A. E. Yen-ill Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



southern coast of New England, and of the early stages of the adult 

 form, in abundance, on Fire Island Beach, on the south side of Long 

 Island, in September, ISTO. Probably it rarely if ever survives the 

 winter so far north. In April, I^TJ, in company with Professor 

 Smith, I found the young of the previous year abundant and very 

 agile on the outer beaches at (ireat Fgg Harbor, X. .1. These had 

 the carapace about is to 24 mm broad. 



At Bermuda we found this crab common on the shell-sand beaches 

 of the south shore, near Tuckers Town and elsewhere, and also on 

 the north shore at Shelly Bay, Long Bird Island and Bailey Bay. 

 One specimen was caught and brought in by a dog, at night. Sev- 

 eral large Bermuda specimens in the Vale Museum were collected 

 by Dr. C. Ilaitt Merriam, April, 1*^1. Two examples were in Mr. 

 Goodc'v collection. It has been obtained by several other collectors. 

 The large-t that I have seen were obtained at Cooper's Island, by 

 the Field Nat. Hist. .Mu-emn Kxpeditidi. None of the females that 

 I have seen carried egsrs, though they have been taken in spring, 

 midsummer, and autumn. Perhaps (lie number examined was not 

 la i'"-c enough lo made this n-gative evidence of much value. 



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Family GECARCINIDJE M.-K.hv. l.<i,t<l Crabs. 



These land crab- can readily be recogni/ed by their very convex 

 surface, with the margins rounded and dilated over and in front of 

 the branchial regions. The front is strongly bent downward and 

 moderately wide : orbits ..,;,, [ eye-stalks not very large. Chelipeds 

 of the adult male- large and powerful, more or less unequal. Distal 

 joints of the legs granulated and fringed. 



Gecarcinus lateralis (Frf-m.) Guerin. (_'<>nnii,i Land Ci-ni>. 



Oci/jx'il'i liiti-rn/is KivmiHvillf. Ann. Sci. nat., iii, p. 224. !*::.">. 



Geciii-i-iiinx l<it,-i-nli* finerin, Icon. Regne Aniiu., pi. v, fig. 1. Rankin, Crust. 



Bermuda, p. .~>2r>. I'.MMI. 



M. J. Ratlibun, Brach. and Marrura Porto Rico, p. 14, 1901. 

 Verrill, these Trans., vol. xi, p. TOO. fig. .">; ; The Bermuda Is., i, p. 294, 



fig. ">;. 



GeoiiTimi* luifostoma (/<"/'si Miers. Voy. Challenger, vol. xvii, p. 218, 1886. 

 Young, Stalk-eyed Crustacea, p. 241, 1900. 



FIGURE 2. 



Commonly the carapace, in life, is mostly of a deep reddish brown 

 or plum-color ; often this color is replaced posteriorly by a wide 

 transverse band of lighter color spotted with yellow ; this band 

 extends forward, along each side, becoming narrower and darker, dis- 



