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Gonodactylus festae Nobili 



Gonodactylus festae Nobili, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Univ. Torino, Vol. 

 16, No. 415, p. 53, 1901. Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., Vol. 4, 

 No. 1, pp. 153, 204, 1913. 



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

 Vol. 72, No. 4, p. 124, 1931, synonymy only (description of 

 specimen and figs. 3, 4, pi. 2, have in the present paper been 

 referred to G. bahiahondensis) . 



Fig, 32. Gonodactylus festae, female, from Salinas Bay, Costa 

 Rica (Hancock Exped. Sta. 474-35, February 10, 1935). a. tel- 

 son; b. rostral plate and ocular scales; c. underside of right later- 

 al tooth or lobe to show spinule typically occurring in angle 

 formed by the lobe with the lateral margin of the carapace, 

 much enlarged. 



Distribution: Nobili's original type material consisted of 2 speci- 

 mens from Darien [Gulf of San Miguel, Panama],^''' one from Punta 

 Santa Elena, and one from the Bay of Santa Elena, Ecuador. Since 

 then, specimens have been obtained from as far north as Salinas Bay, 

 Costa Rica, but not farther south than Santa Elena Bay. From between 

 these extremes I have seen specimens both on the San Francisco Reef, 

 Panama City, and on Taboga Island (S. F. Hildebrand, coll., February 

 13 and March 31, 1937, respectively) ; and from Bahia Honda, Panama; 

 Port Utria and Cabita Bay, Colombia ; and south of Manta, La Libertad, 

 and Santa Elena Point, Ecuador (Hancock Expeditions). 



77 Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, Vol. 12, No. 280, p. 1, 1897. 



