196 BULLETIN 97, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CYMOPOLIA AFFINIS (A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier). 



Plate 40; plate 47, fig. 3. 



Cymopolia dcntata A. MILNE EDWARDS, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, vol. 8, 1SSO, 

 p. 28 (part: specimen from Santa Crux). 



Fallens affinis A. MILNE EDWARDS ami BOUVIER. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., 

 Paris, vol. 5, 1S09, p. 122, " / mer dcs Antilles"; Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 27, 1002, p. 40, pi. 7, figs. 0-11; pi. 8. figs. 1-2 (type-locality, 

 Santa Cruz, 115 fathoms; holotype, Cat. No. 0493, M.C.X.). 



Palictis ayasislzi A. MILNE EDWARDS and BOUVIER. Bull. Mus. Jlist. NaL, 

 1'aris, vol. 5, 1899, p. 124, "la mcr dcs Antilles"; Mem. Mus. Comp, 

 Zool., vol. 27, 1902, p. 47, expl. of pi. 8, figs. 5-12 (type-locality, Barba- 

 dos, 09 fathoms; holotype, Cat. No. 0507, M. C. Z.). 



Fallens agassizii A. MILNE EDWAKDS and BOUVIEB, Mem. Mus. Comp. ZooL, 

 vol. 27. 1902, pi. 8, figs. 5-12. 



Palictis altcrnatus RATIIBUN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 20, for 1900, 

 pt. 2 (1901), p. 12 (part: male specimen from St. Thomas). 



Diagnosis. Two acute lateral teeth. Posterior margin of propodus 

 and dactylus of first ambulatory clothed with shaggy hair in mature 

 male. Dactyli of legs 2 and 3 with posterior margin sinuous. Lobe 

 on merus of legs 2 and 3 obtuse. 



Description. Near C. alternata. Carapace covered with tubercles 

 and granules and short hairs. Median sinus of front a deep, narrow 



V. Middle and outer 

 supra - orbital lobes 

 subtri angular, blunt, 

 the middle one 

 larger, trending in- 

 ward; outer orbital 



Fio. 121. CTMOTOLIA AFFIXIS. OUTLINE OF FBOXT AXP . .1 J nc i: ne( l ou f. 

 CUBITS or MALE (24515), X G. 



ward and forward, 



outer margin more or less convex, tip pointed. Two long, outstand- 

 ing, triangular, lateral teeth, hooked forward and sharp, and fol- 

 lowed by a rudimentary tooth. Ridge above posterior margin 

 convex, irregular, composed of transverse, irregular tubercles. Sub- 

 orbital border oblique, denticulate, inner lobe bilobed, the inner angle 

 sharp and farther advanced than the pterygostomian lobe; this is 

 inclined downward and forward and terminates in a subtriangular 

 lobe with a tooth on inner slope. 



Outer surface of larger manus covered with very fine, equal gran- 

 ules. Ambulatory legs with broad but not prominent lobes on an- 

 terior margin of carpus, a larger postero-distal tooth than in alter- 

 nata, margins of propodus nearly parallel, posterior margins of 

 dactylus sinuous; distal lobe of first merus long, narrow, either acute 

 or obtuse, of second and third merus, broad, triangular and obtuse; 

 posterior margin of propodus and dactylus of first leg of mature 

 males, clothed with a shaggy coat of coarse, soft hair. 



Length of sixth secpnent of male abdomen more than half its width. 



