30 Addison E. Verrill, 



Scyllarides sculptus, sub. sp. bermudensis, nov. Small Spanish Lobster. 



Scyllarus sculptus Latreille, Tabl. Encycl. Meth.^ xxiv, pi. cccxx, f. 2, 

 1818. H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., ii, p. 283, 1837. Heilprin, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1888, 321, The Bermuda Is., p. 150. 



PLATE VII, FIGURE i. 



The carapace is scarcely wider than long, widest at the orbital 

 angles ; posterior margin sinuous with a wide median sinus and 

 deep transverse groove. 



The granulation of the carapace is crowded and pretty uniform. 

 There is a single, small, conical spine behind each eye and about 

 on a level with the upper margin of the orbits, but no large, acute 

 median denticles on the gastric and cardiac areas, described as 

 present on the true sculptus. The lateral margins have, behind the 

 cervical suture, about n sharp teeth, directed strongly forward, 

 decreasing in size posteriorly, and six in front of the cervical 

 notch, of which the two anterior, at the orbital angle, are much 

 larger than the rest and very sharp. 



The second movable segment of the antennae is acute, angular, 

 convex externally, about as long as broad, with a very large acute 

 tooth at the end ; back of this tooth, on the outer margin, are six 

 sharp teeth or spines, inclined strongly forward, and decreasing 

 backward, the last obscure; on the anterior edge there are four 

 sharp spines with dark tips. The distal segment is broader than 

 the second, broadly rounded, with a small emargination in the 

 outer margin; the anterior and outer edges are divided into 

 numerous angular teeth and closely fringed with short hairs. 



The abdomen is strongly convex and deeply sculptured with 

 oblique and transverse grooves, and it is coarsely granulated. Eyes 

 large, rather close to the lateral border; orbits surrounded by 

 unequal sharp teeth. 



The legs are larger and longer than in most allied species ; the 

 merus joints project considerably beyond the sides of the carapace. 



The colors, in life, are clouded with various shades of light 

 brown, terra-cotta, and dull yellowish, mostly in irregularly placed 

 patches. This species seems to be rare at Bermuda. It is taken 

 in lobster pots off the outer reefs. A specimen in the Yale 

 Museum (No. 814) was in the early Bermuda collections sent by 

 J. M. Jones, about 1876. It was first recorded from Bermuda 

 by W. Stone as in Heilprin's collection (as >S\ sculptus}. 



