1921 J Schmitt: The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California 243 



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 If 1.9 (Eathbun). 



Color. — The dark color of the fingers runs back on the palm, in this respect 

 differing from all other allied species (Eathbun). 



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 Eathbun, Amer. Nat., 34, 137, 1900. 



Lophoxanthus leucomanus Holmes, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 61, 



1900 (part). 

 Lophopanopeus heathii Eathbun, H. A. E., 10, 182, pi. 7, fig. 9, 1904; 

 Weymouth, Stanford Univ. Publ., Univ. Ser., no. 4,. 51, pi. 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 (Eathbun). 



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, Proe. Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 32, 1877 



(not leucomanus, p. 100). 

 Lophoxanthus leucomanus Holmes, Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 7, 61, 



pi. 1, fig. 4, 1900 (part). 

 Lophopanopeus leucomanus Eathbun, H. A. E., 10, 182, 1904; Baker, Eept. 



Laguna Mar. Lab., 1, 100, fig. 53, 1912. 



Pig. 145. Lophopanopeus leucomanus, carapace (after Holmes) 



