. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 76 BULLETIN 152, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Color.—Pale reddish or brownish, mottled; gastric region usually deep crimson. (Stimpson.) Backs mottled with coral red, madder brown and rufous; legs banded, paddles transparent olive yellow; bands on fingers almost maroon; (61177). AnotherTortugas specimen (61181) was darker, of a brownish-reddish color; carapace and cheli- peds a grayish chestnut, with French gray caste in spots and ecru drab tinges and spots; ambulatory legs more tawny, articles of pad- dles transparent faint ocher yellow wi
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 76 BULLETIN 152, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Color.—Pale reddish or brownish, mottled; gastric region usually deep crimson. (Stimpson.) Backs mottled with coral red, madder brown and rufous; legs banded, paddles transparent olive yellow; bands on fingers almost maroon; (61177). AnotherTortugas specimen (61181) was darker, of a brownish-reddish color; carapace and cheli- peds a grayish chestnut, with French gray caste in spots and ecru drab tinges and spots; ambulatory legs more tawny, articles of pad- dles transparent faint ocher yellow with ochraceous margins; fingers distally tawny with a white band, then a band of burnt carmine, largely crimson; median fifth white, basal two-fifths burnt carmine and crimson; spines of cheliped mostly white with a faint ring of burnt carmine near base and another near tip. (Schmitt.) Measurements.—Female (7837), total length of carapace , width of same 47, width at anterior base of lateral spine , fronto-orbital width , width of front mm. Range. —Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts (Sumner); North Caro- lina to the Abrolhos Is- lands, Brazil; Bermuda. Material examined.— See table, pp. 72-75. PORTUNUS (ACHELOUS) MIMMUS Rathbun Plate 36 Portunus (Achelous) mini- mus Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. o T. ,. ^ 21,1898, p. 595, pl. 44, Figure 13.—Portunus (Achelous) minimus, male, holotype, « o /+ i t+ CARAPACE 17 MM. WIDE, DORSAL VIEW ^S- " (type-lOCallty, Gulf of California, 10 fathoms, station 2827, Albatross; Cat. No. 21588, ); Proc. Cali- fornia Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 13, 1924, p. 374. Portunus (Portunus) xantusii Rathbun, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 48, 1923, p. 620 (part). Diagnosis.—Second, fourth, and sixth lateral teeth reduced; lateral spine twice as long as eighth tooth; four or five spines on anterior margin of arm; postero-distal margin of merus of swimming feet armed with spinules. Description.—Surface of carapace re
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