252 Mr. E.. I. Pocock on the Genera and 



Family Solpugidse. 



Subfamily Bhagodinje, nov. 



This group is established for the receprion of the single 

 genus hitherto known as Rhax, for which I propose the new 

 name Rhagodes, the term Rhax having been up till now used 

 by myself and others in a sense inadmissible according to the 

 rules of nomenclature I adopt {vide supra under GaleodeH). 



Like Biton and Galeodes, Rhagodes is also an alien from 

 the Paljearctic Region, being found in abundance all over 

 Persia, Afghanistan, parts of India, and Africa north of the 

 Sahara. On the west of Africa it extends as far south as 

 Gambia and on the east as far as Somaliland, Mombasa, and 

 Masailand. 



Subfamily Solpugij^^, nov. 



The Ethiopian genera may be recognized by the following 

 table : — 



a. Tarsi of second and third legs composed of four seg- 



ments, of fom-tb of seven segments. 



a^. Ocular tubercle with many bristles ; rostrum not 

 defiexed apicallj ; protarsus of palp in J scopulate 

 beneath Solpuga. 



fA. Ocular tubercle with a few symmetrically arranged 

 bristles, the anterior two very long ; rostrum api- 

 cally defiexed ; protarsus and tarsus of palp in cT 

 not scopulate but armed below with many short 

 strong spines Zeriassa, nov. 



b. Tarsi of second and third legs composed of not more 



than two segments, of fourth leg of not more than 



four segments. 

 a^. Fourth tarsus four-jointed, second and third tarsi 



two-jointed Biton, 



P. Fourth tarsus composed of but one or two segments. 



a^. Tarsi of posterior three pairs of legs two-jointed. . Ceroma. 



b^. Tarsi of posterior three pairs of legs one-jointed. . Paracleohis. 



Genus Paeacleobis, Poc. 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvi. p. 95 (1895). 



Type P. dorsah's, Latreille. 



This genus is equivalent to Gluvi'a, C. Koch, as restricted 

 by Simon, who, in 1879, selected striolata as its type. 

 Simon, however, believed that striolata was synonymous with 

 dorsalis of Latreille ; but according to Karsch (Arch. Nat. 

 1880, p. 237) this is an error. Consequently since Gliivia 

 has been affixed definitely to striolata, the genus typified by 



