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An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3

Note 2063 — LETTER XXXV. (continued 3)

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These three genera appear really to have only six legs, since the pedipalps or maxillary legs are not armed with claws, while the real representatives of the legs, or three last pair, are so distinguished. In Phrynus and Thelyphona the anterior pair are chelate; but in Galeodes they are pediform, as in the Araneidæ, and the great chelæ are the mandibles.

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