1921] Schmitt: The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California 135 
Pagurus beringanus (Benedict) 
Eupagurus beringanus Benedict, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 15, 17, 1892. 
Eupagurus newcombei Benedict, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 15, 17, 1892. 
Pagurus beringanus Rathbun, H. A. E., 10, 159, pl. 5, fig. 5, 1904. 
Fig. 87, Pagurus beringanus, X 11% (U. S. N. M.). 
Characters.—Median projection of front short and low, very blunt, or broadly 
rounded. Small cheliped with outer face of hand flat-triangular, forming a dis- 
tinct angle with the smooth though hairy inferior or lower face; carpus with 
upper or anterior edge with eight or more close set, equidistant spines in a row, 
occasionally but rarely with a smaller number of spines. Large hand more or 
less coarsely and irregularly granulate, granules at times tending to become spini- 
form tubercles, always with a distinct A-shaped design of larger granules from 
base of inner edge of immovable finger to base of palm, inner arm of A continued 
on carpus to its proximal inner angle; immovable finger slightly excavated on 
upper surface, making tip appear bent upward. Ambulatory legs quite or very 
hairy. 
Dimensions.—Type, male: length of carapace from tip of rostrum to posterior 
border of carapace, 21 mm., length of larger cheliped 45 mm. 
Color.—The distal ends of the joints of the legs are bright red. Both proximal 
and distal ends of dactyls are red. The light portions of the legs are spotted 
with red (Benedict). 
Type Locality.x—Bristol Bay, 12 fathoms (‘‘ Albatross’’ station 3231). 
Distribution.—Bering Sea (latitude of Nunivak) southward, along the Aleutian 
Islands and coast of Alaska to Monterey, California, 5 to 19 fathoms (Rathbun). 
Remarks.—P. newcombei (Benedict) is included in P. beringanus, as it seems 
to be scarcely distinct. The species varies in the sharpness of the tubercles or 
spines of the chelipeds (Rathbun). 
