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Major cheliped mucli more massive than minor. Merus short and 

 high, with an outer groove siibparallel to distal margin, and behind 

 it a compressed tooth on upper margin. Carpus finely rugose, a 

 distal furrow and a stubby, blunt inner tooth. Manus granulate, 

 granules reticulating, coarser toward upper surface where there is a 

 a shallow groove. Fingers with rows of punctae, two grooves both 

 outside and inside of immovable finger, and a groove near upper 

 edge of outer surface of dactylus; prehensile edges irregularly toothed, 

 one of the larger teeth at base of dactyl of larger chela; fingers of this 

 chela gaping moderately; major immovable finger shghtly deflexed, 

 minor one considerably so; fingers light brown, color not extended on 

 palm. Ambulatory legs hairy, slender and rather long, especially the 

 dactyls. 



Third segment of male abdomen rather narrow, about as wide as 

 first segment and not drawn laterally to a point; sixth segment about 

 twice as wide as long, widening distally, sides sinuous, mostly con- 

 cave; seventh segment broadly triangular. 



Measurements. — Male type, length of carapace 8.6, width of same 

 13, fronto-orbital width 9.4, width of front 4.4 mm. 



Range. — Lesser Antilles; Caribbean Sea. 



Material examined. — Gregerie Bay, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; 

 K-2% fathoms; Co. R. S. seaweed; July 7, 1915; station 7, C. R. 

 Shoemaker; 1 male (60802), gift of Carnegie Institution. 



St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles: Tumble-Down-Dick Bay; 15 fath- 

 oms; stony; September 17, 1905; J. Boeke; 1 male, holotype, 1 female 

 (Leiden Mus.). 



Bonaire, off coast of Venezuela; lagoon; K fathom; in mangroves; 

 August 1905; J. Boeke; 1 male (46005). 



Curagao, off coast of Venezuela: 1905; J. Boeke: Schottegat, in 

 lagoon, 1 fathom, among algae; July 9, 1 male (46006), 1 male returned 

 to sender; Rifwater, in lagoon, 1 fathom, July 26, 1 male (returned to 

 sender). 1920; C. J. van der Horst: Spanish Port, April 10, 1 female 

 (Amsterdam Mus.); Caracas Bay, May 1, 1 female (56888); April 

 26, 3 males (Amsterdam Mus.); in sand, May 13, 1 male (56887.) 



Old Providence island, Colombia (east of Nicaragua; April 4-9, 

 1884; Albatross; 3 males (45965). 



Genus NEOPANOPE A. Milne Edwards 



Neopanope A. Milne Edwards, Crust. R6g. Mex., 1880, p. 329; type, A'^. pack- 

 ardii (Kingsley)=iV. pourialesii A. Milne Edwards. — Rathbtjn, Bull. Lab.- 

 Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, vol. 4, 1898, p. 273. 



Carapace subhexagonal, rather narrow, high in middle, sloping 

 down in all directions. Regions delimited, almost smooth. Of the 

 five antero-lateral teeth the first and second are very closely fused, 

 separated only by a shallow sinus; second tooth arcuate or lobiform. 

 Front advanced, arcuate. Chehpeds very unequal at least in male^ 



