AIIACHNOIDEA. 585 



Galeodes OLIV., LATE. (Solpuga LICHTENST., FABR.). Mandi- 

 bles ventricose, large, porrect, with chelae vertical, the lower finger 

 moveable. Palps with apex rounded, clawless, longer than the 

 first pair of feet. First pair of feet unarmed, remaining feet 

 armed with two claws at the apex. Ocelli two, placed in a 

 common tubercle at the middle of the thoracic shield, near the 

 anterior margin. Body villose ; legs and palps covered with long 

 scattered hairs. Posterior coxaa furnished at the inferior margin 

 with a row of appendages membranous, triangular, petiolate. 



Sp. Galeodes araneoides, Phalangium araneo'ides PALL. Spicil. IX. Tab. in. 

 %s. 7, 8, 9, DUMERIL Cons. gen. s. 1. Ins. PI. 55, fig. 3, Southern Russia, 

 Greece, &c., and many other species, especially from Africa. See KOCH 

 in ERICHSON'S Arch. f. NaturgescJi. vin. 1842, s. 350 356. Most of the 

 species are from the old world ; there are, however, American species also 

 enumerated by KOCH, to which may be added Galeodes limbata and G. 

 Cubce, LUCAS in GUERIN Mag. de Zool. 1834, Arachn. PI. 5, 1835, Arachn. 

 PI. II. These animals appear to reside in warm sandy regions, and to come 

 from their lurking-places by night especially. On the dorsal surface of the 

 upper -jaws some have a leaf-like appendage, which, according to GERVAIS, 

 is a character of the male. 



According to J. MUELLER, besides the two larger eyes, there are in an 

 Egyptian species two smaller eyes on pedicles, and two lateral eyes ( Vergl. 

 Physiol. des Gesichtsinnes, s. 322) ; in the specimens investigated by me I 

 could not perceive these eyes. 



The bite of Galeodes is considered to be very venomous and dangerous ; 

 OLIVIER, who met with many of these animals in Persia and Arabia, was 

 not himself bitten, nor was any one of his companions, by them, and was 

 not able to discover any sure proof of the reality of the danger. Voyage 

 dans V Empire otkoman, Paris, Tom. vi. 1807, p. 306. (Comp. also the 

 figures there, PL 42, figs. 3 6, and in SONNINI Voyage en Grece, Paris, 

 1 80 1, PI. 3 ; the latter traveller found his specimen on the island of Cyprus. 

 See i. pp. 115 124.) 



Sub-genera: Solpuga, Galeodes, Aellopus KOCH (with jointed tarsi), Khax, 

 Gluvia ejusd. (with tarsi not jointed). 



B. Respiratory organs either lungs or trachese, together with 

 |ungs. Cephalothorax distinct from abdomen. 



ORDER VII. Pedipalpi. 



Palps large, resembling feet, chelate at the apex. Abdomen 

 livided by segments. Pulmonary sacs without tracheae ; eight or 

 bur stigmata. 



Family XIII. Phrynides. Abdomen separated from thorax by 

 L slight constriction. Stigmata two on each side at the base of 



