new Brazilian Gonyleptide. 347 
brown ; anal dorsal plate with a large transverse white spot ; 
anal ventral plate with two lateral spots. Chelicerz, pedi- 
palps, and legs olive-brown; the apical spur of coxa iv, 
black. Underside yellow ; dorsal scutum olive-yellow. 
Hab. Petropolis (Rio de Janeiro). Coll. Altino de 
Azevedo Sodré. 
Type in S. Paulo Museum. 
Genus Merartruropes, Roewer, 1913. 
Metarthrodes farinosus, sp. Dd. 
3 .—8 mm. 
Anterior margin of cephalothorax smooth, with two 
minute median tubercles. Cephalothorax narrow, unevenly 
granular. Eye-turret closer to anterior margin of cephalo- 
thorax than to transverse groove i., with two low spines 
wide apart. Dorsal scutum with four transverse grooves, 
i, and il. united by a longitudinal groove. Fields i. and ii. 
with two median blunt tubercles and some scattered granules ; 
the tubercles of i. sharper and stronger than those of 11. 
Field iii. with two high median spines and hardly granular ; 
iv. and free dorsal segments unarmed, with a transverse row 
of granules ; anal dorsal plate with two rows of granules. 
Stigmatic segment hardly granular; free ventral segments 
with a row of granules. Pedipalps as long as body ; femur 
unarmed, without apical inner spine. Legs long and slender. 
Tarsi 1. to iv. with more than six segments ; tarsi 111. and iv. 
with two dentated claws. 
Body nice roast-yellow ; cephalothorax and dorsal scutum 
of abdomen thickly pointed with white; in field 11, there 
are two white spots bordered with black close to under 
corners ; tubercles of i. and 11. and spines of ii. black; field 
iv. with a row of six narrow transverse white spots. Free 
dorsal segments olive-yellow, with a narrow transverse 
posterior white band; anal plates olive-brown, thickly 
pointed with white. Cheliceree aud pedipalps nearly black, 
with minute olive spots. Legs i. and ii. brownish black. 
Hab. Alto da Serra (St. Paulo). 
Type in the 8, Paulo Museum. 
Genus SopREANA, Nov. 
Eye-turret closer to anterior margin than to transverse 
groove i., with two high spines. Cephalothorax narrow ; 
lateral margins of dorsal scutum evenly rounded as far as 
transverse groove ill. aud forming two prominent angles 
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