. Economic entomology. Beneficial insects; Insect pests; Thysanura. 32 SCOLOPENDRID^. CASE its young. Tried by this test, the Pauropus must be a Myriapod ; but it cannot be a Chilopod, because it has no foot jaws, but feeble mandibles. It is apparently a herbivorous, not a carnivo- rous Myriapod, and has a better right otherways to be placed among the herbivorous Chilognaths j but although it at first sight appears to have two legs to each segment in the middle of the body, still they are not placed together as in the Julidse, and the difference of the antennae is very great. The latter partak
. Economic entomology. Beneficial insects; Insect pests; Thysanura. 32 SCOLOPENDRID^. CASE its young. Tried by this test, the Pauropus must be a Myriapod ; but it cannot be a Chilopod, because it has no foot jaws, but feeble mandibles. It is apparently a herbivorous, not a carnivo- rous Myriapod, and has a better right otherways to be placed among the herbivorous Chilognaths j but although it at first sight appears to have two legs to each segment in the middle of the body, still they are not placed together as in the Julidse, and the difference of the antennae is very great. The latter partake more of the crustacean character than those of any insect that we are acquainted with. It has ten segments, the first two of which compose the head, or if they be reckoned from the under side, counting a segment for each pair of legs, there would appear from Sir John's cut to be 13, the same number that is possessed by true hexapod insects. It has also 18 legs, the smallest number in any species yet described being 26. For other details we must refer to Sir John Lubbock's paper. Pauropus Huxleyi {Lubbock), Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 26. A bustling, active, neat, and cleanly little creature, living throughout the year in consider- able numbers among dead leaves and other decaying vegetable matter in company with the various species of Thysanura, mites, &c., that frequent similar situations : found throughout the winter on the warmer days, about half a line in rauropus Huxleyi (magnified). Pauropus pedunculatus {Lnbbock), loc. cit. Perhaps the female of the above. It cannot be the male, for it was in the other that Sir John Lubbock found Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Murray, Andrew, 1812-1878. [London] Chapman and Hall
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