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cream to flesh colored. Soft parts bluish, dorsally, pinkish anterolat- 

 erally and ventrally, fading to white posteriorly; tubercles orange. 

 Tubercular patches of uropods chocolate brown, terga purple with 

 dark red patches of melanophores. Telson with anterolateral areas 

 lavender, and median and posterior areas white. 



Figure 33. — Coenobita clypeatus, male (carapace length 19.2 mm) from Dominica station 17. 



Eyestalks reddish orange, cornea brick red. Antennules lavender to 

 bluish gray; flagellum vermilion with purple articular lines and dorsal 

 margin. Antennal pedimcle white basally, ultunate podomere lavender, 

 tipped with vermilion; flagellum black with cream articulations. 

 Third maxilliped white with terminal setal tufts brown. Cheliped with 

 basal segments pale lavender; merus mauve; carpus dark brick red, 

 purplish distolaterally ; palm purple; fingers purple basally fading to 

 apical wliite area; upper tubercles on merus through propodus very 

 dark red, those on lower surface of propodus and distal portions of 

 fingers lavender to white. Second pereiopod with basal podomeres 



