NO. 4 schmitt: stomatopods 211 



sory carinae usually armed with from 5 to 7 spinules. Crests of 

 submedian teeth of telson usually armed with 4 to 7, occasion- 

 ally 8 or 9 spinules in 2 rows, rarely in 3 rows. Ocular plates 

 more or less transversely elongate, anterolateral angles later- 

 ally produced. Rostral plate with anterolateral angles sharply 

 acute festae,''^ p. 220 



D2. Submedian carinae of telson usually well marked and, 



though closely paralleling median carina, not forming 



so definite an anchor with it posteriorly; median carina 



armed with posterior spinule, as are also submedian 



carinae, which, counting the posterior spinule, are 



armed with 2 or 3 well-separated spinules in a row on 



the carina. 



Fewer spinules in coronet arming knob, 2 to 4 occasionally 

 with not more than one little nodule or tubercle in addition. 

 Crests of submedian teeth of telson armed with from 2 spinules 

 in one row to 4 or 5 in 2 rows. Ocular plates not quite typical 

 of G. festae (s.s.), sometimes somewhat squarish. Anterolateral 

 angles of rostral plate produced, narrowly angulate, apically 

 blunted festae lalihertadensis, p. 223 



Gonodactylus oerstedii Hansen 



Gonodactylus oerstedii Hansen, Ergebn. Plankton Exped., Vol. 2, [Pt.] 

 G. c, p. 65 and footnote, 1895. Bigelow, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 

 Vol. 20, Pt. 2, p. 152, figs. 1, 2, 1900 (1901). Kemp, Mem. 

 Indian Mus., Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 204, 1913. Kemp and Chopra, Rec. 

 Indian Mus., Vol. 22, Pt. 4, p. 309, 1921. Bigelow, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., Vol. 72, No. 4, p. 120, 1931, and synonymy. Lunz, 

 Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, Vol. 51, No. 1, p. 152, fig. 1, 

 1935 ; Bull. Bingham Oceanog. Coll., Vol. 5, Art. 5, p. 4, 1937. 

 Distribution: Atlantic: North Carolina and Bermuda to Brazil, 

 including the Bahamas, West Indies, and Gulf of Mexico; also Fer- 

 nando-Noronha. Pacific: hitherto known only from the Gulf of Califor- 

 nia, but now also from Socorro, Clarion, and Isabel islands and Tenaca- 

 tita Bay, Mexico; Puerto Culebra, Costa Rica; Secas Islands and Bahia 



^^6 This species and its subspecies have a more prickly appearing telson than 

 any of their west coast relatives. Moreover, G. festae is the only one in which there 

 is almost invariably a small, sharp, slender spinule in the angle formed by the 

 lateral lobe with the lateral margin of the carapace. There is no such spine in the 

 subspecies, /. lalihertadensis. 



