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Chelipeds clothed with short, soft hairs, interspersed occasionally with 

 longer hairs. Upper surface of major carpus and manus covered with 

 acuminate granules, which become flattened distally and terminate in an 

 oblique line across the manus, leaving the outer distal two-thirds of the 

 hand smooth and bare. Fingers stout, slightly gaping, pollex somewhat 

 deflexed, an enlarged tooth at base of dactyl, a prominent lobe at basal 

 two-fifths of fixed finger; color of fingers not continued on palm. Minor 

 carpus and manus covered with hairs and acuminate granules extending 

 onto the pollex, fingers slender, deflexed, grooved, acuminate, their tips 

 crossing when closed. 



Merus of ambulatory legs spinulous, carpus grooved and spinulous, 

 carpus, propodus, and dactylus with long hairs; dactyli with incurving, 

 horny tips. 



Segments 3-4-5 of male abdomen coalesced, sixth segment broadly 

 rectangular, seventh triangular with a rounded tip. 



Merus of outer maxilliped roughly rectangular, anterolateral angle 



broadly rounded, almost lobate, inner margin minutely spinulous, antero- 



internal angle with a shallow notch for insertion of the 3-jointed palpus. 



Material examined (469 specimens from 37 stations). — 



24-33. Gardner Bay, Hood Island, shore, Jan. 24, 1933, 4 males, 6 



females. 

 28-33. Gardner Bay, Hood Island, 2 fms, Jan. 25, 1933, 3 males, 3 



females. 

 30-33. Gardner Bay, Hood Island, shore, Jan. 26, 1933, 1 female. 

 3)2)-2>Z. Black Beach, Charles Island, shore, Jan. 27, 1933, 3 males, 



2 females. 

 38-33. SE of Cormorant Point, Charles Island, shore, Jan. 29, 1933, 



1 young. 

 47-33. Barrington Island, 2 fms, Feb. 2, 1933, 2 males, 1 female. 

 48-33. Barrington Island, shore, Feb. 2, 1933, 1 male, 1 female. 

 69-33. Albemarle Point, Albemarle Island, shore, Feb. 11, 1933, 5 



males, 2 females. 

 73-33. Cartago Bay, Albemarle Island, shore, Feb. 13, 1933, 29 



specimens. 

 76-33. Cartago Bay, Albemarle Island, shore, Feb. 14, 1933, 43 



males, 19 females (1 ovig.) 19 young. 

 80-33. Duncan Island, shore, Feb. 15, 1933, 14 males, 7 females, 11 



young. 

 94-33. Darwin Bay, Tower Island, coral, Feb. 22, 1933, 2 females. 

 96-33. Darwin Bay, Tower Island, shore, Feb. 24, 1933, 1 male, 1 

 female. 



