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Psyche 
[September 
Records. All the specimens were collected by Simon at “Colonia 
Tovar” which is probably the city of that name in Aragua State 
and located at io° 25 'N and 67°I7'W. 
Psellocoptus buchlii new species 
Figures 3-5, 10-13. 
Holotype. Male from Rancho Grande, near Maracay, Venezuela, 
1946; in the American Museum of Natural History. The species 
is named after the late Harro Buchli. 
Male 
Measurements. Based on holotype and 4 males, holotype listed 
first, range of all follows: carapace length 5.60 mm, 5.20-5.80 mm; 
carapace width 2.75 mm, 2.55-2.90 mm; carapace index 49, 48-52; 
sternum length 2.65 mm; 2.30-2.65 mm; sternum width 1.50 mm, 
1. 35-1. 50 mm; sternum index 56, 56-60. 
Femur IV length 5.25 mm, 4.75-5.25 mm; femur IV width 0.60 
mm, 0.55-0.65 mm; leg thickness index 11.7, u .3-12.9; leg length 
index 94, 87-94. 
Abdomen length 5.60 mm, 4.35-5.60 mm; abdomen width 1.75 mm, 
1. 30- 1. 75 mm; abdomen index 31, 29-32. 
Description. Carapace deep reddish-brown; surface shiny and 
slightly granulated. Cephalic region width 83-89% of maximum 
carapace width. White plumose hair pattern as in Fig. 4. 
Dorsum of abdomen dark brown with some lighter speckling, with 
a moderate, dark red-brown anterior dorsal sclerite extending 34-43% 
of the abdomen. A white plumose hair pattern consisting of pairs 
of spots and horizontal bands — complete and incomplete — extend- 
ing over the dorsum from thick longitudinal lateral bands (Fig. 5). 
Scattered long, thin erect hairs on dorsum. Area of epigastic sclerite 
around gonopore orange and shiny. A trace of an inframammilliary 
sclerite. 
Sternum deep reddish-brown, slightly granulated with sparce long 
thin simple hairs. 
Chelicerae red-brown. The apices of the endites and chelicerae 
with heavy scopulae. Face of chelicerae with scattered small tubercles. 
Femora, trochanters and coxae of all legs yellow. Rest of legs 
yellow with a thin red-brown retrolateral stripe on the patella-tibiae 
and metatarsi of all legs and a red-brown area around the tibia- 
metatarsus joints of legs II, III and IV. Also some red-brown 
pigmentation and very dense hairs at the distal ends of the metatarsi 
of legs III and IV. Legs with shorter, slighter and sparcer spines 
than in female. Tibia I ventral spination: 5-4, but variable. 
