982 LÖNNBERG, ON GALEODES AND BUTHUS. 



lot of loose material which was in its way, while digging, it some 

 tiraes enibraced a whole load with its two anterior pairs of legs 

 and pushed it to the side with the help of the whole body. It 

 never uses the palps for work, only as sensory organs. When 

 the jaws have been used for digging they are cleaned by alter- 

 nating raovements against each other. They are also used for 

 biting through pieces of paper and other obstacles. When my 

 Galeodes at last found a suitable corner it crawled in and remains 

 there probably waiting for next spring. 



Galeodes araneoides is abie to ascend a little on a vertical 

 pane of glass having the faculty of adhering to the glass with 

 the tips of the palps. But as the tips of the legs cannot stick 

 to the glass the aniraal soon becomes tired and falls down again 

 after having lifted itself a few centimeters above the ground. 

 The adhering faculty of the palps is due to a soft cushion at 

 the tip which is connected with two bunches of retractors. 



The scorpion Buthus eupeus is very plentiful in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Baku where I foand it under stones and similar 

 objects whenever I made any excursions. In the same localities 

 spiders, black beetles of different species and Helix hispida(?) 

 were to be found the latter still in the end of May in a resting 

 State and with the shell-opening shut by a diaphragma, 



I had several times many living specimens of JB uthus eupeus 

 in the same glass, but only in one instance had one specimen 

 killed another and begun to eat it. The victorious specimen 

 had then apparently killed its adversary with its jaiüs and not 

 with its sting and it had also begun to eat it from the anterior end. 



The chitinous integument seems to be too härd to be pene- 

 trated by the sting, and when many scorpions were kept in the 

 same narrow glass and were irritated they swung their tails in 

 a raost vicious manner, but I newer saw the sting of one scorpion 

 hurt another. From this it also becomes evident that the stories 

 told about the suicide of scorpions are founded on a mistake. 

 At Baku it was told and commonly believed, as at so many 

 other places, that »if a scorpion is surrounded by a ring of 



