158 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Ventral plates not punctate. Last ventral plate widely, semi- 

 circularly, rounded caudad. 



Coxopleurae subtruncate caudally, not at all extended. Pores 

 few, small, not reaching the caudal edge by a large space. 



Anterior legs not distinctly biarticulate. Anal legs with prefemur, 

 femur, and, less distinctly, the tibia longitudinally furrowed dorsally. 

 Prefemur with numerous spinules of the usual character over ventral 

 and mesal surface; elsewhere with bristles; no longitudinal glabrous 

 area on ventral side. Femur armed similarly to the prefemur but 

 bearing in addition to the spinules a single stout tooth on the ventral 

 surface toward the distal end. Tibia bearing ventrally toward the 

 mesal edge a row of stout teeth; and the first tarsal joint bearing in 

 corresponding location two similar teeth with an elevation distad of 

 them as shown in Plate 1, fig. 3. 



Length of type cir. 10 mm. 



Locality. — State of Parahyba : Independencia ! (Mann and Heath) . 



One specimen taken in the hills north of the town. 



Paracryptops Pocock. 



Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1891, ser. 6, 7, p. 227. Kraepelin, Rev. Scolop., 1903, 

 p. 59. 



Previously this genus was known only from the East Indies, from 

 where two species had been described. Another species has been 

 recently described from India. 



Paracryptops inexpectus, sp. nov. 



Color light lemon-yellow, darkest cephalad. Head darker than 

 body, dilute orange-yellow excepting at anterior end where light 

 yellow. Antennae and legs pale yellowish. 



Cephalic plate overlapped by the first dorsal plate. Widest toward 

 anterior end, from where the sides at first slightly and then more 

 strongly converge to the caudal corners; anterior border of head sub- 

 triangular, notched at median line. On caudal portion with two 

 short subparallel sulci; a pit-like depression a little distance from 

 each lateral margin at middle of length; not punctate. Hair sparse. 



