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MUNIDA REFULGENS. 75 
one spine on the distal end of the lower margin ; the penultimate and ter- 
minal joints are unarmed. 
Length, 65 mm.; length of carapace, 34.5 mm.; breadth of carapace 
between epimeral sutures, 21 mm.; length of rostrum, 11 mm.; length of 
cheliped, 84 mm. (merus, 26 mm., carpus, 10 mm., basal portion of chela, 18 
mm., dactylus, 21 mm.). 
Station 3389. 210 fathoms. 2 males, 7 fem. 
JS Sa al toys 5 young. 
Munida refulgens Fax. 
Plate X VII. 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., XXIV. 177, 1893. 
In this species the sete on the ridges of the thorax and abdomen and on 
the legs are resplendent with iridescent hues. The carapace narrows anteri- 
orly. The rostrum is long, triangular in cross section, the upper surface 
scabrous, the lateral margins armed with two to four spines, which are gene- 
rally unsymmetrically placed on the two sides. The supraocular spines are 
short. There is a transverse line of spinules back of the base of the rostrum, 
the two which lie on each side of the median line being larger than the 
others. Seven marginal spines on each side of the carapace, the ones at the 
antero-lateral angles the largest. There are no spines on the abdominal seg- 
ments. The abdominal pleurz are acute. The basal joint of the antenna has 
a plate-like expansion, but is not spinose ; the second joint is furnished with 
an external spine. The inferior border of the merus of the third mawxilliped 
is furnished with four spines, the proximal of which is the longest. Cheli- 
peds very long, squamose, and clothed with silky sete ; the merus has a row 
of spines on the upper margin, another on the inner side, and a row of 
smaller ones on the outer side; the carpus is provided with three or four 
spinules at the distal end; the chela is slender, the outer finger flattened, 
ribbed above, the outer edge rather convex and expanded toward the base ; 
cutting edges of fingers finely denticulated. The anterior border of the merus 
and carpus of the ambulatory appendages is spinose. 
The general color in life is red, deepest on the carapace and chele ; the 
transverse setiferous lines of the carapace as well as the dactyli of the ambu- 
latory legs are yellow ; eyes black. In the alcoholic specimens the color is 
retained in the chele, and particularly in the rostrum. 
