REPORT ON THE BRACHYURA 



Collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition 

 from the University of Iowa in 1918 



Mary J. Rathbun 



Associate in Zoology, U. S. National Museum 



INTRODUCTION 



Hughes in his "Natural History of Barbados", 1750,^ enu- 

 merates fifteen kinds of crabs, but the descriptions are so brief 

 and the names so trivial that it is impossible to determine most 

 of the species with any great degree of certainty. Only two of 

 the brachyuran crabs are figured; one, the Homed Crab (pi. 

 XXV, fig. 3) is an undoubted Stenocionops furcata, the other, 

 the Lazy Crab, (pi. XXV, fig. 1) is a composite, having the 

 chelipeds and ambulatory legs of MitJirax spmosissimus attached 

 to the body of a Parthenopid crab, Daldorfia horrida {= Parthe- 

 nope horrida of authors), an Indo-Pacific species. 



From the dredgings of the U. S. Coast Survey steamers 

 "Blake" and "Hassler", A. Milne Edwards i in 1880 published 

 a list which includes thirty-eight species of brachyuran crabs 

 from the waters about Barbados. This is supplemented by the 

 later report (1902) on the Oxystomes of the same collection by 

 Milne Edwards and Bouvier,^ which adds three species to the 

 earlier list. 



The present expedition obtained ninety-three species of 

 brachjairans of which only one species is found to be undescribed. 

 The range of twenty-nine species is extended by their capture at 

 Barbados. 



LIST OF SPECIES 



Tribe Brachyura 



Subtribe Oxystomata 



Family Dromiidae 

 Dromia erythropus (George Edwards) 

 Rathbun, Ann. Inst. Jamaica, vol. I, 1897, p. 39. 



1 See bibliography on page 89. 



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