CLASS II. MYBIAPODA, 
115 
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Fain. III. Po lydesmidje. Leach, 
obsolete. 
j Genus 4. POLYDESMUS. Ljiir., Duntlr., Leach. 
n ‘enne with the second joint scarcely longer than the first, and much 
shorter than the third: body linear; the segments laterally conv- 
c. l' res sed, margined: eyes obsolete. 
"*’■ 1 - Roi. compknatus. Reddish cinereous; last segment of the body 
j hiucronated. 
' u complanatus. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 1065. Fp.hr. Ent. Syit. ii. 393, 
°lydesmus compknatus. Lair. Gen. Crust, el Insect, i. T6. Leach, 
'^m. Encycl. v ii. 408. — Trans. Linn. Soc.x i. 381. — Suppl. tv Encycl, 
j 5f. i. 130./)/. 22. — Zuol. Misc. iii. tab. 135. 
* lf *bit s Europe, beneath stones. 
fJo Genus 5. POLLYXENUS, Lair., Leach. 
m, U elongated, linear, and depressed; the segments on each side with 
Ula ” bundles of scales, ending in pencils : feet twelve on each side; 
g ‘"tenure inserted beneath the head at the interior margin. 
‘ Lagurvs. Body brown: head black: the pencils of the tail 
<5> A.ite. 
°peudra Lagura. Linn., Fair. Pollyxerius Lagurus. Latr. Gen, 
,r usl . ct Insect, i. 77. Leach, Zool. Misc. iii. p. 33. pi. 135. B. Cm. 
j/V An. 3. 155. 
; r k§th of the body from 1-J to 2^ lines, 
kbits Europe. In Britain it is found in profusion beneath the barh 
01 trees. 
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Order II, SYNGNATIIA, 
Earn, I. Scolopendradje. L each, 
•t " ith each segment bearing two legs : hinder legs distinctly longer 
m the others. 
^ Tl hPs 1 r 
*• — Legs on each side fifteen. 
4 «el' er,US C - LITHOBIUS. Leach, Lamarck. 
tWo”fi k^ic-setaceous ; joints (about forty-five) conia-setaceous, the 
, ASt iomts lnrO'P.Sif- • /.in Hlllrrinrltr Krriorllvr nrvfY'Virvl • thfi 
S, 
hiarii-i " J 0U Rs largest: under lip anteriorly broadly notched; the 
W 7 . 
<7 with impressed dots : legs testaceous-yellowish. 
p. j y; ve ry much denticulated : eyes granulated. 
, " olh.forjicatus. Head broad: under lip entirely and deeply co- 
bithr r' Ia b° r, icata. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 1062. Fcibr. Ent. Syst. ii. 390, 
Su c ■ Us forfieatus. Leach, Edin. Encycl. vii. 408. — Trans. Linn, 
it, I ,' S81 - — Sapp, to Encycl. Brit. i. 431. pi. 2 t.—Zool. Misc. ii;' 
a ' jits b-uropc, beneath stones. 
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