74 Bulletin, Vanderhilt Marine Museum, Vol. II 



Podochela deflexifrons Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. 7, 



p. 197, 1860. 

 Driope falcipoda Desbonne, in Desbonne and Schkamm, Crust. 



Guadeloupe, p. 2, 1867. 

 Podonema riisei Stimpson, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 2, p. 126, 1871. 



— Mieks, Joum. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 14, p. 643, 1879. 



Podonema hypoglypha Stimpson, ihid., p. 127. 



Podochela spatulifrons A. Milne Edwaeds, Crust. Reg. Mex., p. 192, 



pi. 34, figs. 2-2f, 1879.— Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 17, 



p. 48, 1894. 

 Podochela hyphoglypha A. Milne Edwards, ihid., p. 194. — Rathbun, 



ibid., p. 49. 

 Coryrhynchus riisei Kingsley, Amer. Nat., vol. 13, p. 585, 1879 ; Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 31, p. 384, 1879. 



Genus : ANASIMUS A. Milne Edwards. 

 Anasimus latus Eathbun. 



Plate 20. 



Diagnostic characters : Carapace broadly ovate with four median 

 spines ; two spines in longitudinal series on the branchial region. In- 

 terantennular tooth shallow. 



Type: Taken at "Albatross" station 2378, in the Gulf of Mexico and 

 deposited in the United States National Museum. 



Distribution : From South Carolina to the Florida Keys ; Gulf of 

 Mexico; one record west of Trinidad. 



Material examined : One male dredged in 70 f ms., south of Mar- 

 quesas Keys, Florida, March 2, 1924. 



Technical description : Carapace 18 mm. long, 16 mm. maximum 

 width, broadly ovate, convex, with the median region elevated, the 

 frontal part subtriangulate, the lateral and posterior part broadly 

 rounded. The rostrum is short, triangular, with the tip produced into 

 an acute, short, up-tilted spine, carinated medially on the upper sur- 

 face and with the lateral edges granulose. The basal antennal seg- 

 ment is produced into a sharp tooth at its external distal angle, which 

 is visible dorsally on either side at the base of the rostrum. There is, 

 in addition to this spine, a stocky downward and forward directed 



