V. The _Scolopendra_ is a little venemous Worm, and amphibious. When it wounds any, there follows a Blueness about the affected Part, and an Itch over all the Body, like that caused by Nettles. Its Weapons of Mischief are much the same with those of the Spider, only larger; its Bite is very tormenting, and produces not only pruriginous Pain in the Flesh, but very often Distraction of Mind. These little Creatures make but a mean Figure in the Rank of Animals, yet have been terrible in their Exploits, particularly in driving People out of their Country: Thus the Inhabitants of _Rhytium_, a City of _Crete_, were constrained to leave their Quarters for them[315]. There is a minute _Scolopendra_, accounted for by Dr. _Molyneux_. Footnote 315: _Ælian_, lib. xv. cap. 26. VI. The _Shrew-Serpent_ in _Norway_, is a Creature of admirable Beauty; small in Body, and slow in Motion, but of fiery Venom, and its Wounds most dangerous. VII. The _Lacertus Facetanus_, or _Tarantula_, whose Bite gives Name to a new Disease. Those who are wounded by it are denominated _Tarantati_: It is a kind of an overgrown Spider, about the Size of a common Acorn. It borrows its Name from _Tarentum_ in _Apulia_, a City in the Kingdom of _Naples_, built by a Band of _Lacedemonian Bastards_, who having no Inheritance at home, were sent thither to seek their Fortunes, where they built that Town, and made it the Capital of _Magna Græcia_. This little Animal is furnish’d with eight Eyes, and eight Legs: Its Skin is tender and soft, of various Colours, and always hairy: ’Tis of the oviparous kind, and propagates its Species by Eggs, and sometimes a hundred Eggs have been found in one Female. In the Opinion of some, ’tis not only an Inhabitant of _Apulia_, but peculiar to that Province, a Situation that may be called, _A Garden of Rarities_; Plenty of generous Wine, delicate Honey and Oil, an early Spring, a soft Winter—render it a most delightful Habitation, especially to old Persons, according to the Poet[316]; and yet in that most agreeable Region, this little Tyrant reigns and spreads Terror. Footnote 316: —Ille terrarum mihi præter omnes—(_Horat._ lib. ii. ode 6.) Angulus.—