1921] Schmitt: The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California 113 
female the chelipeds are just over half the total length of the body, the hand 
comprising more than two-fifths their total length; the lower border of the ischium 
and merus, the upper border of the palm, and the distal half of the merus are 
spinose; a salient serrulate ridge runs along the lower border of the outer surface 
of palm and fixed finger, and there are some scattered miliary granules on both 
surfaces of the palm; the palm is a little longer than the carpus and a little 
shorter than the fingers; the fingers are slender and sharp, and do not meet at 
base, the cutting edge of the fixed finger is finely serrulate; there are a few setae 
on the fingers and palm. 
Color.—In life: abdomen light brown, carapace very pale pink, fading to slate 
color on the sides (Alcock). 
Dimensions.—Type, female: length of carapace and rostrum 22 mm., of abdo- 
men 32.5 mm. 
Type Locality.—Arabian Sea, off the coast of Sind, 947 fathoms. 
Distribution.—Also taken by the ‘‘Albatross,’’ south of the Sannak Islands, 
Alaska, 483 fathoms; off Cascade Head, Oregon, 345 fathoms; off San Diego, 
California, 417 fathoms (Rathbun). 
Calastacus quinqueseriatus Rathbun 
Calastacus quinqueseriatus Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 24, 887, 1902; 
H, A. E., 10, 151, fig. 91, 1904. 
COT 
atheae 
OTM 
Cry; 
Coo, 
™ Lorry 
y 
SI aa 
S—S5 
Fig. 76. Calastacus quinqueseriatus, g, X about % (from Rathbun, U. S. 
N. M.). 
