ARACHNOIDEA. 585 
Galeodes Outy., Latr. (Solpuga Licutenst., Fasr.). Mandi- 
bles ventricose, large, porrect, with chele vertical, the lower finger 
moveable. Palps with apex rounded, clawless, longer than the 
first pair of feet. First pair of feet unarmed, remaining feet 
armed with two claws at the apex. Ocelli two, placed in a 
common tubercle at the middle of the thoracic shield, near the 
anterior margin. Body villose; legs and palps covered with long 
scattered hairs. Posterior coxe furnished at the inferior margin 
with a row of appendages membranous, triangular, petiolate. 
Sp. Galeodes araneoides, Phalangium araneoides Patt. Spicil. 1x, Tab. m1. 
figs. 7, 8, 9, Dumiérin Cons. gén. s. 1. Ins. Pl. 55, fig. 3, Southern Russia, 
Greece, &c., and many other species, especially from Africa. See Koc 
in Ertcuson’s Arch. f. Natwrgesch. vit. 1842, s. 350—356. Most of the 
species are from the old world; there are, however, American species also 
enumerated by Kocu, to which may be added Galeodes limbata and G. 
Cube, Lucas in Guéirin Mag. de Zool. 1834, Arachn. Pl. 5, 1835, Arachn. 
Pl. 11. These animals appear to reside in warm sandy regions, and to come 
from their lurking-places by night especially. On the dorsal surface of the 
upper-jaws some have a leaf-like appendage, which, according to GERVAIS, 
is a character of the male. 
According to J. MuELLER, besides the two larger eyes, there are in an 
Egyptian species two smaller eyes on pedicles, and two lateral eyes (Vergl. 
Physiol. des Gesichtsinnes, s. 322); in the specimens investigated by me I 
could not perceive these eyes. 
The bite of Galeodes is considered to be very venomous and dangerous; 
OuivieR, who met with many of these animals in Persia and Arabia, was 
not himself bitten, nor was any one of his companions, by them, and was 
not able to discover any sure proof of the reality of the danger. Voyage 
dans Empire othoman, Paris, Tom. Vt. 1807, p. 306. (Comp. also the 
figures there, Pl. 42, figs. 3—6, and in Sonnintr Voyage en Gréce, Paris, 
1801, Pl. 3; the latter traveller found his specimen on the island of Cyprus. 
See I. pp. 115—124.) 
Sub-genera: Solpuga, Galeodes, Aellopus Koon (with jointed tarsi), Rhax, 
Gluvia ejusd. (with tarsi not jointed). 
B. Respiratory organs either lungs or trachee, together with 
lungs. Cephalothorax distinct from abdomen. 
Orver VII. Pedipalpi. 
Palps large, resembling feet, chelate at the apex. Abdomen 
divided by segments. Pulmonary sacs without trachee ; eight or 
four stigmata. 
Family XII. Phrynides. Abdomen separated from thorax by 
a slight constriction. Stigmata two on each side at the base of 
