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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OP 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

   HErATUS 
  decorus 
  Gibbes 
  ex 
  Herbst. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  examined. 
  

   [Locality: 
  Off 
  Cape 
  Hatteras.] 
  

  

  [32] 
  

  

  Measurements 
  in 
  millimeters. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  these 
  measured 
  specimens 
  the 
  color 
  markings 
  of 
  the 
  

   carapax 
  are 
  indistinct, 
  but 
  are 
  apparently 
  all 
  narrow 
  and 
  transversely 
  

   elongated 
  spots, 
  arranged 
  in 
  trausverse 
  bands. 
  The 
  second 
  specimen 
  

   has 
  large 
  color 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  central 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  carapax, 
  nearly 
  as 
  

   in 
  the 
  adult, 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  indistinct 
  markings 
  along 
  the 
  edges 
  of 
  the 
  cara- 
  

   pax, 
  but 
  is 
  without 
  the 
  smaller 
  spots 
  usually 
  present 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  por- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  the 
  branchial 
  regions. 
  The 
  third 
  specimen 
  has 
  the 
  markings 
  

   very 
  nearly 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  first, 
  but 
  much 
  more 
  distinct. 
  All 
  the 
  other 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  have 
  the 
  usual 
  coloration 
  of 
  the 
  adult. 
  

  

  OSACHILA 
  TUBEROSA 
  StimpSOn. 
  

  

  Bull. 
  Mus. 
  Coinp. 
  Zool., 
  iL, 
  p. 
  154, 
  1870. 
  

   Station 
  2269, 
  October 
  10, 
  off 
  Cape 
  Hatteras, 
  north 
  lat. 
  35° 
  12' 
  30", 
  

   west 
  long. 
  75° 
  07', 
  48 
  fathoms, 
  temperature 
  70°; 
  one 
  female 
  (8746). 
  

  

  