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coiled up in the interior like a small snake. The hok by ^ which it 
ratberries^re pfckeTXh undoubtedly contain Iuli. We onki 
strawDernei £ i h m u v their cracking between our teeth 
This V small myriapod prefers the larger species of strawberry, bu 
the small ones which grow on Fragana vesca are not exernp . [I 
The following is Say’s description from his “Complete Writings, • 
Yol. II, p. 25: 
“Rotlv cylindrical, immarginate, above brownish with a slight tin 
.« fed immaculate beneath yellowish white; segments each wil 
«Lut fifteen elevated obtuse lines, of which four are equal dorp 
f nvrifo m larger, oblique oue on the stigmata and about te 
demeasin“in size to the feet, anterior segment as long as thethre 
succeeding ones conjunctly and glabrous, posterior one glabrou 
succeeaii g i ^ the tvV0 pre cedmg ones, united an 
obtusete rounded at tip°; head whitish before; antenna white; eye 
transverse linear, black; vertex not distinctly impressed; a ratM 
common species in the Southern States. . '* 
To this I may add that the antenme are much shorter and thickj 
firm tho^e of lulus, and the eyes are greatly reduced, being reprj 
senLl only by a single series of not very distinct ocelli on ejc ! 
tains under logs and in rotten wood. _ P 
The Tnlidfe have been frequently charged with causing a scab 
onnearance of the surface of potatoes, and have been occasions 
Wvn to <maw and penetrate the tubers in the ground. They to 
afso heeniouud devouring the bulbs of lilies and other garc 
flowers. # .-n .. 
Tn the Eleventh Eeport from this office (p. 44), Mr. Coquillet u 
scribes an injury to corn in the ear, done by lulus impresm 
which because of this practice, he gives the common name o | 
rmmanod Dr. F. W. Godmg, of Ancona, informed me last l 
that he had found a millipede boring the stems of his cunants. 
a letter of that date he says: 
“I send yon by this mail two specimens of the common ‘thousa 
Wcred worm ’ which I obtained from my currant bushes, whi< 
the act ofSiting the pith of the stalk, They appear to have gna 
off the top of the brush, and then quietly fed upon the pi • 1 
The specimens accompanying this letter were the abundant I 
impressus , Say. . nJJ 
In Europe, various species of Iulids have been reported by Oil 
in his Farm Insects, as distinctly injurious to roots of whoa , I 
bJe and onions, to potatoes, to sprouting beans m the garden,! 
to°neas and potted plants. He has aiso known them to J| 
cauliflower and cabbage by gnawing the plants just beneat I 
surface of the soil. 
