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Material examined. — 



Cabanas, Cuba; 2 to 25 fathoms; sand, shell, grass to mud bottom; 

 June 8-9, 1914; station 16, Tomas Barrera Expedition, Henderson 

 and Bartsch, collectors; 1 young (48748). 



Mayaguez, Porto Rico; January 23, 1899; Fish Hawk: on coral reef; 



1 male (24131). 



Playa de Ponce Reef, Porto Rico; February 1, 1899; Fish Hawk; 



2 young (24095) . 



Arroyo, on Lighthouse Reef, Porto Rico; 1899; Fish Hawk; 1 fe- 

 male, 1 young (24096). 



St. Thomas; 1915; Clarence R. Shoemaker; gift of Carnegie Insti- 

 tution: French Bay; M to 23^ fathoms; July 5; station 6; 1 male 

 (50380). Gregerie Bay; 3^ to 2^ fathoms; July 7; station 7; 1 

 young female (50379). St. Thomas Harbor; taken from sponges; 

 July 11; 1 male, 2 females (50377). Drift Bay, Water Island; H to 

 2}4 fathoms; July 15; station 11; 1 young (50378). 



English Harbor, Antigua; shore; 1918; Barbados-Antigua Exped., 

 Univ. Iowa; 1 female (Mus. S. U. I.). 



Guadeloupe; 1 male, 1 female (Geneva Mus.). Two specimens, 

 cotypes (Paris Mus.). 



Barbados; 1918; Barbados- Antigua Exped., Univ. Iowa: Pelican 

 Island, Barbados; 1 male, 1 young female (Mus. S. U. I.). Needham 

 Point; May 18; 4 males, 1 immature female (Mus. S. U. I.). Off 

 Needham Point; 84 fathoms; rocky; station 20; 2 males, 3 females 

 (Mus. S. U. I.). Okra Reef; May 13; 6 males, 6 females, all small 

 (Mus. S. U. I.). Barbados; some from coral heads; 13 males, 6 fe- 

 males (3 ovigerous), 3 young (Mus. S. U. I.). 



Caracas Bay, Curasao; C. J. van der Horst: In Maeandrina; 

 April 7, 1920; 1 male, 3 young (56373). In sponge; May 3, 1920; 

 1 ovigerous female (56376). 



MITHRAX (MITHRACULUS) AREOLATUS (Lockington) 



Plate 154, fig. 1 



Mithrax areolatus Lockington, Proc. California Acad. Sci., vol. 7, 1876 



(1877), p. 71 [9] (type-localities, Port Escondido and San Jos6 Island, 



both in the Gulf of California; types not extant). 

 Mithraculus areolatua? Streets and. Kingsley, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 9, 



1877, p. 104. 

 Mithraculus areolatus Kingsley, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, 1879, 



p. 146. 

 Miiraculus areolatus Cano, Boll. Soc. Nat. Napoli, ser. 1, vol. 3, 1889, 



p. 186. 



Diagnosis. — Carapace deeply areolate. Three antero-lateral teeth, 

 first and second obtuse, third slender and acute. Wrist prominently 

 tuberculate. 



