Species of Tropical African Sulifu^'aj. 2ol 



Family Hexisopodidae. 



This family contains the sin<^le genus Ilexi.topus, rcprs- 

 senfed hy two species confined, so far as is at present known, 

 to Suutli Africa. Tlie generic synonymy is as follows: — 



Aefhpu.«, C. Koch, Arcli. Xatiirfr. 18 J2, pt. i. p. 354 ; id. Uebersicht des 



Arach.-svst. pi. v. p. 1)7 (l.s.JO) (noin. pncucc). 

 Ilexisopus, Karsch, lierl. eut. Zeitschr. xi. p. 109 (1879). 



The two described sj)ecies are : — 



(1) Ilexisopus lanatus^ C Koch, Arch. Naturg. 1842, pt. i. 



p. ;^54; id. Die Arachniden, xv. p. 102, iig. 14^U (sub 

 AeUopus). 

 Log. Cape of Good Hope. 



(2) Ilcxisopitsfodtens, Simon, Ann. Soc. Eat. France, 1887, 

 j). o7-i, pi. vi. figs. () it 7. 



Loc. Kalahari Desert. 



Tlie Briti^^h Museum has no representative of this inter- 

 esting Arachnid. 



Family Galeodidae (sensu stricto). 



Genus Galeodes, Olivier. 



Galeodes, Oliv. Encycl. Method, vi. p. 579 (1791). 

 Bhax, Hernjaiin, M^m. Ins. Aptt5rol. pp. 1^ & 15 (1804), 



Type araneoides, Pallas. 



Olivier established the genus Galeodes for the reception of 

 two species, namely Phcdangium aranoides of Pallas and the 

 South-African species which he himself described as setigera. 

 C. Koch (Arch. Nat. 1842, pt. i. p. .850 &c.) first dismembered 

 the genus and applied the term Galeodes to the araneuidea 

 section, thus selecting the latter as its type. 



Rhax of Hermann is stated by its founder to be synonymous 

 ■with Galeodes of Olivier. Consequently C. Koch had not 

 the power to apply the name to species not included by 

 Olivier under Galeodes. 



The genus Galeodes nearly resembles Rhagodes (of. infra) 

 in distribution, being essentially a Palaarctic form, but 

 extending into Somaliland, where it is represented by the 

 Arabian and Egyptian species G. arabs, C. Koch. 



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