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and 3rd legs with posterior basal spine ; tarsus of 4th clothed 

 beneath with short distally expanded clavate bristles *. AViclth 

 of blade of external malleolus equal to halt' the width of the 

 head. 



Measurements in mm. : 



Total Width Length Length of Length of Length of tibia 



length, of head, of palpus. 4th leg. patella of palp, and tarsus of palp. 



$.30 6 33 44 11 11 



d. 22 6 46 59 15 14 



Loc. Northern Baluchistan (Maynard $ MacMahon). 



Family SOLPUGIDJS. 



Apertures of the abdominal respiratory organs not protected by 

 a pair of serrulce. Tarsus of palp not narrowed at its base, 

 immovably united to tibia, from which it is separated by a sutural 

 line. Basal portion of daws smooth, hairless. Anal segment large 

 or small. 



Distribution. As stated above under Order Solifugae. 



Subfamily 

 Kraepelin, Jb. Hamb. wiss. Anst. xvi, p. 221, 1899. 



Anal segment small, roundish, almost completely divided into 

 a right and left half by the anal aperture, which extends nearly to 

 its upper edge. Anterior border of head not transverse, lightly 

 produced. Mandible with stridulating-ridges highly developed. 

 Flagellum membranous, with incurved edge or edges, longish,. 

 subovate, rounded at one extremity, pointed at the other, movably 

 articulated to the inner side of the upper jaw by a single point of 

 attachment somewhat resembling a pin-head. Tarsus of 1st leg 

 without claw, of remaining legs spined beneath. Tibice of 2nd 

 and 3rd legs spined above. 



Distribution. Mediterranean, Ethiopian, and Western Oriental 

 Eegions ; America from Texas to the Argentine Eepublic. 



One Indian genus. 



* Apical tarsal segment considerably longer than the second, spine-armature 

 also very abnormal ; the basal segment armed with 5 spines behind and 10 

 spines in front, 4 being situated close together, 2 above and 2 below at the 

 base, and 6 in a row ; second segment with a pair of spines, apical segment with 

 a single posterior spine. The 4th leg is present only on one side of the bodjv 

 so it is not possible to judge of the constancy of this peculiar spine-armature 

 nor of the value of the unusual inequality in length between the second and 

 third tarsal segments. 



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