Contributions to the Knowledge of the Alpheid Shrimp 
of the Pacific Ocean 
Part IV. Various Small Collections from the Central Pacific 
Area, including Supplementary Notes on Alpheids from Hawaii^ 
Albert H. Banner^ 
In the collections made available to me 
are a number of small collections, in some 
cases only single specimens, made from vari- 
ous islands ranging from the Tuamotus to the 
Carolines, none being extensive enough to 
warrant separate papers. Some of these have 
been loaned by the United States National 
Museum, some by the Bernice P. Bishop 
Museum, and some by the individual col- 
lectors, e. g., the collection by R. W. Hiatt 
from the islands of Yap. Also, in the contin- 
uing collections made in Hawaii since the 
completion of my 1953 paper, three additional 
species have been found and two notable vari- 
ations in the usual form or color of known 
species have been observed. Finally, a new 
name has been applied to a species previously 
described from Hawaii. 
Because the specimens came from such 
widely separated localities and because so few 
species came from each collection, the collec- 
tion data are listed under each species rather 
than in a preliminary comprehensive collec- 
tion list, as has been done in previous articles. 
As in previous papers in this series, instead 
of repeating the full synonymy for species 
which have been discussed in previous papers, 
1 have made reference to the earlier papers in 
the series which have presented the synonymy. 
The collections were made for numerous 
sponsors, some of whom have been forgotten 
1 Contribution No. Ill, Hawaii Marine Laboratory. 
2 Department of Zoology and Entomology, Uni- 
versity of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Manuscript re- 
ceived February 25, 1957. 
in the many years since the collections were 
made. This study has been done largely under 
a grant to the author from the National Sci- 
ence Foundation (NSF G-1754). 
Type specimens of the new species de- 
scribed in this paper will be deposited in the 
institution from which they were borrowed; 
those types in my personal collection will be 
deposited either in the Bernice P. Bishop 
Museum or in the U. S. National Museum 
(USNM). 
Arete Stimpson 
Arete dorsalis Stimpson 
Arete dorsalis Stimpson, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
Proc. 12: 32, I860. 
LOCALITIES: 1 Specimen, Station 1847, Ra- 
roia Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, "from 
green-black sea urchin from middle zone of 
outer reef flats Ngarumaoa Island. . . 
collected byj. E. P. Morrison, July 5, 1952. 
Four specimens from Station 1857, collection 
data as above. 
DISCUSSION: These specimens will be dis- 
cussed in a future paper dealing with this 
genus and the genus Athanas Leach. 
Arete indicus Coutiere 
Arete dorsalis var. indicus Coutiere, Soc. Philo- 
math. Paris, Bui. IX, 5(2): 85, figs. 25-30, 
1903. 
Arete indicus Coutiere, Fauna and Geog. 
Maidive and Laccadive Archipelagoes 2: 
863, figs. 134-135, 1905. 
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