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Generic Character. 
Feet numerous. As many on each fide as the 
joints of the body. 
Antenna' fetaceous and jointed. 
Feelers 2, jointed. 
Body deprefTed, or ffattened. 
Linna’us. 
Specific Character. 
SCOLOPENDRA with about 20 legs on each 
fide. 
There is fomething uncommonly formidable in the 
appearance of this Infcft. It is found both in the Kail 
and Well-Indies, as well as in different parts of Africa. 
The difference between the two Linnaean fjiccics, the 
Gigantca and Morfitans, does not appear fufficiently 
clear, and I am inclined to believe that the number of 
joints and consequently of legs, is not always the fame 
in different fpecimens of the fame animal; indeed, in 
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