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enlarged, devoid of prominent ridge within, upper surface of dac- 

 tyl us simply granulate, fingers almost meeting. 



Legs veryl)road; third pair twice as long as carapace, its merus 

 two and one-half times as long as wide and its dactylus four-fifths as 

 long as the preceding joint. Propodites of first and second pairs 

 densely furry on anterior or lower surface, especially in male; car- 

 popodites and propodites of all the legs with hairy margins, a few 

 of the hairs long. 



Terminal segment of male abdomen longer than wide. 



Measurements. Male (14870), length of carapace 29, width of 

 same 33.2 mm. 



Range. Barbados. West Africa, from Senegal to Benguella (Oso- 

 rio). 



Material examined. 



Barbados; 1 large female (Paris Mus.). 



Senegal; M. Delambre; 1 large female cotj'pe, Paris Mus.; 1 male 

 cotype, Cat. No. 20281, U.S.N.M. 



Rock Spring, Monrovia; Apr., 1894; O. F. Cook and G. N. Collins; 

 12 males, 2 females (20572). 



Beyah River, Elmina, Ashantee; Nov. 27, 1889; W. H. Brown, 

 U. S. Eclipse Exped. to Africa; 2 males, 1 female (14870). 



Gabun; M. Duparquet; 1 small male, 1 large female (Paris Mus.). 



Subgenus SESARMA (=EPISESARMA de Man). 



Carapace with a lateral tooth behind the outer orbital tooth. 

 Manus without oblique, coarsely pectinated ridges on upper surface. 



SESARMA (SESARMA) VERLEYI Rathbnn. 



Plate 76. 



Scsarma (Scsarma) verleyi RATHBUN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, 1914, 

 p. 123, pi. G (type-locality, Mulgrave, Jamaica; holotype female, Cat. 

 No. 24940, U.S.N.M.). 



Diagnosis. Carapace elongate, narrowed anteriorly. Merus of 

 third leg four times as long as wide. 



Description. Carapace nearly nine-tenths as long as wide, strongly 

 narrowed anteriorly, convex fore and aft, regions and supra-frontal 

 lobes fairly well marked; of the latter the outer pair are narrower 

 than the inner pair and their anterior margin more strongly marked. 

 Anterior part of carapace granulous, postero-lateral area finely 

 striated. 



The front occupies a little more than half the fronto-orbital width, 

 lower margin forming two prominent lobes in dorsal view, sides 

 oblique, angles rounded off. 



