362 



A. E. Verrill Decapod Cruxlm; -<i of Ber/nudii. 



loss evident. The large chela, in the specimen de-.cril.ed (No. 31 I'.'), 

 is 9.5" 1 " 1 long; 4""" high. 



The color of the male, after being a short time in formalin, was 

 pale buff on the upper side of the earapaee and legs ; cliche yellow- 

 ish or salmon on the ]alni. \\itha \\hitepatch preceded l.\ :i \rllo\V 

 one at the base of the claws, which \\ere uml.cr-lirowii. 



The figure given l.y AI.-KdwanK from which our tig. _ti \\;iv 

 copied, is not very exact. The lateral teeth are too large and the 

 two small post-ocular ones are omitted. The carapace. al-<>. is mre 

 swollen laterally and wider p< >-tcri< >rlv than in our specimen-. 90 

 that the proportions are different. 



Our two specimen- are the only one* km>\\n from liermuda. It 

 occurs in the \\Yst Indies and as far south as the Al.rolhos Keel's, 

 Bra/il (Edward -i. 



,>> 



Figure 'JO. 



x/<//<i//>s, $, x 24 times. After A. M.-Edw. 



Eriphia gonagra Edwards. 



Cancer yonm/nt Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. ^yst.. j>. ''>'>!. 1708. 



/'r/jiliiii ijonniji-n M. -Edwards, Hist. uat. Crust., i. p. 4'2C, pi. xvi, figs. 16, 



17,1834; Ann. Sci. nat.. :!. xvi. ]>1. S, tig. 1(1. is.'il. Gibbes, op. cit. , p. 



177. Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped. Crust., p. '-'"><>. Stimpsmi, Annals Lye. 



Nat. Hist., New York, vol. vii. p. ~2\~. Heller, Reise Fregatte Novara, p. 



04, isiM. Smitli. Crustacea of Brazil, these Trans., ii ; p. 7, 1869 (measure- 



ments). Kingsley, Proc. Acnd. Nat. Sri. Phila.l., for 1878, p. 397. A. 



M.-Edw.. Miss. Sci. Mex.. v. p. 23S, pi. Ivi, figs. 4-4/;. Miers. Voy. Chall., 



xvii, p. 163. Rankin, op. cit., p. 527. M. J. Rathbr.n, Proc. Wash. Acad. 



Sci., ii, p. 141, 1900 (descr. colors) ; Brach. and Macr. Porto Rico, p. 4'J. 



1901 (descr.). 



PLATE XIV, FIGURE 3. 



This species is easily recognized by the regularly and strongly 

 tuberculated chela 1 , while the central part of the back of the cara- 



