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never found here), and fome peculiar varieties; a few Pba-laenae, among which occur rare and fingular kinds; abundanceof Tarantula; and a fmaller variety, which, like the commonfpecies, carries its young brood upon its body during autumn;the Aranea lobata, of a filvery luftre on the upper fidej and theAranea fpeciofa* ; Phalangium Araneoides, rather fcarce; ScorpioCarpathicus in the mountains; the pernicious Scolopendra mor-fitans and longipes, very frequent j the former beneath ftones,and in clefts of the earth; the latter f in houfes, and alfo underftones:—a large Iulus is likewife frequent between the rocks,on warm mountainous declivities j laftly, in the rivers, thereare numerous well-flavoured crabs, and in the fea two fpeciesof lobfters; one of which, in fummer, vifits the fhore duringnight, for the purpofe of procreation, when it is taken bytorch-light with the hand j but otherwife it generally refidesbetween the cliffs; not to mention fome peculiar wood-lice,both on land and in the fea, and a fmall blueifh marine locuft.—It is a fortunate circumftance for Crim-Tartary, that gnatsare here uncommonly rare, and infeft only the vicinity of In-kerman, in any confiderable numbers.

On the Crimean coaft I have hitherto obferved but few Zoo-phytes and foft animals, living in the fea. Except the Afcid'tumgelatinofum^ an ordinary Afiinia, the Medufa aurita, and fomeNereides; the Alcyonium Schloffen^ {Botryllus ßellatus,) thecommon Corallina officinalis^ and fome Sertularia, which are

* Pallas's " Travels in Siberia," Vol. II. Suppl. p. 732. n. 97.

f The Julus araneoides (Fall. Spicil. Zoolog. IX. p. 85. Tab. IV. Fig. 6.), which has,perhaps by accident, been defcribed as a marine infedl, is very common in the Crimea;being extremely flender, and running with great rapidity.

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