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Breeding: Females with eggs were taken in Mendocino County, 

 California, in June, in Sonoma County in January, February, and 

 March, in Monterey County in February and August, San Luis Obispo 

 County in December, Santa Barbara County in March, and off Santa 

 Cruz Island in December. 



Remarks: The southern limit of range of Mimulus foliatus, long 

 established as Monterey Bay (with the exception of an unsubstantiated 

 record from Mazatlan of A. Milne Edwards), has been extended south- 

 ward to Point Arguello by Hancock Foundation collectors, and to Santa 

 Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands by Velero dredgings. 



Genus PUGETTIA Dana 



Pugettia Bana, 1851a, p. 268; 1851b, p. 433; 1852, pp. 84, 116; 1853, 

 p. 1421. Holmes, 1900, p. 24. Stimpson, 1907, p. 24. Schmitt, 1921, 

 p. 205. Rathbun, 1925, p. 167. 

 Epialtus (Taliepus) A. Milne Edwards, 1878, p. 138 [part: E. (T.) 

 productus] . 



Type: Pugettia gracilis Dana, by subsequent designation of Miers 

 (1879c, p. 650). 



Description: Carapace suboblong or ovate-oblong, tuberculate or 

 uneven, with two prominent, angular, lateral projections, separated by a 

 concave interspace. Supraorbital eave well developed, advanced to form 

 a preocular tooth ; postorbital tooth commonly formed by the anterior 

 angle of the hepatic expansion. Rostrum bifid. Antennae visible at sides 

 of rostrum, basal article rather broad, next two articles flattened. Merus 

 of maxillipeds broad, anterolateral angle dilated, anterointernal angle 

 notched for the insertion of the palpus. Chelipeds of male well developed, 

 merus trigonal, palm dilated and compressed, fingers usually gaping at 

 base. Ambulatory legs subcylindrical, the penultimate article not dilated 

 and compressed. 



Abdomen composed of seven segments in both sexes. (Rathbun, 1925) 



The genus characterized above includes one species, Pugettia pro- 

 ducta (Randall), which has been regarded as an Epialtus, sensu lato, 

 by authors prior to Rathbun (1925), and as an Epialtus (Taliepus), 

 sensu stricto, by A. Milne Edwards (1878). Although of large size, it 

 is here treated under Dana's genus, rather than A. Milne Edwards's 

 group, out of consideration for its depressed carapace, that of Taliepus 

 nuttalli and its congeners, T. dentatus and T. marginatus, being highly 



