Solifugee in the British Museum. vir 
Galeodes arabs, C. Koch. 
Galeodes araneoides, Oliv. Voy. dans l’Emp. Ottoman, vol. vi. p. 504, 
Atlas, pl. xlii. fig. 3 (1807) ; Sav. & Aud. Deser. Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. 
pt. 4, p. 176, pl. viii. fig. 7 &e. (not araneoides of Pallas). 
Galeodes arabs, C. Koch, Die Arachn. xv. p. 85 (1848). 
Galeodes Lucasii, L. Dufour, Mém. Ac. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, xvii. p. 385, 
pl. ii. fig. 5 (1862). 
Galeodes arabs, araneordes, and ? grecus, Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1875, 
p- 418. 
Galeodes araneotdes and grecus, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1879, 
pp. 99, 100 (at least in part). 
This species is spread from 8. Algeria (Dufour’s Lucasiz), 
through Keypt, where it is evidently abundant, into Arabia. 
It also goes further to the north, spreading into Asia Minor. 
The British Museum has upwards of forty examples from 
the following localities:—Smyrna, Midian, Baghdad, Eu- 
phrates, El Tor (Red Sea), Egypt (various spots), White 
Nile, Somali, Arabia, Aden, and Muscat. 
The colouring is very characteristic. The ground-tint is 
a pale whitish or reddish yellow, but the cephalic plate is 
fuscous on each side, and the mandibles are usually furnished 
above with two stripes of the same colour; the tibia of the 
palpus is mostly fuscous, but its two ends retain their yellow 
tint, and the protarsus is furnished with a fuscous band in its 
proximal half, its proximal extremity, distal half as well as 
the tarsus, remaining yellow; and, lastly, there is usually a 
median dorsal fuscous band, though not a continuous one, 
extending over the free thoracic segments to the end of the 
abdomen, and the femora of the legs are sometimes slightly 
infuscate. 
The spine-armature of the feet is normally as follows :— 
Second and third pair of legs: téb¢a, 1 short superior distal 
spine, 2 inferior distal setiform spines; protarsus, 5 spines 
along posterior edge, 3 below in the distal half (7. e. a distal 
pair and | posterior spine before the pair) ; in the legs of the 
third pair the 5 posterior spines of the protarsus are arranged 
in two alternating rows, an upper of 3 anda lower of 2; 
tarsus, 7 spines, a pair on the second segment, two pairs at 
the distal end of the first segment, and one anterior spine 
near the proximal end of this segment. 
Fourth pair of legs: téb¢a without a superior distal spine ; 
protarsus armed below with 5 spines (1 anterior near its 
middle, 2 at the distal end, and 2 midway between the single 
one and the distal pair) ; tarsus armed below with 8 spines in 
four pairs (three pairs on the proximal segment and one pair 
on the second), the third segment being usually unarmed. 
