282 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCLKNCKS. 



French translation of (7). P. 604. Geneial Account ot Phalangium araneoides. P. 738, 

 No. 85. Latin description. 



24. Olivier, Guill.vume Antoixe. Encj'clopi^die Methodique. Histoire 



Naturelle: Insectes. Tome 6. Paris, 1791. [26 x 20 cm.] 



Pp. 1578-580. Establishes the genus Guleoiles upon the Phalangium araneoides of 

 Palla? and Galeodes setifera n. sp. Gives full descriptions of the genera and species. 



25. Fabricius, Johans Christ. Entomologica systematica emendata et 



aucta, [etc.] Tom. II. Hafnise, 1793. [19i^ x 11 cm.] 

 P. 431. Description of Phalangium araneoides. Gives characters which indicate it a 

 true genus. 



26. [Unknown.] Tauride. Nordisclie Beytrage. Tom. V. P. 320. St. 



Petersburg, 1793 ( ? ) 

 Not seen. Quoted by Lichtenstein (28) for localities of Solpuga arachnodes. Possibly 

 by Pallas. 



27. Lichtenstein, . Catalogus musei zoologici ditissimi Hamburgi 



d. Ill Februar, 1796. Auctionis lege distrahende. Lectio tertia. Con- 



tinens insecta. Hamburg, 1796. 

 Not seen. Title from Karsch (213). Pp. 216-218. Establishes the genus Solpuga on 

 three species— /a^o^js, arachnodes, and chelicornis — \v\Vao\ii indicating which was type 

 of the eenus. Fabricius (30) quotes this work, with the date 1797, and the specific descrip- 

 tions on pages 151, 152, and 19.3-197, so there may have been two editions. It is not men- 

 tioned at all by Lichtenstein (28). 



28. Lichtenstein, , und Herbst, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm. 



Xaturgeschichte der Insekten-Gattungen Solpuga and Phalangium. 

 Herbst's Xatur-sj'stem der ungefliigelten Insekten. Erster Heft. Ber- 

 lin, 1797. [29 X 23 cm.] 

 The preface and several notes by Herbst : all the rest relating to Solpuga by Lichten- 

 stein. Pp. 1-22. A painstaking review of all previous authors who have mentioned 

 animals that may be referred to Solpuga, including a large number of Greek and Latin 

 classical writers. Pp. 22-31. Diagnosis: general and detailed descriptions of the genus 

 Solpuga. Pp. 32-.51. Synonymy, diagnoses, general and detailed descriptions of Sol- 

 puga fatalis, S. persica, S. arachnodes, S. chelirornis, S. africana, S. sce.nica, and S- 

 tarda. Of these, persica, africana, srenica, and tarda appear to have been unknown 

 to the author in nature, and the descriptions conii)iled from the accounts of others. 

 Pp. 52-64. Concerning the habits and poisonous bites of Solpuga, almost entirely 

 quoted from Pallas (13), although attributed to Pallas (8). Tab. I, flg. 1, S.fatalis ; fig. 2, 

 S. arachnodes. Tab. II, flg. 1, S. chelirornis; flg. 2, S. africana; the last copied from 

 Petiver (5). 



29. Latreille, Pierre-Andre. Pr^icis des caractiires g^nC-riques des in- 



sectes dans un ordre naturelle. Paris, An 5 [1797.] [19^^ x 12 cm.] 

 P. 188. Description of the genus Galeodes. 



80. Fabricius, Johann Christ. Supplementum entomologiae systematicse. 

 Hafnise, 1798. [19i^ x llj^ cm.] 

 P. 290. Genus Solpuga defined. Pp. 293, 294. Brief descriptions of Solpuga fatalis, 

 S. araneoides, S- chelicornis. Refers to Lichtenstein (27), but not to (28). 



31. Editors of the Encyclopaedia Londinensis. A general and univer- 

 sal system of natural history, comprising the three kingdoms of ani- 

 mals, vegetables, and minerals, arranged under their respective classes. 



