416 A. E. V err ill Decapoil < 'rustaa <> <{ /' /// 



Stenocionops furcata M. J. Rathlmn. Ann. ln-t. Jamai.-a. i. p. (i, 



Brachyura and .Marrnra of Porto Rico, p ',''. 11MI1. 

 Chorimix iiniiHfuH Randall, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.. viii, p. 108, Is: III 



(. M. J. R.). 



PLATE XXV. Fi.;ri:i-: 2. 



In life the back of the carapace i- closely covered \\ it h dark lro\\ n, 

 Stout hail'-, many >!' them with hooked tip-, and in mo-t ,-a-c- it j- 



more or less concealed by foreign growths, especially sponges (see 



fig.). Most of the specimens taken in deep water at Domini. -a I. 

 had the back, and sometimes the legs. c..\ civd with an elegantly 

 colored sea anemone { < 'ullltirtix ///<-,,/,,/). -,, numerous that the cd^es 

 of their bases wen- in close contact, l>nt other- had Bpongea attaehed 

 to the carapace. 



A good male .specimen from Kgim-nt Key, \V. Morida (No. :7|, 

 Yale Mils.), has very little foreign -r.-wth- on the carapace, except 



a few small red alga-, lint there is considerable fine sand adherim; 



between the hairs. It come- from a -andy region, and had, perhaps, 

 recently moulted. The Ion-- hooked hairs are partly in clii-ter- or 

 large group-. 



i/. asun ,,-,,/x. 



length l.'ii-tli l)d'th bd'th Ch.-lr 



No. Sex total -horns ftal spim-s l.-n-tli li.-ii,'lit Dartyl Li.rality 



971 $ 115 s- 84 3 88 Hi :;u \\\ Florida 



4061 $ KM) 76 r,:j 49 c,-j m..-, >ji |>,, lm nica 



The total length of a chclipcd, of X... 971, i- I -r,""; merns, 74 inni ; 

 carpus, 25 mm ; chela, 88 mm ; rostral horns, .'{()"'". 



The old males sometime- liecome very large, liayin- the l.ody 

 nearly six inches long and four wide, including the horns and spine-. 

 but most of our specimens from Dominica are about two-thirds that 

 size. 



The only Bermuda record is that given l.y Hurdis, but he could 

 hardly have mistaken such a peculiar and conspicuous species. Ili- 

 specimen was taken in a lobster-pot. 



It ranges from off Georgia to Bahia, Bra/il. Gulf of Mexico and 

 off Yucatan, seventeen stations, 21-30 fathoms (Rathbun). Bahia, 

 Brazil (A. M.-Edw.); Dominica I., 10-150 fathoms in fish-traps (A. 

 H. Yen-ill, 1906, Yale Mus.X Egmont Key, W. Florida, Santa Cruz, 

 and east coast of Mexico (Yale Mus.). 



