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THE
CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY
EDITED BY
S. F. HARMER, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; Superintendent of
the University Museum of Zoology
AND
A. E. SHIPLEY, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; University
Lecturer on the Morphology of Invertebrates
VOLUME V
[Illustration]
_Frontispiece._ MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF
PERIPATUS.
PERIPATUS
By ADAM SEDGWICK, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College,
Cambridge
MYRIAPODS
By F. G. SINCLAIR, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge
INSECTS
PART I. Introduction, Aptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera, and a portion of
Hymenoptera (Sessiliventres and Parasitica)
By DAVID SHARP, M.A. (Cantab.), M.B. (Edinb.), F.R.S.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1895
_All rights reserved_
"Creavit in cœlo Angelos, in terra vermiculos: non superior in illis, non
inferior in istis. Sicut enim nulla manus Angelum, ita nulla posset
creare vermiculum."—SAINT AUGUSTINE, _Liber soliloquiorum animae ad
Deum_, Caput IX.
CONTENTS
PAGE
SCHEME OF THE CLASSIFICATION ADOPTED IN THIS BOOK ix
PERIPATUS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION—EXTERNAL FEATURES—HABITS—BREEDING—ANATOMY—ALIMENTARY CANAL
—NERVOUS SYSTEM—THE BODY WALL—THE TRACHEAL SYSTEM—THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM
—THE VASCULAR SYSTEM—THE BODY CAVITY—NEPHRIDIA—GENERATIVE ORGANS
—DEVELOPMENT—SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES—SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION 3
MYRIAPODA