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time. Old specimens are almost entirely devoid of 

 hairs or set^ of any kind. 



Epialtus Nuttallii Rand. 



Epialtus Nuttallii Kandall, Jouru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. VIII, 

 1839, p. 109, PI. III. GiBBEs, Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci., 1850, p. 173. 

 STiMPSO>r, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. VI, 1857, p. 458. Lock- 

 INGTON, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. VII, 1877, p. 77. Rathbun M., 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., Vol. XXII, 1898, p. 572. 



Epialtus (Antilihinia) Nuttallii Rathbun M., 1. c. Vol. XVII, 1894, p. 69. 



Carapace ovate, couvex, smooth, aud not areolated. Rostrum promi- 

 neut, depressed, flattened above, aud having a small triangular notch at 

 the tip. No preorbital tooth; postorbital small. The two teeth on the 

 sides of the carapace are much smaller than in E. productus, and the mar- 

 gins between them are convergent anteriorly. The chelipeds are very 

 similar to those of productus. Ambulatory legs siibcylindrical; dactyls 

 stouter than in the preceding species. 



Southern California — Santa Barbara! Santa Catalina 

 Island! San Diego! Ballenas Bay, Lower California 

 (Kathbun). 



Genus Mimulus St. 



Carapace flattened, more or less pentagonal; antero-lateral margin lam- 

 inate and cut by a narrow fissure into two closely approximate lobes. Ros- 

 trum short, bifid, and horizontal. Orbits incomplete below, but furnished 

 above with a preorbital and postorbital spine. Eyes not concealed when 

 retracted. Merus of the external maxillipeds short, the external angle 

 obtuse, the internal angle incised; outer margin of the exognath dilated. 

 Hand of the chelipeds much compressed and subcarinate. The propodi of 

 the ambulatory legs have a setose tooth near the middle of the inferior 

 margin. First pair of ambulatory legs exceeding the others. 



Type. — M.foliatus St. 



Mimulus foliatus St. 



Mimulus foliatus Stimpson, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., Vol. VII, 1860, 



p. 200, PI. Ill, fig. 1. A. Milne-Edwards, Crust. Miss. Sci. au Mex., 



Pt. V, p. 145, PI. XVIII, fig. 4. 

 Pugettia ( Mimulus) foliata Newcombe, Ball. Nat. Hist., Soc. Brit. Col., 



1893, p. 22. 

 Pugettia foliata Kathbux M., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XVII, 1894, 



p. 72. 



Carapace flattened and marked with several undulations; median region 

 tumid and bearing two small, obsolescent tubercles in front of which there 



