. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. 214 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. single pair of legs articulated to the sides, of which the last pair is largest aud extended backwards. The antennae are long and with numerous joints. Lilhohiidae. Lithobius, (Fig, 33,) called in this F'g- 33. ^ country Ear-wig, is our most common genus, and is found every where, under sticks and about manure heaps, where they feed upon insects and earth worms, and are in turn devoured by the red back salamander. The head is large orbicular, antennae fo
. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. 214 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. single pair of legs articulated to the sides, of which the last pair is largest aud extended backwards. The antennae are long and with numerous joints. Lilhohiidae. Lithobius, (Fig, 33,) called in this F'g- 33. ^ country Ear-wig, is our most common genus, and is found every where, under sticks and about manure heaps, where they feed upon insects and earth worms, and are in turn devoured by the red back salamander. The head is large orbicular, antennae forty-jointed, long and filiform, and there are sixteen rings in all. They are fast runners. Scolopendridae. Scolopendra, the Centipede, has twenty rings besides the two that form the head ; an- tennae lt-20 jointed. A rather slender species about three inches in length, is found in Maine, under dead leaves. Geophilidae. Geophilus is greatly elongated and slender, with many rings, from thirty to two hundred. A small, slender species, is common under leaves, and debris of freshets, where so many varieties can be found. Those Myriapods included in the second suborder, Chilogna/ha, have a greater number of rings, each of which bears two pairs of legs, and few jointed short antennae. In Polydesmus the body is still flattened and the legs articulated upon the sides of the body. A species occurring in considerable abundance with the myriapods is about an inch long and of a pale brown color. Julidae. (Thousand-legs.) t/wZw-s is found commonly under sticks, &c. It is long, cylindrical, hard, with numerous feet, short and weak, attached to the under surface of the body nearly in the middle of the abdomen. The antennae are short and filiform. They crawl rather slowly, and at rest curve the body into a ring. They live on vegetable substances, or eat dead earth worms or snails. " In the spring the female deposits her eggs in masses of sixty or seventy, in a hole excavated for the pu
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