142 BULLETIN 97, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



First leg much slenderer and shorter than second; second leg 

 nearly as long as third and less stout, its propodus tapering distally; 



^^ >^-~\ fii'st and second dac- 

 tyls slender, slightly 

 curved, third and 

 fourth dactyls stout, 

 short, and more curved 

 but not hooked; third 

 _ leg very wide, merus 



Fig. 80. — pixnixa tomextosa, female holotype, ex- ^ little more than one 



LAnCED. Oj CUELA ; bj THIRD LEO ; C, FIKST LEO. (AFTEB Jlfld ft half tlmCS aS 



Holmes.) , . , , 



long as wide, propodus 

 nearly square; fourth leg similar in shape but much smaller. 



Measurements. — Female holotype, length of carapace 7.5, width of 

 same 14 mm. (After Holmes.) 



Range. — San Clemente Island, California, to Angeles Bay, Gulf of 

 California. 



Specimen examined. — San Clemente Island, California; H. N. 

 Lowe, collector; 1 female without chelipeds (29048). 



PINNIXA FABA (Dana). 



Plate 31, figs. 1-4. 



Pinnothera faba Dana, Proc. Acad. Nnt. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, 1S.51, p. 

 253 [7] (type-locality, Pui^et Sound; type not extant); U. S. Expl. 

 Exped., vol. 13, Crust., pt, 1, 1S52, p. 3S1 ; atlas, 1S55, pi. 24, fif?. 4 a, h, c. 



Pinni.ia faba Stimpsox, Journ. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, 1S57, p. 470 

 [301. — Cooi'icR, Repts. Explor. & Survey, Miss. River to Pacific O., vol. 

 12, book 2, ISGO, p. 3S7.— Nkwcombe, Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. British Co- 

 lumbia, 3S93, p. 2~). — Holmes, Occas. Papers California Acad. Sci., vol. 

 7, 1900, p. 93.— llATHHUN, Harriman Alaska Exped., vol. 10, 1904, p. 

 1S8 (part; not from Sitka or San Pedro). — AVeymouth, Leland Stan- 

 ford Jr. Univ. Publ., Univ. ser. No. 4, 1910, p. 59 (part), not speci- 

 men fn^ni Jlonterey Bay or text-fig. 7. Probably not Pinnixa faba Has- 

 well. Cat. Australian Crust., 1SS2, p. 113, from Port Denison, Australia. 



Pinnotheres piha Bate in Lord's Naturalist la Vancouver Id. and Brit. 

 Col., vol. 2. ISGG. p. 271. 



Plnnira lUtoralis Weymouth, Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Publ., Univ. 

 ser. No. 4, 1010, p. 58 (part: text-fig. 5 and examples from Puget 

 Sound ) . 



Diagnosis. — Carapace oblong. Orbits oval. Dactyli of legs 

 strongly curved. Thumb horizontal, a little shorter than movable 

 finger. Fingers of female not gaping. Merus of third leg of mule 

 more than twice as long as wide. 



Description of male. — Carapace firm, smooth, rounding steeply 

 downward in all directions, truncate at the sides; gastric region high, 

 not cristate. Antero-lateral margin marked by a low, blunt ridge, 



