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(Plate IX, figure 5). In this last specimen there is evidence of 

 injury in the irregular outline of one of the lateral angles of the tip 

 of the telson, in the irregularity of the spines, and particularly in the 

 supplemental group of three aculei near this irregular angle as shown 

 in the figure. 



The largest specimens examined are from the Bay of Fundy, the 

 largest male being IV"^"" in length, and the largest female 25'""\ 



The color in life varies considerably, as the following notes, un- 

 fortunately all made upon adult females, show. A specimen, taken 

 among stones and algse at low-water mark at Eastport, Maine, was 

 translucent specked upon the body and appendages with bright red, 

 and with a white dorsal line extending from the tip of the rostrum to 

 the telson. Another, dredged at Eastport, in 20 to 25 fathoms, rocky 

 and shelly bottom, was faintly specked with pale red on the carapax 

 and the sides of the abdomen ; the antennse, antennula? and cephalo- 

 thoracic legs annulated and the abdominal legs, telson and the uro- 

 podal lamellffi banded with the same color. Still another specimen, 

 from 40 to 50 fathoms, rocky bottom, at Eastport, was much more 

 brilliantly colored, though after the same pattern : the eye-peduncles 

 and the bases of the antennulfe, antennae and cephalothoracic legs 

 were thickly specked with bright red, the distal portions of the legs 

 and the flagella of the antennulfe and antennae were closely annu- 

 lated, while the antennal scales, carapax and abdomen were trans- 

 versely banded with the same color; the band upon the sixth segment 

 of the abdomen and that across the telson and uropodal lamellae 

 were nearly as broad as the length of the sixth segment and the tel- 

 son respectively, and very deep bright red. A considerable number 

 of specimens taken among stones and red algae upon the Cod Ledges, 

 Casco Bay, were very brightly colored, much in the same way as the 

 last specimen. According to notes made by Professor Verrill in 

 1870, two specimens dredged in 15 fathoms, stony bottom, north of 

 Treat's Island, Eastport Harbor, differed considerably in color ; one 

 was pale flesh-color with a median dorsal stripe of whitish and the 

 sides speckled with pale red, the flagella of the antennulae and anten- 

 na? having alternate bands of pale reddish and flesh-color, and the 

 legs thickly speckled with light brownish and obscurely banded with 

 the same; while the other specimen was pale grayish, with about 

 five transverse whitish bands on the abdomen, and a dark gray band 

 across the sixth segment and another across the telson and uropodal 

 lamellae, and with the cephalothoracic legs banded with white and gray. 



Females carrying eggs are abundant in all the collections I have 



