1921] Schmitt: The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California 195 
Genus Podochela Stimpson 
Carapace somewhat depressed, elongate triangular; gastric region narrow, 
swollen. Rostrum short, entire, triangular or arcuate; basal article of antennae 
very narrow, longitudinally sulecate in the middle. Eyes projecting laterally; 
postorbital tooth remote from eye, either well developed or reduced to a granule. 
Sternum of male either nearly smooth or deeply channeled between the segments; 
of female concave, deep, margins elevated, laminate, forming a capsule. Abdomen 
of male with last two segments and of female with last three segments coalesced, 
counting telson. Chelipeds of moderate length, merus curved, trigonal; palm either 
slender or dilated. Ambulatory legs slender, subprehensile. 
Podochela hemphillii (Lockington) 
Microrhynchus hemphillii Lockington, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sei., 7, 30, 1877. 
Podochela hemphillii Holmes, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 17, 1900; 
Rathbun, H. A. H., 10, 171, pl. 10, fig. 2, 1904; Weymouth, Stanford 
Univ. Publ., Univ. Ser., no. 4, p. 26, pl. 2, fig. 6, 1910; Nininger, Jour. 
Ent. Zool., Pomona Coll., 10, 39, fig. 14, 1918. 
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Fig. 120. Podochela hemphillii, g, X 1% (from Rathbun, U.S. N.M.). 
Characters.—Carapace pyriform; gastric region prominent, rounded, and bear- 
ing tufts of curved setae; hepatic regions tumid, bearing two not very prominent 
tubercles, the larger above and in front of the smaller; cardiac region sep- 
arated by shallow grooves from the branchial and bearing a prominent elevation; 
branchial regions flattened or tumid. Rostrum variable in length, sometimes 
broadly, sometimes narrowly triangular, acute, and bearing two double rows of 
