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782-38. Darwin Bay, Tower Island, shore, Jan. 16, 1938, 5 males, 5 



females. 

 784-38. Darwin Bay, Tower Island, shore, Jan. 17, 1938, 2 males. 

 789-38. South Seymour Island, shore, Jan. 19, 1938, 3 females. 

 796-38. Sulivan Bay, James Island, shore, Jan. 21, 1938, 3 males, 1 



female. 

 800-38. Cartago Bay, Albemarle Island, shore, Jan. 22, 1938, 1 male. 

 804-38. Onslow Island, near Charles Island, coral, Jan. 23, 1938, 1 



female. 

 808-38. Academy Bay, Indefatigable Island, shore, Jan. 25, 1938, 2 

 males. 

 811a-38. Barrington Island, Pavona coral, Jan. 26, 1938, 1 young fe- 

 male. 

 Measurements. — ^A large male: length 14.0 mm, width 19.0 mm, 

 cheliped (rigid) coxa to elbow 12 mm, elbow to tip of dactyl 16 mm, 

 chela 15.0 mm, dactyl 8.0 mm. 



Color in life. — Carapace and chelipeds purplish brown. Apple-green 

 markings on cardiac region. Two longitudinal bands of purple on maxil- 

 lipeds and three on subhepatic region. Last three rows of squamae on 

 chelae (most ventral) white. Abdominal segments each marked with 

 purplish brown transversely. Row of setae on hepatic region yellow. 

 (Garth) 



Habitat. — Shore, under rocks, and in Pocillopora coral. 

 Depth. — Shore to 3 fms. 



Remarks. — After a careful individual examination of over 500 speci- 

 mens of Eriphia from the Galapagos Islands in Hancock collections it 

 appears that all are E. granulosa. The writer differs emphatically from 

 Boone (1927, p. 234), who avers that this species may prove to be only 

 a subspecies of E. squamata Stimpson and agrees with Rathbun (1930, p. 

 552) that it is very distinct from, and not to be confused with, the 

 gonagra-squamata type. Her distinguishing features are borne out very 

 nicely by a pair of Hancock specimens from Charles Island which were 

 compared with Hopkins-Stanford material (USNM No. 25667). The 

 front is entire, the granules of the carapace single, and the tubercles of 

 the wrist tend to form bands (pi. 80, fig. 2). 



That there has been confusion of these species, even among specialists, 

 is amply demonstrated. A specimen in the National Museum identified 

 by Rathbun as squamata, Pinchot Expedition, Daphne Island, A. K. 

 Fisher, collector, is definitely granulosa. The specimens reported by Boone 

 (1927) from Cocos Island as granulosa have been re-examined at the 

 request of the writer by Miss Jocelyn Crane of the New York Zoological 

 Society and have proved to be squamata. 



