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44. Scolopax leucophsea, or godwit.—This is brown, 
edged with whitish; the neck is whitish, with small brown 
spots ; the chin and belly are while,, the quill-feathers are 
marked with black bands. The bill is a little turned up, 
brown with a purple base; the tail-feathers are white ; the 
two middle ones wholly, the rest barred with brown on the 
outer side.—This species is found in many parts of Europe 
as well as in our country. They are all migratory, appearing 
in this island in September, and continuing the whole winter. 
They are taken in the fens of Lincolnshire with nets, and 
fattened for the London market with bread and milk, hemp- 
seed, &c. 
45. Scolopax canescens, or cinereous godwit.—Legs long, 
cinereous; head, neck and back varied with cinereous and 
white ; the chin and breast are white, and spotted with ash. 
Found chiefly in Lincolnshire. 
46. Scolopax Cantabrigiensis, or Cambridge godwit.—Legs 
orange; the bill is red; the body above is of a brown-ash 
colour; beneath it is white; the wing-coverts and tail 
feathers barred with black.—This is found chiefly in 
Cambridgeshire. 
47. Scolopax Candida, or white red-shank.—Straight, bill 
and legs orange; the body is whitish; tail-feathers white, 
barred with grey.—This inhabits Hudson’s bay, and is eleven 
inches long. 
48. Scolopax curonica,—This is spotted with grey; the 
wings and bill are blackish; the lower mandible, from the 
base to the middle, scarlet; the legs are of a brick-dust 
colour. 
49. Scolopax marmorata, or marbled godwit.—This is 
variegated with blackish and pale rufous spots; the middle 
of the belly, eye-brows, and chin whitish; the breast is 
waved with brown; quill-feathers reddish, the first four 
without are tipt with black.—This inhabits Hudson’s bay, as 
does the next. 
50. Scolopax Hudsonica, or Hudsonian godwit.—Brown, 
with white spots, beneath rusty chesnut, with brown bars; 
the eye-brows, chin, rump and base of the tail white. Of 
this species the bill and legs are blackish; the tail is short 
and black, with a white base. 
SCOLOPAX, in Ichthyology, a species of CentrisCus ; 
which see. 
SCOLOPENDRA, a genus of insects of the order Aptera: 
the Generic Character is—antennae setaceous; feelers two, 
filiform and united between the jaws; lip toothed and cleft; 
body long, depressed, consisting of numerous transverse 
segments: the legs are numerous; there are as many on 
each side as there are segments of the body. There are 
thirteen species, scattered over different parts of the globe; 
three of which are common to this country. In the Latin 
language they have obtained the name of centipes, from 
the number of their feet or legs: one of the species has 
literally a hundred legs on each side, for so numerous are 
the segments into which their bodies are divided. Of this 
hideous race, some live beneath the bark of decayed trees, 
or are found below stones and garden boxes; others inhabit 
fresh and salt waters: and they are all remarkable for the 
quickness of their motions; they prey on other insects. 
1. Scolopendra lagura.—This species has twelve legs on 
each side ; the body is oval; the tail has a white pencil of 
hairs.—It inhabits Europe, under the bark of old trees. The 
body is brown; the head black; the sides with nine tufts of 
hairs. 
2. Scolopendra coleoptera.—Legs long, and fourteen on 
each side; the body is scutellate.—It is found in many parts 
of Europe. The antennae are yellow, as long as the body; 
the thighs are prickly ; the shanks are rough. 
3. Scolopendra forficata.—Legs fifteen on each side, the 
last longer than the rest, and turning backwards, from a 
forked tail; the body is of a dun colour, smooth, and com¬ 
posed of nine scaly segments, without reckoning the head. 
—It is found in divers parts of Europe and America, as 
well as in this country, generally under stones and flower¬ 
pots. 
E N D H A. 
4. Scolopendra gigantea.—Legs seventeen on each side? 
tail with two hooked styles.—This is an American insect. 
5. Scolopendra morsitans.—The legs are twenty on each 
side; the eyes are eight in number.—It inhabits various parts 
of the East Indies. This is said to be the most venomous of 
the whole tribe. 
6 . Scolopendra ferruginea.—Legs twenty-two on each 
side; the body is ferruginous.—It inhabits Alrica. The 
body is divided into twenty segments; the legs are of a pale 
yellow. 
7. Scolopendra dorsalis.—Legs thirty on each side; the 
body is brown, with a ferruginous dorsal line.—It inhabits 
Tranquebar, and is a large insect. 
8 . Scolopendra clypeata.—-This has thirty legs on each 
side ; the body is brown and rough; the head shielded. 
—This is also found in Tranquebar, and is less than the 
dorsalis. The body is divided into sixteen narrow segments, 
which are substriate and rough, with raised dots ; the head 
is covered with a rounded entire shield ; the antennae are 
short and pale; the tail is emarginate; the legs are pale. 
9. Scolopendra electrica.—This species has seventy legs 
on each side; the body is linear—It inhabits Europe, and 
our own country, in decayed wood, and shines in the 
dark. The body is very flat, tawny, with a black line down 
the back. 
10. Scolopendra phosphorea.—This has seventy-six legs 
on each side.—It is an Asiatic insect, and shines like a glow¬ 
worm in the dark: it has been known to fall from the air 
into a vessel sailing on the Indian ocean, a thousand miles 
from any land. The head is ovate, yellowish, with two 
grooved lines, and another transverse one; the antennre are 
subulate and ferruginous, with fourteen articulations; the 
body is, filiform, and about as thick as a goose-quill, pur¬ 
plish, with two parallel lines. 
11. Scolopendra occidental is.—This has one hundred and 
twenty-three legs on each side.—It inhabits America. The 
body is ferruginous; the antennae have fourteen articula¬ 
tions. 
12. Scolopendra gabrielis.—This species has one hundred 
and forty eight legs on each side; the body is yellowish._ 
It inhabits Italy, and is four times as large as the Scolopen¬ 
dra electrica. The antennae are short; fourteen articula¬ 
tions ; the tail is semi-oval, with an appendage and two short 
styles. 
13. Scolopendra marina.—The number of legs in this 
species is doubtful; the body is pale, with a rufous dorsal 
line.—It inhabits the Atlantic Ocean. In shape it resembles, 
in a considerable degree, the leech: and it builds small 
edifices, of a brittle and porous texture, on the shore at low 
water. These little masses are composed of a number of 
small funnels, each having the aperture closed with a cover¬ 
ing of sand, to protect the inhabitant from danger. 
It is said that in the East Indies, and also in America, 
there are scolopendra from four to six inches long, and as 
thick as the finger: when of this bulk, they appear truly 
hideous, and their bite, particularly in hot climates, is 
reckoned dangerous. Some of these animals are said to be 
without eyes, and to direct their course by means of two 
feelers, that extend beyond the head. It has been asserted 
too, that in some of them, when cut to pieces, the seg¬ 
ments, like those of the polypi, are capable of reproducing 
entire animals, but the fact is not at all certain. 
Dr. Peyssonel describes a marine scolopendra of very-small 
bulk, and square figure, whose body and head were formed 
of eighty rings, and which had a power of occasionally 
throwing out its intestines. The four sides of this animal 
were armed with prickles, and every ring had four bundles 
of them, which are sometimes spread out like fans; those 
under the body served the insect as feet. These Scolopendra 
being placed upon the fingers, thrust a great number of their 
prickles into the skin, and caused a sharp pain, resembling 
the effect of fire, of some continuance. Phil. Trans, vol. li. 
art. 6. 
SCOLOPENDRA SCUTATA, the name of an animal 
of 
