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FIGURE 8. — I'anopeus simps/mi. Holotype female (USNM 

 56382); a, Carapace in dorsal view; b. Major chela in frontal 

 view; 10 mm indicated. 



Material examined. — Specimen lots in USNM record- 

 ed by Rathbun (1930) under P. herbstii (catalog num- 

 bers only) plus material added since that time. 



Florida: 6433, 6985, 15413, 15637, 56360, 56382, 

 56841, 60806, 60919, 61377, 62545.-75648. 1M; 

 Key West; U.S. Bur. Fish.— 15415. 1M; South 

 Florida; D. Stearns.— 110390. 1M; Tampa Bay; 

 Bur. Com. Fish., 31 July 1962.— 65615. 1M; near 

 Wakulla, among oysters; B. C. Marshall, July 1931. — 



75650. 1M, lF(ovig.); Apalachicola; A. S. Pearse, 16 

 June 1935.— 75652. 5M, 6 juv.; St. Vincents Bar, 

 Apalachicola; A. S. Pearse, 25 September 1935. — 



75651. IF parasitized with Sacculina; Hagen's 

 Flats, Apalachicola; A. S. Pearse, 9 January 1936. — 

 89451. IF (ovig.); Picalyne Bar, Apalachicola; A. S. 

 Pearse, Stn. 319, 9 August 1935.— 99860. 1M, 2F; 

 Intracoastal Waterway, 3.5 mi E Interarity Point, 

 Pensacola; F. Berry & A. Mead, 15 August 1953. 



Louisiana: 64149. 1M; Grand Pass, Lake Borgne; 

 S. Springer.— 98142. IF; Lake Pontchartrain, 0.5 

 mi off Bayou St. John, 33 ft; R. M. Darnell, 3 Novem- 

 ber 1954.— 75627. 1M; Grand Isle, Landry's Oyster 

 Reef; E. H. Behre, 12 June 1936.— 81369. 9M, 14F 

 (2 ovig.); Bay des Ilettes; E. H. Behre, 13 July 

 1939. 



Texas: 17101, 20639, 33029, 33030.— 191174. 

 2M, IF; Lower Lavaca Bay, Sand Point Reef; B. D. 

 King III, 4 October 1966.— 63275. 1M; Corpus 

 Christi; M. E. Quisenberry. 

 Locality unknown: 60805. 1M; Fish Hawk, U.S. 



Bur. Fish, tin tag #174. 



Types. — The following are designated and labelled as 

 types deposited in the crustacean collection of the 

 USNM: 56382, holotype female, cl 35.9 mm, cw 35.2 

 mm, Saint George's Sound, Apalachicola, Fla.; E. 



Danglade, Fjsft//au;£ col., 16 July 1915; 191 159, 6M, 

 IF, transferred from above lot and considered as 

 paratypes. 



Diagnosis. — Carapace relatively narrower than that 

 of most other species in complex, length 68.2-77.1% 

 width, x 73.5. Coalesced first and second antero- 

 lateral teeth separated by deep rounded notch, adja- 

 cent slopes of each tooth nearly equal and tip of 

 second nearly as advanced as that of first; fourth 

 tooth not curved forward as much as third; fifth much 

 smaller than fourth, usually projecting straight 

 anterolaterally but sometimes slightly swept forward 

 or hooked anteriorly. Chelipeds superficially smooth 

 but actually finely granulate on upper surface of car- 

 pus and palm; lower outer surface of palm light 

 colored (buff or yellowish); major chela with cusps of 

 teeth on fixed finger usually either reaching or falling 

 below straight line drawn between angle at juncture 

 of finger with anterior margin of palm and tip of finger 

 (= length of fixed finger); anterior margin of palm 

 with distance between crest at base of dactyl and tip 

 of condylar tooth lateral to base of dactyl 0.80 or 

 more times length of fixed finger. 



Measurements in mm. — A set of measurements for 

 length and width of the carapace of this species is 

 summarized in Tables 1 and 2 and graphically rep- 

 resented in Figure 9. 



Color. — Carapace light olive to yellowish or 

 variegated grayish brown on lighter background 

 Chelipeds with darker of these colors on carpus and 

 palm dorsally, often in mottled pattern (but not 

 reticulated pattern of dots) extending about halfway 

 down inner and outer surface; lower half of palm 



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