438 A. E. Verrill Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



Its range is from the Florida Keys to Bra/.il and 1<> West Africa 

 and the adjacent islands. Common in most of the West Indies. 

 Abundant on the shores of Cuba (Saussure); Old Providence, April, 

 9, 1884, with eggs (Str. Albatross, Smith). 



Cape Verde Islands (Studer, Miers, etc.); Dahomey (Osorio); 

 Quinchoxo (Studer); Ascension Island (.Miers. Hem-diet); I>ahama< 

 (Rankin); Dominica I. (A. II. Verrill, litoc,). Hra/.il (coll. Ilarit, 

 Sale Mus.). 



Family ALBUNEID^ Stinipson. 

 Albunea oxyophthalma Miers. 



Miers, Jour. Linii. Soc. London, xiv. p. :!'J!I. pi. v. t'p_'^. 1 I. 1.~>. ls7<|. Bene- 

 dict, Anom. Crust. l'nrt< Ri>-o. p. li'.'.i. UK II. Verrill, these Trans., xi, pp. 

 18, 62, pi. viii. rii;. 1, 1001 (Benninla. <>.i-i/r<'/,li<ilii on p. 18 by error). 

 / .\llni, K-II I'ui-rtii (iuerin. Rev. et Mau r . <le /ool., ser. ii, vol. v, p. 48, pi. i. 

 fig. 10. Kingsley, Proc. Pliila.l. A.-ad. S,-i. for 1*7'.), p. 4<l!h\V. Florida). 



PLATE XX VI 11. l-'n.ruK 1. 



This species is peculiar in having eleven or twelve ^pines each side 

 of the central rostral tooth, and unusually long eye stalks. In the 

 closely related species (.1. <i ili/H'.^ii) of the U. S. coast, there are 

 only nine or ten teeth on each side. 



The only Bermuda specimen known to me is the one recorded in 

 1901. It was found buried in the beach sand by Mr. T. G. Gosling. 

 It is, no doubt, nocturnal in its habits. 



Its range is from West Florida to Hra/il. St. Christophers. Cay- 

 enne, and Brazil (Miers). Sarasota Hay, W. Florida (Kingsley). 



PAGUBIDEA, Stinipson, 1859. 

 Family CEN03ITIDJE. L<i,nl Her mil r,-, ( /,s. 



Cenobita Diogenes (Latr.) Edw. L<ni<l //./(// <',-<il>. 



I'lt'jin-Hx Dioyenes Latr., Eneyc., \>l. 284, figs. 2, 3 (after Cati><l)y.}. 



Cenobita Diogenes H. 11. -Edw.. Hist. nat. Crust., ii. p. '240, pi. ii, figs. 11-14, 

 1837. Smith, these Trans., ii, p. 38 (Brazil). Rankin, op. cit., p. 533, 1900 

 (Bermuda). Benedict, Auomura Porto Eico, p. 139. 1901 (descr.). Verrill, 

 Geology of Bermuda, Amer. Journ. Science, ix, p. 338, 1899, fig. 12 ; these 

 Trans., vol. xi, pp. 464, 708, fig. 22n ; The Bermuda Islands, pp. 52, 296, fig. 

 22o (habits); these Trans., vol. xii, pp. 158, 179, 196, 197, fig. 60, 1906 (fossil). 



FIGURE .V>. 

 This is the onlv land hermit crab of this faunal region. Easily 



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recognized by the large, massive, purplish left chela ; stout ambula- 

 tory legs ; the wide compressed propodus of the left leg of the 

 second pair ; and the compressed eye-stalks. 



