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In some of the smaller specimens the lateral tooth or lobe is obsolescent 

 or but barely indicated ; in the larger specimens at hand it is well marked 

 but blunt. 



The anterolateral angles of the rostral plate, although more prom- 

 inent and angulated than in G. oerstedii with Pacific type telson, are 

 nevertheless somewhat blunt in many of the specimens; in a number, as 

 for instance the specimen taken for the holotype, they are subacute, but 

 never spiniform as in G. bahiahondensis. 



The ocular plates, dorsal processes of the ophthalmic somite, some- 

 what resemble those of G. bahiahondensis, but appear to be more squarish. 

 They do not seem to be particularly distinctive of the species, nor do I 

 find anything especially characteristic about the uropods that would assist 

 in specific differentiation. 



Gonodactylus bahiahondensis, new species 



Gonodactylus oerstedii var. festae Bigelow, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, 

 Vol. 72, No. 4, p. 124, pi. 2, figs. 3, 4, 1931 (part, all but synony- 

 my, and reference to specimens pertaining to works cited in the 

 synonymy). 



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Fig. 31. Gonodactylus bahiahondensis, female holotype, from 

 Puerto Culebra, Costa Rica (Hancock Exped. Sta. 258-34, Febru- 

 ary 25, 1934). a. telson; b. rostral plate and ocular scales. 



Distribution: Puerto Culebra, Costa Rica; Bahia Honda, Secas 

 and Perico Islands, Panama; Port Utria and Gorgona Island, Colombia; 

 and Cape San Francisco, Ecuador. Except for a single specimen taken by 



