VI. — Decai'od Crustacea, of Bermuda ; I, — Braciiyura and 

 Anomura. Their Distribution, Variations, and Habits. 

 B}^ A. E. Verrill. 



The following catalogue is intended to include all the species 

 hitherto known to occur at Bermuda. It is based mainly on the 

 collections made by myself and the small parties of students and 

 others who went with me to Bermuda in 1898 and 1901 to make col- 

 lections for the Museum of Yale Univei'sity. But I have also used 

 several earlier collections already in the Yale Museum, especially that 

 of Mr. G. Brown Goode, made in 1876-1877, of which the species 

 were mostly determined by Prof. S. I. Smith, soon afterwards ; and 

 the still earlier collections sent to the Museum by Mr. J. M. Jones, 

 about 1866 to 1877 ; also small collections made about the same 

 period by Dr. C. Hartt Merriam, Dr. F. V. Hamlin, and others. 



Recently, Professor Trevor Kincaid, of the Washins^ton State 

 University of Seattle, has sent me, for examination, his entire col- 

 lection, made while at the Bermuda Biological Station, in 1903. 



The Field Natural History Museum of Chicago sent to Bermuda, 

 in 1905, an expedition under Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, especially to 

 collect the fishes, but a good collection of Crustacea was also 

 obtained, including a number of species dredged on the Challenger 

 and Argus Banks. This collection has been sent to me for study by 

 the director, Mr. F. J. Skiff, to whom I am much indebted for 

 the privilege of studying it. The collection contained several inter- 

 esting additions to the Bermuda crustacean fauna.* 



Prof. E. L. Mark, of Harvard University, has also kindly sent me, 

 for study, a collection of Crustacea made by the members of the 

 Bermuda Biological Station, under his direction. It is of special 

 interest because some of the species were dredged on the Argus and 

 Challenger Banks, and a few are new to the fauna. Several partial 

 and nominal lists of Bermuda Decapod Crustacea, mostly without 

 descriptions or figures, have already been published, increasing, 

 from time to time, the number of known species, but none are com- 

 plete. No doubt many additions will also be made hereafter to the 

 present list, though it is probably nearly complete for the shore 

 and shallow water species. 



* Among these are Dromia eri/thrajjun, a small Munida, and a small red 

 AJpheus, apparently new, from the Banks; Charybrli'lla tumidula, Long Bird 

 I., and Ghjptvrus Branneri Rath., from St. Davids Island. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XIII. 22 Jan., 1908. 



