211 



1833. Clubiona PABVULA Blackw., Charact. etc., in Lond. and Edinb. 



Phil. Mag., 3 Ser., Ill, p. 437. 



1834. Drassus parvulus id., Researches in Zool. , p. 337 (sec. id., Snid. 



of Gr. Brit.). 



183C. DICTYNA BENIGNA C. Koch, Die Arachn. , III, p. 27, Taf. LXXXIII, 



figg. 184, 185. 



1841. Ergatis benigna Blackw., The differ, in the numb, of eyes 



etc., p. 608. 



1847. Argus benignus Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., IV, p. 500. 

 lS.">i;. Dictyna arundinacea Thor. , Bee. crit. Aran., p. 81. 

 1861. Ergatis benigna Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 146, PL 



IX, fig. 93. 



1869. Dictyna arunuinacea Merge, Preuss. Spinn. , III, p. 245, PI. 47, 



tab. 143. 



On the Ar. amndinacea of Linnjeus, see Thor., Eec. crit., p. 81. 

 Respecting Ar. latem Fahr., vid. infr., Dictyna latent Westr. — One 

 or other of the two next following species, 1). yncinaia and T). pusilla, 

 is probably included in the Titer, benignum or Diet, benigna of some 

 writers. The male is however easily distinguished from <$ of these 

 species by the spine on the tibial joint of the palpus being, when 

 viewed from the side, blunt at the apex and not so long as the 

 semi-diameter of that joint; the female is distinguished from D. un- 

 mtata ? by its shining cephalothorax, with Jive white stripes on the 

 pars cephalica and by the black spot in the anterior region of the 

 back of the abdomen being more extended longitudinally, at least 

 double as long as it is broad. Moreover this species is not incon- 

 siderably larger than either of the two following. 



(Pag. 385.) 2. I). pusilla [= Dictyna pusilla Thor. 1856]. 

 Sijn.: 1856. Dictyna pusilla Thor., Bee. crit. Aran., p. 82. 



This species is much smaller than D. amndinacea, which it in 

 other respects much resembles, even in the palpi of the male: the 

 spine on the tibial joint is however almost as long as the joint's 

 diameter, and, when seen from the side, pointed. The abdomen is 

 usually of a greenish black colour, with a metallic gloss and an in- 

 distinct pattern. The female is to me unknown; perhaps I may be 

 unable to distinguish it from small specimens of D. amndinacea $. 

 The species is not confined to Sweden: I have specimens also from 

 Germany (Travemunde, Nurnberg). 



