SOIL ORIBATID MITES FROM BRAZIL .7. ORIBA TID MITES FROM SAO-PAULO STATE .4.

This paper is the fourth part of the series devoted to the soil oribat id fauna of Sao Paulo State (Brazil). Six new species and two new subs pecies are described and seven previously known species are recorded f rom a new small collection of oribatid mites obtained from several loc alities of this state. The new species are : Archiphthiracarus sudamer icanus n.sp., Hoplophorella cochlearia n.sp., Hermannobates scoparius n.sp., Xenillus imitator n.sp., Dolicheremaeus brasilianus n.sp. and P seudotocepheur pauliensis n.sp., and the new subspecies : Brasiliotrit ia dlouhyorum sanctipauli n.ssp. and Rhysotritia ardua neotropicalis n .ssp.