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RECORD OF SPECIMENS EXAMINED. 



Acajutla, San Salvador (Yale Uuiv. Mus.)- 

 Bay of Panama (Yale Univ. Mus.). 

 Locality unknown (13930). 



5. Panopeus texanus Stirapson. 



(Plate XXII, fig. 5; plate xxiii, fig. 9.) 



Panopeus texanus. W. Stiiupsou Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., vii, p. 55, 18.59. J. S. Kingsley, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., xxxi, p. 394, 1879 (partim). A. Milne Edwards, Miss. 

 Sci. an Mesique, pt. 5, i, p. 312, pi. lviii, tig. 4, 18rf0 (partim). 



Carapace very convex in both directions, widest at the posterior 

 teeth, and minutely i)ubescent, especially in the females. Front 

 slightly produced and rounded. Coalesced tooth with a very shallow 

 sinus. Second and third teeth sharp, and pointing forward and up- 

 ward. Posterior tooth short and sharp, the tip directed forward. 

 Male abdomen very broad, lateral outline markedly concave, terminal 

 segment much flattened. 



Chelipeds smooth and glabrous. The movable finger is a light horn 

 color. The immovable finger is white in the male, the color extending 

 to the hand and terminating in a very distinct line, which begins at the 

 base of the finger at the gape and rounds backward to the lower mar- 

 gin. In the females the color is a little darker. There is no large 

 tooth or tubercle at the base of the dactyl or on the anterior outer 

 margin of the manus. Ambulatory feet long and slender. 



Length of carapace in large specimen, 17 millimetres; width, 22.5 

 millimetres. 



RECORD OF SPECIMENS EXAMINED. 



Florida: Mouth of Indian River (Yale Univ. Mus.); Marco (15384) ; Puuta Rassa 

 (6653, 14082) ; Charlotte Harbor (14089) ; Sarasota Bay (6426, t)975) ; Palma Sola, 

 mouth of Manatee River (15383); Egmont Key (Yale Univ. Mus.); Tampa Bay 

 (15385); Goodlaud Point (15631); Boca Ceiga Bay, inner shore of Pine Key (15382); 

 Orange Bluff, Clearwater Harbor (6968) ; Cedar Keys (6415, 15386). 



6. Panopeus sayi Smith. 

 (Plate XXII, fig. 4; plate xxiii, figa. 7 and 8.) 



Cancer panope (pars). Thomas Say, .lour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, pp. 58, 447, 



1817. 

 Panopeus sayi. S. I. Smith, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat, Hist., xii, p. 284, 1869 ; Rept. 



Commr. of Fisheries for 1871 and 1872 (1874), i3p. 547, 312; Trans. Conn. Acad., 



V, p. 37, 1879. J. S. Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 319, 1878. 



A. E. Verrill, Check-List of Marine Invert., p. 1, 1879. R, Rathbun, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 3, J). 119, 1880; Fishery Industries of U. S., section i, p. 772, 1884. 



Walter Faxon, Bull. Mns. Comp. Zool., 6, p. 165, pi. ii, 1880. E. A. Birge, Studies 



Biol. Lab. Johns Hopkins Univ., ii, No. 4, pp. 411-426, pis. xxx-xxxiii, 1883 



Carl F. Gissler, Amer. Nat., xviii, p. 2'^5, 1=84. 

 Panopeus texanus. J. S. Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., xxxi, p. 394, 1879. 



(partim). A. Milne Edwards, Miss. Sci. au Mexiqne, pt. 5, i, p. 312, pi. LVIII, 



fig. 4, 1880 (partim). 



