14 NEW SPECIES OF HERMIT CRABS—BENEDICT. 
concave outer face. The upper margin is armed with a row of slender 
spines. 
Ambulatory legs slender; dactyls long, slender, much bent, twisted. 
Those of the right side reach beyond the cheliped by about one-fourth 
their length. Merus joints of first pair with six or seven spines below ; 
carpal joints spiny above. Carpal joints of the second pair spiny above, 
but the spines are very small. 
Chelipeds and ambulatory legs sparsely hairy ; hairs fine and short, 
not conspicuous. On the hand the hair arises in little bunches scat- 
tered among the spines. 
Color in alcohol, orange-buff. 
Alaska. 
Eupagurus rathbuni. 
Median projection of the front acute, produced much beyond the lat- 
eral projections. Eye peduncles stout, very little constricted, dilated 
at the cornee. Scales rather broad, rounded. The acicles reach to the 
end of the eyes. : 
Chelipeds long. The merus joints overreach the eyes by about one- 
half theiv length. The carpus of the large cheliped is seven-tenths as 
wideas long, convex on three sides, concave on the inner side, spinose; the 
spines small. Spines of the inner margin but little if any larger than 
elsewhere. The distal inner angle of the upper surface is occupied by 
a small circular patch of very fine hair. The hand is about three- 
sevenths as wide as long, evenly rounding at the palm, spiny above, 
with a searcely distinguishable marginal row of spines. The merus 
and carpus have a few short spines below. The upper part of the car- 
pus of the left cheliped is flat, with marginal row of very small spines. 
The hand is small; fingers slender and strongly bent downward. 
The ambulatory legs of the right side overreach the cheliped but — 
little ; those of the left side, by about one-half the length of the dactyl. — 
The anterior pair have the lower edges of the merus joints set with 
spiny granules. The carpal joints have a row of very small spines on 
the upper margin. The dactyls are wide, bent, and twisted. The mar- 
gins of the inner surface are hairy. 
The distal upper margin of the meral and carpal joints is a light 
red. ‘There is also a streak of red on the large hand at the base of the 
dactyl. The ambulatory legs are tinged with the same color near the 
joints and on the upper distal third of the meral joints. The general 
color is pale. : 
This species is readily distinguished from any other north Pacific 
form by the patch of hair on the carpus of the large cheliped. 
Alaska. 
Eupagurus minutus. 
Anterior portion of carapace broadly rounded at the sides, much con- 
stricted behind. Front nearly straight, faintly three-lobed, Eye-stalks 
