440 A. E. V err ill Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



The left chelipeds ;m<l second ambulatory leg are covered with fan- 

 shaped groups of plumose hairs, mostly dark red, but some are 

 whitish. Tips of the dibits lilack and spoon-s)i;iped. The left chela 

 is the larger, compressed, and covered with coarse granules. This 

 is from Bermuda, tig. .V.i. 



This species appears to he rare in r>ermuda. We obtained one 

 specimen in IM's; another in the Vale .Museum was collected by 

 Dr. F. V. Ilamlin about isTT. Its range is from Florida to Ilra/.il. 

 Porto Rico (Benedict as ///*/</// /x): ?Maceio and Kio (loyanna, lira/il, 

 on reefs (Rathbun as ///.s/'////.s-). 



Ai>out ado/en 1:00,1 specimens of this conspicuously colored spe- 

 cies were obtained at Dominica Island by A. II. Yerrill, in I'.MII; 

 (Yale .Mils.). They \\ere taken in baited tish-traps in lo to 25 

 fathoniv They occupied shells of Triton i',t,-i, </nt nn, Mitn.i-, and 

 half-i;-rowii 



Figure 60. lim-iltnm* /UN/I//I/N . B, anterior ]>art of carapace and appendages 

 enlarged ; 6, distal part of 2d ambulatory leg of left side, more enlarged. 

 After Saussure. See also pi. xxvi. 



This species is pretty closely allied to I), insignis, but is easily 

 distinguished by the armature of the chela? and second left ambulatory 

 leg. The eye-stalks of the latter are also shorter (see tig. 59), not 

 reaching to the end of the antennal aciculum, and the ocular scales 

 are different in form. In D. insignisthe second left ambulatory leg 

 has no median carina on the outer surface (see fig. 59, and Plate xxvi, 

 4, 5), the oblique ridges and long rows of small tubercles curve back- 

 ward and meet in "herring-bone" fashion along the convex middle 

 line, on the propodus, but are interrupted by a groove on the clactylus; 

 they are armed with appressed plumose hairs, as in D. venosus. 



