. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE GKAPSOID CKABS OP AMEKICA. ' 125 Clieliped roughened with a few faint rugae, a small tooth at inner angle of carpus, upper margin of propodus acute; propodus twice as long as wide, straight above, sinuous below, fingers slightly deflexed, stout, shutting close together, tips incurved, a minute tooth near base of dactyl. Legs slender; merus joints dilated slightly; propodus tapering a little toward distal end; dactyls 1, 2, and 3 subcylindrical, little curved, ending in two short un- equal spines, the smaller not in the same plane as the
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE GKAPSOID CKABS OP AMEKICA. ' 125 Clieliped roughened with a few faint rugae, a small tooth at inner angle of carpus, upper margin of propodus acute; propodus twice as long as wide, straight above, sinuous below, fingers slightly deflexed, stout, shutting close together, tips incurved, a minute tooth near base of dactyl. Legs slender; merus joints dilated slightly; propodus tapering a little toward distal end; dactyls 1, 2, and 3 subcylindrical, little curved, ending in two short un- equal spines, the smaller not in the same plane as the longer, but be- low it; posterior margin armed with two rows of spinules, a few of the same also on the corresponding margin of the propodus. Fourth dactylus straighter, simple, not bifurcate, both margins spinulous, f»- alcocki. lbo , . <• 1 T OF MALE I'ARATYI'E, X 10. as also margms oi propodus and carpus. Male abdomen with segments 1 and 2 fused, 3 to G inclusive fused and with convex margins, 7 triangular with blunt tip. Female abdomen with segment 1 short, half as long as 2; 3, 4, 5, and G incom- pletely fused, 7 broadly triangular, half as wide as G. Measurements.—Female (23447), length of carapace , width mm. Male smaller, too damaged for measurement. Material examined.—Gulf of JNIexico, off Delta of Mississippi River; lat. 29° 24' 30" N.; long. 88° 01' 00" W.; 35 fathoms; yl. S. bk. Sp.; Mar. 4, 1885; station 2388, Albatross; 1 male, 1 female holotype (23447). DISSODACTYLUS CALMANI.* new species, Plate 28, figs. 5 and G. Type-locality.—Grecian Shoals, Hawk Channel, Florida; 2 fath- oms; station 74G9, Fish Hawk; 1 female (Cat. No. 49233, ). Diagnosis.—Carapace sharply pentagonal, covered with rugae; antero-lateral margins dentate. Dactyl of legs 1 to 4 bifurcate, and with a marginal line of spinules. Palp of outer maxillipeds 3-jointed- Description of female.—Appearance quite unlike those above de- scribed. Car
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