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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library


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Text Appearing Before Image: und at the end of the Chapter, page 78. 3 More correctly Cheilopoda, from xe^°s, lip< and TTOVS, foot; becausethe mouth parts (modified feet) are partially united to form a sort of lip. 4 diTrXous, double ; TTOVS, foot ; having two pairs of feet to the segment. 74 LITHOBIUS AND ITS ALLIKS 75 insects. Lithobins has been observed to spend hours inkilling an earthworm, whose juices it sucked as food.Blue-bottle flies also serve it as food while in confinement. Lithobius1 is of world-wide distribution, and over one hun- dred species are recognized. Our common straw- colored, eastern species, Litho- bius forficatusf is found also in South America, as well as over most of Europe. It seems to be replaced south of Virginia by another species, spinipes. Scutigera 3 is easily distin- guished by its Jloilg legs ; its hind legs, in- deed, are longer than its trunk.4 Our common Eastern species (rareof New York City) is about 25 centimetres long,of a light brown color, with stripes on the back.

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 73. — Scutigera. Nat. size.From Wood. FIG. 74. -peiiclra.sizeLeunis. - Scolo- Nat. Fro in north and is It is 1 Xi0os, stone ; jSiow. to live. 3 scutum, shield ; yerere, to bear. 2 Provided with shears, forfcx. 4 Fig. 73. 76 ZOOLOGY very active, and feeds especially on spiders. It looks some-thing like a spider itself when in rapid movement. TheScutigeras are characteristic of the tropics, where they liveespecially in cellars, crawling up horizontal walls. Scolopendra1 includes longer and stouter myriapods thanLithobins.2 To this genus belong the poisonous centipedesof tropical countries. Among these is the giant Scolo-pendra of our Southern States, South America, and theWest Indies, which reaches a length of 25 centimetresor more. This animal has a poisonous bite, which isfatal to insects and other small animals, and causes pain-ful and even dangerous wounds upon man. The bitingapparatus is the first pair of feet, modified to form sharphooks, and provided with poison-glands,whi


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