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of the same species ; but M. Latreille does not consider this 

 opinion sufficiently authorized, and rather considers the in- 

 dividual taken by Pallas for a female, to be the galeodes of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, represented by Petiver, in conse- 

 quence of the hairs with which the breast, and the base of 

 the feet are furnished. The species which Pallas gives as 

 the male, M. Latreille would rather refer to the second, than 

 to the first species of Olivier. Its palpi, which Pallas calls 

 arms, and its feet, are much shorter than those of the galeodes 

 araneoides, figured by Olivier. The mandibles have been 

 represented in Olivier's figure in a position contrary to that 

 which they naturally have, to render the forms of the forceps 

 more sensible. This species is the Solpuga arachnoides of 

 Herbst. Its body is nearly an inch and a half long. It is of 

 a pale reddish yellow, with the extremity of the claws brown. 

 It is bristling with hair, particularly on the palpi. The 

 tubercle supporting the eye is blackish. 



It is found in southern Russia and in the Levant. 



Some passages of Pliny would lead us to conclude that the 

 galeodes were known in his time. But the species which he 

 might have observed, must have been the araneoides which 

 is found in the Levant, and not a species of Bengal, as the 

 citation made by Herbst would indicate. 



The galeodes setifera, Oliv., is a little smaller than the pre- 

 ceding, of a brown red colour, and hairy. The abdomen has 

 a lateral white stripe. The mandibles hare each, at their 

 upper part, an appendage in the form of a seta, and recurved. 

 But it may be questioned whether this is a specific character. 

 This species is from the Cape of Good Hope. 



The Galeodes dorsalis, which MM. Dufour and Dejean 

 found in Spain, is little more than half an inch long. Its 

 body is whitish, and a little red underneath, of an ashen black 

 above, with the forceps of the mandibles of a ferruginous 

 colour, and the feet a very pale fulvous ; the top of the palpi 



