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pace is nearly smooth, and in life is gaj^ly colored, but the colors are 

 variable. Some of our specimens were colored as follows : " Cara- 

 pace mottled with green and pink on a gray ground color. Chelae 

 nearly white, with the round tubercles of the upper side dark green, 

 becoming yellow; dactyl and end of thumb chocolate-brown; ambu- 

 latory legs yellow, consj^icuously banded with reddish brown, each 

 band formed by numerous minute, red-brown spots. Under surfaces 

 white (C. S. v.). These gay colors appear to be protective Avhen in 

 its natural environment, among bright colored sponges, algae, etc., 

 on the reefs. 



The ratio of length to breadth of the carapace varies from 1 : 4 

 to 1:5. 



Nos. 89a-89c were collected in the autumn of 1905, at Nonesuch 

 I., by the Field N. H. Mus. expedition. No. 89c caiTied a large 

 mass of eggs. No. 4009 is the figured specimen. 



It lives mostly under large loose stones and dead masses of corals, 

 both on the reefs and on the rocky shores. Several good specimens 

 were taken by our Yale parties, both in 1898 and 1901, It had 

 previously been taken by Mr. Goode, Mr. J. M. Jones, and others. It 

 was also in the 1908 collections of the Biological Station and of Prof. 

 Kincaid. 



Rankin reported two specimens with ova taken in the summer of 

 1897. 



It has a wide range, from S. Carolina and the Florida Keys to 

 Rio, Brazil (Smith); Abrolhos Reefs, Brazil (Smith). Bahamas (Ran- 

 kin); Poito Rico (Rathbun); S. Cai'olina (Rankin); Indian Key, Fla. 

 (Yale Mus.). Pernambuco and Maceio, Brazil (Rathbun) ; Rio 

 Janeiro (Dana; Heller); Colon (Yale Mus,). 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XIII. 26 Feb., 1908. 



