8 NEW SPECIES OF HERMIT CRABS—BENEDICT. 
even curve. Lateral processes slender, pointed, and armed with a short 
spine. The eye-stalks are stout, much dilated, and flattened at the 
cornee. The eye scales are broad, rounded, the anterior margin being 
a semicircle. The large, subterminal spine makes them appear at first 
sight very acute. The peduncle of the antenna extends beyond the eye 
by one-half the length of the terminal segment. The peduncle of the 
antennula extends beyond the eye by two-thirds the length of its termi- 
nal article. The acicle is a little longer than the eye. 
The merus of the large cheliped is cylindrical at its base and swells 
out to the carpns. It has no angular surfaces. The carpus has three 
lines of sharp, slender spines, one on the inner margin composed of 
much larger spines, one on the outer margin, and one part way between 
the two. The hand is a little wider than the carpus at the base of 
the dactyl; its margin is set with a comb of long slender spines. A 
row of spines of about the same size and character runs from the gape 
of the finger to the wrist. Between the marginal and central rows 
are two diagonal rows of spines. On the outer surface of the hand, near 
the base of the pollex, is a patch of seven or eight spines. On the ridge 
of the pollex there are several rows of plates irregularly placed, and a 
small spine arises from the center of each. The fingers are hooked and 
gape widely. 
The small cheliped reaches the base of the dactyl. Its merus is com-_ 
pressed. The carpus carries a double crest of spines; inner margin 
straight and flat; outer convex. The hand is armed with spines, as in the 
large cheliped, with the exception of the spine-bearing plates, which it 
lacks altogether. The fingers gape as in the large hand. In the small 
specimens the fingers do not gape in either hand. 
The description is made from two specimens from the Albatross col- 
lection in the Gulf of Mexico, 
Subgenus TRIGONOCHIRUS. 
Eupagurus capillatus. 
Anterior portion of carapace a little longer than broad. Lateral 
areas with numerous tufts of hair. Front with a broadly rounded, 
slightly produced, median projection. Lateral projections or lobes each 
armed below the margin with a strong spine. Eye-stalks long, slen- 
der, nearly straight. Scales semioval, with a strong subterminal spine. 
Acicle of the antenna not quite reaching the tip of the eye. Ultimate 
article of the antennula as long as the eye-stalk and extending nearly 
its full length beyond. 
Right cheliped large. The merus is convex on the outer surface, 
nearly smooth; inner surface flattened and very hairy; spiny below. 
Carpus above convex, with small scattered spines; inner margin marked 
with a row of strong spines. Hand ordinarily twice as long as broad, 
rather sparsely set with stout spines. F 
