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B 2 . Male smaller ; palp and legs shorter ; 

 tibia of palp not long as twice the 

 width of the head-plate ; tarsus of 

 palp pale orientalis (StoL). 



(1) Galeodes fatalis (Licht. and Herbst). 

 (PI. A. fig. 2-2a and PL B. fig. 1-la.). 



Solpuga fatalis, Licht. and Herbst ; Nat. ungefiugelt. Insekten, 

 Pt. 1, p. 32, PL 1. 1, fig. 1, $ (1797). 



Galeodes vorax, Hutton, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xi, Pt. 2, p. 857 

 (1842). 



Galeodes bengalensis, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 419. 



Galeodes orientalise Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Pr., x, p. 1 (not of 

 Stoliczka). 



Colour of head, mandibles, and appendages mostly pale yellow, 

 the head generally lightly infuscate and the mandibles sometimes 

 ornamented above with two faint greyish- black stripes ; patella and 

 tibia of the palpi and legs also sometimes lightly infuscate ; ocular 

 tubercle and mandibular fangs black, abdomen greyish- black above, 

 deeper in the middle on the tergal plates. 



Adult 9 . Cephalic plate (head) very wide, its width slightly exceeding 

 the length of the tibia of the palpus ; ocular tubercle polished, distance 

 between the eyes greater than the diameter of an eye, the membranous 

 prominence below the eyes smooth and rounded. 



Mandibles very powerful; dentition like that of the rest of the 

 genus, but with two small teeth between the two large fangs on the 

 movable or lower jaw. 



Palpi shortish, the tibia slightly shorter than the following two 

 segments, protarsus and tarsus, taken together ; the former armed with 

 a few long spines at its distal end on the inner side ; the tibia armed 

 below with two series of longish slender spines, the protarsus with six 

 pairs of short, sharp spines, the latter segment narrower towards its 

 distal end. 



Legs shortish, normally spined tarsi of the second and third 

 armed with seven spines, 3 in pairs at the distal end, the other 

 on the anterior aspect of the proximal end of the first segment, 

 the distal tarsal segment of the fourth leg armed with a single 

 posterior spine. 



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