302 Dr. Mello-Leitao on the 
I give below the characters of the female, yet undescribed :— 
2 .—65mm.; ceph.32 x 32 mm. ; patella+tibiai. 30 mm., 
iv. 30 mm. ; legs 90, 86, 84, 92 mm. 
Colour and eyes the same asin male. COarapace as long 
as wide, longer than patelle and tibia i. or iv. Patella and 
tibia i, equal to iv. Fovea, protarsal scopule, and stridu- 
lating organ as in male. 
15. Grammostola gigantea, sp. n. 
3 .—66 mm. ; ceph. 28 x 28 mm. ; legs 94, 87, 78, 94 mm.; 
patella+ tibia i. 34 mm., iv. 32 mm.; protarsus iv. 23 mm. 
The whole spider black ; the abdomen with large dull red- 
wine bristles. Coxse of pedipalps and falees with red-wine 
bristles. Legs with large blackish-violet bristles. 
Carapace shorter than patella and tibia i. and iv., longer 
than protarsus iv.; fovea deep, right transverse. Ocular 
tubercle moderately convex. Anterior eyes equal and equally 
spaced, about two diameters apart; anterior line slightly 
procurved, the anterior edge of the medians being a little 
before the centre of the laterals; posterior medians much 
smaller than the anterior medians, but not very widely sepa- 
rated from them, closer to posterior laterals, which are about 
as large as the anterior laterals and separated froin them by a 
space which is quite equal to the long diameter of the latter. 
Stridulating organ consisting of very many simple, incras- 
sate, but apically attenuate bristles, those on the coxa i. less 
numerous above and more close-set just below the suture. 
Legs 4-1, 2, 3. Patella and tibia i. longer than iv. 
Protarsal scopula 1, covering 3 segment, with.two spines at 
its base; of il. covering # segment with two spines at its 
base; of iii. covering a little more than 4 segment; of iv. 
covering about 4, which is elsewhere strongly spined ; tibiz 
of all the legs spined. Protarsus i. distinctly but slightly 
bowed at its proximal end ; spurs of tibia i. well developed, 
the upper stout, straight, with sharp apical external angle, 
aud bearing a long stout spine on its underside ; the lower 
crescently cylindrical, curved, with a little tubercle on its 
apex and a long spine on its upperside at its proximal end. 
Hab. Santa Catharina. Coll. Witte. ‘l'ypein the S. Paulo, 
Museum. 
16. Grammostola theringw (Keyserling). 
Eurypelma theringit, Keyserling, 1891, Spinnen America’s Brasil Sp. 
p. 19, pl. i. fig. 4. 
A gathostola theringui, Pocock, Ann. & Mag, Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xvi. 
p. 228. 
