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BULLETIN 97^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



South or North Carolina: Fish Hawk; 1 specimen (17180). 



Winyah Bay, South Carolina: January, 1891; Fish Hawk; 17 

 specimens (17490). 



Myrtle Bush Creek, South Carolina ; February 7, 1891 : Fish 

 Hawk; 2 specimens (17181). 



Grand Isle, near New Orleans, Louisiana; O. Kohn; 2 specimens 

 (2257). 



Kellers Bay, Calhoun County, Texas; J. D. Mitchell; 1 male, re- 

 turned to J. D. Mitchell. 



SESARMA (SESARMA) AEQUATORIALE Ortmann. 



Scsarma aequatorialis Ortmann, Zool. Jalirb., Syst., vol. 7, 1894, p. 722, pL 

 23, figs. 14, 14fc, 142' (type-locality, Ecuador; type ia Strassburg Mus.). 



Diagnosis. — Carapace narrowed behind. Side tooth small. 

 Spines on whole length of movable finger. Legs short. 



Fig. 146. — Sesakma (Sesarma) aequatoriale, natural size, a, Right chela 



OF" MALE, OUTER VIEW ; J), DORSAL VIEW ; C, ABDOMEN OF MALE. (AFTEB OUT- 

 UANN.) 



Description (condensed from Ortmann). — Allied to S. reticulaturn. 

 Carapace narrowing a little posteriorly; side tooth small. Supra- 

 frontal lobes well separated, nearly equal; lower margin of front 

 slightly concave at middle. 



Outer surface of arm and wrist with transverse rugae. Upper 

 margin of arm granulate, distally with a small angle but no spine; 

 anterior margin sharply granulate. Inner angle of wrist a right 

 angle. Upper margin of palm cristate, finely granulate, with 30 to 

 40 granules, very fine near the wrist; outer surface smooth above and 

 near the fingers, granulate below and in the middle; inner surface 

 regularly granulate. In the female the granules of inner and outer 

 surfaces are more feebly developed. 



Legs short, the longest less than twice length of carapace ; meropo- 

 dites two and one-third times as long as wide; dactyl only a little 

 shorter than propodi. 



Measurements. — Male type, length of carapace 23, width of same 

 28 mm. 



Locality. — Ecuador. 



