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Color in life. — Carapace with anterior and upper lateral borders 

 lavender cream; remainder mauve with pale lavender and darker 

 purplish-brown areas; mesogastric region with light band across 

 posterior border extending anteriorly along sutures between it and 

 branchial regions, central portion with prominent purplish-brown 

 concavoconvex spot; cardiac region also with submedian light oval 

 spot; posterior intestinal region with broad median light area; bran- 

 chial region with many small light irregular spots. 



Eyestalks tan, cornea dark brown. 



Figure 74. — Uca vocator, male (carapace length 15.8 mm) from Dominica station 112. 



Major cheliped of male with cream basal podomeres; proximal 

 portion of merus cream with orange suffusion becoming orange tan 

 distally; carpus orange tan above and fading ventrally to orange 

 cream; chela orange tan along inner margin of palm fading ventrally 

 on both surfaces to orange cream, finger white; dactyl orange tan 

 above except fading near tip to white, other surfaces white. Minor 

 cheliped with cream basal podomeres; proximal portion of merus 

 cream with orange suffusion, increasingly more tan distally with 

 brown stripe along upper distal margin; upper surface of carpus 

 brown proximally and distally, orange tan between; chela as in major 

 cheliped except fingers not so white. 



Second through fifth pereiopods yellowish tan with darker tan 

 reticulations except for orange-tan dactyls. Proximal podomeres 

 orange cream with few brown markings; merus mth upper distal 



