A. A. Birula (Petrograd). 



A new species of Paragaleodes (Solifugae) from 



Kurdistan. 



(With 1 figure). 

 [Zoological Museum, Academy of Sciences of Petrograd] . 



А. А. Бируля (Петроградъ). 



Новый видъ Paragaleodes (Solifugae) изъ Курдистана. 

 (Съ^ рисункомъ). 

 [Зоологически Музей Петроградской Академш Наукъ 



Mr. Р. V. Neste го V, to whom we owe many the interesting 

 investigations and a valuable zoological materials, collected during the in. 

 ternational Turco-Persian Frontier Expedition in the western Persia, ge- 

 nerously presented to the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sc ien- 

 ces of Petrograd a series of specimens of the Solifugae from Mesopo- 

 tamia, Kurdistan and West-Persia. The collection of these Arachnids 

 contains a probably new species of Paragaleodes: 



Paragaleodes nesterovi, sp. n. 



cf. Colour. — The ground tint mostly fox-reddish, without any 

 fuscous pigmentation or tinge on the mandibles, head-plate, palps and 

 all the legs above; only one specimen from Shenié brownish-yellow 

 and another from Chané with dully brown upperside of mandibles and 

 of head-plate; palps and legs of all specimens uniformly coloured and 

 not pigmented. From the head-plate over the free thoracic segments up 

 to the end of abdomen above extends a wide median dorsal band, enti- 

 rely black and very distinct on the grayish clothed surface of abdomen 

 The body throughout (except abdomen) and almost all extremities co- 

 vered with short and as well as very long, mostly brown, sometimes 

 golden-yellow, hairs and bristles; but femur of the palp, femur, tibia 

 and metatarsus of the fourth pair of legs, and tibia of first pair of legs 

 below, with a very thick clothing of short fine lemon-yellow hairs; 

 all the spines and spine-shaped bristles brownish-yellow or golden- 

 pellow, not blackish at apex. 



Revue Russe d'Entom. XVI. 1916. № 1—2. 



