. Decapod crustacea of Bermuda. Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Bermuda Islands. I. /-,'. Yen-ill—/),-r<i/xxl Crustacea of have :i stridulating organ, consisting of a vertical scries of short raised lines of lulu-ivies on a narrow ridge. It is doubtless used tin a sexual call. The ambulatory legs are fringed with long yellow hairs. The color of (he adults al IJermuda, in life, is mostly pale yellow, straw-color, or yellowish white, imitating closely the color of the beaches of yellowish white shell-sand on which it lives. Those. Figmv 1. — Oc\ji>inlf itn-iKiriuN, about nat. size, after photo
. Decapod crustacea of Bermuda. Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Bermuda Islands. I. /-,'. Yen-ill—/),-r<i/xxl Crustacea of have :i stridulating organ, consisting of a vertical scries of short raised lines of lulu-ivies on a narrow ridge. It is doubtless used tin a sexual call. The ambulatory legs are fringed with long yellow hairs. The color of (he adults al IJermuda, in life, is mostly pale yellow, straw-color, or yellowish white, imitating closely the color of the beaches of yellowish white shell-sand on which it lives. Those. Figmv 1. — Oc\ji>inlf itn-iKiriuN, about nat. size, after photo, by A. H. Verrill. young specimens that we found living on the coast of New Jersey, in spring, were "pepper-and-salt color," imitating closely the colors of the silicious (granitic) sand of the beaches. When pursued they would tun very rapidly, often suddenly stopping and squatting so closely in the sand that they could be easily Its common name, " ghost-crab," alludes both to its pale color and nocturnal habits. It can run very swiftly on the sandy beaches. It lives in deep burrows near or above high tide. Eye- Chelae stalks Measurements in Cara- Cara- pace pace Front Chela- amber Sex length breadth breadth length height length Locality 3060 $ 39 45 U: 31 36 (14 121 16 Bermuda 3154 ' 38 15 .I'- ll. 36 45 / 'JO 16 •• 1719 2 40 50 6. if: 42 34 \ 33 114 16 Ft. Macon 4063 ' 35 43 5. i. 38 32 Bermuda Its range, in the adult state, is from Virginia to Brazil, but the free-swimming young (rtte</'t//>*) are carried much farther north in tin- (iulf Stream and often arrive alive on the southern coasts of Neu England. Prof. S. I. Smith* has recorded the frequent occurrence of the full jii-own megalops of this species in Long Island Sound and on the *Anier. Journ. Science (3), vol vi, p. (i7. 1S7">: and Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., iv. p. -J55, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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