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A fairly large species, maximum carapace length in midline about 

 45 mm. 



Habitat. — In and near fresh water. 



Distribution. — ^Venezuela to Estado da Bahia, Brazil; Trinidad. 



Family Xanthidae 

 Subfamily Panopeinae 



Key to the Species 



Carapace widest posterior to tips of lateral teeth; fingers of cheliped white. 



Eurytium limosum (p. 153) 

 Carapace widest between tips of posterior lateral teeth; fingers of cheliped dark. 



Panopeus herbstii (p. 154) 



Genus Eurytium 



55. Eurytium limosum (Say) 

 Figures 45, 46& 



Cancer limosa Say, 1818, p. 446 [type-locahty : "shores of the northern states"]. 

 Panopeus limosus. — H. Milne Edwards, 1834, p. 404. 



Eurytium limosum. — Stimpson, 1859, p. 56. — Rathbun, 1930, p. 423, pi. 176: 

 figs. 1, 2.— WiUiams, 1965, p. 199, figs. 182, 1830. 



Figure 45. — Eurytium limosum, male (carapace length 26.3 mm) from Baie de Bigie, 



Haiti (W. M. Parish). 



