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Bat, unlike the latter, this has also many short, curved, or convex 

 ridges on the carpus and distal part of the merus externally, similarly 

 furnished with appressed hairs; other similar, curved ridges are on 

 the inner surface of the propodus and dactylus, above and below. 



It is also more yellow in color and more uniform, without conspic- 

 uous bands of red on the legs, and without the red reticulated lines. 



Two large specimens of D. insignis obtained at Dominica I., in 

 1906, by A. II, Verrill, are in the Yale Museum. They occupy 

 shells of Trito)i variegat.us. 



They were taken in fish-traps, in 10 to 25 fathoms, associated 

 with D. venosKS. The latter was much more common. Saussure's 

 type was from Guadeloupe. 



Clibanarius tricolor (Gibbes) Stimp. Tricolored Eermit-Crab. Blue Hermit- 

 Crab. 



Pagurus tricolor Gibbes, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., iii, p. 189, 1850. 

 Clibanarixis tricolor Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad. , p. 234 [72], 



1858. Rankin, op. cit.. p. 239, 1900 (Bahamas) ; vol. xli, p. 535 (Bermuda). 



Benedict, Anom. Crust. Porto Rico, p. 142, pi. vi, fig. 2, 1901 (descr.). 



Figures 61, 62, 63. 

 This is a small and very abundant species easily distinguished from 

 all others by its remarkable coloration, in which blue predominates. 



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62 



Figure 61. — Clibanarius tricolor in a shell ol Modulus, x about 4 times. Phot. 



A. H. V. 

 Figure 62. — The same, much enlarged, after Benedict. 



The carapace and eye-stalks are generally bright blue; the antenna? 

 are annulated with bright orange ; chelipeds dark olive-green and 

 brown, irregularly spotted with blue, orange, and white; the chelae 



