FAMILY DICTYNIDES. 



GENUS DICTYNA. 



DICTYNA VARIABILIS. 



Dictyna variabilis, C. Koch, Die. Arachn., Bd. iii., p. 29, pi. 



83, fig. 187. 

 Ergatis fallens, Blackw., I.e., p. 148, pi. x., fig. 9. 



Easily distinguished from all the other British species by the 

 bright pinkish-yellow colour of the abdomen, which is mottled 

 with darker but indistinct markings. The cephalo-thorax is 

 reddish-yellow, and the legs are of a uniform and rather paler hue. 

 The cubital joint of the male palpus has a short, strong, pointed 

 spur at the outer side of its fore extremity. 



Ergatis fallens Blackw. is a variety of the female in which 

 the abdomen is yellowish-white, with a large, dark pink spot 

 on the middle of the upper side. 



Found by myself at Lyndhurst, Hants, and subsequently 

 received from the neighbourhood of Exeter, from Mr. E. Parfitt. 

 I have also received it from Surrey ; and it was sent to me in 

 1 878 from Codford, Wiltshire, by my cousin, the late Colonel 

 Pickard, E.A., V.C., &c. 



DICTYNA LUGUBRIS. 



Diotyna ltjgtjijeis, Cambr., Journ. Linn. Soc. xi., p. 535, pi. 

 xiv., fig. 4. 



Length of the male nearly 1 J lines. 



Nearly resembles in form and structure D. arundinacea, Linn, 

 (p. 49), but may be at once distinguished by its larger size and 

 almost uniform dark brown and black hue. 



Cephalo-thorax red-brown, clothed with numerous greyish- 

 white squamose hairs. 



