. Decapod crustacea of Bermuda. Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Bermuda Islands. A. E. Verr-ill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 413 It ranges from Beaufort, N". C. to the Abrolhos Islands and Bahia, Brazil. Off Cape Fear, N. C., 15-17 fathoms, West Indies, 6-1G fathoms, Florida, and many other localities (Rathbun). Bermuda and Bahia, Brazil (Miers; Rathbun); Abrolhos (Smith, Yale Mus.). Microphrys bicornutus (Latr.) A. Spider Crab. I'isa biconutta Latreille, Encyc. Meth., Nat. Hist., x, p. 141, 1825. Pericera bicorna H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. nat. Crust., i, p. 337, 1834. /Ysu bicorna Gibbes,
. Decapod crustacea of Bermuda. Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Bermuda Islands. A. E. Verr-ill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 413 It ranges from Beaufort, N". C. to the Abrolhos Islands and Bahia, Brazil. Off Cape Fear, N. C., 15-17 fathoms, West Indies, 6-1G fathoms, Florida, and many other localities (Rathbun). Bermuda and Bahia, Brazil (Miers; Rathbun); Abrolhos (Smith, Yale Mus.). Microphrys bicornutus (Latr.) A. Spider Crab. I'isa biconutta Latreille, Encyc. Meth., Nat. Hist., x, p. 141, 1825. Pericera bicorna H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. nat. Crust., i, p. 337, 1834. /Ysu bicorna Gibbes, Proc. Ainer. Assoc., 3d meeting, p. 170, 1850. Pericera bicornis Saussure, Crust. Antilles et du Mexique, p. 12, pi. 1, figs. 3, 3c, 1858. Milnin liicnrmita Stimpson, Notes on North Amer. Crust., Annals Lye. Nat. Hist., New York, vol. vii, pp. 51, 180, 1860. Smith, Brazil Crust., these Trans., ii, p. 1, 1869. Mii-i-nphrys bicornutus A. Milne-Edw., Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., viii, p. 247, 1872; Miss. Sci. Mex., v, p. 61, pi. xiv, figs. 2-4, 1873; Bull. Mus. Cornp. Zool., viii, p. 1, 1880. Miers, Voy. Chall., Zool., viii, p. 83, 1886 (Bermuda). Microphrys bicornutus M. J. Eathbuu, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xv, p. 253, 1892 (synon.); Brach. and Macrura Porto Rico, p. 72, 1901. Pisa galibica and Pisa purpurea Schramm and Desb., Crust. Guadeloupe, p. 18, 1867 (t. A. ). FIGURE 43. In life, this species nearly always has its carapace covered with closely adherent alga?, bryozoa, sponges, etc. which pretty effectually. Figure 43.—Microphrya bicornutus, nat. size, with foreign growths on the cara- pace. Phot, A. H. V. conceal it. When cleaned, it is dull yellowish brown; its chelipeds are always covered with small, round, purplish spots. This is diag- • nostic for the species. Many of the females collected April 20, 1901, carried Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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