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its extremity. It is composed of nine segments, of which 
that of the base, viewed underneath, represents a scaly plate. 
A stigma is perceptible on each side of the breast, near the 
second pair of feet. 
The galeodes are peculiar to the warmer climates, espe- 
cially to those of Southern Europe, of Asia, and Africa. 
MM. Dufour, and Dejean, have discovered one species in 
Spain ; MM. de Humboldt and Bonpland, brought back 
another, but a very small one, from the equatorial countries 
of America. It appears from the travels of Pallas and 
Gmelin, that these arachnid a are not rare in southern Russia, 
along the banks of the Volga and the Borysthenes, and that 
they are distinguished by the Calmucs, under the name of 
byohorcho . 
They are greatly dreaded in all the countries where they 
are found. Not only is the history of these animals but 
little known, but the descriptions of their species are still con- 
siderably defective. 
The Monograph of Herbst, which, like most of his other 
works on entomology, is little more than a mere compilation, 
furnishes us but with little matter in this point of view. Olivier, 
in his travels to Persia, has given us, on the species of the 
same genus which he has found, some useful notices, which 
we shall give in his own words. After having spoken of a 
prodigious number of locusts, by which himself and the 
caravan were infested, and which even came into the tents, 
he thus expresses himself : — 
“ In the evening, these small locusts were succeeded by 
another insect not less troublesome, and more disagreeable to 
behold. It belongs to that genus which I have established in 
the Encyclopedic MetJiodiqne under the name of galeode. 
The Arabs regard it as very venomous, and at first endeavoured 
to prevent us from touching it. When they saw, however, 
that we took sufficient precautions to avoid being bitten, they 
