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Color. — Brownish red, fingers crimson, claws of legs horn color. 

 (Hay and Shore.) 



Dirty yellowish green, pincers carmine red with white tips. (Hen- 

 derson.) 



Tortugas: Color of fuzz varies. Gray-white with touch of vina- 

 ceous-rufous on proximal upper half of movable finger and a few dots 

 of same color across base of fixed finger (6GS75); fuzz olive-buff, 

 corneae dark Vandyke brown, fingers distally white, basal two-tliirds 

 scarlet (65998); general color between a vinaceous-cinnamon and 

 vinaceous-ruf ous in places ; basal two-thirds of finger very fight coral- 

 red; palps of max-illipeds and antennular peduncles pale glaucous blue; 

 corneae grayish (drab-gray) with brownish suffusion; thicker antennu- 

 lar flagellum almost orange- vermilion basally; hahs white (66866); 

 largely pinkish vinaceous, with reddish specked corneae with tiny 

 black center, hairs fuzzy, dirty white (66861). Specimen under black 

 sponge with salmon coral-red fuzz, tips of fingers white, a line of 

 scarlet- vermilion at base of fingers demarcating end of fuzz (66872). 

 Orange-buft". Eggs orange-vermilion. Eyes hazel. Fingers of chelae 

 scarlet vermilion with white tips (67744). Carapace about 29 mm 

 wide, coral mud gray, darker on upper surface of chelae and wrists, 

 which seem to have blackish maculations between spines; same 

 coloration on dactyH and propodi of legs. Several hazel spots on 

 carapace more or less sym.metrically disposed; near posterior margin 

 two larger bay or blacldsh bay spots. Fingers peach-blossom pink. 

 Corneae with maculations of same over transparent bay or black 

 central spot; stalk with streak of bay above and white before, making 

 the eyes disappear against the white body. Second specimen almost 

 a slate gray with a slight heliotrope purple cast. Chelae china white 

 distally, orange-vermilion basally. Eye stalks with white streak in 

 front; above slate color, corneae hazel (66860). (W. L. Schmitt.) 



Habit. — Dromidia carries a covering usually larger than itself, 

 a compound ascidian, a sponge, or a zoanthoid polyp. 



Measurements. — Female (66335), length of carapace 37, width 36 

 m.m. The width of carapace may sometimes equal the extreme 

 length. 



Range. — North Carolina to Gulf of Mexico and Brazil; Bermuda; 

 shore to 170 fathoms. 



Material examined.- — See table 8, page 36. 



