220 Mr. S. Iliist on Scorpions and SoVifiigm SOLIFUG.

Galeodes arabs, C L. Koch.

Loc. Wady Haifa {Surgeon- Major Penton and Capt. S. S.

Floiocr) ; Oindurman and Kliartoum {Capt. S. S. Floioer).

Mle Museum possesses also examples from the Nabardi Mines (Sudan), from the Wliite Nile, and from a number of places in Egypt. Remarks.—A large male specimen (in spirit) collected by Capt. Flower at Wady Haifa differs from all others of this species, which I have seen, in haviiiCT the spinal armature of the tarsi of both the legs of the third pair | 2 + 2 + 2 | 2 | instead of | 1 + 2 + 2 | 2 | . The armature of the legs of the second pair is, as usual, | l + 2i-2 | 2 | . In all other details both of colour and structure this specimen agrees with some quite typical specimens of G. arahs from the same locality. The young example from Shendy, Sudan, wliich was determined by Dr. TuUgren * as G. araneoides, Pallas, is, perhaps, only an aberration of G. arabs, similar to tliis one from Wady Haifa.

Othoes, gen. nov.

Patella and tibia of maxillipalp (of female) without either spines or bri.-tles. Legs long and slender ; the tarsus of the first leg apparently without claws and furnished at the end with a dense scopula of fine hairs, which are foiked at their extremities. Tarsi of second and third legs with the spinal Fig. 1. Fi-. 2.

Fig. 1. Gnleodes arabs, C. L. Koch, side view of claws of fourth leg.

Fig. 2.— OthoesJloioeri, gen. et sp. n. „ „ „ armature | 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 | 2(1) | ; as will be seen from this formula, an additional unpaired spine is present on the proximal segment, the spines on the anterior side of this segment being four in number (two of which are unpaired), * In Jagerskiold's ' Results of the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Egypt, 1901,' Uppsala, pt. 3, no. 21 a, p. 1 (1000).