Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda, Part II. 57 



Hay and Shore give a fuller description* of the species, as found 

 at Beaufort, N. C., which does not agree in all respects with that 

 of Borradaile, which was probably based on the figures of the West 

 Atlantic specimens. 



The more specific characters given by them are as follows : The 

 neck-like portion is 1.5, the length of the rest of the cephalothorax ; 

 rostrum small ; a spine on each side behind the eye-stalk, and a 

 knob-like suborbital lobe. 



Posterior part of cephalothorax with a small spine on each side 

 in front. Eye-stalks conical, about one-third as long as the neck. 

 Antennular peduncle long and slender. Antennal peduncle about 

 half as long as the first antennular segment; its flagellum longer 

 than that of antennules ; its scale almost linear. 



Last two pairs of legs nearly equal in length, and reaching 

 forward almost to end of neck. Abdomen much compressed ; 

 segments deepest at insertions of pleopods and there ending in a 

 spiniform angle. Sixth segment as long as two preceding com- 

 bined, its postero-lateral angles spiniform ; posterior dorsal margin 

 with a small median spine. In the male two strong ventral spines, 

 the posterior one about twice as long as the other and recurved. 

 Telson slender, about half as long as the uropods, with a stout 

 spine on each side and a prominent projection on the ventral side 

 near the middle. Uropods about as long as the sixth segment. 

 Color when alive almost perfectly transparent. Length 10 to 

 12 mm. 



According to Prof. Brooks it lays its eggs at night and they 

 are very small and entirely transparent. 



Off Chesapeake Bay (Faxon) ; Beaufort, N. C., in the harbor 

 and mor^e abundant outside, at the surface (Hay and Shore). 

 Carried eggs June 3Oth. Prof. Brooks took it in large numbers 

 at Beaufort, N. C., near an inlet, during ebb tide in the evening. 

 The females carried eggs there. It is probably to be found at or 

 near the surface, chiefly at night. Though often brought up, 

 apparently from great depths, in dredging, species of this genus 

 may enter the dredge only near the surface, like many other oceanic 

 species. 



* Hay and Shore describe their species as having four pairs of legs. 

 This was probably an accidental error due to counting the third maxil- 

 lipeds as legs, for they state that the two anterior pairs are equal. 



