. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 356 BULLETIN 97, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. The outer maxillipeds are smaller and do not attain the epistome, and their position is more longitudinal than in G. ruricola; the ischium is considerably longer than the merus and the latter has a shallow emargination on its anterior border. Chelipeds very unequal in old males, less so in young males, equal or nearly so in females; the gape of the fingers being greater in the large cheliped than in the small one. In old specimens the spines of the carpus are obliterated. Dactyli of legs with o


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 356 BULLETIN 97, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. The outer maxillipeds are smaller and do not attain the epistome, and their position is more longitudinal than in G. ruricola; the ischium is considerably longer than the merus and the latter has a shallow emargination on its anterior border. Chelipeds very unequal in old males, less so in young males, equal or nearly so in females; the gape of the fingers being greater in the large cheliped than in the small one. In old specimens the spines of the carpus are obliterated. Dactyli of legs with only four rows of spines, the ridge on the upper and the lower surface being unarmed, except that occasionally there are a few spines near the tip, or less frequently a whole row of very feeble 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 United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.


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