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inner surface, and an outer row of bead granules similar to those on 

 carpus and merus ; manus widening distally, greatest height one-half 

 times length ; dactyl strongly curving downward, spinulous-ridged, meet- 

 ing pollex with a wide gape; pollex curving upward, not constricted at 

 base. Minor manus with superior crest toothed at mid-point, widening 

 little distally, lower margin straight; fingers closing without gape, tips 

 crossing. 



Abdomen of male with segments 3-5 fused, narrowest at base of sixth 

 segment, seventh segment triangular. 



Material examined: In addition to the male holotype from Port 

 Utria, Choco, Colombia, and the female allotype from Salinas Bay, 

 Costa Rica, previously recorded (Garth, 1940), a male from Salinas 

 Bay, Costa Rica, same station and date, from Hancock collections. This 

 specimen, together with the male obtained by the Askoy off the coast of 

 Ecuador (Garth, 1948), increases to four the known representation of 

 this rare species. (See Table 107) 



Measurements: Male specimen from Costa Rica: length 6.0 mm, 

 width 8.1 mm, rostrum 0.6 mm, width 0.9 mm, exorbital width 2.0 

 mm, cheliped : merus 4.0 mm, manus 5.3 mm, dactylus 2.2 mm, height 

 of palm 3.0 mm. Female allotype: length 4.5 mm, width 6.7 mm. 



Color in life: Not recorded. 



Habitat: Coarse sand bottom; rock and corallines. 



Depth: 1.5 to 15 fathoms. The "shore" station from which the type 

 specimen was reported is believed to have been shallow water. 



Size and sex: Males are from 4.9 (the holotype) to 6.0 mm, the 

 single female (allotype) 4.5 mm in length. 



Breeding: An ovigerous female of the species is yet to be found. 



Remarks: Had the larger male from Salinas Bay been available at 

 the time of description of the species, it, rather than the male from Port 

 Utria, would undoubtedly have been selected as holotype. This 

 would have avoided the undesirable feature of having holotype and allo- 

 type come from separate localities. In such an event the name "colom- 

 biana," given for the country of origin of the holotype, would have been 

 inappropriate and some other would probably have been chosen. Such 

 designations, once made, are binding, and rightly so ; and it is fortunate 

 that no great harm has resulted therefrom. Features distinguishing Het- 

 erocrypta colombiana from Cryptopodia hassleri, the Pacific parthenopid 

 that it most closely resembles, as well as from Heterocrypta granulata, 

 its Caribbean counterpart, are set forth in an earlier paper. (Garth, 

 1940) 



