a8 The Hipry of ANIMALS, 
oppofite to the head, and it’s laft joint is terminated by a pointed weapon bent down* 
ward. 
This fpecies is a native of Africa: it’s wound is of very bad confequence; authors 
call it Scorpio Barhams. 
Scorpio fufcus , peEtinum denticulis triginta, 
The brown Scorpio , with thirty denticulatious. 
Scorpion. 
This, when full grown, is about an inch and a quarter long : it’s colour is a dufky 
brown, often almoft blackifh ; it’s body is oval, and it’s tail longer in proportion than 
in the larger fpecies* 
It is a native of Italy, and of many of the warmer parts of Europe: I had one 
brought to me a few years ago, which the perfon who had it, allured me, he killed in 
Cane-wood, near Hampftead-heath ; but ’tis the firffc time England has been fuppofed to 
produce them. Authors call this Scorpio minor, and Scorpio Italicus. 
The other fpecies are the large brown Indian Scorpion, with thirteen denticulations. 
2. The fmaller Indian Scorpion, with fifteen denticulations. 3. The large African 
Scorpion, with eighteen denticulations. 4. The black African Scorpion. 
S Q^U I L L A. 
T HE Squilla has ten legs, the foremoft pair cheliform, or made for pinching and 
holding things: the eyes are two, and the tail is foliated. 
Thefe are the characters of the Shrimp; and they are the characters alfo of the her¬ 
mit, the cray*fifh, the lobfter, and the crab : it may appear odd, to thofe lefs acquaint¬ 
ed with the charaCteriftics of natural genera, to find the crab made a fpecies of 
fhrimp, or either that, or the lobfter, introduced among the InfeCts; but nature has 
been pleafed to conneCt them, and we have no right to difjoin them. 
Squilla macroura , roflro fupra ferrato^fubtus tridentato, 
The long-tailed Squilla , with the fnout ferrated above , 
and tridentated below . 
common 
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The body is oblong and rounded above; the tail long, the colour whitifh, and the 
legs long; the beak, or fnout, diftinguifhes it from all the other fpecies: it is long, of 
a lanceolated figure, fharp-pointed, and has eight denticulations above, and three 
below. 
It is a native of our feas, in vaft abundance ; authors call it Squilla, Squilla fufca, and 
Squilla vulgaris. 
Squilla macroura roflro integerrimo . }t ft!tO0ff)-t!0ft5 
The lo? 2 g-tailed Squilla ? with aJmoothfnout, 
This grows to the fame fize with the common fhrimp, and refembles it fo greatly, 
that it has been generally taken for the fame fpecies : the body, however, is thicker, 
and the fnout is very fhort, and is fmooth, wholly without the fpines or denticulations 
of the other. 
It is frequent in our feas with the other, and they are brought to market together. 
Squilla macroura cauda molli , chela dextra majore. 
The long-tailed Squilla , with afoft tail y a?id the right claw 
the larger. 
This grows to two inches and a half in length : the body is thick and firm ; the tail 
flender, and covered with atend’er fkin. The legs are (lender and long; the anterior ones 
have claws on them, like the common crabs, or lobfters claws, but that on the light, 
is always the larger: the creature feeks fome wilk, or other fhell, deferted by it s oriy 
ginal inhabitant; and, introducing it’s tail into it, fixes in the habitation, and draws it 
after it: the tail is always within the fhell, and is fo firmly fixed, that it would induce 
any 
