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DICTYNA UNCINATA. 

 DiororA UNOTWATA, ThorelL, Roc. Crit. Aran., p. 82. 

 Euoatis arborea, Camlr., Zoologist, 1862, p. 7960. 



In general appearance, structure, colours, and markings this 

 spicier is very like its near ally, Dictyna arundinacea ; it may, how- 

 ever, be distinguished without any difficulty, not only by its smaller 

 size — tho male measuring no more than ono-tonth of an inch in 

 length— but by a striking difference in the spur which projects 

 from the upper side of the radial joint. In the present species 

 this spur is long, nearly as long as tho joint itself, rather tapering 

 but also bifid or notched at its extremity (which is dark coloured, 

 the rest being yellow-brown), and springs more nearly perpendicu- 

 larly, and quite from the base of the joint instead of only from near 

 it. The dark-brown longitudinal band also, on the fore part of 

 the abdomen, is not dentated on its edges ; and the transverse 

 bars on the hinder half are more curved than angular, their ends 

 generally terminating with an oblique spot, or short line, of the 

 same hue. These transverse bars are often composed of two fine, 

 approximated, dark-brown lines, frequently more or less obsolete, 

 and seldom equally well represented in any two individuals. 

 The femalo is rather larger than the male, and (like the female 

 of the foregoing species) of a generally paler hue. 



Found in tolerable abundance on trees and bushes at Blox- 

 worth, whore it makes its snare in and among the leaves and 

 small twigs. More rarely I have found it in similar situations 

 with D. arundinacea. It often forms its snare in the leaves of 

 rank nettles growing under hedge-rows; and appears to be 

 generally distributed in the South of England. 



DICTYNA LATENS. 

 Aranea latens, Fair., Syst. Ent., p. 432 (in part). 

 Eruatis latens, Blaoho., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 149, 

 pi. ix., fig, 95. 

 This spider is rather smaller than Dictyna arundinacea but a little 

 larger than I), u/icinatd, the male measuring about one-ninth of 



