. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE CANCROID CRABS OF AMERICA 367 fingers acute. Abdomen of male constricted, between fifth and sixth segments; terminal segment broader than long, sub triangular. Other- wise as in Panopeus. From Provincetown, Massachusetts, to Texas; Bahamas; Cuba. KEY TO THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS NEOPANOPE A*. Dact}'lus of major chela without a large basal tooth. B'. Fingers white or light horn-color. Antero-lateral teeth sharp and much produced texana texana, p. 367. B2. Fingers black or dark-colored in males. Antero-lateral teeth blunter and less produce
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE CANCROID CRABS OF AMERICA 367 fingers acute. Abdomen of male constricted, between fifth and sixth segments; terminal segment broader than long, sub triangular. Other- wise as in Panopeus. From Provincetown, Massachusetts, to Texas; Bahamas; Cuba. KEY TO THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS NEOPANOPE A*. Dact}'lus of major chela without a large basal tooth. B'. Fingers white or light horn-color. Antero-lateral teeth sharp and much produced texana texana, p. 367. B2. Fingers black or dark-colored in males. Antero-lateral teeth blunter and less produced texana sayi, p. 369. A^. Dactylus of major chela with a large basal tooth packardii, p. 380. NEOPANOPE TEXANA TEXANA (Stimpson) Plate 168, Figures 1 and 2 Panopeus texanus Stimpson, Ann. Lj'c. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 7, 1858 (1859), p. 55 [9] (type-locality, St. Joseph's Island, Texas; type not extant).— Benedict and Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 1891, p. 363, pi. 22, fig. 5; pi. 23, fig. 9. Neopanope texanus Rathbun, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, vol. 4, 1898, p. 273. Neopanope texana Rathbun, Amer. Nat., vol. 34, 1900, p. 138. Diagnosis.—Dactylus of larger hand without a large basal tooth. Fingers white or light horn color. Color of immovable finger con- tinued a short distance on palm. Tips of last three antero-lateral teeth sharp. Description.—Carapace very convex in both directions, high in middle, widest at posterior tooth, minutely pubescent, especially in female. Regions defined, gastric subregions faintly indicated. Front slightly produced and rounded, a small median notch. First tooth of lateral margin small, triangular, coalesced with the low, arcuate second tooth from which it is separated by a shallow sinus; next two teeth sharp, tips pointing forward, the fourth tooth ascending; last tooth short and sharp, tip directed outward or slightly forward, and upward. On the fourth and fifth teeth a short oblique ridge extends from the tip in
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