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the Albatross October 26, 1904, at Perico Island, Panama, all of the 

 foregoing records are based on material taken by the Hancock Expedi- 

 tions. 



Type: The largest specimen seen of this species, a female from 

 Puerto Culebra, Costa Rica, February 25, 1934 (Hancock Exped. Sta. 

 258-34), has been selected as the type (U.S.N.M. No. 76349). This 

 specimen measures 43 mm. in median length exclusive of rostrum, 

 rostrum 3, carapace 10. This new species was first detected among the 

 stomatopods taken the year before at Bahia Honda, Panama, and in 

 recognition of that discovery is given its name, although the larger, 

 better-developed specimen from Puerto Culebra has been made the type. 



Description: A species standing close to G. festae Nobili, but differ- 

 ing from it in several characters to a degree warranting, it is believed, 

 specific designation. Most distinctive perhaps of these characters of 

 bahiahondensis are the nearly always spiniform anterolateral angles of 

 the rostral plate and the forwardly produced anterolateral angles of the 

 ocular plates, or dorsal processes of the ophthalmic somite. 



The "knob," as we have called it, behind the median carina of the 

 carapace, is armed with no more than 2 small spines or spinules ; one in 

 not quite a third of the specimens ; in only 2 specimens were the spinules 

 replaced by a small nodule, or pair of nodules. 



The median carina of the telson is posteriorly armed with a single 

 spine ; rarely is this represented by a small beadlike or blunted protuber- 

 ance. The submedian carinae, as a rule, are distinctly present and are 

 posteriorly armed, either one or both, in the larger (half the) specimens 

 with a single small spine; they are usually unarmed in the smaller 

 specimens. 



The intermediate carinae are posteriorly spined in nearly all the 

 specimens; in about 4 out of the entire lot the carina is posteriorly more 

 or less blunted off or furnished with a small "bead" ; in more than two 

 thirds of the specimens below and behind the usually spined posterior end 

 of the intermediate carina there is a second and smaller spine, or at 

 least, and more rarely, a small nodule (in 3 or 4 specimens) on one side 

 or the other, usually on both sides ; in only 2 specimens is the posterior 

 terminal spine of the intermediate carina not followed by a spinule or 

 nodulation. 



The crest of the submedian tooth of the telson is armed with one or 

 two spines; only one of the 2 crests in but one specimen was found 

 without armature of any kind, while, on the other hand, in only 3 



