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The Galeodidae also contains a single 



genus, 



Galcodes, which 



has a wide range, extending from the steppes of Southern Eussia and 

 Turkestan into Afghanistan, Persia, Baluchistan, India (as far as 

 Madras and Bengal), all over Asia Minor, and even into Greece ; also 

 throughout Arabia ; and in North Africa, from Egypt to Algeria along 

 the north coast, and southwards through Nubia and Abyssinia into 

 Somaliland. The third family, or Solpngidae, is far richer than the 

 others in numbers, both of genera and species. The following genera 

 are recognised : — Rhagodcs (Bhax), with a range equal in extent to that 

 of Galcodes although it is not met with in Greece and Eussia, but extends 



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in the Saharan region as far as Senegal, and has one reputed species 

 from Ceylon ; Solpuga (Zeria), ranging throughout Africa from Algeria 

 and Egypt to Cape Colony, but attaining its maximum development to 

 the south of the Sahara ; Zeriassa, nearly allied to the preceding, and 

 occurring in Masailand and Somaliland ; Ccroma, ranging from Masai- 

 land to Cape Colony ; Biton, found in Syria, Egypt, Tunis, Arabia, and 

 Nubia ; Blossia, in Lower Egypt and Aden ; Paracleobis, in Spain, Cape 

 Verde, Somaliland, Socotra ; # Gylippus, in Syria ; * Gnosippus, in 

 Egypt ; * Barrios, in Lower Egypt, and ^Gluvia, in Portugal ; * Dinorhax, 

 in Siam and the Moluccas ; # Daesia, in Mexico ; Datames, in Colorado, 

 Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Arkansas, Texas, and the Mexican plateau, and 



* The genera marked with an asterisk are unknown to me in nature, and I cannot 

 speak with certainty as to their true taxonomic position. 



