Solifuge an the British Museum. 79 
head measuring 9°5 millim. in width, the mandible 13:5 long, 
and the whole trunk (with distended abdomen) 45 millim., 
the palp 51°5, and the fourth leg 65. The next largest male 
example from S. of Smyrna has the head measuring 9 millim. 
and the palp 50, mandible 13, flagellum 4, distal malleolus 45. 
A male of Galeodes arabs which has the cephalic plate 
8 millim. wide, and is thus rather smaller than the above- 
mentioned example from the 8. of Smyrna, gives the 
following measurements :—Length of mandible 11°35, of 
flagellum 3°5, of palp 53°5, of last leg 66°5, of external 
malleolus 6. This specimen well illustrates the most notable 
distinctive features of the males of the two species, the palpi 
and legs being considerably longer in arabs and the malleolus 
much longer as compared with the flagellum. 
Y ; 
Galeodes cyrus, sp. n. 
$-—Colour. Anterior third of cephalic plate fuscous, 
tubercle black; rest of the cephalothorax pale; mandibles 
furnished above with three longitudinal greenish-fuscous 
stripes, which coalesce before the base of the upper jaw into a 
continuous dark patch, extending externally to the base of 
the movable digit; palpi with the three distal segments 
completely blackish brown throughout, the rest of the ap- 
pendage and the legs clear yellow, with perhaps a suspicion 
of infuscation on the upperside of the femora; abdomen a 
uniform dirty brown throughout (perhaps due to the colour 
of the food-contents). 
Cephalic region high, sloped upwards at about an angle of 
45°; the ocular tubercle very high and wide, the distance 
between the eyes about equalling a diameter, the frontal pro- 
cess low and rounded. 
Mandibles of average size for a male, flagellum normal; 
the lower digit armed with three teeth, the proximal the 
largest, the distal the next, the median close to the base of 
the distal; the upper digit armed with an external row of 8 
smallish teeth, which vary a little in size, but are all very 
distinctly defined. 
Palpt very long and slender ; the femur considerably longer 
than the tibia and twice and a half times the length of the 
width of the carapace, armed anteriorly and interiorly on its 
distal half with long, irregularly arranged, spiniform hairs ; 
tubia a little more than twice the width of the carapace, 
slender, cylindrical, furnished below with an external series 
of four spiniform hairs and an internal row of five; between 
the two rows there are other scattered and smaller spiniform 
