The well known Galeodes, is very common in arid countries, and is popularly known as a "Jerrymunglum." It is a harmless arthropod.

Your correspondence about contests staged between scorpions and spiders recalls a small military cantonment in Hyderabad (Deccan) in 1893. We were a small community, and one of our after-dinner amusements was to stage jerrymunglum v. Scorpion contests within the confines of an inverted finger bowl.

Jerrymunglums are relatives of the spiders and scorpions and are not true insects.

Jerrymunglum

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