A. E. Verrill Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. :!:>'. 



the Challenger Hank in 28 fathoms, by the party from the Field 

 Museum Xat. Hist., Got. 1905. 



It ranges from Florida to the Lesser Antilles. It is common in 



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the West Indies. Colon (Yale Mus.). 



Cycloxanthops denticulatus (White) Rath bun. 



X<i,ifli<> <l<;tticulrtta White, Ami. Mag. Nat. Hist., 2d s., ii, p. 285, 1848 

 (in.m Stimpson). Smith, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xii, p. 274, 1869 

 (deser.): these Trans., ii, pp. 3 and 33, 1869 (Bermuda, Colon, and Brazil). 

 A. M.-Edw., Miss. Sci. Mexico, Crust., p. 252, pi. xlv, figs. 2-26, 1879. 

 Rankin, op. cit., p. 529, 1900. 



Cycloxanthops denticulatus M. J. Rathbmi, Ann. Inst. Jamaica, i, p. 14, 1897; 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, p. 590, 1898 ; Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., ii, p. 138, 

 1900; Brach. and Macr. Porto Rico, p. 27, 1901. 



PLATE XIV, FIGURE 8. PLATE XXVII, FIGURE 7. 



In life this species is generally some shade of red, purplish red 

 or salmon. " Our specimens are usually reddish salmon, or pink; 

 on the front part of the carapace there is often a red spot. Under 

 surfaces whitish, with some pale brown spots on the abdomen. Chelae 

 pinkish brown, their tips dark brown or nearly black." (C. S. V.) 



The carapace of an unusually large specimen from Brazil, was 

 16.6 mm long, by 26.5 mm broad ; ratio, 1 : 1.6. (Smith.) 



Measurements of Bermuda specimens. 



Carapace Front Chelse 



No. Sex length breadth width length height 



3137 $ 16 25 6 j JJ - 3 



81376 14.5 22 5 J [' 14.5 6 



4014 $ 15 24 6 r. 18.5 9.5 



4013 5 14 22 5 j f; Jj| 5 



In all our specimens the right chela is the larger. It is easily dis- 

 tinguished by the small, sharp marginal denticles. 



We found this species rather rare at Bermuda. It lives under 

 stones at low tide and among dead corals on the reefs. It was also 

 in the early collections of J. M. Jones and G. B. Goode (Yale Mus.), 

 and in the collection made by the Bermuda Biological Station, 1903. 



Its range extends from South Carolina and Florida through the 

 \Yest Indies to Colon (Smith), and Kio Janeiro (Dana). Abrolhos Is., 

 Brazil (Smith) ; Maceio (Kathbun) ; Cumana (Stimpson). Near Vera 



