A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 449 



Some of the specimens taken in June and July, 1903, by the 

 members of the Biological Station, carried eggs. 



Its range is from Florida (o the Antilles. Porto Rico (Benedict); 

 J3aharaas (Rankin). 



Clibanarius Verrillii Eathbun. Spotted Hermit-Crah. 



Clilxoiarius Verrillii M. J. Eathbun, Amer. Journ. Science, ser. iv. vol. xi, 

 p. 328, 1901. Verrill, these Trans., xi. p. 18, pi. viii, figs. 2, 3, 1901. 



Plate XXVII, Figure 5. Plate XXVIII, Figure 6. 



The following description was furnished by Miss Rathbun several 

 years ago: 



" The anterior or hard part of the carapace is a little longer than 

 wide. The median projection of the front is moderately prominent, 

 greater than a right angle; the lateral projections of the front are 

 slightly marked and are broadly rounded. The sides of the carapace 

 diverge posteriorly. The eye-scales are narrow-triangular and are 

 tipped with a short spine. The eye-stalks are very slender and nearly 

 as long as the anterior part of the carapace; they reach to the middle 

 of the antennular flagella. The antennal acicle is slender and reaches 

 to the middle of the last joint of the peduncle ; the joint ends a 

 little bej'ond the middle of the eye-stalk ; the flagellum is about 

 twice as long as the eye-stalk." 



" The chelipeds are similar in shape l:)ut noticeably unequal, the 

 propodus of the right being |^ the length of the left. The distal 

 margin of the carpus of both chelipeds is in line with the end of the 

 eyes. The merus of the larger cheliped is two-thirds as high as 

 long; its outer surface is marked by a few short, faint rugose lines; 

 the upper margin is siiiularly rugose. The carpus is furnished with 

 rough granules above and along the distal margin; there is a large 

 tubercle on the outer sui'face. The palm is subrectangular, about 

 equally long and high ; upper margin convex. The margins are 

 rough wnth granules ; the outer surface is nearly smooth. Both 

 fingers are stout and deflexed, and gape widely; the inner margins 

 are very unevenly toothed ; the upper margin of the dactylus is 

 bordered by two rows of sharp granules. The fingers are excavated 

 at the tips, which are white. 



The smaller cheliped differs not on!}' in being shorter and nar- 

 rower, but in having the upper margin of the carpus and propodus 

 cut into stout spines, increasing in size distally. A similar large 

 spine is on the upper margin of the dactylus at the proximal third. 

 The right cheliped is more hairy than the left, with long light hairs. 



