BRACHYURA AND MACRURA 287 



Family PALINURID^. 

 Panulirus penicillatus (Olivier). 



Wenman Island, December, 3 specimens. 



Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island, i specimen. 



Distribution. — Recorded from the Red Sea, via Indian Ocean to 

 the South Pacific at Tahiti, Fijis, etc. Honolulu {Albatross) ; Waiawa 

 Kanai, Hawaiian Islands (Valdemar Kundsen, collector) ; Chatham 

 Island, Galapagos (Dr. W. H. Jones, U. S. N., collector). 



Family PEN^IDiE. 

 Penaeus brevirostris Kingsley. 



Peneus brevirostris Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 98, 1878. 

 Penceiis cattaliculatus Holmes (not Olivier), Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2), iv, 581, 



1895. i-.^ 



Penaus californiensis Holmes, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad.^Sci., vii, 218, pi. iv, 



f. 64-69, 1900. 



Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island, Feb. S, i male. 



This species differs from P. brasiliensis Latreille in its shorter and 

 higher rostrum ; in full grov^^n P. brasiliensis the rostrum exceeds the 

 antennular peduncle ; in P. brevirostris it does not. The dorsal 

 grooves reach nearer the posterior margin of the carapace in P. brevi- 

 rostris ., and posteriorly they are parallel, not as in P. brasiliensis 

 somewhat convergent. The thoracic feet are shorter and a little stouter 

 in P. brevirostris. The form of the petasma and thelycum is also 

 specifically different from that in P. brasilietisis. 



P. caiialictilatus Olivier differs from P. brevirostris^ according to 

 Kishinouye,^ in having only one tooth under the rostrum, in the median 

 dorsal groove of the carapace being nearly equal in breadth to the 

 lateral grooves, in the first pair of feet unispinose, and the different 

 shape of the thelycum. 



Distribution. — A huge female, 17.8 cm. long, was taken at San 

 Diego, Cal., by Dr. D. S. Jordan, February, iSSo; a smaller male, 

 by the Albatross off Santa Monica, Cal. San Francisco Bay and near 

 Anaheim, Cal. (Holmes). This is undoubtedly the species recorded 

 by Kingsley from the west coast of Nicaragua and by Mr. Richard 

 Rathbun under the name of P. brasiliensis., as being brought to the 

 San Francisco markets in 1S79; the latter notes the large size (7 

 inches). There are many specimens in the National Museum, rang- 

 ing from Lower California to Panama. 



ijour. Fisheries Bureau, Tokyo, Japan, viii, pp. 6 and 11, pi. i, and pi. vii, 

 fig. I, 1900. 



