. Elementary text-book of zoology, general part and special part: protozoa to insecta. Animals. CUILOGNATIIA—I>SECTA. 521 segment of the body, at some distance from the genital openings. In Glomeris, this copulatory organ seems to be replaced by two accessory pairs of appendages on the anal segment. The young possess at fii-st only three pairs of legs, and the metamorphosis would thei-efore seem to be more complete than in the Chilopods. The Chilognatha live in damp places, beneath stones on the ground, and feed on vegetable and dead animal matters. Many of them roll themselves up into a ba
. Elementary text-book of zoology, general part and special part: protozoa to insecta. Animals. CUILOGNATIIA—I>SECTA. 521 segment of the body, at some distance from the genital openings. In Glomeris, this copulatory organ seems to be replaced by two accessory pairs of appendages on the anal segment. The young possess at fii-st only three pairs of legs, and the metamorphosis would thei-efore seem to be more complete than in the Chilopods. The Chilognatha live in damp places, beneath stones on the ground, and feed on vegetable and dead animal matters. Many of them roll themselves up into a ball like the woodlice or into a spiral. Fam. Polyzonidae. With small head and subcylindrical body which can be rolled up into a spiral, and suctorial mouth parts. I^oli/zonivm gcrvianicvm Brdt. Fam. Julidae. The head is large and free. The eyes are mostly aggregated together ; with cylindrical body, which can be rolled up in a spiral ; without broad dorsal plates. The limbs meet together in the middle ventral line. Julus salndotiiig Ij. Fam. Polydesmidae. "With large free head and laterally extended dorsal plates. The number of somites is small. coiiiplaiiatus Deg.^ Poliixcnvs lagunis L., with twelve pairs of legs. Pauroims IlvAcyl Lubb. Fam. Glomeridae. The body is short and broad, and can be rolled up into a ball. There are only twelve to thirteen segments, which possess dorsal plates. The last ring of the body is shield-like. They remind one of the genus Armadillo. Glomeris viarginata Leach., with seventeen pairs of legs ; in the male there are in addition two pairs of genital appendages at the hinder end of the body. Suharotheriiim elungattim Brdt, Class v.—HEXAPODA*=INSECTA. TracJieata with two untennce on the head, and with three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings on the thorax, which latter is composed of three segments; the abdomen has nine or p,^ thorax and abdomen of an seeii ten segments. from the side. St, stigmata;
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