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Show 1896.] SPIDERS FROM THE LOWER AMAZONS. 723 Genus Avicularia, Lamarck. Species A. avicularia, Linn., 2 < P- 741 • » » n „ A. a. variegata, n. subsp., $, [p. 743. „ Santaremia, new. „ S. pococki, n. sp., $ , p. 746. Subfam. DIPLURIN.E. Genus Harmonicon, new. Species H. rufescens, n. sp., 2. P> 756. „ Melodeus, new. „ M. sanguineus, n. sp., $, p. 758. i, ,. ,i „ M. niger, n. sp., J, p. 759. „ Fufius, E. Sim. „ F. auricomis, E. Sim., Q" (new), [$:p. 750. „ Ischnothele, Auss. „ I. siemensi, n. sp., §, p. 762. Genus Neodiplura \ n. g. Species N. jelskii, n. sp., o" $, p. 755. „ Santaremia1, n. g. „ & longipes, n. sp., $, p. 749. Family THERAPHOSIDCE. Genus PARATROPIS, E. Simon. Type. P. scruposa2, E. Sim. ( $ ), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, pp. 214, 215. Bab. Upper Amazons. 14 m m . long. PARATROPIS PAPILLIGERA, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. figs. 1, 6, 7, 8, & 23, and Plate X X X V . fig. 17.) o* 2 • Bab. Santarem, Lower Amazons. J 12-75 m m . long ; $ 12-5 m m . long. Types in coll. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. London. <S -Carapace almost circular, purple-brown, entirely and minutely granulate. Cephalic ridge bearing three longitudinal 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 emarginate, fringed with short bacilliform 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 their diameter apart and from anterior laterals. Diameter of latter almost equal to that of former. Posterior centrals smallest, almost 1 Neodiplura jelskii was taken in Peru by Dr. Jelski; while Santaremia longipes is a native of Trinidad. " The specific name under wbich the type is described in op. cit. is " scru-posa?' not ''scrupea" as accidentally quoted in Hist. Nat. Araign. 1892, i. 1, |
