320 A. E. Verrill Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



It has been taken at Bermuda by nearly all collectors. 



We found it very common on most of the precipitous and rocky 

 shores of Bermuda in 1808, but it was far less common in March and 

 April, 1901. Probably the cold period earlier in the winter and 

 spring of 1901, which was so fatal to the fishes,* also killed oil' many 

 of the crabs of this and allied specie-. 



This species is found on all tropical coasts. On the Atlantic c<>a-l 

 it extends from Florida to Brazil. On the Pacific side it ranges from 

 Peru to Lower California. NYest Africa, at many localities. Cape 

 Verde Islands (Dana, Stimpson). Ascension I. and Kara! (Rene- 

 diet). Young individuals were taken by us on the reel's and 

 serpentine atolls at Bermuda. .Miss Kathbun has recorded an 

 instance of a young one taken on the 1'acitic far from land. Small 

 specimens often occur among barnacles, etc., on the bottoms of vessels. 



Pernambuco, Bra/.il, New Zealand, Tahiti, Natal, .Mauritius ( Kings- 

 ley). Hawaiian Is. (Dana). 



Four specimens were taken from the bottom of a vessel recently 

 arrived from Swan Island, NY. Indies, at NYoods Hole, Ma .. .Inly 

 14, 1887, (t. S. I. Smith in .MSS.j. 



Geograpsus lividus (Ed\v.) Stimp. 



'x A. Mili!r-Kd\v., Hist. Nat. d.'s Crust., ii. p. *.">, is:i? : Md 

 Carcmol., p. 1 :!.". 



Geo<jri>xxx lii-iilns Stirapsow, Proe.' A<-ad. Nat. Sci., 1'liilad.. IS.">N. p. HH ; 



Notes on North Auicr. Crust.. Annals l.vc. Nat. Hist.. N. York, vii, p. y.\*\: 



1860. Kinsley. Proc. 4cad. Nat. Scf., I'liilad., p. 1!I5, INSII i.l,.scripti..n). 



M. J. R;itlil)iin, Pivic. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, p. 604, 1898: Brach. and Macr. 



Porto Rico, p. 16. 1901 ; Verrill, these Trans., xi. p. .'.7-1. 1900. 

 Geoyi-uiixiix m;-iiii',it(ilix Stimpson, Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, p. '-230, 

 181.0 (West Coast). 



FIGURE 5. PLATE XXVI, FIGURE 1. 



In life, the carapace in our specimens was light yellowish brown, 

 marbled or irregularly reticulated with very dark brown streaks, or 

 umber-colored markings, most numerous anteriorly ; legs olive-brown 

 above, paler beneath ; abdomen pale bluish gray. (C. S. V.) 



*See The Bermuda Islands, i, p. 91 ; these Trans., vol. xi, p. 503. 



