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Diagnosis. — Antero-lateral margin dentate. One faint longitudinal 

 ridge at tniddle of outer surface of hand. Color of immovable finger 

 extending on palm. 



Description. — Carapace suboval, a little wider at the fourth than at 

 the fifth lateral tooth; deeply areolated, the areoles rough with large, 

 irregular punctae; protogastric region (2 M) divided longitudinally for 

 half its length, outer lobule wider than inner, which is confluent with 

 the epigastric lobe (1 M); 1 L, 3 L, 4 L well developed. Frontal 

 margin transversely canaliculate, the lower submedian lobules more 

 advanced than the upper; median notch shallow, each lobe oblique 

 and concave. Outer orbital tooth low, inconspicuous, remaining 

 lateral teeth broad, shallow, with subacute tips, the posterior tooth 

 directed outward or a little backward. 



Wrist and upper half of hand finely granulate, furrowed and dim- 

 pled; two blunt longitudinal carinae on upper surface of hand and a 

 faint raised line of granules through the middle. Fingers rather 

 slender, tips narrow in profile, a large tooth on each immovable finger 

 just proximal to middle of prehensile edge, dark color curving back- 

 ward onto palm. Legs scantily hairy, the hair confined to dactylus, 

 upper margin of merus and lower margin of propodus. 



Color. — Brick red or yellowish, fingers black bordered with white 

 (Saussure). 



Measurements. — Male (24383), length of carapace 15, width 24.5, 

 fronto-orbital width 11.4, front 6 mm. 



i^an^e.— Bermudas (Verrill); Bahamas and Florida Reefs to Fer- 

 nando Noronha, Brazil (Pocock). 



Material examined. — Abaco, Bahamas; Albatross; 1 male, 1 female 

 (17771). 



Key West, Florida; Henry Hemphill; 1 male, 2 females (17803). 



Mid-section of Bush Key reef, Florida; August 1, 1924; W. L. 

 Schmitt; 1 male (59442). 



Montego Bay, Jamaica; P. W. Jarvis; specimens in Jarvis collec- 

 tion; "numerous." 



Haiti; 1 male type (Geneva Mus.). 



St. Domingo; specimen in Copenhagen Mus. 



Ponce, Porto Rico; January 31, 1899; Fish Hawk; 1 male, 1 female 

 (24383). 



Barbados; May 8, 1890; W. H. Brown, U. S. Eclipse Expedition to 

 Africa; 1 male (14886). 



Barbados; 1918; Barbados- Antigua Expedition, State University of 

 Iowa; 1 male (S.U.I.). Pelican Island; shallow; 2 males (58050). In 

 tide pool, Ma}'' 11,1 young male, 1 female (S.U.I.). 



Barbados; rock pool at Bathsheba; February 22, 1924; Gerrit S. 

 Miller; 1 ovigerous female (62522). 



Curasao; February 10-18, 1884; Albatross; 5 males, 2 females 

 (17812). 



