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GALEODES ARANEOIDES. 



Venomous Galcoides. 

 Pl. XXVI. fig. 1. 



Order Tracheari^e. Family Pseudoscorpiones. Lair. 



Gen. Char. Body oblong ; mandibles very large, nearly 

 conical and pointed, each with two claws or scaly 

 teeth ; palpi filiform, of five joints ; eyes four ; abdo- 

 men oblong, pubescent ; feet with long hairs. 



Spec. Char. Body pale yellow, mixed with ash-grey ; 

 extremity of the claws' brown. 



Plialangium araneoides; Pallas, Spic. Zool. fuse. ix. t. 3. Solpug-a araneoides ; 

 Fair. Suppl. Enl.Syst.2V4. Sulpuya aiachnoides; Ilerbsl. Naturg. Solp. 

 1. 1, f. 2. Galeodes araneoides ; Lair. Gen. Crust, el Ins. i. 135. 



Another very noxious animal allied to the scorpion, although 

 destitute of a sting, is the Galeodes araneoides, the bite of which 

 is said to be extremely dangerous, and even mortal. It inhabits 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and occurs also in some parts of Russia 

 and the Levant. It is about an inch and a half long ; the body is 

 oblong, soft, villose, and of a pale yellow colour mixed with ash- 

 grey. The mouth is furnished with two very large nearly conical 

 pointed mandibles ; the palpi are filiform, five-jointed, and thickly 

 beset with elongated hairs resembling spines ; the thorax is covered 

 with a hard scutum of a triangular shape, on which the eyes are 

 placed. The feet are elongate and filiform, beset with long hairs, 

 and armed at their points with horny nails of a brown colour. 



Besides the species already described, there are some others which 

 are represented to be as dangerous as the viper. Thus M. Thiebaut 

 de Berncaud, in his Voyage to Elba, notices a spider (Theridium 

 VS-gultatum) that, in the Volterrao, frequently inflicts a fatal 



