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To thefe I fhall join thofe curious tubes, with their 
animals, which you were fo kind to fend me ; and 
think this fpecies may not improperly be called Co- 
rallina tubularia Melitenfis , cum fcalopendris fuis , ten - 
taculis dnobus duplicato-pinnatis , injiruttis. 
Upon taking the tubes and animals of this curious 
Maltefe coralline out of the fpirits of wine, wherein 
they had been prefcrved, I perceived a fmall flimy 
bag, in which they feemed to be inferted, and to 
take their rife from, as may be obferved at letter d y 
P/ateXVlll. What has been the ufe of this bag, is un- 
certain, unlefs we conjecture it to have been the ma- 
trix of feveral of thefe fcolopendras in their embrio 
ftate. 
The tubes, which are built by the inclofed ani- 
mals, as they rife in height, gently increafe in dia- 
meter : The texture of their outfide coat is formed 
of an afh- coloured earthy matter, of different fhades 
in different ftrata, and clofely united to an inner coat, 
which is of a tough, horny, tranfparent, and very 
fmooth fubftance ; the cavity, or infide, of the tube, 
is perfectly round, tho’ the animal is of a long com- 
preffed figure, like a leach extended. It appears, 
from the marks of its feet on the infide of the tube, 
that it can turn itfelf freely about, and move up and 
down, the better to attack and fecure its prey. 
This fcolopendra has two very curious and re- 
markable tentaculi, or arms, the left much larger 
than the right 5 thefe are doubly feathered, as may 
be feen, in the magnified part, at C : The number ot 
feet on each fide of the body of this animal exceeds 
one hundred and fifty. 
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