THE GKAPSOID CRABS OP AMERICA. 



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Fig. CI. — Parapinkixa beaufoutexsis, male holottpb, 



DOBSAL VIEW, WITH KIGUT CIIELIl'ED DETACUED, X 20. 



nation at its middle in dorsal view; edge of lobes sinuous. A tuft 

 of hair on either side of dorsal surface near lateral margin, but not 

 projecting sideways beyond that margin. A similar tuft, attached 

 to the ventral surface, 

 projects beyond the 

 margin. Eyes large, of 

 a bronze-brown color. 

 The outer maxilli- 

 peds are characteristic 

 of the genus. Although 

 it was not possible to 

 get an exact drawing 

 (see fig. G2), yet they 

 seem to be near those 

 of P. nitida. 



Chelipeds stout; car- 

 pus squarish in dorsal 

 view, its outer distal angle prominent; palm inflated, margins con- 

 vex, lower margin hairy, width greater at distal than proximal end, 

 the upper distal angle higher than base of dactyius; dactylus about 



as long as upper edge of 

 palm ; both fingers much 

 curved; when closed the 

 tips cross and there is no 

 gape, the thin and ir- 

 regularly denticulate 

 edges fitting together. 

 Legs fringed with 

 long hair, especially on tbe propodites, where there is a border of hair 

 on the lower margin, and in the second and third legs, a row of still 

 longer hair attached near the upper margin on the posterior sur- 

 face, the length of the 

 hairs being twice as 

 great as the width of the 

 propodite. The legs di- 

 minish in stoutness from 

 the first to the fourth. 

 The first leg is a little 

 longer than the second, 

 the third about as long 

 as the first. Propodites 

 stout, upper margins con- 

 vex. Dactylus of first three legs long, curved, the slender horny tips 

 about half the entire length; dactylus of fourth leg similar in shape, 

 but very much smaller. 

 65863—17 8 



Fig. 



C2. rAKAI'IKXIXA BEAUFOUTE-VSIS, OOTEB MAXIl,- 



MI'ED OF MALE HOLOTiTE, X 17G. 



PARAPINXIXA BEAUFOUTE.VSIS, MALM HOLO- 

 TYPE, VENTEAL VIEW, X 20. 



