A. E. Verrill Decapod Crustacea of l'-nnu*l<i. 



N. lat. 41 30 . in Sargassum, L872. Southward it is :il>mi<l:int 



the Gulf Stream to Florida, Cuba, :inl tin- Gulf of .M-\ii-.,. l-'r\v 



of the Bermuda s|.L-rinit-ns i-an-ird eggs; ni"-t arc <|iiitr yOUDg. 



Achelous anceps (Sans.) Stimpson. 



L,I/,,;I (/-M-C//.S Saussure, Crust. Antilles. M-x.. M.-m. S.-. I'liys. Hist. Nat.. 



Geneve, xiv. p. J:U |1S|, pi. ii. tig. 11-11'-, l.V.s 'ul,a). 

 Neptunua anceps A. AI.-K<l\v.. Ar<-h. Mus. Nat. Hi-t.. x. p. ::-.'^. l^f.i : Mi . 



Sci. Hex., v. ]>. LM3, 1879. RauUin. Aim. N. York A.-.-i.l. Sci., xii. ].. .'iJJd. 



1HOO. S. I. Smith. Annual K.-p. U. S. Ki-li Comm. for l^.'-'i. p. [::n|. l^-^i; 



(Cape Hatteras). 

 L\Ht l>, -linxsni i,,i Desl). and Schranmi. Cru-t. ( iuailfli.up.-. p. ::. pi. iv, 



fig. 2~) (t. Stinijisiin). 

 Port a a nx (.\<-li<-i"HK\ anceps (pars] M. .1. Ivatlil.un,* Am.-r. Naturalist. v.l. 



xxxiv. i>. 1 in. 

 \<']iht,ins ventralis A. M.-Kdw.. K\]i. S.-i. M.A.. v. pi. xi. H^. :!. l^T'.i. 



Rathbun, Bradi. and Ma-r. 1'nrtn lii>-n, p. 4"). 

 Aclirloiis iini-f/i* Stiuipiu. Ann. l.v. Nat. Hi>t. N. York. p. 11-1. 1^71. 



FIGUEE '26. PLATE XX. FIGURES 1. 2. PLATE NXVI1. FlOUM I. 

 'Plus >|ii-cicv i- easily i-c.-D^ni/alih- l>y tin' Ion--, -liaip. |Htrri..r 

 lateral spines; the fmir VGTJ -lnrt . . .lit MM-, nnci|iial frontal tcetli: and 



Figure 26. .;<//./,,/;.< anceps, female, enlarged 1 ' _, tiim^ : a, chela. After 

 Sanssui 



the two distal spines, one lichind the otlu-r, on the chela-, lioides 

 other obvious characters. The t\vo middle frontal teeth are much 

 smaller than the others. The lateral teeth are acute and curve 



* Miss Ratlabuii (loc. cit.), in her analytical table, placed <i ><(<)>$ in a group with 

 short posterior lateral spines. She informs me that she then had another species 

 in mind. 



