Genus LasioJoia, C. Koch. 347 



12. Lasiodora erythrocythara *, sp. n. 



?.— 72nim.; ceph. 27-5 X 25 mm.; legs 76-70-65-82 mm.; 

 patella + tibia i. 25 mm., iv. 25 mm. 



Carapace fulvous-black. Falces and legs of tlie same 

 colour, with large yellowish-brown bristles ; the legs with 

 pale longitudinal bands on the upper surface. Carapace with 

 an edge of long yellowish hairs. Abdomen velvety black, 

 with long orange bristles. 



Carapace longer than wide, longer tlian patella and tibia i. 

 or iv. ; fovea dee|), distinctly recurved. Eyes of the anterior 

 row very slightly procurved, the anterior edge of the medians 

 being before the centre of the laterals, the medians much 

 the larger, less than a diameter apart, and separated from 

 the laterals by a space which equals their diameter ; poste- 

 rior medians not much smaller than the anterior medians, 

 nearly at i\\e same distance from them and from the posterior 

 laterals, whicli are a little larger than the anterior laterals 

 and separated from them by about half a diameter. 



Stridulating-organ on coxa i. consisting of a great many 

 simple, incrassate, but apically attenuate red bristles in 

 several series, without basal spines, upon the suture. 



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

 base; iii. covering f segment, with three spines at its base; 

 iv. covering about ^ — elsewhere strongly spined. All the 

 libise pooily spined. 



Hah. S. Paulo. 



Type in the National Museum. 



13. Lasiodora differens, Chamberlin. 



Lasiodora differens, Chamberlin, 1917, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 

 Coll. vol. Ixi. p. 56, pi. iv. figs. 4, 5. 



Hab. Lagoa Santa (Estado de Minas Geraes). 



14. Lasiodora pleoplectra f, sp. n. 



?.— 68 mm.; ceph. 26 x 24 mm.; legs 70-65-60-75 mm. ; 

 patella + tibia i. 25 mm., iv. 24 mm. 



Integument of the carapace dark violet, with a dusky 

 blackish clotliino: of short hairs and with an edae of lonu" 

 brown hairs ; legs dusky blackish, with longitudinal, dorsal, 

 bare, dark fulvous bauds and long brown bristles. Abdomen 



* epuQpos, red ; KiOapa, lute. 



f TrXetos, very many ; TrXfj/crpov, the little staff for striking the strings 

 of the lyre — in allusion to the numerous bristles of the stridulating-organ. 



