the Kamily Ciniflonide, 449 
The colors of the male are very different. The whole cephalo- 
thorax is orange-brown, not much darker at the sides. The abdomen 
is reddish brown, darker than in the female, with only a little yellow 
in the middie, and sometimes none. The legs are darker yellow 
than in the female. 
The males and females are about the same size, but differ in form 
as much as they do in color. The front of the head is low in both 
sexes, and rises backward to its highest point midway between 
the eyes and the dorsal groove. In the males the mandibles are so 
long that the distance from the top of the head to the end of the 
mandibles is as great as the length of the cepbalothorax. The male 
mandibles are concave in front and bowed widely apart in the mid- 
dle. Even the females have the mandibles a little concave in front. 
The male palpi are long and large. The tibia is twice as long as 
wide; thickened at the end, and curved downward. The two-spined 
process is short and a little in front of the base of the tibia. PI. 
Ix, fig. 8¢. 
The palpal organ is unusually large, and the long tube can be seen 
passing around it under the edges of a large thin appendage. PI. 1x, 
fig. 8a, 80. 
The webs are spread under leaves or between twigs. 
I have twice seen the pairing of this species. In one case the 
female stood across a forked twig and the male reached up from 
below, his head being under hers and his mandibles paraliel to her 
sternum. In the other the male and female stood head to head 
in the web, the cephalothorax of the female being tipped up in front, 
and resting upon the head and mandibles of the male. 
Common all over New England. In winter they are often found 
under leaves, half grown, and soon get to their growth when warm 
weather begins. Several small, flat ezg-cocoons are fastened under 
a leaf and there may be several broods in each season. 
Dictyna frondea, new sp. 
Pu, [X, FIGURES 9, 9a. 
This species is a little smaller than volupis and is similarly col- 
ored in the female, except that it is usually a little darker and less 
red. The cephalothorax is light brown, a little lighter in the middle 
of the head, but not so much so as volupis.. The abdomen is 
brown at the sides and yellow in the middle. The yellow stripe is 
narrower and straighter than in volwpis, and often forms a regular 
herringbone figure. PI. rx, fig. 9. The under side of the abdomen 
Trans. Conn. Acap., Vou. VII. 57 JULY, 1888, 
