342 Dr. Mello-Leitrio on the 



$ . — 55 mm. ; cepli. 22 x 20 mm. ; legs 60-53-44-64 mm. ; 

 patella + tibia i. 22 mm., iv. 21 nim. 



Colour, eye-disposition, and stridulating-organ as in the 

 male. 



Carapace as long as patella and tibia i. and slightly longer 

 than patella and tibia iv. Legs shorter and stronger. Pro- 

 tarsus i. terete, shorter than tibia. 



Hah. Marianna (JVlinas Geraes). 



Coll. Dr. Godoy. Type in the S. Paulo Museum (no. 151). 



4. Lasiodora citharacantha'^, sp. n. 



? .—57 mm. ; ceph. 21 X 19 mm. ; legs 67-62-57-72 mm. ; 

 patellar- tibia i. 24 mm., iv. 225 mm. 



Integument of the carapace brown-red, vi^ith blackish dusky 

 clothing of short hairs ; falces and legs mahoganj-brown, 

 with abundant curly brick-red bristles. Abdomen velvety 

 black, with very abundant long pink bristles. Sternum and 

 coxa? mahogany-brown. 



Cephalotliorax longer than wide, shorter than patella and 

 tibia i. or iv. Eyes of the anterior row strongly procurved, 

 the anterior edge of the medians being a little behind the 

 centre of the laterals, nearly evenly spaced, the medians being 

 the smaller, separated from each other by a space which 

 equals their diameter ; posterior medians not much smaller 

 than the anterior medians, closer to the posterior laterals, 

 which are smaller than the anterior laterals, and separated 

 from them by a space which surpasses the long diameter of 

 the latter. 



Siridulating-organ consisting of seven plumose bristles, 

 disposed in two longitudinal series, and of five proximal 

 spines beneath them. 



Protarsal scopula i. and ii. covering the segment almost to 

 base ; iii. covering f, with one spine at its base ; iv. 

 covering about \ — elsewhere strongly spined. Tibia i. with 

 1 apical spine ; ii. with 3 apical ; iii. with 2 apical, 2 infe- 

 rior, 1-1-1 anteiior and 1-1-1 posterior; iv. with 2 apical, 

 1-2 inferior, 1-1 anterior, and 1-1-1 posterior spines. 



Hah. S. Paulo. 



Type in my own collection. 



5. Lasiodora cryptosiigma, sp. n. 



? .—63 mm. ; ceph. 24x 22 mm. ; legs 68-62-60-73 mm. ; 

 patella -fiibia i. 24 mm., iv. 24 mm. 



The whole spider dusky black ; the large bristles of the 



* t'lQapa, lute ; uKavOa, spiue. 



