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CYMOPOUA AFnxIS (A. Milne Edwarda and Bouvier). 

 riate 4G; plate 47, llg, 3. 



Cymopolia dcntata A. JItlne Edwards, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, vol. 8, ISSO, 

 p. 2S (part: spoclinon from Santa Cniz). 



Palicus a/]iitis A. Milne Edwauds aud Bouvter. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat, 

 Paris, vol. 5, ISDO, p. 122, *' la mcr dcs AntiUcs" ; Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zoul., vol. 27, 1002, p. 40, pi. 7, figs. G-11 ; pi. S. H-^s. 1-2 (type-locality, 

 Santa Cruz, 115 fathoms; liolotype. Cat. No. G193, M.C.Z.). 



Palicus atjassizi A. Milne Edwards ami Bouvier. Bull. Mus. Ilist. Nat., 

 I'aris, vol. 5, 1S99, p. 124, "la mcr des Antilles"; Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zoul., vol. 27, 1002, p. 47, expl. of pi. S, figs. 5-12 (type-locality, Barba- 

 dos, GO fathoms; holotype, Cat. No. G.j07, U. C. Z.). 



Palicus a(/assi.:ii A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier, Mem. Mus. Comp. ZooL, 

 vol. 27, 1002, pi. S, figs. 5-12. 



Palicus allcrmitus Ratiiuun, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 20, for 1900, 

 pt 2 (1901), p. 12 (part: male specimen from St. Thomas). 



Diagnosis. — Two acute lateral teetli. Posterior margin of propodiis 

 and dactylus of first ambulatory clothed with shaggy hair in mature 

 male. Dactyli of legs 2 and 3 with posterior margin sinuous. Lobe 

 on merus of legs 2 and 3 obtuse. 



Description. — Xear C. alternata. Carapace covered with tubercles 

 and granules and short hairs. Median sinus of front a deep, narrow 



V. Middle and outer 

 supra - orbital lobes 

 subtriangular, blunt, 

 the m i d d 1 one 

 larger, trending in- 

 ward; outer orbital 



Fio. 121.-CrMorouA AFPiNis^^_o^^^^^ ^^j inclined OUt- 



oumxs or male (J4vi1>>), X G. 



ward and forward, 

 outer margin more or less convex, tip pointed. Two long, outstand- 

 ing, triangular, lateral teeth, hooked forward and sharp, and fol- 

 lowed by a rudimentary tooth. Ridge above posterior margin 

 convex, irregular, composed of transverse, irregidar tubercles. Sub- 

 orbital border oblique, denticulate, inner lobe bilobed, the inner angle 

 sharp and farther advanced than the pter3'gostomian lobe; this is 

 inclined downward and forward and terminates in a subtriangular 

 lobe with a tooth on inner slope. 



Outer surface of larger manus covered with very fine, equal gran- 

 ules. Ambulatory legs with broad but not prominent lobes on an- 

 terior margin of carpus, a larger postero-distal tooth than in alter- 

 nata^ margins of propodus nearly parallel, posterior margins of 

 dactylus sinuous; distal lobe of first merus long, narrow, either acute 

 or obtuse, of second and third merus, broad, triangular and obtuse; 

 posterior margin of propodus and dactj^lus of first leg of mature 

 males, clothed with a shaggy coat of coarse, soft hair. 



Lenffth of sixth segment of male abdomen more than half its width. 



