228 Bulletin Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. VII 



Subfamily : Podophthalminae 



Genus: PODOPHTHALMUS Lamarck 



Podophthalmus vigil (Fabricius) 



Volume V, plates 37 and 38 



Material examined: Two fine male specimens, taken in 

 Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, in 2 fathoms, December 16, 1928, 

 by the "Ara." One large female, taken in Kewalo Bay, Oahu, 

 Hawaii, December, 1928, also by the "Ara." 



Discussion : This strikingly beautiful crab is again reported 

 in the Vanderbilt collections, this time from the Hawaiian 

 Islands, from which archipelago it has previously been reported 

 by Miers, Lenz, Gibbes, Randall and Rathbun. It was taken by 

 the "Alva" World Cruise, 1931-1932, at Southport, Queensland, 

 and is fully described and illustrated in Volume V, Bulletin of the 

 Vanderbilt Marine Museum, p. 81, and plates 37 and 38. 



Family: CANCRIDAE 

 Subfamily: Cancrinae 



Genus: CANCER Linne 

 Cancer borealis Stimpson 



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Plates 86, 87, and 88 



Discussion : This comparatively rare inhabitant of the shal- 

 low waters occasionally, but more usually of the greater depths, 

 from Nova Scotia to the West Indies, was collected by Mr. Van- 

 derbilt in the "Ara" dredgings of 1926, off Miami, Florida, in 

 1100 fathoms, and is fully described and illustrated in Volume II, 

 Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum, 1930, p. 148, pi. 49. 



The present catch of seven specimens in one dredge haul off 

 Fowey Rocks, Florida, would indicate that this crab may be gre- 

 garious. A typical specimen of both sexes is shown in plates 86, 87 

 and 88. The usual granulation of the carapace of Cancer borealis 

 occurs in the four smaller specimens, which include both sexes, 

 while the largest two females and larger male have the dorsad 

 of the carapace coarsely granulose with several irregularly spaced. 



