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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 araneo’ides 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 have 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 
