DECArODS 165 



Distrihutmi. — Kadfak; Port Etches, 12 to 18 fathoms; Sitka; Crescent 

 City, Cah'fornia. 



Genus Pristopus Benedict. 



PRISTOPUS VERRILLI Benedict. 

 Pristopus verrilli Benedict, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, 486, 1894. 



Distribution. — Off Pribilof Islands, 688 fathoms, station 3501 ; off 

 Sea Lion Rock, Washington, 859 fathoms, station 3075; off Cortez 

 Bank, CaUfornia, 984 fathoms, station 2919 {Albatross). 



Genus Leptolithodes Benedict, 

 LEPTOLITHODES MULTISPINA Benedict. 

 Leptolithodes viultispimis Benedict, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, 484, 1894. 

 Distribution. — Off Shumagin Bank, Alaska, 625 fathoms, station 

 3338 ; off Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, 876 fathoms, 

 station 2860 ; off Sea Lion Rock, Washington, 685 fathoms, station 3071 ; 

 off San Diego, California, 822 fathoms, station 2923 {Albatross). 



Genus Lithodes Latreille. 

 LITHODES RATHBUNI Benedict. 

 Distribution.— O^ San Simeon Bay, California, 211 fathoms. 



LITHODES CALIFORNIENSIS Benedict. 

 Distribution. — Off Santa Cruz Island, California, 155 fathoms. 



LITHODES BREVIPES Milne Edwards and Lucas. 



Lithodes brevipes Milne Edwards and Lucas, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 

 11,465, pis. xxiv-xxvii, 1841. — Benedict, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, 

 484, 1894. 



Lithodes camtschaticus Richters, Abh. Senck. Natur. Ges., Frankfurt, xill, 

 404, plate, figs. 9, 10, 1884. 



Distribution. — Bering Island; St. Paul Island, Pribilofs ; off the 

 Pribilof s, 25 to 47 fathoms; Unalaska; Kamchatka; Okhotsk Sea. 



LITHODES CAMTSCHATICUS (Tilesius). 



Maja camtschatica TiLESlUS, Mem. Acad. Imper. Sci. St. Petersbourg, V, 18 12, 



p. 336, pis. V and VI (1815). 

 Lithodes camptschensis Latreille, Cuvier's Regno Animal, 2nd ed., iv, p. 



65, 1829. 

 Lithodes spinosissimtis Brandt, Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imper. Sci. St. 



Petersbourg, vii, 172, 1849 (young).— Stimpson, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., 



VI, 478, 1857. 



