1869.] Indian Arachnoidea. 209 



smooth and brownish, the abdomen elongated oval, the feet short and 

 pale reddish, the tarsi brown, and the falces strongly denticulated, 

 blackish. With neither of the species can the one here described 

 from Western Bengal be identified, but a fourth species, apparently, 

 from Central and Northern India, was named by Capt. Hutton, Gal. 

 (vorax ?) (see Journal Asiatic Society Beng., vol. xi, pt. II, 1842, 

 p. 857). Capt. Hutton gives there a very full and interesting account of 

 the habits and manners of a large species of Galeodes. It is said to 

 occur in Northern India, the Punjab and Afghanistan. The usual size 

 is 2£ — 2f inch., and the abdomen is equal to a thrush's egg. Capt. 

 Hutton's description is in other respects so general, that it would be 

 impossible to identify any species with it ; I can only say that neither 

 the form nor the size of the body of the new species, here described, 

 appear to coincide with the account given of G. (vorax ?) , while the 

 common Indian species, Gal. fatalis, is often said to reach the same 

 size as the last, and I rather think it doubtful if they are distinct 

 species. 



The Galeodes appear to be common all over India, but especially 

 in the South. Mr. H. F. Blanford tells me that he observed them 

 in large numbers and of great size in the Trichinopoly and Arcot 

 districts. It would be especially interesting to observe these, and 

 also those occurring in Western India, and to compare them with the 

 Persian, Arabian, and Egyptain species, from which countries many 

 are known. 



Galeodes orientalis, Stol. PL XVIII, Figs. 4—5. 



£ . General colour above yellowish brown ; the terminations of the 

 falces dark brown ; eyes black ; abdomen blackish grey, pale at the 

 sides ; feet yellowish, brown in the middle; the last ante-terminal 

 segments of the palpi brown ; below, uniform whitish or yellowish. 



The cephalothorax is sub-quadrangular, broader in front than 

 behind, the anterior part is considerably higher than the posterior, 

 sloping in front towards a sharpened, dark brown edge, deeply indented 

 just before the projecting corners ; along the whole of the posterior (and 

 partially lateral) edge there is a very deep groove present ; the surface 

 is finely granular, and like the median segments covered with longish 

 hairs, those of the abdomen being, however, much more numerous and 



27 



