new Brazilian Gonyleptidic. 331 



Meteusarcoides mutilatus, sp. ii. 



? . — 7 mm. 



Anterior marj^iu of the ceplialotliorax witli three small 

 teeth over the base of chelicerie; anterior marginal field 

 with two small spines; cephalothorax unevenly {granular; 

 eye-turret granular, with a small apieal tubercle. Fields i.- 

 iv. unevenly granular ; field iii. with two median high 

 tubercles ; marginal lateral fields and v. with a granular 

 row, as free dorsal segments i. and ii. Free dorsal segment 

 iii. elevated in a stout median cone, unevenly granular. 

 Stigmatic segment minutely granular ; free ventral seg- 

 ments with two rows of granules. Hinder coxa) very 

 granular. Femur i. with a stout inner apieal spine; femur 

 iv. with numerous short s[)ines. Ventral surface and legs 

 chestnut; dorsal scutum chestnut; tLe cephalothorax with 

 a large white spot at each side of the eye-turret ; field i. all 

 white ; field ii. with two lateral white spots. 

 Hub. Itatyaya. Coll. Carlos Moreira. 



Type in the National Museum (llio de Janeiro). 



Genus Ypiranga, nov. 



Eye-turret closer to anterior margin than to first trans- 

 verse groove, elevated, with a median blunt tubercle. 

 Dorsal scutum with five transverse grooves, i. and ii. united 

 by a longitudinal groove. Cephalothorax narrow ; lateral 

 margins of the abdominal scutum evenly rounded to 

 groove iv. Fields i. and ii. of the dorsal scutum with two 

 median low tubercles; field iii. with two high spines or 

 tubercles ; fields iv. and v. and dorsal segments i. and ii. 

 unarmed ; free dorsal segment iii. Mith a high median 

 spine. Pedipalps shorter than the body, with the femur 

 unarmed, without spines on the under face or on the apex. 

 Legs stout ; tarsi i., iii., and iv. with six joints, ii. with 

 seven. 



The male with processes and spines in the basal joints 

 of the posterior legs. 



Type. 



Ypiranga ypiranga, sp. n. 



cJ . — 5 mm. 



Anterior margin of the cephalothorax with three median 

 spines over the basal joint of chcliceno, the median 

 stouter. Eye-turret granular, with a high median blunt 

 tubercle; all the cephalothorax with minute granules 



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