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SOLIFUGvE. 



Order SOLIFUGtE. 



Integument richly clothed with hairs which are mostly soft and 

 silky on the abdomen, stiff and erect elsewhere, many of them 

 taking the form of long tactile bristles or of longer or shorter 

 spines. 



Carapace segmented, consisting of a large anterior head-shield 

 (the head), behind which on each side are two narrow skeletal 

 pieces representing the tergal elements of the somites bearing the 

 1st and 2nd legs, and of two large subquadrate plates, which are 

 the terga of the somites bearing the Srd and 4th pairs of legs. 



Fig. 45. — A. Anterior extremity of Galeodes ($) from above, a, mandible; 

 b, ocular tubercle ; c, buttress to which mandible is articulated ; d, head ; 

 e, remains of terga of 3rd and 4th somites, bearing 1st and 2nd pairs of 

 legs ; /, ff, terga of somites bearing 3rd and 4th pairs of legs ; h, i, 1st and 



2nd abdominal terga. 



B. Abdominal stigma showing scrrulce. 



C. First abdominal sternum of J, showing k lateral and / median plates. 



D. Extremity of tarsus and claws of 4th leg. 



In the middle of 

 tubercle bearine: 



the anterior border of the head is the ocular 

 i. pair of large eyes ; lateral eyes obsolete * - 



On each side of the head there is a distinct buttress to which the 

 mandible is articulated. Mandibles projecting forwards, very large, 

 consisting of two segments ; the basal segment is swollen and bears 

 in front a compressed but strong, toothed process, the upper jaw, 



* Traces of the lateral eyes have been found at the sides of the head. 

 These organs, however, are neglected in systematic description. 



