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Caroline, from which the "Ara" record is apparently the first. 

 It was also taken by the ''Alva" World Cruise at Noumea, New 

 Caledonia, and is fully described and figured in Volume V, Bulle- 

 tin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum, 1934, p. 194 and plates 

 101 and 102. The specimens from Kusai Island are of assorted 

 sizes, ranging from several about equal to those shown in plate 

 101 to very young adults, only half so large. 



References : Uca annulipes, Boone, Lee, Bull. Vanderbilt Mar. 

 Mus., 1934, vol. V, p. 194, pis. 101, 102. (Complete analysis) . 



Order: MACRURA 

 Family: SCYLLARIDAE 



Genus: SCYLLARIDES Gill 

 Scyllarides aequinoctalis (Lund) 



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Plates 99 and 100 



Material examined: One male, 30 centimeters long, and 

 one ovigerous female, 29 centimeters long, taken at Funchal, 

 Madeira, June 29, 1933, by the "Alva" Mediterranean Cruise. 



Distribution : The bathymetrical occurrence of this species 

 is considered to be from littoral dov^Ti to 100 fathoms, but with 

 most of the dependable records citing comparatively shallow 

 water occurrences. The larval form is highly interesting and 

 undergoes the usual macruran pelagic, planktonic stages. The 

 adult has been several times reported in the West Indies and is 

 here recorded from Madeira and the Galapagos Islands. 



Discussion: These specimens from Madeira are anatomi- 

 cally identical with material secured by the "Ara" in the Bay 

 Biscayne, Florida, in 1923, differing only in their greater size. 

 Since there seems to be no literature on eggs of this species, they 

 are illustrated in plate 100. The "sponge" is quite large, would 

 probably two-thirds fill a pint measure, the individual eggs being 

 very small, of an average diameter of 0.5 millimeter, subspher- 

 ical, attached to the setae of the pleopoda by a mucous secretion, 

 forming closely crowded clusters. 



