138 GALEODID^E. 



Colour mostly pale yellow, head with black tubercle, and lightly 

 infuscate at the sides ; dorsal plates of abdomen lightly infuscate. 

 Head wide, in adult wider than length of tibia, nearly or quite 

 equal to patella of palp ; exceeding tibia and nearly or quite equal 

 to patella of 4th leg. Mandible with the 3rd and 5th teeth of 

 the upper jaw large, there being normally only one minor tooth 

 behind the third ; lower fang with two minor teeth. Palpi short; 

 patella armed externally beneath with from 3 to 4 short spines, 

 which are shorter than the diameter of the segment, and internally 

 with corresponding longer and thinner spines; stout bristles ar- 

 ranged at regular intervals and symmetrically on the two sides ; 

 tibia armed below with six pairs of short stout spines, the apical 

 the longest, the basal the shortest, all of them shorter than the 

 diameter of the segment. Legs with tarsi of 2nd and 3rd armed 

 with 7 spines, there being no posterior basal spine; tarsus of 4th 

 with 5 pairs of spines. Malleoli small ; blade of external a little 

 exceeding width of ocular tubercle. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 46, width of head 13-5, of 

 palp 41-5, 1st leg 29, 4th leg 54. 



Distribution. Central and North India (Hultori); Bengal; Gwa- 

 lior (Maries) ; Karaghora in Kathiawar (Bulkley). 



112. Galeodes orientalis, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxviii, p. 209, t. xviii r 

 figs. 4-5, 1869 ; Pocock, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. ix, p. 444, 1895 

 (nee G. orientalis, Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. x, pp. 1-2, 1885). 



$ . Structurally resembling G. fatalis, but smaller and darker, 

 the ground-tint being reddish yellow, not sandy yellow ; mandibles 

 ornamented with thin palely fuscous lines ; patella of palp infuscate, 



Fig. 48. Galeodes orientalis. 



A. Extremity of palpus. 



B. Upper jaw and flagellum (a) of c? 



C. Tipper and lower jaw of $ : b, minor tooth of upper jaw ; c, minor teeth 



of lower jaw. 



pale at the extremities ; tibia more strongly infuscate than patella, 

 the base pale ; tarsus paler than tibia ; tibia and tarsi of legs clear 



