Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . the French Institute in1827. See Life by his nephew (1861). Scoriil* are the cinders and slags of volcanoes,more or less ]iorous from the of the in the melted materials. See Volcano, IcNKOIS Srorilion, a name apjdicable to any memberof the fa::iily Scorpionid:i-, included along withspiders, mites, &c. in the heterogeneous Among tlie common genera ,areScorpio, .Androctonn^, and IJullius. Altogetherthere are alK)ut ifX) >pecies, of warmcountries in Imth hemispheres. A
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . the French Institute in1827. See Life by his nephew (1861). Scoriil* are the cinders and slags of volcanoes,more or less ]iorous from the of the in the melted materials. See Volcano, IcNKOIS Srorilion, a name apjdicable to any memberof the fa::iily Scorpionid:i-, included along withspiders, mites, &c. in the heterogeneous Among tlie common genera ,areScorpio, .Androctonn^, and IJullius. Altogetherthere are alK)ut ifX) >pecies, of warmcountries in Imth hemispheres. Aljout thirteenspecies live in southern Europe. Shy of the light,tliey lurk during the day under stones and in crevices, but run about actively in the darknessseeking their ]iroy—usually ins(vts or spiders—which they sting and afterwards suck. Tlie formof the liody i> distinctive : the head and the thoraxare united, covered by a ce])halo-th(iracio shield,and bear a pair of chelicer:e, a pair of largepedipaljis, and four pairs of walking legs. On the. Common Scorpion (Scorpio europeuf). anterior part of the shield there are several pails ofsimple eyes, a pair centrally and several pails nearthe margin. The abdomen consists of twelve seg-ments, of which five form the narrow tail, whichis curled over tlie liack when the animal runs. Onthe under surface of the abdomen we .see mostanteriorly a small double plate covering the genitalajierture, then a pair of remarkable comb-likeappendages or pectines, probably with tactilefunctions, and behind these on f(nir successive seg-ments the slit-like ajiertures of four pairs of respira-tory Inng-books (so called as the lamelhv are su[ier-ini)iosed like the leaves of a book ). The tail ends in,a sting, containing a paired gland from which jioisontlows through the perforated shaip point. Whenthe scor]uoii strikes it suddenly straightens the tail,l)ringing the point (which is usually upturned)rajudly downwards. It d(jes not seem
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