ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN PYCNOGONIDA—HEDGPETH 245 
RECORDS OF COLLECTIONS 
Albatross station 2379-74, Feb. 1885, Gulf of Mexico, south of Cape St. George, 
about 25 fathoms, 1 male (ov.), 1 female. 
Southwest of Loggerhead Key, Tortugas, Fla., July 31, 1926, about 15 feet, 
from old rocks and algae, C. R. Shoemaker coll., 1 male (ov.), 1 female. 
Off northern end of Loggerhead Key, Tortugas, Fla., Aug. 4, 1926, about 
15 feet, from old rocks and algae, C. R. Shoemaker coll., 1 male (ov.). 
North end of Loggerhead Key, Tortugas, Fla., Aug. 13, 1926, in shallow water, 
from old rocks and algae, C. R. Shoemaker coll., 1 male. 
Velero III, station A 15-39, Apr. 8, 1939, outside Bahia Honda, Colombia, 8-9 
fms., corallines, 1 male. 
Velero III, station A 32-39, Apr. 15, 1939, 3 miles north of Coche Island, 
Venezuela (10°50’30’’N., 63°54’30’’ W.), 21-35 fathoms, sand and shell, 1 male, 
1 juv., fragments. 
Like Achelia gracilis, A. sawayai does not have large spines on the 
propodus. It is smaller and more spinous than gracilis. The 8- 
jointed palpus separates it clearly from gracilis. 
This species is found frequently in the vicinity of Bahia de Santos 
and Itanhaen, Brazil; these are the first records outside those locali- 
ties. Marcus (1940b, p. 118ff, fig. 17), has described the larval stages 
of this species in considerable detail. 
ACHELIA BREVICHELIFERA, new species 
Figure 38, h-l 
Types.—Holotype (female): U.S.N.M. No. 81097, Fish Hawk sta- 
tion 1028, September 14, 1881, lat. 39°57’ N., long. 69°17’ W., 410 
fathoms. Paratype (female): U.S.N.M. No. 81098, Albatross, station 
2212, Aug. 23, 1884, lat. 39°59’30” N., long. 70°30’45” W., 428 
fathoms. 
Description.—Trunk: Oval in outline, completely segmented, lateral 
processes separated by about their own width. Eye tubercle at 
anterior edge of cephalic segment, small, blunt, with small eyes. 
Abdomen: As long as cephalic segment, slightly swollen distally 
and tapering to a bluntly rounded tip. 
Proboscis: As long as first two trunk segments, broadly elliptical, 
blunt at tip. 
Palpus 9-jointed, first and third joints about as long as broad, 
second and fourth subequal and about five times as long as first joint, 
joints 6 to 9 small, with a few large spines on each joint. 
Chelifore: Scape as broad as long, chela half as long as scape, cuspid 
at tip. 
Oviger: Third and fifth joints subequal, twice as long as fourth. 
Sixth to tenth joints diminishing in size; terminal joints with a few 
simple spines. 
Leg: Long, slender, with a few scattered spines. Tarsus not much 
longer than wide, propodus long, slightly curved and with 6 or 7 
widely separated spines on the sole. Terminal claw about half as 
