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has much of a flat look; it is very nimble in it’s motions, and turns and twifts it's 
body about with g^eat facility: it’s legs are yellowifn, with a caft of red, and it has 
feventy on each fide. 
It is frequent at little depths in the earth. Aldrovand calls it, Scolopendra vulgaiis 
ac vera; Ray, Scolopendra valde exilis longa. 
There are feveral other fpecies of the lulus, but they will eafily be diftinguifhed by 
their names; they are, i. The long and thick, deep brown lulus. 2. The little, 
black lulus. 3. The little, fermgineous lulus. 4. The large, hollow-bellied lulus! 
5. The large, dufky lulus. 6. The fhort-legged lulus. 
SCOLOPENDRA. 
T HE body of the Scolopendra is long, flender, and fomewhat flatted. The eyes are 
two, and each of thofe is compofed of three others ; the feet are from twenty 
to a hundred on each fide. 3 
Scolopendra exalbida dorfo deprejfo . 
The whitifh Scolopendra , with a deprejfed bach 
This grows to three inches and a half in length ; the body is compofed of a great 
number of articulations; the fkin is tough and whitifh.; the body is of the thicknefs 
of a fwan s quill: the back is depreffed, but the fldes rounded; the legs are very 
numerous, and confiderably long. 
It is common about the roots of old trees under hedges, and in the earth in dry 
places. In the Eafb and Weft Indies, and in many of the warmer parts of Europe* 
Aldrovand calls it, Scolopendra major ; others, Scolopendra alba vulgaris. 
Scolopettdra cor pore tenuiore fufco. 
The brown , thin Scolopendra. 
%b t i)tojd)n 
This grows to more than an inch in length; it’s body is flat and thin, and very 
flexible ; it is of a brownifh colour : the legs are fhort, yellowifh, and are feventy on 
each fide. 
It is extreamly nimble in it’s motions, and is common with us in the earth, and 
under old logs of wood. Frifch. calls it, Scolopendra longa plana ; others, Scolo¬ 
pendra vulgaris. 
Scolopendra brevis pedibus variis. 
The fort Scolopendra , with various legs. 
This is a fmall fpecies: it’s length is about half an inch, it’s breadth that of a 
wheat ftraw; it is flat, and of a red colour ; the body is compofed of a number of ar¬ 
ticulations, but they are alternately longer and fhorter; the legs are only fifteen on 
each fide : the anterior ones are fhort and robuft ; the laft pair are very long, and give 
the creature the appearance of a forked tail. 
It is found at little depths in the earth, but is not very common. Ray calls it. 
Ad Scolopendram accedens triginta pedibus inftruda. 
The other fpecies are, 1. The fmaller Scolopendra, with twenty legs on a fide. 
2. The great, thick Scolopendra, with twenty legs on a fide. 3. The great, brown¬ 
ifh Scolopendra, with fifty-eight legs on a fide. 4. The fmaller, greyifh, white Sco¬ 
lopendra. 5. The largeft, thick-bodied, pale Scolopendra. 6. The large-headed 
Scolopendra. 7. The deep-furrowed Scolopendra. 8. The fubmarine, or fea Scolo¬ 
pendra. 9. The little, oval, white-tailed Scolopendra, no larger than a loufe. Mofl: 
of thefe are inhabitants only of the hotter countries. 
O N I S C U S. 
T H E body is fhort and broad, and approaching to an oval figure s the legs are 
feven or eight on each fide; the more ufual number is feven. 
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