NO. 3567 LABIDOCERA JOLLAE GROUP—-FLEMINGER ial 
on a slide in the Esterly Collection that bears the name of the species, 
but lacks other distinguishing remarks. The close similarity of 
Ksterly’s figures of the male P5 with the position of the P5 on the 
slide suggests that the slide and the tubed specimen comprise the 
male component of Esterly’s original specimens. 
One of the two females found in the Esterly Collection may be the 
other syntype. The two females were together in the same vial, 
labeled “‘Labidocera jollae Esterly, 2 ad., 1158.” Tow number 1158 
refers to a surface tow taken on June 29, 1906 between 0505-0520 hrs. 
at latitude 32°52.3’ N, longitude 117°16.4’ W (off San Diego). It is 
possible and even likely that only one of the two females was taken 
at station 1158, and that the other specimen is the missing syntype 
from La Jolla cove (3.5 miles off La Jolla, June 26, 1905); but there is 
no way of distinguishing one from the other. The male specimen is, 
therefore, designated the lectotype. 
The lectotype and one of the females are deposited in the USNM, 
110762. The other female and a male specimen collected by Esterly 
at a later date (tow 2104, Mar. 17, 1910, 1934 hrs., lat. 32°50.6’ N, 
long. 117°29.2’ W) are deposited in the SMIC, XVIII-3012 and 
XVIII-3011, respectively. 
DistrRiIBUTION.—Localities and collecting data are presented in 
table 1. These records comprise all of the captures observed in 
examination of several hundred plankton samples taken in the 
California Current, the eastern-equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf 
of California (fig. 2). JL. jollae occurred chiefly in inshore samples 
characterized by a coastal-neritic assemblage of zooplankton. 
The species has not been reported from any region outside of the 
range established by the records in table 1. It was not found in 
earlier coastal water studies undertaken north of Point Conception 
(Esterly, 1924; Campbell, 1929a, 1929b, 1930; Johnson, 1932; Davis, 
1949; Le Brasseur, 1955, 1956a, 1956b; Legare, 1957; Cameron, 1957). 
It is not in the Aleutians list (Anraku, 1954) nor has it been reported 
from the northwest Pacific (Brodsky, 1950). Turning to the eastern 
equatorial Pacific it is absent from both Giesbrecht’s (1895) and 
Wilson’s (1942, 1950) lists. 
The present range of L. jollae, then, apparently does not extend 
north of Cape Mendocino, California, nor south of Cabo San Lucas, 
Baja California. Within these limits it is confined to near-shore 
waters. Most of the geographical records fall between Point Con- 
ception and Sebastian Viscaino Bay (table 1, fig. 11). North of Point 
Conception, and extending west along the Aleutians to Asia, jollae is 
replaced by Epilabidocera longipedata (Sato) [= E. amphitrites 
