. Decapod crustacea of Bermuda. Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Bermuda Islands. 1'iuui-- li:'>.—i'lilniii<ii-iia-c, l'nllo\\cd liy pale orange or whitish, and covered l>v Miiall bright orange- spots ; tips of dibits Mack, e\i'a\ate within. Several variations were noticed. One differed from all others in having no color, except the blue rin<_;- that precede- the orange band on the Ic^-s, but the le^ had the usual round orange sj»ots. The cliche were orange red with white granules ami black Figure 64. — <'lili, dorsal view. At'tf-r Kicliarclson. It is very abundant at Ber


. Decapod crustacea of Bermuda. Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Bermuda Islands. 1'iuui-- li:'>.—i'lilniii<ii-iia-c, l'nllo\\cd liy pale orange or whitish, and covered l>v Miiall bright orange- spots ; tips of dibits Mack, e\i'a\ate within. Several variations were noticed. One differed from all others in having no color, except the blue rin<_;- that precede- the orange band on the Ic^-s, but the le^ had the usual round orange sj»ots. The cliche were orange red with white granules ami black Figure 64. — <'lili, dorsal view. At'tf-r Kicliarclson. It is very abundant at Bermuda, among rocks and in tide pools at low-tide. It occupies many kinds of small gastropod shells, such a- Cerithium, Jlochdns, Littorina, ^\'< riflim, Anachis, Columbella, Natica. Frequently it takes j»ossession of various land shells, com- monly washed ashore. It is sometimes infested by a parasitic isopod crustacean (St,r/;<; cllhunarii Richardson).* * Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xxvii, p. 59, 1904 ; Monograph of Isopods of N. America, p. 586. figs. 580, <t, b, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Verrill, A. E. (Addison Emery), 1839-1926. New Haven, Conn. , The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press


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