A. E. V err-ill Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 413 



It ranges from Beaufort, N". C. to the Abrolhos Islands and Bahia, 

 Brazil. Off Cape Fear, N. C., 15-17 fathoms, West Indies, 6-1G 

 fathoms, Florida, and many other localities (Rathbun). Bermuda 

 and Bahia, Brazil (Miers; Rathbun); Abrolhos (Smith, Yale Mus.). 



Microphrys bicornutus (Latr.) A. M.-Edw. Spider Crab. 



I'isa biconutta Latreille, Encyc. Meth., Nat. Hist., x, p. 141, 1825. 

 Pericera bicorna H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. nat. Crust., i, p. 337, 1834. 

 /Ysu bicorna Gibbes, Proc. Ainer. Assoc. , 3d meeting, p. 170, 1850. 

 Pericera bicornis Saussure, Crust. Antilles et du Mexique, p. 12, pi. 1, figs. 



3, 3c, 1858. 

 Miln in liicnrmita Stimpson, Notes on North Amer. Crust., Annals Lye. Nat. 



Hist., New York, vol. vii, pp. 51, 180, 1860. Smith, Brazil Crust., these 



Trans., ii, p. 1, 1869. 

 Mii-i-nphrys bicornutus A. Milne-Edw., Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., viii, p. 



247, 1872; Miss. Sci. Mex., v, p. 61, pi. xiv, figs. 2-4, 1873; Bull. Mus. 



Cornp. Zool., viii, p. 1, 1880. Miers, Voy. Chall., Zool., viii, p. 83, 1886 



(Bermuda). 

 Microphrys bicornutus M. J. Eathbuu, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xv, p. 253, 1892 



(synon.) ; Brach. and Macrura Porto Rico, p. 72, 1901. 

 Pisa galibica and Pisa purpurea Schramm and Desb., Crust. Guadeloupe, p. 



18, 1867 (t. A. M.-Edw.). 



FIGURE 43. 



In life, this species nearly always has its carapace covered with 

 closely adherent alga?, bryozoa, sponges, etc. which pretty effectually 



Figure 43. Microphrya bicornutus, nat. size, with foreign growths on the cara- 

 pace. Phot, A. H. V. 



conceal it. When cleaned, it is dull yellowish brown; its chelipeds 

 are always covered with small, round, purplish spots. This is diag- 







nostic for the species. 



Many of the females collected April 20, 1901, carried eggs. 



