.1. K. Verrill Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



pace is nearly smooth, and in life is gayly colored, but the colors are 

 variable'. Some of our specimens were colored as follows: " Cara- 

 pace mottled with green and pink on a gray ground color. Chelae 

 nearly white, with the round tubercles of the upper side dark green, 

 becoming yellow; dactyl and end of thumb chocolate-brown; ambu- 

 latory legs yellow, conspicuously banded with reddish brown, each 

 band formed by numerous minute, red-brown spots. Under surfaces 

 white (C. S. V.). These gay colors appear to be protective when in 

 its natural environment, among bright colored sponges, algse, etc., 

 on the reefs. 



The ratio of length to breadth of the carapace varies from 1 : 4 

 to 1:5. 



Measurements of Bermuda specimens. 



Chelse 



length height 



f r. 28 r. 15 



"(1.12.5 1.11 



28 15 



24 14 



( r. 19 9 



\ 1. 12 7 



r. 20 5 11.5 



Nos. 89-S9c were collected in the autumn of 1905, at Nonesuch 

 I., by the Field N. H. Mus. expedition. No. 89c carried a large 

 mass of eggs. No. 4009 is the figured specimen. 



It lives mostly under large loose stones and dead masses of corals, 

 both on the reefs and on the rocky shores. Several good specimens 

 were taken by our Yale parties, both in 1898 and 1901. It had 

 previously been taken by Mr. Goode, Mr. J. M. Jones, and others. It 

 was also in the 1903 collections of the Biological Station and of Prof. 

 Kim-aid. 



Rankin reported two specimens with ova taken in the summer of 

 1897. 



It has a wide range, from S. Carolina and the Florida Keys to 

 Rio, Brazil (Smith); Abrolhos Reefs, Brazil (Smith). Bahamas (Ran- 

 kin); Porto Rico (Rathbun); S. Carolina (Rankin); Indian Key, Fla. 

 (Yale Mus.). Pernambuco and Maceio, Brazil (Rathbun) ; Rio 

 Janeiro (Dana; Heller); Colon (Yale Mus.). 



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