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Calappa angustata Fabricius, Entom. Syst. Suppl., p. 347, 1798. 

 Hepatus fasciatus Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. V, p. 388, 1803. 

 Hepatus princeps Rathbun, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 20, pt. 2, p. 

 86, 1901 ; Ann. Inst. Jamaica, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 38, 1897. 



Hepatulus princeps Fowler, Ann. Report N. J. State Museum, vol. 

 for 1911, part I, p. 590, issued 1912. 



Family: CALAPPIDAE. 

 Genus : CALAPPA Fabricius. 

 Calappa flammea (Herbst). 



Plate 14. 



Name : Flame streaked box crab. 



Diagnostic characters: Body and upper surfaces of cbelipeds 

 marked with radiating bands of purplish flame color on a creamy back- 

 ground, the lines converging toward the frontal region. Posterior 

 angles of carapace produced into a wing-like expansion armed with 

 seven teeth ; anterior region convex paved with flat granules. Hepatic 

 and branchial regions not well separated. 



Type: Herbst 's type is recorded as having come from the "East 

 Indies" and, if still existing, is probably deposited in the Berlin 

 Museum. 



Distribution : Known from North Carolina southward through the 

 Bermudas and the "West Indian region to the eastern shores of Colom- 

 bia and Venezuela. Littoral. 



Material examined: One male dredged in 7 fms., sandy bottom. 

 Bury Islands, Bahamas, B. W. I., January 19, 1925 ; one male dredged 

 in 3 fms., Bimini, B. W. I., by the ''Ara," William K. Vanderbilt, 

 commanding. 



Technical description: Carapace strongly convex, the fronto- 

 lateral margin broadly rounded, crenulate and granulate, the postero- 

 lateral angles produced into a winglike expansion each armed with 

 seven teeth, of which the postlateral is strongest, the three anterior to 

 it being well developed, triangulate, the second and third with the 

 anterior border slightly longer than the posterior ; on the postlateral 

 margin this condition is reversed, the three teeth are weak and succes- 

 sively decrease in size posteriorly; in fact, the second and third teeth 



