346 Dr« Mello-Leitao on tome 



two large triangular white spots, bordered with black : stig- 

 matie seguiem aud coxas olive-yellow, with black granules : 

 apical outer spur of coxa \\. black. Legs i. to iii., ptrdi- 

 palps, anil chelicenc light yellow ; femur ir. chestnut. 



Hab. P090 Grande t^S. Paulo). 



Type in the S. Paulo Museum. 



Genus Liarthrodes. nor. 



Eye-turret closer to anterior margin of cephalothorax 

 thau to transverse groove i., with two close low tubercles. 

 Cephalothorax narrow : lateral margins of the abdominal 

 dorsal scutum very wide as far as groove iii., and forming 

 with the under border two prominent angles. Dorsal scutum 

 with four traus\erse grooves, i. aud ii. united by a longi- 

 tudinal one. Fields i. to iv. and free dorsal abdominal 

 segments armed, without tubercles or spines. Coxae i. to iii. 

 narrow, slender, and parallel ; coxa iv. wide, longer and 

 stouter than the others together. Chelicerae short, normal 

 in both sexes, Pedipalps as long as body ; femur with an 

 apical inner spine, its underside unarmed. Legs long aud 

 slender, with right femur. Basal segments of legs iv., in 

 male, with spines and spurs. Tarsi i. to iv. with more than 

 six joints; basal joints of tarsus i. not widened in male; 

 tarsi iii. and iv. without scopula, with pseudouychium and 

 two dentated claws. 



Type. 



Liarthrodes telramacula/us, sp. n. 



<J . — 8 mm. 



Anterior margin of cephalothorax with two stout median 

 tubercles. Cephalothorax narrow aud smooth. Eye-turret 

 low, a little closer to anterior margin than to transverse 

 groove i., with two small close tubercles. Abdominal dorsal 

 scutum with four transverse grooves, i. and ii. united by a 

 longitudinal groove. Fields i. to iv. and free dorsal seg- 

 ments i. to iii. unarmed, each with a transverse row of 

 granules ; marginal fields with a row of small granules. 

 Underside smooth. Outer apical spur of coxa iv. directed 

 downwards aud sidewards, curved in a wide spiral. Tarsi i. 

 to iv. with more than six segments. Pedipalps as long as 

 body ; femur with an inner apical spine : underside 

 unarmed. 



Cephalothorax dark brown, with a narrow long whitish 

 spot on each side ; fields i. and ii. of the abdominal dorsal 

 scutum with a small white spot at their posterior corners ; 

 field iii. blackish ; field iv. and dorsal free segments dark 



