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A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



The left chelipeds and second ambulatory leg are covered with fan- 

 shaped groups of plumose hairs, mostly dark red, but some are 

 whitish. Tips of the digits black and spoon-shapo<l. The U'fi chela 

 is the larger, compressed, and covered with coarse granules. This 

 is from Bermuda, fig, 50. 



This species appears to be rare in Bermuda. We obtained one 

 specimen in 1898; another in the Yale Museum was collected by 

 Dr. F. V. Hamlin about ISVV. Its range is from Florida to Brazil. 

 Porto Rico (Benedict as insignis)', ?Maceio and Rio Goj'anna, Brazil, 

 on reefs (Rathbun as insignis). 



About a dozen good specimens of this conspicuously colored spe- 

 cies were obtained at Dominica Island by A. II. Verrill, in IDOG 

 (Yale Mus.). They were taken in baited fish-traps in 10 to 25 

 fathoms. They occupied shells of Triton nariegatus, 3Iurex, and 

 half-grown Stromhns gigns. 



Figure 60. — Dardanus insignis; a, anterior part of carapace and appendages 

 enlarged ; b, distal part of 2d ambulatory leg of left side, more enlarged. 

 After Saussure. See also pi. xxvi. 



This species is pretty closely allied to D. insignis, but is easil}' 

 distinguished by the armature of the chelse and second left ambulatory 

 leg. The eye-stalks of the latter are also shorter (see fig. 59), not 

 reaching to the end of the antennal aciculum, and the ocular scales 

 are different in form. In D. insignis the second left ambulatory leg 

 has no median carina on the outer surface (see fig. 59, and Plate xxvi, 

 4, 5), the oblique ridges and long rows of small tubercles curve back- 

 ward and meet in " herring-bone " fashion along the convex middle 

 line, on the propodus, but are interrupted by a groove on the dactylus; 

 they are armed with appressed plumose hairs, as in D. venosus. 



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