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groove and two inner spines, one smaller and below the other; major 

 hand roughened on its upper and proximal portions, the roughness of 

 the outer surface more extensive in the minor than the major chela. 

 Fingers deeply grooved; dactylus of larger claw with a large basal 

 tooth. Legs rerj long and slender; merus with a row of spines above, 

 other articles spinulous. 



Color. — Anterior portion of carapace light yellowish orange. 

 Fingers of major chela brownish black, of minor chela black. Spines 

 and tubercles of both chelipeds light salmon. 



Measurements. — Male (19810), length of carapace 7, width of same 

 10, fron to-orbital width. 7.2, width of front 3.7 mm. 



Range. — From Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and Gulf of Mexico 

 to Cape Frio, Brazil; depth SK to 182 fathoms. 



Material examined. — See table, page 444. 



Figure 71.— Micropanope spinipes, female, type of Pilumnus andrewsii, dorsal view, X3 

 MICROPANOPE SPimPES A. Milne Edwards 



Plate 181, Figures 1 and 2 



Micropanope spinipes A. Milne Edwards, Crust. Reg. Mex., 1880, p. 326, 

 pi. 54, figs. 3-3c (type-locality, Abrolhos Islands, Brazil, 30 fathoms; type in 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology). — Miers, Challenger Rept., Zool., vol. 17, 

 1886, pp. XX and 130; Bahia, 7 to 20 fathoms. — A. Milne Edwards and 

 BouviER, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 47, 1923, p. 323. 



Pilumnus spinipes Rathbun, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, vol. 4, 

 1898, p. 204.— Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 10, 1900, 

 p. 577 ("Cuba" is an error); vol. 13, 1908, p. 361, text-fig. 20, pi. 27 [not 26], 

 fig. 1. 



Pilumnus andreivsii Rathbun, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, vol. 4, 

 1898, p. 267, pi. 5, fig. 2 (type-locality. Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas; type. 

 Cat. No. 20508, U.S.N.M.). 

 Diagnosis. — Palms smooth and bare over nearly the whole outer 



surface. Third and fourth antero-lateral teeth larger, first, second, 



and fifth smaller. Margin of front and orbits granulate. 



