118 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS VOL.21 



mm, and fourth 33.8 mm. Largest specimen, male: length 21.5 mm, 

 width 12.5 mm, rostrum 7.5 mm. Ovigerous female: length 18.3 mm, 

 width 10.9 mm, rostrum 4.7 mm. 



Color in life: Unrecorded. Color in alcohol pale ochre, the chelipeds 

 conspicuously banded with reddish in both sexes. (Crane, of Podochela 

 barbarensis ) 



Habitat: Sand bottom in fully 50 per cent of the cases, often with 

 shell included. Rock bottom in 25 per cent, with mud and coral ac- 

 counting for the remainder. Crane (1937, p. 51) records sand and 

 rocks with weed. 



Depth: 18-125 fathoms; shoalward to one fathom, according to 

 Crane {op. cit.). 



Breeding: Females with ova were encountered most frequently in 

 the open Pacific in June, July, and August; however, there are three 

 February records and one January record from insular localities. An 

 ovigerous female measuring 11.0 mm was dredged at Gorda Bank, 

 Gulf of California, in March, along with males measuring 9.8 to 



12.8 mm. 



Remarks: The following note of Rathbun (1925, p. 57) concerning 

 the holotype is pertinent to the discussion: "The type and only speci- 

 men known is of large size and in a very soft shelled condition. The 

 front is very short and bilobed; in spite of the symmetry of the lobes, 

 it is probable that the rostrum has been accidentally abbreviated, as the 

 basal antennal article extends far beyond it and the antennular cavities 

 are anteriorly incomplete." 



The writer's request for a reexamination of the holotype elicited 

 the following notes from Dr. F. A. Chace, Jr., curator of marine in- 

 vertebrates, U. S. National Museum: The rostrum is probably de- 

 formed as noted by Miss Rathbun, but the only indication of this is the 

 incomplete antennary cavities. It is so symmetrical that it appears un- 

 damaged. The postorbital lobe is spikelike in dorsal view, broad-tipped 

 in posterior view (especially on the right side), with some denticles 

 and many hooked hairs. There are two gastric tubercles in the midline, 

 the posterior much the larger and almost domelike. The cardiac region 

 is depressed due to the soft-shelled condition of the specimen, but it is 

 apparently merely dome-shaped without a distinct tubercle. The hepatic 

 and pterygostomian prominences are spatulate, denticulate distally. 

 The branchial regions are largely smooth, but with a few widely scat- 

 tered tubercles, especially at the margins. The basal antennal segment 

 is convexly ridged ventrally. The merus of the maxillipeds is produced 



