AFTER A. 
grown ; it changes its {kin in the fame manner as. the 
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two preceding genera. 
Some fpecies are frequent in gardens, and all humid 
places, under flones, &c. 
Scolopendra Forficata . 
The larged: in this country ; it is found under 
flones, on the ground under flower pots, and garden 
boxes. Feet 30. 
Some call thefe infefls millepedes. Some live in 
decayed wood ; fome in fait water, fome in frefh. 
The darting milleped is a nimble fwimmer, retires 
to aquatic plants, and falls a prey to the polypi ; it 
will encreafe by cutting like the polypus. 
The marine fcotopendra^ like a leach extended and 
deprelfed, builds itfelf little cells with great fkilful- 
nefs. T. hey are feen in fome parts lying on the fea- 
fhore at low water. They are maffes compofed of a 
multitude of little funnels of a brittle and porous tex¬ 
ture. The aperture of the funnel is clofed up with 
a {mall lid of fand, contrived bv the animal to fhelter 
j 
himfelf within his tube from all danger. 
Scolopendra EleElrica • 
Shines in the dark, —140 feet. 
GENUS 14.—IULUS. 
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i he iuli differ from the fcolopendras in the fhape 
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