I2 Addison E. Verrill, 



yellow or yellowish white; a pair of these spots are on the second 

 and sixth segments. Usually there are similar, but much smaller, 

 paired spots on other segments. The surface is also covered with 

 minute, round yellow specks, about the size of a pin-head. 



The telson and uropods are brighter green, with a brownish- 

 green band in the middle, bordered with a pale-green band, and 

 then with a blackish or dark purple band, the margin edged with 

 whitish. All the under parts are white, with pale blue markings. 



The swimmerets are grass-green with a central, dark brown, 

 dark purple, or nearly black streak, which becomes larger pos- 

 teriorly. The rostral spines are dark brown or blackish, banded 

 with white. The antennae are bluish-green, variegated with 

 lavender or pale purple. The flagellum is finely striped with these 

 colors. The under side is pale blue and white. Legs pale blue 

 and light yellow, often banded ; lighter beneath. Eye-stalks black- 

 ish and white ; cornea jet black. 



In other specimens the eye-stalk and antennae are striped with 

 yellow, blue, and purple, and banded at the joints with orange, and 

 the hairs and spines are apt to be orange. In these, the swim- 

 merets are orange with a yellow margin and a blackish purple 

 central streak ; their bases variegated with blue. Large specimens 

 generally have the carapace mottled with terra-cotta or brown, 

 yellow, or greenish and white. The round abdominal spots may be 

 pale yellow or nearly white. There is often a large patch of 

 yellowish brown on each side of the carapace. The frontal horns 

 are usually conspicuously banded with dark or blackish brown and 

 whitish. 



Many other variations in color were noticed. In general, the 

 very large specimens were much duller in color. That may be due, 

 at least in part, to the length of time following the moulting, for 

 the colors are brightest just after moulting, which is effected more 

 quickly than in the case of the American lobster. This is probably 

 largely due to the absence of large claws, which delay the process 

 in the latter. 



Fishermen told me that when the Bermuda lobster is found in its 

 hole, if its long antennas or "horns" are seized the creature will 

 cast them off, and thus it cannot be pulled out by them, but that 

 they will not cast off the small antennules, so that they can be 

 pulled out by those organs. I had no opportunity to verify this 

 statement. 



