbinder-lane, 
7th February 1759. 
Emanuel Mendez da Cofta. 
VI. Obfervations upoit the Sea Scolopendre, 
or Sea Millepes. By John Andrew Peyf- 
fonel, M. D. F. R. S. 'Tranjlated from 
the French. 
Read Feb. 15, / 1 1 'ARIS creature, in its figure, is like 
I759 ' the Land Scolopendre, or, as Pliny 
fays, to the hairy caterpillar, commonly called the 
Milleped animal. It is of the fame colour, has the 
fame arrangement of circular rings : but whereas the 
Land Scolopendre is flat, this is fquare. I counted 
eighty rings, which form the body and head, when 
it was brought to me. This fea infe<5t was very 
fmall, and almoft imperceptible. I was furprifed, 
after having kept him fome time, to fee a round 
body, of a blackifii green colour, like the glam vi- 
rilis i pafs out of him, which had a confiderable 
opening, like the canal of the urethra. This gland 
was furrounded by two bodies or bowels, which ap- 
peared in form of a prepuce turned back ; the one 
Was yellowifh, and the other whitilli ; each but a 
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