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Sim. is llie mosl "degraded" arrived at in the whole order. Garypus L. K. stands 

 in many rcs[)ects more opposed to Chthoniiis C. K., tiian Chelifer Geof. does. Il is 

 curious to notice, that the Garijpidae Hans, is the only family, in which the 

 numhcr of the eyes is always constantly four, when we remember how variable 

 Ibis family in other respects is. 



II. Genera. 



The subfamily the Garypinae was first established by Simon to include the 

 genera Garypiis L. K., Olpium L. K. and Chiridiiim Menge (1875. 5. p. 42); the latter 

 was regarded as nearlj' related to the two other genera on account of an apparent 

 similarity in the structure of the femur of the first pair of legs; Hansen proved 

 that Simon's interpretation of the femoral part was wrong {1884. 9. p. 518) and 

 consequently placed the Chiridiiim Menge in the Cheliferidae Hans, as the represen- 

 tative for his Chiridiinae Hans. (49. p. 232). Daday established (1889. 11. p. 179) a 

 new genus Garijpiims Dad. for a form with four eyes, two tarsal joints and a 

 femoral trochantin in the first pair of legs and, as he interpreted the joints of the 

 femora like Simon, he was almost bound to make this genus to the representative 

 of a new family the Garypininae Dad. Daday uses in addition to the structure of 

 the legs a few other features, in his characteristics of this subfamily. He writes 

 that it is similar to the Garypinae Sim. by the single transverse "groove"; this 

 statement is not quite right as at least Garypns latus Hans, has two "grooves" and 

 several forms have none, while several forms of Chelifer Geof. has only a single 

 transverse stripe. His next character is taken from the hairs; about this he writes 

 (11. p. 179): "Endlich nähert sie sich der Unterfamilie der Garypinae noch dadurch, 

 dass auf dem Körper und auf den Palpen blos einfache, glatte und spitzige Börst- 

 chen sind"; but this statement is not correct, as at least most species of Garypus 

 L. K. have the hairs short and obtuse. The last character found in the trochantin 

 of the first pair of legs is too insufficient for the definition of a subfamily, if we 

 regard the trochantin and basal femoral part as homologous joints, and this sub- 

 family must as .shown by Ellingsen, not be taken into account (1904. 70. p. 2). 

 Banks divided this family into subfamilies according to the presence or absence of 

 a transverse suture and got in this manner Olpium L. K. and Garypus L. K. in 

 widely separated groups (1895. 50. p. 2; cf. p. 56). The genus Corosoma Karsch 

 (1879. 37. p. 95) was by this autor regarded as related to Garypus L. K. and its 

 relationship will on this account be discussed here; he writes in the characteristic 

 of the genus: "Die hinten breite Vorderlcib verjüngt sich allmählich nach vorn 

 hin und läuft in den Mandibeln fast spitz zu; er ist durch 2 deutliche Querfurchen 

 dreitheilig. Abdomen sehr breit, breiter as lang und besitz 11 durch eine Längs- 

 furche in der Mitte getheilte Segmenten". The thus described céphalothorax and 

 abdomen seem to be pretty similar to those of Garypus L. F\. But he writes furlhcr 

 in his description of C. Selloivi K. "Augen wurden keine wahrgenommen" and 

 about the legs after a few words about trochanter "alsdann ein längliches, nur von 



