242 BULLETIN 152, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 CARPILODES CINCTIMANUS (White) 



Plate 100 



Carpilius cindimanus White, in Jukes, Narrative Voy. H. M. S. Fly, vol. 2, 

 Append. No. 8, 1847, p. 336, pi. 2, fig. 3 (type- localities, Indian Ocean and 

 Eastern Seas; types not in Brit. Mus.) ; List Crust. Brit. Mus. 1847, p. 14, no 

 description, Philippine Islands and Mauritius (specimens in Brit. Mus.).*' 



Liomera cinctimana Dana, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 12, 1851, p. 124. — 

 Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 10, 1871, p. 103. 



Liomera lata Dana, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1852, p. 73 (type-locality, 

 Feejee Islands, type not extant). — Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New 

 York, vol. 10, 1871, p. 104. 



Carpilodes cinctimanus Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 5, 1880, p. 234. — 

 Odhner, Goteborg's K. Vet. Handl., Fjiirde Foljden, vol. 29, No. 1, 1925, p. 14. 



Liomera cocosana Boone, Zoologica, vol. 8, 1927, p. 184, text-fig. 63 (type-locality, 

 Cocos Island; type in Mus. New York Zool. Soc). 



Diagnosis. — Carapace nearly twice as long as broad, barrel form, 

 without granulation ; 2 M incompletely divided. (See diagram, p. 6.) 



Description. — Carapace extremely broad; two lobules on 2 M ante- 

 riorly and on 2 + 3 L, which are united ; mesogastric region faintly 

 delimited. Surface otherwise smooth and closely punctate. Antero- 

 lateral border divided into three coarse lobes separated by deepish 

 grooves; lobe next the orbit not projecting. Anterior margin of 

 merus of outer maxilliped oblique. 



Color. — Light red, sometimes white near the sides in the male; 

 pterygostomian regions white; fingers of chelae black mth white 

 tips, the black color extending in adult male part way along the lower 

 side of the palm, thence upward forming a broad black band around 

 middle of palm, whence the specific name; base of ambulatory dac- 

 tyli red, middle portion white, nail black. 



Measurements. — Male (17795), length of carapace 15.4, width 28.2, 

 width of front 6.1 mm. 



Range. — From Gulf of Aden eastward to Australia, Japan and the 

 islands of the Pacific Ocean. From Cape St. Lucas, Lower Califor- 

 nia, Mexico (Stimpson) to the Galapagos Islands (Boone). 



Material examined. — Western Indian Ocean; 1905; H. M. S. Sea- 

 larJc, J. Stanley Gardiner: Salomon; 1 male, 2 females (Cambridge 

 Mus.). Coetivy; 2 males, 3 females (41169). 



Mauritius; purchased of Henry A. Ward; 3 females (17795). 



Atami Province, Japan; F. Sakamoto; received from Garrett 

 Droppers; 1 female (18858). 



Mexico; from Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento, through A. L. 

 Herrera: Teacapan, Sinaloa, August, 1926; 1 female (60723). Maria 

 Madre Island; March-May, 1927; 1 immature female (60722). 



Mexico: Maria Madre Island; E. part of bay; 5-8 meters; May 

 17, 1925; F. Contreras; California Acad. Sci.; 1 female, returned; 

 1 young (62697). 



" Verified by Dr. Isabella QordoDi 



