GRYLLUS. 
421 
Crabs ; and two filiform antennae. The whole body is 
ftudded with fmall excrefcences, which are not much 
larger than, the points of pins : Its iliape is roundHh, di- 
minifhing in circumference towards the tail, which is bi- 
furcated; between thefe forks, the animal is armed with 
a dangerous fting, which invariably wounds any perfon 
who touches it. The poifonous matter with which 
this infirument is loaded, occafions a {hivering and palpi- 
tation all over the body, which the inhabitants cure by 
rubbing the wound with palm oil f. 
t Goldfmith’s Nat. Hitt. Vol. VII. p. 34S. 
