THE CINIFLONID^;, OR CRIBELLATA 



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sides (fig. 475). The legs are light orange, darker than those 

 of the female. The abdomen is dark reddish brown, some- 

 times over the whole back, but usually with a yellow irregular 

 middle spot smaller than that of the female. The ends of the 

 male palpi are dark colored and as large as the spider's head 

 (fig. 475). The hairs are very fine and light colored and do 

 not modify the color as much as they do in the brown species. 

 The length of volupis is not over an 

 eighth of an inch. The abdomen is oval 

 and not as 

 wide or high 

 as in v oluc ri- 

 pe s and mur et- 

 na . The head 

 of the male is 

 high, and the 

 mandibles al- 

 most as long 

 as the cepha- 



lothorax (fig. 476). The lower 

 half is turned sharply forward 

 and flattened out at the end. 

 The mandibles are light orange 

 brown, so that their shape is 

 more readily seen than in the 

 dark species. The tooth on 

 the front of the base of the 

 mandibles is very large in this species (fig. 477). 



Dictyna frondea. — This resembles volupis and is likely to be 

 mistaken for it. It is a little smaller, not over a tenth of an 

 inch long, and there is less difference between the sexes. The 

 legs are pale, and the cephalothorax light brown, lighter on the 

 head. The abdomen is gray at the sides, not as red as in 



Figs. 474, 475, 476, 477, 478. Dictyna volupis. 

 — 474, female. 475, male. Both enlarged 

 eight times. 476, side of male. 477, front 

 of head of male enlarged sixteen times, show- 

 ing curved mandibles. 478, palpus of male. 



