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BULLETIN 97, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



South or North Carolina; Fish Hawk; 1 specimen (17180). 



Winyah Bay, South Carolina; January. 1891; Fish Hawk; 17 

 specimens (17~490). 



Myrtle Bush Creek, South Carolina; February 7, 1891; Fish 

 Hawk; 2 specimens (17181). 



Grand Isle, near New Orleans, Louisiana; G. Kohn; 2 specimens 

 (2257). 



Kellers Bay, Calhoun County, Texas ; J. D. Mitchell ; 1 male, re- 

 turned to J. D. Mitchell. 



SESARMA (SESARMA) AEQUATORIALE Ortmann. 



xurina aequatoriaUs OBTMANN, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., vol. 7, 1894, p. 722, pi. 

 23, figs. 14, 14fr, 142 (type-locality, Ecuador; type in-Strassburg Mus.). 



Diagnosis. Carapace narrowed behind. Side tooth small. 

 Spines on whole length of movable finger. Legs short. 



a 



FIG. 146. SESARMA (SESARMA) AEQUATORIALE, NATURAL SIZE, a, RIGHT CHELA 



OP MALE, OUTER VIEW, 6, DORSAL VIEW; C, ABDOMEN OF MALE. (AFTER ORT- 

 MANN.) 



Description (condensed from Ortmann). Allied to S. reticulatum, 

 Carapace narrowing a little posteriorly; side tooth small. Supra- 

 frontal lobes well separated, nearly equal; lower margin of front 

 slightly concave at middle. 



Outer surface of arm and wrist with transverse rugae. Upper 

 margin of arm granulate, distally with a small angle but no spine; 

 anterior margin sharply granulate. Inner angle of wrist a right 

 angle. Upper margin of palm cristate, finely granulate, with 30 to 

 40 granules, very fine near the wrist ; outer surface smooth above and 

 near the fingers, granulate below and in the middle; inner surface 

 regularly granulate. In the female the granules of inner and outer 

 surfaces are more feebly developed. 



Legs short, the longest less than twice length of carapace ; meropo- 

 dites two and one-third times as long as wide; dactyl only a little 

 shorter than propodi. 



Measurements. Male type, length of carapace 23, width of same 

 28 mm. 



Locality. Ecuador. 



