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plate and nearly nine times as long as wide ; the protarsus longer than 

 the width of the head by about one-third of its length. Legs also 

 longer than in G. orientalis, the protarsus of the fourth greater than 

 the width of the head. 



The spiniform hairs on the fifth abdominal sternite are long, nearly 

 as long as the plate that bears them, nearly straight, slender, subcylin- 

 drical, but very gradually incrassate for two-thirds of their distance, 

 then becoming gradually narrowed to the apex. Spiniform hairs 

 on the fourth tarsi like those of G. orientals, pointed apically. 



The malleoli very long, the head of the fifth much longer than half 

 the width of the carapace, slender, with a long internal process. 



Measurement in millimetres. — Total length of trunk 44 ; width 

 of head 11, length 9, width of ocular tubercle 2, length of mandible 

 15, of palp 65, its tibia 22, width of tibia 2*5, length of protarsus 

 and tarsus 18*5, length of fourth leg 76, its tibia 17, protarsus 13*5. 



Locality, Bikanir in Rajputana (Mrs. Talbot). 



In its large size, long legs and palpi, this species approaches 

 G. arabs. In the latter, however, the distal half of the protarsus and 

 the whole of the tarsus of the palp are pale, the ocular tubercle is 

 larger, the spiniform hairs on the fourth tarsi have blunt apices, the 

 inner process of the malleoli is shorter, and the spines on the legs are 

 stouter. 



(4) Galeodes arabs, C. Koch. 



G. arabs , C. Koch, Die Arachn., xv, p. 85 (1848). 



G. lucasii, L. Dufour, Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersburg, xvii, p. 385, 

 PI. II, Fig. 5 (1862). 



G. araneoides, Olivier and Savigny (not of Pallas) arabs, araneoides 

 and Grcecus (?), Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc, 1873, p. 418. 



G. araneoides and grcecus, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1879, 

 pp. 99-100 (at least in part). 



This species has an extensive range, spreading from South Algeria 

 (Dufour's lucasii) through Egypt into Arabia and Asia Minor. The 

 British Museum has a large number of examples ranging from 

 Smyrna to Afghanistan and from Egypt and Somaliland to Muscat, 

 and lastly there is a bottle ticketed Nepal, Hardwicke coll., which 

 contains half a dozen examples. 



