The efficacy of the arrangement was well tested by an Anglo-Indian scientist upon a lizard three inches long, _exclusive_ this time of the tail. “The spider sprang upon it, and made a seizure immediately behind the shoulder. The poor lizard struggled violently at first, rolling over and over in its agony, but the spider kept firm hold, and gradually sawed away with its double jaws into the very entrails of its victim.”[139] There was an interesting variation between this case and the last, where, it will be remembered, the lizards were eaten “bones and head and claws and all,” whereas here “the only parts _uneaten_ were the jaws and part of the skin.” This lizard, however, was “at least five inches long from nose to extremity of tail”; but then, again, the spider must have been larger too, though clearly its meal was something in the nature of a feat, since after it “it remained gorged and motionless for about a fortnight, being much swollen and distended.”[139] There is no mention of this in the other case, which would seem to imply that the result was different. If so, we have here a fact of great interest—what fact, scientifically elicited, is not?—but in order to establish it upon a really firm basis, further experiments should be made, and, once more, as the limit of size has evidently not yet been reached, I would recommend a lizard of six inches long. This spider, however, now I come to remember, is not really one, but a _solpugid_, and a _solpugid_ is a creature so like a spider that it used to be thought one some years ago, but now belongs, not only to a family, but to an order of its own, which comes somewhere between the scorpions and the true spiders. They are large creatures, and their bite is very severe, though it does not appear to be poisonous. Some of the species are nocturnal, as is the case with the one above mentioned, which was christened _Galeodes vorax_ by its discoverer, Captain Hutton, if he indeed discovered it. Captain Hutton, being a great entomologist—to attain which title one has only to put pins through insects—used to lay a sheet on the ground at night, and stand a lantern upon it. Numerous insects were attracted to the light, and this brought _Galeodes_—who is a great entomologist too, though without the pins—upon the _tapis_ or _draps_.[139]