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WHILE working at Sigi, 1,500 feet below the East African Agricultural Research Station at Amani, Tanganyika Territory, one evening in June, I came across one of the giant black millipedes—a species of Spirobolus—which are fairly common in this region of tropical evergreen rain-forest. It was an unusually large specimen, fully twelve inches in length. Having no box capable of holding it, I buttoned it up in my hip-pocket and continued my work for an hour or so.
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BURTT, E. Irritant Exudation from a Millipede. Nature 142, 796 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142796a0
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