. Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. Their distribution, variations, and habits. Decapoda (Crustacea). A. E. Verrill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 431 The only Bermuda specimen known to me was obtained by the party from the Field Mus. Nat. Hist, on the Argus Bank, 30-40 fathoms, Oct. 13, 1905. It was taken from the stomach of a Hamlet Grouper, and was, consequentl}^, badly damaged. It was a large, specimen. Its range is from Florida to Pernambuco, Brazil (Rathbun). A number of large specimens, in the Yale Mus., were collected at Dominica, 1906, by A. H. Verrill. They were caught in fish-traps set i
. Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. Their distribution, variations, and habits. Decapoda (Crustacea). A. E. Verrill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 431 The only Bermuda specimen known to me was obtained by the party from the Field Mus. Nat. Hist, on the Argus Bank, 30-40 fathoms, Oct. 13, 1905. It was taken from the stomach of a Hamlet Grouper, and was, consequentl}^, badly damaged. It was a large, specimen. Its range is from Florida to Pernambuco, Brazil (Rathbun). A number of large specimens, in the Yale Mus., were collected at Dominica, 1906, by A. H. Verrill. They were caught in fish-traps set in 50-150 Figure 50.—Dromia erythropus from Dominica, with a flat Chalinid sponge held over its back, about !> nat. size. Phot. A. H. V. Dromidia antillensis Stimpson. Dromidia antillensis Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei., Philad., for 1858, p. 225; Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, vii, p. 71, 1859. Smith, these Trans., ii^ p. 17, 1869 (meas.). Benedict, Auom. Coll. Porto Rico, p. 132, 1901. Figure 51. Plate XXVIIl, Figures 2, 3. The carapace, which is about as long as broad, is convex in both directions, high in the middle, and pretty evenly rounded, covered with fine, close, yellowish hairs, beneath which it is white, nearly smooth, minutely punctate. Similar hairs cover the chelipeds; those of the other legs are longer. The narrow front is abruptly bent downward at tip ; it bears three small obtuse teeth standing equally spaced, forming a ti'iangle, in a front view ; the inner orbital tooth is small and acute; the superior orbital is nearly as large and acute; the inferior orbital is similar to the frontal spines in size and form. There are four small, acute lateral spines, of which the first two are stouter, and divergent, the first a little larger; the 3d and 4th are strongly hooked forward at ihe tip and very acute. The carpus of the chelipeds has three distal, subspiniform angles, the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images tha
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