THE GKAPSOID CEABS OP AMEEICA. 



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Chelipeds granulate; palm stout, 1.5 times as lon^ as wide, "with 

 longitudinal rows of pubescence; fingers horizontal, two-thirds as 

 long as palm, slightly gaping, tips hooked. 



Legs margined with broad bands of spinuliform granules and 

 having straight dactyls; first two pairs narrow, dactyls slender; third 

 pair similar but much larger; fourth pair narrowest, slightly over- 

 reaching merus of third, its dactylus shorter and relatively stouter. 



Sternum granulate along margins of segments. A few granules 

 on abdomen; sixth and seventh segments of abdomen narrowest; 

 third, fourth, and fifth of subequal length. Surface of carapace, 

 chelipeds and legs pubescent. 



Measurements. — Male holotype, length of carapace 1.3, width of 

 same 2.3 mm. 



a 



FlO. 92. FiNNIXA MINCTA, MALE IIOLOTTPE. O, CARAPACE, ANTENNAE AND EYES, X ISJ ; 



h, LAST TIIItEE ABDOMINAL SEGMENTS AND ADJACENT STEUNUM, X IS ; C, UIGIIT CHELA, 



X 27 ; d, THiKD LEG, X IS ; e, endognath of outeu maxilhted, much enlakged. 



Locality/. — Porto Eico: Mayaguez Harbor, Point del Algarrobo E. 

 4f miles; IG to 17 fathoms; M. S.; temp. 23° C; Jan. 20, 1S99; sta- 

 tion GOGG, steamer Fish Hawk; 1 male holotype (237G8). 



PINNIXA CHAETOPTERANA Stimpson. 

 Plate 33, figs. 3-G. 



Pinnixa cijlindrica Stihpson, Anu. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 7, 1S59, 

 p. GS. Not P. cylUulrica (Say). — Smith, Rept. U. S. Fish Commr., vol. 

 1, 1S71-72 (1S73), p. 54G [252] (part: ref. to South Carolina). 



Pinnixa chactoptcrana Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York. vol. 7, 

 ISGO, p. 235 (type-locality, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, on 

 nuuldy or clayey shores, in tubes of Chactoptcrus pci nnmcntaccus; 

 type not extant). — Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phihulelpliia, 1S7S, 

 p. 824 [91 ; 1S79 (ISSO), p. 402.— Faxon, P>u11. Mus. Conip. Zoo!., vol. 5, 

 1S79, p. 2G4, pi. 4, figs. 1^ (zoea) : pi. 5, figs. 8, 9 (chelipeds).— Smith, 

 Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 4, ISSO, p. 250.— Vekkill, 

 Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 24, 1SS2, p. 371. 



