1896.] SPIDERS rnoM the lower amazons. 723 



Seiiu3 Avicularia, Lamarck. Species A. avicularia, Linn., J , p. 741. 

 II II II I, A. a. variegata, n. subsp., 2 1 



[p. 743. 

 „ Sanfaremia, new. „ S. pococki, n. sp., J , p. 746. 



Subfam. DiPLuniNyE. 



Genus Harm.onicon, new. Species H. rnfescens, n. sp., 2 , p. 75R. 

 „ Melodeus, new. „ M. sanguineus, n. sp., j , p. 758. 



11 1. 11 II ■^. niger, n. sp., J, p. 759. 



I, Fufius, E. Sim. „ F. ajiricomis, E. Sim., (j' (new), 



[2:p. 750. 

 „ IschnotheU, Auss. „ I. siemensi, n. sp., J , p. 702. 



Genus Neodiphtra ', n. g. Species N.jclsJcii, n. sp., cj $ , p. 755. 

 „ Santaremia^, V. g. „ S. longipes, n. ap., ^, p. 749. 



Family Theh.aphosid;e. 

 Genus Pabathopis, E. Simon. 



Type. P. Kcrnposa\ B. Sim. ( ? ), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, pp. 214, 

 215. Hab. Upper Amazons. 14 mm. long. 



Pabatropis papilligbba, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. figs. 1, 6, 7, 

 8, & 23, and Plate XXXV. fig. 17.) 



(J 5 . Bab. Santarem, Lower Amazons. J 12-75 mm. long ; 

 5 12-5 mm. long. Types in coU. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. London. 



J . — Carapace almost circular, purple-brown, entirely and 

 minutely granulate. Cephalic ridge bearing three longitudin.al 

 lines of fine rufous hairs ; ocular region more densely clothed 

 with similar hairs ; thoracic area clothed with converging lines 

 and margin of carapace fringed with rufous hairs. Cephalic and 

 thoracic impressions distinct. Central fovea deep, procurved. Base 

 of carapace slightly emargiiiate, fringed with short baciUiform 

 hairs. Cephalic area almost two-thirds the length of carapace. 



Abdomen dull brown, bearing four longitudinal dorsal rows of 

 eight to nine small tubercles, each emitting from its summit a 

 rufous, plumose, bacilliform hair. Lateral area finely tuberculate, 

 furnished with scattered rufous hairs. Ventral surface pale rufous, 

 rugulose. Spinners four : posterior pair pale, straw-yellow, dusky 

 above, three-jointed, one-third total length of abdomen ; basal 

 joints equal, apical joint twice the length of basal : anterior pair 

 equal in length to basal joint of posterior pair, almost contiguous, 

 half a diameter apart. 



Ocular tumulus tuberculiform, globular. Anterior row of eyes 

 slightly procurved. Anterior centrals largest, one-third tlieif 

 diameter apart and from anterior laterals. Diameter of latter 

 almost equal to that of former. Posterior centrals smallest, almost 



' Ncodiplura jelskii was taken in Peru by Dr. Jelski ; while Santaremia 

 longipes is a native of Trinidad. 



'' The specific name under which the type is described in op. cit. is " scrU' 

 posa," not "scrupea" as accidentallj quoted in Hist. Nat. Araign. 1892, i. 1, 



