A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



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Not uncommon at Bermuda and often found on the high sand hills, 

 far away from the shore, and in gardens. Large specimens usually 

 occupy fossil shells of Livona pica, which have weathered out from 

 the soft feolian limestones. These fossil shells were doubtless carried 

 from the shore to the ancient sand dunes by the remote ancestors of 

 these same crabs. 



Figure 55. — Land Hermit Crab in shell of Livona pica, about % nat. size. From 

 living specimen by A. H. V. 



Its range is from Florida Keys to Brazil. Key West, Santa Cruz, 

 Dominica I. (Yale Mus.). Andros I. and Nassau (Rankin). Found 

 on nearly all West India Islands. 



A fossil Bermuda specimen, in a shell of Livona pica, is in the 

 Yale Mus. (coll. Jones). 



Family PAGTJRID-ffi. Hermit Crabs. 



Calcinus sulcatus (M.-Edw.). Stimp. Red Hermit Crab. 



Pagurus sulcatus M.-Edw., Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 2, vi, p. 279, 1836 ; Hist. nat. 



Crust., ii, p. 230, 1837. 

 Calcinus sulcatus Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1858, p. 234. 



S. I. Smith, these Trans., ii, p. 17, 1869 (Brazil). Hilgendorf, Monats. 



Preiiss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1878, p. 823. Henderson, Rep. Challenger, 



Zool., vol. xxvii, Anomura, p. 61. Verrill, these Trans., x, p. 578, 1900. 



Benedict, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p. 939, 1893 ; Anom. Porto Eico, p. 



141, pi. V, figs. 3, 3«, 1901 (descr.). 

 Pafjurus tibicen White {variety), List of Crust, in the British Museum, p. 61. 

 Calcinus tibicen Eankin, Ann. N. York Acad., xii, p. 533, pi. xvii, fig. 1, 



1900 (descr. colors, etc.). 

 Calcinus obscurus Stone, in Heilprin, op. cit., p. 149 {non Stimpson). 



Figures 56, 57. Plate XXVIII, Figure 7. 



The colors appear to be pretty constant, in the Bermuda examples, 



and last very well in formalin or alcohol. The legs and chelse in 



