Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda, Part IL 37 



Stenopus hispidus Latreille, in Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. xxviii, p. 

 321, 1823. Illust. Ed. Cuvier, Reg. Anim., iv, p. 93. Dana, Crust. 

 U. S. Expl. Exped., p. 607; Atlas, pi. 40, fig. 8 (colored). Bate, Voy. 

 Chall., Zool., xxiv, p. 211, pi. xxx, 1885. Brooks and Herrick, Johns 

 Hopkins Univ. Circulars, xi, p. 66, 1892 (life history). Herrick, Life 

 History of Stenopus, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. v, pp. 339-352, pi. v 

 (colored), plates vi-xiii (structure and metamorphoses, 1892, full 

 descr.). Rankin, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., xi, p. 240, pi. xxix, fig. i, 

 1898 (descr.). Borradaile, Stomat. and Macr. brought home by Dr. 

 Willey from South Seas, Zool. Results, iv, p. 407, 1900. 



PLATE IX, FIGURES S-SB. .PLATE XI, FIGURE i. PLATE XII, FIGURES i, 2. 



This large and handsome species can be recognized at once by 

 its bright colors and very long legs and antennae, and the spinules 

 that thickly cover its body; the bases of the legs and antennae; 

 and the whole of the large (third) pair of legs. On the anterior 

 part of carapace the spines point forward ; posteriorly they point 

 back ; on the large legs the spines are closely arranged in rows and 

 directed distally; the fixed ringer of the chelae is bifid at the tip, 

 the simple dactylus fitting into the notch. The first two pairs of 

 legs are slender and have small chelae. The fourth and fifth pairs 

 are slender and have the carpus and propodus subdivided. 



The published figures show considerable differences, however, 

 between specimens from widely separated localities. Perhaps two 

 or more species have been confused under this name. The large 

 chelae, especially, are represented as differing widely in form and 

 proportions. Professor Herrick (Mem. Nat. Acad., v.) has given 

 a very full description, with numerous measurements, of the 

 Bahama specimens (op. cit., pp. 348-352), as well as excellent 

 figures, including details of the appendages (pi. xiii, etc.). He also 

 figured various stages of its remarkable larvae. He discussed its 

 identity with the Pacific Ocean form, but left it undecided, for 

 want of material, as I must do, for our museum has no- examples 

 of the oriental species. The latter has the same form and the 

 same remarkable coloration.* 



It is perhaps the most beautiful of all the shrimps and prawns, 

 and is also graceful in its motions. According to Prof. Herrick 

 it is conspicuously marked with red, white, and blue, in life. The 



* Borradaile (op. cit., p. 407, 1900) states that three specimens, both 

 male and female, from New Britain I., agree precisely with the description 

 given by Brooks and Herrick. 



