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10.5 mm. Lastly, the dactyl of the fourth ambulatory leg, which ap- 

 proximately equals in length its propodus in P. veleronis, falls con- 

 siderably short of this in P. latimanus. 



Podochela lobifrons Rathbun 

 Plate H, Fig. 1 ; Plate 8, Fig. 1 



Podochela (Coryrhynchus) lobifrons Rathbun, 1893b, p. 226. 



Podochela barbarensis Rathbun, 1924a, p. 1 ; type locality, off Brockway 



Point, Santa Rosa Island, California, 38-45 fathoms, Albatross 



station 4431; male holotype, U.S.N.M. No. 48256; 1925, p. 54, 



pi. 20, figs. 3, 4, text-fig. 13. Crane, 1937, p. 51. 



Podochela lobifrons Rathbun, 1925, p. 57, pi. 11, figs. 3, 4, text-fig. 15. 



Type: Male holotype, U.S.N.M. No. 17331, length 20.5 mm, width 

 18 mm. 



Type locality: Off Abreojos Point, Lower California, Mexico, 58 

 fathoms, Albatross station 3044. 



Localities subsequently recorded, with collectors: California: off 

 Brockway Point, Santa Rosa Island, 38-45 fathoms, type locality of 

 Podochela barbarensis, Albatross (Rathbun, 1924a) ; off Santa Catalina 

 Island, 50 fathoms, H. N. Lowe (Rathbun, 1925). Mexico: west 

 coast of Lower California: west of Los Coronados Islands, 48-50 

 fathoms, Scripps Institution (Rathbun, 1925) ; Cedros Island, 60 

 fathoms, Zaca (Crane) ; Gulf of California: Arena Bank and Santa 

 Inez Bay, 1-50 fathoms, Zaca (Crane). [All the above as Podochela 

 barbarensis Rathbun.] 



Atlantic analogue: None. A Pacific north temperate species. 



Diagnosis: Rostral spine from one-half to three-fifths carapace 

 length. A small postorbital spine. Hepatic and pterygostomian regions 

 tipped by a strap-shaped spine. First ambulatory leg three times length 

 of carapace, including rostrum, its slender, unarmed dactyl equaling 

 one-third of the propodal length. Two median tubercles on first ab- 

 dominal segment. Dactylus of fourth leg equal to two-thirds length of 

 propodus. Manus of male inflated, one tooth in gape. Curved hair count 

 16-18. Sternum deeply grooved. 



Description: A hairy species. Cardiac region with a large conical 

 elevation; two median gastric tubercles, the anterior the smaller; two 

 blunt median tubercles on first segment of abdomen. A prominent strap- 

 shaped spine on hepatic region; a small, similar one on the ptery- 

 gostomian ridge, and a still smaller, postorbital spine; some spinules in 



