CLASSIFICATION 



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Fig. 219.— Chelicera 

 and flagelluni of 

 Galeodes. (After 

 Kraepelin.) 



There are two genera, Galeodes, with about twelve species, and 

 Paragaleodes, with six species, scattered over the 

 hot regions of the Old World. 



Fam. 2. Solpugidae. — The Solpugidae com- 

 prise twenty-four genera, distributed under five 

 sub-families. The toothed stigmatic plate is 

 absent, and the tarsal claws are smooth. The 

 ocular eminence is furnished with irregular hairs. 

 The " flagelluni " is very variable. 



(i.) The Ehagodinae include the two genera, .RJuigodes {Rhax) 

 and Dinorhax. The first has twenty-two species, which in- 

 habit Africa and Asia. The single 

 species of Dinorhax belongs to East 

 Asia. These creatures are short -legged 

 and sluggish. 



(ii.) The Solpuginae contain two genera 

 — Soljmga with about fifiy species, and 

 Zeriana with three. They are all inhabit- 

 ants of Africa, and some occur on the 

 African shore of the Mediterranean. 



(iii.) The Daesiinae mmiber about 

 forty species, divided among several genera, 

 among which the principal are Baesia, 

 Ghivia, and Gnosip2}'i's. They are found 

 in tropical regions of both the Old and 

 the New World. 



(iv.) The Eremobatinae are North 

 American forms, the single genus Eremo- 

 hates numbering about twenty species. The flagelluni is here 

 entirely absent. 



(v.) The Karshiinae include the five genera 

 Ceroma, Gylipyus, Barms, Etisimonia, and Karshia. 

 They are universally distrilnited. 



Fam. 3. Hexisopodidae. — This family is 

 formed for the reception of a single aberrant 

 African genus, Hexisopus, of which five species 

 have been described. 



There are no claws on the tarsus of the fourth leg, whicli is 

 beset with short spine -like hairs, and in other respects the 

 genus is peculiar. 



Fig. 220. — Chelicerae and 

 flagella of A, BJiagodes ; 

 B, Soljniga ; and C, 

 Daesia. (After Krae- 

 pelin.) 



Fig. 221.— Cheli- 

 cera and flagel- 

 liim of Hcxiso- 

 pHs. (After 

 Kraepelin.) 



