Genus Grammostola, Simon. 303 
Citharoscelus theringii, Pocock, 1903, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, 
vol. xi. p. 99 
Grammostola iheringii, Simon, 1904, Hist. Nat. Ar, vol. ii. p. 935. 
Hab. Rio Grande do Sul. 
In the collections of the 8. Paulo Museum there are some 
males and females (no. 131), collected by Dr. Hermann von 
Ihering at Rio Grande do Sul in 1890, and which are very 
probably the cotypes of Keyserling. 
17. Grammostola familiaris (Bertkau). 
Homeomma familiaris, Bertkau, 1880, Verzeichnis der.... Brasil. 
Ar. p. 37, pl. i. fig. 11. 
Homeomma familiaris, Petrunkevitch, 1911, Bull. Amer. Mus, Nat. 
Hist. p. 72. 
It is a not uncommon species of Rio de Janeiro, but I have 
seen only the female. It is the most septentrional species 
from our fauna. 
18. Grammostola roquettei *, sp. n. 
g .—68 mm.; ceph. 28x28 mm.; legs 105, 92, 83, 
96 mm.; patella+tibia i. 38 mm., iv. 31 mm. ; femur i. 
28 mm.; protarsus iv. 24 mm. 
Cephalothorax blackish, with a greyish clothing of short 
hairs and with large marginal reddish bristles. Falces, 
pedipalps, and legs brownish black, with large reddish-brown 
bristles, close-set on the legs; tibie and patelle of all the legs 
with two longitudinal pale lines on the underside. Tarsal 
and protarsal scopule velvety rusty. Sternum blackish ; 
coxe of legs dull rusty brown; the underside of the abdomen 
rusty brown. Abdomen velvety black, with large reddish- 
brown bristles. Coxe of pedipalps and falces with dull 
orange-brown bristles. 
Carapace as long as wide, its length considerably less than 
patella and tibia iv. or i., slightly longer than protarsus iv., 
as long as femur i.; fovea deep, right transverse. 
Stridulating organ as in Grammostola gigantea. Legs 
1, 4, 2, 3, long and slender, i. noticeably longer than iv. ; 
patella and tibia i. longer than iv. 
Ocular tubercle moderately convex, nearly round. Eyes 
of the anterior row strongly procurved, the anterior edge of 
the medians being a little behind the centre of the laterals, a 
little unequal in size, the medians being the smaller, about 
* Dedicated to Prof. Roquette Pinto, from the National Museum. 
