388 BULLETIN 97, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



in:irgin of eyebrow ill defined; lower margin of orbit deeply turreted. 

 vSivles of carapace nearly smooth, under part coarsely tubercnlate. 



Large cheliped of male very strong; merus, carpus, and manus un- 

 evenly tuberculate and granulate; antero-distal angle of merus fur- 

 nished with a tuft of hair; upper margin of palm armed with a few 

 blunt spines or teeth. Fingers over one and one-half times as long 

 as palm, measured through the middle ; immovable finger wider and 

 smoother than dactvlus, and widest in the middle, its granules grow- 

 ing regularly larger toward end of finger ; outer surface of dactylus 

 a little convex especially proximally, and with two longitudinal rows 

 of coarser granules, one on upper edge and the other above the mid- 

 dl'.^ Fingers with a wide gape in basal half. Inner surface smooth, 

 except for a strong, right-angled ridge at middle of palm and two 

 diverging ridges at base of dactylus. 



Merus joints of legs roughened, upper margin serrulate, lower 

 tuberculate; propodi and dactyli with fringed margins. 



Carapace of female narrower, sides less converging, lower surface 

 more hairy. 



Measurements. — Male (14874), length of carapace 21.5, width of 

 s.ime 31. o ram. Female (21387), length of carapace 18, width of 

 same 24.1 mm. 



Range. — From Portugal to north and west coasts of Africa, as 

 far as Algiers and Angola. The only records of occurrence in 

 America are by Miers,^ "West Indies (Frazer) in the British 

 Museum collection," and by Kingsley,^ " ( ? ) Bahia ! E. Wilson 

 (l»hila. Acad.)." 



Material examined. — 



Dakar, West Africa; May 3, 1892; O. F. Cook; 2 males, 1 female 

 (21387). 



Rock Spring, Monrovia; April, 1894; O, F. Cook and G. N. Col- 

 lins; 4 males, 2 females (20575). 



Mouth of Mesurado River, Monrovia; O. F. Cook; 3 males 

 (20069). 



Monrovia; April, 1894; O. F. Cook and G. N. Collins; 1 male 

 (20576). 



Baya River, Elmina, Ashantee; Nov. 27, 1889; W. H. Brown, U. S. 

 Eclipse Exped. to Africa; 3 males (14872), 2 males. 4 females 

 (14873). 



Chinchoxo; Falkenstein, collector; received from Berlin Mus. ; 1 

 male (19551). 



St. Paul de Loanda ; Dec. 11, 1889 ; W. H. Brown, U. S. Eclipse 

 Exped. to Africa; 7 males, 4 females (14874), 1 male (14875). 



lAnn. Mag. Nat. lUst., ser. 5, vol. 8, 1881, p. 2G2. 

 «Proc, Acad. Nat. Scl. PhUadelphla, 1880, p. 153. 



