20 A. E. Verrill — Additions to the Fauna of the Bermudas. 



The carapax is smooth, curiously banded Avith black and yellow. 

 In the egg-bearing female it is much swollen laterally. The first 

 and second legs are chelate. The first leg is smaller and somewhat 

 shorter ; its carpus is elongated and clavate, longer than the chela. 

 The second leg is much shorter and rather larger, and its chela is 

 strong but not much enlarged ; carpus shorter than chela (about 

 one-half as long) ; hand much longer than claw. Other legs simple, 

 slender, subequal, the last two rather longer. Rostrum short, ob- 

 liquely truncated ; the tip is acute and reaches almost to the end of 

 the ocular j^eduncle, or to the base of the eye ; basal part of the 

 upper edge is short and straight, smooth ; it then slopes rapidly to 

 the tip, with about five close teeth. Eye-peduncles project straight 

 forward, and are of moderate length ; a spine is situated below and 

 back of its base and above the base of the antenna. The edge of 

 the carapax is cut away at the bases of the antennae and then 

 extends forward. Abdomen is swollen and the edges overlap in an 

 angle below" it, so as to conceal the cluster of eggs. 



Color, in life, is conspicuous and characteristic. The carapax and 

 abdomen are covered with many narrow, ti'ansverse bands of bright 

 yellow and black of about equal width. The telson is pale yellow 

 with basal and terminal spots of orange. Antennse purplish blue ; 

 "eye-stalks light yellow ; legs pale yellow, each with two dark blue 

 bands edged with orange ; chelipeds with a single, blue carpal band, 

 edged with orange ; chelae pale yellow. This curious species, of 

 which only a few poor specimens have been previously recorded from 

 Bermuda (Amer. Journ. Sci., xi, p. 328, 1901), was taken alive at 

 Hungry Bay, April 5th, 1901, by A. H. Verrill, who made a 

 colored sketch of it. 



This specimen is a female carrying a large cluster of eggs. 



STOMATOPODA. 



Pseudosqiiilla ciliata Miers. 



Pseudosquilla ciliata Miers, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. V, vol. v, p. 108, 

 pi. iii, figs. 7, 8, 1880. Brooks, Voy. Chall., xvi, pp. 53-55, pi. xv, fig. 10, 

 1886. Bigelow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, p. 499, 1894. Rankin, Annals 

 N. York Acad. Sci., xii, p. 545, 1899. 



P. stylifera Von Martens (t. Miers). 



The color of this species is quite variable, like that of Gonodacty- 

 lus chiragra, with which it is often associated. Frequently the colors 

 are imitative of the sandy bottom, the back being variegated or 

 specked with white on a gray or pale yellow ground ; in other cases 



