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BULLETIN 97, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The outer mnxillipeds are smaller and do not attain the epistome, 

 and their position is more longitudinal than in G. ruricola; the 

 ischium is considerably longer than the merus and the latter has a 

 shallow emargination on its anterior border. 



Chelipeds very unequal in old males, less so in young males, equal 

 or nearly so in females; the gape of the fingers being greater in the 

 large cheliped than in the small one. In old specimens the spines of 

 the carpus are obliterated. 



Dactyli of legs with only four rows of spines, the ridge on the 

 upper and the lower surface being unarmed, except that occasionally 

 there are a few spines near the tip, or less frequently a whole row 

 of very feeble spines. 



FIG. 101. GECABCIKUS LATEKALIS, MALE (11308), X2. 



1), ABDOMEN. 



a, OUTER MAXILLITEDS, IN PLACE ; 



Color. Commonly the carapace is mostly of a deep reddish brown 

 or plum color; often this color is replaced posteriorly by a wide trans- 

 verse band of lighter color spotted with yellow; this band extends 

 forward, along each side, becoming narrower and darker, disappear- 

 ing rear the e}^e-sockets ; a pair of small white spots close behind the 

 eye-sockets and another pair in the cardiac region. Legs light gray- 

 ish brown; chelipeds darker and more red; last joint bright orange. 

 Underside white. 1 



Measurements. Male, Green Cay, Bahamas, length of carapace 

 43.5, width of same 58 mm. 



Habits. Verrill says of its occurrence in Bermuda : 



It is very common in sandy waste places on many of the smaller Islands. It 

 makes its deep burrows both near the shore nnd on the low hills. 20 to 30 foet 



* Verrill, Trans. Connecticut Acnd. Arts and Scl., vol. 13, 1908, pp. 808-9, fig. 2. 



