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CLASSIFICATION 



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There are two genera, Galeodes, with about twelve species, and 

 Paragaleodes, with six species, scattered over the 

 hot regions of the Old World. 



Fam. 2. Solpugidae. The Solpugidae com- 



FIG. 219. Chelicera 

 and flagellum of 

 Galeodes. (After 

 Kraepelin. ) 



prise twenty-four genera, distributed under five 



sub-families. The toothed stigmatic plate is 



absent, and the tarsal claws are smooth. The 



ocular eminence is furnished with irregular hairs. 



The " flagellum " is very variable. 



(i.) The BHAGODINAE include the two genera, Rhagodes (Rhax) 



and Dinorhax. The first lias twenty-two species, which in- 

 habit Africa and Asia. The single 

 species of Dinorhax belongs to East 

 Asia. These creatures are short -legged 

 and sluggish. 



(ii.) The SOLPTJGINAE contain two genera 

 Sofyif.f/a with about fifty species, and 

 Zeriana with three. They are all inhabit- 

 ants of Africa, and some occur on the 

 African shore of the Mediterranean. 



(iii.) The DAESIINAE number about 

 forty species, divided among several genera, 

 among which the principal are Daesia, 

 Gluvia, and Gnosippus. They are found 



FIG 220. Chelicerae and j tropieal regions of both the Old and 

 flagella of A, Rhagodes ; 



B, ^,/,,,,,/n , and c, the New World. 



(Atter Kr "'" (iv.) The KKKMOHATIXAE are North 

 American forms, the single genus En'nm- 

 bates numbering about twenty species. The lla^elluni is here 

 enl irely absent . 



(v.) The KAIISHIIXAE include Hie live, genera 

 Ceroma, Gylippus, Barrus, Eusimonia, and Xr*lii. 

 They are universally distributed. 



Fam. 3. Hexisopodidae. - -This family is 

 formed for the reception of a single aberrant 

 African genus, 7/r,/'/'.s<y>/'x, of which live species 

 ha\e been described. 



There are no claws on the tarsus of the fourth leg, which is 

 beset with short spine-like hairs, and in other respects tin- 

 genus is peculiar. 



peliu.) 



FIG. 221.- Cheli 



ecru and llaj^cl 



Illlll (if Iti-.ri.tu 



(Al'tcr 



Kraepelin.) 



