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Spec. 3. Color, greenish slate; claw tips, cream; body spots, 

 white; telson of homogeneous color, slate. Aug. 26. Color changing 

 to a more pronounced drab. 



Spec. 4. Color, dark slate, claw tips and body spots, white; white 

 borders on outer segments of last abdominal appendages. 



Spec. 5. Color, slate; somewhat mottled; telson border, ends of 

 claws and ends of maxillipeds, white or cream color. 



Spec. 6. Color, slate; claw tips, snow-white; body spots, light; 

 telson border, cream color; anterior cephalic body spots light. 



Spec. 7. Color, creamy slate; claw tips, cream color; border of 

 telson, rusty; body spots, light. 



Spec. 8. Color, slate; claAV tips, white; telson border, cream 

 color; white patch over region of heart. 



Spec. 9. Blue slate color; claw tips, rusty cream; body spots, 

 light; telson one homogeneous color. 



Spec. 10. Color, slate; claw tips, cream color and body spots 

 white; border of exopodite (last abdominal segment) and border of 

 telson, cream color. 



The following observations upon forty-nine seventh stage lobsters 

 give some notion of the general color characteristics of the stage. 

 All the observations recorded in this table Avere made very soon after 

 entrance to the stage. For convenience in comparing this general 

 color plan of the seventh stage with that of the later stages, tables 

 referring to the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh stages are also 

 here appended. Reference to them will be made on a later page: 

 (The numbers represent percentages.) 



