SCORPION. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae none. 
Eyes eight. 
Two fore feet like the claws of a crab. 
Tail long, and terminated by a sharp crooked sting. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Scorpio Afer. . S. pectinibus tredecim dentatis, manibus 
subcordatis pilosis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel. 1. p. 2961. 
Comb with thirteen teeth, hands slightly 
heart-shaped and hairy. 
Scorpio Indus. Degeer Ins. 7 . p. 341. 
no. 3. 
African Scorpion. Seb. Mus. t. pi. 70 . f. 4. Roes. Ins. 3. 
pi. 65 . Shaw Gen. Zool. 6 . p. 480. 
pi. 130. 
There are several species belonging to this genus, 
but none of them are so remarkable for their size, 
or the malignity of their poison, as the African 
kind. This scorpion sometimes grows to the length 
of ten inches when measured from the end of the 
claw to the extremity of the tail. The general co- 
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