ige NATUARL HISTORY: 
The Centepee of the Eafl-Indies, are about five or fix inches long, the 
thicknefs of a man’s finger, and of a ruddy colour: they confit of 
Many joints and bones, and have two claws or pinchers, wherewith 
they wound as dangeroufly as the Scorpion, occafioning inexpreffible 
pain: they lurk like them in holes, behind old chefts and benches. 
Vhefe infegts are very common at the Cape of Good Hope, fome of 
which are red, and others white; t 
half as thick as a man’s finger : they are covered with hair, and feem 
to have no eyes; but there are two feelers on the head, which they 
make ufe of to find out the way they are to pafs: this is a very venom- 
ous animal, and the bite is as dangerous as that of a Scorpion; a 
failor that was bit by one on board a thip, felt an exceffive pain, and 
his life was fuppofed to be in danger; however he recovered, by the 
application of three roaRed onions to the part that was bit, and he foo 
was quite well. 
The African Centepee, is four inches and a half long, and as thick 
as a {wan’s quill; the colour of the whole body is of a fhining brownifhk 
black, and to each divifion or incifure a foot is annexed, of a yellow- 
ith colour, fixty on each fide. If this infe@ thould be cut in two, it 
is affirmed that both parts will liye. When it is irritated it will bite 
very hard, infomuch that though a man has a glove on, the teeth will 
penetrate quite through, It has a forked mouth, and two feelers like 
the former, 
The American Centepee has a flame-coloured line that runs down the 
back, and the fides refemble brafs; it has a vaft nunpber of feet like hairs, 
and an exceeding {mall head; and they move fo readily backward or 
forwards, that fome have fancied they have two heads. Another that 
was brought from Cape Augufia, was fomewhat larger than the former, 
and had deventy livid divifions or incifures, and twice as many feet. 
The common Centepee is to be met with in England, and is about an 
inch long, with a flat thin body, of a brownith colour: the legs are 
fhort and yellowith, ; 
The Centepee with thirty feet or legs, is not above half aninch long, and 
no thicker than a wheat ftraw: it is flat, and of ared colour, and the laft 
pair of legs are very long, which makes it feem to have a forked tail. 
Linneus has only three forts of Centepees, that with feventy feet on 
gach fide, that with fifteen, and that with twenty. 
The Gally Worm, is called in Latin Julus, becaufe it is fuppofed to 
be like the catkins of walnut, and haile trees, which have the fame 
pame in Latin: they are a fort of thort Centepees, and have more 
feet than any other infeat, except them. Some of thefe are fmooth, 
and others hairy, and one of the former was found on a cabbage- 
lettuce, about the thicknefs of a ruth, and near two inches lone. 
tt had a black head, and a back of a golden yellow colour; the belly 
was of a blueith filver colour, with a great many feet, like hairs. 
There is another kind quite black, except a white line that runs from 
the head to the tail, along the middle of the back: there is a third kind, of 
a dull yellow colour, only the head is reddifh, as well as the feet; and 
the feelers, as well as the hairs near the tail, are livid: there is a fourth 
fort, of a reddifh black; but the feet and feelers are of a lighter co- — 
Jqur. Some of thefe lye hid in the mofs growing on the barks of trees, - 
a.d others under ftones, and among rubbifh, ~ 
Moufet 
hey are three inches long, and about — 
