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brown : anal dorsal |)latc with a larjje transverse v/liite spot ; 

 anal ventral plate with two lateral spots. Chelicene, pedi- 

 palps, and \e'j!;s olive-brown ; the apieal spur of coxa iv. 

 black. Underside yellow : dorsal scutum olive-yellow. 



JIab. Petropolis (Kio de Janeiro). Coll. Altino de 

 Azevedo Sodre. 



Tyj)e in S. Paulo Museum. 



Genus Mktarthrodes, Roewer, 1913. 

 Metarthrodes farinosus, sp. u, 



c? . — 8 mm. 



Anterior margin of cephalothorax smooth, with two 

 minute median tnljercles. 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 ii. 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 ii. 

 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 i. to iv. with more than six segments ; tarsi iii. and iv. 

 with two dentated claws. 



Body nice roast-yellow ; cephalothorax and dorsal scutum 

 of abdomen thickly pointed with white ; in field iii. there 

 are two white spots bordered with black close to under 

 corners ; tubercles of i. and ii. and spines of iii. black ; Held 

 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. Chelicera; and pedipalps nearly black, 

 with minute olive spots. Legs i. and ii. brownish black. 



Hab. Alto da Serra (St. Paulo). 



Type in the S. Paulo Museum. 



Genus Sodreana, 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 iii. and forming two prominent angles 



