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Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

by Sir James Emerson Tennent

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Chap. XIII Arachnidæ, Myriopoda, Crustacæ, etc.

Spiders 464
Strange nets of the wood spiders 464
The mygale 465
Birds killed by it 467
Olios Taprobanius 469
The galeodes 470
Gregarious spiders 471
Ticks 471
Mites.—Trombidium tinctorum 472

Myriapods.—Centipedes 472
Cermatia 473
Scolopendra crassa 474
S. pollippes 474
The fish insect 474

Millipeds.—Julus 476

Crustacæ 477
Calling crabs 477
Sand crabs 478
Painted crabs 478
Paddling crabs 478

Annelidæ, Leeches.—The land leech 479
Medicinal leech 483
Cattle leech 484

List of Articulata, &c. 485

Note.—On the revivification of the Rotifera and Paste-eels 486

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