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Anyhow, it seems to me to be perfectly certain that the 
stout spines on the palpi of adults result from the fracture of 
hairs which in the young are long and filiform. 
In this paper I have ventured to establish several new 
species, basing them largely upon differences in colour and 
relative length of appendages and their segments. 
Galeodes barbarus, Lucas. 
Galeodes barbarus, Lucas, Expl. Sci. Alg., Arachn. p. 270, pl. xviii. 
fig. 7. 
The British Museum has a single male example of this 
species. 
It may be recognized from the other males known to me 
by the presence of the shovel- or spoon-shaped spines on the 
lower surface of the tarsi of the fourth leg and by the thick, 
flattened, and pointed spines on the lower surface of the fifth 
abdominal sternite. ’ 
In his monograph of the species of this group Mons. Simon, 
as he has already pointed out, identified as the male of 
barbarus the male of another species, which appears to differ 
from that of barbarus in possessing long bacilliform spines on 
the fifth abdominal sternite and in having the tarsus of the 
fourth leg clothed with normal sete. This latter species 
Mons. Simon described as @. occidentalis (Expl. Sci. Tunisie, 
Arachn. p. 44), but in his comparative diagnosis of this and 
the male of barbarus he has fallen into the curious and 
puzzling error of ascribing the abdominal spines of barbarus 
to occidentalis, and vice versé. This, at least, is the only 
explanation which reconciles his first statement about the 
male of occidentalis, when he described it as barbarus, with 
his subsequent one, when he recognized its specific distinctness. 
Moreover, the male of barbarus that I have seen agrees with 
Simon’s last diagnosis of this species, if we make the necessary 
alteration with regard to the nature of the abdominal spines. 
Galeodes intrepidus (Sav. & Aud.). 
Solpuga intrepida, Savigny and Audouin, Aran. d’Egypte, p. 178, fig. 8 
(1827) ; C. Koch, Die Arachn. xy. p. 89, fig. 1479. 
Galeodes scalaris, C. Koch, tom. cit. p. 87. 
Galeodes leucopheus, id. ibid. p. 88. 
Galeodes Saviyny?, Simon, Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. 1879, p. 105. 
It seems to me to be in the highest degree probable that 
G. intrepidus of Savigny is referable to the same species as 
scalaris of C. Koch. So far as can be judged from Savigny’s 
figures, his ¢ntrepidus differs from his araneotides (=arabs) in 
