50 Bulletin, Vanderhilt Marine Museum, Vol. HI 



240, pi. 20, figs. 11-14, 1837.— BouviER, Bull. Soc. Philom. (8), 



11, p. 143, 1889-1890.— Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., p. 316, pi. 



12, fig. 21, 1892.— NoBiLi, Bull. Mus. Torino, No. 280, p. 3, 1897.— 

 Eathbun, Mary, Ann. Inst. Jamaica, vol. 1, art. 1, p. 42, 1897. — 

 Benedict, Bull. U. S. Fisli. Comm., vol. 20, part 2, p. 1901.— 

 Alcock, Catal. Indian Decapod Crust., part 2, Auomura, facs. 1, 

 p. 193, 1905. 



Coenohita clypeatus Doflein, Sitz. Math. Pliys. K-B. Akad. Wissen- 

 schaften Band 29, 1899, p. 186, and Band 30, 1900, p. 133.— 

 Alcock, op. cit., note the synonymy, p. 193. — Rathbun, Rapport 

 betreffende een Voorloopig Onderzoek naar den Toestand van de 

 Visscherij en de Industrie van Zeeproducten in de Kolonie Cura- 

 cao, 1907, p. 329. 



Family: LITHODIDAE. 



Genus: LITHODES Latreille. 

 Lithodes maia (Linne). 

 Plate 11. 



Type: Linnaeus in the Tenth Edition states that this species in- 

 habits the oceans of Europe. 



Material examined : One specimen taken in dredge in 200 fms. of 

 water, nine miles southwest by west of Port Basque, Newfoundland, 

 September 1, 1926, by the ''Ara," William K. Vanderbilt, com- 

 manding. 



Color : Entire upper surface vivid scarlet. Sternal plastron some- 

 what paler, but deeply tinged with scarlet. 



Technical description : Carapace pyriform, widest through the 

 median and posterior region, the male usually smaller and more spin- 

 ose than the female, which has a broader aspect. The rostrum in the 

 male is one-third as long as the carapace and is directed forward and 

 upward; there is one long, acute basal spine on the ventral surface, 

 directed forward and do-WTiward. The apex is bifid, consisting of two 

 divergent, acute spines ; midway the rostrum there is a second pair of 

 divergent, acute, upward-directed spines, and just above the base 

 there is a smaller pair of upward-directed spines. The postorbital 

 spine is acute, forward-directed, a trifle longer than the eye; the 

 entire lateral and posterior margin is armed with acute, slightly up- 

 curved, outward-directed, conical spines ; there are two on the hepatic 



