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outer, \vhich is a little convex; outer lobe -with rounded outer corner 

 and a short inner spine. Pterygostominn lobe in an oblique plane, 

 broadly triangular, acute, concealing little of orbital lobe. 



Right cheliped very heavy, palm nearly as wide as superior length, 

 granules of outer surface chiefly in two longitudinal bands, one 

 through the center and one near lower margin. 



Ambulatory legs very wide; merus joints strongly cristate, one 

 crest through middle of upper surface; distal lobe of legs 1 and 2 

 triangular, sharp-pointed, of third leg shorter, end rounded; lobes 

 of carpus well developed, the distal lobe blunt in first leg, acute in 

 first and second; propodus of leg 1 with a shaggy coat of hair along 

 posterior border in male only; propodus of 2 and 3 very wide and 

 widening distally; dactylus wide and with sinuous posterior margin. 



Measurements. Male holotype, greatest length of carapace 13.5, 

 width of same 15.7, length of second leg 25.7 mm. 



Range. Lower California, Mexico: off Cape St. Lucas. 



Material examined. Off Cape St. Lucas, Lower California; lati- 

 tude 22 52' 00" N.; longitude 109 55' 00" W.; 31 fathoms; rky.; 

 temp. 71.1; May 1, 1888; station 2820, Albatross; 3 males (1 is 

 Lolotype), 4 females (21590). 



CYMOPOLIA FAXONI (Rathbnn). 



Plate 45, figs. 2 and 3. 



Paliciis faxoni RATHBUN, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, 1897, p. 00 

 (type-locality, off Cape Hatteras, Albatross station 2o9G; holotype, 

 Cat. No. 19841, U.S.N.M.). 



Diagnosis. Two acute lateral teeth. Merus of legs 1-3, with a 

 large, flat, acute, distal spine. Tip of pterygostomian lobe sharp. 



Description. Carapace shaped as in the varietal form of alter- 

 nata that is, with the sides distinctly converging anteriorly; cara- 



pace of adult female very con- 

 vex, surface hairy and with 

 numerous tubercles and gran- 

 ules; the granules of depres- 

 sions are smaller and more 

 abundant than in alternata. 



FIG. 120. CTMOPOLIA FAXOXI. OUTLINE OF p our l^gg o f f ron t 



FUOXT AND OUniTS OP FEMALE UOLOTYPE, , , 



x c. marked, outer pair not much 



wider than inner, median 



emargination deeper than wide, its end rounded, lateral emargina- 

 tions shallow. Middle and outer teeth of supraorbital margin tri- 

 angular, subacute, middle one equilateral, outer one narrow and sepa- 

 rated from outer tooth of orbit by a shallower sinus; this last 



