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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 suleate 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, Proe. Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 30, 1877. 



Podochela hemphillii Holmes, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 17, 1900; 

 Eathbun, H. A. E., 10, 171, pi. 10, fig. 2, 1904; Weymouth, Stanford 

 Univ. Publ., Univ. Ser., no. 4, p. 26, pi. 2, fig. 6, 1910; Nininger, Jour. 

 Ent. Zool., Pomona Coll., 10, 39, fig. 14, 1918. 



Fig. 120. Podochela hemphillii, J, X 1% (from Eathbun, 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 



