CALIFORNIA STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA. 201 



armed with four or five pairs of spinules; a small median spine at the tip, 

 between which and the spines at the lateral angles there are one or two 

 marginal setae. 



Carapace beautifully marked with oblique crimson bands; legs barred 

 with crimson, the dactyls and tips of the propodi light colored. 



Monterey (Stimpson); Santa Catalina Island! San 

 Pedro! San Diego! 



This beautiful little species is commonly found in 

 tide pools. It is abundant at Monterey and-^an Pedro 

 on rocky shores. 



Heptacarpus paludicola, sp. nov. 



Closely allied to picta. Rostrum slender, horizontal, about as long as 

 the carapace, armed above with 6-8 sharp, evenly spaced teeth, the last 

 tooth on the anterior fourth of the carapace; lower margin armed with 

 2-4 teeth on the distal third or two-fifths. Anteunular peduncle reaching 

 two-thirds as far as the tip of the rostrum; basal spine extending beyond 

 the tip of the first joint; upper distal margin of the first basal joint armed 

 with a single spine at the outer angle. Anten,nal peduncle not reaching 

 the middle of the acicle; acicle oblong, slightly tapering, closely resem- 

 bling that of picta, and equalling the rostrum; flagellum as long as the 

 body. Anterior chelipeds not reaching the tip of the acicle; hand narrow; 

 palm fully as long as the carpus and about, three times as long as wide. 

 Second chelipeds about reaching the tip of the acicle; first joint of the 

 carpus but little longer than the second, third and fourth subequal and 

 each longer than the first, about equalling the fifth and sixth combined, 

 fifth a little longer than the sixth and slightly shorter than the seventh; 

 hand scarcely longer than the last two joints of the carpus. Posterior 

 legs very slender; distal portion of the outer surface of the merus joints 

 armed with a row of spines; dactyls short, about one-fourth the length of 

 the propodi, narrower than in picta but similarly armed. Postero-lateral 

 angles of the fourth abdominal segment subacute and furnished with a 

 small tooth; that of the fifth segment acute. Sixth segment a little longer 

 than in picta. Telson as in the preceding species. Color uniform green. 



Humboldt Bay! Shelter Cove! Bodega Bay! June, 

 1894. 



Large numbers of this species were caught in a trawl 

 in the eel-grass in Humboldt Bay and Bodega Bay. The 

 color is almost exactly that of the eel-grass in which 



