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BULLETIN 15 8, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 CENTROPAGES BRADYI Wheeler 



Figure 59 



Centropages hradyi Wheelee, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1899, vol. 19, p. 174, 

 fig. 12, 1900. 



Occurrence. — Four females from trawl wings, Station 2236, Alba- 

 tross^ off Marthas Vineyard; 30 males and females in surface tow 

 on Georges Banks, September, 1874; 1 female in vertical haul. Sta- 

 tion 20121, Grampus, northwest of Cape Cod. 



FiGCBB 59. — Centropages bradyi: a. Female, dorsal; 6, female, abdomen, ventral; 

 c, male, right first antenna ; d, male, right fifth leg ; e, male, left fifth leg ; 

 f, female, fifth leg. (From W. M. Wheeler) 



Distribution. — Gulf Stream south of Marthas Vineyard 

 (Wheeler) ; Australia, Philippines, tropical Atlantic, southern Pa- 

 cific (Brady) ; California coast (Esterly) ; Gulf Stream off Nova 

 Scotia (Willey) ; Gulf of Maine (Bigelow). 



Color. — Body rather opaque with a large purplish spot in the 

 middle of the thorax; plumes of the second antennae and maxillae 

 orange-yellow at their tips, elsewhere colorless (Wheeler). 



