2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 64, 



Measurements. — Male holotype, length of carapace 45 mm., width 

 without spines 35 mm. 



Description. — Differs from P. cuspidata^ in having five median 

 spines on the carapace, only three spines on the branchial margin, a 

 slender, acuminate rostral spine, the manus of the male cheliped 

 elongate, an erect spine near the proximal end of the merus of the 

 ambulatory legs, and a fringe of hair on each side of the dactyls, 



EUPLEURODON PERUVIANUS, new species. 



Holotype. — Female, ovigerous, Cat. No. 40462, United States Na- 

 tional Museum. North end of Ferrol Bay (Chimbote), Peru; col- 

 lected by E. E. Coker. 



Measurements. — Female holotype, length of carapace to end of ros- 

 trum 10 mm., length of rostrum 2.2 mm., greatest width of carapace 

 8.2 mm. 



DescHption. — Carapace narrower between the antero-lateral teeth 

 than between the postero-lateral teeth. Rostrum a third as long as 

 the postfrontal part of the carapace and half as broad as long. A 

 preocular tooth present. No small tooth on lateral margin between 

 the two -large teeth or lobes. 



PUGETTIA VENETIAE, new species. 



Holotype. — Female, ovigerous. Cat. No. 50268, United States Na- 

 tional Museum. Five miles off Newport Beach, California ; received 

 from the Venice Marine Biological Station. 



Measurements. — Female holotype, median length of carapace 16.7 

 mm., length of horns 4.4 mm., width of carapace, spines excluded, 

 13.2 mm. 



Description. — Carapace lumpy, each lump or boss furnished with 

 one or more tubercles, as follows: Four gastric of which two are 

 median, two lateral, a little behind the anterior median tubercle; one 

 cardiac ; three intestinal, arranged transversely ; four or five branchial. 

 Lateral spines three, one branchial, two hepatic; the branchial and 

 the posterior of the hepatic spines are larger, curved and with slen- 

 der tips directed forward ; the minor hepatic spine is a little below 

 the level of the major one and is straight. Postorbital spine isolated, 

 a little behind the eye, slender. Supraocular eave less expanded over 

 the eye than in typical Pugettia. Wrist and margins of arm spinous. 



MENAETHIOPS PORTORICENSIS, new species. 



Holotype. — Female, Cat, No. F2628, American Museum of Natural 

 History. One and a half miles south of Cana Gorda Islands, near 

 Guanica Harbor, Porto Rico, 26 fathoms. 



•Stimpson, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 2, 1871, p. 110. 



