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(also 7 juvs. of a species near this but too small to identify positively). 
Samoa: U.01096, 1 ovig. female. 
MEASUREMENTS.—Male, 17 mm; female, 21 mm; ovig. females, 
11-20 mm; juvs., 4-5 mm. 
Remarxks.—Very close to 7. admete in its general facies and also 
in its pleopod structure and distinguished by: Carapace being more 
convex and typically more hirsute; granulation between two lower- 
most ridges on outer side of chelae; more inclined borders of penulti- 
mate segment of male abdomen and more elongate ultimate segment; 
and by marked reduction in spinulation of male pleopods (see figs. 
Ficure 21.—Thalamita auauensis Rathbun, male, 
China, Sta. 5321, Alb.: a, pleopod; b, pleopod 
tip, upper surface; c, abdomen. (Scales=a, 
1 mm.; b, 0.5 mm.; c, 5 mm.) 
Zia.b): Only four slightly recurved stout bristles of more or less 
uniform size are present on each. 
Evidently the size of the fourth anterolateral tooth varies as in 
T. admete. Rathbun (1906) describes this tooth as rudimentary, 
while Edmondson (1954) implies that it is either very small or absent. 
Edmondson comments on the bright pink color of specimens. 
The species is also close to 7. granosimana Borradaile and was | 
listed as a queried synonym of this species by Stephenson (1961a, 
pp. 119-121). It differs in the armature of the male*pleopods, in the 
penultimate segment of the male abdomen being less parallel sided 
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