. Decapod crustacea of Bermuda. Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Bermuda Islands. A. E. V err ill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 1 i:, of the chelipeds and leg's are seen to l>e covered with a reticulation of narrow, bright red lines, which generally, also, surround and mark out the paler colored tubercles and s|>inules, hut they may also form a network of small polygons on the smooth surfaces. When the chehe and tubercles are red, as in some of the larger specimens, these lines become dark n-d, but are less conspicuous, especially on the outer surface, where the appressed hairs between the tuberc
. Decapod crustacea of Bermuda. Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Bermuda Islands. A. E. V err ill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 1 i:, of the chelipeds and leg's are seen to l>e covered with a reticulation of narrow, bright red lines, which generally, also, surround and mark out the paler colored tubercles and s|>inules, hut they may also form a network of small polygons on the smooth surfaces. When the chehe and tubercles are red, as in some of the larger specimens, these lines become dark n-d, but are less conspicuous, especially on the outer surface, where the appressed hairs between the tubercles conceal them. The ambulatory legs are usually crossed by three or four wide, rather conspicuous bands of red, one on each segment, or the red color may sometimes predominate, and then the bands are yellow or orange1, on a red ground-color. A specimen of medium size, from Dominica, has the carapace 31mm long; anterior portion, 13mm; breadth of anterior part, ;'m; of posterior part, 26mm ; length of eye-stalks, 8mm ; length of larger chela •2-2ini"; height, 133""; length of right chela, 13"'ra; height, 8mm; propodus of 2d left ambulatory leg, 13mm long; wide; dactylus, •_>(i'"ni long; 5""n wide at base. A larger specimen has the left chela, 25nim long; 15mm high; 10mm thick; palm above, 13"'m; dactylus, Figure 59.—Dm-ihinus venosus. Young, from Bermuda, about i nat. size. The carapace of a small specimen preserved for a short time in formol is pale yellow, with a bright purple median area anteriorly, and a branchial patch of the same on each side, and bands of the same color at the bases of the legs and on the middle of the eye- stalks. The chelipeds are orange, finely reticulated with bright red lines, the reticulations enclosing the whitish tubercles. The second leg on the left side is larger and has on its outer side a median row of bright purple rounded tubercles on the two distal segments, and an ou
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