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Eamily DICTTNIDES. 

 Genus Dicttena (Sund.), 



DiCTYNA LUGUBRIS, sp. n. PL XIV. fig. 4. 



Adult male, length 1^ line. 



This spider is nearly allied to D, globiceps (Simon), which, as well as 

 JD. benigna (Bl., &c.) and several others, it closely resembles in gene- 

 ral form and structure. It is, however, rather a larger species ; and 

 the caput is proportionally rather larger and more convex at the sides 

 and occiput. The clypeus is impressed immediately below the eyes ; 

 but its lower margin is prominent and somewhat upturned or, rather, 

 underhoUowed ; its height exceeds that of half the facial space. The 

 colour of the cephalothorax is red-brown ; and its surface is clothed 

 with numerous short, greyish-white, somewhat squamose, bristly 

 hairs. 



The eyes are in the ordinary position, in two curved rows ; the hinder 

 row is the longest and most curved ; and the extremities of the two 

 rows meet by the lateral eyes (on each side) being contiguous to each 

 other and obUquely seated on a small tubercle ; the eyes of the fore- 

 most row appear to be equally distant from each other; but the 

 two centrals of the hinder row are rather further from each other than 

 each is from the lateral of the same row on its side ; the four central 

 eyes form a quadrangular figure, whose transverse is longer than its 

 longitudinal diameter, and its fore side, though rather longer than the 

 sides, yet shorter than the posterior side. 



The legs are slender, moderately long, and of a dull yellowish-brown 

 colour ; the femora are darker than the tibia;, the metatarsi and tarsi 

 being pale dull yellow : their relative length appears to be 1, 2, 4, 3 ; 

 and they are clothed with fine hairs. 



The palpi are short, furnished with hairs, and of a dull brown colour ; 

 the radial is, if any thing, rather longer, but less strong than the cubi- 

 tal joint ; it has no apophysis at its extremity ; but on its outer sides, 

 a little nearer to the posterior than to the anterior extremity, is a 

 small, black, sharp-pointed, tooth-like spine or hook directed down- 

 wards ; the digital joint is longer than the radial and cubital joints 

 together, roundish oval at its base, but the anterior portion is rather 

 drawn out. The palpal organs are not complex ; they consist of a not 

 very large, roundish, corneous lobe, from the base of which, rather on 

 the outer side, a twisted or somewhat corkscrew-shaped corneous 

 process extends backwards beneath the radial joint ; and from the 

 middle of the inner side a strong process curves round in a circular 

 form in front of the principal lobe ; and in close connexion with the 

 superior margin of this process tJiere appears to be a strongish black 

 filiform spine. 



