. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION 141 CANDACIA PACHYDACTYLA (Dana) P^IGURE 96 Candace pacliydactyla Dana, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 2, p. 23, 1849.—GiESBREciiT, Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, vol. 19, p. 424, pis. 21, 22, 39, 1892. OcGiorrence.—A male and a female taken in a surface tow south- ea,st of Nantucket August, 1886; 5 males and females from trawl wings, Stations 2194, 2195, Alhatross, south of Nantucket. Distribution.—China Sea, tropical Atlantic (Dana); Fiji Islands, Philippines (Brady); Malta (Thompson); tropi
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION 141 CANDACIA PACHYDACTYLA (Dana) P^IGURE 96 Candace pacliydactyla Dana, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 2, p. 23, 1849.—GiESBREciiT, Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, vol. 19, p. 424, pis. 21, 22, 39, 1892. OcGiorrence.—A male and a female taken in a surface tow south- ea,st of Nantucket August, 1886; 5 males and females from trawl wings, Stations 2194, 2195, Alhatross, south of Nantucket. Distribution.—China Sea, tropical Atlantic (Dana); Fiji Islands, Philippines (Brady); Malta (Thompson); tropical Atlantic (Kr0yer, Giesbrecht, Cleve); Gulf of Guinea (T, Scott); South African coast (Cleve, Stebbing); Indian Ocean, Ceylon (Thompson and Scott); north- ern Atlantic (Wolfenden); Bay of Bengal (Sewell); eastern Atlantic (Lubbock); Ma- lay Archipelago (A. Scott). Color.—Body moderately transparent and colorless except for scattered red oil drops and the reddish or yellowish oviducts. The chitin of the body and the appendages, espe- cially the end segments of the second, third, and fourth exopods, and the stout spines on the fifth legs of the female, have a reddish- brown wash of greater or less intensity; no eye is visible. Female.—Metasome two and one-half times as long as wide, spines at the posterior corners short, not reaching the center of the genital segments; urosome stout, one-third as long as metasome; genital segment longer than ab- domen, with a ventrolateral process on either side behind the genital opening; terminal seg- ment of fifth legs much longer than the two basal segments combined, with three short and stout apical spines, a coarse spine at the center of the outer margin, and three setalike spines close together and nearer the distal end of the inner margin. Total length, mm. Male.—The right spine at the corner of the fifth segment much longer than the left, reaching the center of the first abdominal seg- ment, and curved inward at its
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