444 A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



and tlie rows of tubercles decrease from about three, proximallv, to 

 one or two distal ly ; the ridges bear on the distal side plumose hairs, 

 as on the propodus. The lower marginal carina bears one or two 

 upper rows of subacute or conical tubercles, and an under row of 

 larger, white, obtuse tubercles, with a ]iit bearing a pencil of long 

 hairs, while the upper ones bear basal, phuuoso, appressed hairs. 

 The distal articular margin is also fringed with long hairs. The 

 upper outer surface also bears transverse rows of conical tubercles 

 on raised ridges, carrying short plumose hairs on the distal side, as 

 below ; on the propodus there may be three or four tubercles in a 

 row, but on the dactyl there are but two or three, or only one dis- 

 talh", and the hairs are longer. 



On the upper surface of the propodus there are two or three rows 

 of large, mostly acute, often double, hair-bearing tubercles, with 

 pencils of hairs arising from pits ; on the dactyl these tubercles 

 become broader, truncate, or even concave, with clusters of numerous 

 pits from which pencils of longer and stouter hairs arise. The 

 terminal claw is short and black. 



The second ambulatory leg of the right side, as mentioned by 

 Stimpson, is also flattened, though less so than the left, and has near 

 the margins of the propodus, above and below, flattened, transverse 

 tubercles, which bear rows of small appressed hairs on the distal 

 edge, becoming longer at the margins ; similar, but smaller flat 

 tubercles are scattered on the middle portion, but there is no median 

 carina. 



The other ambulatory legs are more slender, and covered with 

 appressed tubercles, bearing pencils of long hairs. The legs of the 

 third pair have rather stout chelae, and are very hairy. 



The eye-stalks are stout, somewhat enlarged distally, with large 

 black eyes ; they are shorter than the width of the anterior part of 

 the carapace ; they bear scattered pencils of slender hairs. 



The ocular scales are about as broad as long, well separated, with 

 the outer end three-toothed, the inner tooth longest, minutely den- 

 ticulate and fringed with hairs. 



The aciculum of the antenna^ is long, slender, acute, and very 

 hairy. The antennulje are much longer than the eye-stalks, which 

 reach to about the middle of the last joint of the peduncle. 



Specimens of large size, when recently dried, have the legs and 

 chelipeds light orange, varying to red on the exposed surfaces, with 

 the tubercles of the chelae crimson or purple; those surfaces less ex- 

 posed in life are paler orange or yellowish; under a lens the surfaces 



