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A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



Calappa gallus (Herbst) Latr., var. galloides (Stimp.). Yellow Box Crab. 



Cancer (/alius (jjars) Herbst. op. cit., iii, pt. 3, pp. 18, 46, pi. Iviii, tig. 1, 1803. 



Cancel- {Cakqjpa) galhis (pars) Latr., Reg. Anim., iii, p. 24. 1817. 



Calappa galhis H. M.-Edw., Hist. nat. Crust., ii, p. 105, 1837. Dana, Crust. 



U. S. Expl. Exp., p. 393, 1852. Capello, Journ. Sci. Math., Phys. Nat. 



Lisboa, iii, p. 133, pi. ii, fig. 4. 1871 (W. Africa). 

 Miers, Voy. Challenger, xvii, p. 286, 1886 (Bermuda). Eankin, op. cit., p. 533. 



M. J. "Rathbun, Decapod Crust. W. Africa, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxii, p. 



297, 1900 ; Brach. and Macr. Porto Rico, p. 85, 1901. 

 Cancer galloides Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, vii, p. 71, 1859. 



Figure 45. Plate XXVI, Figures 3. 



Color of ujjper parts generally orange to orange-brown, becoming 

 brighter on the front of the chehe; under parts dull yellow. Cara- 

 pace, above, and front of chelte, covered with irregular spots of dark 

 red or reddish brown, variable in size and form; many of the larger 



Figure 45. — Calappa gallus, galloides, front view, about nat. size. 

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granules and tubercles of the carapace are white, especially those 

 that lie in rows on the posterior transverse ridges and those on the 

 scattered elevations. This causes the elevations to appear higher 

 than they really are. The digits of the chelfe are smoky horn-color, 

 becoming blackish on the upper side of the dactyl. Ambulatory 

 legs yellow, tinely reticulated with red lines. 



Chela; 

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