FAMILY DICTYNIDES. 



GENUS DICTYNA, Bund. 



DICTYNA PUSILLA. 



Diotyna pusilla, Westr., Aran. Suec, p. 385. 



This speoies is closely allied both to Bictyna arundinacea, Linn, 

 (p. 49), and D. uncinata, Westr. (p. 50). It may be distinguished 

 from the former by its smaller size, and the greater length of 

 the spur on the radial joint of the male palpus. From D. uncinata 

 it may be known by the radial joint being shorter than the 

 cubital, whereas in that species it is much longer ; the spur, also, 

 on the radial joint is more robust in D. pusilla than in D. 

 uncinata. In other respects the present spider is very like both 

 the other species mentioned. 



I met with examples of this spider in a hedge near Honey- 

 combe Wood, Sherborne, in May, 1879. It had previously been 

 recorded from Wick Copse, near Oxford, and the neighbourhood 

 of Guildford, in Surrey. 



