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Measurements. — Male, holotype (2949), length 7.5, width 5.5 mm. 

 Male (24142), length 8.7, width 7 mm. 



Range. — Porto Rico; Martinique; Brazil, north of Bahia. Depth, 

 5K to 18 fathoms. 



Material examined. — 



Porto Rico; 1899; Fisli Hawk: Mayaguez Harbor; Black buoy 

 entrance, N. by W. K W., 3^ mile; 12 to 18 fathoms; S. M.; temp. 

 26° C; January 20; station 6061; 1 male, 2 females (24142). Off 

 Porto Real; Point Guaniquilla, S. M E., 2 miles; S^^o fathoms; Co. 

 S.; temp. 26° C; January 25; station 6074; 1 female (24143). 



Off coast of Brazil, North of Bahia; lat. 11° 49' S.; long. 37° 27' W.; 

 17 fathoms; January 18, 1872; U. S. C. S. S. Hassler; 1 male, figured 

 type (2949, M. C. Z.). 



COLLODES LEVIS Rathbun 



Plate 38, figs. 1 and 2 



Collodes levis Rathbun, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 20, for 1900, pt. 2 

 (1901), p. 56, text-fig. 9 (tj^pe-locality, off Vieques, 15 fathoms; holotvpe, 

 Cat. No. 23772, U.S.N.M.). 



Fig. 46.— Collodes levis, female 



Fig. 45.— Collodes levis, male (24083), left chela, X 24 



Diagnosis. — Postorbital lobe small. No 

 median spines on carapace or abdomen. 

 Carapace smooth. Two very small rostral 

 teeth. 



Description. — Carapace narrow, moder- (23772), dorsal view of carapace, 



^ , -^ - ^ 1-1 X 2.5. (After Rathbun) 



ately convex, pubescent, smooth, without 



spines, tubercles, or granules. Rostrum medially sulcate, tip minutely 

 emarginate forming two small, blunt lobes or teeth*. Interantennuiar 

 tooth little developed. Postorbital tooth very small, reaching only 

 about one-third the length of the eyestalk. Male sternum nearly 

 smooth, abdomen smooth in both sexes. The vertical plate along 

 the inner margin of the basal antennal article is entire and anteriorly 

 very prominent; outer margin feebly denticulate. The only male 

 known is immature; its chela is scarcely more enlarged than in the 

 female. 



Measurements. — Male (24083), length of carapace 5.4, width 4 

 mm.; female (23772), length 5.5, width 4.6 mm 



Range. — Porto Rico; 14^ to 16 fathoms. 



Material examined. — See table, page 118. 



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