380 BULLETIN 152, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 NEOPANOPE PACKARDII (KingsJey) 



Plate 168, Figures 5 and 6 



Panopeus packardii Kingsley, Proc. Boston Soe. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, 1879, p. 



162 (type-locality, Key West, Florida; type in M. C. Z.). — Benedict and 



Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 1891, p. 365, pi. 22, fig. 1; pi. 



23, fig. 6. 

 Neopanope pourtalesii A. Milne Edwards, Crust. R^g. M4x., 1880, p. 330, 



pi. 61, figs. 2-2e (type-localities, Woman Key and Florida Strait (lat. 24° 



44' N., long. 83° 26' W.), 37 fathoms; cotypes in M. C. Z. and Paris Mus.). 

 Neopanope packardii Rathbun, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, vol. 4, 



1898, p. 273; Amer. Nat., vol. 34, 1900, p. 138. 

 Neopanope pourtalesi A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier, Mem. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 47, 1923, p. 329, pi. 5, fig. 6. 



Diagnosis. — Dactylus of larger hand with a large basal tooth. 



Last three antero-lateral teeth spiniform, widely separated; tip of 



fifth tooth at right angles to tip of third. 



Description. — Carapace high in middle whence it slopes down rather 



rapidly in all directions excepting at the mesobranchial region which 

 is high and bears an obscure transverse ridge leading 

 to the ridge on the posterior tooth of the lateral mar- 

 gin. Front prominent in middle, median emargina- 

 tion minute, lobes slightly sinuous. Antero-lateral 

 teeth sharp pointed, very divergent; interspaces, save 

 the first, broadly open. Third and fifth (reckoning 

 five teeth on a side) pointing at right angles to each 

 other, the fourth in an intermediate direction. 



Figure 59.— neo- Fingers black varying to light brown, tips white, 

 PANOPE PACKARDn, ^.q^qj. coutinucd on palm along lower margin ; dactylus 



MALE ABDOMEN, . ^. ^ & ! J 



ENLARGED. AFTER of major chcHped with a large tooth at base of pre- 



eathbun''^^^^^ hensile edge. Tooth of wrist sharp, spiniform. 



Chelipeds more nearly equal in female than in male. 



Measurements. — Male (13042), length of carapace 13.4, wddth of 

 same 19 mm. 



Range. — Southern and western Florida; Bahamas; Cuba. 



Material examined. — 



FLORID A. "8— Miami; G. M. Gray; 1 male (42139), 1 female 

 (42147). 



Bonefish Banks SW. end of Biscayne Bay; November 26, 1906; 

 Pine and Bean; 1 male (33145). 



Cards Sound: 1889; Grampus; 3 males, 2 females (15225). 1.5 

 miles N. of Pumpkin Key; 10 feet; barry; temperature 24° C; March 

 10, 1903; station 7493, Fish Hawk; 1 immature female (60786). 



Key Largo; 1 fathom; Gis.; H. Hemphill; 1 female (15392). 



Lower Metacumbe Key; December 4, 1906; Pine, Vandegrift 

 and Bean, Yacht Orian; 1 ovigerous female (33143). 



« See also table on page 382. 



