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Genus Pterinopelma, Pocock. 

 Fterinopelma, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Xat. Hist. (7) viii. p. 5ol (1901). 



Pter'inopehna vitiosum (Keysei-ling). 



Eurypelma vitiosa, Kevserliug, Brasilianische Spinnen, p. 21, pi. i. 

 fig. 6 (1891). 



Loc. Taquara, Rio Grande do Sui [von Jhering). 



Fterinopelma saltator, sp. n. 



(J. — Colour. Hairy clothing a uniform dark brown, 

 relieved by foxy-red bristles on the abdomen and legs and 

 narrow pale transverse bands at the extremities of the leg- 

 segments. 



Cat-apace considerably longer than wide, cephalic area 

 moderately high ; its length less than tibia and half patella 

 of fourtii and more than tibia and half patella of first leg, 

 shorter than fourth protarsus, longer than patella, tibia, and 

 tarsus of palp, length from fovea to anterior border scarcely 

 as long as first protarsus ; eyes of anterior line subequal, 

 close together, the medians about a radius apart. 



Legs long, 4, 1, 2, 3, fourth exceeding the first by more 

 than its tarsus ; patella and tibia of first less than of fourth, 

 tibia of first not incrassate, armed with two inner spines and 

 five spines on the outer side, of which four are at tlie distal end ; 

 protarsus of first scopulate to base, with two spines pro- 

 jecting from the scopular hairs j protarsus of second scopulate 

 almost to base, with numerous inferior spines ; tibia and pro- 

 tarsus of third and fourth with many spines; protarsus of 

 fourth scarcely scopulate apical ly. Tibia of first not incras- 

 sate, its upper spur cylindrical and blunt with inferior spine ; 

 lower spur cylindrical, lightly curved ; protarsus of first only 

 lightly convex above. Anterior side of coxa and trochanter 

 of first leg clothed thickly with simple hairs ; the posterior 

 side of the trochanter of the palp with scopula of plumose 

 hairs. 



Pa^^n' short, projecting just beyond the patella of the first 

 leg, the tibia armed internally with about nine strong spines; 

 bulb of palpal organ subspherical, the spine strong, blade- 

 like, lightly sinuous, apically pointed. 



? . — Stouter than the male, with very short legs ; fourth 

 leg stout, less than three times, first leg less than twice and 

 a half the length of the carapace, third leg about twice 

 the length ; carapace longer than broad, longer than patella 

 and tibia of fourth, almost as long as protarsus and tarsus of 



