DECAPODS a5 
ment of the abdomen; not carinated behind gastric tooth; outline much 
as in the preceding, as are also the eyes and antennz. Second to sixth 
abdominal segments inclusive carinate; telson very nearly as long as the 
sixth segment, less deeply notched than in Fesiphea corteziana. 
The side view strongly resembles that of F pers 

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P. corteziana, from which the carinated ab- *j;=————_———-_> 
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domen and shorter carapace without median 


carina at once distinguish it. Co 
Dimensions. —Lengthof male67mm.,length b 
Fic. 6. Pasiphea affinis. Sta- 
of carapace 22 mm. tion 2919. a. Telson (x 33). 
Type locality.—Near Cortez Bank, Calif., Hand of second pair (x2). 
lat. 32° 17/ oo N., long. 119° 17/ 00” W., 984 fathoms (Albatross 
station 2919). 
Genus Parapasiphz Smith. 
PARAPASIPH SERRATA Rathbun. 
Parapasiphe serrata RATHBUN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 904, 1902. 
Carapace and rostrum as long as the first five abdominal somites. 
The median carina extends backward to the posterior fifth of the cara- 

Fic. 7. Parapasiphe serrata. (xX about 14). Station 2919. 
pace or the cervical groove, and forward along the high thin rostrum 
which reaches half way along the eye-stalks; the carina is a little concave 
at the middle of the carapace and anteriorly slopes downward, and is 
armed with 16 small teeth or spines, two of which are on the rostrum and 
one is terminal; below this spine the rostrum is a compressed, finely 
crenulate lobe. Orbital and antennal angles blunt. There is a small 
spine just behind the orbital angle, and another still farther back in a 
