DECAPODS 165 



Distribution. Kadiak; Port Etches, 12 to 1 8 fathoms; Sitka; Crescent 

 City, California. 



Genus Pristopus Benedict. 

 PRISTOPUS VERRILLI Benedict. 

 Pristopus verrilli BENEDICT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvn, 486, 1894. 



Distribution. Q ft. Pribilof Islands, 688 fathoms, station 3501 ; off 

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

 Bank, California, 984 fathoms, station 2919 (Albatross). 



Genus Leptolithodes Benedict. 

 LEPTOLITHODES MULTISPINA Benedict. 



Leptolithodes multispinus BENEDICT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvn, 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. ff San Simeon Bay, California, 211 fathoms. 



LITHODES CALIFORNIENSIS Benedict. 

 Distribution. Q ft. 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-xxvn, 1841. BENEDICT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,xvn, 

 484, 1894. 



Lithodes camtschaticus RiCHTERS, Abh. Senck. Natur. Ges., Frankfurt, xm, 

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



Distribution. String Island; St. Paul Island, Pribilofs; off the 

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



LITHODES CAMTSCHATICUS (Tilesius). 



Maja camtschatica TILESIUS, Me"m. Acad. Imper. Sci. St. Petersbourg, V, 1812, 



p. 336, pis. vand vi (1815). 

 Lithodes camptschensis LATREILLE, Cuvier's Regne Animal, and ed., iv, p. 



65, 1829. 

 Lithodes spinosissimus BRANDT, Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Impe*r. Sci. St. 



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



VI, 478, 1857. 



