1921] Schmitt: The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California 103 
Dimensions.—Type, male: length 31 mm., length of carapace 8.6 mm. 
Type Locality—Off Santa Catalina Island, California, 80 fathoms (‘‘ Alba- 
tross’’ station 3664). 
Distribution.—Santa Cruz and Santa Catalina Islands, California, 59 to 155 
fathoms. 
Genus Paracrangon Dana 
Rostrum elongate, a laterally compressed, suberect spine. Eyes free. Second 
pair of legs wholly absent. 
Paracrangon echinata Dana 
Paracrangon echinatus Dana, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 6, 20, 1852; 
Crust. U. S. Expl. Exped., 1, 538, 1852, pl. 33, fig. 6, 1855; Holmes, 
Oceas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 176, pl. 2, figs. 36, 37, 1900. 
_Paracrangon echinata Rathbun, H. A. E., 10, 143, 1904. 
Fig. 72. Paracrangon echinata; lateral view, X 34 (after Dana). 
Characters.—Rostrum long, obliquely erect; posterior margin with one tooth 
near the middle; anterior margin with one tooth near the tip, and at base a long 
curved spine. Carapace with a median carina unequally four-toothed; sides 
carinated in such a way as to form irregular quadrangular spaces, with spines 
at most of the angles; on the anterior margin there is a spine at the outer angle 
of the orbit and another at the anterolateral angle. First pair of legs about as 
long as the maxillipeds; upper margin of merus terminates distally in a tooth; 
hands narrow, elongate, about four times as long as wide; digital spine very long 
and slender, directed in an obliquely longitudinal direction; anterior margin 
more longitudinal than transverse. Third pair of legs (the second are lacking) 
very slender, barely reaching to end of first pair; fourth and fifth pairs of about 
equal length and slightly exceeding first pair in length. Abdomen carinate behind 
second segment, carina of third being especially high; on sixth segment and 
telson it is medially suleate; abdominal pleura of male much more spiniform than 
in female. 
Dimensions.—Type: length 45 mm. 
Type Locality—Puget Sound. 
Distribution.—Port Etches, Alaska, to off La Jolla, California; Japan (Balss). 
Remarks.—Heretofore P. echinata had not been definitely recorded south of 
Puget Sound. In the ‘‘ Albatross’’ collections, however, there are three specimens 
which had been taken off the Californian coast; two, an ovigerous female and an 
