Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda, Part II. 29 



Miss M. J. Rathbun already noticed some of the differences, 

 several years ago, when she sent me the following memoranda 

 concerning a Bermuda specimen (see figure), now in the U. S. 

 National Museum, collected by Dr. T. H. Bean : 



"This specimen differs from a male 5\ latits of equal size from 

 Fayal, Azores, and contained in the National Museum, as follows : 

 The surface is much more uneven, the tubercles are less crowded 

 and the hairs less numerous, the width between the orbits is 

 greater ; in the shape of the rostrum, the outer corners do not 

 project in front of the points at the middle; the antennulse are 

 longer, their peduncles exceeding the antennae. The basal seg- 

 ments of the antennae meet in front of the rostrum in the Fayal 

 example of S. latus, but are widely separated in the one from 

 Bermuda. The last three joints of the antennae are longer and 

 more distinctly dentate. The abdominal protuberances are much 

 stronger ; the lateral margins of the abdominal segments are indis- 

 tinctly dentate, even those of the second segment. The feet are 

 longer and narrower. These characters are sufficient to warrant 

 the formation of a new species, were it not that specimens from 

 the coast of Florida show intermediate characters, especially in 

 regard to the antennae." 



The American form has not yet been figured, so far as I know, 

 and most of the few figures of the European species are inexact. 

 It has been taken at Bermuda by Dr. T. H. Bean, who probably 

 obtained it by means of lobster traps, off the outer reefs. The 

 type specimen described above was from Bermuda and was kept 

 alive in the New York Aquarium for a short time. The American 

 species has been recorded from Cuba by Von Martens. 



Miss Rathbun has furnished the following additional localities: 

 Off Pensacola, Florida, in fish stomach, Silas Stearns, coll. (U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.) ; along the coast between Savannah, Ga., and Cape 

 Canaveral, Fla., collected by Capt. Silas B. Latham, 1890, and 

 received through the U. S. Fish Commission (U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 M. J. Rathbun). 



fig. i. Savigny, Egypt, Crust., pi. viii, fig. I. Desmarest, op. cit., p. 

 182. H. M.-Edw., Hist. Crust, ii, p. 284, 1837. 



The true S. latus is found in the Mediterranean and adjacent parts of 

 the Atlantic; at the Azores; Canaries; and St. Helena. 



