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Color. — Fur olive-bufF, "raspberry" protuberances flesh color; eyes 

 bay; fingers vinaceous, tips white (Bartsch). 



Measurements. — Female (25572), total length of carapace 25, 

 width 34.6 mm. Male holotype, total length of carapace 16, width 

 21 mm. 



Range. — -Florida Keys and the Bahamas to north coast of South 

 America. Shallow water to 78 fathoms. 



Material examined. — Off Biscayne Key, Florida; 16-34 feet; May 

 29, 1912; Paul Bartsch; 2 females (45623). 



Elliott Key, Florida; 1901; J. E. Benedict; 2 females (25572). 



Rodriguez Creek, Florida; Edward Palmer; 2 males, 2 iemales 

 (13927). 



Cotton Key Lake, Florida; from sponges; February 5, 1903; 

 Fislh Hawk; 2 females (53766). 



Off Sand Key, Florida; 50 fathoms; 1913; J. B. Henderson; 1 young 

 female (46065). 



Bahama Banks; 1893; State University of Iowa Expedition to 

 Bahamas; 1 male (S.U.I.). 



Inside of Golding Key, Andros Islands, Bahamas; 1912; Paul 

 Bartsch; 1 female (45575). 



Golding Key, Andros Islands, Bahamas; May 15, 1912; Paul 

 Bartsch; 1 female (45549). 



Bahamas; June 15, 1859; Dr. Henry Bryant; received from Boston 

 Society of Natural History; 1 male (56803). 



Off Havana, Cuba; lat. 23° 10' 28" N., long. 82° 20' 27" W.; 78 

 fathoms; Co.; May 1, 1884; station 2169, Albatross; 1 female (7799). 



Miragoane, Haiti; from coral; September 10, 1927; Walter J. 

 Eyerdam; 1 immature female (60720). 



St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Riise collector; three specimens 

 (Copenhagen Mus.). 



Harbor of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; from sponge; July 11, 1915; 

 Clarence R. Shoemaker; received from Carnegie Institution; 1 male 

 (53765). 



Caracas Bay, Curacao, Venezuela; among branches of Porites 

 jurcata; April 29, 1920; C. J. van der Horst; 1 male (Amsterdam 

 Mus.). 



ACTAEA ACANTHA (Milne Edwards) 



Plate 105, Figure 5; Plate 106, Figures 1 and 2 



Cancer acanthus Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. 1, 1834, p. 379 (type- 

 locality unknown; type in Paris Mus.). 



Actaea acantha A. Milne Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, 

 1865, p. 278, pi. 17, fig. 1 (He Maurice ?) ; Crust. R6g. Mex., 1879, p. 245, 

 pi. 43, figs, 1-lc (Guadeloupe). — Rathbun, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 20 

 for 1900, pt. 2 (1901), p. 34.— Odhner, Goteborg's K. Vet. Handl., Fjarde 

 Foljden, vol. 29, No. 1, 1925, p. 53, pi. 5, figs. 10, 10a. 



