SPECIES OF GALEODIDM IN INDIA AND CEYLON. 447 



It is solely upon the evidence supplied by this label that I include 

 G. arabs in the Indian fauna. At the same time I may add that 

 I do not at present believe in the accuracy of the locality. Since, 

 however, it may be found that the species does actually extend over 

 the borderland of the Punjab, I subjoin the following brief notes of 

 its chief characters. 



The colour is whitish- or reddish-yellow, variegated with fuscous. 

 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 fuscous, except its two ends which are flavous, and the 

 protarsus is furnished with a wide fuscous band in the proximal half of 

 its length, the proximal extremity and distal half, as well as the tarsus 

 being pale yellow ; the femora of the legs are very generally infuscate, 

 and the dorsal plates of the abdomen and the free thoracic segments 

 are also generaly infuscate, so that there is a median series of fuscous 

 patches — not a continuous fuscous band — along the middle line of the 

 back. 



The ocular tubercle is large. In the adult 9 the cephalic plate 

 either excels in width or is about equal to the protarsus of the palp 

 or of the fourth leg; in the adult $ the cephalic plate is less in width 

 than half the length of the tibia of the palpi. In the mandibles the 

 lower jaw is furnished with either one or two minor teeth between the 

 two major teeth, the posterior of the minor teeth being always small, 

 and in mature females absent. 



In adult males the terminal part of the flagellum is about as long as 

 the basal portion, the modified hairs on the posterior tarsi are narrower 

 at the base and at the apex than in the middle ; but the apex may be 

 rather sharp or somewhat bluntly rounded, the acuteness apparently 

 depending upon the amount of wear to which the organs are subjected; 

 the modified hairs of the abdomen vary greatly in shape and length in 

 the same individual. The distal tarsal segment of the fourth leg is 

 generally without spines. The malleoli are usually long, especially in 

 the male. 



Genus Rhax. 

 Key to the identification of the Indian species. 



A. Legs yellow, not adorned with black bands or spots ; tarsi of 

 palp and of first pair of legs ferruginous ; without a complete 

 median dorsal white band on the abdomen. 



