330 Dr. Mello-Leitio on some 
longer than the three others together. Chelicerze normal 
and equal in the two sexes. Pedipalps shorter than body ; 
femur unarmed, without apical inner spine. Legs short 
and stout. ‘Tarsus i. with 3-5 joints, 11. with more than 6; 
ii. and iv. with 6. Tarsi i. and iv. with terminal claws 
without teeth. 
Type. 
Uropachylus striatus, sp. n. 
3 .—5 mm. 
Anterior margin of the cephalothorax smooth ; portion 
before the eye-turret with a small blunt elevation, all 
the rest smooth. Lye-turret with a strong median spine. 
Field i. of the abdominal scutum with two stronger 
and two weaker tubercles; i. with numerous granules 
unevenly disposed, forming a median gathering; iui. with 
two high spines and some granules at the base ; iv., v., and 
dorsal “free segments 1, and li. with a transverse row of 
granules. Dorsal free segment ii. with a strong median 
. spine and a transverse row of granules; anal dorsal plate 
with two rows of granules. All the ventral surface smooth. 
Coxa iv. very granular and with a small apical inner spine. 
he body is black, with transverse and longitudinal grooves 
brown ; marginal fields testaceous ; in the dorsal free seg- 
ments narrow light bands ; ventral free segments with a row 
of small light points and a brown line; stigmatic segment 
brown-yellow with an asteriform (A) black figure. Pedipalps 
aud anterior legs spotted; legs ii. and iv. chestnut. 
Hab. Pinheiro (Rio de Janeiro). 
‘Type in the 8S. Paulo Museum. 
Genus METEUSARCOIDES, nov. 
Eye-turret closer to the anterior margin than to first 
transverse groove, very high, blunt, with a small median 
tubercle. Dorsal scutum with five transverse grooves, 1. and 
ii. united by a longitudinal groove. Cephalothorax narrow ; 
margins of the abdominal scutum evenly rounded to 
groove iv., then narrowing and making a right angle with 
the hinder margin. Fields 1. and il. unarmed ; ii. with 
two high median tubercles ; iv., v., and dorsal free segments 
i. and 11. unarmed ; dorsal free ‘segment 11, with a very high 
median cone. Pedipalps shorter than the body; the femur 
with an apical inner spine. Legs stout and short. Tarsus i. 
with 5 joints; 11. ?, ili. ?, iv. with 6. 
Male unknown. 
Ty pe. 
