PART 1 GARTH : PACIFIC OXYRHYNCHA 1 1 1 



Podochela veleronis, new species 

 Plate G, Figs. 1-7; Plate H, Fig. 5 ; Plate 8, Fig. 2 



Podochela veleronis (Garth MS) Garth, 1948, p. 22. 



Type: Male holotype and female allotype, Cat. No. 393, Allan 

 Hancock Foundation, from Maria Magdalena Island, Tres Marias 

 Islands, Mexico, 3-5 fathoms, May 9, 1939; one male and two female 

 paratypes, same locality and date; specimens collected by Allan Hancock 

 expedition of 1939 at Velero III station 971-39. 



Diagnosis: Carapace smooth, broad at base, branchial regions 

 anteriorly tuberculate. Tip of rostrum bifurcate. Neck narrow; a small 

 postorbital tooth. Ridge of basal antennal article lamellate. First walking 

 leg two times length of carapace, dactyli of all legs spinulous. Dactyl of 

 fourth leg three-fifths times propodus. Curved hair count 4. A small 

 species. 



Description: Carapace broad, pyriform, superficially glabrous in 

 appearance but microscopically covered with fine pile and occasional 

 clusters of hooked hairs. Regions delimited by smooth, bare depressions. 

 Gastric region moderately turgid, bearing one small tubercle with a 

 second faintly suggested, and traversed by two rows of hooked hairs, 

 one anteriorly, the other posteriorly. Cardiac region highest, conical, the 

 cone surmounted by a tubercle. Hepatic region small, obtusely toothed. 

 Branchial regions extensive and slightly elevated, bearing a double row 

 of curved hairs more longitudinally than transversely directed, and with 

 two or three small tubercles on their anterolateral margins. Carapace 

 slightly flaring toward ambulatories. Pterygostomian region similarly 

 armed with small tubercles, some visible in dorsal view. Rostrum pro- 

 longed into a stout spine twice as long as basal width, and nearer one- 

 third than one-fourth postrostral length ; tip bifurcate, two double rows 

 of yellow hooked hairs above. Eyes borne on short, thick stalks, corneas 

 ovoid, scarcely acuminate. A small postorbital tooth nearer eyestalk than 

 hepatic tooth. Basal antennal article narrowing anteriorly, median ridge 

 well defined, lamellate; inner margin recurving. Antennae little longer 

 than rostrum, first free segment short. Ischium of third maxilliped with 

 anterointernal angle sharpened but not produced ; merus broader than 

 long, produced at inner angle into a sharp, thin blade; first segment of 

 palpus compressed at right angles to merus, bearing two spinules on its 

 outer and a lobe on its inner margin. 



Chelipeds roughened with spines and tubercles, hairy; merus with 

 three lobes on outer inferior margin, three spines on inner; carpus 



