THE 
POISONOUS SOLPUGA. 
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Generic Character. 
Mandibles very large, stretched forwards, for- 
cipated at the tips. 
Lower lip stretched forwards, subulate. 
Feelers elongated, connected at their base with 
the fore-legs. 
Specific Character, & 5 V . 
Brown, downy SOLPUGA, with ovate abdo¬ 
men. 
Galeode araneoide. 
Olivier Nouveau Diet. D'Histoire Naturelle. 
Sonnini Toy. en Grece. 2. p. 115. 
The genus Solpuga, much allied to those of Pha- 
Jangium and Aranea, contains several species, of 
which that represented in its natural size on the 
plate may perhaps be considered as the principal. It 
is a native of the warmer parts of the South of 
Europe, arid of Africa, inhabiting fields, and by its 
bite producing most painful swellings on the skin, 
and 
