No. 10 GARTH : BRACHYURAN FAUNA OF THE GALAPAGOS 503 



merus of the second. In the Wenman Island specimens there is sufficient 

 difference between merus lengths of the male and female to allow the 

 male first leg to overreach and the female not. 



Gymopolia velerae Garth 

 Plate 85, Fig. 1 



Cymopolia velerae Garth, Allan Hancock Pac. Exped., vol. 5, no. 2, p. 

 25, pi. 10, figs. 1-4. 



Type locality. — Off Daphne Minor Island, Galapagos Islands, 70-80 

 fms. 



Type.—ARY no. 386. 



Range. — Throughout the Galapagos Islands, exclusive of the three 

 northern islands, in depths of 3-80 fms (Velero III). (See Remarks 

 below). 



Diagnosis. — Five anterolateral teeth diminishing in size posteriorly. 

 Outer suborbital lobe trilobed, inner sinus narrow. Outer slope of frontal 

 lobe continuous with preorbital lobe. Supraorbital teeth broad, truncate. 

 Merus of leg 2 with distal spine acuminate. Carapace 1.4 times wider 

 than long ; a sinuous posterior line of tubercles. 



Material examined (111 specimens from 16 stations). — 

 55-33. Lat. 1° 03' 30'' S, Long. 90° 17' 30" W, 60 fms, Feb. 5, 1933, 



1 male. 



147-34. Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island, 30 fms, Jan. 13, 1934, 1 



female. 

 171-34. East of Wreck Bay, Chatham Island, 35-40 fms, Jan. 21, 



1934, 3 females. 

 182-34. James Bay, James Island, 30 fms, Jan. 24, 1934, 1 male. 

 185-34. Cartago Bay, Albemarle Island, 32 fms, Jan. 25, 1934, 16 



males, 15 females (5 ovig.), 3 fragments. 

 186-34. Cartago Bay, Albemarle Island, 32 fms, Jan. 25, 1934, 10 



males, 2 ovig. females, 1 young. 

 190-34. Lat. 0° 55' S, Long. 90° 30' W, 58-60 fms, Jan. 26, 1934, 



3 males, 7 females (3 ovig.), 2 young. 

 198-34. NW of Post Office Bay, 55-65 fms, Jan. 29, 1934, 1 ovig. 



female. 

 201-34. Off Gardner Bay, Hood Island, 25-35 fms, Jan. 31, 1934, 4 



males, 1 young. 

 318-35. Off Gordon Rocks, Indefatigable Island, 45 fms, Dec. 8, 1934, 



2 females ( 1 ovig. ) . 



324-35. Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island, 45 fms, Dec. 10, 1934, 2 

 females. 



