342 ■ CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [ProC. 3D Ser. 



Dictyna volucripes Keyserling. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 

 Wien, 1881, p. 286. 



Specimens from Claremont and Palo Alto (Baker). 



Dictyna sp. 



One female from San Francisco (Fuchs), possibly 

 new. 



Dictyna calcarata n. sp. 



Plate XL, Fig. 42. 



Cephalothorax red-brown, clothed with pale hair; mandibles red-brown; 

 legs pale yellowish, beneath with black marks near middle and apex of each 

 joint, except tarsus and patella, the marks on hind tibiae surround the joint; 

 sternum yellowish; abdomen whitish, with a median black spot in~ basal 

 third, and behind is a series of black spots each side approaching near tip. 

 Cephalothorax broad, head high, narrow, and long; mandibles slender, con- 

 cave in front, not bowed out; legs rather more slender than usual; abdomen 

 oval; male palpus has an enormous spur from the upper part of the tibia, 

 which is itself a short joint. 



Length 2.5 mm. 



One male from San Pedro (Cockerell). 



Dictynina n. gen. 



Similar in all important respects to Dictyna^ but with the 

 cribellum distinctly divided on the middle line; no spines 

 on the legs. 



Type, D. pallida. 



Dictynina pallida n. sp. 



Plate XXXIX, Fig. 22. 



Cephalothorax pale, with the sides red-brown, leaving a white margin; 

 legs pale, clothed with black hair; sternum brown; abdomen whitish, with 

 an oblong median area of black hair in basal part, but not reaching base, 

 and behind is a row of three black spots each side, more or less connected; 

 venter with a brown median stripe, and spinnerets brown. Cephalothorax 

 rather narrow; anterior eye-row straight, A. M. E. about diameter apart, 

 closer to the equal A. S. E. ; posterior eye-row a little procurved, P. M. E. 

 about one and one-half diameter apart, and about as far from the nearly 



