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ATHANAS Leach 3 
At h anas djihoutensis Coutiere 
For full citation see Banner and Banner 
(1960:140). 
LOCALITIES: Samoa: 1 specimen from BP 5; 
2, BP 7; 2, BP 8; 2, BP 10; 3, BP 11; 4, BP 13. 
Specimens were also taken from Western Sa- 
moa, Tonga, and Fiji. 
At ban as parvus de Man 
For full citation see Banner and Banner 
(1960:141). 
LOCALITIES: Tonga: 7 specimens. Samoa: 4 
specimens. 
Atbanas rhotbionastes Banner and Banner 
Atbanas rhotbionastes Banner and Banner, 
I960. Pacific Sci. 14(2) : 142-146, fig. 2. 
LOCALITIES: Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. 
Atbanas areteformis Coutiere 
For full citation see Banner and Banner 
( 1960 : 138 ). 
LOCALITY: Samoa: 1 specimen from BP 11. 
Atbanas indicus (Coutiere) 
For full citation see Banner and Banner 
(1960:149). 
LOCALITY: Samoa: 1 specimen from BP 11. 
Atbanas borradailei (Coutiere) 
Fig. 6 
Arete borradailei Coutiere, 1905. Fauna and 
Geog. Maid, and Laccad. 2(4): 86l, fig. 
133. 
LOCALITY: Samoa: 1 specimen from BP 8. 
DISCUSSION: Our specimen agrees with Cou- 
tiere’s with the exception of the rostrum. The 
rostrum reaches only to the first quarter of the 
visible part of the first antennular article instead 
of to the end of the second. We believe that this 
3 The sheets recording the collection data for the 
members of this genus were destroyed in the fire of 
the Hawaii Marine Laboratory, and the records cited 
below (with the exception of those for the five spe- 
cies in the new collections from Tutuila) are taken 
from Banner and Banner (1960:138-154). 
Fig. 6. Atbanas borradailei Coutiere. 7 mm female 
from station BP 8. a, b, Anterior body region. 
is a growth anomaly and, unless other specimens 
are collected which show -this difference, we as- 
sume that our specimen belongs to Coutiere’s 
species. 
Atbanas dorsalis (Stimpson) 
For full citation see Banner and Banner 
(1960:151). 
LOCALITY: Fiji: 1 specimen. 
Atbanas Polynesia sp. nov. 
Fig- 7 
TYPE: A 7 -mm male collected at Alofau (BP 
4) on the island of Tutuila from a head of dead 
coral collected in the outer reef area in water 
about 3-10 ft deep. Two other males were col- 
lected at the same locality. 
DESCRIPTION: Rostrum reaching to end of 
second antennular article with distal portion of 
dorsal margin gradually curved upward, but 
with all of inferior margin curving upward 
toward tip; inferior margin bearing small tuft of 
setae in small, sharp notch about halfway from 
