centiped

Its colour is a darker brown than that of the centiped, and it has

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

Miller’s attention was first attracted to this army of ants by noticing a big centiped, nine or ten inches long, trying to flee before them.

V. Up the River of Tapirs 1914

However, no one had yet been bitten by a venomous serpent, a scorpion, or a centiped, although we had killed all of the three within camp limits.

IX. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest 1914

But at the foot of one steep cliff there was a narrow, bowlder-covered slope where it was possible to sling hammocks and cook; and a slanting spot was found for my cot, which had sagged until by this time it looked like a broken-backed centiped.

IX. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest 1914

The sweat ran down his face in little streams a the prickly heat began to move across his skin, like a fiery-footed centiped beneath his undershirt, but he noticed, neither.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

Keeling Cocos Islands, and another at Rodriguez, along with a centiped stowed away in the hold; but one of them I drove out of the ship, and the other I caught.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

As for the centiped, I was not aware of its presence till the wretched insect, all feet and venom, beginning, like the rat, at my head, wakened me by a sharp bite on the scalp.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

Here we have a centiped nearly a foot in length, with innumerable legs, and two horns or feelers, which it protrudes with the most venomous expression.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847