Kazatlan. A number of dredge hauls were made alongshore in 6-10 fathoms off 
Punt a Qorda. Of most interest among the crust aoea brought up were several 
specimens of Pliosoaa narvlfrons . a crab that has seldom been seen since it 
was originally described in I860 by William Stirpson. This crab is somewhat 
distantly related to the so-called hors^crab of much colder regions. From the 
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fine sand bottom we also got a lot of sea-pansi es , Renilla . 
We left the Cape shortly after 2:30 p.m. 
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The fishing here was of the 
best. There were plenty of leopard groupers, also several jacks, both brown 
and big-eyed, and spotted cabrillas. The President’s piscatorial skill was re- 
warded with a 3S lb. blue crevally, 2. 
record specimen for that species, 
corded as weighing more than 20 lbs. 
c., which proved to be the 
heretofore was rather indefinitely re- 
Meabers of the crew who assisted in the shore collecting and dredging 
at Socorro caught a mullet, Mu&ll setosus . which had not before been represented 
In the Museum collections. Among the crustaceans secured were three shrimp 
found living in passages, or burrows, which they constructed in the muddy sand 
under boulders alongshore. These proved to be a species well known from the 
Floridian-West Indian region, but yet not reoorded in literature from Pacific 
waters, although I^saw a Pacific specimen of this shrimp, Callianidaa laevj- 
cauda . from the Tres Marlas Islands over a decade ago. 
A crude, much weatherbeaten cross was discovered atop a large mound 
of earth a sradll distance back from the landing place. The lettering, in 
Spanish, was all but illegible, "To the memory of the sailors . . . March 8, 
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Left Socorro at A2:30 p.m. 
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