6CGL0?fiNDRA. 
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Genus XII. — Scolopendrd-. 
This tribe has in the Latin language obtained the name 
of mille-pes, from the extraordinary number of feet with 
which nature has provided forne of its fpecies one kind 
of the fcolopendra having no lei's than an hundred on 
each fide. In general, the feet of thefe infefts are as 
numerous as the fegments into which their bodies are di- 
vided. They have the antenna; fetaceous, articulated 
palpi, and the body deprefled or flattened f . Of this hi- 
deous race there are eleven different fpecies, diftinguilhed 
by their form, fize, and colour. Some live beneath the 
bark of decayed trees, or are found below (tones and 
garden boxes ; others inhabit the frfcfli and fait water, 
and are all remarkable for their quick progreffive mo- 
tion. 
Scolopendra forficata. The feet of this fpecies are 
fifteen on each fide ; the laft longer than the reft, and 
turning backwards, form a forked tail. The body is of 
a dun colour, fraooth, and compofed of nine fcaly feg- 
ments, without reckoning the head %, 
The marine fcolopendra || in form fomevvhat refembles 
the leech ; it builds thole fmall edifices of a brittle and 
porous texture which are feen upon the ftiore at low wa- 
ter. Thefe mafies are compofed of a number of fmall 
funnels. 
t Syft. Nat p. ro6j. 
j) Vide Rai Inf. p. 44. 
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