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slate black. Chelipeds shiny black, smaller one with spots of the 

 faintest straw yellow, larger one with cinerous spots. Extreme tips 

 of fingers white, with a bit of brown before the black. Legs cream 

 buff with Prouts brown spots. (Schmitt.) 



Measurements. — (18679) length 8.2, width 13.7 mm. 



Range. — Florida Keys; West Indies; Vera Cruz, Mexico (Ives); 

 Curagao. 



Material examined. — Key West, Florida: H, E. Webster; received 

 from Boston Society of Natural History; 2 males (56766). Union 

 College collection; 1 female (42675), 2 males, 1 female (42676). 



Tortugas, Florida; June 5 to 8, 1893; Biological Expedition, State 

 University of Iowa; 2 males, 1 female (18679). 



Tortugas, Florida; gift of Carnegie Institution: Fort Jefferson, 

 Garden Key; shallow water; July 19, 1926; station 4; C. R. Shoe- 

 maker; 1 male (60924). West side Bush Key reef near Long Key> 

 4 feet; from holes in rocks; July 30, 1924; W. L. Schmitt; 1 male, 

 1 female (60810). Washed from weeds and rocks off mid-section of 

 Bush Key reef inside, 3 feet before eel grass; August 1, 1924; W. L. 

 Schmitt; 1 male, 2 females (60923). 



Playa de Ponce, Porto Rico; February 1, 1899; Fisli Hawk; 2 

 males, 2 females (24255). 



St. Thomas, Virgin Islands: 1860; Krebs collector; Zoological 

 Museum, Copenhagen; 2 males, 2 females (19698). 1915; Clarence 

 R. Shoemaker; gift of Carnegie Institution: French Bay; Y^ to 2)^ 

 fathoms; July 5; station 6; 1 male (60925). Drift Bay; July 15; 

 station 11; 1 male, 1 female (53764). 



Barbados; 1918; Barbados-Antigua Expedition, State University 

 of Iowa: Needham Point; May 18; 3 males, 1 female (S.U.I. ). One 

 mile south of station 19, off Needham Point; 84 fathoms; rocky; 

 station 20; 4 males, 2 females (S.U.I.). Okra Reef; May 13; 35 

 males, 44 females (35 ovigerous), 8 young (S.U.I.). May 15; 10 males, 

 9 ovigerous females (58009). On old coral; May 31; 8 males, 15 

 females (S.U.I. ). On old coral heads; June 4; 12 males, 11 females 

 (1 ovigerous) (S.U.I.) . 



Caracas Bay, Curagao; April 19, 1920; C. J. van der Horst; 1 male 

 (Amsterdam Mus.). 



PARAIIOMERA DISPAR (Slimpson), new combination 



Plate 101, Figures 4-5 



Chlorodius dispar Stimpson, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 2, 1871, p. 140 (type- 

 locality, Cruz del Padre, Cuba; type in Museum of Comparative Zoology). 



Leptodius dispar A. Milne Edwards, Crust. R6g. Mex., 1880, p. 27. 



Liomera dispar Ratheun, Ann. Inst. Jamaica, vol. 1, 1897, p. 13; Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Comm. for 1900, vol. 20, pt. 2 (1901), p. 25. 



Diagnosis. — Carapace almost smooth, shining; antero-lateral mar- 

 gins almost entire. Chelipeds very unequal, minor hand half width 

 of major. 



