Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda, Part II. 47 



This genus, as restricted, differs from Pcn&opsis in the absence 

 of exopodites on all the pereopods* and in having a lateral line on 

 the carapace extending from the infra-orbital angle to the posterior 

 edge of the carapace. 



Parapenaeus velutinus (Dana) Smith. }' d:\-t \ Oceanic 

 I'CIKCIIS 1'clntinns Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Crust., p. 604, 1852; Atlas, 

 pi. xl, fig. 4, 1855. Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. for 1860. 

 p. 44 [115]. Bate, Voy. Chall., Zool., xxiv, p. 253, pi. xxxiii, fig. i, 

 1887. Witmar Stone, in Heilprin, Bermuda Islands (Bermuda). 

 Rankin, op. cit., p. 544, 1900. 



]'ani[>i'n<riis rcititiinis Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, p. 117, 1885. 

 PLATE XVI, FIGURE 4. 



Body covered with a close velvety pubescence. Rostrum stout, 

 laterally carinate, acute, slightly curved up at tip, with about seven 

 or eight teeth above, beginning opposite orbit; none below; one 

 on the dorsal carina of carapace ; lower margin nearly straight, 

 fringed with hairs. Telson narrow, acute, not silicate, terminating 

 in a slender, sharp, median spine ; a small lateral spine and a 

 smaller intermediate one ; denticulate, with three lateral spinules, 

 and fringed on the margins distally ; third to sixth abdominal 

 segments strongly carinate ; carina on the third is sulcate ; on 

 sixth it ends 'in a small dorsal spine. The dorsal rostral carina, 

 which is strong anteriorly, scarcely extends beyond the middle of 

 the carapace. 



Eyes large, on short stalks. The antennular peduncle is short. 

 The antennal scale has a stout spine, of about the same length as, 

 or slightly longer than, the antennular peduncle; it has two 

 small, acute, basal spines. 



The first leg is stouter and more hairy than the second and third, 

 with a larger chela ; it reaches a little beyond the base of the chela 

 of the second. The second reaches the chela of the third ; fourth 

 leg reaches the base of the dactyl of the fifth ; fifth leg is equal to 

 second and reaches the chela of the third. The above description 

 is of adult males from Zanzibar. 



It is widely distributed in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. 

 Hawaiian Is. (Dana); China and Ousima (Stimpson); Japan; 

 E. Indies; New Guinea; Australia (Bate) ; West Africa (Miers). 



* Rudimentary exopodites sometimes occur on some individuals of 

 P. parado.vus (Edw. and Bouv.) and on the young of other species. 



