344 Dr. Mello-Leitao on the 



from tliem by a space which is quite equal to the long 

 diameter of the latter. 



Posterior sternal sigilla? conspicuous, submarginal. 



Stridulatitig-organ on coxa i. consisting of more than 

 tAvelve plumose bristles, with pink tips, and of four spines 

 beneath. 



Protarsus i. and ii. scopulated nearly to base ; iii. at 

 apical I ; iv. oidy at apex. Tibia i. with 1 apical spine ; ii. 

 with 2 ai)ical, 1 inferior and 1 posterior ; iii. with 2 apical, 

 2 inferior, 1-1-1 anterior, and 1-1 posterior ; iv. with many 

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



Hah. Bahia. 



Coll. Dr. Olympio da Fonseca Filho. 



Type in my own collection. 



7. Lasiodora siibcanens *, sp. n. 



^ .—55 mm. ; ceph. 24 x 23 mm. ; legs 92-93-85-99 mm. ; 

 patella + tibia i. 33 mm., iv. 32 mm. ; protarsus iv. 27 mm. 



Integument of the carapace dark red, with a mouse- 

 greyish clothing of short hairs ; falces with large greyish 

 bristles. Sternum and coxai fulvous blackish. Coxai of 

 pedipalps and margins of fang-groove witli fierj'-red bristles. 

 Abdomen below wholly black. Legs with very abundant 

 and very large bristles with dark chestnut-brown bases 

 and pale greyish tips, and with pale lines of short hairs. 

 Abdomen dusky black, with large 'bristles, dark chestnut- 

 brown below and fulvous testaceous at the tips. 



Cephalothorax about as wide as long, much shorter than 

 patella and tibia i. or iv. and than protarsus iv. 



Ocular tubercle very high, much wider than long. Eyes 

 of the anterior row strongly procurveJ, the anterior edge of 

 the medians being a little behind the centre of the laterals, 

 nearly evenly spaced, and a little unequal in size, the medians 

 being the larger, and separated from each other by a space 

 which equals their diameter ; posterior medians almost as 

 large as the posterior laterals and nearly evenly separated 

 from them and from the anterior medians ; posterior laterals 

 as large as the anterior laterals, less than a long diameter 

 apart. 



Stridulating-organ consisting of eight or nine plumose 

 bristles, dis[)osed on coxa i. in two transverse series, without 

 spines and without bacilliform bristles. 



Protarsal scopulse of soft mouse-grey hairs ; i. and ii. 

 covering the segment nearly to base ; iii. covering f, with 



* Of srt^visli hairs. 



