204 ARACHNIDES, TKACHEARLE. 



ed with whitish. Found beneath the bark of the willow and other 

 trees in England Sup. Encyc. Brit. i. pi. 23. 



Gen. 7. GALEODES, Oliv. 



Body oblong ; mandibles very large, nearly conical, and point- 

 ed, each with two claws or scaly teeth ; palpi very large, fili- 

 form, of ten joints ; eyes two ; anterior segment of the body 

 with the feet smaller than the palpi ; abdomen oblong, more 

 or less pubescent ; feet with long hairs. 



G. araneoides, Oliv. (Phalangium, Pall.) Body pale reddish, with 

 the extremity of the claws brown, rough with hairs, particularly 

 on the palpi j tubercle of the eyes blackish. 1^ inch long. In- 

 habits Russia and the Levant. Nouv. Diet. xii. 373. 



FAMILY III. PHALANGITA. 

 Palpi slender, filiform, and terminated by a small hook. 



Gen. 8. PHALANGIUM, Lin. Lat. 



Head, trunk, and abdomen united under a common epidermis, 

 the folds on the abdomen having the appearance of rings ; 

 mandibles articulated, geriiculate, projecting, and terminat- 

 ing in forceps ; two filiform pedipalpi of five joints, the last 

 terminated by a small hook ; eight feet ; labium sternal, with 

 a hole on each side ; two eyes on a common tubercle ; body 

 ovoid or rounded. 



P. cornutum, Lin. (the male ; 0. opilio, the female.) Body above 

 reddish gray, a little deeper in the middle ; mandibles, antennae, 

 and under part of the body whitish, and the feet grayish ; man- 

 dibles raised and pointed ; upper part of the body in the female 

 grayish brown, with obscure lines and some whitish spots. In- 

 habits Europe, in fields, walls, &c. B. Shaw, vi. pi. 127^ 



P. quadridentatum, Cuv. Body rounded, very flat, grayish cine- 

 reous, sometimes yellowish below ; a conical point on the middle 

 of the anterior margin of the thorax, two rows of tubercles on the 

 abdomen, and four points, of which the lateral ones are smallest ; 

 thighs spinous. France, under stones. Nouv. Diet. xi. 83. 



Gen. 9- TROGULUS, Lat. 



Body oval, depressed ; head not distinct from the thorax ; no 

 antennae ; mandibles terminated by forceps ; abdomen with- 

 out apparent divisions ; eight elongate filiform feet, the se- 

 cond pair longest ; palpi simple, filiform. 



T. nepceformis, Lat. Obscure cinereous or earth-coloured ; middle 

 of the abdomen with a longitudinal carina above. Inhabits France 

 and Germany, under stones. Lat. Gen. i. pi. 6, fig. 1. 



Gen. 10. SIRO, Lat. 



Two jointed mandibles, cylindrical, compressed, and with for- 

 ceps ; palpi two, five-jointed, the joints elongate ; body oval ; 



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