3: Even men are not safe, when stooping to drink at a pool, from the assault of the cattle leeches. They cannot penetrate the human skin, but the delicate membrane of the mucous passages is easily ruptured by their serrated jaws. Instances have come to my knowledge of Europeans into whose nostrils they have gained admission and caused serious disturbance.
ARTICULATA.
APTERA.
Thysanura.
- Podura albicollis.
- atricollis.
- viduata.
- pilosa.
- Achoreutes coccinea.
- Lepisma nigrofasciata, Temp. nigra.
Arachnida.
- Buthus afer, Linn.
- Ceylonicus, Koch.
- Scorpio linearis.
- Chelifer librorum.
- oblongus.
- Obisium crassifemur.
- Phrynus lunatus, Pall.
- Thelyphonus caudatus, Linn.
- Phalangium bisignatum.
- Mygale fasciata, Walck.
- Olios taprobanius, Walck.
- Nephila...?
- Trombidium tinctorum, Herm.
- Oribata...?
- Ixodes...?
Myriapoda.
- Cermatia dispar.
- Lithobius umbratilis.
- Scolopendra crassa.
- spinosa, Newp.
- pallipes.
- Grayii? Newp.
- tuberculidens, Newp.
- Ceylonensis, Newp.
- flava, Newp.
- olivacea.
- abdominalis.
- Cryptops sordidus.
- assimilis.
- Geophilus tegularius.
- speciosus.
- Julus ater.
- carnifex, Fabr.
- pallipes.
- flaviceps.
- pallidus.
- Craspedosoma juloides.
- præusta.
- Polydesmus granulatus.
- Cambala catenulata.
- Zephronia conspicua.
CRUSTACEA.