. Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. Their distribution, variations, and habits. Decapoda (Crustacea). 362 A. E. Verrill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. less evident. The large chela, in the specimen described (No. 3119), is ;" long; 4"" high. The color of the male, after being a short time in formalin, was pale buff on the upper side of the carapace and legs ; chelae yellow- ish or salmon on the palm, with a white patch preceded by a yellow one at the base of the claws, which were umber-brown. The figure given by , from which our fig. 20 was copied, is not very exact
. Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. Their distribution, variations, and habits. Decapoda (Crustacea). 362 A. E. Verrill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. less evident. The large chela, in the specimen described (No. 3119), is ;" long; 4"" high. The color of the male, after being a short time in formalin, was pale buff on the upper side of the carapace and legs ; chelae yellow- ish or salmon on the palm, with a white patch preceded by a yellow one at the base of the claws, which were umber-brown. The figure given by , from which our fig. 20 was copied, is not very exact. The lateral teeth are too large and the two small post-ocular ones are omitted. The carapace, also, is more swollen laterally and wider posteriorly than in our specimens, so that the proportions are different. Our two specimens are the only ones known from Bermuda. It occurs in the West Indies and as far south as the Abrolhos Reefs, Brazil (Edwards).. Figure 20.—Pihimnus sp/nyjes, ? , x 2A times. After A. Eriphia gonagra Edwards. Cancer rjonagra Fabricius,.Suppl. Ent. syst., p. 337, 1798. Eriphia gonagra , Hist. nat. Crust., i, p. 426, pi. xvi, figs. 16, 17, 1834; Ann. Sci. nat., 3, xvi, pi. 8, fig. 10, 1851. Gibbes, op. cit., p. 177. Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped. Crust., p. 250. Stimpson, Annals Lye. Nat. Hist., New York, vol. vii, p. 217. Heller, Reise Fregatte Novara, p. 24, 1865. Smith, Crustacea of Brazil, these Trans., ii, p. 7, 1869 (measure- ments). Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., for 1878, p. 397. A. , Miss. Sci. Mex., v. p. 238, pi. Ivi, figs. 4-4ft. Miers, Voy. Chall., xvii, p. 163. Rankin, op. cit., p. 527. M. J. , Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., ii, p. 141, 1900 (descr. colors); Braeh. and Macr. Porto Rico, p. 42, 1901 (descr.). Pirate XIV, Figure 3. This species is easily recognized by the regularly and strongly tuberculated chelje, while the central part of the back of the cara-. Please note that these images are extracted from
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