1921 J Schmitt: The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California 189 



Distribution. — From Mendocino County, California, to Magdalena Bay, Lower 

 California; 5% to 51 fathoms (Eathbun). 



Remarks. — Varies greatly in the prominence of the granules on the carapace 

 (Eathbun). 



Biological Survey of San Francisco Bay. — One specimen of Ran- 

 dallia ornata was taken outside of San Francisco Bay in 10 to 30 

 fathoms, April 6, 1914, while making several experimental trials with 

 a 40-foot otter-trawl. 



Randallia bulligera Eathbun 



Randallia bulligera Eathbun, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., 21, 614, pi. 44, fig. 6, 

 1898; Holmes, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 101, 1900; Wey- 

 mouth, Stanford Univ. Publ., Univ. Ser., no. 4, p. 19, 1910. 



Fig. 117. Randallia bulligera, <$, X 1% (from Eathbun, U. S. N. M.). 



Characters. — Carapace covered with large, pearly, bead-like, more or less equal 

 tubercles; carapace suborbicular, but slightly longer than wide; space between 

 posterior median spines or tubercles greater than between the median and lateral. 

 Anterolateral angles of the buccal cavity produced in front of the orbital margin 

 and deeply three-lobed. 



Dimensions. — Type, male: length on median line 11.6 mm., width 11.5 mm.; 

 ovigerous female : length 12.8 mm., width 12.6 mm. 



Color. — Much as in R. ornata. 



Type Locality. — Magdalena Bay, Lower California, 12 fathoms. 



Distribution.- — Off San Diego, California, 30 fathoms (Holmes), and Magda- 

 lena Bay, Lower California, 12 fathoms ("Albatross" station 2831) (Eathbun); 

 Monterey Bay, 10 fathoms (Weymouth). 



Remarks. — I am inclined to think that the specimens called R. bulligera by 

 Weymouth are especially rough-coated young of R. ornata. For as Holmes remarks 

 the former is ' ' easily distinguished from ornata by the numerous beadlike tubercles 

 on the carapace and the lobes at the anterior end of the buccal area. ' ' 



