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mm, rostrum 5.7 mm, basal width 3.5 mm, cheliped 30 mm, chela 14.4 

 mm, dactyl 5.8 mm (tip broken), ambulatory legs 43, 37.7, 33.3, and 

 31.4 mm. Male specimen: length 16.2 mm, width 10.7 mm. 



Color in life: Rostrum and frontal region dull yellow orange. Gastric, 

 cardiac and intestinal areas vinaceous tawny with a design in white on 

 the cardiac areas. Branchial areas pale gray with a lavender hue. Chelae 

 dull orange yellow. Fingers purplish brown around base, gradually be- 

 coming orange red and fading out to white on tips. Ambulatory legs 

 brownish orange faintly banded. Ventral side dull lilac on abdomen and 

 orange on frontal areas. (Petersen) 



Habitat: With bottom type recorded at each of the 23 stations from 

 which the species was dredged, Pugettia venetiae was found to occur on 

 a sandy substrate in over 50 per cent of the recoveries, with shell also 

 present in 25 per cent of these. Rocky bottom accounted for the re- 

 mainder, with the exception of one station each of mud and coralline. 

 Specimens were remarkably free from attached organisms of any kind ; 

 they are decidedly not "decorators." 



Depth: Hancock specimens were dredged in from 5-50 fathoms; 

 once from 64-65 fathoms. 



Size and sex: The measured female is considerably larger than was 

 the female holotype, which measured 16.7 mm along the midline. The 

 male is also larger than the 13.2 mm male measured by Rathbun (1925, 

 p. 181), but the chelipeds are unsatisfactory, one lacking and the other 

 having the tip of the pollex missing. All considered, a 12.5 mm male 

 with asymmetrical chelae shows the greatest development. A series of 

 two adults and ten young from off San Nicolas Island, station 1123-40, 

 shows growth stages from 4 mm. In even the smallest the supplementary 

 spine between the postorbital and hepatic spines is present as a spinule at 

 a slightly lower level. The smallest ovigerous female measures 12.5 mm, 

 the largest 23.9 mm. 



Breeding: Females with ova were encountered off the northern Chan- 

 nel Islands of Santa Barbara and Anacapa in September and October, 

 respectively, and by C. L. Hubbs at Guadalupe Island, Mexico, in 

 January. 



Remarks: The range of the species is extended northward to Santa 

 Rosa Island and westward to San Miguel Island, California, the depth 

 from 36 to 65 fathoms. The extended gap in distribution from Cortez 

 Bank to Magdalena Bay is filled in by stations at Guadalupe and Cedros 

 Islands, Lower California. 



