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Type-Iocality.-S6tano de Huitzmolotitla, 2 kmSW Tlamaya, and approximately 10 km N Xilitla, SanLuis Potosi, Mexico.Distribution.-Known only from the type-locality.See Fig. 21.Discussion.-This species is smaller and has relativelylonger appendages than does A. lucifer. Knownonly by a single male, it is unique in being the onlydescribed Mexican schizomid from high elevations(about 700 meters). An undescribed species of Agastoschizomushas been found at about this same elevationin caves in Hidalgo.Agastoschizomus lucifer RowlandAgastoschizomus lucifer Rowland, 1971a:15, 17, fig.1-8; Reddell and Mitchell, 1971a:145, fig. 3-4;Dumitresco, 1973:282; Reddell, 1973a:33, 38;Reddell and Elliott, 1973a:171; Rowland, 1973a:10; Rowland, 1973b:197, 202, fig. 2, 4; Rowland,1973c:136; Brignoli, 1974a:150; Rowland, 1975a:8-9, 14-15, 27,28,43-45,46-47,48-49,50, 167­168, 181,211, fig. 1,8, 13,16; Rowland, 1975b:8, 9, 10, fig. 4; Rowland and Reddell, 1977:80,81, 82, 85, 96, fig. 1; Rowland and Reddell,1979a:162, 167, 168, 169-170, fig. 4, 7.\.""- ,"-\'~\'", -., ;I-J-.......·_·-." "\'>-,r "\\ I"- \-.~,I~\\\\-~~~-MEXICO(/___-J ....... '-.r!L lI,rJ)"t,../;r/i(,ItGUATEMALAFig. 21.-Distribution of troglobitic schizomids of the family Protoschizomidae: 1, Agastoschizomus lucifer; 2, A. huitzmolotitlensis;3, Agastoschizomus n. sp.125