1921] Schmitt: The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California 248 
Dimensions.—Male: length 17.2 mm., width 23.7 mm., proportion of length to 
width of 1:1.32; fronto-orbital width 12.5, proportion of fronto-orbital width to 
width of carapace 1:1.9 (Rathbun). 
Color——The dark color of the fingers runs back on the palm, in this respect 
differing from all other allied species (Rathbun). 
Type Locality.—San Diego, California. 
Distribution.—Santa Monica Bay and Santa Catalina Island to San Diego, 
California. 
Lophopanopeus heathii Rathbun 
Plate 37, figure 1 
Lophopanopeus heathii Rathbun, Amer. Nat., 34, 137, 1900. 
Lophoxanthus lewcomanus Holmes, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 61, 
1900 (part). 
Lophopanopeus heath Rathbun, H. A. E., 10, 182, pl. 7, fig. 9, 1904; 
Weymouth, Stanford Univ. Publ., Univ. Ser., no. 4, 51, pl. 12, fig. 38, 
1910; Hilton, Jour. Ent. Zool., Pomona Coll., 8, 71, 1916. 
Characters.—Carapace smooth except on outer half of hepatic region, where 
it is slightly roughened; margin of frontal lobes slightly oblique, outer tooth 
inconspicuous. Carpus of chelipeds smooth or nearly so; hand smooth, one tooth 
on inner side of upper margin; dark color of fingers not running back on the 
palm. Carpal joints of ambulatory legs with anterior or upper margin slightly 
bilobed; propodal joints with slightly convex anterior margins. 
Dimensions.—Type, male: length 12.2 mm., width 16.5 mm., proportion of 
length to width 1:1.35; fronto-orbital width 11.6 mm., proportion of fronto-orbital 
width to width of carapace, 1:1.42 (Rathbun). 
Color.—Extremely variable, see note under L. bellus. Hilton remarks: ‘‘A 
young male was marked as follows: white claws with dark tips, last legs white, 
other legs and body dark red. A young female had red claws, hind legs white and 
body darker. Another young male was white.’’ 
Type Locality—Monterey Bay, California. 
Distribution.—Monterey Bay, Santa Catalina Island, and Laguna Beach, Cali- 
fornia. 
Lophopanopeus leucomanus (Lockington) 
Plate 37, figure 6 
Xanthodes leucomanus Lockington, Proce. Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 32, 1877 
(not leucomanus, p. 100). 
Lophoxanthus leucomanus Holmes, Oceas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 61, 
pl. 1, fig. 4, 1900 (part). 
Lophopanopeus leucomanus Rathbun, H. A. E., 10, 182, 1904; Baker, Rept. 
Laguna Mar. Lab., 1, 100, fig. 53, 1912. 
Fig. 145. Lophopanopeus leucomanus, carapace (after Holmes). 
