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are usually a glossy black with innumerable orange legs and roll into a ball if 
touched. Many of these centipedes in a young, half-grown stage, seem to swarm 
together. At the beginning of the rains one meets with them in writhing 
masses on the roads. 
Earthworms 1 are present in the soil of the hill regions—sometimes of con¬ 
siderable size. Nematoid worms, similar to that described by Mr. F. Jeffrey 
Bell in my book on Kilimanjaro, occasionally occur in the intestines of certain 
mammals and in all the larger forms of Mantis insects. The Mantis appears to 
be peculiarly subject to their attack and yet to be able to continue alive until it 
has lost the greater part of its “ inside,” the worm finally occupying the whole 
area of the abdomen. The “ Guinea ” worm, or tape-worm, is said to afflict the 
natives but certainly not to the same extent as in West Africa. No case of 
guinea worm has come within my personal cognizance. Leeches are found in 
many localities. 
APPENDIX VI. 
LIST OF ARACHNIDA, CHILOPODA, AND DIPLOPODA 
[Note. —This list has been made out from our collections by Mr. R. I. Pocock, of the British 
Museum.] 
Scorpions. 
Archisometrus bur dot. 
* Scorpio viatoris. 
* Opisthacanthus rugulosus ( sp . tiovi). 
*Solpuga paludicola. 
SOLIFUGai. 
Spiders. 
Nephila malabarensis. 
„ hymencca. 
Gastracantha formosa. 
^Heteropod i ] Species not y et determined. 
Ticks. 
Argas sp. ? (closely allied to A. moubatci). 
Trombidium tinctorium; small specimens. 
Centipedes and Millipedes. 
Dacetum torigonopoda. 
Trematoptychns afer. 
Scolopcndra morsitans. 
* A lipes appendiculatus (sp. novi). 
Archispirostreptus \ „ T , . , 
rsj M -Not yet determined. 
Odontopyge J ' 
Orodesmus \ , 
~, 7 . - New, but not yet described. 
Sp liar other nan J 
* Indicates species described and named by Mr. Pocock. 
1 Called by the natives “ Nyongolozi.” 
