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into contact, fought desperately, the one ultimately devouring the 
other. It was noteworthy that the one which was first fairly seized 
immediately resigned itself to its fate without astruggle. As is the 
ease with some spiders, the female is said occasionally to kill and 
devour the male. A Mashonaland species, Solpuga sericea, feeds 
on termites,’ while a South Californian Galeodes kills bees,” enter- 
ing the hives in search of them. They are fairly good climbers. 
In Egypt Galeodes arabs climbs on to tables to catch flies, and 
some species have been observed to climb trees. 
That their pedipalps, in addition to their sensory function 
(see p. 426), possess a sucking apparatus, is clear from an observa- 
tion of Lonnberg,? who 
kept specimens of 
Galeodes araneoides im- 
prisoned in rectangular 
glass boxes, up the per- 
pendicular sides of which 
they were able to climb 
for some distance by their 
palps, but, being able to 
obtain no hold by their 
legs, they soon tired. Sy’ 
External Anatomy. ~ i 
—The body of Galeodes 
consists of a  cephalo- 
thorax and an abdomen, 
both portions being dis- 
tinctly segmented. The 
cephalothorax consists of 
six segments, the first 
thoracic segment being Fig. 217.—Rhagodes sp., ventral view. Nat. size. 
fused with the two a, Anus ; ch, chelicerae; g.o, genital operculum ; 
: n, racket organs; p, pedipalp ; 1, 2, 3, 4, ambu- 
cephalic segments to latory legs. (After Bernard.) 
form a sort of —head, 
while the last three thoracic segments are free, and there is 
almost as much freedom of movement between the last two 
thoracic segments as between the thorax and the abdomen. The 
“cephalic lobes,” which give the appearance of a head, have been 
ch. 
1 Pocock, Nature, lvii., 1897, p. 618. 2 Cook, Nature, lviii., 1898, p. 247. 
® Ofv. Ak. Forh. \vi., 1899, p. 977. 
