:'>"i'i .4. E. Yen-ill Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



The last two are from the region of the Gulf Stream. 



Some of the specimens taken in April, Mini, \\nv can-vim: eggs- 

 Several of those collected l>\ the IJenmida Biological Station in June 

 and July, I'.MK;, also carried eg 



Wherever fresh masses of S<ir<i<i*xnin are cast up by the waves thi* 

 crab can almost aluay- lie found heiieath them, often in considerable 

 uumliers. It is usually associated with small specimen* of /' </7//// nx 

 i and two species of shrimp ( I.itfri nti * //.s//'< /;/* and Ltunnii r 

 It is contained in all the llermuda collect ion* t hat I 

 have examined. 



The 36 specimens illustrated on my plate V, to show their varia- 

 tions in form and color, were all taken, with many more, under a sin- 

 gle mass of SOI-;I<IKXIIIII in March, I '.ml, by A. II. Vcrrill. 



It is a good swimmer. ho\\- ( -\i-r. having long lev.* 1. ordered by a 

 dense fringe of bail 1 *, *o that it i- not entirely dependent on the >>-//- 

 gassum. 



Figure 7. Gulf-weed crab, Planes iiiinutiDt. enlarged 1$. The hairs of the legs 

 are ninsth ..initt.d. J. H. Emerton del. 



It is widely distributed, occurring in all tropical and subtropical 

 >eas in floating Xr</xHiiin. 



In the Atlantic it occurs along the course of the Gulf Stream aa 

 far north, at least, as George's Bank and off Nova Scotia. It is 

 sometimes cast ashore on the coasts of New England and Great Brit- 

 ain. Prof. Smith has recorded a large specimen found at \Yoods 

 Hole, Mass., by V. N. Edwards, Sept. 1 1, 1*77. Southward it extends 

 to Brazil and Falkland Is. (Kingsley) ; on the Pacific coast from 

 Peru to the Gulf of California. Also found in the central Pacific 

 and Indian Oceans ; Mediterranean (Heller). West Coast of Africa, 

 Cape St. Lucas (Stimpson); Indian Ocean (M.-Edw.) ; New Zealand 

 and Natal (Kingsley). 



