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Madras differ from the $ from Gwalior, in having the modified hairs 

 upon the fourth tarsi pale in colour, more numerous, longer and sharper 

 apically. But since it seems to me to he not improbable that these 

 hairs become blunted with use and darker with age, I do not feel 

 justified in regarding the character as one of specific or varietal 

 importance. 



(2) Galeodes orientalis, Stol. 



Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xxxviii, p. 209, 1869, not 

 G. orientalis^ Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, x, pp. 1-2 (1885), xl. 



£. Much darker in colour than G. fatalis, the head largely infus- 

 cate and the mandibles very generally infuscate above ; in the palpi 

 the protarsas is deeply infuscate, as also is the tibia, but the distal end 

 of this segment is paler, the femur also is lightly infuscate at its distal 

 end ; in the legs the distal end of the femur and the tibia are infuscate, 

 the legs of the fourth pair more deeply so than the others, the upper 

 side of the abdomen has a much more clearly defined median dorsal 

 band. Mandibles stouter than in fatalis, and the stem of the flagellum 

 is about as long as the expanded distal portion; the teeth on the 

 upper blade of the jaw as in Jatalis, but on the lower there are only 

 two small teeth between the two large ones. 



Palpi much shorter and stouter than in fatalis ; e.g.) the length of 

 the tibia is considerably less than twice the width of the head, instead 

 of exceeding it as in fatalis ; moreover, the length of this segment as 

 compared with its thickness is about 7 to 1 ; whereas in G. fatalis it 

 is about 11 to 1. 



Legs correspondingly shorter, e.g.^ the protarsus of the fourth only 

 slightly exceeds the width of the head. 



The malleoli on the coxse long as in the $ of fatalis, but 

 the distal portion differently shaped; for instance, in the outer 

 malleolus^ the blade is wider as compared with its length, has the edge 

 slightly more convex, the internal process longer as compared with 

 the external, and its border sinuate instead of straight. 



The thickened spines on the fifth sternite of the abdomen vary 

 greatly in form, being either long, slender, and cylindrical as in fatalis, 

 or quite short, stout and clavate ; in fact, in each of the four specimens 

 examined by me these hairs are differently constituted ; these organs 



