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Young specimens of this form were not uncommon at Bermuda, 

 in masses of Sargassiim, associated with Portunns Sayi and Planes 

 miuvtvs. It was also taken by the Bermuda Biological Station in 

 July, 1905, in Sargassum. 



The larger specimens are from Fort Macon (Yale Mus., coll. Dr. 

 Yarrow, 1871) ; off Hatteras, in 13 fathoms (U. S. Fish Comra. 

 Steamer "Albatross," Oct., 1881, sta. 2285); West Florida (Coons 

 coll., Yale Mus.); and Brazil. 



Achelous Gibbesii (Stimp.). 



Lupa Gibbesii Stimpson, Notes on N. Amer. Crust., i, Annals Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. N. York, vii p. 57 [11]. 



Achelous Gibbesii Stimpson, Notes, I, op. cit., vii, p. 22 [94], 1860 (Beau- 

 fort, N. C). 



Neptunus Gibbesii A. M.-Edw., Nouv. Arch. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, x, p. 326, 

 pi. xxxi, figs. 1, la, 16, 1861 ; Miss. Sci. Mex., p. 213, 1879. 



Achelous Gibbesii Smith, Ann. Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish and Fisheries, for 

 1882, p. 349, 1884 (off Hatteras); op. cit., for 1885 [p. 30], 1886 (off Hatteras), 

 Kingsley, Proc. Philad. Acad., for 1879, p. 398. 



Portumis (Achelous) Gibbesii M. J. Eathbun, Amer. Naturalist, xxxiv, p. 140, 

 1900. 



Figures 34, 35. 



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Figure 34. — Achelous Gibbesii, young, x 1^. After A. M.-Edw. 

 Figure 35. — The same, abdomen of $ . enlarged. After A. M.-Edw. 



This species, which is introduced here mainly for convenient com- 

 parison, is not yet definitely recognized as native of Bermuda. The 

 few specimens most resembling it are too young for positive deter- 

 mination. 



It has four small, nearly equal rostral teeth, besides the obitals, 

 which are slightly bilobed (scarcely at all in the young) ; the merus 



