It was called "Lepisma" by Fabricius, from its fish-like scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

Several correspondents have drawn my attention to the fact that Hooke is evidently describing the "Lepisma," which, if not positively injurious, is often found in the warm places of old houses, especially if a little damp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemies of Books] Reference

The body ends in three long bristles, as in Lepisma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Now these three lobes may be easily distinguished in the maxilla of Lepisma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

There are five American species of the genus Lepisma in the Museum of the Peabody Academy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

In all these particulars, the mandible of Lepisma is comparable with that of certain Coleoptera and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

There is, too, a small silvery insect (Lepisma) which I have often seen in the backs of neglected books, but his ravages are not of much importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemies of Books] Reference

In general form Lepisma may be compared to the larva of Perla, a net-veined Neuropterous insect, and also to the narrow-bodied species of cockroaches, minus the wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

It has the long, linear, scaleless body of Campodea, in the family below, but the head and its appendages are like Lepisma, the maxillary palpi being five-jointed, and the labial palpi four-jointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Further study, however, of the homologies of these peculiar appendages, and especially a knowledge of the embryological development of Lepisma and Machilis, is needed before this interesting point can be definitely settled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Several correspondents have drawn my attention to the fact that Hooke is evidently describing the ` ` Lepisma, '' which, if not positively injurious, is often found in the warm places of old houses, especially if a little damp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemies of Books] Reference

Coleoptera, the Meloë, and singular Stylops and Xenos; among Neuroptera, the snow insect, Boreus, the Podura (Fig. 109) and Lepisma, and especially the hemipterous lice, will throw a flood of light on these prime subjects in philosophical entomology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

The palpus instead of being directed forward, as in the insects mentioned above (in the pupa of Ephemera the maxilla is much like that of Lepisma), is inserted nearer the base than usual and thrown off at right angles to the maxilla, so that it is stretched out like a leg, and in moving about the insect uses its maxillæ partly as supports for its head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

(especially the thermophilous Lepisma, which we now describe) are most readily compared with those of the larva of Perla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

"Do you remember the silver scale-armour of that Lepisma, Dr. Harrison?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference

While the Poduras may be said to form a specialized type, the Bristle-tails (Lepisma, Machilis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Lepisma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Lepisma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemies of Books] Reference

Lepisma, 96.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemies of Books] Reference

Lepisma, 128.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference