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slightly deflexed, not gaping, prehensile 

 edges finely denticulate; daetylus of right 

 chela with a strong basal tooth. 



Legs slenderer, more cylindrical than in 

 C. typicus; last two joints fringed with 

 long hair. 



Sternum and abdomen smooth; an over- 

 lying plate along posterior margin of fourth 

 sternal segment. 



3Ieasurements.—Ma\e holotype, length of 

 carapace 5.3, width of same 5.9 mm. 



Blaterial examined.— Knov;n only from 

 the type-specimen from southeast of Andros 

 Island, Bahamas, in Tongue of Ocean ; lat. 

 24° 02' 00" N.; long. 77° 12' 45" W.; 97 

 fathoms; wh. Oz.; temp. 73.4° F.; Apr. 13, 

 1886; station 2651, Str. Albatross; 1 male 

 (20509). 



CHASMOCARCINUS CYLINDRICUS Rathban. 



Chasmocarcinns cylindricns Rathrun, Bull. 

 U. S. Fish Comni., vol. 20, for 1900. pt. 2, 

 1901, p. 10, text-fig. 1 (type-locality, 

 Mayaguez Harbor, Porto Rico, 12 to IS 

 fathoms, station GOGl, Fish Haiclc; holo- 

 type male. Cat. No. 237G5, U.S.N.M.). 

 Diagnosis.— Orbits directed obliquely for- 

 ward and outward. Carapace broad, little 

 narrowed in front; an antero-lateral margi- 

 nal line. Sternum and abdomen granulate. 

 Description. — Carapace about two-thirds 

 as long as broad, but wider anteriorly than 

 in C. latipes. Fronto-orbital width about 

 half width of carapace. Body subcylin- 

 drical, almost level from side to side, the 

 frontal portion more strongly deflexed than 

 in the other species. Anterior half of lat- 

 eral margin marked by a sharp granidated 

 line. Sutures visible about cardiac region. 

 Surface pubescent and granulate. Front a 

 little wider than the orbit; margin sub- 

 truncate, upper surface with a median de- 

 pression, which in a dorsal view makes the 

 margin appear bifid. Upper margin of 

 orbit concave, directed obliquely outward 

 and a little forward. 



