





EfrEMOBATES. 





Order SOLIFUGiE. 



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Fam. SOLPTJGID-E. 



Stigmata on the second and third abdominal sterna opening on the posterior border of the plates, and not 

 covered by finely toothed plates (serrulce). Claws on second, third, and fourth legs with basal stalk 

 naked. Tarsus of palp immovably fused to tibia. 



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The recorded Central- American genera are 

 families : — 



referable to the two following sub- 

















a. Mandible with feebly developed stridulating-ridges on the inner side ; anterior 



border of carapace straight from side to side. Mandible of male without 



flagellum, and upper jaw untoothed . > Eremobatin^:. 



b. Mandible with strongly developed stridulating-ridges on the inner side; the 



upper jaw in the male toothed and furnished with a flagellum DiEsiiNiE. 





Subfam. EREMOBATINjE. 



Datamince, Kraepelin, Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. xvi. p. 240 (1899). 

 EremobatirMB, Kraepelin, Das Tierr v Palpigradi et Solifugse, p. 116 (1901) 



This subfamily contains the single genus JEremobates. 



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EKEMOBATES. 











Ghvia, C. Koch, Arch. £. Naturg. viii. 1, p. 355 (1842) ; Uebersicht Arachn. Syst. v. p. 97 (1850) 









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xvi. p. 240 (1899) (nom. prseocc). 



Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 

 | ix. p. 133 (1879) 



Wiss 





Nat. xxxiv. p. 426 (1900); Kraepelin, Das Tierr., Palpigradi et Soli- 



fug^, p. 117 (1901). 





Leg of first pair without claw. Tarsus of legs furnished beneath with distinct pairs of spines ; tibia of second 

 and third legs furnished above with five strong spines arranged in a single series, and three or four pairs 

 of weaker spines below. Mandibles with only feebly developed striduating-ridges on the anterior portion 

 of the smooth area on the inner side of their appendages ; without any flagellum, and with the upper jaw 

 untoothed in the male. 



Type Gluvia cinerascens, C. L. Koch, 



Distribution. Southern States of North America and Mexico. 















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Synopsis of the Central- American Species 



a. Upper (immovable) jaw of mandible toothless, nearly straight, and 



projecting almost at right angles from the basal area bearing the 



. cheek-teeth. (Males.) 



fl\ Lower (movable) jaw of mandible armed with two large teeth and 



one or two small teeth between them. 

 a*. Patella of palp armed below with two rows of short spines ; its 







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