654 ViNNIE ReAM StOüT, 



the seven-jointed flag-ellum. Lower lip large. Maiidible witli veiy 

 large palp, 3-jointed, the tliird witli very long plumose setae; cutting- 

 plates dentate; spines in spiiie-row; molar well developed. Maxilla 1, 

 inner plates small, armed witli several very fine setae; outer plate 

 witli ten tootlied spines; palp two-jointed, the second Joint longer 

 than the outer plate, tipped with. spines. Maxilla 2, inner plate 

 fringed at apex and on inner margin with long spinules; outer plate 

 apically fringed. Maxillipeds, inner plate tipped with tliree tiny 

 spines and four thick, short, plumose setae, and four somewhat longer 

 setae on the inner edge; outer plater armed, though not thickly, 

 witli spines and setae; palp slender, elongate, four-jointed, with 

 Compound setae. 



Gnathopod 1 of the female small, very slender; fifth Joint longer 

 tlian sixth; palm not well defined; finger long. Gnathopod 2, fifth 

 Joint large, but not so long nor quite so wide as sixth; palm serrate, 

 slightly oblique, spine-like deflning process at apex; finger strong, 

 curved. Pereiopods 1 and 2 long, second and fourth joints tumid, 

 the second incurved behiud, the fifth and sixth joints small and 

 Short, the seventh very small. Pereiopod 8 very small, joints quite 

 round, finger curved and notched towards tip. Pereiopod 4 some- 

 what larger and longer than 3, though not nearly so large as 5. 

 Pereiopod 5, second Joint large and long, the fourth Joint not so 

 large in proportion as in 1 and 2; finger small but similar in shape 

 to that of 3. Pleopods well developed. Uropod 1, inner ramus the 

 longer, serrate on the outer edge; outer ramus broader with several 

 Short spines at apex. Uropod 2, rami unequal, the inner the longer,, 

 narrower, unarmed; the outer with spines at tip. Uropod 3, rami 

 as long as peduncle; the inner ramus slightly the longer ; both rami 

 broad, edged around apex and part way down the outer edges with 

 Compound setae. Telson short, simple, nearly rectangular, though 

 slightl}'' emarginate, armed with setae. 



Body sulfused with delicate pink. Eyes bright pink. 



L. 4—7 mm. 



Frequent in a kelp hold fast froni deep water. Laguna Beach,. 

 Calif 



Photis californica n, sp. 



Body plump. Head not rostrate; side-lobes acute, not produced 

 far forward. Eyes small, lateral, not entering the side-lobes. Side- 

 plates deep, setose below; the fifth scarcely less deep than the 



