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The resemblance of this species to Antilibinia, mentioned by Rath- 

 bun (1925, p. 182), does not hold up under comparison of actual speci- 

 men material, in this case the male of A. smithi MacLeay referred to by 

 Stebbing (1910, p. 287), borrowed from the British Museum (Natural 

 History) through the kindness of Dr. Isabella Gordon. Pugettia venetiae 

 appears much more spinulous throughout and has a subhepatic spine that 

 is lacking in Antilibinia. In point of length of rostrum, slenderness of 

 basal antennal article and length of antennal flagellum, elongation of 

 cheliped, slenderness of ambulatory legs, large eye, orientation of post- 

 orbital spine and shape of external maxilliped it suggests rather Chorilia 

 of the Pisinae, to which Pugettia is related through the scyriform male 

 first pleopod. 



Genus TALIEPUS A. Milne Edwards 



Epialtus Milne Edwards, 1834, p. 344 (part). 



Epialtus (Taliepus) A. Milne Edwards, 1878, p. 138 (part). 



Epialtus (Antilibinia) Miers, 1879c, p. 650 (part: the American 



species). 

 Taliepus Rathbun, 1925, p. 162. 



Type: Epialtus nuttalli Randall, type of Taliepus A. Milne Ed- 

 wards by subsequent designation of Rathbun (1925). 



Description: Carapace broadly oval, convex in all directions, smooth, 

 armed laterally with from two to four teeth, mostly small, and following 

 the outline of the carapace. Postocular and preocular tooth small or 

 absent. Rostrum inclined, sides convergent, tip bidentate. Antennae hid- 

 den, or partly visible at sides of rostrum ; basal article subtriangular. 



Chelipeds strong; fingers with tips excavate or spoon-shaped, gaping 

 in the old male. Ambulatory legs stout, subcylindrical ; dactyls strongly 

 curved, two rows of spinules beneath. Large species. (Rathbun) 



Range: Discontinuous. North Pacific from Santa Barbara, Califor- 

 nia, to Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Mexico, including Guadalupe 

 Island. South Pacific from Callao, Peru, to Port Otway, Magallanes, 

 Chile, including San Felix Island. Not Brazil (Bell) nor Galapagos 

 Islands (Bell) ; doubtfully Panama (Rathbun). Shore to 50 fathoms. 



It is of interest to note that A. Milne Edwards, who first proposed 

 Taliepus as a subgenus of Epialtus, failed to include Taliepus marginatus, 

 but did include Epialtus (T.J productus, a species since transferred to 

 Pugettia. 



