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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 96 — BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.

John Bostock translation

There are no winged scorpions. Cuvier thinks that he may possibly allude to the panorpis, or scorpion-fly, the abdomen of which terminates in a forceps, which resembles the tail of the scorpion.

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