1!)2 HCOKI'IONS AND ALLIED AXNUIiATET) Sl'IllllHS OF T}IF. ANGLO-EGYl'TL\N Hl'DAN 



■j!) — Miindible of a Ga/fiuA'S 

 {Jl — fliL^ellurn ; w — uppei 

 / — lower; m.-iodibular (in:>i^j 

 (from Ki'Hppelin) 



-iJaQdible of a Rhai^tnirs 

 ffrom Kraepelin) 



Fig. 31 .—Upper tnandibulur fint' i 

 of Soipnga sckweinfurthi 

 (from Kraepelin), with ll;i 

 gvlluru [b.c — busal tallObit. 



/' 



^ 



-ilundible of Gluvwpsis 



rttfcsccns iirom Kiaepelin; 



Fig. 'Si. — ilandible of female Dtesia 



chrenbergi (frora Kraepeliu 





V\%. 3i- — Dpper mandibular finder of 

 Soipuga deniatidens (from 

 Simon), with base of 

 flagelUim 



The males of most SuUfugse are provided with a curious appendix of the dorsal 

 mandibular finger called the "flagellum." It varies extremely in shape in the various 

 genera and species ; but I only give figures and no descriptions. (Figs. 29, 30, 31, 34.) 



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35. — iiaU'adfS arabs lirnm hl:iQcb:iia, 

 Organisation du regtte Animal) 



1. Genus: (Jaleodes, 01. 

 (I. arahs,^ C. L. Koch (Fig. 29, 35) 



Kraepelin, " I'aljiigradi und Solifng*,' 

 Tierrcich, XII., 1901 



ill Has 



Cexjhalothorax yellowish-brown, reddish-brown 

 anteriorly and laterally ; mandible yellowish with 

 two reddish longitudinal stripes ; abdomen with or 

 without distinct median darker stripe. Tibia and 

 base of metatarsus of maxillary palp somewhat 

 infumated ; greyish-black (metatarsus nearly to 

 distal end) in young specimens ; legs yellow. 



The largest specimen collected by myself is 

 52 mm. in total length (from anterior margin of 

 cephalothorax to posterior end of abdomen). There- 

 fore this is the largest species of Solifugx in the 

 Sudan. It is distributed over the greater part of North 

 Africa from Algeria to Egypt ; Syria, x\sia Minor, 

 Arabia, Sudan (Khartoum, Werner, 1905; Omdurman 

 Swedish Expedition 1901 ; Wady Haifa, Surgeon-Major 

 (now Lt. -Colonel) Penton and Captain S. S. Flower), 

 and is relatively common in human dwellings. 



The allied G. araneoides (Pall.) is recorded by 

 TuUgren from the Sudan (Shendi), but as he only 

 had an opportunity of examining a young specimen, 

 I am not convinced of the correctness of this 

 identification. 



' This is the Jim Slwbnl of the .\rabs 



