Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda, Part II. 7 



Family PALINURID-ffi Dana. Spiny Lobsters; Sea Crawfishes. 

 Piilini(rini Latreille, 1802. Leach, 1814. 



Palinuridtf Dana, Crus. U. S. Expl. Exped., p. 519, 1852. Gray. Ortmann, 

 1896. Rathbun, 1901, p. 398, etc. 



Body subcylindrical ; thorax not depressed. Eyes not enclosed 

 in orbits formed within the edge of the carapace. Antennae not 

 flattened ; furnished with a large and long, rather rigid, multi- 

 articulate and usually spinose flagellum. Fifth leg of female 

 chelate, 



Panulirus White. Spiny Lobsters. 

 Panitlints White, List Crust. British Mus., p. 69, 1847. 



Ocular segment is exposed and flexible. No rostrum or 

 central tooth. Antennules with rather long, slender exposed flagella. 

 Antennas long, very large and rigid, spinose; a stridulating organ 

 at their bases. Larva is a Phyllosoma. (See plate 3, 3A.) 



Panulirus argus (Latr.) White. Bermuda, Lobster; Sea Craiv-fish. 

 Palimirus argus Latreille, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, iii, p. 593, 1804. 



Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xvii, p. 296. Olivier, Encyc. viii, p. 663. 



Lamarck, Hist. An. sans. Vert., v, p. 210, 1815. Desmarest, Consid. 



gen. sur les Crust., p. 185. H. Milne-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., ii, p. 



300, (Antilles). Heller, Reise Freg. Novarra., Crust., p. 95, 1865 



(Analytical table). 

 Pannlirus argus White, List Crust. Brit. Mus., p. 69, 1847. Smith, 



these Trans., ii, p. 39, 1869, (Brazil). Rankin, op. cit., 1900, p. 536. 



Bate, Voyage Chall., vol. xxiv, p., 76, 1888. M. J. Rathbun, Brach. 



and Macr. Porto Rico, p. 98, 1901. Verrill, these Trans., xi, p. 705, 



fig. 56, and pi. xciv, fig. i, 1902; The Bermuda Is., I, p. 293, fig. 56, 



pi. xciv, fig. I, 1902, (habits and history). 



Palinunis americanu-s Stone, in Heilprin, The Bermuda Is., p. 149, 

 (f non. M. Edw.) 



TEXT FIGURE i, PLATE I: FIGURE i. PLATE II: FIGURES i, 2. PLATE III: 

 FIGURES i, 2 (supposed larvae). PLATE IIIA: FIGURES 2-6 (larvae). 

 PLATE VIII: FIGURES 2, 2a. PLATE IX: FIGURE i (stridulating 

 organ). By A. H. V. 



The following description is mainly from medium sized males 

 (No. 4101, 4102, Yale Mus.) preserved in formol and dried. 



The carapace, in large specimens, has the areas well defined by 

 wide grooves ; the cervical groove is conspicuous. The frontal 



